Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

Chapter 870: Chapter 870: Seclusion for Treasure Refinement (Part 2)

Boom!

In the Refinement Room, the massive Creation Cauldron suddenly shook.

The True Seal Talisman Script engraved on the surface of the cauldron all lit up as if attempting to float away from the cauldron, enveloped by flames, radiating and overflowing with heat.

The room’s temperature skyrocketed in an instant to a degree intolerable to ordinary people!

Yet Wang Chen, seated in front of the cauldron, remained composed, silently placing his palms on the cauldron.

He infused True Yuan!

The cauldron lid suddenly flew upwards, and a fiercely hot blaze erupted.

It displayed a pure, deep red hue!

Wang Chen immediately retracted his hands, flicked a Storage Bag perfectly into the cauldron’s mouth.

This ordinary Storage Bag, affordable even by a beginning Qi Cultivator, opened automatically before even touching the newly ignited South Bright Like Fire within the cauldron.

The Star Sand stored inside immediately spilled out.

This third-order quality Star Sand was costly, used as one of the base materials for forging Magical Treasures.

But at this moment, it was merely practice material for Wang Chen!

After ten jin of Star Sand entered the cauldron, it quickly melted into a liquid by the South Bright Like Fire, its impurities gradually refined away.

Once the Star Sand was completely melted, under Wang Chen’s control, it flew out of the Creation Cauldron and was re-stored in the Storage Bag to naturally cool down.

He then began melting Fine Gold.

A Magical Treasure required five materials, each one had to be processed similarly to ensure the final product’s quality.

And this was merely the first step!

After melting the five materials, Wang Chen would follow ancient recipes to mix them proportionally to construct the foundation of the Magical Treasure.

A Magical Treasure, in fact, was a very precise third-order Magic Artifact, unless an Artifact Refiner’s skills reached an extremely high level, with significant power to cast it in one go, otherwise, they must disassemble and assemble as Wang Chen did.

The quality of each component concerned the final product.

Having accumulated vast experience in refining Spiritual Artifacts, Wang Chen managed to complete these two steps smoothly even without Ding’s assistance.

Under his precise control, components of the Magical Treasure progressively took shape.

This step tested the Artifact Refiner’s control ability extensively, as any mistake in a component’s dimensions would prevent assembly.

The Magical Treasure that Wang Chen was using to test his skills was named Green Sun Crown, consisting of four parts, its recipe and design were recorded within “Nine Directions Refinement,” a commonly seen type of Magical Treasure.

Due to its small size and simple structure, the forging difficulty was relatively lower.

Once Crown Rainbow, Crown Dome, Crown Body, and Crown Base were all properly refined, Wang Chen began the third step of assembly.

Assembly was, without doubt, the simplest step, just combining all the parts to form the Magical Treasure’s body, but since Wang Chen wasn’t a CNC lathe, he couldn’t achieve a perfect fit, so some adjustments were necessary.

Normally, these Magical Treasure components would be slightly larger, adjusted through sanding to perfectly fit.

By the time the Magical Treasure’s prototype was finished, a day had passed.

This was considered very fast!

The fourth step that followed would vastly increase the test to an Artifact Refiner’s abilities.

That was to engrave True Seal Talisman Script!

Concentrating True Yuan as the engraving tool, inscribing talismans both inside and outside the assembled Magical Treasure required immense patience and perseverance, and also deep knowledge of Talismans and engraving skills.

The higher the tier of the Magic Artifact, the more complex the True Seal Talisman Script required. A single error in engraving would mean the affected component needed to be recast, with no possibility for minor corrections.

This was still ideally manageable—discovering an error and correcting it was not very costly. What was truly feared was not noticing the error, resulting in issues during the final Magical Artifact Refining phase which could be significantly costly.

There might even be an explosion in the furnace!

Engraving True Seal Talisman Script on the Green Sun Crown took Wang Chen another three days.

The difficulty of forging a Magical Treasure was at least ten times higher than that of making a Spiritual Artifact!

For an Artifact Refiner, it was also a torturous process.

As the Magic Artifact full of inscriptions, the Green Sun Crown, was placed back into the Creation Cauldron, the final step of the artifact refinement began.

Artifact refining was to completely merge the components of a Magical Treasure, endowing it with a spirit, thus unleashing its power!

This final step was also the most crucial.

Wang Chen stayed in the Refinement Room for seven days and nights until a muffled sound emanated from the Creation Cauldron.

Boom!

A burst of black smoke surged from the mouth of the cauldron, filling the room with the smell of rust and burnt metal.

Wang Chen’s expression was as dark and foul as the black smoke!

He had failed.

It was his first time refining a Magical Treasure, and he had faced a major setback at the last step. He did not know where the problem lay; the Green Sun Crown had unexpectedly self-destructed.

Wang Chen had not only lost all the precious materials he had invested, but also wasted all the time and effort he had put in.

How frustrating!

Fortunately, the Creation Cauldron was exceptionally strong and had not been damaged by the explosion of the Magical Treasure; otherwise, the loss would have been enormous.

“Master, why don’t you let Ding help you refine the Magical Treasure?”

At that moment, Ding poked out his head and timidly said, “Ding can do it.”

“Scram!”

Wang Chen slapped him back.

Encountering setbacks was not scary; what was scary was losing the will to fight and continue.

Wang Chen suppressed the rage of impotence within him and left the Refinement Room.

He needed to calm down.

Smelling the burnt scent on his robe, Wang Chen first went to the bathroom to bathe and change his clothes, discarding the scorched magical robe.

He didn’t rush back to restart the furnace. Instead, he went to the small hall. Taking out a jar of Hundred Flowers Intoxication and two plates of snacks, he drank while recalling the entire process of refining the Green Sun Crown.

He painstakingly reviewed everything, searching for what he had lacked!

After completely calming his emotions from the failure, Wang Chen returned to the Refinement Room and cleaned the Treasured Cauldron.

He stayed in the Refinement Room for three more days, restoring himself to his best condition before attempting a second trial!

Failure was the mother of success, and Wang Chen refused to believe that with his mastery of Nine Directions Refinement combined with the Creation Cauldron and South Bright Like Fire, he could not craft a Magical Treasure!

The second attempt was also for the Green Sun Crown.

However, compared to the first attempt, Wang Chen’s technique was much more skilled, especially during the engraving of True Seal Talisman Script, which took him a third less time.

But the inscribed talismans were much more precise and perfect.

After checking both inside and outside meticulously twice, Wang Chen placed it into the Creation Cauldron.

He continued the artifact refining!

This time, Wang Chen stayed awake for nine days and nights until, suddenly, the skies above the Nameless Valley churned, and a bolt of Thunderbolt Lightning fiercely struck a nearby peak.

Crack!

Inside the Refinement Room, the Creation Cauldron expelled colorful rays of light, and a resplendent magical crown emerged.

It was a success!

Wang Chen instinctively reached out and grasped it in his palm, his joy indescribable.

This Green Sun Crown was the first Magical Treasure that Wang Chen had successfully crafted. Although it was not perfect and its quality was not very high, a Magical Treasure was still a Magical Treasure, proving that his Artifact Refining skills had broken through to a higher level!

This level now distinguished him from ninety-nine percent of other Artifact Refiners!

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