Chapter 382: Chapter 276 Refining_2
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“At last, it’s complete,”
Zhao Sheng whispered to himself, quietly sighing in relief.
At this moment, Zhao Sheng’s face was pale, his eyes slightly dim. Three days of continuous refining was not easy, even someone as physically robust as him had expended a large amount of energy.
Following that, Zhao Sheng consumed three Nourishing God Pills, sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and entered into meditation to recover his depleted spiritual power.
Four hours later, he suddenly opened his eyes, which were now lively and sharp. With a single-handed gesture for the spell, his Divine Sense focused on the crystal ball.
The Golden Crow True Fire within instantly surged in intensity, causing the crystal ball to wriggle before splitting into two lumps of transparent crystal paste.
At that point, Zhao Sheng’s hands flashed with countless afterimages, as swift as the thousand-armed deity Guanyin. Thousands of True Essence Talismans streamed out like torrents of light, shooting into the Formation like a heavy downpour, sinking into one of the lumps of crystal paste and turning into a series of Magical Treasure Seal imprints.
“Condense!”
With a soft utterance from Zhao Sheng, the Golden Crow True Fire suddenly contracted into a thread of golden light, which darted into the crystal paste. Then, as controlled by Divine Sense, the golden light began to pull in large amounts of Sun Essence, rapidly attaching to the numerous Treasure prohibition imprints, eventually evolving into a grand “Rune Sun.”
Zhao Sheng muttered an incantation, as countless True Essence Talismans erupted from his hands like a waterfall. He didn’t even blink, his expression intensely focused.
The Golden Crow set behind the mountain, and the daylight waned. Atop Ao Shou Cliff, the fierce sun burst forth, sending out piercing white light that illuminated miles of the surrounding darkness.
With a faint “sizzle,”
Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged as before, the ground around him cracked and dry, his entire body enveloped in thick white light.
In the midst of the Array, hovering at the center, a crystal clear reflective surface, about a foot in size, transparent on both sides with a slightly protruding smooth center, had taken shape. It looked like a human eyeball, yet also akin to a magnifying glass.
“It’s done!”
Gazing at the floating Bright Sun Mirror in front of him, Zhao Sheng was overjoyed,
To speak truthfully, the smoothness of the Magical Treasure’s refining had surpassed his expectations.
Lucky for him, he was capable of multitasking; otherwise, ordinary people would have little hope of reaching success on their first attempt, an almost impossible feat.
Zhao Sheng smiled faintly, drew out the treasure mirror, and then continued with the refining of the second Bright Sun Mirror, following the proper process.
Armed with the experience of the first refining, the second attempt went even more smoothly.
After just two days, the second Bright Sun Mirror was also successfully refined.
Zhao Sheng chuckled lightly, beckoning with one hand, and the Bright Sun Mirror obediently flew out of the Treasure Refining Array, circled briefly, then swiftly entered Zhao Sheng’s Dantian, orbiting slowly around the Golden Core alongside the other mirror.
Zhao Sheng exhaled in relief. With a thought, he saw the Golden Crow True Fire coalesce into a Fire Lotus and rapidly fly out of the Formation, zipping into the Dantian in a flash.
The Golden Crow Fire Lotus hovered beneath the Golden Core, supporting a piece of the sky.
“Collect!”
At his command, the thirty-six Array Flags promptly rose, shrinking to the size of a palm and flying swiftly into the hem of Zhao Sheng’s sleeve.
Zhao Sheng laughed heartily as he stood up.
The next moment, numerous mirror-like illusions shimmered into existence around him, and his whole body radiated intense light and heat. An area of a hundred yards around him instantly turned into a blazing white Fire Sea, with a golden “Great Sun” suddenly appearing behind Zhao Sheng, casting him in a divine light.
Then, the dense array of mirrors began to rotate slowly around Zhao Sheng, picking up speed as they went.
In the blink of an eye, the mirrors spun faster and merged into one, reaching such a velocity that even Zhao Sheng felt a little dizzy.
Viewed from afar, it created the illusion of a ring of light circling the Great Sun.
But only Zhao Sheng knew just how scorching hot it was inside that halo of light.
If the widespread Fire Sea beyond the halo represented the ordinary Burning Sky Divine Ability, hot enough to melt metal and incinerate iron,
Then within that halo, the temperature in the two-yard radius around Zhao Sheng was clearly at an even higher level, able to vaporize metals and already showing a glimpse of the Nascent Soul Domain.
However, only a fraction of the Bright Sun Mirror’s power had been revealed.
Suddenly, all the light dimmed, the mirrors vanished, and the Great Sun once again disappeared into the Void, as the cliff top returned to normal.
Only now, the surface for hundreds of yards around Ao Shou Cliff had been completely melted into a layer of crystal. A thick stratum of glass spread across the floor, reflecting dazzling, blinding rainbows under the sunlight.
At that moment, a group of people suddenly flew up from the foot of the mountain.
Zhao Sheng stood up, stretched lazily, and casually clenched his fists. He then turned and greeted Zhao Daoming and the others with a slight smile.
Seeing this, everyone relaxed and quickly bowed in salute, exclaiming, “Congratulations to Ancestor on the Great Success of your Divine Skill; in the future, you will surely be known as the forefather of our sect.”
“Hmm, no need for such formalities!” Zhao Sheng was pleased and didn’t mind the flattery from these sycophants.
After all, they weren’t wrong; it was only a matter of time before he reached that point.
Zhao Daoming, seeing his old rival making a breakthrough, hurried forward and respectfully said, “Ancestor, in these past few months, quite a few important matters have accumulated at home, waiting for your personal decision. What do you think…?”
“No rush, let’s talk about it after I’ve recuperated,” Zhao Sheng waved his hand indicating.
“Yes,” replied Zhao Daoming, stepping back, and the others, not daring to speak further, did the same.
Upon returning to his cave mansion, Zhao Sheng immediately closed the doors tightly and activated the Barrier Restriction.
After completing these preparations, he paced into the quiet room, sat on the cushion, and began meditating and regulating his breath.
One day and night later, Zhao Sheng, feeling his energy and body restored to their peak condition, slowly opened his eyes.
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