Chapter 288: Refining Treasures

On the 39th floor of the Unicorn Apartments, inside a spacious alchemy room, a three-meter-tall, five-meter-diameter magic energy smelting furnace glowed with a red luster. The astonishing heat inside could not be completely isolated even by the thick furnace wall, causing the temperature in the alchemy room to rise sharply. The magic energy arrays around the furnace were operating at full capacity, with nearly solidified magic energy surging and flowing within the patterns.

Li Mochen, with a solemn expression, wore a work goggles with anti-glare and magnification functions. His right hand pressed against a crystal slab beneath him, while his left hand formed a mystic seal. He manipulated the magic energy arrays and the smelting furnace while using his mental power and magic energy to meticulously refine the object inside.

He had great confidence in this refining, considering it a sure thing. The source of this confidence came from the brand-new magic energy smelting furnace before him.

Since the Nathan Sports Group had purchased a venue outside the Unicorn Apartments as his private gym, there was no need to keep the fitness rooms, practice rooms, and other functional spaces in this apartment.

Coincidentally, due to Hazel's situation, the apartment needed renovation. So, at his strong request, the Nathan Sports Group and the renovation company expanded and remodeled the original alchemy room, installing a brand-new medium-sized magic energy smelting furnace, the latest model 'Star Refine'. It could draw upon the power of the stars, equipped with a low-power arc furnace device, six pairs of high-grade fire elemental cores, and an externally engraved magic energy smelting array, allowing the 'Star Refine' furnace to easily exceed 4500 degrees Celsius.

Of course, Li Mochen's greatest source of confidence was still the 'Divine Fortune Purple-Gold Pagoda'. After twenty days, the seven-colored spiritual light on the pagoda had increased to about fifty strands, and the powerful functions of the 'Star Refine' furnace allowed him to maximize the saving of merit power.

Sure enough, after an hour, as Li Mochen performed his wish spell, the magic tide continuously overflowing from the furnace suddenly stabilized, beginning to pulse rhythmically.

Then came cooling and quenching. In the original Dome of the Sky realm, this was a very troublesome process, crucial for the final characterization of the magical artifact. Most embryo failures occurred during this stage.

However, the high-tech equipped in the 'Star Refine' furnace allowed for precise temperature control and measurement. After many attempts, Li Mochen was very skilled, and in just ten minutes, the object inside returned to room temperature.

When Li Mochen opened the furnace door and reached out, two pill-shaped objects, one red and one blue, flew into his hand simultaneously.

The left one was sky blue, like jadeite; the right one was crimson red, with a crystal-like texture. They were independent yet intricately connected.

These two were the new external elixirs Li Mochen had refined, which he named 'Dual Source'.

Unlike the one he had temporarily refined twenty days ago to eliminate 'Iron Thorn' Emon Bertram, these two 'Dual Source' external elixirs corresponded respectively to his dual cultivation methods: the 'Zhou Tian Yuan Chen Liang Yi Wu Xiang Jing' and the 'Eighty-Eight Constellation Meditation Method'. One was for true essence mana, the other for magic power source energy, thus avoiding conversion loss when switching between cultivation systems.

Additionally, besides possessing the four attributes of earth, wind, wood, and thunder, the 'Dual Source' external elixirs also respectively contained the powerful forces of extreme cold and extreme heat.

This was related to their original owners: a pair of seventeenth-level twin war bears with Behemoth bloodline.

Li Mochen originally had a fifteenth-level external elixir and did not plan to refine another one soon. However, when he saw the twin war bear beast crystals, extracted from the bodies less than four hours earlier, at the Red Sparrow Club, he was deeply tempted and spent a full four million gold shields.

But the cost was worth it. These purified and condensed fifteenth-level 'Dual Source' external elixirs not only meant double the mana and true essence but also corresponded to his cultivation systems, reducing losses from property conversion and maximizing output in any situation. Especially the extreme cold and extreme heat, innate abilities of the twin war bears, could inflict great lethality in his hands.

As soon as he obtained these items, Li Mochen felt his true essence and magic energy stirring restlessly.

This was a sign that his cultivation was ready to break through at any time. However, Li Mochen had no such intention and suppressed it with a thought.

If an external elixir is pure enough, it can indeed help the owner elevate their cultivation level, but this method also carries greater hidden dangers, several to dozens of times more than drugs.

Moreover, Li Mochen planned to stay at this realm for a while to temper and polish his physical body.

After forging the pair of 'Dual Source' external elixirs, Li Mochen's face was full of relief. Next, he still had to refine some items, including a pair of Qiankun Ring, two magical artifacts, and the enhancement and modification of the 'Sun Moon Star Zhou Tian Star Dou Divine Sword' and the 'Ice Blood Stone Bracelet'. However, compared to the 'Dual Source' external elixirs, these items were trivial in difficulty.

The only slightly challenging one was the pair of 'Qiankun Ring'.

Making a pair of Qiankun Ring was not difficult; Li Mochen could easily do it with his abilities. The difficulty lay in that the internal spaces of the two rings must be connectable.

Li Mochen's design was for each to have about twenty cubic meters of space, held by the main body and the clone respectively. When the distance between them was within a thousand meters, the internal spaces of the rings could connect, allowing items to be transferred between them.

This tested his ability in talisman arrays. The key was that the external parts of the 'Qiankun Ring' must also use magical scripts and magic energy arrays. Li Mochen had racked his brains over this, taking over a month to finalize the design.

Next were the two magical artifacts, both native products of the Dome of the Sky realm. One was a defensive 'Substitute Spirit Doll', which could absorb any external force until its limit. In critical moments, it also had the ability to die in place of the owner.

Li Mochen could not refine this item before, but after coming to this world, with the help of the Arctic and Antarctic Emperors, he gained authority over life and death, surpassing his previous abilities, enabling him to refine it.

The other was the 'Three Pure Thunder Seal', which could attach the Taiqing, Yuqing, and Shangqing divine thunders to any Dao technique or sword weapon, increasing power. It could also use lightning to suppress spiritual energy within a thousand meters, which in this world meant magic energy.

When Li Mochen was Wen Jian Taoran, he had a 'Three Pure Thunder Seal', which greatly aided him from the Primordial Spirit stage to the Mahayana stage.

However, Li Mochen did not copy this treasure exactly. He made targeted modifications based on the original, mainly replacing the runes of the two realms and, at the cost of reduced power, increasing the speed of thunder method enhancement to match the firing rate of his pistols and automatic rifles.

As for the 'Sun Moon Star Zhou Tian Star Dou Divine Sword' and the 'Ice Blood Stone Bracelet', one involved using the sword-sacrificing method of the Dome of the Sky realm, collecting fifteen types of Geng metal essences to strengthen the sword body material. After completion, it should raise the toughness and sharpness of all three hundred and sixty Star Dou Divine Swords by one level.

Li Mochen's ideal was to integrate 'Law', also known as 'Mystery' or 'Truth' in the West, into the sword body, enabling it to harm legends, even demigods.

As for the 'Ice Blood Stone Bracelet', it was even simpler: just using better materials to suppress his own desires, and conveniently giving the Deep Cold Princess a new nest to better nurture this mutated ice elemental.

This was not difficult, but from now on, the 'Ice Blood Stone Bracelet' would need a new name, probably 'Cold Heart Bracelet'. The main material of this bracelet would be replaced with a piece of Cold Heart Iron.