Chapter 148: Strange Moves
After surviving the danger, Lin Quan was not in a hurry to continue refining black iron ore. He sat back down on the "Pure Heart and Soul Calming Futon" and continued to meditate.
This time, what he practiced was not the basic Five Elements Exercise to restore spiritual power, but the "Nameless Heart Sutra" that was of great help to spiritual sense and spiritual power. After refining just now, Lin Quan had already roughly estimated that the consumption of spiritual power by using the "Levitation Technique" alone to control the Earth Fire Ding was actually not too much, but the loss of spiritual consciousness was extremely large.
Because the consumption of spiritual consciousness in the earth and fire room with such a high fire temperature is much higher than in the outside world, however, in the refining process, the monk must divide a large amount of spiritual consciousness every moment to pay attention to the changes in the ore in the ding, especially when the "first refining" is more critical. Therefore, how to use one's spiritual sense wisely has become the primary issue in these two months.
Half an hour later, Lin Quan let out a long breath and stood up, his eyes already shining brightly.
Glancing at the chronograph hanging on the wall, Lin Quan silently recalled the instrument ding. Without looking, he poured the piece of ore that was wasted in Dingnei into the scrap chute on the side. Then he carefully cleaned the inside of the Earth Fire Ding with the spiritual spring water stored in the 'Jade Pure Bottle', and then put it back on the Earth Fire Pillar.
Now that he's back to his best, the mission is certainly going to continue. There were only two people with 800 contribution points, and he didn't want to give up just like that. Although there were three powerful twelfth-layer cultivators joining this time, the refining task of this puppet hall was not a complete competition of personal strength.
After the first lesson, this time the "first refining" Lin Quan did not recklessly. After an hour, he decisively turned off the earth fire and suspended the refining task. With the assistance of a large number of elixirs that restored spiritual power and the "Nameless Heart Sutra", Lin Quan could quickly recover his spiritual power and spiritual sense in just over an hour. With such a reasonable arrangement, Lin Quan didn't feel tired at all, and the speed of refining ore did not fall.
Soon Lin Quan successfully completed the "first refining". Next, he still used this step-by-step method to complete the next eight "re-refining" in an orderly manner. In this way, the first black iron ore will only be successfully completed with the last "final refining".
After nine consecutive refining, this piece of black iron ore, which was originally the size of two adult heads, was now only the size of a fist, and its color had become even darker, faintly emitting a faint fluctuation of spiritual power.
Looking at this piece of black iron ore Lin Quan, which was only about to be completed by the last "final refining", he couldn't help but show a hint of joy on his face. Being able to do this step after only one failure was very rare for a novice refining novice like him who had never used earth fire. It was only when he noticed the chronograph hanging on the wall again that most of the good mood that had just risen suddenly disappeared.
At this time, a full sixteen hours had passed since he entered the Earth Fire Room this time. And his first block of tasks has not been completed until now. You must know that this "final refining" is completely different from "initial refining" and "re-refining". Although the time taken for "Final Trial" is basically the same as that of "First Trial", the difficulty is much higher. After all, the more the ore contains less impurities, and the more difficult it is to be separated and refined. When Lin Quan had finally successfully "refined" this piece of black iron with great effort, twenty-one hours had passed since the chronometer was used.
"Alas, just a piece of black iron used up a full twenty-one hours, it seems that this task is really perverted enough!"
Such a result was unacceptable to Lin Quan no matter what. If every piece of ore was like this in the future, it would mean that he would only have less than three hours of free time every two days. And this is based on the premise that he did not make any mistakes. If you make a mistake in the refining process for some reason, you will probably not be able to complete the task until the end.
After thinking hard for a day, Lin Quan couldn't come up with any practical and good solutions. In great distress, Lin Quan had no choice but to continue the task first. Who knows what punishment he will receive for failing the mission, the news he got from Senior Brother Hou has clearly explained a problem, that Ma Zhiyuan Ma is obviously not kind to himself. If he leaves any bad impression on the puppet hall, it is very likely that some unpredictable consequences will occur.
In this way, the first ten days after Lin Quan entered the puppet hall were completely immersed in the earth fire and did not go out a single step. It wasn't until ten days later that this terrible situation was shattered by a sudden thought.
Since that day, Lin Quan has been walking out of the earth fire room every four or five days. Sometimes he would go back to his residence to rest, and sometimes he would find a disciple from the puppet hall to chat. He looked more relaxed than the three twelfth-layer cultivators, as if this heavy refining task was nothing to him at all.
After seeing such a scene, Senior Brother Wu and Senior Brother Hou both had complicated expressions, and they wanted to speak several times. Except for the two of them, the other six acolytes and disciples all showed disdainful expressions.
In their opinion, this junior disciple with the worst cultivation must have suffered enough, and now he has given up on himself. Otherwise, how could he be so leisurely? It's no wonder that even the three twelfth-layer cultivators who completed the task of thirty pieces of "Ten Refining" black iron ore in two months worked very hard, and as for the eleventh-layer cultivators like them, they would only be willing to leave the earth-fire room once in half a month, and every time they would come out and rush back in a hurry.
However, the strange thing is that the deacon of the puppet hall, Senior Brother Shao Zhong, did not show any dissatisfaction with this matter. Maybe in his eyes, a little person like Lin Quan is not worth mentioning at all. Since the puppet hall released such a mission, an unlucky ghost like Lin Quan is by no means the first, and it will never be the last.