Chapter 162: Fire Forging Art and the Burning Art!
"Are you talking about the medicinal herbs? If I come across any good ones, I'll collect them," Jiang Lin nodded, tacitly agreeing to Yao Chen's suggestion.
"Do you need to refine any medicines now?" Jiang Lin pulled out more than ten jade boxes from his storage ring, each filled with various rare herbs.
"Snake Birth Fruit! Ice Crystal Sky Ginseng! Crimson Flame Fruit!" Xiao Yan opened all the jade boxes, and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. All the herbs inside were high-level, around the fourth and fifth ranks!
"No wonder I couldn't find any third-grade herbs in the Magic Beast Mountain Range. It turns out they're all with you!" Xiao Yan thought about the tough times he'd had before and couldn't help but sigh deeply.
"Now do you understand how terrifying spiritual perception can be?" Yao Chen looked at Xiao Yan's pitiful expression, a little helpless.
"What's terrifying about it? This is clearly treasure hunting at its finest!!" Xiao Yan, grinning happily, hugged one of the jade boxes. Inside was a Snake Birth Fruit, which could be used as a main ingredient to refine a medicine that would help improve his cultivation. Eating it would allow him to quickly breakthrough to Seven-Star Dou Shi.
"How about we split the pills 50-50?" Yao Chen didn't pay attention to Xiao Yan but instead looked at Jiang Lin.
The fact that Jiang Lin could produce so many high-level medicinal herbs meant that he wasn't just handing them over for nothing. After all, what would be the purpose of collecting all these herbs if he had no use for them? If there was no demand, it would be better to let these herbs rot in the ground.
"Sure," Jiang Lin nodded. These high-level herbs were difficult for him to refine. If he tried, he might ruin the pills, wasting the materials. It was better to just eat them. If not for the fact that Yao Chen was a top-tier alchemist, Jiang Lin would have already consumed these herbs.
"Alright then!" Yao Chen nodded and with a wave of his hand, all the jade boxes floated into the air, and the herbs were extracted.
"Kid, did you collect the auxiliary herbs?" Yao Chen asked Jiang Lin.
Jiang Lin didn't speak. He simply took out more than twenty iron boxes from his storage ring. Yao Chen, seeing this, couldn't help but exclaim, "Goodness."
The iron boxes and jade boxes were both made by Jiang Lin himself. In addition to collecting high-level herbs from the Magic Beast Mountain Range, he also dug up rare minerals. No, he should say minerals were his main target, and the herbs were just a by-product.
Herbs were a gift from nature, and the rare ones were a lucky find.
Whoosh!
Cold white flames ignited in Yao Chen's hand. "It's rare to have so many decent-quality herbs. Kids, watch closely, let me show you the refining techniques of a top-tier alchemist!"
With a flip of his hand, a black small cauldron appeared, and as he threw it into the air, the cauldron immediately expanded to a size large enough to fit a person. Yao Chen floated in the air, placing the various herbs into the black cauldron and began refining.
"Black Magic... Cauldron?" Jiang Lin looked up at the enlarging black cauldron in the air, his eyes narrowing slightly.
"Good kid, finally someone who knows their stuff," Yao Chen smiled, seeing that Jiang Lin had recognized his Black Magic Cauldron.
"You there, Xiao Yan, stop lazing around. Watch carefully; this will help you with your alchemy," Yao Chen called out to Xiao Yan, who was watching from the side, before he focused on using Bone Spirit Cold Fire for alchemy.
Jiang Lin, observing the alchemy process below, slowly began to understand, "No wonder alchemists can use Exotic Fires for refining," Jiang Lin thought inwardly.
In simple terms, using Exotic Fires for alchemy is another form of "spiritual forging."
Blacksmiths could also use Exotic Fires because they could aid in spiritual forging. However, the spirit of the Exotic Fire was too strong for blacksmiths to suppress, resulting in the refined artifact having a very strong Exotic Fire influence, making it difficult to achieve fine differentiation. Exotic Fires also have a strong contaminating effect, and Dou Qi cultivators wanting to control Exotic Fire must integrate it. This would cause their own Dou Qi flame to transform into an Exotic Fire.
For most blacksmiths, this was a rare and beneficial phenomenon, but for spirit clan blacksmiths, it was an heresy. The Exotic Fire's strong, uncontrollable spirit made it a contaminant.
Spirit clan blacksmiths preferred to only use Exotic Fire when absolutely necessary, and when they didn't need it, they wanted it far away.
This might explain why in ancient times, there was a rumor of a "Exotic Fire Sky Sealing Tower," a place for blacksmiths to learn from Exotic Fire, not for Exotic Fire to take over their craft.
Now, since Xiao Yan seemed to be collecting Exotic Fires, Jiang Lin was quite pleased. After all, he could consider Xiao Yan as a living Exotic Fire Sky Sealing Tower!
When he needed to study Exotic Fires, he could just bring Xiao Yan over, package him up, and use him as a fire seed. Perfect!
"Are you two collecting Exotic Fires?" Jiang Lin asked casually, "The Exotic Fire Sky Sealing Tower on the Blacksmith's Spiritual Equipment Rankings seems to be following this method."
Yao Chen's face darkened slightly at Jiang Lin's comment. Only Xiao Yan didn't understand the implication.
The reason for Yao Chen's darkened expression was that he realized Jiang Lin was considering Xiao Yan a "human-shaped spiritual artifact!"
Xiao Yan, seeing Yao Chen's expression, realized that Yao Chen wasn't angry, and thus asked Jiang Lin in surprise, "We didn't say anything, so how did Brother Lin know our plan?"
What surprised Xiao Yan the most was Yao Chen's tolerance toward Jiang Lin.
Now, aside from the Fire Forging Art, everything else was exposed? No secrets at all?
"I don't need the Exotic Fire. As long as you collect it and are willing to let me study it, I can offer any help I can," Jiang Lin said. He had already realized the connection between the Fire Forging Art, Soul Refining Art, and the Dou Qi Furnace. He had a fire source more suited for himself, but he was still too weak to ignite it in his body.
For Jiang Lin, researching Exotic Fires was more valuable than using them. He could leave the troublesome task of collecting Exotic Fires to Xiao Yan and provide the information, while borrowing them for research.
Each Exotic Fire was like a Dao Mark. The more he researched, the more beneficial it would be for Jiang Lin's progress toward becoming a Sixth-Rank Blacksmith, or perhaps even advancing to the Seventh-Rank Spiritual Artifact Master.
The people of the Dou Qi continent had a deep understanding of Dou Qi, Jiang Lin didn't deny it, but he still felt that their way of thinking was a bit too rigid.
Since the traditional path wasn't working, why not try a different approach? For example, directly offering up the Exotic Fires as sacrifices and crafting spiritual artifacts with them.
Well, let's say, the Spirit Clan would definitely praise Jiang Lin when they saw him: "As expected of our Spirit Clan's heir!" But now they had a new idea!
"For example, besides this unnamed fragment of the map related to Exotic Fires, I also have information about another Exotic Fire. But how can you be sure you'll be able to collect them? The fusion of Exotic Fires is extremely dangerous, and you need to collect multiple kinds," Jiang Lin shared, handing over another piece of information.
Collecting multiple Exotic Fires was Jiang Lin's weak point. If he had a method to fuse them, he would just collect them himself. But since he didn't, he could only gather one, which was almost useless for him. However, if Xiao Yan could collect all the Exotic Fires, Jiang Lin would have invested in Xiao Yan's future.
It was like the Dou Qi scroll. Jiang Lin traded one scroll for Xiao Yan's right to study all the scrolls.
"You have information about Exotic Fires?" Xiao Yan and Yao Chen looked at Jiang Lin in disbelief. Had they just left Utan City and already run into information about two Exotic Fires?
"I overheard it. It might not be true, but at least there's a direction," Jiang Lin smiled slightly. This was information that Yuan Fatty had quietly shared with him, which Yuan Fatty must have overheard from Gu He.
Jiang Lin wasn't familiar with Gu He, but he had to pry it out of him. However, Gu He's name was truly fitting—he was always miserable, so he had to make it hard for others to know.
Yao Chen looked at Jiang Lin's eyes. His deep blue eyes were flashing with an inexplicable power. Then, Yao Chen looked at the Clean Lotus Demon Fire map fragment in Jiang Lin's hand and his eyes flickered before he said in a deep voice, "We have a method to fuse Exotic Fires."
Yao Chen suddenly realized that Jiang Lin would be very helpful in finding Exotic Fires. Since Jiang Lin was likely to die if he wasn't careful, they needed to act quickly. He then said, "The map you have should be the location of the Clean Lotus Demon Fire, ranked third on the Exotic Fire List."
"If you're really willing to help us find Exotic Fires, we can let you, or even your elders, study them," Yao Chen said. He thought that if the Spirit Clan really treated Xiao Yan as a human-shaped Exotic Fire Sky Sealing Tower, it might not be a bad thing.
Xiao Yan nodded eagerly, "As long as Brother Lin needs it! We're brothers, no need for formalities! What's mine is yours!"
For Xiao Yan, who didn't have any Exotic Fires at the moment and was still waiting for Yao Chen to die and inherit his Bone Spirit Cold Fire, Jiang Lin's news was undoubtedly a great help!
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