Chapter 146: The Qiankun Soul Forging Method!
After bidding farewell to Hulei, Jiang Lin found an unused Earth Fire Refining Room in the Refining Guild.
Dong!
A flash flickered in the void, and a bronze square cauldron covered in thunder runes heavily landed in the refining room, at the location of the Earth Fire pit.
Super Sixth-Grade Xuan Artifact: Qing Xuan Qiankun Cauldron!
Jiang Lin reached out and gently touched the thunder runes on the bronze cauldron. A slight burning sensation began to appear on the soul fingers of Xiao Pang Lin inside his spiritual platform, with faint purple electric currents flickering at the tips.
Both Jiang Lin and Xiao Pang Lin raised their hands and looked at their fingertips. There were no visible changes, and Xiao Pang Lin's fingertips weren't harmed. The burning sensation was just an illusion created by Jiang Lin's spiritual vision.
What gave Jiang Lin this feeling wasn't just the Qing Xuan Qiankun Cauldron, but also an unknown map in his Spatial Ring, which had also given him the same burning sensation.
"Space Secret Technique: Qiankun Art, it's the most difficult Dou Technique I've encountered. It's been over two months and I've just barely scratched the surface. If this Qing Xuan Qiankun Cauldron didn't respond automatically to the Qiankun Art, my Dou Qi would be too weak to perform it."
Jiang Lin waved at the Qing Xuan Qiankun Cauldron, and a large amount of red-gold runes appeared on his palm. The seemingly worn-out bronze cauldron began to glow with runes identical to the red-gold runes in Jiang Lin's hand. Its huge form started shrinking and floated toward Jiang Lin, finally stabilizing above his palm.
"This space secret technique seems to cause gravity to collapse inward. The Qing Xuan Qiankun Cauldron, which should be extremely heavy, is now lighter. It's not weightless, but it feels much lighter than any other bronze artifact of similar size. The power of space is truly miraculous."
Jiang Lin stared at the floating bronze cauldron in his hand, his gaze filled with a strange brilliance. Ever since Hulei had given him the Qing Xuan Qiankun Cauldron, Jiang Lin had been working hard to cultivate the Qiankun Art, and only now had he made some progress.
"Can I shrink it even more?" Jiang Lin thought to himself. His eyes flashed as he manipulated the Qiankun Art, and the once fist-sized bronze cauldron began to shrink further according to his intent. It shrank to the size of a pill. Jiang Lin then realized that he couldn't shrink it further, as continuing would require an enormous amount of energy.
Looking at the bronze cauldron on his fingertip, a moment of hesitation crossed his face.
Swallow, or not swallow, that was the question.
For safety's sake, Jiang Lin enlarged the Qing Xuan Qiankun Cauldron and placed his Scarlet Scaled Gauntlets inside. He then used the Qiankun Art to shrink it down to pill-sized again, noticing that it didn't consume much Dou Qi.
"Within the Qiankun… this is truly terrifying. The space ability that can forge this cauldron's master must be at least a Dou Zong, no, perhaps even a Dou Zun!"
"And the most terrifying part is that this bronze cauldron is a Super Xuan Artifact. It contains its own energy and can regenerate on its own. I thought it would consume a lot of Dou Qi, but in reality, the Qing Xuan Qiankun Cauldron's energy is extremely full. No wonder Hulei gave it to me, someone who's just a Dou Shi."
Jiang Lin cradled the bronze cauldron and sat cross-legged to begin practicing the Soul Forging Art. Immediately, Xiao Pang Lin's body in the spiritual platform was enveloped in faint gray flames. Jiang Lin placed the bronze cauldron a little farther from himself, concerned that it might suddenly enlarge and crush him.
What excited Jiang Lin was that the bronze cauldron remained extremely stable. Even in the Soul Forging Art state, his control was still stable, and the cauldron didn't enlarge.
Next, Jiang Lin tried practicing the Fire Forging Art alongside the Soul Forging Art, and he found that his soul power was strong enough that practicing both simultaneously didn't affect his control. The cauldron remained in its Qiankun Cauldron state.
Jiang Lin then made other attempts and finally realized that the Qing Xuan Qiankun Cauldron was very stable. During the experiments, Jiang Lin also discovered that the cauldron had a safety feature. Once activated, the cauldron's state would be locked, and even if he tossed it on the ground, it wouldn't change.
Dong!
Jiang Lin released the restriction on the Qing Xuan Qiankun Cauldron and restored it to its normal state. He placed it on the Earth Fire pit and used the Earth Fire to recharge the cauldron.
The next day, after restoring his spiritual state to its peak, Jiang Lin shrank the cauldron, which contained the Scarlet Scaled Gauntlets, back down and sent it into his abdomen. He then placed his hands in a position above his lower abdomen, keeping them in a Qiankun Art state to prevent any issues.
In the spiritual platform, in a void space, a small copper pill appeared in Xiao Pang Lin's abdomen.
Swoosh!
Gray soul flames slowly began to burn on Xiao Pang Lin's body. With his golden-blue spiritual eyes, he looked at the small bronze pill in his abdomen. In his spiritual vision, the pill appeared to enter Jiang Lin's body in a physical way, and also appeared in Xiao Pang Lin's body.
Xiao Pang Lin was a visualization of Jiang Lin's soul power. It wasn't that all his soul power was concentrated in his head and spiritual platform, but rather that a "master control panel" had been condensed at the spiritual platform. This was similar to how a Dou Shi could gain internal vision, but the Soul Forging Art's Xiao Pang Lin gave Jiang Lin a target to visualize and monitor his soul power.
So when Jiang Lin touched things outside, Xiao Pang Lin's fingers would react accordingly, because Xiao Pang Lin's soul body was integrated with Jiang Lin's.
Now, through his spiritual eyes, Xiao Pang Lin saw the copper pill entering his body, and to his surprise, the pill reacted within the soul flames produced by the Soul Forging Art.
After a moment of thought, Xiao Pang Lin activated the Soul Forging Art, concentrating all the soul flames in his abdomen. The soul was integrated as one, and whether he burned externally or internally, it didn't matter. Normally, Xiao Pang Lin didn't control it, so he would subconsciously burn the body's surface, but by focusing, he could also burn internally.
Swoosh!
As the surrounding soul flames gathered, in Jiang Lin's spiritual vision, the copper pill he had swallowed was surrounded by vast gray soul flames. The soul power was destroyed in the flames, and in the process of destruction, it was reborn. Xiao Pang Lin was amazed to find that the copper pill was absorbing the soul power he had burned, and the cauldron seemed to be emitting a faint gray glow, responding to Xiao Pang Lin's Soul Forging Art.
"Hm, Hulei said his master is from the Soul Clan, a practitioner of the God Soul Sect. This means that the more advanced Soul Forging Art is actually the Soul Forging Method!"
Jiang Lin realized that the soul power consumed by the Soul Forging Art was all absorbed by the copper cauldron, not hindering his practice. Since the Soul Forging Art itself required continuous consumption of soul power to improve, the soul flames generated and consumed during this process perfectly served as refining materials for the Dou Qi weapon.
If Hulei knew what Jiang Lin was doing now, he'd probably slice this little monster with a sword.
Because Jiang Lin's shortcut method of Soul Forging was exactly the Soul Refining Method, only usable by Xuan Artifact Masters in the Soul Realm.
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