Lin Xuanzhi sat cross-legged, took out some equipment refining materials, and studied them one by one.

　　These materials were comprehensive in variety and completely different in style. Through distinct arrangements and combinations, as well as different refining methods, they could become magic treasures with unique attributes and uses.

　　What to refine?

　　Ah Hen didn’t seem to lack anything recently, but it also seemed like it was time to replace everything.

　　Such as hairpins, clothes, bracelets, and storage bags.

　　En, it seemed with his current abilities, he couldn’t make storage bags yet.

　　Lin Xuanzhi pondered the question and in the end, decided to craft a pill furnace for Yan Tianhen that would be used especially for refining poison pills.

　　When they descended the mountain, Lin Xuanzhi had already asked Qing Zhu to look around for such a pill furnace, but a good pill furnace wouldn’t be sold easily. The starting price of the pill furnace sold at the auction wasn’t something that Lin Xuanzhi could afford.

　　So Lin Xuanzhi acquired a lot of materials for refining pill furnaces instead.

　　He absolutely couldn’t refine the kind of pill furnace that he crafted earlier for Yan Tianhen again. Although the pill furnace he previously refined was very handy to the majority of alchemists, it wasn’t as fitting for Yan Tianhen, who must use a Yin furnace suitable for him.

　　Icy saltpeter flickering with a faint blue light, a piece of iron’s essence that had been gathering dust at the bottom of a pool for tens of thousands of years, crimson mud soaked in the filthy blood from ma.s.s graveyards, and toxins from 49 kinds of poisonous things.

　　To be honest, Lin Xuanzhi didn’t really like these materials filled with Yin Qi and poisonous aura, because the spiritual Qi within his body was Yang in attribute and was even pure Yang, so he would automatically reject items full of Yin Qi.

　　However, for Yan Tianhen’s sake, he was willing to give it a try.

　　After selecting the materials, Lin Xuanzhi threw the rest into his storage bag.

　　Lin Xuan stilled his heart. It was as if he could see through these materials rotating in the air between his hands, changing shape under the forged engraving pen’s inscriptions, and absorbing the forged stones’ spiritual Qi in wisps. He could see Yan Tianhen’s sunny, lovely smile.

　　Nothing was more important than Ah Hen.

　　Lin Xuanzhi devoted his heart and soul to the task. He practically entered a state of emptiness, forgetting both himself and the world. He was even more earnest than when he practiced the sword.

　　He didn’t know when a sandstorm blew again outside.

　　He didn’t know when the thunderclouds would disappear.

　　There was only this pill furnace in his eyes.

　　Unconsciously, he felt the veins and acupoints in his entire body expand two-fold. Lin Xuanzhi was only slightly startled, but he soon threw thoughts about this inexplicable and not-so-painful improvement in cultivation to the back of his mind and continued to concentrate fully on refining.

　　With this pill furnace, Ah Hen would be able to personally refine poison pills instead of just discussing theories on paper.

　　Moreover, with this pill furnace full of Yin energy, Ah Hen need not worry about the danger of exploding furnaces anymore.

　　Although Lin Xuanzhi had never crafted a pill furnace specialized in refining poison pills in his last life, he once learned about the process of making poison pill furnaces during his chats with Soul Plate.

　　With a poison pill furnace, not only did its inner and outer surfaces need to be directly refined using Yin-attribute materials, but during the crafting process, a lot of toxins with various attributes also needed to be added to the furnace, such as plants and animals, like the Five Poison Vine and Five Poison Scorpion.

　　Contrary to expectations, the more attributes one added, the easier it was to refine. If the materials needed to refine a certain poison pill just happened to match one of the toxins refined into the pill furnace, then one would get twice the result with half the effort.

　　Lin Xuanzhi didn’t know how many kinds of poisons craftsmen usually added to poison furnaces. In short, he used his soulfire to heat all the toxins that he could find for the time being into a gaseous state and mixed them all with the forged stones’ spiritual Qi, then stuffed into the emerging pill furnace.

　　Unconsciously, an unknown period of time pa.s.sed. Suddenly, the soul bead in Lin Xuanzhi’s sea of consciousness unexpectedly returned to its soul plate state, perhaps because it absorbed too much dense spiritual Qi, or because Lin Xuanzhi’s soul had already reached a high enough level.

　　Soul Plate was so excited that it wished to pull Lin Xuanzhi into a conversation, but Lin Xuanzhi had already entered a realm of emptiness. A terrifying aura enshrouded his entire body. Even though shattered pieces of rock wreaked havoc outside, they were still twisted into pieces by the spiritual Qi surrounding him as soon as they flew within one meter of him.

　　In a spurt of energy, Lin Xuanzhi tried to finish everything in one go but was still hindered by some obstacles in the refining process.

　　However, he wasn’t alone, and he knew this.

　　“Why do I always find it difficult to fuse these toxins?”

　　Soul Bead…Ah no, it’s time to call it Soul Plate now, replied, “You can try changing the order according to their attributes? Wood begets fire, fire begets soil, soil begets gold, gold begets water, and water begets wood. You must not reverse these.”

　　Lin Xuanzhi gave it a try and found that it was indeed much easier.

　　“Which do you think looks better — wrapping this Five Poison Vine outside or directly refining it into the furnace?”

　　“You can preserve its original state and refine it directly onto the outer wall.”

　　“Good idea.”

　　Therefore, several patterns with Five Poison Vine decorations that looked like it protruded from the inside circled around the pill furnace’s outer wall. The color was a gorgeous red, and one could even make out small fruits the size of a pinky’s belly on it, which was truly beautiful and cute.

　　Lin Xuanzhi was very satisfied with his design.

　　Yan Tianhen would definitely like it.

　　Lin Xuanzhi opened his mouth again, and Soul Plate immediately cut in, “You’ve already asked me more than 30 questions. Why do you have so many questions? And it just reached the final stage. This is something you have to worry about yourself. I can’t help you.”

　　Lin Xuanzhi paused, then smiled. “I just want to say, did you notice that I can make magic treasures while chatting with you?”

　　Soul Plate, “……”

　　“I didn’t notice until you pointed it out.”

　　However, all craftsmen who reached a certain level had basically learned to mult.i.task, the only difference being how good or how bad they were at it. Obviously, from the way Lin Xuanzhi’s hands skillfully weaved around without pause and from the effortless way he conversed, one could completely see that Lin Xuanzhi absolutely belonged to the portion of craftsmen good at mult.i.tasking.

　　Soul Plate was a little proud.

　　This was indeed his chosen successor.

　　Lin Xuanzhi then asked in astonishment, “When did you become like this?”