Chapter 132: The Spirit of the Guarding Armament

  Ye Chen was puzzled and couldn't figure it out. If so, why did the armguard master put a furnace in the armguard? It's really baffling.

  Suddenly, Ye Chen thought, this armguard has the word "Tian Huo" (Heavenly Fire) engraved on it, and its instrument spirit seems to be fire-based as well. Could there be some profound mystery?

  After a moment of contemplation, Ye Chen's divine soul delved deep into the armguard, and soon came into contact with the armguard's instrument spirit. The armguard's instrument spirit seemed somewhat dispirited, its flames dim.

  It may have just changed owners and is a bit unaccustomed.

  How can we make the spirits of the armors obey us?

  Ye Chen tried every possible method to establish contact with the instrument spirit of the divine armor, but as soon as he touched his divine soul, the instrument spirit immediately retreated. It seemed that he couldn't use his divine soul and could only communicate with it through his consciousness. An hour passed, and Ye Chen still had no success.

  How can I control the spirit?

  I don't know if the mysterious energy is useful, but Ye Chen input a thread of it into the armguard. The instrument spirit touched this thread of mysterious energy and seemed to be stirring restlessly, but ultimately calmed down again.

  The aura was attractive to the instrument spirit, but why did it eventually calm down?

  A flash of insight on his mind, could it be that he needs to use the Fire Elemental Qi?

  Ye Chen rotated the nine stars in his dantian, converting all the xuanqi inside his body into fire-type xuanqi. He then input a strand of fire-type xuanqi into the Huo Zhou, and the Huo Zhou's spirit sensed this strand of fire-type xuanqi, seeming to be overjoyed. It quickly wrapped up that strand of fire-type xuanqi.

  Ye Chen's heart skipped a beat as his own fire-elemental Xuan Qi was suddenly swallowed up by the instrument spirit!

  The instrument spirit swallowed these fire-type mysterious energies, and suddenly expanded by several points, becoming more scorching hot, just like a dying flame reigniting.

  "Since you need fire-type Xuan Qi, then let you absorb enough!" Thinking of this, Ye Chen urged the flying knife in his mind, and a large amount of Xuan Qi surged into the Dantian, transformed by the nine stars of the Dantian, turned into a large amount of fire-type Xuan Qi, and input into the Hu Zhang.

  The armor spirit was inspired by the majestic fire-type mysterious energy, and finally became excited and began to frantically absorb and devour these fire-type mysterious energies. The red fireball grew more and more intense, burning fiercely. Ye Chen was surprised to discover that the armor spirit was becoming stronger and stronger, but he wasn't worried that it would betray him. As the absorbed fire-type mysterious energy increased, Ye Chen gradually formed a connection with the armor spirit. The armor spirit's intelligence was similar to that of the Xuantian Red Tiger and the Swift Shadow Leopard.

  A piece of armor, unexpectedly having such high spiritual intelligence, is already quite extraordinary, and it's completely different from the likes of Xuantian Red Tiger and Swift Shadow Leopard.

  After more than ten minutes, the connection with the Guardian Spirit became clearer and clearer, and Ye Chen could control the Guardian Spirit at will.

  So that's it, the armguard has finally completed its recognition process. Ye Chen glanced at his left arm and saw that the armguard had undergone a significant change. It was now radiating a dazzling light, with flames flickering in and out of sight. A powerful surge of fire energy burst forth, and Ye Chen's left fist shot out casually, unleashing a blast of fire-infused qi. Fortunately, he was far enough away from the wall, or else the house would have been reduced to rubble by his single punch. And that was just a light tap - if he were to use it against an enemy, its power would be no less than the Red Cloud Sealing Heaven!

  Ye Chen also discovered another function of the armguard, which is to store fire-type Xuanqi. Normally, it continuously injects fire-type Xuanqi into the armguard, and the equipment spirit will swallow and store it. When fighting, it can be used at will. It's unknown how many times it can be used in a row after being fully stored, this still needs to be researched.

  Ye Chen stroked the armguard with a pleased expression, as if sensing Ye Chen's emotions, the equipment spirit also seemed somewhat excited.

  The artifact spirit was still continuously devouring the fire-elemental Xuan Qi, and Ye Chen gradually felt that his armguard was getting a bit scorching hot. This artifact spirit completely didn't know satisfaction, no matter how much fire-elemental Xuan Qi Ye Chen inputted, it would fully absorb everything, but the temperature of the armguard was getting higher and higher. Ye Chen gradually couldn't bear it, and immediately stopped.

  The armguard spirit still had an unfinished look, Ye Chen couldn't help but smile wryly. This armguard was also unknown as to what rank of spiritual treasure it was. It seemed that he would have to wait until his own strength continued to increase before he could bring out the armguard's true power.

  Suddenly had an idea, can let the Ling armor help refine the elixir?

  As soon as the thought moved, the bottom of the cauldron in the central space of the arm guard burst into flames, and the fire tongue licked the bottom of the cauldron. The cauldron quickly became scorching hot.

  As expected, I can refine elixirs!

  The method of refining the elixir was indeed mysterious. Ye Chen quickly put all the herbs for refining the Gathering Qi Pill into the armguard space, and with a thought, the lid of the furnace was opened. Several kinds of herbs that had been processed flew into the furnace, mixed together, and the lid closed.

  Ye Chen carefully controlled the fire with his mind.

  It takes about three days to complete the refining of a furnace gathering gas pill.

  The success rate of low-level pharmacists ranges from 2% to 20%, while the success rate of high-level pharmacists can be as high as 80% or more. Some primary pharmacists can successfully refine several or even dozens of Gathering Qi Pills at a time, while those with the title of Pharmacist can refine thousands of pills at once.

  Ye Chen put in a hundred portions of materials. Anyway, these materials were just ordinary herbs and were quite cheap. He didn't know what the result would be like for his first attempt at refining elixirs.

  It had just been half a minute, and with a sweep of his mind, he found that the medicinal mud in the furnace was already a piece of charcoal, and the elixir cultivation failed!

  Ye Chen quickly extinguished the flames and moved the medicinal mud out of the protective sleeve space, a pungent smell wafting through the air.

  Failed so soon? The Gathering Qi Pill should be very easy to refine, he followed the refining method of the Supreme Alchemy strictly, the process was flawless, why did it still fail? After some thought, the thing was burnt, that might be because the fire was too big.

  Must control the fire temperature!

  The failure of the elixir experiment left Ye Chen somewhat disheartened, but he still had a strong interest in alchemy.

  After summarizing his experience, Ye Chen prepared another batch of materials, roughly equivalent to the quantity of one hundred Qi Gathering Pills. One failure would result in a loss of one hundred taels of silver, but if he successfully refined two pills, he could break even.

  In the armory space, there were so many white silver and gold, Ye Chen naturally wouldn't care about this little money, as long as he could learn alchemy, spending a bit more money was no problem.

  Continue to refine, fail.

  Failure.

  Still failed!

  After failing more than thirty times, Ye Chen finally understood how difficult it was to refine elixirs. Just refining the simplest Gathering Qi Pill was already this hard, let alone those high-grade elixirs.

  After failing more than thirty times, Ye Chen still made some progress. The last batch of medicinal mud was placed in the furnace for refining, lasting as long as two hours without being burnt to a crisp.