After another incense sticks worth of time, Lu Wen finally said a sentence: "Weve arrived at the entrance!"

  Zhao Di only saw two Qi-refining cultivators guarding a small, only two or three zhang in diameter, magic array, and didnt see any so-called "entrance" at all.

  "Could this be...?" Zhao Di thought to himself, when Ma Gao excitedly blurted out: "Teleportation Formation!"

  Lu Wen glanced at Ma Gao and said in a low voice, "Its indeed a transmission array, specifically used for entering and exiting the refining room." He then took out a red token and loudly said to the two cultivators guarding the array, "Two junior brothers, these three are new refining disciples who have come under the order of Master Kuang to refine here. Please allocate three lower-grade refining rooms and transmit us in."

  The two monks took a closer look at the token, and indeed it was genuine. One of them then pulled out three blue jade disks from his storage bag and handed them to Zhao Di and the other two.

  Zhao Di carefully examined the jade plate in his hand, one side of which was engraved with the three digits "125", while the other side had many small characters densely carved on it, probably the usage method and incantation for this jade plate.

  The other two jade discs were respectively engraved with "126" and "127".

  "This teleportation array can only transport one person at a time, Ill go first, you three follow immediately after!" Lu Wen ordered Zhao Di and the other two. After finishing speaking, he walked into the teleportation formation and stood in the very center.

  Two monks in charge of guarding the transmission array pressed a low-grade spirit stone on the array eye, and then a spell was cast on the transmission array.

  A dazzling white light rose around the formation, and after a moment, the white light disappeared, and Lu Wen in the formation also disappeared.

  "Come in!" one of the guarding monks said to Zhao Di.

  Zhao Di followed the words and entered the transmission array, standing in the very center. A burst of white light flashed by, and Zhao Di felt a sudden blankness in his mind, hastily closing his eyes tightly, and when he opened them again, he found himself already in a stone corridor that stretched out endlessly without end. And Lu Wen and two other Qi Refining stage cultivators were just beside him not far away.

  "Hurry up and come out." Lu Wen said to Zhao Di. Zhao Di quickly took a few steps forward, only to discover that he was just in another teleportation array.

  A moment later, Ma Gao and Fang Fu were also transmitted over one after another.

  "These two transmission arrays are a pair of bidirectional transmission arrays. If you want to leave from here, you must also go through the transmission array on this side." Lu Wen said, then he took out three storage bags and handed them over to Zhao Di and the other three people, saying: "The jade plates you received earlier are the instruments for entering each refining room. The numbers engraved on the front correspond to the number of the refining room, and the back is engraved with the incantation, very simple, you can comprehend it yourself. Once you enter the refining room, no one will disturb you again. All the refining rooms are covered by a large-scale prohibition array. Except for the jade plate instruments in your hands, even if its a Dan-forming period cultivator, it would be difficult to break in. This storage bag contains twenty kilograms of fine copper ore. One month later, Master Kuang will come personally to inspect the results of your refining. You are on your own."

  After finishing this sentence, Lu Wen nodded to the two monks in charge of transmitting the law array and stepped into the transmission array. After a white light, he disappeared.

  Ma Gao said: "Brother Zhao, Brother Fang, lets part ways here." Then he walked towards the depths of the stone corridor, occasionally glancing around in all directions.

  Zhaodi and Fangfu bid each other farewell and walked separately towards the depths of the stone corridor.

  The stone corridor had stone houses on both sides, and it was unknown what kind of stone material they were made of. In such a hot environment, it still felt cool to the touch. Zhao Di looked up at the number of the first stone house, "45", and the other side was "10". Walking a few more steps forward, the numbers on both sides became "62" and "28", which seemed to be completely irregular! Zhao Di muttered to himself in his heart. It seems that he can only look at them one by one.

  After passing by 70 or 80 stone houses, I finally found the "125" stone house.

  Zhao Di carefully looked at the other side of the jade plate where a mantra was engraved, and it was indeed very simple. After reading it twice, Zhao Di felt that he could grasp it.

  He placed the jade plate into a circular groove on the stone gate, and indeed it was a perfect fit. Then he muttered a few incantations under his breath, pointed with his right hand, and cast a spell onto the jade plate. A blue glow spread across the surface of the jade plate, and after a moment, a creaking sound echoed out, and the stone gate automatically opened an entrance about five feet wide. Zhao retrieved the jade plate, quickly stepped through the entrance, and then another spell was cast onto the jade plate. After a loud noise, the stone gate returned to its original state of being tightly closed.

  Zhao Di carefully examined the interior of this refining room.

  The stone house is not large, only tens of meters wide, and the walls on all sides, including the ground, are made of this unknown stone material. On the north and south stone walls, there are two dragon head stone statues with big mouths, with the words "Earth Lung Fire" written above them. On the west side of the stone house, there is also a similar stone statue of a dragon head, but with the words "Spirit Spring Water" written above it, and below it is a green stone pool surrounded by a stone wall.

  It seems that this earth fire or spiritual spring is obtained from these several dragon heads.

  Apart from this, there was nothing else in the entire refining room.

  Zhao Di released all his divine consciousness, carefully checking everything in the stone house, and after confirming that there were no mechanisms, he sat down on the ground with a thud. He didnt rush to comprehend the jade slip given by Master Kuang Shu, but instead took out the small cauldron that had not been seen for many days, put a pellet of Washing Marrow Dan into it, and at the same time grasped a piece of blue glimmering high-grade water spirit stone with both hands, and sat down on the spot.

  Like this, Zhao Di didnt leave the refining room for a whole month.

  Although he was still only a cultivator in the Qi Refining stage and couldnt reach the "Bigu" state that only Foundation Establishment stage cultivators had, he originally still needed to eat some food. However, he had bought a lot of "Bigu Pills" at Liuyun Fang City, solving his eating problem.

  "Bigu Pill" requires five low-grade spirit stones, and taking one pill can sustain a person for a month without food. This is still quite extravagant for Qi Refining stage cultivators, who wouldnt use it unless they had to sit in meditation for an extended period of time and couldnt afford to interrupt their session. Generally, they would rather eat once every three to five days than waste five spirit stones per month on a Bigu Pill.

  Zhao Di lacked everything except for spiritual stones. Therefore, he secretly bought several batches of Bie Valley Pills, enough to last him several years.

  This month, Zhao has been very tense and busy.

  Half a month ago, he upgraded some elixirs with a small cauldron and then took them to meditate. This place is indeed a land of refining instruments, without any external interference, such a quiet environment makes him feel very comfortable. In his spare time, he would ponder the way of purifying taught by Master Kuang Shu.

  Half a month later, when he started smelting that batch of copper ore, he realized why they were only given twenty kilograms of ore for a month.

  Refining is really an extremely laborious physical activity!

  No need to spend a lot of spiritual power, the ore is suspended in the earth fire and slowly melted, and a large amount of divine consciousness is required to finely manipulate the intensity of the earth fire, as well as control the separation of the copper liquid and impurities, and then gather the copper liquid together, forming a large copper liquid group. Finally, the liquid group is quickly put into the spiritual spring water to cool down, and a small piece of refined copper can be obtained.

  In this process, the consumption of spiritual power is nothing to worry about, as Zhao has an inexhaustible supply of high-grade spirit stones to replenish his spiritual power. However, the consumption of divine consciousness makes him feel extremely overwhelmed.

  He didnt have any miraculous medicine that could restore his consciousness, and he could only rely on meditation and rest to slowly recover.

  However, time was running out, and he could only refine a piece of ore the size of his fist in one day, twenty kilograms of ore would take at least ten days to half a month, where did he have the time to rest properly.

  As a result, three times in a row when he was refining the ore, he was because his divine sense was not enough, and his manipulation was a bit slow. The pure copper liquid was burned for a moment in the earth fire, so the refined pure copper not only had a slightly deeper color but also had much less spiritual energy. Obviously, such pure copper is a product of refining failure.

  Zhao Di was a bit worried about the inspection by Master Kuang one month later. If his refined quantity was still small and his failure rate was high, he didnt know if he would be expelled from being an apprentice of Master Kuang. At that time, it was very likely that he would be assigned to do some task that no one else wanted to do.

  He glanced at the small tripod beside him and muttered to himself, "Its all because of you, this little tripod. I had to find a secluded place to cultivate, and after finally finding such a good place, I discovered that I have to do so many chores! Indeed, nothing in life is perfect!"

  "Huh, Xiao Ding, Ive got it!" He suddenly thought of something and his originally depressed mood suddenly became excited.

  (Today is the fourth watch, the third watch.)