From Celestial Official to Great Celestial Venerable

Chapter 3 Heavenly Essence Furnace

late at night.

The neighbor's dog barked a few times.

After wiping her drunk father's body, the mother did some housework and then coaxed her younger sister to sleep.

Qin Chuan, however, was in his small room, quietly watching the black incense burner mark that appeared in his palm as he repeatedly touched the three 'immortal items'.

"Dharma essence...refinement/reprocessing?"

He muttered to himself, his gaze lingering on the three items in front of him for a long time.

"The admission notice and the Taoist talisman are both proof of identity. We don't yet know what the black furnace is for. If we accidentally damage these two things and invalidate the Taoist identity that I worked so hard to obtain, it would be a huge loss. Should we... try using the flying needles that my third uncle gave me first?"

Once the thought was made up in his mind, he stretched out his right hand and grabbed the set of flying needles.

【Mother and Child Mithril Needles, containing magical essence...can be refined/remelted】

Please select 'Refine' or 'Recycle'.

Qin Chuan pondered for a moment.

Literally speaking, "re-forging" should mean refining and returning to the original state, while "refining" should mean extracting something usable from it.
After comparing the two.

He muttered to himself:
What do "refining" and "reprocessing" mean?

Qin Chuan suddenly felt a slight heat in his palm, and the black incense burner mark was actually emitting a red glow.

Immediately afterwards, an image appeared in my mind.

It was a black cauldron, extremely tall, like a house. Upon closer inspection, the patterns and shape on it resembled an incense burner a hundred times larger than the palm of one's hand.

【Heavenly Essence Furnace】

The moment Qin Chuan saw the furnace, he instantly understood the name of this black cauldron.

Look again.

The inside of the furnace seemed transparent, revealing the box of silver flying needles in his palm. On the furnace body, text had even formed.

[Item: Mother-and-Child Mithril Needles]

This is a set of flying needle magic tools, made of spirit silver, forged in the heat of fire for forty-nine days. It was handled by one person who used it to perform the 'Silver Glow White Needle' technique for ten years. It contains the essence of the 'Silver Glow White Needle' technique, from which one can extract a portion of this technique's cultivation, or it can be recycled back into '1 point' of pure essence.

[Pure magical essence, which can be used to enhance the cultivation of any spell.]

With this explanation, Qin Chuan immediately understood the key point.

Isn't this just adding points?
My mind raced.

I'm currently a complete beginner in cultivation, without any spells, so having blank attribute points is useless. It's more cost-effective to get the Silver Light White Needle spell first.

"refining!"

The furnace owner has chosen refining; the refining process is expected to take three hours.

Qin Chuan made his choice.

Woohoo~~
But then he saw the fire in his mind suddenly burn bright red.

Qin Chuan stared at it for so long that he almost fell asleep.

Three hours later.

Suddenly, with a 'whoosh', the box exploded, scattering like sparks from a hammer blow, turning into a shower of light.

These raindrops of light flew out from the furnace opening and merged into Qin Chuan's mind.

At the same time, he suddenly became mentally exhausted.

The Dharma essence has been refined.

[The furnace master has obtained a copy of the second level of the 'Silver Glow White Needle' cultivation technique.]

Suddenly, Qin Chuan felt that he had gained a lot of experience in casting flying needle spells in his mind.

Silver-light white hair needle!
A flying needle technique has five levels. Once all five levels are mastered, the flying needle will only flash with an indistinct silver light wherever it goes. It is extremely fast and as fine as a hair, penetrating everywhere.

call!
Qin Chuan opened his eyes, feeling utterly exhausted, like someone who had been burning the midnight oil all day.

"Will this refining process drain my energy? Three hours..."

He subconsciously looked into his palm and found that the flying needles in the needle box were still there, but he vaguely felt that they were different from before, as if they had lost some of their radiance and magic.

After resting for about half an hour, I felt that my mental and physical strength had recovered considerably.

He muttered to himself, "Does it require sufficient mental and physical strength to complete this refining step? Does that mean that if I encounter too powerful a magical essence, I won't be able to refine it?"

Put that idea aside for now and instead observe the flying needles in your hand.

"After the Dharma essence was extracted, the quality of the items seemed to have dropped considerably."

Qin Chuan guessed that it was like a treasure that had been nurtured for decades in a cultivation novel being re-refined into a blank slate.

His thoughts were divergent:

"Could it be that my furnace can easily erase the personal imprint and aura within someone else's treasure?"

In his previous life, he was a perceptive person. At this moment, he could see from the flying needles that seemed to have lost some of their luster after being refined that they could have imagined the even more incredible wonders of the Heavenly Essence Furnace.

It's truly the perfect choice for home use, travel, and even murder and robbery.

Then I thought about it again.

"Now that I'm part of the system, if I were to use such methods, I must ensure that no one else knows about them. Otherwise, I would become someone everyone wants to kill. After all, I'm not a bloodthirsty person."

The thought of possibly being wanted by the Heavenly Court and becoming a demon made him shake his head.

Call ~
Exhale and clear your mind of distractions.

Qin Chuan carefully digested the magical experience of the 'Silver Light White Needle' extracted from this set of flying needle magic tools, looked down at the flying needle box, and picked up one of the silver needles.

Immediately, a strange sense of familiarity made his muscles ripple with memories.

Reach out and flick.

call out!
It actually pierced right through the bamboo pillow on the bed, penetrating deep into the wood.

"Tsk, this is without any true qi, yet it allows me to pierce a half-inch thick bamboo board with a silver needle, just like a legendary martial arts master. Even an old Chinese medicine doctor who practiced for a lifetime in his previous life probably couldn't do this, but I have inexplicably stepped into the second level."

"In the future, once I truly enter the Qi Refining stage, with more spiritual energy within my body, the spells I unleash using spiritual energy will be even more terrifying." Qin Chuan had already fully absorbed the spell experience of the 'Silver Light White Needle'.

The previous owner of this flying needle artifact had spent ten years cultivating his skills. In terms of needle technique experience, he had only reached the second level of the Silver Light White Needle. Yet, he could already control eighteen flying needles, instantly killing eighteen flies in the air, and even piercing a human head harder than iron with the flying needles, killing someone with a single thought.

Unfortunately, he currently lacks spiritual energy; he possesses magical skills but lacks the ability to control spiritual power.

Think of this.

Looking at the Taoist talisman that "permitted Qi cultivation," Qin Chuan knew there was no way he would be able to sleep tonight.

With slightly excited hands, he opened this precious 'Taoist Talisman'.

With the opening of Qin Chuan.

A faint light emanated from the talisman, which resembled a folded booklet, and fell into Qin Chuan's eyes, as if it were examining something.

After three breaths.

It's as if the identity verification has been completed.

A delicate white rune flew out from the Taoist's talisman and landed in Qin Chuan's mind.

Instantly.

Qin Chuan felt as if he had entered a magical world, like a negative of a photograph. The originally colorful surroundings were now reduced to black and white.

Then he saw something else besides the black and white.

It was a kind of transparent light spot that stayed on my skin.

A tiny point of light.

It gave Qin Chuan the illusion of being filled with immense power, instantly arousing a desire in him, both psychologically and physiologically, that is...

Eat this speck of light.

The body moves in accordance with the mind.

Qin Chuan felt as if his body was a living thing, and he opened his mouth and 'swallowed' the tiny speck of light.

The instant the light entered the body.

Feels so good~
It was like rain after a long drought.

It was as if the body had been craving this substance and had finally received it.

Then, Qin Chuan felt the white runes emitted by the talisman consciously guiding the light spots along his meridians.

He understood what the light spot was.

Open your eyes:

"This is the most basic form of spiritual energy, the 'spiritual particle'."

At that moment, he understood the reason why "one cannot refine qi without a certificate, and one cannot cultivate the Dao without a talisman."

In this world, talismans and celestial registers are not only rules restricting cultivation, but also a kind of 'passport'. Only by obtaining this pass can one 'see' the truth of the world, find that point of light, and 'absorb qi'.

After realizing the truth.

He looked at the ordination certificate in his hand again and breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had just been scared.

Fortunately, the flying needles were tested first; otherwise, if the talisman in the Taoist talisman had been melted down, I would have been devastated.

At the same time, when he first drew Qi into his body, he not only felt the Fireworker Taoist's talisman guiding the circulation of his spiritual energy, but it also revealed a lot of information about the Qi Refining stage.

Qi Refining Level 1: 'Spiritual Particle Transformation Wave'

Qi Refining Level 2 'Spiritual Wave Transformation into Light'

Qi Refining Level 3: 'Spiritual Light Transformation into Qi'

Qi Refining Level 4: 'Spiritual Qi Transformation into Power'

In other words, he has just obtained his first 'Heaven and Earth Spirit Particle'. He needs to absorb more Heaven and Earth Spirit Particles and aggregate them into a 'Spirit Wave' before he can control the flying needle artifact and fly with the needle.

"So this is what spiritual practice is like."

Qin Chuan experienced the joy of cultivation, and like someone who had tasted the sweetness of it, he spent the entire night absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

One night passed.

He has already accumulated sixty-four Heaven and Earth Spiritual Particles within his body.

Whether it was the spiritual particles in his body that began to nourish him, or Qin Chuan's own illusion, he felt that even though he hadn't slept all night, he was actually more energetic than usual.

When he washed his face, got up, and went to the yard, he found that many people had come to his house.

"Mother, who are these people outside...?" Qin Chuan asked his mother.

“They all came to give gifts. Your father didn’t want to accept them at first, but after your third uncle came, he made us accept them. He said that you have to go to Nongling Temple to report in a couple of days, and you will have to stay in the county. You will need to buy a lot of things, which will be a huge expense, so…” His mother lowered her head and wiped the cabinet.

Qin Chuan didn't say much upon hearing this, but focused on: "Third Uncle is here?"

"Yes, he's talking to your father in the front room."

Qin Chuan arrived at the front room.

Qin Li sat on a small stool. When he saw Qin Chuan come in, his eyes changed slightly. He noticed Qin Chuan's change and asked, "Did you draw in Qi last night?"

Qin Chuan did not deny it and nodded.

"Let me see how many particles you've refined tonight." Qin Li stood up and placed his hand on Qin Chuan's wrist.

Qin Chuan's heart stirred slightly. He felt that the Heavenly Essence Furnace should not be discovered so easily, so he did not resist. He was just curious about his performance that night and how it compared to others.
"Sixty-four grains, hmm... in our rural area where spiritual energy is scarce, that's not bad."

Qin Li withdrew his hand, looked at Qin Chuan, and said:

"To truly enter the first level of Qi Refining, you need to accumulate at least 100,000 Heaven and Earth Spiritual Particles in order to condense a Spiritual Wave."

"One hundred thousand spirit grains? That many?"

Qin Chuan was speechless.

He only managed to produce 64 particles in one night, compared to the target of 100,000 particles, which made him anxious.

Doesn't that mean that even if he practices Qi diligently every night, it would still take him five or six years to reach the first level of Qi Refining?
Is it really that difficult to just enter the first level of Qi Refining?
(End of this chapter)