The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 1519

Chapter 1519: Chapter 1515: The Way of a Genius Chapter 1519: Chapter 1515: The Way of a Genius Shen Luo's gaze moved to Elder Manbo, but all he saw was the elder focused intently on his own furnace, wholeheartedly immersed without any disturbance from Hou Shan at his side.

He had already sent the Copper of Lingxiao and Radiant Stone into the furnace, and was now controlling the flames to form three rings, encircling the two materials at the center, attempting to fuse them together.

The temperatures of the three flame rings varied, each circulating continuously and revolving around the two spiritual materials, alternately exchanging flames to perform a layered fusion of the materials.

This fusion technique, seen by Shen Luo in the Heavenly Secrets Manual, is known as Bite Fusion, a rather difficult method of refining that is more complex than mere blending but maintains more of the individual advantages of each spiritual material, making the resulting Armor possess many superior qualities.

For instance, the Copper of Lingxiao was highly malleable but lacked toughness. A simple fusion could enhance toughness while maintaining malleability, but the resulting material would only be comparable to another higher-grade spiritual material, Kuanghai Gold.

However, using the Bite Fusion method, the two materials would interlock in layered fusion, resulting in better malleability and toughness than Kuanghai Gold.

Seeing Elder Manbo master the technique of Bite Fusion, a hint of jealousy unconsciously surfaced in Hou Shan's eyes, causing his eyebrows to slightly droop.

By this alone, he was already no match for Elder Manbo.

At this point, he also put away his contempt for Elder Manbo and began to concentrate on refining the Armor.

As time trickled by, the primary metal inside the Melting Gold Furnace was completely refined into a liquid state, controlled by Mana to hover within the furnace chamber.

A moment later, wisps of smoke began to emerge from the melted liquid, indicating the separation of impurities inside and signaling a continuous increase in the purity of the spiritual material.

Shen Luo watched his movements, and suddenly the voice of the Fire Spirit Child echoed in his Sea of knowledge, “Given the current situation, it seems that Elder Manbo might lose.”

In his hand hidden In the Sleeve, he was holding the Free and Easy Mirror.

The mirror surface was shrouded in mist, reflecting the Netherworld Furnace within which the Fire Spirit Child also resided.

“Is this just the refining stage and you can already see the outcome?” Shen Luo's expression remained unchanged, communicating mentally.

“Elder Manbo's method of Bite Fusion is not bad, but the furnace used is too ordinary, causing the furnace fire not to heat up quickly enough, unable to perfectly meld the spiritual materials. In contrast, Hou Shan's refined material can achieve a flawless degree, superior to Manbo's,” the Fire Spirit Child explained.

“It's just a difference in the purity of the materials. That's not enough to determine the winner, right? Besides, Bite Fusion seems obviously more superior,” Shen Luo hesitated.

“Not necessarily. Hou Shan's refining method is ordinary, but since he's crafting offensive equipment, he doesn't need high malleability but more toughness, so he doesn't need to maintain more malleability. Also for this reason, I dare to assert that the weapons he refines, will surely be like Short Dagger and Triangular Short Cone, Armor that requires less malleability, believe it or not?” confidently stated the Fire Spirit Child.

Shen Luo didn't speak, but saw that Hou Shan had begun adding auxiliary materials to the furnace.

As several auxiliary materials entered the furnace one after another, fusing with the main material, the temperature inside the furnace also began to gradually decrease.

At this moment, Hou Shan's hands moved through the Void, and as the temperature in the furnace lowered, the molten spiritual material began to solidify gradually, revealing the true form of the Armor, just as the Fire Spirit Child had said, it was a Triangular Short Cone.

“To be able to refine such a caliber of Armor form in such a short time is already quite impressive. As long as there are no issues with the inscriptions later on, he is likely guaranteed a win,” the Fire Spirit Child communicated.

Shen Luo furrowed his brow upon hearing these words.

If Hou Shan truly wins this round, then Che Qingtian and his team would win two cities in succession and claim outright victory.

He couldn't help but look anxiously towards Elder Manbo.

Compared to Hou Shan, his speed was much slower, and he still hadn't managed to refine all the spiritual materials, continuing to add materials into the furnace.

Almost everyone could see that his firepower was insufficient, making one step slow, and each subsequent step slower.

But just at that moment, he unexpectedly chose a very unremarkable piece of flintstone from among the many spiritual materials, and controlled it with mana to send it into the furnace.

“Adding flintstone at this point probably won't do any good, what is Elder Manbo thinking?” Elder Fu expressed anxiously.

This material is usually used as an aid for combustion, capable of increasing the furnace temperature to some extent, but adding it at this stage seemed somewhat ineffective.

However, the flintstone wrapped in mana did not ignite immediately after entering the furnace, but instead, he controlled it to suddenly accelerate and dash into the already melting mass of spiritual material melt.

The flintstone was instantly enveloped the moment it entered the mass of spiritual material melt.

Everyone watched, clueless, only Fire Spirit Child's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had realized something.

Shortly after, they heard a “boom” – a muffled sound!

The mass of spiritual material melt suddenly expanded, swelling like a balloon, and a great amount of white vapor rushed out from the surface.

Moments later, the white vapor completely dissipated, and the expanded spiritual material melt slowly opened, revealing a mass of black flintstone ashes being slowly peeled apart.

“Genius, truly genius,” Fire Spirit Child couldn't help but exclaim.

“What do you mean?” Shen Luo, who hadn't understood, asked through mind transmission.

“I underestimated Elder Manbo. He actually thought of using the internal combustion of flintstone to instantly raise the temperature of the spiritual material melt, thereby evaporating the impurities within the melt. Simply genius,” Fire Spirit Child said still quite excited.

Upon hearing this, Shen Luo also understood and realized the complexity of the operation, not an ordinary feat.

It required controlling the temperature of the flintstone's combustion high enough, ensuring the force of the combustion was not enough to break through the melt's enclosure, while also controlling the residual ashes with mana to prevent secondary contamination of the melt.

Such a detailed operation, Shen Luo admitted that he currently did not have the ability to achieve.

After the refinement of the spiritual material melt was complete, the temperature of Elder Manbo's furnace also began to drop gradually, and the form of a round shield was also gradually taking shape.

But just at that moment, an unexpected change occurred.