Chapter 87: Chasing Perfection

While the spectators were confused, Shen Xu began his work.

First, he purified his materials, one at a time.

Although he pre-emptively soaked them in spiritual water to remove the impurities, Shen Xu was not complacent.

After the purification, he began to melt and extract the material essence.

An hour later, Shen Xu had eight bottles in front of him.

’The purification, melting, and extraction went well.’ He thought but didn’t dare to be self-satisfied.

After all, what he had already done was the easiest part of his refining process.

’Next is the true refining.’ He thought, and a red fire appeared on the palm of his right hand.

Soon after, Shen Xu adjusted the flame and moved the fire to below the refining furnace.

Following that, Shen Xu cleaned the furnace and allowed it to dry.

After it dried, he waited for it to heat to the appropriate temperature before pouring in the essence of natural cotton.

’This natural cotton is easy to grow but difficult to handle. When handled well, it will result in a soft and strong fabric. But if not handled well, the outcome will be a coarse and brittle fabric.”

Considering that, Shen Xu was extra careful when handling natural cotton.

He perfectly controlled the flame and performed the appropriate hand seals at the best time.

Half an hour later, the liquid essence turned into a white cloth.

At a glance, the cloth looked tough and soft, and exuded a sense of luxury.

Seeing this, Shen Xu sighed in relief but didn’t relax.

At the appropriate time, he added the essence of crystal silk.

Less than three breaths later, the essence soaked into the fabric and the white cloth became stronger.

After refining for another half an hour, the white cloth became more crystalline, but still looked soft.

’If I made a mistake at this part, the fabric would have become rougher than sandpaper.’ Shen Xu thought.

’It’s time for the essence of void stone.’ He thought and poured the essence into the refining furnace.

At first, Shen Xu didn’t plan to use the void stone for this refining.

However, he suddenly had an idea that wouldn’t leave his mind.

’I hope it works.’ He thought and cautiously began to merge the essence of void stone into the cloth.

An hour later, the essence fully merged, and Shen Xu heaved a sigh of relief.

’It’s harder than I thought, but it’s worth it.’ He smiled.

’Now comes the hard part.’ Shen Xu thought and took a deep breath.

Soon after, he changed his hand seals while using soul power to finely separate the large cloth into two pieces.

Fortunately, Shen Xu had ample soul power, and a focused mind.

Although it was difficult, he divided the cloth into two pieces without damaging it in the process.

After that, Shen Xu poured some spiritual water into the refining furnace and closed the lid.

While the water was boiling, Shen Xu sat cross-legged and refined a level two qi replenishing pill and a level three soul replenishing pill.

An hour later, he opened his eyes and listened to the sound of the furnace.

“It’s almost dry.” He muttered and stood up.

When the furnace was completely dry, Shen Xu opened the lid and checked the two pieces of clothing.

Compared to before, their colouring was brighter, and the quality was better.

Seeing this, Shen Xu was satisfied.

However, he was also a little anxious.

If he used the fabric as it was, he could refine two good robes.

However, Shen Xu was not satisfied with just ’good’.

Since the robes were a couple outfit for himself and Zhen Yuan, Shen Xu didn’t want to settle for anything short of exceptional.

Thinking of this, the double gritted his teeth, divided his soul power into two strands, and extended them into the furnace.

’There can be no disparities in the refining of the two robes.’ He reminded himself.

At the same time, his two strands of soul power wrapped around the two pieces of cloth.

When both fabrics were perfectly wrapped in a soul power bubble, Shen Xu reached for the two bottles of feather essence.

Simultaneously, he poured the two essences into the furnace.

Without a mistake, one essence entered one bubble, and the other entered another.

Seeing this, Shen Xu smiled but didn’t relax.

He constantly made hand seals and didn’t stop until half an hour later.

At this point, the two clothes had once again changed colour.

At a glance, one was red, and the other was a beautiful silver grey.

’Last step.’ The double thought and resolutely reached for the two bottles of essence of fire gathering herb and essence of qi gathering herb.

Without hesitation, he poured the liquid essence of the fire-gathering herb into the soul power bubble with the red fabric while the liquid essence of the qi-gathering herb was simultaneously poured into the bubble with the silver-grey fabric.

When that was done, Shen Xu resumed his hand seals.

Time passed and before he knew it, it was already two hours later.

Fortunately, his gamble had worked.

Looking at the two fabrics floating in the furnace, Shen Xu was satisfied.

However, there was still one last step.

Thinking this way, he poured the remaining spiritual water into the refining furnace.

But this time, Shen Xu didn’t close the lid.

Instead, he made hand seals and watched as the two fabrics changed into two robes- one red and one silver grey.

Slowly, the spiritual water boiled over and began to evaporate.

At the same time, two things happened.

First, two waves of qi visibly rushed into the weapon refining furnace.

Second, an image began to form in the void above the refining furnace.

Seeing the floating image, the academy square fell silent, and most people irresistibly stared at the vision.

However, a select few didn’t look at the image.

Instead, they looked at Shen Xu.

When Zhen Yuan saw this, his eyes narrowed and a trace of murderous intent leaked from his body.

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