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Within the small world, the Sky-Reaching Jianmu Tree, the Great Grinding Mill of Guixu, and the Void Blade were all standing in readiness.

They seemed to understand that their master and the furnace were off to do something big, something that concerned their own future, so they were all very 'concerned'.

Watching the violently struggling Heaven and Earth Furnace, Xuan Huang suppressed it with all his might.

Although there were only seven blood imprints, their essence was high, and that was exactly what Xuan Huang and the Heaven and Earth Furnace wanted.

Pure energy accumulation was of no use to either Xuan Huang or the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

"Refine!"

Inside the Heaven and Earth Furnace, the massive Hammer of Heavenly Intent danced, hammering the seven strands of blood.

"Bang!"

The enormous collision caused both Xuan Huang and the Heaven and Earth Furnace to tremble.

Once inside the furnace, there was no escape. Xuan Huang gritted his teeth and persevered, continuing to hammer.

Meanwhile, deep within the mountains of Western Hunan, at the entrance of a narrow cave, bizarre rules permeated the area, and scarlet blood energy steamed.

"Roar! Roar!"

A non-human roar echoed from the cave. Inside, a decaying wooden coffin sat on a Bagua platform.

The coffin was half-open, revealing a being covered in solidified black blood, tattered clothes, and a purplish-blue face, making it unclear whether it was human or a zombie.

Its vacant pupils opened, and it mechanically sat up, its gaze turbid and even emitting wisps of black gas, as it looked towards the northeast.

"Roar!"

A mouth full of thick black blood let out a hellish roar.

As if about to lose something, it struggled desperately.

At the same time.

Just as the strange zombie roared, inside the Heaven and Earth Furnace, the seven blood imprints seemed to have received a summons and struggled even more violently.

"Suppress!"

Xuan Huang could only rely on the power of the small world. Having eaten a bit too much, it would have been better to eat one blood imprint at a time; eating seven was a bit too much to handle.

The pressure of the Spirit Suppressing Tablet and the golden divine soul swept over, even if only a little, quickly calming the Heaven and Earth Furnace and Xuan Huang's mind and body.

The seven blood imprints instantly lost their fluctuations.

"Roar, Roar!"

Deep in a mountain in Western Hunan, the irrational strange zombie roared, and the surrounding mountains and trees suffered, the scarlet blood mist carrying a strong corrosive power.

With a "sizzle" sound, the trees quickly withered into black ashes, and even the stones melted as if encountering magma, leaving behind black-gray smoke.

In contrast to the strange zombie's roar, under the suppression, one of the seven blood imprints shattered with a 'crack' under the bombardment of the Hammer of Heavenly Intent.

Inside the furnace, golden flames mixed with Xuan Huang's will quickly enveloped the shattered blood imprint.

"Boom!"

Visibly, the shattered blood imprint was melted by the flames, and strands of black-gray true intent were quickly refined and absorbed by the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

Xuan Huang noticed the difference: the true intent of beings who had not entered Transcendent had no color, being almost transparent.

The true intent of a first-order Transcendent being was gray, while the essence of the blood imprint's true intent was black-gray.

This transformation and the difference in color meant that the true intent of a second-order being was black, but the blood imprint was not the main body of the strange zombie, so it was mixed with black-gray.

After the Heaven and Earth Furnace refined and devoured the black-gray true intent, Xuan Huang felt a qualitative improvement, not an accumulation of energy, but a change in essence.

"Continue."

Clearly, the black-gray true intent of one blood imprint was not enough to transform the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

Fortunately, this time he had directly obtained seven, and there were still six blood imprints to devour and refine.

Moreover, with the experience of the first time, plus the enhancement of the Heaven and Earth Furnace's essence, refining the remaining six would be simpler.

"Rumble!!"

The Hammer of Heavenly Intent was already an indispensable existence within the furnace.

Strangely enough, Xuan Huang had never paid much attention to the Hammer of Heavenly Intent.

The hammer's composition was twisted heavenly intent, originally used to temper willpower.

But later, no matter what was being refined, it always needed a couple of hammer blows.

Whether it was refining tools or refining fierce beasts, or even refining strange entities and blood imprints, etc.

Slowly, this hammer formed from twisted heavenly intent had settled down in the Heaven and Earth Furnace, and now it needed to give everything two hammer blows.

It also lived up to expectations. As the number of times Xuan Huang opened the Heavenly Gate increased, the twisted heavenly intent connected to the Heavenly Pillar would be absorbed by the hammer and evolve to become stronger.

Thus, a magical scene appeared.

This Hammer of Heavenly Intent had never been deliberately refined, but it had been constantly strengthening.

It seemed to have completely merged with the Heaven and Earth Furnace, becoming an indispensable existence within the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

For example, now, as the essence of the Heaven and Earth Furnace improved, it actually followed suit, and the stronger the thing being hammered, the stronger it became.

Moreover, as the Heaven and Earth Furnace's essence progressed, the speed at which it merged with it also significantly increased.

This hammer was controlled by Xuan Huang's divine soul. The body was the furnace, the Qi was the guide, the divine soul wielded the hammer… Therefore, the connection with the divine soul also increased day by day.

Xuan Huang even suspected that the furnace could not have achieved such a magical evolution and change of the Hammer of Heavenly Intent; perhaps his divine soul played a huge role.

In any case, the unintentionally born Hammer of Heavenly Intent, whether it was the divine soul's influence, the achievement of will, or even the Heaven and Earth Furnace's fusion of twisted heavenly intent, as long as it was beneficial and developing towards the path of light, Xuan Huang was very satisfied.

"Rumble!"

Another blood imprint was shattered, the Hammer of Heavenly Intent displaying its mighty power.

"Whoosh!"

The golden flames and will quickly devoured and digested it.

The Heaven and Earth Furnace had another slight improvement in essence.

"Rumble -- Whoosh -- Rumble -- Whoosh --"

Until the sixth blood imprint was shattered and devoured and refined.

"Buzz!"

The Heaven and Earth Furnace vibrated violently, and streams of cyan gas, centered on the Heaven and Earth Furnace, rushed outwards, pressurizing the surroundings.

The Jianmu Tree, the Great Grinding Mill of Guixu, the Void Blade, etc., which were guarding outside, exuded emotions of joy that Xuan Huang could sense.

They were congratulating Furnace Bro on entering the second order.

The Heaven and Earth Furnace was the first of the four instruments that Xuan Huang had refined, Jianmu was the second, and the Great Grinding Mill of Guixu was the third.

It was indeed the boss of the four instruments, having been born first.

However, it had always been quietly working, and although its strength was on par with the Sky-Reaching Jianmu Tree and the Great Grinding Mill of Guixu, its level was always behind.

Previously, the Sky-Reaching Jianmu Tree and the Great Grinding Mill of Guixu, etc., were not very convinced, but now it was definitely the eldest brother.

After the eldest brother worked so hard to advance, he still needed to earn money for his brothers and sisters.

The division of ranks in this realm was like an insurmountable chasm at each level.

It was defined according to the fragments of rules, so the difference was particularly large.

Xuan Huang's various heaven-defying methods only dared to challenge the early and mid-stages of a higher order in the late or peak stages of each order, and the difficulty can be imagined.

The Heaven and Earth Furnace stepped into the second order, and the degree of solidification reached 40%.

Not to mention the changes in essence and inner workings, just looking at the external surface, the previous illusion that could still be seen had now completely disappeared.

The Heaven and Earth Furnace at this moment was now a being condensed from cyan gas.

The previous sense of illusion was gone, and it became more real.

It was not necessarily so majestic, after all, this was in the small world, and there was the Spirit Suppressing Tablet watching next to it, so no matter how strong it was, it was still a child.

But Xuan Huang clearly felt the improvement of various abilities.

Fortunately, the origin of the Heaven and Earth Furnace and the other four instruments was given by his own divine soul.

To put it figuratively, it was like a clone separated from his own divine soul.

But it wasn't an avatar either, because it lacked intelligence and was under Xuan Huang's absolute control, essentially an extension of his divine soul.

After the essential upgrade, Xuan Huang discovered that the Heaven and Earth Furnace could now refine second-order anomalies and forge second-order magical artifacts.

Furthermore, whether in terms of assistance or combat capabilities, there had been a qualitative improvement.

Speaking solely of its swallowing ability, the current Heaven and Earth Furnace could easily devour second-order spiritualists; these crippled Tong Xuan existences, even at the late peak stage, were only on par with the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

If Xuan Huang used all his methods, such as will augmentation, heavenly intent augmentation, and divine soul augmentation, he could even have a fifty-fifty chance against a peak second-order anomaly.

The reason he wasn't invincible at the same level was that Xuan Huang didn't yet possess a second-order Tong Xuan will.

But this was enough; this time, the Heaven and Earth Furnace's advancement also spurred the progress of the Heavenly Intent Hammer within.

Whether for combat, forging, or self-will tempering, there had been a significant improvement.

A full-force strike could achieve the attack power of a second-order Tong Xuan.

The golden flames within the furnace also possessed the ability to burn second-order Tong Xuan beings.

No mistakes, one head, one hair, one inside, one appearance, one existence, one look!

These golden flames were transformed from Xuan Huang's essence blood, which was the essence fire within Samadhi True Fire.

However, it was not yet at the level of True Fire; True Fire required the fourth order to achieve. Currently, the golden flames were a weakened version of essence fire, or a child version, and still needed improvement.

Unknowingly, the Heaven and Earth Furnace itself, the golden fire, and the Heavenly Intent Hammer, the Heaven and Earth Furnace alone, possessed three separate yet unified divine wonders.

The Heavenly Gate engraved upon it, with progress, Xuan Huang believed would also become a new divine wonder.

The Heavenly Gate also connected to the twelve Heavenly Pillars, the pillars were condensed from essence energy; when the twelve pillars were complete, forming a Heaven and Earth Grand Array, then the Heaven and Earth Furnace would be the array eye and center.

The future of the Heaven and Earth Furnace was promising.

In addition, due to the progress of the Heaven and Earth Furnace, Xuan Huang discovered that his will had improved significantly and could completely be tempered to the peak tenth refinement of a single gate, three pillars, stepping into the first refinement of the second gate, four pillars, was only ordinary.

This was an unexpected gain.

Since there was enough time, and he needed to become stronger as soon as possible, Xuan Huang had nothing to hesitate about.

Let's see what other divine wonders the second-order Heaven and Earth Furnace has.

"Open!"

Xuan Huang's consciousness entered the furnace.

The Heavenly Intent Hammer felt like it had work to do again.

"Boom!"

"Damn!"

He hadn't expected that the first thing to be hammered after the advancement of the Heavenly Intent Hammer would be himself; why bother?

But it was really invigorating; his will was hammered to the point of crumbling, but the progress was truly great.

One hammer settled two refinements, followed by the highway-like power of heaven and earth, rapidly pouring in as the Heavenly Gate opened.

The Heavenly Intent Hammer rapidly absorbed and twisted heavenly intent, tempering Xuan Huang while colliding with Xuan Huang's will, incidentally tempering itself.

If the hammer wants to improve, it also needs to find a nail.

In the eyes of the Heavenly Intent Hammer, Xuan Huang's will was a nail that needed to be severely repaired.

"Boom!"

The hammer that had absorbed twisted heavenly intent worked even harder, feeling a bit bloated, needing to collide with the nail to shake off the bloated feeling and make itself more condensed.

"Boom!"

The sounds continued, Xuan Huang was suffering and enjoying it.

The second-order Heaven and Earth Furnace, hammer, and golden fire were extraordinary; previously, it was necessary to accumulate twisted heavenly intent and also to be mindful of the Heaven and Earth Furnace's tolerance limit.

To prevent the entering twisted heaven and earth power from collapsing the furnace instead of collapsing his own will.

But now there were no worries; the furnace welcomed all entering twisted heaven and earth power.

Its powerful essence didn't worry about being collapsed by a single gate, three pillars; even if it was four gates, twelve pillars, the furnace could easily bear it.

This made Xuan Huang's will more condensed, only needing to focus on tempering.

After about a night, the nine Heavenly Gates opened, and Xuan Huang's will reached the tenth refinement of the first gate, three pillars, at dawn the next day.

That is to say, at this moment, Xuan Huang's will had reached the fourth level of Xuan Transformation.

It was just that he hadn't yet condensed the second Heavenly Gate and the fourth Heavenly Pillar.

In the endless mist of the Qi Sea, along with the continuous connection to the power of heaven and earth, the three Heavenly Pillars serving as support were also tempered.

According to Xuan Huang's deduction, the Heavenly Pillars were not far from forming an array; the Heavenly Pillars that had been baptized had become more divine, transformed from pure golden Qi and blood.

The reason Xuan Huang hadn't researched array formations was because of the distortion of heaven and earth.

Only a complete and perfect heaven and earth could arrange array formations; the distorted heavenly intent rules couldn't give birth to array formations; after all, array formations were manifestations of Dao law rules.

Array formations were imitations of heaven and earth rules.

Xuan Huang had no choice but to find another way, taking himself as the array, his will suppressing it, his flesh, blood, and divine soul as array flags.

Judging from the current experiments, it was indeed feasible.

Xuan Huang withdrew his will and felt the fourth-order will of Xuan Transformation; powerful, a very powerful feeling.

It was the first time being carried by someone else.

Previously, it was always his own will carrying others, becoming someone else's suppression object.

He hadn't expected that the wheel of fortune would turn, and the second-order Heaven and Earth Furnace would drive the progress of his own will.

Of course, only Xuan Huang could do this kind of carrying.

Others couldn't do it.

This kind of rapid improvement required at least one aspect of your essence, Qi, and spirit to be far ahead, serving as a lighthouse.

Xuan Huang's spirit... he didn't know how high it was, but in short, the second-order Heaven and Earth Furnace was far from reaching the limit of his spirit, not even able to make a start.

So he could rapidly improve his will.

"Buzz buzz buzz—"

Xuan Huang withdrew his mind, and the Heaven and Earth Furnace also fell into silence.

The Void Saber, Jianmu Root, Gui Xu Great Millstone, etc., quickly came to watch.

Buzzing, very much like flies.

"Be steady."

Xuan Huang knew that they could understand his thoughts, so communication was not a problem.

"I know you are excited, but you must control yourselves; what do you look like?"

This was because seeing the Heaven and Earth Furnace stepping into the second order, the three fellows were both happy and urging.

It seemed like they were asking, when will we improve, we want to improve.

It was simply the instinctual pursuit of evolution by all living beings.

Xuan Huang ignored them; Xu Ru Yi and the others were still waiting for him; he needed to tell the people of the Evil Suppression Department that the plan was successful.

Therefore, Xuan Huang instantly disappeared from this place.

As soon as he left, the Great Millstone, Jianmu, and Void Saber instantly surrounded the Heaven and Earth Furnace, seemingly communicating.

And in the depths of the Xiangxi Mountains, the roaring Corpse Fiend regained its calm; visibly, its aura was slightly weaker.

It seemed to be instinctively sensing where the blood threads that had been taken from it had gone?

But it couldn't sense it, and the Corpse Fiend mechanically lay down again.

Around the rotten wooden coffin, on the platform like a Bagua altar, the patterns drawn by black blood faintly glowed.

After that, this place fell into silence.

It was just that the dark traces around the cave entrance, as well as the trees and weeds that had turned into ashes, proved what had happened.

Unfortunately, this place was far from human habitation, and the enlargement of Blue Star further lengthened the distance.

These deep mountains had become forbidden areas for humans.

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