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Of course, a breakthrough in spiritual sense could only happen to monsters like Xu Fan. Others couldn't do that.

Normally, when a cultivator's spiritual sense wanted to have a breakthrough, they would only have this kind of situation after their realm had been raised. Where would it be like this with Xu Fan? He only needed to continuously practice the three or nine divine forging techniques to easily strengthen his soul and spiritual sense.

In addition, this also had to do with Xu Fan's special soul and thoughts, as well as his cultivation of the Divine Forging Technique. None of these were indispensable, and other cultivators were simply unable to replicate or imitate them.

His Spiritual Sense's scouting range had increased by a large amount. Although the scouting distance was only sixty or seventy feet, it still made Xu Fan's mood much more excited.

He sat on the ground, closed his eyes, and released his spiritual sense. In a split-second, everything within a radius of 60 to 70 feet had clearly entered his brain. He could even see an ant flea on the ground clearly.

"This Spiritual Sense's scouting is really good. If I can bring my scouting distance to a mile, 10 miles, 100 miles, or even further, then not only will I be able to discover danger, I can even use it to peep at beauties?"

Thinking of this, Xu Fan's pretty face couldn't help but reveal a vulgar smile.

Actually, it wasn't his fault that he had such vulgar thoughts. Because Xu Fan was a secret service agent in his previous life, due to the special nature of his work, he often roamed the romantic areas, and his personal life was uninhibited.

In reality, what Xu Fan didn't know was that in the cultivation world, although each sect condensed their own spiritual sense, they didn't use their spiritual sense to search for others. Using spiritual sense to search for others was a taboo in the cultivation world, and could easily cause misunderstandings.

He then took out some roasted meat from his bag of holding for breakfast. After filling his stomach, he first looked around, then lay on the ground and carefully listened for a while. Finally, he didn't find any wild beasts nearby, so he began to walk towards the volcano in a relaxed manner.

Everything was as Xu Fan had expected. The closer he got to the volcano, the stronger the pungent smell of sulfur became.

Soon, he found some yellowish, brittle crystals at the foot of the mountain not far from the volcano. They were the sulfur that he was looking for.

Xu Fan was overjoyed. He hurriedly put away these stinky crystals and continued to search everywhere.

After four hours, Xu Fan searched the surrounding area, and in succession, he collected a total of several thousand pounds of sulfur.

However, this time, Xu Fan didn't dare to go too deep into the valley. After all, yesterday's encounter with the Dark Wood Ash Wolf had given him some consideration, so he decided to make some black gunpowder and then consider continuing his exploration.

Xu Fan, who was in a good mood, hummed a small tune as he returned to the place where he had rested last night.

He had already collected quite a few of the two main ingredients needed to concoct the black gunpowder, and the only thing left was the charcoal.

Charcoal was originally the easiest to find. In a place where mortals of the Profound Sky Continent lived in, this kind of fuel that was used by mortals to warm their bodies during the winter was many. Unfortunately, he couldn't find charcoal in this valley.

But that didn't matter. It wouldn't be a problem for Xu Fan; he actually already had a plan.

In fact, long before he went to sleep last night, this fellow was already making preparations.

Arriving at the place where they had buried the trees last night, Xu Fan dug out the trees that had been buried in the ground.

The trees were burned, and some of them were not burned enough after Xu Fan had buried them in the earth. The remaining heat continued to heat the wood to dry, and the water and wood tar were removed, so that the trees were carbonized and the simple charcoal was obtained.

"Done!"

Xu Fan looked at the black charcoal on the ground and revealed a satisfied expression.

Luckily, this guy came up with this method. Although the quality of the charcoal he obtained wasn't that high, it was enough to make gunpowder.

Now that the charcoal was here, Xu Fan took the charcoal and placed it on a clean piece of rock. He turned the charcoal into powder, and then he took out some saltpeter and sulphur from the Chaos Tower, also turning the saltpeter and sulphur into powder.

Looking at the saltpeter and sulfur powder on the ground, Xu Fan's eyes flashed with excitement.

On the surface, the saltpeter and sulfur looked like ordinary things without a trace of spirit energy. Especially since the sulphur still had a pungent smell, perhaps no one would be able to pick them up even if they were thrown on the ground.

Of course, this was because the people of this world didn't know what these stones were, but Xu Fan did. To others, they were just trash, but to Xu Fan, they were treasures.

"Very good, with these things, I can make some black gunpowder and then make some simple bombs to protect my life. If I encounter any danger, even if I run out of spiritual energy, I won't be helpless. I'll hold my neck high and wait for them to slaughter me."

Xu Fan's eyes became even more enthusiastic. One had to know that this guy was a top secret service agent in his past life, so he wasn't familiar with any weapons. During missions, he often used all sorts of existing items to create bombs. To him, making a simple bomb was a common occurrence, not to mention that he now had the raw materials to make black gunpowder.

Looking at these raw materials, this fellow even wanted to make some modern weapons. However, it was just a thought on his part.

On the large rock, three piles of powder were piled up on one side. Xu Fan began to make some black gunpowder. Since he didn't have any measuring tools, Xu Fan divided the charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur powder into a small pile that was about the same size. Then, he mixed the original three components together according to the ratio of black gunpowder.

After doing all of this, Xu Fan removed a small pile of powder from the mixed black powder and placed it several zhang away. He then extended his finger and used a fireball technique. Immediately, a fireball landed on the small pile of gunpowder.

"Hahaha … I succeeded!"

Seeing the gunpowder quickly burn, Xu Fan couldn't help but laugh heartily.

"NND, this is definitely the creation of the world. There is still no gunpowder in this world, I wonder if I can be considered to have stolen the ancestors' victory fruit."

Xu Fan dragged his chin with one hand as he couldn't help but think proudly.

With gunpowder, things were much easier.

Xu Fan thought for a bit, then took out the three empty pill bottles from his storage bag, and then put the black gunpowder from the floor into one of the empty pill bottles.

After filling the pill bottle with gunpowder for the first time, Xu Fan carefully used his soul force to slowly compress the gunpowder in the bottle, then added some more, then continued to compress it with true essence. After repeating this a few times, until the bottle was full, Xu Fan finally revealed a satisfied smile.

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