About half an hour later, Lin Mu saw a red blur approaching from the distance.
"There he is," Lin Mu said after spotting Little Shrubby.
~WHOOSH~
Little Shrubby's claws dug into the ground as he breaker to slow down, creating long claw marks on the rocky ground. Lin Mu had especially picked this area since it was mostly covered with rocks and at its side was a rocky mountain.
It was protected from the fire that would be involved and he wouldn't accidentally set off a wildfire. Additionally, he had some more concerns due to which this place was the better choice.
"What are we doing?" Little Shrubby asked, looking clearly confused.
His eyes wandered over the piles of gold and a cauldron kept near the side.
"I'm cultivating a technique and need you help to do some things." Lin Mu spoke.
"Okay~ What do I do?" Little Shrubby answered without any concerns.
"So, I'll be heating and melting a lot of gold. I'll need to refine it and that part is something only I can do, but after that is done, I'll need to use the gold. And to do that, I need the gold to stay in a liquid state, so I need you to keep on heating it." Lin Mu explained.
Little Shrubby thought it over and didn't find it to be anything difficult.
"So I just use fire on that cauldron?" Little Shrubby asked.
~clang~clang~clang~
One by one, Lin Mu tossed the ingots of gold into the cauldron. For the first stage, he needed 251 kilograms of gold and it was still a fraction of what the Cauldron could hold. Lin Mu roughly estimated that the cauldron could easily hold at least two hundred liters of fluid in it.
'This should be enough for me to use until the second stage. But for the third stage... the amount go gold is simply massive, no way it'll fit in this.' Lin Mu thought.
While he had a few options for it ready in the ring, he also informed Jing Luo, just in case. Even if Jing Luo was busy, Lin Mu reckoned the sects would have something that could accommodate something like that.
Lin Mu had seen large pill cauldrons in the Tri Cauldron Peony sect that were used to mass refine pills. If anyone, the Light Harmony sect should probably have a few like those, and they'll be perfect for Lin Mu to use.
Regardless, it was going to take Lin Mu some time before he would reach that stage, thus they had a head start for that.
~HONG~
The cauldron lightly hummed as the gold in it started to heat. Since the quantity was much more than before, the gases released were also higher and the pressure greater. Lin Mu quickly skimmed off the impurities that floated on the top of the now liquid gold before shutting its lid.
~DENG~
The three clasps were tightly fitted and it was now ready for the final refinement, which was to infuse spirit Qi and reduce its volume.
~SHUA~
A massive amount of spirit Qi spiraled out from Lin Mu's body and entered the cauldron, steadily being absorbed by the gold inside.