406: Chapter 400 Fine Gold 406: Chapter 400 Fine Gold “Do we really want to buy all those pigs?”
Hongming spoke telepathically, a hint of pleasant surprise evident in its tone.
Previously, it had just casually mentioned it.
Originally, as per the agreement with Chen Hai, it had thought that there wouldn’t be any Blood Food offerings for it for the next two or three months.
Just now, being able to swallow twelve pigs at once was already an unexpected delight for it.
At Yuxing Pig Farm, it had drooled over the remaining hundred-plus large fatty pigs.
This creature wasn’t too particular about other matters, always just initially intrigued by the novelty, but when it came to Blood Food, it was insatiable, never finding it the least bit tedious.
But now…
Thinking of all those big fatty pigs waiting for Master Hongming’s favor, it couldn’t help but want to excitedly howl with joy.
“That’s right, it’s those hundred-plus pigs from the pig farm that will be exchanged for your Storage Bag refining method.
What do you think?”
Chen Hai nodded with certainty.
As soon as his words fell, a stream of information flooded his mind.
“To thoroughly refine a Giant Kun’s skin with the Divine Soul, leaving a brand within it, then using Fine Gold as threads, integrating them into the hide…”
“This is the refining method for the Storage Bag?
It sounds pretty simple?”
Pondering for a moment and sorting out the information in his mind, Chen Hai spoke to confirm.
“The most basic Storage Bag refining method is not complex—the real difficulty lies in how to obtain rare spiritual materials with the Space Characteristic!”
“In the era I lived in, those major sects would often organize people to hunt Giant Kuns in the Beiming Sea.”
“A single adult Giant Kun’s skin could suffice to equip each official disciple of their sects with a low-end Storage Bag…”
Visibly pleased with itself, Hongming explained to Chen Hai.
It seemed that exchanging the refining method for such commonplace low-end Storage Bags for over a hundred big fatty pigs for Blood Food offerings, it felt like it had secured a great bargain.
“Is that so?” Chen Hai nodded.
After carefully mulling over the Storage Bag refining method given to him by Hongming a few more times, he furrowed his brows.
“Hongming, what kind of material is this Fine Gold?”
“If Fine Gold doesn’t even exist in this current world, wouldn’t this Storage Bag refining method you’ve given me be completely useless?”
“Wanting to exchange a Dharma Method with no practical use for over a hundred big fatty pigs…
doesn’t that seem a bit too much…”
After a moment of silence, Chen Hai conveyed his dissatisfaction to Hongming.
“Kid, not knowing Fine Gold shows your ignorance.”
“Trying to trick you with a useless Dharma Method?
Do I, Master Hongming, seem that shallow?”
“Let me tell you, the Fine Gold I mentioned can be refined from Gold.”
“I know you possess Fire Control, just repeatedly forge the Gold hundreds or even thousands of times with your ability.”
“When you see a five-colored substance start to appear, that means Fine Gold has been refined…”
With an obvious hint of disdain, Hongming explained to Chen Hai.
After finishing this explanation, without waiting for Chen Hai to respond, it was already eagerly urging him to go to Yuxing Pig Farm and buy all the pigs.
Although Hongming was quite arrogant and boastful,
it probably wouldn’t stoop to swindling Chen Hai with some nonsensical item.
Refining Fine Gold from Gold might sound far-fetched,
but Chen Hai believed Hongming wouldn’t try to deceive him on such a matter.
Spurred on by Hongming’s urging and only hesitating for a short while, Chen Hai got into the driver’s seat of the battered old vehicle, started it up, and headed towards Yuxing Pig Farm.
Buying all those pigs from the farm was not a significant expense for Chen Hai.
He offered a decent price, and the pig farm owner was all too happy to accommodate his request for the place.
After settling all the payments, Chen Hai negotiated with the pig farm owner to step aside for a while to make it more convenient for Hongming to consume the pigs.
The pig farm owner didn’t hesitate much and agreed.
After all, the most valuable things in the farm were undoubtedly the big fatty pigs.
Chen Hai had bought all the pigs, so how he handled them was his business; whether the owner stayed around had little impact.
After several hours of activity in the pig farm, when Chen Hai drove back to Liuyuan County in the small agricultural vehicle, it was already past ten o’clock at night.
He was very eager to try his hand at refining Fine Gold and verify it.
Unfortunately, at this time of night, both banks and gold shops, the places where he could buy Gold, were closed.
Since that was the case, he could only wait until tomorrow to try refining Fine Gold.
Chen Zhonghua and Jiang Meixian had been called by Chen Hai already, informed of his later return.
By the time he got home, his parents had already gone to bed earlier.
Tending to Master Hongming, constantly buying pigs for it to devour, Chen Hai was already extremely worn out.
After a quick shower, he went back to his room, lay down on the bed, and soon he fell into a deep sleep.
The next day, Chen Hai got up very early.
However, by the time he finished his Cultivation and left his room, his parents had already gone out and were not at home, leaving only the soy milk and fried dough sticks they had bought for him on the dining table in the living room.
A couple of years ago, a gram of Gold would only cost fifty or sixty Yanhuang currency.
In these two years, the price of Gold had surged considerably, a gram now selling for over ninety, nearly a hundred.
After breakfast, he went out to start buying Gold.
Since he was just trying to refine Fine Gold, he only spent close to one hundred thousand to buy one kilogram of Gold.
In a hotel room at the Garden Hotel,
he sat cross-legged directly on the carpet.
The one kilogram of Gold he had bought was already melted into one solid piece.
A flame rose in front of him.
The piece of Gold in the ceramic basin in front of him had already been burned into half a basin of Gold Water.
Refining Fine Gold at home, Chen Hai worried it would disturb his parents.
After buying the Gold, and after some consideration, he simply booked a room in the hotel directly.
With his skill in Fire Control, playing with fire in a hotel room naturally didn’t worry him about starting a fire.
“Hongming, this Gold has already been refined by me for several hours.
How long will it take to refine the Fine Gold you mentioned?”
“Kid, your flame isn’t hot enough; merely turning it into Gold Water is not quite there; you need to burn it into a Golden Flow to truly call it refining!”
“How about now?
Is it enough?”
“Not yet, it’s still a little short of the necessary heat.”
“Is refining Fine Gold so difficult?”
“You don’t know anything and blindly refine; of course, it won’t work.
Once you gain experience and become proficient, the refining will naturally be faster!”
“Slow down, slow down, kid; your heat is a bit too much!”
…
Since he had to refine Fine Gold, of course, Chen Hai carried the Hongming Blade with him.
Having devoured more than a hundred pigs last night, Hongming was in a relatively good mood.
Faced with Chen Hai’s intermittent questions, it guided him patiently and made an effort to teach.
A blade like it must have been clueless at birth, like a blank sheet of paper.
However, the Hongming Blade had been around for countless years, following who knows how many masters!
As the ancient number one Fierce Blade, those who could become its owner and still manage to keep it without being taken by others were almost always individuals with vast Divine Skills.
Surrounded by such strong beings, observing and absorbing over countless years, even without deliberate learning, many things it naturally came to understand!
Due to burning the Gold into a Golden Flow, there was bound to be some loss of Gold during the refining process.
The first day, one kilogram of Gold was used up cleanly, with not even a trace of Fine Gold seen.
Faced with this, Chen Hai was prepared for the loss.
During the day, he refined Fine Gold in the hotel room; at night, he usually returned home.
After all, the original purpose of his stay in Liuyuan County was to spend more time with his parents.
Even if refining Fine Gold, he could not let his parents go all day without seeing him.
The next day, he continued to purchase Gold, and he continued refining Fine Gold.
It seemed that using only a ceramic dish to hold the Gold caused a considerable loss during refining.
Having learned from one setback, he directly got two ceramic basins and set them upturned, creating a sealed space.
After placing the Gold inside, he then began to refine.
After a day’s work, the kilogram of Gold he bought this time retained at least half.
Day in and day out, refining Fine Gold became monotonous and dull.
One day, two days, three days, time passed little by little.
On the seventh day, a strand of multicolored metal the size of a hair was finally successfully refined by Chen Hai.