Chapter 30: Refining the Spatial Ring

  "Instructor, what's going on?" Wu Rui indignantly questioned the instructor as he looked at the space stone in front of him, which was only the size of a table.

  Zi Zi went back and applied for the payment of the medical expenses, but what made Wu Rui entangled was that the space stone in front of him was obviously different from the one on the agreement! It's at least ten times smaller! Was Zi Zi deceived? It shouldn't be, because the clinic collects fees according to the agreement, absolutely fair and just, but how should this matter be explained now?

  "This space stone was originally too large in volume, and the clinic couldn't hold it, so it was reduced by ten times according to the rules." The instructor seemed to always be that calm, really having a bit of an instructor's demeanor.

  "Hmm... So that's how it is!" Wu Rui smiled wryly, realizing his misunderstanding. Then, as if thinking of something, he asked: "Was the body of that Zizi also miniaturized earlier?"

  "Yes, sir. Zizu's body has also been reduced in size by three times at the clinic." replied the instructor sincerely.

  "Three times? No wonder he can fit a basketball-sized space stone in his stomach!" Wu Rui suddenly understood, and then couldn't help but feel excited and thrilled, wishing to hug the ten-times-shrunk space stone on the ground tightly. Of course, Wu Rui still had self-awareness, clearly knowing that he couldn't move this boulder, its volume had decreased, but its weight shouldn't have changed.

  Wu Rui slightly raised an eyebrow, this stone can't be left here, it needs to be stored somewhere. But now he only has a Mina ring with limited space, which can't hold the huge stone. It seems that he needs to prepare more storage equipment!

  The fire of the Golden Elixir can refine the elixir, and it can also refine equipment. The inheritance of Shennong's sixteen is not much, but there is a method for refining spatial equipment, and the Minna ring in Wu Rui's hand was personally refined by that old man, but due to the scarcity of space stones, only a few cubic meters of space were left, which was really pitifully small.

  "Heh heh, why don't I refine some spatial equipment?" Wu Rui excitedly smiled. Being able to have so many Voidstones to practice refining equipment was extremely rare in the world, at least on Earth's cultivation scene, only Wu Rui had this capital.

  However, before refining the elixir, Wu Rui still needs to make some preparations. He sits down on the ground in the clinic and takes out a cauldron from his Minya ring. It's an ordinary dan cauldron that was prepared by the old man for him to practice alchemy with, and it's also the only dan cauldron Wu Rui has now, so he can only make do with using it.

  Then, Wu Rui took out two hundred-year-old ginseng and thought for a moment before taking out several tens of years old ones, placing them all within arm's reach. Before refining the elixir, Wu Rui had to try it first, with two purposes in mind.

  First and foremost, one must be familiar with their own elixir fire. To think of refining equipment, at the very least, one must be able to control the size of the elixir fire at will and be familiar with its temperature; otherwise, failure can occur at any time.

  Furthermore, refining equipment requires a large amount of true yuan. In order to be able to replenish his true yuan at any time, Wu Rui planned to refine some elixirs. Pei Yuan Dan was the first choice, but unfortunately, Wu Rui did not have all the materials needed to refine Pei Yuan Dan, so he had to settle for refining a batch of simple Ginseng Elixir. Although its overall effect is not as good as Pei Yuan Dan, if the age of the ginseng is high enough, the Ginseng Elixir also has the same medicinal effect.

  Of course, directly taking ginseng can also replenish energy, but this still requires the operation of the heart method to transform it. During alchemy, how can one afford to be so distracted? Moreover, it takes more time, and naturally cannot compare with dan medicine.

  After taking a deep breath, Wu Rui's expression turned serious, and he stretched out his hand to the front of the alchemy furnace. The true yuan in his body slowly circulated, and with a silent incantation of "Fire come", a strand of alchemical flame shot out from Wu Rui's hand, directly shooting towards the alchemy furnace, instantly enveloping it entirely.

  This elixir fire is somewhat special, not yellow or red, but green in color. It looks very beautiful, but don't be deceived by its green beauty. In fact, this green flame has considerable power, even several times stronger than the normal golden elixir cultivator's elixir fire. The Divine Farmer's Scripture is a top-notch cultivation technique, so it's only natural that its elixir fire is not ordinary.

  Mind slightly moved, the dan fire weakened, continuously weakening, and then slowly strengthened again, in the strong and weak interval constantly changing, Wu Rui slowly grasped the skills within, when feeling the dan furnace reached a certain temperature, he would put a few decades of ginseng beside him into it, while using his spiritual consciousness to monitor its changes at any time.

  "Ah!!" But with a strange noise, Wu Rui was stunned on the spot. It turned out that due to the high temperature, the ginseng had been reduced to flying ash...

  "Umm... again!" Wu Rui was in pain for a short while, but fortunately he had plenty of ginseng, so he quickly adjusted his mood and continued to practice alchemy.

  It has to be said that Wu Rui's talent is not bad, although he failed several times, but every time he fails, the next time he refines the elixir, it becomes more skilled. After wasting five ginseng plants, the sixth ginseng plant finally succeeded in being refined into a ball of spiritual liquid. Wu Rui divided the spiritual liquid into two parts with his divine consciousness and immediately cast the Condensation Seal on the alchemy furnace.

  Two clusters of spiritual liquid slowly condensed under Wu Rui's gaze, eventually condensing into two green dan medicines the size of pills. Wu Rui suppressed his excitement and stopped the dan fire at the same time, hastily casting out the collection character decision. The two green dan medicines flew straight up from the cauldron and were accurately received by Wu Rui.

  "Hmm... the spiritual energy is full!" Wu Rui laughed happily, actually these two pills of cinnabar were not perfect, but as his first successfully refined medicine, it was quite an achievement, wasn't it?

  Of course, Wu Rui didn't intend to collect two elixirs. He immediately took one and instantly replenished the true yuan he had just consumed.

  Then, Wu Rui continued to refine the elixir and still used those two hundred-year-old ginseng plants. He successfully refined four ginseng pills the size of peanuts and put them in a jade bottle before starting to refine his equipment.

  With a chill iron dagger, Wu Rui cut off a piece of space stone the size of half a fist and took a deep breath before casting out the dan fire again. He heated up the dan furnace until it was scorching hot before throwing in the space stone. Refining equipment is similar to refining elixirs, but not entirely the same, after all, the melting points of minerals and spiritual herbs are different. When refining elixirs, one starts with gentle heat, worried that the medicinal materials will be roasted into flying ash.

  But the refinement of equipment is different. On the basis of Wu Rui's current golden elixir period cultivation, it will take some time to fully refine this empty Ming stone. Refining equipment is difficult in two points: one is carving and drawing array methods, and the other is shaping. Wu Rui has no great pressure on plasticity, but he has some anxiety about array methods.

  About ten minutes later, the spatial stone finally melted into a pile. Wu Rui quickly used his divine sense to remove some impurities from it. The next step was to shape it. However, Wu Rui felt that his true yuan had been depleted by more than half. In order to successfully refine the ring, he took out a Xuan Dan from the jade bottle beside him and put it in his mouth, allowing the spiritual energy of the Xuan Dan to slowly replenish his dantian.

  At the same time, Wu Rui used his divine consciousness to envelop the space stone, and began to shape it according to the shape of the Mitena ring in his hand.

  This pass is easy to say, but it's not the most difficult. What's being tested is actually the control of one's divine sense. Wu Rui was extremely confident in this regard because he had practiced controlling his divine sense with water before, using his divine sense to change the shape of the water into various forms, such as a small blade of grass, a tree, or even some small animals. Wu Rui could easily do all these things, so shaping a ring was naturally no problem for him.

  The ring quickly took shape, but was still in a **state. Wu Rui didn't dare to relax at the moment, controlling the dan fire to prevent the ring from solidifying while also starting to engrave patterns on the ring's circle, mainly for protection, and on the ring's surface were engraved arrays, space arrays, and owner recognition arrays.

  It sounds easy, but the fact is that a ring is only this small, and now it's necessary to carve complex arrays on it, without any slight mistake, which is not easy at all.

  Even if Wu Rui's spiritual consciousness in the Golden Elixir stage was not weak, he was still busy with sweat dripping from his head. Fortunately, although the formation was carved out hastily, it ultimately succeeded, which made Wu Rui let out a sigh of relief and slowly weaken the elixir fire, allowing the ring to cool down and take shape.

  "Am I not a genius?" Wu Rui felt a bit self-satisfied when he successfully refined the space ring on his first try, but as soon as he infused his divine sense into the ring's internal space, he burst out cursing: "Damn it! Such a large piece of space stone, yet there's only over one cubic meter of space?"

  Wu Rui is completely stunned!

  This isn't it, is it? The space ring has indeed taken shape, but the space inside is pitifully small, only one cubic meter. What's the difference between this and a Qiankun bag?

  At this moment, Wu Rui's face was filled with tears, and he also thought about the mistakes that had been made. Refining, removing impurities and plasticizing should be fine, and it was very successful, but the key was that there was a problem with the carving array method, could it be that the spatial array method had a flaw? That's right, at that time Wu Rui didn't feel very satisfied.

  Wu Rui hesitated and pondered for a few minutes, but he didn't give up. He decided to continue, took a Dan medicine, and started refining it.

  Ideals and ambitions are beautiful, but reality is cruel. Looking at the five or six rings on the ground, Wu Rui was almost in tears. From the initial one cubic meter, the ring space has been constantly expanding, two cubic meters, five cubic meters, ten cubic meters, twenty, and even broke through to more than thirty cubic meters, but Wu Rui is still entangled.

  It's already quite good, even bigger than the Minya space ring in his hand, but Wu Rui didn't feel a bit of joy. To know that these were all originally fist-sized space origin stones that could be refined into hundreds of cubic meters of space, but he repeated it several times and could only expand the space to over thirty cubic meters, which was far less than expected.

  "Ah! Looks like I still need a lot more practice!" Wu Rui let out a mournful cry, casually recalling the Dan Ding into his Mi Na ring.

  As for the spatial rings on the ground, Wu Rui didn't plan to recognize and use them all. Since the principle that spatial equipment cannot contain other spatial equipment, Wu Rui could only leave five of them on the table in the infirmary and only recognized and wore the last one on his hand. The internal space of this ring was about four meters long, three meters wide and high, roughly thirty-five cubic meters of space, barely enough to hold a large piece of spatial stone.

  "Use it for now!" Wu Rui muttered to himself, using his divine sense to envelop the space stone in front of him and smoothly storing it into his spatial ring.