Chapter 16 Refining
The so-called laboratory is a small room of only about a dozen square meters. The walls are not made of metal, but rough rocks, and the ground is covered with a simple rune floor.
There is a simple workbench in the center of the room with a magic lamp hanging above it. Some commonly used basic equipment are piled up in the corner of the wall - small crucibles, bellows, sinks, etc.
The most important thing is that there are some basic runes engraved on the four corners and door frames of the room.
"Is this a simple isolation and detection array?"
After locking the door, Benjamin felt the faint energy fluctuations brought about by the activation of the magic circle.
This level of magic circle may not be able to defend against the powerful detection of high-level wizards, but if someone tries to break through the shielding of the magic circle, it will cause a commotion, which is enough to serve as a warning system.
Everything in the entire laboratory seems quite simple and basic. It can be said that there is nothing useful except the protective magic circle and isolation magic circle inside.
However, after a careful inspection, Jieming also found a little surprise: "There is actually an independent magic network terminal in the laboratory?"
In a corner of the laboratory, there is a machine that is exactly the same as the magic network machine in the mission hall.
Using his badge to open the machine with ease, Benjamin discovered that the content was even richer than that in the mission hall. In addition to the regular tasks, the laboratories would also purchase or sell the necessary materials and products from each other.
"Even basic supplies have free delivery services, which is much better than the mission hall."
Although the mission hall also provides the same basic material trading services, it cannot help with delivery and buyers have to pick it up themselves.
It would be fine if it were some high-end resources, but for some more conventional supplies, the purchasing power of points in this regard is terrifyingly strong.
Moreover, Jemin also discovered that with the help of tasks and purchase requests posted between various laboratories, a precursor to the "forum" in the previous life had already appeared here.
Unfortunately, the value of knowledge in this world far exceeds everything else, and most discussions are superficial, so even though it has been developed for a long time, the "forum" is still just a prototype.
Even so, the scattered information revealed in these discussions also allowed Benjamin to gain a lot.
"The knowledge purchasing and payment system is incredibly complete. Even CNKI and the like can't compare..."
After being immersed in the magic network for a while, Benjamin finally came back to his senses. "Oh my god, I haven't been online for so long that I'm a little excited. So, it seems that the most important function of this low-level laboratory, besides ensuring privacy, should be the ability to access the Internet at any time..."
After reaching this conclusion, Benjamin fell silent as he looked at the terminal connected to the magic network in front of him. "What is this? An internet cafe in a private room? That internet fee is too expensive!"
After complaining inwardly for a while, Benjamin stopped wasting time and started to fulfill his main purpose for the day.
He took out his piece of gold, which had been shaped countless times through alchemy, from the tool box. Instead of using the crucible provided by the laboratory, he took out a piece of stone from the tool box he carried with him.
According to the knowledge in the Dao Book Pavilion, if one wants to refine pure gold at the first level of Qi training, one needs to rely on the power of tools.
The simplest of these is a special furnace whose special internal structure can concentrate firepower and help with refining.
Benjamin took out the alchemy plate and placed the stone on it. Soon, the whole stone turned into a small tripod the size of an electric rice cooker.
"The hand shaping feels so smooth. As expected, only by releasing the internal circulation can one perform better." Jieming sighed in his heart.
He placed the piece of gold into the stone furnace he had made, concentrated his mental strength, and mobilized the hard-earned true energy in his body.
"The Gengjin Refining Method... This is a basic metal purification method found in the Dao Library. It relies on the high-purity penetration of True Essence and the subtle guidance of Spiritual Sense to remove impurities from the metal and extract its core essence. Unfortunately, with my level of cultivation, I can only refine a small amount, and it requires very high material properties. Fortunately, gold is stable, so it can be used to some extent."
The laboratory's heating array was turned on, and a ball of flame appeared out of thin air on the laboratory table.
Placing the stone tripod on top, Jieming transferred his true energy into the gold bit by bit.
The true essence enters the gold like the highest-level solvent, quickly penetrating into every particle of the gold.
At the same time, his spiritual consciousness was as subtle as a scalpel, sensing the core "gold nature" and the complex "mortal nature" inside the gold.
This process consumes a lot of true energy. Benjamin feels that the pitiful true energy in his body is flowing out like a flood, bringing with it a noticeable feeling of weakness.
His face began to turn pale and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Fortunately, he has now learned the method of meditation, which can absorb elemental power from the outside world and convert it into true energy supplement.
Jieming gritted his teeth and continued to maintain the output of his true energy and the subtle guidance of his spiritual consciousness. At the same time, he followed the Gengjin Refining Method and used the simple equipment in the laboratory to assist.
Each step required extreme concentration and control. He could feel the "mortal nature" inside the gold being repelled and stripped away under the guidance of true essence and external forces. They turned into dust invisible to the naked eye, precipitated from the surface of the gold, and were burned at high temperature in the stone furnace.
As time passed, Benjamin's true energy was almost exhausted, and his physical weakness reached its peak.
He felt a little dizzy, and the faint humming sound emitted by the isolation array seemed to be getting farther and farther away.
finally!
At the moment before the true essence was completely exhausted, all the impurities inside the gold were stripped away.
The fist-sized gold in the furnace has turned into a small golden piece the size of a fingertip, shining with a restrained light.
Success!
Benjamin leaned weakly on the workbench, breathing heavily.
Without time to check his results, Jieming sat cross-legged on the ground to meditate. The power of the truth rune in his spiritual sea was fully activated, attracting elemental power from the outside world and transforming it into true essence to replenish the consumption of his body.
More than half an hour later, Benjamin, who had almost recovered, stood up and carefully took the small piece of gold out of the stone tripod with tweezers.
It felt cold to the touch, yet incredibly heavy.
It is no longer mundane gold, but a substance that embodies an ineffable concept of eternity and stability.
After identification based on the knowledge from the Dao Book Pavilion, Jieming confirmed that this was "pure gold", a metal essence that could only be extracted using special methods in the world of immortal cultivation!
Benjamin looked at the fingertip-sized piece of refined gold in his hand excitedly. This should be the first time he had come into contact with extraordinary materials since he came to this world.
(End of this chapter)
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