Chapter 77: The Method of Refining the Heart

  Not to mention what will actually happen, but Haitian absolutely cannot tolerate losing to Xue Lin like this.

  Since he won't refine the instrument, then let's learn on the spot. "Ninefold Overlapping Waves" brought huge confidence to Haitian, and he believed that as long as this ancient first-rate refining secret was there, even a newcomer could win.

  Thinking of this, Hai Tian immediately walked with Xue Lin to the location of the furnace.

  Xue Lin deliberately glared at Hai Tian with a cold snort, seemingly completely disregarding him.

  The sea and sky didn't care, but he directly took out the "Ninefold Overlapping Waves" from his storage ring, carefully flipping through it. His strange behavior made everyone present look at each other in dismay.

  "Lao Wei, Hai... Tian, what is he doing?" Tuo Ka was still somewhat unaccustomed to directly calling Haitian by his name.

  Wei Yu was also very puzzled, Xue Lin had already started igniting the alchemy furnace, and Hai Tian was still there flipping through books. Uncomprehending, he didn't immediately respond, but instead made a silencing gesture, he understood that in alchemy, the most important thing was to maintain silence.

  Xiaoyu and Weihai didn't understand what Haitian was doing, they just kept cheering him on. Perhaps in their hearts, Haitian could accomplish anything.

  Haitian's strange behavior naturally caught Xue Lin's attention beside him.

  Logically speaking, the first step in refining equipment is to purify the materials. And the first step in purification is to heat up the refining furnace to a certain temperature. But now, Ha Tian not only hasn't ignited the refining furnace, but is also engrossed in flipping through an old book, as if she doesn't care about it at all.

  "Hey! Are you done yet?" Xue Lin kindly reminded him, she didn't want to gain a reputation for winning unfairly.

  However, Hai Tian didn't show any affection towards Xue Lin and replied without lifting his head: "What's it to you? Just refine your equipment!"

  "Ah!" Xue Lin was once again infuriated by Hai Tian, glaring at him fiercely. "Fine, I won't bother with you anymore! Let's see what kind of sword you can forge!"

  As she spoke, Xue Lin turned around, let out a heavy hum, and focused on heating up the refining furnace in front of her, but her eyes kept sneaking glances at Hai Tian, trying to figure out what he was doing.

  Haitian didn't seem to care about Xuelin, and the true content of this "Ninefold Overlapping Waves" that guided equipment refinement wasn't much. Most of it was Ninefold Sword God's own experience in refining equipment, especially when refining each level of sword equipment, he had his own unique insights.

  Generally, the failure rate of refining sword equipment is very high. Although Hai Tian was not clear about the general failure rate of refiners, he could see that the Ninefold Sword God's refinement failure rate was very low.

  After reading everything, Hai Tian closed the book and threw it back into the storage ring, closing his eyes and reciting the contents he had just read again.

  After doing this, Hai Tian did not light the refining furnace in front of him, but instead sat cross-legged, assuming a meditation posture, closing his eyes tightly, and clasping his hands together in front of his chest.

  "What is he doing?" Hai Tian's strange behavior left everyone present bewildered.

  Not to mention Toka, even Wei Yu couldn't quite understand it, and could only stare blankly at Haitian's next move.

  Xue Lin also noticed, glanced at Hai Tian and then turned her head away with a cold hum, focusing on heating the alchemy furnace in front of her. After a while, the alchemy furnace had reached a temperature that she was satisfied with, and she began to throw the materials beside her into it one by one, starting the first step, purification.

  "Ah!" The cries of Xiao Yu and Wei Hai instantly caught Xue Lin's attention, she turned her head to find that Hai Tian's body was emitting a faint layer of fluorescence, which was gathering between his hands.

  This strange situation immediately caught her attention, staring at Haitian with unblinking eyes, she didn't know what Haitian was doing or if he was refining his instrument.

  Haitian didn't know that his strange behavior had caused the people around him to exclaim in surprise one after another.

  At this moment, he felt a burning sensation in his lower abdomen, the sword spirit power in the whirlpool sea was constantly surging, wave after wave of sword spirit power shot out from the whirlpool sea and gathered between his two hands.

  Suddenly, Haitian let out a low growl and opened his eyes. The tightly clasped palms slowly began to separate.

  A scorching heat emanated from within his palm, wave after wave of hot air constantly surging towards the crowd present.

  "This can't be..." Feeling the high temperature emitted by Haitian, Wei Yu frowned and stared at Haitian with a shocked expression, muttering to himself.

  Tianyu stared intently at the sea and sky, discovering that this young man was not only incredibly powerful but also extremely mysterious. He was said to be refining equipment, but now she had no idea what he was up to, leaving her teacher startled and apprehensive.

  Looking at Wei Yu's appearance, it was clear that he knew something. Tianyu immediately asked: "Teacher, what is he doing?"

  Wei Yu didn't answer immediately, instead he furrowed his brow and pondered for a moment before saying: "I'm not sure yet, but if it's true, then Xue Lin will definitely lose!"

  "Must lose? Teacher, this hasn't even started yet, how can you think I'll lose?" Wei Yu didn't speak in a low voice, and it was naturally heard clearly by Xue Lin.

  Xiao Yu and Wei Hai chimed in one after another, "We said it a long time ago that you're not Tian Ge's match, didn't believe us? Now even your teacher says so, what else can you say?"

  Under such stimulation, Xue Lin was naturally furious. If it weren't for Tian Yu's timely dissuasion, Xue Lin might have directly given up on refining the equipment and jumped out to bother Xiao Yu instead.

  But Xiao Yu was not afraid, his strength was a bit higher than Xue Lin's, and he sneered coldly on the side.

  Wei Yu's attention had always been on Hai Tian, as a refiner, especially a fifth-grade refiner, he was particularly sensitive to changes in temperature.

  At this moment, he felt that the temperature between Haitian's palms was rising continuously, and a fiery glow flashed in and out.

  Just then, the sea and sky's palms fell straight down, but that scorching high temperature did not disappear. Wei Yu opened his eyes wide and muttered to himself: "No way? This must be fake?"

  No one paid attention to Wei Yu's muttering, and they all stared fixedly at the sea and sky.

  At this time, Haitian picked up a gray mineral stone that had been prepared on the side with his right hand and threw it into the air. Surprisingly, the mineral stone did not make a free fall, but fell in front of Haitian and stopped, quickly melting into a thick gray **.

  "How is this possible?" Xue Lin exclaimed as soon as she saw this scene.

  That grey mineral is a common grey limestone used in equipment refinement, with ordinary hardness and melting point. It's usually used to refine yellow-grade sword equipment.

  But ordinary people want to melt this piece of gray limestone, at least it takes ten or twenty minutes. Xue Lin just threw the gray limestone into the smelter and refined it, but now it is still not purified.

  Ke Haitian spent less than three seconds and turned this piece of gray slate into a ball, how could she believe it?

  It wasn't just Xue Lin, Tian Yu and Wei Yu also exclaimed together, their eyes filled with astonishment.

  For Toka and Weihuo, who didn't understand the refining of equipment at all, there wasn't much reaction. Instead, they were startled by Xue Lin's exclamation. Seeing Wei Yu was also like this, Toka immediately went forward to ask: "I say, Old Wei, what's going on with you guys? Why are you all so shocked?"

  "You're not a Refiner, so you naturally don't understand this aspect. This piece of grey spirit stone would take Shuang'er and the others at least ten or more minutes to melt. Even I would need several minutes. But this kid only took a few seconds, can we not be surprised?"

  Wei Yu's face was filled with bitterness, but as soon as he thought of Hai Tian's technique earlier, his bitter smile completely disappeared. Replacing it was a look of surprise: "If I'm not mistaken, this kid is using the legendary Heart Refining Technique!"

  "What's the meaning of 'Heart Refining Technique'?" Toka and others looked puzzled.

  Xue Lin also looked bewildered, but Tian Yu seemed to have thought of something and lowered his head in silence.

  "We usually use the method of refining equipment, which relies on the help of a refining furnace to refine the sword. However, this method is prone to wasting materials and has a very low success rate." Wei Yu explained with a serious face.

  "Why don't you use the Heart Refining Method like Haitian?" Toka shouted, his pronunciation of Haitian's name becoming more fluent.

  After hearing Tuo Ka's words, Wei Yu's face was even more bitter: "Do you think we don't want to? Didn't you just hear that the Heart Refining Technique is legendary?"

  "What legend?" The crowd in the scene were all surprised, with their mouths wide open. However, Xiaoyu and Weihai remained as calm as before, perhaps no matter what miracle Haitian created, they would not be surprised.

  Wei Yu shifted his gaze to Hai Tian, who was continuously melting the materials, and nodded solemnly: "Not bad, it's indeed the legendary one. This Heart Refining Method had been lost for thousands of years. I didn't expect this kid to know it too."

  "If the art of refining equipment is compared to a swordsman, then the art of refining one's heart is equivalent to a sword god." Wei Yu looked at Haitian with envy. As an equipment refiner, who wouldn't want to learn the art of refining one's heart?

  "Is the difference so big?" Toka's mouth opened wide in surprise.

  Wei Yu nodded and said, "That's right, there's no way to compare the two. The method of heart refining not only takes effect quickly, but also has a high success rate in refining equipment. Compared with the method of equipment refining, the only drawback is that it is difficult to learn. You all know that it's already hard to learn the method of equipment refining, and among 100 equipment refiners, there may not be one person who can learn the method of heart refining. More importantly, the secret book of this heart refining method is really too rare. Even if someone has the qualifications, without the secret book, they cannot learn it."

  "I didn't expect Ha Tian to have such great abilities, how come I didn't know?" Tuo Ka looked at Ha Tian, holding his chin and thinking quietly.

  "Look quickly, Tian Ge has moved!" Xiaoyu suddenly exclaimed.

  Immediately attracted everyone's attention.