Elemental Refinement

After overcoming his surprise, Zhao Yun began to examine his game items. He took out all the plants and herbs he collected from the game and waited for the Space's notifications.

[Discovery of new plants. Detecting toxins in the plant...]

[Discovery of new plants. Detecting regenerative properties in the plant...]

[Discovery of new plants...]

[Discovery of new plants...]

[Due to the discovery of new plants, you have risen to level twenty three. Congratulations, host]

Zhao Yun immediately planted the plants needed for most of his potion recipes. He was so excited thinking about all the resources he'd have access to. Because of the Space, he does not have to worry about any more materials in the future. He could just spend all his time leveling his game character, his lifestyle professions, and the Space.

Seeing that the plants were already planted, Zhao Yun examined the new features of the Space.

Due to the gaming helmet, the Space unlocked the Science and Technology Background. Zhao Yun immediately asked the Space for the details regarding these backgrounds. It turns out that low-grade Science and Technology Background is of the same level as the Modern Earth. On the other hand, mid-grade Science and Technology Background is of the same level as the world of RSSG. The mid-grade background is capable of producing AI's as well as robots.

Unfortunately, the Space needed to be at least level 30 before these backgrounds can be properly used.

Without anything else to do, Zhao Yun returned to the game.

As day time and night time were reversed inside the game, it was still dark when Zhao Yun returned.

Having decided on starting with his lifestyle classes, Zhao Yun headed to the trade area to buy all the necessary materials for his crafts. However, during his walk, he checked what class he should focus on at the moment. He quickly checked his bag and looked at his blueprints.

Currently, he had the engineering blueprints from the Illusionary Realm of the Abyss Knight he just exited, the alchemy blueprints from the Records of the Half-Blood Prince, and the forging blueprints from the rewards from the quest in Dark Moon Valley.

Comparing all of them, Zhao Yun decided to start with forging as he had two Level 3 blueprints. One was a Bronze rank Shield and the other was a Bronze rank One-handed Sword.

As the Space still can't produce ores, he quickly bought multiple stacks of stones and magic essences from the players in the surrounding of the auction house.

Zhao Yun originally planned to grind for ore. However, now that he had the Philosopher's Stone, ore was no longer a problem. The Philosopher's Stone could carry out Elemental Refinement. That meant it could refine Stone. There was a great chance to obtain ore, even rare ores. There was absolutely no need for Zhao Yun to personally grind for them; he could just buy them at an extremely low price. Because of this, tens of thousands of players had effectively become Zhao Yun's laborers.

After a while, Zhao Yun filled his bag with multiple stacks of stones and magic essences.

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Forging Association, inside a Basic Forging Room.

Zhao Yun took out a stack of Stone, placing it on the table.

A stack of Stone had a hundred pieces in total. As he took out a stack, the stones immediately filled up the round table; some even fell to the ground.

"Time to see how good you actually are," Zhao Yun smiled as he retrieved the crimson red Philosopher's Stone.

Zhao Yun took a piece of Stone from the table and used the Philosopher's Stone on it.

System: Do you wish to use the Philosopher's Stone for Elemental Refinement?

Zhao Yun immediately chose 'Yes.' Following which, the Philosopher's Stone started emitting a faint red glow; a mysterious power flowed into the Stone.

Peng!

The stone the size of a fist suddenly turned into yellow sand, scattering to the ground. The result was a failure.

However, Zhao Yun revealed a calm smile at the result. It did not perturb him in the slightest. Afterward, he picked up another Stone and tried again.

Ore was very precious. A normal Copper Ore sold for 2 Coppers; they were only worth 1 Copper Coin if sold to an NPC. A stack of 100 Copper Ore could be sold for 200 Copper Coins to Guilds, and they would still fight over them. Compared to a stack of Stone, which only sold for 10 Copper Coins, Copper Ore was just too expensive.

Elemental Refinement extracted the Metal Element out of the Stone. However, some Stones did not possess any Metal Element. So, it was only natural that they turn to sand. Such failures were just too common.

Peng… Peng… Peng…

He picked up another piece of Stone, trying Elemental Refinement once more.

Peng!

This time, the Stone still scattered into a pile of sand. However, in the middle of the yellow grains, there was a piece of metal that had a purplish-red luster. It was Copper Ore.

With the first piece of Copper Ore in his hands, Zhao Yun let out a relaxed breath. His hands started moving at a faster pace.

All the Stones above the stone table turned into yellow sand within moments. The stack of Stones had yielded a total of 20 pieces of Copper Ore and 5 pieces of Bronze Ore. Compared to Copper Ore, the price of Bronze Ore was three times that of Copper Ore; they were worth 3 Copper Coins when sold to NPCs. Due to the rarity of Bronze Ore, players would buy them at 7 Copper Coins a piece.

Seeing the ores on the table, Zhao Yun felt the Philosopher's Stone was truly a gold mine. Even if the Philosopher's Stone was currently damaged, it was still out of the ordinary. It was no wonder why many kingdoms were willing to muster up their armies and fight for the Philosopher's Stone. Having the Philosopher's Stone in hand was the equivalent of having a wealthy treasury. At that time, a kingdom would find it hard not to become prosperous.

Stack after stack of Stones disappeared, whereas the amount of yellow sand had piled up into a small hill. Fortunately, the Forging Room could be cleaned of rubbish with just a click of a button. After pushing the Clean button, the small hill of yellow sand vanished from sight.

After spending an hour's time, Zhao Yun had refined 40 stacks of Stones. He had obtained 7 stacks of Copper Ore and 2 stacks of Bronze Ore.

He spent another hour inside the forging room and continued to turn the remaining stack of stones into ores.

After turning all stacks of stones into ores, Zhao Yun once more arrived at the central area of the Forging Association, at the administration area. He then rented an Intermediate Forging Room.

Zhao Yun took the key to the Intermediate Forging Room from the receptionist and went up the second floor. The first floor of the Forging Association only had Basic Forging Rooms, whereas Intermediate Forging Rooms were located on the second floor.

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Zhao Yun immediately inspected his surroundings as soon as he entered the Intermediate Forging Room. The room was much larger and refined. The facilities available were also better than the Basic room, especially the Hammer and Flame. These two items were not simple at all.

Zhao Yun held up the silvery-white hammer that was placed on the iron-woven felt.

[Hundred Refinement Hammer] (Bronze-rank)

Forging Items: When Forging, the success rate is increased by 3%.

Requirements: Strength 4

Just this Hundred Refinement Hammer alone was hard to obtain by players. The best hammers NPCs sold were Common Hammers. Those hammers did not increase the success rate of Forging. As for stealing this Hundred Refinement Hammer, it was an impossible task. Items that belonged to the Forging Room could not be taken away by players.

The Flame here was extraordinary as well. Instead of the usual scarlet, yellow color, the Flame here burned with a scarlet, green color. It was not a common Flame, but a Mysterious Flame.

Zhao Yun took a look at its description.

Scarlet Devil Flame (Tier 1 Mysterious Flame)

Special Item: Possesses extremely high temperatures. Items smelted with the Flame will have higher purity. When refining potions or forging items, there will be a definite increase in success rates.

Mysterious Flames were rare and powerful Flames. These Flames had varying strength, and they could be categorized into nine tiers. The first tier was the weakest, whereas the ninth tier was the strongest. However, even a first tier Mysterious Flame was not something that could be easily obtained by players.

Due to the Mysterious Flame's rarity, its price within God's Domain was extremely high. Including the fact that both Potion-making and Forging required Mysterious Flames, the prices of Mysterious Flames had become even more shocking.

Following which, Zhao Yun took out the Forging Designs in his hands. Without wasting time, he immediately chose to learn it.