Chapter 3293 — Finally Success!
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"Of course you can," Jiao Yazi said, and this time he did not hedge; he answered with flat certainty. "Judging by the refining method, it simply carves out a small additional space in the jade pendant to store five spirit-beast essence pellets. So it will do your jade pendant no harm at all. You can refine with confidence—if it fails, the pendant will not be ruined; at worst, your essence pellets will be wasted."
"Having the essence pellets wasted is painful enough!" Wei Zhao said with a bitter smile. Those five spirit-beast essence pellets had cost him enormous effort to collect, and to see them thrown away just like that would grieve him deeply.
"Isn't that better than the jade pendant being ruined?" Elder Jiao shot back with a chuckle.
"That much is true," Wei Zhao nodded.
Once the five spirit-beast essence pellets, the pure yellow jade, the blue crystal, and the colored steel—all the materials—were laid out ready, Wei Zhao drew a deep breath and formally began preparing to refine the Essence Condensation Necklace.
The jade pendant could not be ruined by the refinement, but if the refinement failed, all those materials would be wasted!
He had gathered every one of these materials through a thousand hardships; for the blue crystal alone he had nearly lost his life. So there was no question of his failing to be careful.
After reading the refining instructions for the Essence Condensation Necklace several times over, Wei Zhao cautiously placed measured proportions of colored steel, pure yellow jade, and blue crystal on the ground, and only then took the jade pendant from around his neck.
Before refining, Wei Zhao read the instructions once more, several times through. The instructions were, of course, fairly simple—not so very different from the method for refining the jade pendant's space—but they added a few more steps.
Fortunately, Wei Zhao had the experience of succeeding at refining the jade pendant's space on his very first attempt, so this time he could begin smoothly.
The opening steps were in fact identical to the method for refining the jade pendant's space; naturally, Wei Zhao also used the mental cultivation formula for refining the pendant's space, not the formula for refining the Essence Condensation Necklace.
That formula was simply too complicated—Wei Zhao had no confidence at all in learning it, nor any wish to try.
Fortunately, the initial refinement went very smoothly, and the sensation was the same as when he had first refined the jade pendant's space.
Wei Zhao's hands worked ceaselessly at the forging fire, and from time to time he had to reshape and reform the auxiliary materials by hand, merging them into the jade pendant.
After repeating this many times over many hours, he finally reached the crucial next step—the step wholly unlike refining the jade pendant's space. Because the five essence pellets required very little space, the time and materials spent were not great; previously, refining the pendant's space at home had taken three days, yet now less than a single day had passed and he was already at the second step!
Even so, the essence pellet the ghost thing had given him was plainly very different from the others, and that ghost thing would not let him use it, so Wei Zhao could hardly dispose of it as he pleased. That left six pellets that could be used to refine the Essence Condensation Necklace.
But Wei Zhao had prepared only five; the extra one he put away for now. He feared that if this refinement failed, wasting six essence pellets at once would be a bitter blow, so he kept one in reserve. If it succeeded, there would be time enough to refine again later.