Walker Of The Worlds

~SPLASH~

~SIZZLE~

Lin Mu blocked the hot liquid gold from splashing on him with his hands. The armor of the mortal strengthening scripture appeared and quickly stopped it with ease. The fragments of the cauldron also pelted the armor, but did no damage.

A few seconds later, Lin Mu opened his eyes and saw the scene. The fragments of the cauldron were lying everywhere, while the splotches of gold were equally spread. Still, one one of the biggest fragments of the cauldron, Lin Mu could see something.

The bottom part of the cauldrons had been heated the most and thus it had directly cracked along the heated edges. It was like a shallow bowl that had fallen and it still contained some gold in it.

Lin Mu took a closed look and saw that the gold was cooling. Just from watching it physically, it was hard to tell if the gold had changed, but with his spirit sense Lin Mu could clearly feel the difference.

"Alright, so first failure." Lin Mu said, "but the next will be a success!" he said with surety.

He changed the location and went slightly away from the previous one and took out another cauldron.

~DENG~

The cauldron landed on the hard, rocky ground and slightly vibrated. Unlike the previous cauldron, this was an actual professional one that alchemists would use. Lin Mu had learned from his last mistake and picked a good from the many he had.

"This should be better." Lin Mu said as he took out another chunk of gold from the ring.

He didn't really care for the gold that had spilled everywhere and now cooled into solid form. Just collecting all of the fragments of the gold would take a long time and Lin Mu didn't want to waste time in doing that at all.

simply took out

~CLANG~

started the entire process again. This time though, he could feel that

~humm~

had used this time had the functions such as heat distribution, sound dampening, vibration suppression along with the earlier ones

the steps until he reached the final step where he had

~HONG~

intensity as they did their duty of suppressing the unwanted vibrations caused due to the sputtering of gold in the cauldron. Such vibrations can cause the refiner to make some mistakes, thus it was best to not have

well. In fact, seeing the complexity that was in all this, Lin Mu was rather appreciative

from raw gold back then. I don't know if I can fully refine it for just the technique, which isn't even on the level of green gold.'

if you just get

his head and replied, "you're right senior. I

the spirit Qi being absorbed into the gold. His spirit sense focused on the liquid metal and saw that it finally

it absorbs, the more condensed it gets.'

It was at this point

think about how Jing Wei did this since his cultivation base was sealed and he

method.' Lin Mu thought and pushed out more and

after which the gold had reduced to the

~phew~

let out a breath of relief and finally opened the lid of the