Chapter 940 - One Month Of Gold Refinement (1/2)

Learning that the cauldron still had some surprises, Lin Mu was pleased and continued to heat it as the gold ingots inside started to soften.

Hours passed as the gold finally turned to liquid and filled half the volume of the cauldron. The cauldron was a little over six thousand liters in capacity and looked more like a large water tank instead, but was perfect for a large refinement like this.

Once all the gold was melted, Lin Mu got to removing the impurities from it and then finally starting the refinement process that would reduce its volume.

'This one will be the hardest and the longest process. I need to reduce it to ten percent of the original volume… seeing as it is half filled, the volume of gold in this should be around three thousand liters.' Lin Mu calculated.

”Then reducing it to the tenth would mean… I'll be left with three hundred liters of refined gold. Should be just enough to fully soak me inside it.” Lin Mu muttered to himself.

While doing this calculation in his mind, Lin Mu continued to stir the gold with his spirit Qi in a spiral while infusing it into it as well.

Hours turned into days and days turned into weeks.

It was the third week since Lin Mu had begun the entire process and he had been working nonstop to make sure that no error was made.

”Just a little bit more…” Lin Mu said in an exhausted tone.

Even with his large spirit Qi capacity, Lin Mu had to infuse a massive amount of spirit Qi into the Liquid gold. In the last two stages, the quantity was still enough that Lin Mu wasn't strained enough.

But now the quantity of gold was many times that and the refinement needed to be at a higher level as well.

The more the volume that was to be shrunk, the greater the amount of spirit Qi required. If one were to calculate the amount of spirit Qi that Lin Mu had used in this, it would quite possibly reach the entirety of a small sect's spirit stone reserves!

But on the twenty-second day, Lin Mu had finally finished with his work.

~huu~

”That was way more tough than I had expected…” Lin Mu muttered in an exhausted tone.

His eyes were slightly baggy and his complexion paler than normal.

”You did good. For most others, this would have been very difficult or impossible to do. Even Jing Luo would have failed as he would have simply not had the spirit Qi needed to do it despite having greater skills.” Senior Xukong praised.

He knew all this was well deserved, and the feat was worthy of being praised.

”Thank you, senior… though it left me dead tired.” Lin Mu said.

”Well, that was expected. Though now that you are done, you can rest for a bit before starting with the final step.” Xukong replied with a chuckle.

”Yes,” Lin Mu said and looked around for little Shrubby.

The beast had left a couple of times during the refinement process because the people at the sect had called for him. Once he was called by the Noon Grass sect to intimidate a herd of beasts that had started harassing the disciples while the second time was by none other than Jingming Shang.

The sly businessman needed someone to deliver some sensitive documents at the earliest possible time, and Little Shrubby was the best fit for it, since the location they were being taken to did not have a teleportation gate.