88 Chaos stone (1/2)

In the Bai clan, there was a large volcano. On the slopes of the volcano, there stoop two very large buildings on opposite sides of the volcano.

The two buildings were the blacksmithing pavilion and the alchemy pavilion. These were the place where the alchemists and the blacksmiths of the Bai clan came to work. In the early stages of alchemy and blacksmithing, you could generally get by by using fire stones. But as you started to refine tougher and tougher materials you would need to use higher temperatures. Temperatures only the volcano could provide.

And the stone Bai Yun collected from the secret abode was definitely something that required very high temperatures.

Bai Yun collected some clan points from his father and left for the blacksmithing pavilion. One he reached there he booked a high grade room for a couple of months. The rooms in the blacksmithing and alchemy pavillions were divided into low, mid, high, supreme and great grades depending on the temperature of the lava inside it. Bai Yun was not sure just how long it would take him to accomplish what he was trying to do. After all, he had only heard about it before. He had never attempted it before.

But he knew that once he was successful, his strength would certainly rise by a large amount. So he had no choice but to try it. If it looked as if it would take too long, then he could just drop it and try again later.

Bai Yun then went to the room he had booked. It was a large hexagonal room. In the middle of it lay a small hole out of which a red light was coming out. Bai Yun peeked out into the hole, only to get hit by a sharp wave of hot air. There, at the bottom of the hole, he could see dense lava flowing about.

Bai Yun took off his clothes and stood there in just his shorts. The temperature of the room was too high to wear too many clothes. Also he did not want to damage them in case he made a mistake.

And then he took out the piece of stone that he had gotten from the secret abode.

The piece of stone that he held was a chaos stone.

Chaos stones were pieces of stones that were imbued with chaos qi. Chaos qi was the purest and most powerful form of qi. It is said that when the universe was first formed it was made of only of chaos qi. And then later it decomposed to form the various types of qi we see in the world. It could be said that the chaos qi was the progenitor of all energy in the world.

As a result, it was extremely powerful. No one below the immortal step would be able to utilize it, and even then they would barely be able to. Chaos qi was mainly used by god step cultivators to train.

But the chaos qi had almost disappeared from the universe. It was possible for god step cultivators to make it by themselves. Otherwise it was extremely rare.

And the way chaos qi existed in the universe was mostly in the form of chaos stones. These were pieces of stone that had chaos qi trapped in them. Each piece of stone could hold a particular amount of chaos qi and it could be extracted and absorbed for cultivation. There were even places were chaos stones were used as currency.

Bai Yun looked at the chaos stone in his hand. The stone that he held had had all of its chaos qi extracted. It was only a stone that once held chaos qi rather than a true chaos stone. If this was a true chaos stone, its value would have been almost unimaginable. And Bai Yun would have been completely helpless in front of it.

Usually, when the chaos qi was extracted from a chaos stone, it would shatter. It was extremely rare that the stone would remain intact even after the extraction of chaos qi. It could be due to luck or even due to an extremely careful method of extraction.

Most people would not know of any use for used chaos stones. But Bai Yun studied under a titled god of smithing from a different universe. He was a person who chased after the pinnacle of smithing and lived in the void, a place beyond any universe. He had come up with a strange hypothesis. Chaos stones had contained chaos qi for a long time. Thus they must have some of its aura or property. If it is possible to extract the aura of the chaos qi, it could theoretically strengthen a weapon.

And the theory was right. Though only he and his disciples knew how to do it though. When Bai Yun studied under him, one of the first things he had to do was to extract and meld the chaos aura from the used chaos stones into a weapon.

But when he studied under him Bai Yun was already a peak god realm cultivator. It literally took him a thought to extract the chaos aura. But now he no longer had that ability. He would have to use the blacksmithing skills he had learned in order to extract and use the chaos aura.

Bai Yun took the stone and took a hammer available in the room. There were quite a few tools that were placed in the room for the use of blacksmithing.

Bai Yun put the stone in the anvil. He then took the hammer and started to hit the stone at specific points on the stone.

Bai Yun was using a technique he knew called the nine nine hammering technique. It was a powerful blacksmithing technique that used repeated hits on a material to create microscopic cracks inside it to break and refine it. It had numerous variations, ones including only nine hits to ninety nine hits to nine hundred and ninety nine hits and so on. The stronger the material, the more hits were required to break it.

After days, the piece of stone finally broke down and shattered into pieces. But he was not satisfied with this. He picked up each of the pieces and continued to break them apart again. Bai Yun only stopped when the chaos stone was finally broken down into a fine powder.

Once the entire stone had been ground down to powder, it was time to begin the extraction process. Bai Yun collected the all the tiny pieces, not missing even the smallest bit, and put them in a large pot. He then slowly heating the powder until it started to turn red.

Bai Yun then took out the sword given to him by his father. The chaos aura required a certain level for the materials or they would not be able to withstand it. The only item Bai Yun had that could handle chaos aura was the sword. He then put it directly into the lava at the highest temperature.