When 'God' Decides To Start Over

Chapter 614 - 256: Demon Refining Furnace

"What’s inside? A demon spirit?" Li Xiu seemed puzzled, unsure what Old Knife meant.

If Old Knife wanted to give him a demon spirit, he could just gift him a Demon Spirit Ring. Why put the demon spirit in a furnace to burn?

If it was a wild demon spirit trapped inside the furnace, then Old Knife could kill it himself and leave something for him. There was no need to wait for Li Xiu to come and kill it himself.

"How should I put it, you could say it’s a demon spirit, or you could say it’s not," Old Knife pointed to the Brass Furnace and said, "This furnace is called the Demon Refining Furnace, and it’s been around for a long time. The demon spirit inside was thrown in by an elder who guarded the Celestial Gate ages ago. It’s been refining inside this Demon Refining Furnace for at least sixty or seventy years. Whether it’s still a demon spirit now, that’s hard to say."

"What do you mean? Can this furnace turn a demon spirit into a human?" The more Li Xiu heard, the more intrigued he became.

"You’re thinking too fantastically. Turning it into a human is obviously impossible. This furnace is named the Demon Refining Furnace, naturally used for refining demons. The demon has had the ’demon’ refined away, so what remains is the spirit," Old Knife tapped on the furnace, and a clang resonated from inside.

The entity inside seemed to sense Old Knife’s provocation, desperately ramming against the furnace walls, producing clanging sounds.

Old Knife continued, "The great elder who guarded here before me stayed here for decades and couldn’t watch until this thing’s body was entirely refined. In the end, he lost his life. Before I came, I estimated that the demon spirit inside was almost refined to a Pure Spirit state, and sure enough, the demon spirit’s body has been completely refined now, leaving only pure spirit. This is the right time to use it, so you’re in luck, kid."

"What use does pure spirit have?" Jiuxiao Yun asked, his face full of curiosity as he had never heard of such a thing.

"Its uses are plenty. The most common method is to directly merge the spirit into a contract. The Primordial Embryo Quality of the contract we use determines the contract’s inherent strength. The higher the Primordial Embryo Quality, the stronger the contract’s intrinsic essence. However, what determines the contract’s quality and level is the purity, quality, and quantity of the energy within the contract. Some low-quality contracts have higher Primordial Embryo Quality than higher quality contracts, which means the contract’s body is strong, but the internal energy’s purity and quality are lacking. If you merge pure energy spirit into the contract, enhancing the energy’s purity and quality, you can improve the contract’s quality and level..."

Pausing for a moment, Old Knife continued, "But to refine a demon spirit’s body so that only pure energy remains while preserving its spirituality, that takes skill. Besides the Demon Refining Furnace, there aren’t many things that can complete this step, and refining demons requires a long time to refine demon spirits fully. Most people don’t have the lifespan to wait. The stronger the demon spirit refined in the Demon Refining Furnace, the longer the time required. The demon spirit here was an S-class Radiant Demon Spirit, and it took decades to refine its Demon Spirit Body completely, leaving only pure spirit. The two old guys before me didn’t have the fortune to enjoy the results. It’s of no use to me, so it benefits you, kid."

"Old Knife, are you saying that this spirit can enhance the contract’s quality and level? If it’s a Radiant Contract, can it be enhanced further?" Li Xiu was astonished.

"Stop dreaming about good fortune all day. If you could enhance a Radiant Contract further, do you think you’d get to use it? I’d use it myself," Old Knife explained, "Such a spirit can only upgrade the contract’s quality to match that of the demon spirit in quality and level. It can only be used on low-quality contracts. If you have any low-quality, low-level contracts you want to enhance, bring them out, and I’ll help you infuse the spirit. It can probably be upgraded to radiant quality S-class, which should be of some help to you."

"Is that all?" Li Xiu felt a bit disappointed.

Old Knife immediately got annoyed, "I’m giving you an S-class Radiant Quality contract, and you’re still not satisfied? Do you want to fly to heaven? If you don’t want it, I’ll give it to someone else; you have no idea how many people are hoping for this!"

"It’s impolite to refuse a gift from an elder. Why wouldn’t I want it?" Li Xiu summoned his Forbidden Spear, "This is my Symbiotic Contract, Old Knife, kindly help me upgrade it to S-class."

"Symbiotic Contracts can’t be used for this; only Parasitic Contracts can," Old Knife said.

"Why?" Li Xiu was instantly frustrated again.

"The Symbiotic Contract is integrated with your body. If its level is enhanced using this method, its energy will far exceed what your body can handle. When you take it back, its energy will be shared with your body. With just that bit of Primordial Embryo Quality, your body might explode from the excess energy unless you throw both yourself and the Symbiotic Contract into the furnace to refine. Otherwise, stop dreaming about that," Old Knife chuckled.

"For Parasitic Contracts, I have a few. Let me think about which one to use." Li Xiu looked at several of his Parasitic Contracts.

The Gentleman’s Hat itself is of radiant quality, so using it to enhance the level, but not the quality, seems a bit wasteful.

The Dark Mirror has strong night vision ability, and enhancing it doesn’t seem too beneficial either.

After thinking it over, Li Xiu pulled out the Fire Lotus Sword and handed it to Old Knife, "Let’s enhance this one."