The Phoenix and her companions are certainly not for refining Zhu Rong. Not to mention them, even the Great Emperor Laojun would find it laborious to refine Zhu Rong using the eight-character purple gold furnace. The Phoenix merely wants to refine away the residual spiritual energy on Zhu Rong's body caused by his malice.
Zhu Rong's body and the remaining spiritual energy are two different things.
"All the evil deeds committed in the past are fueled by an unbounded desire, anger, and ignorance. Continue to fan the flames, quickly! Faster! Faster!"
"Continue to refine him, for seventy-nine days! The immortal maiden Xuanjin bestows divine water, fragrant purple clouds spread across the dharma ground."
The Phoenix also learned the method of Dizang, reciting sutras while issuing commands, both unaffected.
She is extremely busy, having to perform the transference of souls, watch the furnace fire, and also control the overall progress. She's so occupied that even the nine young laborers are being commanded around frantically.
"Whistling!"
"Gaa-gaa!"
"Big brother and second brother are both exhausted, they want to take a break. Under the continuous high-intensity labor, the hatred between the Jinnu and the Wuju has weakened a bit. They want to go play."
The Phoenix then draws them a picture: "These residual spiritual essence, after being refined by us in this way, will probably condense into a drop of ancestral witch's blood. At that time, we will absorb them together. This time we are definitely going to make it big."
It is unlikely to refine Pangu's blood, their techniques are not enough. But a drop of ancestral Zhu Wang's blood is similar. The Phoenix can absorb stones, let alone ancestral Zhu Wang's blood. It will be absorbed without fail. The Jinnu is close, but drinking some soup is also fine.
"Aaaargh!" A low growl is heard from within the Nine Dragons Sacred Fire Furnace.
Big brother and second brother turned around, staring at her blankly.
Phoenix: "Continue fanning! Fan! Don't stop!"
As the final deadline of seventy-seven days and forty-nine nights approaches, the Nine Dragons Sacred Fire Furnace shakes more violently.
The nine Jinnu spirit souls showed fear. This person is too fierce, why don't we run away if we can't handle it?
"We can't run, we must stay in our posts! We must not relax until the last moment!" Phoenix took out the repairing the sky stone and transformed it into a huge mountain, directly pressing down on the lid of the furnace.
In the final three days, she poured the Qiang Yatian fire into the furnace continuously. The nine Jinnu's essence also burst their flames of power into full force, injecting more intense Dàrì Jīnyàn into the furnace.
After the seventy-seven days and forty-nine nights, there was no sound from within the furnace, and the Phoenix along with the nine young laborers stopped their work, looking exhausted.
"Big brother" looked at the Phoenix, asking with his eyes what to do next.
What to do next? I don't know. Let me divined first!
Without the river diagram and the luo book, we have to rely on intuition. The divination result from Phoenix is auspicious.
She thought for a moment: "You all stay far away, I'll open the furnace!"
The Nine Dragons Sacred Fire Furnace has reached its limit, no further difference will be made by continuing to refine. Now is the time to open the furnace and see the result.
The Phoenix indicated for the laborers to stay far away, and she personally pushed open the lid of the furnace.
A fierce aura hits the face.
This is the last breath of the ancestral witch absorbed during the great calamity, even she cannot absorb it, so she quickly dodged. After a while, the malevolent aura dispersed.
After a great effort, the Phoenix finally transported out Zhu Rong's corpse.
As expected, after refining for seventy-seven days and forty-nine nights, the ancestral witch's corpse showed no damage whatsoever. Moreover, some of the places previously injured by the fire dragon had healed.
The fragments of the Chaotic Bell cut deeply, but with all her strength, they were finally pulled out bit by bit.
This is the most valuable among them, but currently it's not needed. She directly stores the fragment in the Feiyixi Yanlamp and then wraps the corpse with layers of transcendental sutras from the outside to prevent any residual consciousness from emerging within.
The corpse is of no use to her, so she plans to hand it back to Daji later, hoping to get some benefits from the underworld.
Later, she called the nine laborers over, as today's main event has arrived.
A droplet of crimson, with runes inscribed on its surface, resembling a gem, slowly floated up.
This is a droplet of ancestral witch's blood that has been gradually drawn out from the ancestral witch's body over countless years, fueled by malice and rage. The blood has been dissolved by the Dan Furnace, freeing its original pure essence to return to the body. Now, it has been intercepted and refined into a pill using Taoist techniques.
Furnishing, arranging arrays, performing the transference of souls, and refining pills—Deng ChanYu possesses all these abilities.
It is difficult to directly absorb, but if it is refined into a pill, it will be much easier.
One of the fundamental principles of the Hundred Grassics is to make every effort to strengthen oneself, and survival takes precedence.
There is no concept here of things belonging to enemies that we would rather destroy than use.
Zhu Wang hated Dijun and Taiyi so much, they couldn't stop biting their nails. But if you give them the Chaotic Bell, they will certainly accept it with pleasure and will never say that it is Taiyi's companion treasure and we should smash the bell instead. We must keep it even if we don't need it.
Just like the Phoenix, the Jinnu absorbs the abundant energy from the essence of blood, not the bloodline itself. A drop of essence cannot change their bloodline.
The Phoenix paws through the pill, and a rich energy flows slowly out. She lies in the middle, with the nine Jinnu spirit souls surrounding her, and all of them take in breaths at once.
Understanding the Dao seed requires wisdom, and absorbing the ancestral witch's blood depends on who has a larger body and higher Dao attainment.
The Phoenix absorbs wildly!
Nancun.
The clone absorbs the energy from the ancestral witch's essence, while the main body uses paper figures and Daji to chat, handle affairs and train. Both are not interrupted.
Su Quanxiao hurried in to report, "Commander, the senior physician from Xiqi has come in person."
The title of "commander" was self-appointed by Deng ChanYu, as there was no such official position in the Yin Dynasty. She doesn't care either, as long as it is recognized within her own territory.
"Senior physician? Is it San Yisheng? Ask him to go to the side palace first."
After a cup of tea, Deng ChanYu met the distant traveler, San Yisheng.
After a brief greeting, Deng ChanYu asked very directly, "The senior physician has come to Nanbu personally. What is the matter? Is there a problem with our transaction?"
On the way to the gathering, San Yisheng had seen around the Nanbu estate. His only impression was prosperity. Especially in Nanbu, the population here was not much different from that of the capital of Yin Dynasty. In comparison, Xiqi suffered great loss of vitality in the war.
The senior physician, coming with a request, was very polite: "Commander Deng, I have come here on behalf of the ban on alcohol in the capital of Chang'e."
"Oh, I'm interested to hear the details."
"Yin Dynasty's ban on alcohol affects not only the capital of Chang'e but also Xiqi. We have more grain, and in the past, we brewed it into wine. Even if there is war, we can sell the wine through some merchants to various places. Now that the ban on alcohol is in place, our situation here"
San Yisheng looked very troubled.
The wine and water of Xiqi is a commodity that can still generate income, but King Zhou's ban on alcohol has dealt a heavy blow to Xiqi, regardless of his original intentions.
He recounted the sequence of events, and Deng ChanYu understood the reason behind it.
Xiqi wants to use Deng's channels to sell alcohol secretly.
Deng's feathers are fully developed, gathering the four great families of Deng, Huang, Su, and Li. This political cartel of theirs is somewhat similar to the future Guanling aristocratic group.
The reactionary military bloc led by the Deng family has been selling weapons to Xiqi. The wine, being a special product of Xiqi, has not been involved in by them.
Weapon sales have higher profits, no one would want to sell wine laboriously.
Now Xiqi wants them to also enter this field, Deng's channel and Xiqi's wine.
The depth of the wine culture in the Central States is something that cannot be restricted by King Zhou's edict alone. Not to mention King Zhou, three thousand years later, the technology of fragrant soy sauce is still a national treasure. Ban alcohol? That's nonsense!
With the ban on alcohol in Chaoguo, there will definitely be those with deep backgrounds among the merchants selling alcohol to various royal nobles. When Deng's family brings Xiqi's wine into this market, they will certainly attract a lot of trouble.
"Senior physician, selling wine and water to the capital of Chaoguo is a bit of a loss, I sell them to Shu, what do you think?"
