The Great Way to Truth, Starting from Jiazi Laodao

Chapter 118 Bagua Furnace, Sancai Lamp

This piece of outer space black iron is as tall as a person. It was a gift from the Chu family when the Qiuzhen Temple was promoted to a major sect. It is a top-grade spiritual material of the black grade.

The underground fire was blazing, and the scorching high temperature melted the black iron. When the iron stone turned into molten iron and flowed into a ball of iron cloud, Xuan Ming took out eight spiritual materials from the Ruyi bag one after another. They were the Auspicious Cloud Stone, Earth Beads, Thunder Liquid, Qingfeng Leaf, Snow Ganoderma Flower and other Xuan-level spiritual objects.

These correspond to Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen and Dui, reflecting the directions of the Eight Trigrams. The hand gestures change eight times, the earth and fire change eight times, and the temperature changes eight times, until all eight spiritual objects are melted and turned into eight balls of liquid. Then Xuanming makes new moves.

With the help of spiritual perception and infusion of magic power, he fused the black iron liquid with the eight balls of spiritual liquid, and then shaped it into the shape of an eight-trigram furnace. His fingers gestured as fast as flying: Qian three connected, Kun six broken; Zhen inverted bowl, Gen inverted bowl; Li empty in the middle, Kan full in the middle; Dui missing at the top, Xun broken at the bottom. The eight trigrams symbolize the sky, and Qian and Kun are in between changes.

The startled wind blew away the sun, and the light flowed westward.

After eight days and eight nights, the prototype of the Bagua furnace had taken shape. Xuanming took out the Moon Stone and the Yang Stone from the Ruyi Bag, cut off a small piece, mobilized the earth fire, burned it into liquid, and also melted it into the Bagua furnace. A Yin-Yang pattern appeared at the furnace mouth.

Time flies. Every day, he draws the inspiration of Yin and Yang to water the Bagua furnace. At the same time, he tries to inject Huangting Qi into it. Unfortunately, it cannot be used to refine tools. Xuanming has to mobilize a ray of Tai Chi in Tai Chi Heaven every day to evolve the two lines of Yin and Yang, and then evolve the Four Symbols and Eight Trigrams to bless the position of the Bagua furnace.

At the same time, runes were cast, depicting magic arrays such as spirit gathering, mysterious fire, eight trigrams, four symbols, yin and yang, etc., integrating many runes and arrays into one.

Eighty-eight sixty-four days later, inspirations swarmed in the Earth Fire Cave and the Bagua Furnace was successfully refined, evolving into eight symbols: heaven, earth, wind, thunder, water, fire, mountain, and marsh. Then it returned to the four symbols, the mysterious unity of the two, and finally returned to Tai Chi.

The Bagua Furnace hummed and vibrated, the furnace mouth opened wide, swallowing up vast amounts of earth fire and condensing it into sparks. The entire Bagua Furnace was full of energy and conveyed a sense of joy.

Looking at the spiritual Bagua Furnace, Xuanming was overjoyed, because the quality of this furnace far exceeded his expectations and was top-notch among spiritual weapons. If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools. With the Bagua Furnace in hand, he will be able to get twice the result with half the effort when refining other spiritual weapons.

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Letting the Bagua Furnace float up and down on the magma, absorbing the power of the earth fire and nourishing itself, Xuanming sat cross-legged in the void, regulating his breathing and concentrating his mind to recover. When he reached the peak again, he refined the weapon again.

This time he did not start from scratch, but took out an antique oil lamp, which was the one that Chang'anzi had given him as a gift.

This is a broken spiritual weapon. Xuan Ming had planned to repair it a long time ago, but he had never started. He always felt that his skills were not good enough and he was not yet mature enough. After all, repairing is more difficult than creating.

Now, he has refined several spiritual weapons and the Bagua Furnace has been successfully created. It is time to repair the spiritual weapons.

A large number of copper coins and lamp oil were taken out from the Ruyi bag. Part of the lamp oil was collected by the Qiuzhen Temple from the people of Fuyun County in the past, and part of it, like the copper coins, was the fate that Xuanming had gathered after entering the mortal world. Both contained human intentions, and were both ordinary and extraordinary.

He ignited the underground fire to melt the copper coins, then he turned his fingers slightly and slowly poured the copper liquid into the oil lamp to fill the gaps and cracks. At the same time, his hands fluttered like butterflies, and runes and formations were integrated into the oil lamp one by one.

The fire in the Bagua furnace was blazing, tempering the oil lamp, removing impurities, eliminating the dross and retaining the essence, striving for perfection. The size of the oil lamp shrank a lot, but it was full of inspiration and spirituality, just like an old tree coming back to life in spring, regaining vitality and vigor.

A large amount of oil lamps flowed into the Bagua furnace like water, but were not burned by the earth fire. Instead, they were wrapped in a layer of mysterious power, condensed, compressed, and refined into a wick.

Manipulate the wick and merge it into the oil lamp. The two are yin and yang to each other and are integrated inside and out. In an instant of complete fusion, they are nourished by the principles of the Eight Diagrams and bathed in the mysteries of the two yin and yang. The oil lamp shakes violently, breaking out of its cocoon and becoming a butterfly. Not only does its power and potential increase greatly, it also has the ability to suppress luck.

Leaving the oil lamp in the Bagua furnace to continue to warm it, Xuanming practiced the "Hunyuan Yiqi Jue" to adjust his own state, until he was fully revived, he opened the furnace and collected the oil lamp. This lamp is three inches long, symbolizing the three inches of the human world. The lamp holder is like an eight-petal lotus, representing the eight directions of the world. The lamp holder is also engraved with the word "sincerity": thousands of lights, humanity rewards sincerity.

After looking at it carefully for a moment, Xuanming put away the human lamp, opened the furnace again and continued to refine the treasure. This was a rare opportunity, so he had to make a concerted effort and initially refine the Three Talents Lamp.

Pieces of stone were taken out and thrown into the Bagua furnace one by one. The underground fire burned wildly and the stones were melted into liquid one by one. After leaving Floating Cloud Mountain, Xuanming collected some things every time he walked a road, climbed a mountain, and crossed a river.

These stones are among them, with different grades, including ordinary stones and spiritual stones. The yellow grade is the most common, but there are also some black grades.

It is always better to prepare for a rainy day than to dig a well when thirsty. He has been silently making various preparations since he entered the world, and refining materials for ground lamps is only a part of it.

Taking a deep breath, putting aside distracting thoughts, calming his mind and clearing his spirit, Xuanming concentrated on refining the earth lamp. If the human lamp was made of ordinary copper, then the earth lamp was a stone lamp. The wick was naturally refined from the earth's fire. It also had the ability to suppress luck, but it focused on the luck of the mountains and rivers of a certain area, rather than the luck of the person.

Endless earth fire poured into the furnace and was condensed into a wick by his skillful practice. Time passed by, and after forty-nine days, the Bagua furnace fire went out and the earth lamp was born. It was simple and heavy, with mountains, rivers, plants, flowers, birds, insects and fish engraved on the lamp base. There were also two simple seal characters "Chongde" engraved on the base, which meant that the earth rewards virtue, carries things with virtue, and nurtures all living things.

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After observing the ground lamp for a while, Xuanming threw the lamp into the sea of magma and fire, three hundred feet deep underground. The power of the earth veins and the power of the earth fire merged, gradually lighting the wick. The ground lamp lit up, emitting an earthy yellow light, dispelling anger and dryness, and spreading a calm atmosphere that made people feel calm involuntarily.

He raised his hand lightly and said the word "come". The ground lamp rose, broke through the magma and fell into his palm. He closed his eyes and felt the power of the ground fire. Xuanming was satisfied. He opened his eyes and put away the ground lamp. He rested like before, but he just closed his eyes for half an hour before he opened them again, frowned slightly, and waved his sleeves to throw away the ground lamp.

The ground lamp turned into a stream of light, passed through a gap of a hundred feet in the earth's strata, flew out of the cave, broke through the lake, and headed straight for a lush forest on the mountainside.

In the towering ancient forest, a group of wolf monsters are chasing the spiritual deer Changshou. The leader wolf is more than ten feet long, with nimble limbs and a ferocious look. He is almost catching up with Changshou, opening his bloody mouth, revealing sharp fangs, and drooling, showing that he is determined to get the spiritual deer.

However, the next moment a light suddenly appeared on the ground and hit the leader wolf's forehead directly. The wolf king, who was running hard, howled in pain. While maintaining his running posture, his limbs became limp and he fell to the ground, with his white and bloody brain flying all over the ground.

The ground lamp was spinning, hanging in the air between the wolves and the spirit deer. Birds were singing, and Xuanyan flew over, flapping its wings with joy. Changshou slammed on the brakes and turned to look at the ground lamp, feeling both pleasantly surprised and happy. They smelled the familiar scent of the master from this strange oil lamp.

The ground lights hummed as if saying hello. The spirit deer were happy and jumped on all fours. The black swallows flapped their wings and circled and danced. They felt a strong sense of security. The wolves were terrified and fled frantically. The ground fire released sparks that flew towards the wolves.

The earth is kind and virtuous, and so is the earth lamp.

Among the wolves, those with deep karma were burned to ashes, while those with shallow karma were only had a layer of hair burnt, as a small punishment but a big warning.

This is the benevolence of the ground lamp!
After the trouble was solved, the ground lamp split into two rays, which fell on Linglu and Xuanyan, becoming invisible and acting as a guard.

The ground lamp returned to Xuanming's hands along the same route. He put it away carefully and continued to rest.

After he was fully energized, Xuanming continued to refine treasures.

This time it’s a sky lantern!
(End of this chapter)