However, with her current strength, earning points was not difficult. She could just stir up some trouble. If she were a bit more insane and slaughtered Naruto and Sasuke, she would immediately receive an unknown amount of points.
Two books appeared in Hinata's hands, which were the Complete Collection of Artifact Refining and the Alchemy Manual she had exchanged for. She first opened the book on Artifact Refining and quickly scanned it with her Divine Sense.
A moment later, she put down the book, a flash of realization in her eyes. The Dao of Artifact Refining was indeed profound and deep.
"Then, next..." Hinata's gaze swept over the Alchemy Manual. She wanted to test and see if the heaven and earth primordial qi pot also had miraculous effects for Alchemy.
"Let's give it a try. Then I'll see if I can prepare some truly suitable little gifts for little Hanabi and Kurenai Yuhi."
Of course, the premise of all this was that she had to successfully refine something decent first.
After a simple perusal, Hinata knew the general idea. She walked to the side, and a wisp of flame shot out from her fingertips. She was prepared to try Artifact Refining first; after all, she didn't lack weapons, and she could just find some Kunai and scrap iron to refine.
Alchemy was different; there were no Heaven And Earth Treasure. She couldn't just use food to refine, could she? Wouldn't that just be cooking?
Haku on Hinata's wrist seemed somewhat curious about this flame, yet also had an instinctive fear. Its little head poked out from Hinata's sleeve, eyes staring at the flame, tongue flicking out, then it retracted back.
"Hmm... Let me think. For the first step, I should start with the simplest material purification and embryo forging."
Hinata took out a pile of iron and weapons to practice with.
She took a deep breath, recalling the key points in her mind, first wrapping a small piece with her Spiritual Power, suspending it in the air, and increasing the flame at her fingertips.
The intense high temperature quickly made the metal turn red and soften.
Hinata was fully focused, carefully adjusting the flame area and temperature, while using her Divine Sense to perceive the state of the material.
This was an extremely delicate process that required multitasking: maintaining the Spiritual Power wrapping, controlling the flame, perceiving the material state, and using Divine Sense to guide the separation of Impurities.
At first, it was inevitably clumsy; the flame flickered, the Spiritual Power fluctuation was unstable, and the iron was refined into a pitted mess, or the intensity was too high, melting it directly into a pool of molten iron.
"Uh... it seems Artifact Refining is much harder than fighting."
Hinata looked at the golden molten iron on the ground, and honey and some desserts flashed through her mind.
"Hmm... This pool of molten iron looks like honey; I kind of want to taste it."
Saying this, Hinata went to get something to eat. It could be said that Artifact Refining had made her hungry; anyway, it had failed.
Since things had turned out this way, she would eat first.
After enjoying the delicious food, Hinata returned to her research. She was not discouraged; cultivation was all about patience and accumulation.
She cast aside distracting thoughts, took some more, and started again.
This time, she was even more focused; her Divine Sense was like the most precise scanner, her Spiritual Power control was as natural as breathing, and the flame licked the metal obediently under her will.
Time passed bit by bit. In the quiet room, only the subtle movements caused by the flame reshaping the iron remained, along with the sound of Hinata's even breathing.
Haku seemed to sense its master's focus, coiling quietly and no longer moving around.
Finally, after half an hour, the Kunai and weapons were successfully melted, purified, and reorganized into the shape of a sword by her.
"Success!"
Hinata exhaled, a smile appearing on her face. She had refined a sword on her first try without refining it into scrap iron; it could be considered a natural talent.
She extinguished the flame and let the sword cool down slowly.
Hinata did not wait for it to cool completely and reached out to grab it. The high temperature had no effect on Hinata at all. After all, she was a Golden Core expert; a mere temperature of over a thousand degrees was nothing to her.
It felt slightly heavy in her hand, and she could clearly feel that it was significantly better than ordinary weapons.
"Not bad. At this rate, forging Sharp Weapon is not far off. However, Materials are a problem. Can I only exchange for them at that profiteer's System..."
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