God's Eyes

Jason was expecting to see how a perfect grade-1 product would look like and how much of a difference it would make, compared to normal grade-1 products.

From his knowledge, Jason knew that perfect products would only be produced with a purity of less than 0.02 left within the cleansed ingredients one used.

To accomplish that, origin flames were the easiest way and Jason wondered, if he would be able to forge or concoct such products in the near future or how long it would take for him to control his black origin flame perfectly, in order to make it possible.

Following Shane with fast steps towards the basement, Jason noticed that there was a hallway with multiple rooms.

Activating his mana eyes everything shone in bright colors, radiating a vast amount of mana, shocking Jason quite a bit.

Comparing the basements radiating mana to the Artisan tower and Beast Pagoda, Jason didn´t doubt that the basement mana was a few times higher.

Absorbing mana here would increase his cultivation speed by a few times but it would also most likely destroy the supply, the radiating mana distributed on the plants Jason perceived with his mana eyes within the rooms.

Entering the room at the end of the hallway, a large smithy came into Jason´s view and the radiating mana and colors enveloping everything told him that the tools, anvil, and forge were of high quality and extremely valuable.

Shane looked at the forge with pride and Jason figured out that everything within this room was his treasures, causing him to smile lightly.

'In the future, I'll also have my own high-quality equipment!' He told himself with a trace of ambition gleaming in his heart.

Turning around, Shane looked into Jason's eyes before he explained.

"I´ll show you a way to remove the impurities from ores with a certain slagging method that is mostly used for grade-1 materials because you are unable to solely use the Origin flame for the impurity extraction for the moment.

Nevertheless, I believe your origin flame will still be helpful to decrease the difficulty of exhaling impurities within all materials which normal flames don´t provide.

You will probably have a much easier time to learn how to perfectly purify materials than I had, but that is definitely an advantage!"

Jason nodded his head and he concluded the same thing. If he used an impurity extraction method in addition to his black origin flame, he might be able to have an easier time perfectly purifying each type of ingredient.

As such, Jason listened carefully, as Shane pulled a hammer and a large green shining ore out of his spatial ring.

"We will work with normal Jade-iron ore for now... And the slagging method I mentioned earlier isn't even that difficult for grade-1 materials, even though you have to be slightly careful to maintain the mana conductivity during the whole process."

While heating up the forge, Shane explained and he continued working while explaining

"As you already figured out within your first forging process, you extracted the jade-iron from your ore with a reduction.

To put it simply, Jade-iron ore is extracted from its oxide, by heating it up with charcoal, limestones, and so on.

They react with each other and you will receive Jade-iron.

This Jade-iron will then react with the impurities of the ore in order to form slag, this slag mostly floats over the top of molten ingots, but that's not the case every time, like it more than 300 years ago, before the mana outbreak happened.

Due to the mana injected within everything, the slug can be suppressed within the molten ore, making it difficult to force it outside.

In order to do that, you´ll have to inject your own mana within the molten ingot and lead the impurities out of the molten Jade-iron.

This process is extremely difficult for someone with bad mana sensitivity and control, but you shouldn't have a problem with that.

It will drain a lot of your mana to expel all impurities, which is the reason, everyone searches for origin flames because they can force the suppressed purities more easily out of reduced Jade-Iron for example

The heat should increase consistently but never cross a certain temperature where the mana veins within the materials will be damaged.

Your theoretical knowledge is large enough to figure out what temperatures you can go at the highest without damaging the mana veins, as such it shouldn't be much of a problem, as long as your control is precise enough."

The red shining green jade iron mold shone brightly in Jason's eyes as his mana eyes were activated during the whole process and he could perfectly see the impurities or rather slag within the molten Jade-iron.

It blocked the mana veins and forced them to change their path slightly, turning into a small detour, which decreased the efficiency.

In the end, a forged weapon with fewer impurities would have a smother mana conductivity, which increased not only the mana circulation efficiency of the weapon but also the mana consumption and required time to fully empower the weapon, which could determine over life and death.

Extracting them slowly, Shane wanted to show Jason how it worked, even though he could do it much faster due to his vast amount of mana and proficiency with perfectly purifying low-graded materials.

Imprinting Shane's words and the pictures he saw into his mind, Jason nodded his head, as he noticed something odd, the moment the molten jade iron expelled his last impurity.

Not only was the molten jade iron shining which could be seen by one´s bare eyes, but Jason´s special mana eyes could also detect a faint black color radiating from the jade iron in front of him, shocking him extremely.

But he couldn't ask a question as Shane once again began his teaching, while he worked on the Jade-iron.

"Now, we have perfectly purified jade-iron, the best of the best quality and you could immediately hammer it into a nice shape in order to forge a weapon.

However, for now, I want you to learn how to perfectly purify ores in order to build a firm foundation."

With that, Shane stopped talking, as he shaped the molten jade iron into a bar, which could be used in the future.

Jason was more than confused by what he saw.

He still listened to Shane, but the color radiating from the jade iron bar in front of him was tormenting his mind.

'Why is it radiating a color now? Because of the cleansed impurities? It has to be so, right?' Jason knew he was right, but there was a nagging feeling within him, telling him that it could also be something different but also the same.

His gut feeling told him that his eyes didn't directly implement the purity of things but rather something above that which included the purity as a sub-category.

But even then, Jason had not a single idea, what it could be and he only shook his head in denial, which was noticed by Shane.

Thinking Jason thought it was impossible for him to do the same, he encouraged him with a few words.

"Maybe your first few tries will end up as failure but that is normal."

"`Failure is the mother of success, remember that Jason! Just keep working hard and you´ll be able to do it"