The crystalline aura seeped into the metal like a living entity, seemingly sensing, yet also changing something.

Lin Guang's eyes widened.

— Huh?!

He could clearly feel his spiritual power, and the source stone he had shaped, quickly depleting under Zumama's control.

What kind of method is this?

Even as the Master of Origin Stone, he couldn't understand.

Zumama was kneading the metal ingot, as if massaging it, while muttering, "Hmm... This piece is hard, but there are a few tendons inside that haven't been kneaded apart..."

She kneaded for a while, seemingly conversing with the material.

"How does it feel, comfortable?"

She asked, nodding her head almost ceremoniously as if she received a response, then turned and called out, "Liko! Flame!"

"Got it!"

Liko's small figure darted over, took the metal ingot, and returned to the furnace.

The furnace flames were blazing, distorting the air with heat waves.

The little girl didn't even glance at the thermometer placed nearby, directly thrusting the metal ingot into the furnace.

The internal [Rebirth Flame Spirit] twitched, instantly absorbing it, while Liko's small face turned bright red from the heat and ether, her eyes shining incredibly bright as if seeing the flow of heat within the metal.

She likely could control the temperature using her talent.

Zumama, without any hesitation, picked up the next piece of metal.

This time, she started picking up a wrench from the workbench, tapping away at it. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Meanwhile, Lin Guang provided support to Zumama, watching the metal ingot in the furnace begin to take on a crystallized sheen from the stroking.

He watched the Spirit Gold begin to soften in his eyes.

If there were any Five-Star Miracle Masters witnessing this scene, they would undoubtedly be astonished.

Tier Four [Liuqing Gold] is known for its heat resistance and strong inertness, even more resistant than many Five-Star spiritual materials.

A Tier Three Spirit Beast and Three-Star Spirit Master, even with this furnace, should take at least five hours to burn it, how could it melt this quickly?!

It was as if it had really been calmed by the massage, becoming obedient!

The dizzying multi-threaded handling of spiritual materials began.

...

Seven hours later.

The place was filled with various pools, each with different colored solutions.

Zumama wore gloves, fished out the last non-metallic spiritual material from a golden pool, finished the last treatment on the nearby workbench, placed it into a special hollow metal box, and then stuffed it into an unknown strange container.

At this moment, she finally ceased the use of her ability.

The connection was severed, and the dark gold and indigo lights slowly faded in the last room.

"Whew..."

Zumama and Lin Guang simultaneously released a breath, exiting the status.

Liko was already exhausted and had retreated to rest elsewhere in the factory with her partner after finishing all the high-temperature treatment of the spiritual materials.

For the remaining hours, Zumama dragged Lin Guang around the studio, letting him watch her performance from behind.

She stretched her body, facing away from Lin Guang, twisting like a serpent, with her flexible, boneless form and tail, unable to resist saying, "Boss, you really are a big treasure!"

Zumama's tone carried an air of reminiscence: "That feeling just now was truly great, standing by me was like having a reliable backing, my energy never ran out, my mind was much clearer."

"By the way, boss... did you see anything special?"

Lin Guang fell into contemplation.

Her methods were indeed quite baffling.

To the ordinary person, her various treatments seemed devoid of any logic, as if she was improvising.

Even though Lin Guang wasn't particularly knowledgeable in this field, he could feel her methods differed vastly from the standard process.

Yet... these methods worked.

And for Lin Guang, it wasn't incomprehensible... just peculiar and uncomfortable.

Throughout the process, he gathered a wealth of information via the source stone, thus roughly understood things.

If one had to describe it, Zumama's behavior wasn't illogical.

These methods appeared imaginative simply because they diverged from common reasoning, conforming instead to another logic unique to Zumama, predominantly intuitive thought.

She thought she could achieve it, and indeed she did.

Yet this differed from the notion of True Intent or Dao Mark distorting reality, which was purely idealistic.

It's more like...

Numerous latent laws were already there, but only Zumama, in that state, could perceive them and utilize them.

Lin Guang softly said, "Seems like I understand a bit, but also more confused."

"I would normally think it's nonsense from others, but when you say it, boss, I feel it might be true."

Lin Guang couldn't help but smile:

"By the way, are we done?"

"Ah, far from it."

Zumama took off the gloves she was wearing, hanging them on a nearby hook, "This workload will take at least three more rounds; the pre-treatment of spiritual materials is just the start."

"Then comes various procedures."

However, at this moment, Zumama suddenly turned around, looking at Lin Guang, with indigo eyes flashing with delight and anticipation: "But..."

"Just today's workload usually would take us four or five days minimum."

She reached out, grabbed Lin Guang's shoulder, bringing herself incredibly close.

Due to the labor earlier, a thin layer of sweat covered her, reflecting delicate glimmers under the dim light, her curvy body looking enshrouded in a crystalline, transparent aura.

The black narrow strip barely covering essential areas tightly stretched along her well-proportioned curves, pressed against Lin Guang's chest.