Chapter 318: Transmutation!

Wood! Stone! Iron ingots!

And these basic materials she couldn't find...

This Taotie Furnace... maybe... perhaps... could actually transmute them?!

"Designated... items..."

Cheng Shuili unconsciously repeated those words, her voice hoarse from extreme excitement.

If... if her understanding is correct... this is practically a divine artifact that ignores rules and creates things out of nothing!

It's a universal tool that can solve all her lacking materials!

The materials piled like mountains in her warehouse, the discarded equipment, even the various strange junk dropped from monsters...

Now they're no longer trash!

Cheng Shuili took a deep breath, trying to calm her pounding heart, but the shock and delight welled up from within her like a tangible surge.

She lowered her head, looking again at the unimpressive bronze censer in her hand; the abstract Taotie pattern on its surface seemed to come alive, exuding an ancient, greedy mystical power.

How is this just opening a special piece of equipment?

This is practically opening an infinite resource treasury!

Her previous gloom and resentment were instantly washed away, replaced by a near-dizzy ecstasy and immense anticipation.

She gripped the Taotie Furnace tightly; her fingertips could feel its faint warmth, as if flames burned inside.

"Struck it rich..." she murmured, her voice full of disbelief, "This time I really... hit the treasure!"

All those times junk turned out useful—doesn't this guarantee a gold drop?!

Cheng Shuili, heart racing, rose and scanned the room with eager eyes, then knocked on the cabin door.

From behind the door came Su Rui's voice: "Come in."

Cheng Shuili pushed the door open with a smiling face, then suddenly realized something was off.

This is her car, her door, her cabin!

Why does she still need to knock?

That thought flashed for an instant, then was swept away by overwhelming joy.

She lifted the small censer with both hands and showed it off: "Look what this is!"

Su Rui's gaze shifted from the control panel to the unimpressive bronze censer in Cheng Shuili's hand.

Her eyes remained calm, like deep pool water.

She's always like that, and Cheng Shuili coming to show off isn't for any particular reaction from her.

Cheng Shuili is easily pleased; she didn't come to show off for Su Rui's reaction, but simply to show off.

Thus, unexpectedly, they complement each other somewhat.

"A censer?"

Su Rui's voice showed no ripple: "Where'd it come from?"

Her reaction was like a basin of faint cold water, but it didn't dampen Cheng Shuili's enthusiasm; instead, it made her more eager to display the treasure.

"Exactly! But it's not an ordinary censer!"

Cheng Shuili eagerly explained, "It's called the Taotie Furnace! Look at this pattern... it can turn the useless materials we have into the supplies we urgently need! And since it doesn't specify what material, that means..."

Su Rui silently watched Cheng Shuili's face, completely immersed in her own world.

"I can use it to generate everything I need."

As she finished, Cheng Shuili's voice lowered a bit, but her eyes shone brighter than ever.

She decisively took the cabin door, returned to the cargo hold, and held the small censer to study it thoroughly.

Su Rui stared at the closed cabin door for a moment, shook her head, and continued driving her own vehicle.

Sometimes she really feels Cheng Shuili might have a screw loose, but then again, genius and madness are just a hair's breadth apart, right?

Since the difference is so small, why bother giving it a label?

Cheng Shuili is Cheng Shuili; that's enough.

Meanwhile, Cheng Shuili, sitting cross-legged in the cargo hold, unaware that someone had already labeled her a lunatic, carefully placed the small censer on the floor and studied the description again.

After confirming there were no issues, she decided to try it once.

To be safe, she didn't pick any high-end material; she chose the wood needed for the new blueprint.

This is probably also a basic material; although I don't know why the system created this new system, transmuting it with the vehicle's basic materials should be fine.

Cheng Shuili fiddled a bit and discovered she could set the conversion amount.

Moreover, no matter the amount, as long as it's transmuted in one go, it counts as a single conversion!

This function is very user-friendly!

Having selected the target product as two hundred units of wood, Cheng Shuili stared at the Taotie Furnace, took a deep breath, and pressed the confirm key.

The panel instantly refreshed.

"【Please input the items to be invested, you can input one or more! After inputting, the required quantity will be generated; invest according to that quantity!】"

Oh?

This prompt is good! It's clear and understandable!

Cheng Shuili thought it over and decided to use iron nails.

Nothing else, it takes up the least space.

That's also why she stockpiled the most of it.

After selecting, the panel popped up the latest data, requiring...

2000 iron nails?

Cheng Shuili paused, instantly realizing this meant 200 sets of iron nails—200 sets for 200 units of wood, the ratio matching perfectly.

Sure enough, they're all basic supplies!

Cheng Shuili shook her head, decisively lifted the lid of the Taotie Furnace, and stuffed everything inside.

The thing looked small, but only after actually stuffing things inside did I realize it was bottomless—no matter how much you put in, it never fills up!

After everything was stuffed in, Cheng Shuili stared unblinking at the furnace before her.

Hum—

A low hum resonated from within the Taotie Furnace.

The originally still, abstract and archaic taotie patterns on the furnace body suddenly lit up, emitting a dim bronze glow; the patterns twisted and writhed, as if turning into countless greedy little mouths sucking in.

The lid trembled slightly, and a faint wisp of smoke seeped from the crack—an odd scent mixing metallic rust with wood ash.

Inside there was no collision sound, only a continuous, heart‑pounding hum.

The Taotie Furnace's surface light grew brighter, the body began to glow red, and the abstract taotie pattern seemed to come alive, wandering across the bronze walls, exuding a primal, satisfied joy.

Just two or three seconds later, the humming stopped abruptly, the furnace's light instantly retracted, returning to its plain, unremarkable appearance, and the temperature quickly dropped.

Everything fell silent.

Cheng Shuili's heart leapt to her throat.

Click.

With a soft sound, the lid swung open a slit on its own.

No blinding light, no spectacular phenomena—just a fresh, dry whiff of wood scent blowing over.

She peered in cautiously.

Inside the furnace chamber, it was empty, as if nothing had happened.

Just as Cheng Shuili wondered, a ball of light wrapped around something was about to spew out!