CHAPTER 98: CHAPTER 98: FIRE-REFINED ESSENCE GOLD

Liang Zhennan’s Storage Bag.

There aren’t many things, mostly some low-tier talismans, elixirs, and such.

There are over a hundred Spirit Stones, and these will be taken back to Shenxiao Palace for handling.

Among the rest, what Lu Yuanshan can lay his hands on are only the Shenxiao Decrees and two magical artifacts.

In Liang Zhennan’s storage, there are two Shenxiao Decrees. Due to being tightly constrained in battle, there was no time to activate them, so both are still unused and brand new.

"As agreed, your sect will receive three Shenxiao Decrees."

Yuan Lang examined the two Shenxiao Decrees and, after confirming they could be used normally, took out one more from his own Storage Bag and handed them over to Lu Yuanshan together.

"Thank you for your sect’s assistance this time, please accept these three Shenxiao Decrees."

Lu Yuanshan carefully received the three Shenxiao Decrees into his Storage Bag.

Next are the two magical artifacts left by Liang Zhennan.

More accurately, two Demonic Dao artifacts.

One is a dark red Demon Fork, its appearance indicating it hasn’t been successfully refined, not even reaching the category of Tier One Spiritual Artifact.

The other is the Evil Moon Treasure Wheel.

Everyone has personally experienced the power of the Evil Moon Treasure Wheel, and at this moment, there’s not a single thought of refining it for personal use; instead, there is a unanimous belief that it should be destroyed on the spot.

Demonic Dao artifacts should not be easily used by Righteous Cultivators; otherwise, they risk mental erosion, gradually leading into the path of Demon Cultivation, severing all ties with the Righteous Dao.

The Evil Moon Treasure Wheel is heavily laden with Demonic Qi, posing a high risk.

Together with the unformed Demon Fork, these two Demonic Dao artifacts must be incinerated on the spot. They must not be kept or sold to arm enemies.

Under supervision, Yuan Lang and the other two watched as Lu Zhiwei deftly tossed the two Demonic Dao artifacts into the Artifact Refining Furnace. After refining them with Qi Refining True Flame for a full hour, they watched the two artifacts turn to ashes, finally feeling assured.

"The destruction of Demonic Dao artifacts is no trivial matter; we had to witness the entire destruction process personally. I hope your sect understands."

Yuan Lang spoke apologetically, knowing their actions might make Lu Zhiwei and others feel distrusted.

"It’s only right to keep watch."

Lu Yuanshan laughed heartily, not taking the matter to heart at all.

After inventorying Liang Zhennan’s Storage Bag, the remaining ones were those of Wei He, Wei Heng, and Lei Yajing.

Since these three were slain by Lu Zhiwei alone, ownership of their Storage Bags naturally belonged to Lu Zhiwei.

Thus, Yuan Lang and the other two wisely refrained from mentioning these three Storage Bags, tacitly acknowledging them as Lu Zhiwei’s possession.

In the subsequent hour or so, both parties chatted leisurely, primarily about sect affairs and cultivation, in a very harmonious atmosphere. It wasn’t until noon that Yuan Lang and the others got up to say goodbye.

"The sect mission has been successfully completed, and we must return quickly to report. farewell."

"Until we meet again."

"Until we meet again."

Lu Yuanshan courteously saw the three off down the mountain.

Upon returning to the Sect Hall, they began inventorying the remaining three Storage Bags.

In the Storage Bags of Wei He, Wei Heng, and Lei Yajing, there were over seven hundred Spirit Stones, a considerable amount, providing a significant wealth to the Cyan Mountain Sect, bringing joy to Lu Yuanshan’s heart.

No wonder some loose cultivators enjoy killing for treasures; the gains from this alone made Lu Yuanshan see the allure.

Of course, Lu Yuanshan would not actively partake in such deeds of killing for treasures, unless there was a deep grudge or an encounter with a Demon Cultivator that compelled action.

The Spirit Stone gains from the three Storage Bags were just one part.

There were also some Tier One Lower Grade Qi Blood Pills, Qi Cultivation Pills, totaling about thirty.

As for other cultivation technique manuals, Lu Yuanshan and the others were not interested at all.

The ’Hengyue Heart Method,’ a legacy technique from Hengyue Sect, was not found either.

Evidently, such techniques are typically not carried in Storage Bags by disciples. There are usually rules during instruction to prevent them from leaking out.

There were a few talismans and magical artifacts.

Among them were two Blazing Talismans and one Profound Ice Talisman, and Spiritual Artifacts: Wei Heng’s Thunderfire Peak and Lei Yajing’s Vermilion Bird Ring.

Both are Tier One Top-Grade Spiritual Artifacts, with attributes: Thunderfire Peak suits Lu Changfeng, and Vermilion Bird Ring suits Lu Zhiwei.

The two artifacts were thus bestowed to them respectively.

The other artifacts, like Lu Su Treasure Plate, Wei Heng’s Defensive Spiritual Artifact, and Wei He’s Geng Metal Flying Sword, were all destroyed by Lu Zhiwei’s Zhaoyun Sword, already turned into a pile of scrap, which could be used to reforge into one or two new magical artifacts.

These discarded artifacts, since they could serve as refining materials, were naturally brought back.

Besides these, only one item caught Lu Ping’s attention.

It was something obtained from Lei Yajing’s Storage Bag, a small chunk of Fire-refined Essence Gold.

Fire-refined Essence Gold closely resembles gold in appearance and weight and is usually dark gold in color, making it an excellent refining material.

It can be used to enhance the tier of Spiritual Artifacts, increasing their power, and providing greater spiritual power conductivity and durability.

Though effective, Fire-refined Essence Gold has limitations: it can only enhance Tier One Spiritual Artifacts significantly.

When used on Tier Two Spiritual Artifacts, the enhancement effect isn’t as pronounced.

Nevertheless, if fused into the Cyan Bamboo Sword, it could significantly boost its power, elevating it from Tier One Top-Grade to Tier Two Lower Grade.

This is the best way to enhance Spiritual Artifacts currently.

Upon this thought, Lu Ping shared this idea with Lu Yuanshan and the other two.

"This chunk of Fire-refined Essence Gold has some use; it should be used promptly to enhance the Cyan Bamboo Sword in the disciples’ hands rather than left to gather dust in the Sect’s Treasury."

No objections were voiced from the trio upon hearing this.

As the only Artifact Refiner in the sect, the task of refining the Fire-refined Essence Gold to enhance the Cyan Bamboo Sword naturally fell to Lu Zhiwei.

The difficulty in enhancement wasn’t high; it involved re-smelting the Cyan Bamboo Sword, merging with the Fire-refined Essence Gold, reshaping, and inscribing an array.

That day, Lu Zhiwei informed Song Minghui, Zhang Nianchuan, Lin Han, and Chu Qin about this news.

The piece of Fire-refined Essence Gold was barely enough to enhance four Cyan Bamboo Swords.

Knowing that their Cyan Bamboo Swords could be enhanced, possibly advancing to Tier Two Lower Grade, providing a significant boost, the four were naturally overjoyed and immediately offered up their Cyan Bamboo Swords.

It is worth mentioning that to reforge a Spiritual Artifact, the owner’s Divine Thought must be removed from it; otherwise, the artifact may resist refinement, obstructing the progress.

Once the Divine Thought was removed from the four Cyan Bamboo Swords, Lu Zhiwei entered the Artifact Refining Room to enhance them.

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Chu Kingdom, Yunbei County, Shenxiao Palace.

Yuan Lang and the other two returned to their sect and immediately reported to the Sect Task Hall, handing in the mission to eliminate Wu Xiangwen and Liang Zhennan.

After receiving the mission reward, Yuan Lang evenly divided the Contribution Points with Xu Yang and Lu Hongniang, then headed to the Elder Hall to report the events of eliminating Wu Xiangwen and Liang Zhennan to Elder Xu Qingshan.

Xu Qingshan, whose cultivation has reached the Late-stage Crystallization, is the Second Elder of Shenxiao Palace and also Yuan Lang’s mentor.

Upon learning that his beloved disciple had invited the Cyan Mountain Sect to act together, and also upon hearing about the Hengyue Sect’s disciples acting as the mantis to catch the cicada unaware, the Second Elder furrowed his brows.