“Contest of treasure? Three major mystic realms?”
The Yi Clan’s three major mystic realms were indeed well-known in the Stellarsky Domain and were top-class mystic domains. The majority of the Yi Clan’s descendants would be able to comprehend some dao patterns after entering the mystic realms. The fast cultivation speed of the Buddha Emperor and Yi Chan were mainly because of these three major mystic realms.
When thinking about the contest of treasures, Jiang Yi had lost his interest. What kind of treasure could he have? Unless he gifted this ancient artifact to the Buddha Thearch, but was it possible? He wasn’t a fool.
Originality?
He would be able to produce a few Heaven Paintings as he heard that the Buddha Thearch was also an Art Emperor, but could Jiang Yi paint any? Obviously not, a single Heaven Painting would definitely expose his identity.
Thus, he didn’t bother and sat cross-legged to recuperate. While he recuperated, he took a look at the ninth star sphere and pondered about the invisible energy inside.
Astral winds!
The astral wind was a horrific existence. Thirty kilometers in the night sky was a place where regular Demigod experts wouldn’t dare to go. Who could actually resist against those infinite attacks from astral winds? If he could get a complete grasp of these astral winds, it would certainly become an effective weapon for both offense and defense. Even if a formidable ability attacked him, he could use the astral winds to negate the energy from the opposition’s attack.
It was a pity that he was inside the Yi Fragrance Pavilion, and Jiang Yi couldn’t recklessly release the astral winds. It was difficult to study it. His mind was filled with doubts. Why was his Nameless Divine Art able to absorb astral winds? Why would the astral winds be stored inside the ninth star sphere? Why not the eighth or the seventh star sphere?
Chi! Chi!
He casually circulated a trace of astral wind energy out and let it revolved around his palm. With a thought in his mind, the astral wind circled around his body and flowed slowly. After circling his body, it flew back to his palm. Once it entered his palm, Jiang Yi noticed that the ninth star sphere lit up; and the astral wind energy was automatically absorbed inside.
“These nine star spheres are too strange. Who is the one that imparted the Nameless Divine Art to me? Mother, where are you?”
Jiang Yi let out a slight sigh as there were too many things that he couldn’t understand. Because of this Nameless Divine Art, he had turned into a monster; and he could subtly feel an invisible palm in the sky that was controlling his life, turning him into this form, bit by bit.
No one else came to disturb Jiang Yi today, and after recuperating for an entire day, his injuries had recovered a little. At least, he wouldn’t feel the intense pain when he moved his body. When it was nighttime, the maidservant had served him some delicacies, but he didn’t have to mood to eat and simply continued his recuperation.
In the middle of the night, he woke up; and his hand lit up as he retrieved that giant stone furnace!
Ancient artifact!
An ancient artifact engraved with dao pattern. The ancient general’s cardinal treasure!
His eyes were fiery hot as he gradually poured the essence force into the Smelting Divine Furnace as he attempted to refine this ancient artifact. This item’s name sounded very tyrannical, and if he could refine it, he reckoned that his combat strength would definitely increase significantly.
“Eh? My essence force can’t enter?”
Jiang Yi noticed a problem as soon as he refined it. The essence force couldn’t enter the ancient artifact, and it didn’t have any reaction even when the essence force wrapped around the Smelting Divine Furnace. He struggled for one hour and finally determined that… this Smelting Divine Furnace couldn’t be refined by essence force!
“How can this be? How did others refine their ancient artifacts?”
Jiang Yi had a headache. If he couldn’t refine this cardinal treasure, he wouldn’t be able to wield it; and it would be no different from a stone block.
“Should I look for Yi Chan and Yin Ruobing to ask them?”
Jiang Yi quickly denied this idea. Those two ladies were venomous flowers, and the more contact he had with them, he would be involuntarily but charmed by them. If he really fell too deep, he would be in eternal damnation.
“I must not have too much contact with the two of them!”
Jiang Yi had silently decided that he would leave once his injuries had recovered. He was going to look for a small city to hide, and when Wu Ni and Ji Tingyu were returning to North Thearch City, he would intercept and kill them.
But… what should I do about this Smelting Divine Furnace?
Jiang Yi was at a loss for a moment while he continued to think of different methods… he dropped his blood on it, used his spirits to sense the Smelting Divine Furnace, and even released his soul sword to see if it could rush into the Smelting Divine Furnace. Ultimately… the soul sword couldn’t enter as the Smelting Divine Furnace had a restriction that obstructed the soul sword.
After trying for an entire night, Jiang Yi was still helpless when it was daybreak. Nothing could enter the Smelting Divine Furnace, and it had no reaction no matter what was done to it.
It was daybreak, and the maidservant had woken up. Jiang Yi had no choice but to toss the Smelting Divine Furnace into his ancient divine essence ring and continued to recuperate. Today was also very peaceful as Yi Chan and Yin Ruobing didn’t appear. Jiang Yi didn’t try to ask about them or about anyone else. He simply concentrated on recuperation.
It was nighttime, and after the maidservant went to sleep, Jiang Yi secretly took out the Smelting Divine Furnace and continued studying it. If he couldn’t refine such a cardinal treasure, he would surely vomit blood due to depression. He leisurely revolved his essence force as he wanted to see if there would be any reaction after a long period of refinement.
The result made him disappointed. He had been refining it for the entire night, but there wasn’t a hint of reaction from the Smelting Divine Furnace. It seemed as though someone of his cultivation realm couldn’t refine it.
“Could this be similar to spirit-connected cardinal treasures? Is it dependent on luck?” It was almost dawn, and Jiang Yi had no choice but to open his eyes and stared blankly at the stone block in his hand as he was completely at wit’s end.
“Spirit-connected cardinal treasure?”
When thinking about spirit connected cardinal treasure, he suddenly had an inspiration. Huangfu Taotian mentioned that pseudo-divine artifacts would be easier to refine if the power of stars was used? Should I try using the power of stars?
Acting as soon as he thought about it. He slowly circulated a trace of the power of stars from his nine star spheres and revolved it around the Smelting Divine Furnace. When the power of stars made contact with the Smelting Divine Furnace, there was a sudden reaction!
Buzz!
The entire Smelting Divine Furnace lit up, and Jiang Yi’s eyes were bright as the stars at that moment, too. The power of stars could refine the Smelting Divine Furnace, but the refinement speed was very slow. He carefully sensed for 15 minutes and discovered that a thousandth of the Smelting Divine Furnace had been refined. Jiang Yi reckoned that he would need at least one month to completely refine the Smelting Divine Furnace.
“Alright!”
Time wasn’t a problem as long as he could refine it. He had quite a bit of the power of stars. A portion of it would be consumed in order to refine the Smelting Divine Furnace, but it was worth it.
The sky was getting bright, and when the maidservant got up, Jiang Yi immediately gave the order. “I will be in seclusion to recuperate for these few days. All of you will stand guard outside. Without my orders, no one is to enter. If someone requests for a meeting, reject all of them and wait for me to exit from seclusion.”
“Understood, Young Master!”
The two maidservants backed out obediently and activated the restriction. Jiang Yi entered the Union of Heaven and Man state to scout around before he consumed a recuperation elixir. He no longer bothered about his body and fully concentrated on refining the Smelting Divine Furnace.
Once the Buddha Thearch’s birthday banquet ended, Wu Ni and Ji Tingyu would depart and return to the North Thearch City. A fierce battle would surely erupt, and he had to strive for every minute and every second to strengthen himself, in order to survive and to rescue Su Ruoxue.
“Bai Yi is in seclusion? He said… he will not attend to any guests? No matter who it is?”
On the fifth day, Yin Ruobing came to visit and when she heard the maidservant’s report, she looked at the tightly shut door with disappointment. Was he in seclusion to study the ancient artifact or the astral winds? Or could he be using seclusion as an excuse to avoid seeing her?
“Could it really be as Big Sister Chan mentioned? Bai Yi didn’t like women?”
Yin Ruobing had an indescribable feeling of setback. She was the prestigious Yin Clan’s young lady and the no.3 ranked beauty in the world’s beauty rankings. She had risked shaming herself to come see a man but was rejected outside the door.
“So be it! Hmph!”
Yin Clan’s young lady was prideful, and Yin Ruobing had an unnatural expression. She turned away and walked outside. When she was at the entrance, she turned to look at the maidservant and said, “When Bai Yi comes out from seclusion, relay a message to him and ask him to immediately come and visit this Young Lady. If he doesn’t come… I will never see him again in this life!”
