Free Web NovelChapter 315: Chapter 264: A Masterpiece is Forged (Part 2)
"Yes."
Elder Zhao nodded. Perhaps his opening statement had done more harm than good. After that, he remained mostly silent.
Miao Qinghong glanced at Elder Zhao before quickly looking away.
Among the elders of Battle Peak, this Elder Zhao was a staunch advocate for a defensive strategy against the Celestial Demon Sect.
Miao Qinghong wasn’t surprised that he would say such a thing.
Fang Yun’s current performance was exactly what she wanted to see. Once Fang Yun grew even stronger, she would coordinate with him to enter the Celestial Demon Sect’s Earth Realm and begin her operation.
If Fang Yun could successfully reach Core Formation in the future, she believed the sect’s future trajectory would be vastly different.
Less than five days after the meeting on Battle Peak ended, the upper echelons of the Celestial Cloud Sect had all heard the news: Fang Yun had wiped out another Foundation Establishment Influence of Demons. The one he eliminated this time was far more powerful than the last.
Through this event, the sect’s upper echelons gained an even clearer understanding of Fang Yun’s strength.
Fang Yun, already at the Middle-stage Foundation Establishment, was more proficient at dealing with Demons than many Cultivators at the Peak of Foundation Establishment.
This refreshed perception of his strength among the sect’s upper ranks, coupled with his triumphant display in the great battle, further boosted Fang Yun’s influence within the sect.
The increase was not small—a total of two percentage points.
Two percentage points was a very large increase. After all, Fang Yun’s influence in the sect had already reached 71% before this.
Now, after rising another two percentage points, it stood at 73%.
After this latest rise, Fang Yun was now only about a quarter of the way from filling the progress bar to one hundred percent influence.
If his influence in the sect continued to rise this smoothly, he might reach one hundred percent influence even before becoming the Sect Leader.
This was a situation Fang Yun was happy to see.
With his sect influence at 73%, the bonus for his monthly Talent Point settlement could reach 399%.
Between the base Talent Points and the final settled Talent Points, the latter would soon be five times the former.
「Early in the sixth month.」
After last month’s Talent Point settlement, his total Talent Points exceeded 3.6 million.
That was enough for more than 36,000 draws for a Life Talent.
It seemed like a lot, but the number of fragments needed to upgrade each Life Talent had already reached over 360,000. Even if all of this month’s Talent Points were spent on draws for a single Life Talent, it would only increase that talent’s progress by one-tenth.
Fang Yun glanced at the Life Talent interface, then quickly closed it.
’Perhaps even by the time I break through to the Late-stage Foundation Establishment, I still won’t be able to upgrade a Life Talent to eight stars.’
The further he progressed, the more Talent Points were required, making accumulation inherently difficult. He could only build them up slowly, letting time advance the progress bar.
Not long after closing the light screen, Fang Yun entered his Artifact Refining Room.
His Artifact Refining Room was now filled with many Spiritual Materials for Artifact Refining.
’The Spiritual Materials for refining the Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact, the Earth Yellow Sword, are almost all collected.’
The Earth Yellow Sword Fang Yun planned to refine would not have seven Spirit Patterns, but nine.
Given the quality of the Spiritual Materials he had collected and his level of Artifact Refining skill, refining an Earth Yellow Sword with nine Spirit Patterns would be very easy.
His goal wasn’t an ordinary nine-Spirit-Pattern Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact, but a true masterpiece of its kind.
Once he finished refining this Earth Yellow Sword, the settled base Talent Points would be close to 26,000, and his goal would be achieved.
According to the patterns he’d summarized, 26,000 base Talent Points was the limit he could obtain from refining an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact.
To get more Talent Points from Artifact Refining, the level above Upper Grade Spiritual Artifacts was supreme-grade Spiritual Artifacts.
But Fang Yun had absolutely no desire to refine a supreme-grade Spiritual Artifact.
Just like a supreme-grade Magical Artifact was a semi-failed product of refining a Spiritual Artifact, a supreme-grade Spiritual Artifact was a semi-failed product of refining a Magical Treasure.
If he had the Spiritual Materials to refine a Magical Treasure, he wouldn’t attempt it without a high degree of confidence.
It had taken him nearly twenty years to gather the Spiritual Materials for an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact. Collecting the materials for a Magical Treasure would only take much longer, unless he got exceptionally lucky. freewebnσvel.cøm
「Two years passed in the blink of an eye.」
By this time, Fang Yun had finally finished collecting all the Spiritual Materials needed to refine a top-quality, nine-Spirit-Pattern Earth Yellow Sword.
A lot had happened in those two years. ƒrēewebnovel.com
First were the repercussions of him annihilating the Demon Foundation Establishment Influence, Vortex Cave.
Less than three months after Vortex Cave was destroyed, the Celestial Demon Sect’s Demons became much more active.
Battles between Foundation Establishment cultivators also occurred frequently.
During that time, he also accepted a reinforcement mission.
He completed the mission successfully, killing a Middle-stage Foundation Establishment Demon.
The moment he arrived at the reinforcement point, that Middle-stage Foundation Establishment Demon was already as good as dead, with no room to resist.
Fang Yun would never use a second strike for something he could resolve with one.
Therefore, even when facing a Middle-stage Foundation Establishment Demon, he only used a Middle Grade Spiritual Artifact.
It was overkill.
He was quite lucky to have been able to accept a reinforcement mission.
If his luck had been bad, a mission might have come while he was busy with Artifact Refining or alchemy, and he would have been unable to accept it, missing the chance to kill a Foundation Establishment Demon and gain combat-related Talent Points.
In those two years, due to the intense fighting, the Celestial Cloud Sect lost many Inner Sect Disciples of the Qi Refining Stage. Even worse, two Foundation Establishment Stage Elders were killed in action.
Fortunately, three disciples broke through to Foundation Establishment and became Elders during those two years, so the sect’s total number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators actually increased by one.
The number of Foundation Establishment Elders in the sect had been growing for the past few years.
The most important reason for this, naturally, was the influence of the Middle Grade and Upper Grade Foundation Establishment Pills.
The Foundation Establishment Pills that Fang Yun refined were crucial.
"It’s about time to begin."
The sign outside his cave residence had been changed. Now in a state of seclusion, Fang Yun had entered his Artifact Refining Room.
After a moment of adjustment, he began refining the Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact-level Earth Yellow Sword.
So far, he had refined an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact three times. Once was the Eight Spirit Patterns Half-Hidden Spirit Boots he made for himself, and the other two times were for other Elders.
This was his fourth time refining an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact.
And it would also be the Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact that would provide him the most base Talent Points to date.
The refining process began with the preparation of the Spiritual Materials. In this aspect, Fang Yun’s technique was already near-perfect.
The initial refining steps were child’s play for him.
The real key was inscribing the Spirit Patterns.
To refine a masterpiece among nine-Spirit-Pattern Upper Grade Spiritual Artifacts, the combination of inscribed Spirit Patterns had to be a perfect match. For an offensive Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact, the burst of power it could unleash had to be immense. Inscribing such a combination was much more difficult than inscribing a normal set of nine Spirit Patterns.
But for the current Fang Yun, it was manageable.
Although he was at a disadvantage in terms of his cultivation Realm, his accumulated Artifact Refining experience and his seven-star Artifact Refining talent—which was barely sufficient even for the Nascent Soul Stage—meant that with his thorough preparations, the possibility of failure was almost nonexistent.
The only uncertainty was whether he would produce a masterpiece among nine-Spirit-Pattern Upper Grade Spiritual Artifacts or end up with an ordinary result.
The process of refining the Earth Yellow Sword lasted for nearly six days.
Finally, the new Earth Yellow Sword was complete.
Fang Yun examined the Earth Yellow Sword in his hand meticulously.
’This Earth Yellow Sword... the base Talent Points it can provide should be off from the 26,000 mark by one hundred points at most.’
After a comprehensive inspection, Fang Yun was quite confident.
With the addition of the nine-Spirit-Pattern Earth Yellow Sword, he now had two Upper Grade Spiritual Artifacts. As for the third, the Profound Crystal Shield, he had gathered most of the auxiliary Spiritual Materials, but he was still a long way from acquiring the main Spiritual Material for its refining.
Without a bit of luck, he wouldn’t be able to gather a full set of Spiritual Materials to refine the Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact, the Profound Crystal Shield, even in another ten years.
