"I don’t want to waste my breath on you."

Mo Yuanhai found these Artifact Refiners incredibly annoying. They loved their pointless debates. If something worked, it worked. If it didn’t, it didn’t.

Adapting to one’s own body was simple, but adapting to these Demon Artifacts was both time-consuming and exhausting.

"Take a good look at this Upper Grade Magical Artifact."

As he spoke, Mo Yuanhai took out the Upper Grade spear-type Magical Artifact and tossed it in front of the sect’s Artifact Refining Elder.

"What kind of attitude is that?" The Artifact Refining Elder was displeased with Mo Yuanhai’s actions, but he still picked up the Upper Grade spear-type Magical Artifact to examine it.

He didn’t think much of it at first, but one look left him stunned.

"This is an Upper Grade Magical Artifact used by a Spirit Refiner... No, that’s not right... Why are the patterns like this? These are patterns I’ve never seen before... To be able to inscribe something like this... it must have been a fluke."

"I say, Elder Ren, do you know what the effect of this Upper Grade Magical Artifact used by a Spirit Refiner is?" Mo Yuanhai asked, quizzing the elder as he watched him frown in concentration.

"It’s related to Demon Power. I can’t determine its specific function yet. It will require some research."

"That’s about all you’re good for. When it comes to Artifact Refining, you lot really can’t compare to those Spirit Refiners." Mo Yuanhai couldn’t help but shake his head. He then revealed its effect. "When this Upper Grade Magical Artifact is activated and used to attack us, our Demon Power defenses are much less effective against it."

"So that’s how it is. Now I understand."

The Artifact Refining Elder had a sudden epiphany. Now he understood the purpose behind the structure of the patterns.

He no longer cared about Mo Yuanhai’s tone.

"Refining an Upper Grade Magical Artifact like this must have been a coincidence."

"A coincidence? I think not."

The Artifact Refining Elder looked up at Mo Yuanhai and immediately asked, "You have more of these Upper Grade Magical Artifacts in your possession?"

"No, but I’m eighty percent sure that the Celestial Cloud Sect’s Inner Sect Disciples have a lot of them. The recent support mission, especially the fights at the Qi Refining Stage, went very poorly, and it’s these Upper Grade Magical Artifacts that are causing the trouble."

"To be able to refine this type of Upper Grade Magical Artifact, there must be an extraordinary existence among the Celestial Cloud Sect’s Artifact Refining Elders. But even for them, it would still be incredibly difficult to refine this category of Spiritual Artifact," the Celestial Demon Sect’s Artifact Refining Elder said after a moment of thought, voicing his judgment.

Magical Artifacts were made from Tier One Spiritual Materials. To successfully refine a Spiritual Artifact like this, they would definitely need to experiment with a large amount of Second Tier Spiritual Materials.

Second Tier Spiritual Materials were much rarer than Tier One Spiritual Materials.

"Elder Ren, I’ll include your judgment in my report later."

"Leave this Upper Grade Magical Artifact with me for research for now. If any more of this type of Upper Grade Magical Artifact appear, you must bring them to me at once."

With that, the Celestial Demon Sect’s Artifact Refining Elder quickly began his research.

Seeing this, Mo Yuanhai left with only a parting word. As for the Upper Grade spear-type Magical Artifact, it would of course be left here for the Artifact Refining Elder to study; it was useless anywhere else.

"’Bring them to you at once?’ That will depend on the situation."

As soon as the words left his mouth, Mo Yuanhai’s figure vanished.

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「Celestial Cloud Sect, Artifact Casting Peak.」

Inside Elder Fang Yun’s residence.

The time was early April. Having finished his cultivation, Fang Yun quickly opened the light screen.

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Refining Upper Grade Spirit Ascension Pill*28, Talent Points +10584

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Talent Point Bonus: 345%

Tally: Talent Points +70978

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After fifty percent of the Spirit Ascension Pill refining tasks were assigned to Fang Yun,

Now, Fang Yun received three Spirit Ascension Pill refining tasks in most months, and sometimes two.

Receiving four Spirit Ascension Pill tasks in a single month had only happened once so far.

Last month, he had three tasks, refining a total of six cauldrons of Spirit Ascension Pills.

At his current skill level in refining Spirit Ascension Pills, he could produce five Upper Grade Spirit Ascension Pills most of the time. When he only produced four Upper Grade pills, the other three Spirit Ascension Pills would be Middle Grade.

The more he refined them, the more Fang Yun could feel how difficult it was to increase the Pill Formation Success Rate for Upper Grade Spirit Ascension Pills.

As he became more and more proficient at refining Spirit Ascension Pills, the number of Talent Points he earned each month also steadily increased. For example, since the beginning of this year, he had been earning over sixty thousand Talent Points every month.

He had 52 Talent Points left over from last month.

Adding this month’s Talent Points, he could now draw for a Life Talent seven hundred and ten times.

Fang Yun looked at his current Life Talent interface.

His Alchemy Talent, the closest to leveling up, was still short one hundred and eighty-five fragments. The one furthest from leveling up was no longer his Planting Talent, but his Artifact Refining Talent, which was short two hundred and six fragments.

’One draw at a time, or all at once?’

If this were in the past, Fang Yun would have definitely chosen to draw one at a time.

’Life Talents aren’t like Combat Talents; there’s no searing sensation. And considering the number of fragments needed to level up now, there’s not much point in drawing one by one anyway. Besides, after the Life Talents reach six stars, they’ll still need to be upgraded to seven stars later.’

With this in mind, Fang Yun made his decision and began to use all his draws for Life Talents at once.

Alchemy Talent Fragments*235

Artifact Refining Talent Fragments*241

Planting Talent Fragments*234

As the Life Talent draws were completed, Fang Yun felt a series of wonderful sensations wash over him.

All of his Life Talents had now been upgraded to six stars.

After the feeling subsided, Fang Yun immediately looked at the changed Life Talent interface:

Alchemy Talent ★★★★★★ (50/40320)

Artifact Refining Talent ★★★★★★ (35/40320)

Planting Talent ★★★★★★ (33/40320)

To upgrade a six-star talent to seven stars, each talent required over forty thousand fragments, which cost over four million Talent Points. In total, that was over twelve million Talent Points.

Fang Yun did a rough calculation in his head.

Assuming he earned an average of sixty thousand Talent Points per month, it would take two hundred months to accumulate twelve million Talent Points.

’...A little over sixteen years. That’s not too bad.’

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Fang Yun’s perception of time had already changed somewhat.

Even though he wasn’t even twenty-five years old yet and had been in the Celestial Cloud Sect for less than eight years, it would normally take over twenty years just to reach the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage.

’Actually, it won’t even take sixteen years.’

Fang Yun believed that his efficiency at accumulating Talent Points would only increase in the future.

For instance, now that his Alchemy Talent had been upgraded to six stars—a level that was more than sufficient even for the Core Formation Stage—he might be able to produce six Upper Grade Spirit Ascension Pills in his very next cauldron.

And before long, he would be able to perfectly refine Spirit Ascension Pills.

Seven Upper Grade Spirit Ascension Pills per cauldron, and six cauldrons would mean forty-two pills. The base Talent Points gained from that alone would exceed fifteen thousand.

"I really want to refine a cauldron of Spirit Ascension Pills right now and give it a try," Fang Yun couldn’t help but mutter to himself as he thought about it.

He truly wanted to see just how effective his six-star Alchemy Talent was with Spirit Ascension Pills.

His next task to refine Spirit Ascension Pills was still about four days away.

Fang Yun switched from the Life Talent interface to the Combat Talent interface.

He would start upgrading his Life Talents to seven stars later; his next goal was to upgrade his four-star Combat Talents to five stars.

Upgrading all his Combat Talents would require around two million, two hundred thousand Talent Points.

He could basically get it done within three years.