Chapter 276: Chapter 245: A Million Points

With the Spiritual Materials on the ground, plus the ones he already had, he could now refine another Lower Grade Spiritual Artifact to use against Demons.

There were no particularly good Spiritual Materials in the three Foundation Establishment Demons’ Storage Pouches, so it was pointless to expect anything from the others.

In the spirit of not letting anything go to waste, Fang Yun opened the other Storage Pouches one by one, even those belonging to early Qi Refining Stage Demons.

The items in the Storage Pouches of Qi Refining Stage Demons were of very little value to him now; usable auxiliary Spiritual Materials were few and far between.

There was a large amount of Lower Grade Demon Stones and five Middle Grade Demon Stones, all of which could be exchanged for Spirit Stones later.

After dealing with everything, Fang Yun rested for only four hours before entering the Alchemy Room to begin refining the Purple Essence Pills.

While Fang Yun was refining Purple Essence Pills, Miao Qinghong convened a meeting about him on Battle Peak.

All the Battle Peak Elders currently in the sect attended the meeting.

"The Feng Family, a Demon Foundation Establishment Influence, has been wiped out."

This was the first thing Miao Qinghong said. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

"Who did it?"

"When did this happen?"

Faced with this explosive news, the assembled Battle Peak Elders voiced their questions one after another.

The annihilation of the Feng Family, a Demon Foundation Establishment Clan, was excellent news for them.

The nature of this news was different from the death of the Stone Demon Sect’s Foundation Establishment Demon.

In the case of the Stone Demon Sect, their Foundation Establishment Demon had actively come to the Celestial Cloud Sect’s territory before being eliminated by them. Without their Foundation Establishment Demon, the Stone Demon Sect was demoted from a Foundation Establishment Influence to a Qi Refining Influence, but many of its Qi Refining Stage Demons were still alive.

But now, Miao Qinghong was saying the Demon Foundation Establishment Clan, the Feng Family, had been wiped out. This implied the attack took place on the Feng Family’s ancestral land, within the Celestial Demon Sect’s territory.

They could only be considered "wiped out" if nearly all the Demons on the Feng Family’s ancestral land were dead.

"It was done a short while ago, by Elder Fang Yun," Miao Qinghong replied, answering the Elders’ most pressing question.

"It was Elder Fang!"

"It was Elder Fang? That makes sense. I suspected as much the moment Elder Miao broke the news."

"Even though Elder Fang isn’t an elder of our Battle Peak, his deeds surpass our own."

"If not for Elder Fang’s exceptional talent in Artifact Refining and Alchemy, I would have definitely pulled him over to our Battle Peak," Bai Qinying said.

The moment the news was announced, she had indeed thought of Fang Yun first.

As it turned out, she was right.

Both she and Fang Yun had been waiting for a support mission, but he had instead taken the initiative to act in Celestial Demon Sect territory on his own.

’At first, Bai Qinying had wished Fang Yun would have taken her along when he made his move. But then she realized something was wrong with that line of thinking.’

’If Fang Yun had brought her along, he might not have been able to wipe out the Feng Family, a Demon Foundation Establishment Clan.’

"By the way, when Elder Fang entered the Feng Family’s ancestral land, their Grand Array was never activated, was it?"

"It definitely wasn’t. Even if the two of us joined forces, we couldn’t break the Feng Family’s Grand Array. If the array had activated and kept Elder Fang out, there’s no way the Feng Family could have been wiped out. As things stand, perhaps even the Celestial Demon Sect has no idea that one of our own, Elder Fang, was the one who destroyed the Feng Family."

Having reached this conclusion, Elder Gao looked toward Miao Qinghong, who sat at the head of the meeting.

"That’s right," Miao Qinghong nodded.

This was good news. Since Fang Yun hadn’t been discovered, they needed to be even more diligent about keeping it a secret.

This information could only be shared among the middle and upper echelons of the sect.

Thanks to their information blockade regarding the last incident—Fang Yun’s killing of the Stone Demon Sect’s Sect Leader and Vice Sect Leader—the Celestial Demon Sect still didn’t know the specifics of what had happened, nor which Celestial Cloud Sect Elders were responsible.

Fang Yun was immensely important to the Celestial Cloud Sect. A great deal of information about him had to be kept under wraps. Otherwise, if the Celestial Demon Sect learned the full extent of his capabilities, they might resort to desperate measures.

In Alchemy, Artifact Refining, and combat, Fang Yun was at the pinnacle among those in the same Realm.

"In the future, if any of you have ideas about targeting the Celestial Demon Sect’s affiliated Foundation Establishment Influences, you can report directly to me. I will arrange your missions based on the situation."

Miao Qinghong said this after gesturing for the Battle Peak Elders to be quiet.

In Miao Qinghong’s eyes, Fang Yun taking the initiative to attack and wipe out the Feng Family, a Demon Foundation Establishment Clan, had a significant, positive impact on the entire Celestial Cloud Sect.

That the current Fang Yun was capable of such a feat suggested that he would surely support her ideas in the future.

She had always believed that, given the opportunity, the elders of the Celestial Cloud Sect should take the offensive, rather than always being on the defensive.

Fang Yun’s recent actions would serve as an excellent example for her to use in the future.

The statement Miao Qinghong had just made was the most important reason she had convened this meeting of the Battle Peak Elders.

...

「In early February.」

The moon hung high in the sky.

In his cave-dwelling on Artifact Casting Peak, Fang Yun was still absorbing and refining an Upper Grade Spirit Ascension Pill.

When he had finished absorbing and refining the Upper Grade Spirit Ascension Pill, he slowly opened his eyes.

With a thought, a screen of light appeared before him.

Last month’s Talent Points had been tallied.

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Refining Middle Grade Purple Essence Pill x9: +14,580 Talent Points

...

Sect Influence: 66%

Talent Points Bonus: 378%

Settlement: +1,651,232 Talent Points

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Last month, he had refined three batches of Purple Essence Pills, and all of them had turned out to be Middle Grade.

Refining a Lower Grade Purple Essence Pill yielded nine hundred base Talent Points, while a Middle Grade one yielded one thousand six hundred and twenty.

His Sect Influence had increased by one percentage point in late January, reaching 66%.

Fang Yun knew this increase was related to his annihilation of the Feng Family, a Foundation Establishment Demon clan.