Xiao Shou pinched his ear angrily after hearing this. "No. Yaoyao is not a bad child. How can you just abandon it? Don’t say things like that again."

"I know, I know." Fu Young replied in a deliberately helpless tone while pulling his hand away from his ear.

But when his attention shifted slightly, he quietly held onto his hand instead and refused to let go.

To distract hom, he pointed at the drawing and asked, "Master, this blueprint looks familiar. What is it for?"

"Our life-bound magical artifact." Xiao Shou sighed. "I broke down the refinement diagram and studied it. It is pretty difficult."

Only then did Fu Young realize what he meant.

He picked up the blueprint and examined it carefully.

Recently, because his eyes ability had become so convenient, he had completely forgotten about the life-bound artifact matter.

But since he had already decided to use that ability less after resolving his enemies, this project did need to be prioritized.

"What part feels difficult?" he asked.

The refinement itself was not the issue.

Some time ago, he had tried constructing it using existing artifacts and complete material sets and it had succeeded immediately.

This confirmed that his Absolute Fusion ability was strong enough to bypass traditional refinement and directly form high-grade artifacts.

The current problem was different.

Xiao Shou sighed. "Nothing else is too bad. It is just that we are short on materials."

"Half a month ago, I asked you to retrieve all available materials from the Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall. Anything beyond that is too rare and usually only appears at auctions. The head manager of Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall said that perhaps Nine Treasures Pavilion might have some. I went there too, and their manager said the same thing. Heaven-grade materials are only sold at auctions, so we have to wait for the next one." Xiao Shou rubbed his brow helplessly.

Fu Young thought for a moment about the materials needed for their life-bound artifacts as well as what they had already brought back from Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall.

Then he said, "We are missing four items: ten thousand year Profound Ice, Magnetic Essence, ten thousand year Wind Eye Stone, and ten thousand year Thousand Illusion Jade."

"We do have Magnetic Essence. I have a Magnetic Pillar that can be refined to extract some for your artifact. The missing ones are the ten thousand year Profound Ice, Wind Eye Stone, and Thousand Illusion Jade."

Xiao Shou looked disappointed. "Dual spiritual roots are powerful, but refining life-bound artifacts is not easy. And once cultivation improves and new spiritual roots are formed, upgrading the artifact will require even more heaven-grade materials. It is really troublesome." 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

"Master is right. For ordinary spiritual root life-bound magical treasures, materials can be bought with spirit stones. For mutated spiritual roots, it is a bit more difficult. However, the power of the finished artifact is still worth looking forward to. Leave these three materials to me. I have just finished handling matters within the sect recently, so I will go gather them."

Fu Young said this as a form of comfort, without mentioning that even materials for ordinary spiritual root life-bound artifacts require ten thousand year level resources.

The materials he had brought back were mostly only thousand year materials, with only a small portion of them reaching ten thousand year.

Yet his master had said that the ordinary materials were already sufficiently gathered.

It seemed this involved some of Xiao Shou’s hidden methods, such as the refinement techniques for demonic beast cores and Tier 5 Spirit Sand.

Although Fu Young understood this in his heart, he who was always inclined to keep everything under his control and had an extremely strong desire for control had never considered probing his Master secret further, because this was something his Master did not want to talk about.

Hearing this, Xiao Shou shook his head.

"No need. Since you returned, you have been busy building the sect and have not properly absorbed the blood essence of the Hell Flame Beast. Your spiritual energy is still that color. If you go out like this, you will be mistaken for a demonic cultivator. So you should stay in the cave dwelling and absorb the Hell Flame Beast blood essence to awaken your bloodline divine ability. Leave the matter of collecting materials to me."

"Master already has leads on these three rare materials?" Fu Young asked with interest, noticing Xiao Shou’s confident expression.

He nodded and said proudly, "I know a hidden place that contains a Thousand Illusion Jade mine. As for the Wind Eye Stone mine that has not been occupied by any major power, I also know its location, but entering it is somewhat troublesome. The Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice is even more difficult. It is in the far north of the Endless Sea. We can only go after I finish refining the flying vessel. I cannot go there alone. We will need to bring more people."

"Then what does Master plan to do?" Fu Young immediately understood his intention through their tacit understanding.

That place was the original owner’s hometown, but not his own hometown, so it could not be called home.

He did not know if he would ever have a chance to return or whether his hometown even existed within the three thousand worlds described in the book Longevity Love.

Forget it.

Such complicated questions were not something someone as simple-minded as him could figure out.

The most important thing right now is to refine the life-bound magical artifacts for both him and his disciple.

Without a life-bound artifact, a Nascent Soul cultivator can only exert about thirty to forty percent of their full strength.

Only after refining it can one fully unleash their power together with other magical artifacts.

Xiao Shou sighed and said, "I want to go first and retrieve the Thousand Illusion Jade mine. Maybe I can dig out ten thousand year Thousand Illusion Jade, then refine my life-bound artifact. After that, I can try to take on the Wind Eye Stone mine."