Martial Peak

Chapter 885, Refining

Yang Kai truly wasn’t interested in the Secret Art the Holy Master of Nine Heavens Holy Land cultivated.

Enhancing one’s strength at the expense of their own lifespan was a complete mismatch of priorities. This was not how Yang Kai intended to pursue the peak of the Martial Dao.

As such, he had never planned to follow in the footsteps of the previous Holy Masters.

He had his own goals to pursue and methods to pursue them with.

However, in order to accomplish this, he had to obtain An Ling’er’s cooperation, so seeing her nod to his proposal, Yang Kai genuinely felt happy and relieved.

“But… what if the Elders ask about it?” An Ling’er couldn’t help worrying, “They seem quite anxious.”

“That old fogey really likes sticking his nose into other people’s business…” Yang Kai muttered without restraint. There was no need for him to even ask to know that it was that old fart, Xu Hui, was the source of this issue. Most likely he had been subtly urging An Ling’er to quickly begin cultivating with Yang Kai.

Listening to him say this, An Ling’er couldn’t stop herself from letting out a burst of laughter, brightening the serious atmosphere.

“There’s nothing else to do about it, if they ask, just tell them we’ve already begun cultivating together.”

“I’m fine with that… but we won’t be able to conceal the truth forever!” An Ling’er narrowed her eyes slightly, “You won’t have any problems. With your aptitude, even if you don’t cultivate that Secret Art, your growth will still be extremely rapid, but if I don’t break through for a long time, the Elders will begin to have doubts…”

“I can help with that!” Yang Kai grinned.

“How can you help me?” An Ling’er asked in confusion.

Yang Kai flipped his hand and summoned out a delicate jade bottle which he handed to An Ling’er as he explained, “Inside this is some special Spirit Liquid. Taking a drop of it every day will improve your constitution and allow your aptitude and strength to gradually increase.”

An Ling’er accepted the bottle somewhat suspiciously but upon opening the bottle and sniffing its contents, she suddenly felt as if her entire body was being refreshed, shocking her greatly as she stared brightly towards Yang Kai, “Is this really useful?”

“Of course it’s useful,” Yang Kai nodded, quickly adding, “Once you’ve used it all up, just find me and I’ll give you more.”

“Then I’ll gratefully try it. Thank you,” An Ling’er smiled, her short talk with Yang Kai lifting her spirits greatly.

After a little more idle chatter, An Ling’er left.

Yang Kai sent a Divine Sense message to Xu Hui and Li Rong saying that he was going to enter retreat for a while and not to disturb him.

After receiving their replies, Yang Kai left the Holy Master Court and went to the Holy Tomb.

The Holy Tomb was an excellent place to enter secluded cultivation. Besides Yang Kai, who possessed the Holy Master Spirit Ring, no one else could enter it so he wouldn’t need to worry about others disturbing him.

Arriving in front of the giant stone slab, Yang Kai pressed the Holy Master Spirit Ring into its specific slot, opened the Holy Tomb, and stepped inside.

and gloomy as always, with traces of the Nine Heavens Holy Land disciples still scattered about here and there.

soon chose

artifact he obtained back in the Starry Sky, Yang

and that there were many intricate Spirit Arrays carved inside it, but without refining

Divine Sense and began proving the surface of the long shuttle artifact, studying its structure and composition, looking for a place to break through its shell

first step was to leave one’s Soul mark

able to take it into their body and begin

artifact would begin to resonate with its user

still take some

also because, over a long period of nourishing an artifact, a subtle connection between it and its user would form. Artifacts that had this kind

new, unfamiliar

artifacts they had refined, a cultivator would not

replace them, most cultivators would look for artifacts that matched well

look for materials and ask an Artifact Refiners to tailor-make an artifact for

Refiners could refine artifacts that perfectly complimented a

not rely on the power of artifacts, only refining anything which he conveniently came across. He had never

long shuttle artifact obviously had a master a long time ago, but that master most likely lost his way among the Starry Sky or had some kind of accident and perished, leaving it to drift aimlessly for who knows how long until it eventually

his Divine Sense over it meticulously, Yang Kai soon found a very faint Soul aura inside

was the Soul mark left behind

erase this in order to engrave

this Soul aura for a moment, Yang Kai couldn’t

years, the Soul aura inside the long shuttle artifact had become quite faint, Yang Kai could

owner of this artifact was no doubt at least a Third

falling in the Starry Sky caused

how terrifying the Starry Sky was. He had visited the Starry Sky twice now, but what he had seen

included disasters even Third Order Saints were

thoughts, Yang Kai sent out a burst of Conflagrated Spiritual Energy into the

*Chi…*

mark which remained inside

then pushed his True Qi and

sat in place and steadily released his True

began to seep into the long shuttle, a sign it was starting to

a weight lift from his heart now that he knew this artifact was compatible with his True Qi. If it

artifact, allowing his True Qi and Spiritual

of Yang Kai’s arrival, the Divine Tree sent him

help feeling

somewhat lonely,” the Divine Tree responded, “It is just me here all the time, so when you’re not here I find myself spending my time in

that the Divine Tree’s

would never

anything with flesh and blood into this place or I would find a few companions for you… En, there actually used to be a Yin Yang Monster Ginseng here but it disappeared many years

Monster