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.

dark and gloomy as always, with traces of the Nine Heavens Holy Land disciples still scattered

Kai soon chose a spot and sat

obtained back in the Starry Sky, Yang Kai began examining

that there were many intricate Spirit Arrays carved inside it, but without refining it, he wouldn’t be able to tell what this artifact’s purpose

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

an artifact, the first step was to leave one’s Soul mark on

behind a Soul mark on an artifact, a cultivator would be able to take it into their body and begin nourishing it with their own True Qi

begin to resonate with

after taking an artifact into one’s body, it would still take some time before they

cultivators would not easily change the artifacts they used was not only because of the long time it took to refine one but 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 of connection to their user could display more power in

unfamiliar artifact, would

far beyond the level of artifacts they had

for artifacts that matched well with their Secret

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

Artifact Refiners could refine artifacts that perfectly

of artifacts, only refining anything which he

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

found a

Soul mark left behind by its

had to erase this in order to

this Soul aura for a moment, Yang Kai

inside the long shuttle artifact had become quite faint, Yang

was no doubt at least a Third Order Saint Realm

the Starry Sky caused

Sky twice now, but what he had seen was only equivalent to a

included disasters even Third Order Saints were unable to

out a burst of Conflagrated Spiritual Energy into the

*Chi…*

Soul mark which remained inside the artifact

and Spiritual Energy, injecting them into the

consuming and could not be rushed, so Yang Kai simply sat in place and steadily released his True Qi and

Yang Kai’s True Qi and Spiritual Energy began to seep into the long shuttle, a sign

compatible with his True Qi. If it had instead repelled his aura, there was no way he would be able to refine it, no

Kai slowly took back his attention from the long shuttle artifact, allowing his True Qi and

the Divine Tree sent

Kai couldn’t help feeling some concern and quickly

just feel 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 a

black, suddenly realizing that the Divine Tree’s consciousness had grown to an extent he had not

now, it would never say something

this place or I would find a few companions for you… En, there actually used to be a

Monster