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Returning to his room, Hong Ling quickly woke up the Yanhuang Mirror and used the Imperial Equipment's power to create a barrier around the room. At this time, he was busy with many things to take care of. The young man casually took out Aohan's spatial ring and sent his consciousness inside, observing the things inside. Inside Aohan's spatial ring, Hong Ling found a large amount of spirit stones. Most of them were low grade spirit stones, over a hundred middle grade spirit stones and ten high grade spirit stones. Most importantly, Hong Ling found a fist-sized top grade spirit stone. It was hard for him to conceal the excitement in his heart, and he almost roared out loud.

Let alone top grade spirit stones, even top grade spirit stones were rarely seen in this world. It was different from low-grade and mid-grade spirit stones. Once the quality of a spirit stone reached high-grade or even top-grade, it would automatically produce a trace of spiritual power. Once the spirit energy contained within it was consumed by the cultivator, it would actively absorb the Spiritual Power s from the heaven and earth and refill them. Every single high-grade spirit stone was extremely valuable, let alone a top-grade spirit stone. Just the spiritual energy contained in a high grade spirit stone was enough to allow a cultivator who had cultivated to the point where he was still hollow would be able to recover his consumed cultivation within a short period of time. The top quality spirit stones in the legends could completely replenish a cultivator's cultivation.

Hong Ling carefully stored the spirit stones in a corner of the spatial ring, and focused on the rest of the items. Inside Aohan's spatial ring, there weren't many common things like money, but there were many broken weapons and armors. When Hong Ling saw these mountains of dilapidated armors, his heart almost stopped beating. All of these things were made of black iron. According to Hong Ling's estimations, there should be at least a thousand of them. Amongst the armor, he could sense some other precious divine metals. Copper, Golden Essence Extract, Secret-Silver, Coldsteel, Immersed Iron and a few Jade Marrow were all brutally mixed together within these armors, making Hong Ling, the artificer, almost want to curse out loud.

He did not care about anything else as he continued to communicate with the Yanhuang Mirror, and increased his strength to the level of Heaven's Mandate completely. Although he could only last for a short thirty breaths, the power of the Tianhuang Lightning Fire was countless times stronger than it was back in the Qi Refinement into Spirit. Soon, the mountain of armor was burned down to a few pieces of fist-like crystals.

"These divine crystals, along with the Ice and Snow Dragon Pearl and Fengya's Kun Peng's fingerbone, should be enough to create a Kun Steel!" Hong Ling muttered to himself as he casually summoned his Sorrow Spirit. After observing for a while, he realised that the current Sorrow Spirit Sword, was barely able to evolve into an Earth Rank magic tool. If he wanted to continue improving it, then he must improve its quality. Although he had his own Yanhuang Mirror, he still liked Sorrow Spirit more. After a long while, he sighed out, "Forget it, let's raise the cultivation realm of Sorrow Spirit up first!"

He held a high grade spirit stone in his hand, and activated the Jiuzhuan Profound Technique, continuously swallowing the Spiritual Power within, causing the originally dried up Authentic Qi to become filled in an instant. The youth was currently unable to refine Kun Steel in his room. After all, when the Kun Steel was smelted, it would cause a huge commotion. Once again tearing through the void, he rushed in. He casually took out Fengya and Feng Chen's collections, and once again, smelted out a few divine crystals. Then, he turned his gaze towards the enormous fossil of the Kun Peng finger bone and the Ice Snow Dragon's Pearl.

After the Ice Dragon Pearl was contaminated with his blood, it had become his personal item. Although it was comparable to a saint artifact, it was still a bit useless for Hong Ling. With an existence like the Yanhuang Mirror, he really did not think much of this so-called sacred artifact. As for the Kun Peng's fingerbone, because it contained Kun Peng blood essence, its value was almost no less than that of the Ice and Snow Dragon Pearl. However, it was of little use. What Hong Ling needed to do now was to fuse these two objects together with the dozen or so divine crystals in front of him. He had just refined more than ten million taels of gold and silver from the spatial ring into Golden Essence and Secret Silver. Adding these two treasures and the other divine crystals, refining the Kun Steel would definitely not be a problem.

Weng, the Sorrow Spirit was summoned by him and stood quietly by his side. The young man was currently at the Tianren Sage Stage, holding the top grade spirit stone in his hand. He was continuously absorbing the spirit energy within it, supporting himself with the Tianhuang Lightning Fire's burning process. Chi. A dark golden flame appeared and burned the entire space. Without the slightest hesitation, he took the lead and started to burn the enormous fossil. Very quickly, even a Sage Stage Expert like Feng Xiao, who had reached the fifth tribulation, found it difficult to injure the fingerbone fossil at all. Hong Ling increased the power of the flames, and in just ten short breaths of time, he obtained a golden-red crystal of the Kun Peng's blood essence.

Right now, he had top quality spirit stones in his hands, and could support him in using the Yanhuang Mirror for up to two hours. Because in battle, he was unable to absorb spiritual energy while maintaining the high efficiency of the Authentic Qi's attacks. If he did that, he would only be completely crushed by the Yanhuang Mirror's power. However, even if it was used for weapon crafting, it would still be extremely good. He looked at the dragon pearl before him and casually pointed with his finger. Bang, the bead that was comparable to a saint artifact, was directly smashed into pieces in front of the Yanhuang Mirror's power. The young man quickly wrapped the shattered dragon pearl with the Heavenly Desolate Sacred Flame and melted it into a black ice crystal.

With a casual wave of his hand, numerous crystals floating in front of him quickly gathered in front of him, and were completely refined using Tianhuang Lightning Fire. Gurgle gurgle, all the crystals slowly melted and Hong Ling spat out a mouthful of blood essence, which slowly mixed together. After a long while, a dark golden crystal that was the size of a human head floated in the air. There were some inscriptions on it. The quality of this crystal was even more outstanding than the Kun Steel that Hong Ling and Lian Chengyue had refined together. Just as the crystal was about to break through the sky and accept the baptism of the heavens and earth, Hong Ling sent it into the Sorrow Spirit.

With a thought, he instantly turned into a dragon. He activated the Tianhuang Lightning Fire which was more than twice as strong, and slowly fused the crystal with the Sorrow Spirit. This crystal did not have to withstand the heavenly tribulation, so naturally, it would not resist Hong Ling's will since its consciousness had not been born yet. The Sorrow Spirit was buzzing. It had long since been affected by the Yanhuang Mirror. Even though it had barely reached the Earth Rank magic tool's level, it was after all only affected by the Yanhuang Mirror. Its own foundation was not enough for it to advance so quickly. Although Kun Steel s were the world's most powerful divine metals, they were still unable to break free from the restrictions of the world's laws.

Although many magic tools in this world weren't forged by rare divine iron like the Kun Steel, they were still able to become Holy-ranked Artifacts or even Imperial Equipment because they had their own fortuitous encounters. However, if they were to compare their strength with those of the same grade, the might of a magical equipment forged from divine iron would far surpass those forged from ordinary iron. This was the reason why Hong Ling was able to cut apart Fengya's Earth Rank halberd with one slash. It was just like how someone who was able to forge a weapon with Bronze grade equipment. If the weapon was made with Steel grade equipment, then the weapon that was damaged was definitely bronze grade, because there was an inherent difference between the two weapons, a sky and a earth.

Weng, the Sorrow Spirit continued to swallow the crystal and slowly strengthened his body. Kun Steel itself was the most mystical type of iron, so swallowing that crystal wasn't difficult at all. Hong Ling continued to urge his Tianhuang Lightning Fire, helping the Sorrow Spirit sword to refine all of the impurities in his body. Finally, after nearly an hour, the Sorrow Spirit had completely devoured the diamond-shaped crystal. Weng, a majestic sword intent emanated from the sword, slicing the space into pieces. Hong Ling sensed the Qi of the Sorrow Spirit, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Celestial Rank Magic Equipment, and its realm is extremely stable, as expected of a divine object forged from Kun Steel!" Hong Ling casually let go of the Sorrow Spirit's shackles and his dark golden longsword instantly soared into the sky, wantonly releasing a boundless sword aura in the air. He knew that the Sorrow Spirit was about to undergo a tribulation. Although it had forcefully devoured the diamond-shaped crystal, it had also indirectly borne the brunt of the calamity. He no longer dared to stay in the void, afraid that it would affect the Sorrow Spirit's heavenly tribulation. With his current power, which was comparable to that of the Heaven's Mandate Sage Stage, if he was unintentionally implicated by the heavenly tribulation, then the calamity he would cause would be fatal.

He tore open the void and returned to his room. He quickly opened the door and jumped onto the roof of the inn. As Su Yu and Xiao Tao were playing around in the room, they suddenly sensed that Hong Ling's aura had quickly appeared on the roof. The master and his servant looked at each other, walked out of the room, arrived on the roof and stood shoulder to shoulder with him.

"Hong Ling, what's wrong?" Su Yu asked in confusion. She saw that Hong Ling was holding a piece of high-grade spirit stone and was constantly recovering his Authentic Qi s. Just now, when Hong Ling came to her room, he was still filled with an incomparable amount of Authentic Qi. How come in less than an hour, he already had less than twenty percent of his energy left?

"Miss Su Yu, bring Xiao Tao and leave this place first, there will be some trouble later!" Hong Ling shook his head, he did not want to say anything more. At this time, he could only try to absorb the Spiritual Power in his hands as fast as he could, trying to restore his cultivation to its peak state in the shortest amount of time.

"Gongzi, don't worry, Miss and I will help you!" Xiao Tao said with a smile at the side, his eyes full of seriousness.

"I appreciate your kindness!" Hong Ling shook his head, he stared at the sky above the tavern that was surging with wind and clouds, his face was filled with seriousness. Young ladies, it is not that I deliberately refused your good intentions, but with your strength, you two are unable to help in this matter! "

As he was speaking, a bolt of lightning exploded in the sky. Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled in the sky, bringing with it a heavy sense of the impending doom of a storm. Weng, a clear sword hum sounded out in the air, Sorrow Spirit was enveloped in a ball of dark golden lightning fire, breaking out from the void, quietly floating under the thunderclouds. The sword Qi continued to interweave and protect itself.

BOOM! A bolt of lightning struck down from the clouds and struck the Sorrow Spirit, extinguishing the dark golden flames on its body.

"That's a magical equipment undergoing tribulation!" In the entire Dreamy Cloud City, many people were shocked by the heavenly might that filled the sky. They all went out to look at the Sorrow Spirit Sword that was buzzing in the sky.