Lingxiao Immortal Clan.

As for the other few Nascent Soul cultivators in the family, they are the older generation like Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi. Although they are few in number, each of them has extremely high cultivation and is the family's top combat force. Their strength should not be underestimated.

Even if all the other young Nascent Soul cultivators in the family were combined, they probably wouldn't be a match for them.

Moreover, each of them made extraordinary contributions and devoted countless efforts to building the family.

They can be considered the true soul of the Ling family.

Among them, the three with the highest cultivation levels are Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Ling Pengxing, a ghost cultivator from the family who are all at the late stage of the Nascent Soul stage.

Moreover, in the past century, Yan Siyi and Ling Pengxing, like Ling Pengyun, have made great progress.

In recent years, Ling Pengxing has been cultivating in seclusion within the Ghost Realm's fifth-grade top-quality rocky hill, which is rich in ghostly energy. Such a treasure land is of extraordinary benefit to ghost cultivators like him.

In addition to the extraordinary gains he made during the chaos in the Ghost Realm, his cultivation level has been steadily improving, and he is getting closer and closer to the perfection of the Nascent Soul stage.

In addition, it is said that his swordsmanship is only a hair's breadth away from reaching the fifth-tier top-grade level.

Furthermore, his fifth-grade superior natal ghost immortal flying sword and his fifth-grade superior ghost immortal lamps were refined with the essence of many high-level treasures and even some fifth-grade supreme treasures during the chaos in the ghost realm.

Like Ling Pengyun's black dragon armor, they have accumulated enough foundation and are about to break through to the fifth-tier top-grade realm.

Upon closer examination, Ling Pengxing's current foundation is incredibly strong, and he has even acquired some means to directly confront a Nascent Soul Stage 1 cultivator through various methods.

As for Yan Siyi, although her appearance was somewhat lacking and her cultivation progress was average, she only possessed some fifth-grade high-quality natal spirit treasures.

But she was no ordinary cultivator; she was also a spirit chef.

Furthermore, with the help of his family over the years, he became a fifth-grade superior spirit chef at a young age.

In addition, his recent arduous cultivation in this field has brought him closer and closer to becoming a veteran fifth-grade superior.

His current skill level in cooking various fifth-grade medicinal dishes is extremely high, at least 50% to 60%, which is enough to maximize the value and benefits of various special spiritual herbs.

In fact, nearly 70% of the various Nascent Soul cultivation resources in the family today come from his hands.

Therefore, his current status in the family is not only no worse than Ling Pengxing's, but even slightly stronger.

The second tier of the older generation of the family consists of the old patriarch Ling Yunhong, the talisman cultivator Ling Lihao, and Ling Pengyun's offspring, the talisman cultivator Ling Chengxia, the beast tamer Ling Chengmie, and the spirit plant husband Ling Chengxin, among others.

Among them, Ling Lihao has the strongest aptitude. He is the unparalleled genius of the family, and his aptitude is no less than that of Ling Pengyun. He has now cultivated to the peak of the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

In a few decades, he is expected to reach the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

Moreover, having cultivated the Dao of Talismans to the fifth-order superior level ahead of time, he achieved a 30-40% success rate in drawing various fifth-order superior talismans he was skilled in. This not only allowed him to recoup his investment but also to make a small profit.

Most importantly, the power of a fifth-grade high-quality talisman is extremely strong, and it can even threaten cultivators in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm or even those at the peak of the Nascent Soul realm.

Moreover, he cares deeply for his family, and the family now controls many high-level treasure lands where they have planted a large number of spiritual plants.

Therefore, he would draw a large number of high-level talismans for the family every once in a while.

Indirectly, the family's talisman foundation became stronger and stronger, and every few decades, they could add a dozen or so fifth-order talismans.

Furthermore, the family did not mistreat him; for every talisman he drew for the family, he would receive extraordinary benefits.

Furthermore, any additional talismans he drew during this period could also be kept by him.

Over time, it is said that he possesses at least a dozen high-grade fifth-rank talismans and nearly a hundred ordinary fifth-rank talismans, making his talisman reserves comparable to those of an ordinary mid-level Nascent Soul cultivator.

If they are unleashed simultaneously, there is a good chance of killing a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

Therefore, it can be considered a special case in terms of family combat strength.

The old patriarch, Ling Yunhong, had been in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm for many years. Like Ling Lihao, he was preparing to break through to the late-stage of the Nascent Soul realm. Moreover, he was skilled in alchemy and was a veteran mid-grade fifth-rank alchemist with considerable ability.

As for Ling Pengyun's eldest son, Ling Chengxia, he inherited Ling Pengyun's talent in magic and has comprehended many powerful techniques in recent years.

Therefore, although his cultivation level is still in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, his strength is far beyond what ordinary people of the same level can match.

While the second daughter, Ling Chengxin, was of average strength and cultivation aptitude, she possessed exceptional talent in the cultivation of spiritual plants, and had even become a mid-grade fifth-level spiritual plant master at a young age.

In recent years, he has been taking care of spiritual plants in various high-level spiritual lands of the family, and has gained many benefits from this, which has made his cultivation progress extremely fast.

In fact, she is the one whose cultivation has improved the fastest among Ling Pengyun's three offspring.

She is an example of someone who changed her life through the practice of spiritual plants.

The youngest son, Ling Chengmie, is somewhat special. He combines all the advantages of Ling Chengxia and Ling Chengxin. Not only is he good at cultivation and entered the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm early on, but he also has extremely high talent in the way of beast taming and has become a mid-grade fifth-level beast tamer.

They also cultivated several natal fifth-tier spirit beasts, and even mid-grade fifth-tier spirit beasts, whose strength was incomparably powerful, enough to easily kill ordinary people of the same tier.

However, his success also stemmed from his mastery of beast taming techniques, and so did his downfall.

After all, spirit beasts are money-devouring beasts, requiring enormous resources every day.

Moreover, he has many natal spirit beasts.

Indirectly, even though he has bred several fifth-tier spirit beasts for the family over the years, thus obtaining a large number of rewards from the family, and even occasionally refining some special beast-taming spiritual items to sell to the family for profit.

He was extremely poor, which even affected his cultivation resources, indirectly causing his cultivation progress to be very average in recent years.

But he was quite happy with it.

He had been waiting for all the spirit beasts under his command to reach the middle grade of the fifth rank.

Once that time comes, he will have the strength to deal with late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, enough to undertake some dangerous Nascent Soul level missions for the family and earn extraordinary profits.

As for the other older generation of the family who have reached the Nascent Soul stage, they are doing alright. The worst among them has reached the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage, and most of them are in the middle Nascent Soul stage.

In addition, the family has a rough estimate of over a billion Nascent Soul, Golden Core, Foundation Establishment, and Qi Refining cultivators.

As for the ordinary members of the clan, their numbers are countless.

As for the spiritual veins, the family had gained a lot during the war to exterminate demons and monsters, so its foundation was relatively strong.

Even aside from not having a separate fifth-tier top-grade spiritual vein, its ordinary spiritual veins are completely comparable to those of top-tier Nascent Soul forces.

Moreover, there are more than fifty fifth-order spiritual veins.

Most of them are located on the Tianhe border.

A small number are located in the Cangxuan Realm. Half of these spiritual veins were cultivated by the family itself over the years, while the other half were migrated from other realms by the family using special methods such as the Netherworld Blade.

After all, the Cangxuan Realm is the family's ancestral home, and it is even more stable than the Tianhe Realm, making it a treasure land for developing ordinary cultivators.

As for ordinary spiritual veins, they are even more...

"Upon closer examination, the family has actually developed quite well over the years."

After learning everything, Ling Pengyun couldn't help but nod secretly.

During this time, he also learned about the performance of Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming in recent years.

He couldn't help but feel even more excited about the two of them.

Hopefully, those two children will bring me some surprises in the future.

Afterwards, Ling Pengyun, along with his wife Yan Siyi and their children, lived a simple life together for a while before getting back on track and entering a fifth-grade top-quality cave in Cangxuan Mountain to begin his secluded cultivation of weapons.

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at the same time.

Inside that cave.

'It's time to try out the current weapon-refining techniques.' Ling Pengyun sat cross-legged on the ground, and after restoring himself to his best condition, he immediately took out an extremely special silver-white weapon-refining furnace.

This was obtained by Ling Pengyun from the Silver Moon Bear Clan when he and the Cangxuan lineage wiped them out.

Moreover, that forging furnace was the clan's treasured forging furnace.

The Silver Moon Bear clan is skilled in weapon crafting, and their clan-protecting weapon-crafting furnace is quite extraordinary.

It is about ten feet in size, and its surface is covered with various silver moon and bear patterns, as well as some special artifact patterns.

Moreover, although its grade is still at the fifth-order high-grade level, due to the special materials used and the special method used by the Silver Moon Wild Bear clan to refine it, its foundation is relatively strong, already possessing some of the foundation of a fifth-order top-grade spiritual treasure, and its effects are extremely strong.

Once activated, it can transform into a moonlight fire condensed from the essence of the moon.

It is not only gentle but also powerful, which can greatly increase the success rate of weapon crafting.

Furthermore, by using this method to refine a fifth-grade high-quality spiritual treasure, the probability of refining it can be increased by at least 10%, and the probability of refining a fifth-grade supreme spiritual treasure is also nearly 50%.

Moreover, the energy required to activate it is extremely low, even less than that required by Ling Pengyun to activate the Morning Glow Treasure Fire using supernatural powers.

It was for this reason that Ling Pengyun kept it as his own exclusive weapon-refining furnace.

It is also said that because the furnace was so large, the Silver Moon Bear clan had to use countless materials to forge it in their early years.

The materials alone are enough to forge a top-grade fifth-tier spiritual treasure, or even several high-grade fifth-tier spiritual treasures.

Therefore, such a refining furnace is a rare find; even searching the entire Heavenly River Realm, one might not be able to find one that can rival it.

After all, in the Heavenly River Realm, even the number of ordinary fifth-grade top-quality spiritual treasures is extremely limited.

Moreover, most forces, even if they obtain high-level weapon-refining materials, mostly refine offensive or defensive spiritual treasures, and rarely refine such high-level weapon-refining furnaces like the Silver Moon Barbarian Bear Clan.

While such high-level weapon-refining furnaces are excellent, only advanced weapon refiners can fully realize their potential.

Moreover, even with the assistance of a high-level weapon refiner, it is difficult to bring about the same direct and enormous benefits as a high-level attack or defense magic weapon; the benefits can only be obtained slowly and steadily.

Therefore, apart from the Silver Moon Bear Clan, who are skilled in weapon crafting, most other forces are unwilling to do this.

However, it is said that the Yaoxing Immortal Sect is skilled in alchemy and has a high-level alchemy furnace similar to it. In fact, the Yaoxing Immortal Sect's foundation is even stronger than that of the Silver Moon Wild Bear Clan.

He had already reforged it to the fifth-tier top-grade level.

Even that alchemy furnace was somewhat special; it could be used for alchemy and also for attack, making it extremely versatile and incredibly powerful.

Moreover, it was precisely with the help of this treasure that the Radiant Star Immortal Sect has maintained its position as the number one alchemy sect in the Heavenly River Realm.

"I just hope this treasure will perform well this time."

"Come on fire!"

After Ling Pengyun knocked the refining furnace into the void, he made a hand seal and continuously poured spiritual power into it.

The furnace suddenly flashed with a silver luster, and then the strange silver moon bear patterns on its surface seemed to come alive.

Moreover, they also spat out streams of silvery-white, fifth-grade, high-quality special Silver Moon Artifact Fire to the bottom of the refining furnace, heating its internal temperature.

But the power of that precious fire was indeed extraordinary.

The temperature inside the refining furnace rose dramatically, even raising the temperature of Ling Pengyun's cave to several thousand degrees. It was likely that any ordinary person who approached would be instantly reduced to ashes.

However, this temperature was like nothing to Ling Pengyun, a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator with extremely high cultivation and a strong physique, and could not harm him in the slightest.

He then focused on preheating the refining furnace.

As time went by, the matter was resolved quickly.

Immediately afterwards, he took out a special fifth-grade high-quality fire-attribute refining material and threw it into the refining furnace, intending to refine a fifth-grade high-quality fire-attribute attack treasure called "Crimson Origin Flying Knife".

In addition, the materials were mainly the trunks or branches of a large number of Crimson Spirit Trees cultivated by the family over many years, since such spiritual materials are excellent for refining treasures.

Moreover, because the family has cultivated those spirit trees for many years, the scale of those spirit trees has become extremely large.

In addition, Ling Pengyun has extraordinary expertise in spiritual plants, and his family has also obtained some formations that are beneficial to the growth of spiritual plants from forces such as the Silver Moon Wild Bear Clan.

Every hundred years or so, those spirit trees can produce a large amount of high-grade spirit wood and branches, enough to serve as the main material for three or four fifth-grade high-quality spirit treasures.

Therefore, in recent years, Ling Pengyun has frequently refined this treasure, and gradually, his success rate in refining it has become quite high, reaching at least 70%.

If the amplification from the Silver Moon Refining Furnace is added, it can reach as much as 80%.

Under such circumstances, using this treasure for practice is undoubtedly the best choice.

Then, Ling Pengyun began to use the high temperature inside the furnace to refine the impurities contained in the spirit wood and other materials.

This is the first step in weapon crafting, the easiest step, but also the most time-consuming.

After all, those refining materials contain many impurities, which are hidden very deeply. To refine them without damaging the source, one must be extremely careful.

Indirectly, the forging process inevitably needs to be slowed down, which naturally takes more time.

Even with Ling Pengyun's extensive experience in weapon crafting, it still took him almost half a year to refine that batch of materials.

Those refining materials were subsequently transformed into various refining elixirs.

Next comes the second step in weapon crafting: the various crafting liquids must be fused together, allowing their inherent essences to complement each other and create a better foundation for the spiritual treasure.

If something goes wrong, even if the magical treasure is successfully forged, its power will be quite ordinary.
Conversely, if this step is done well, the various origins will be perfectly integrated, the quality of the spiritual treasure will be better, its power will be stronger, and its value will be higher.

For weapon refiners, it's also an opportunity to make a fortune.

However, achieving this step is extremely difficult. It requires suppressing the essence of various precious liquids to prevent them from repelling each other, and also paying attention to the high temperature inside the furnace to prevent the various precious liquids from being burned to ashes.

Therefore, this matter will severely test the skills of the weapon refiner.

Even Ling Pengyun couldn't help but look more serious.

"melt!"

Ling Pengyun changed his finger technique and immediately unleashed a treasure-fusion method.

The next moment, the refining furnace began to spin rapidly in a peculiar way.

The various refining liquids inside gradually began to fuse together with the help of a special force and the high temperature inside the furnace.

During this time, although the precious liquids were extremely repulsive to each other, Ling Pengyun's divine sense was extraordinary, and he easily suppressed them.

In addition, his skill in weapon crafting is superb.

The matter proceeded smoothly from then on.

In fact, in just a few days, the precious liquid successfully condensed into a whole, transforming into a pure, crimson liquid.

'Transform!'

Moreover, as Ling Pengyun had a thought, it gradually condensed into nine crimson wooden throwing knives, which was extremely strange.

In addition, although they are made of wood, they are extremely sharp.

However, they only have form now, but no spirit, just like empty shells, and cannot be considered spiritual treasures for the time being.

Therefore, it is time to carry out the final step of weapon refining, "inscription of spirit patterns," which is also the most difficult step.

Furthermore, because the nine flying knives were a set of spiritual treasures, requiring the simultaneous inscription of their runes, the difficulty was increased several times over, far exceeding that of inscribing ordinary runes. (End of Chapter)