Lingxiao Immortal Clan.

at the same time.

The surrounding area of ​​Cangxuan Mountain.

Originally, Yan Siyi and a large number of Cangxuan lineage cultivators, who had temporarily left the mountain to observe the tribulation lightning due to the previous lightning strike, were excited as they watched the tribulation lightning dissipate in the sky.

Although the powerful figures of the Cangxuan lineage possess several top-grade fifth-tier spiritual treasures, they were all acquired from outside sources, and the quantity was not large.

Ling Pengyun's successful crafting of a fifth-grade top-quality black dragon armor is a first since the establishment of the Cangxuan lineage.

Most importantly, Ling Pengyun only reforged the Black Dragon Armor twice. Although the first attempt failed, the second attempt was successful.

Upon careful calculation, the probability of Ling Pengyun reforging this treasure is as high as about 50%.

Even if this matter was accomplished only by relying on the various conveniences of one's natal spiritual treasure.

But this is enough to show that Ling Pengyun's skill in weapon crafting is still quite remarkable.

This can be considered as having touched upon the art of fifth-tier top-grade weapon crafting.

Moreover, since Ling Pengyun can refine one fifth-grade top-quality spiritual treasure, as long as he has enough materials, he is very likely to refine another, or even multiple, fifth-grade top-quality spiritual treasures.

Such spiritual treasures possess extremely powerful abilities, providing great assistance even to cultivators at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

'Unexpectedly, Peng Yun actually refined a fifth-grade top-quality spiritual treasure.'

'His skill in weapon crafting is truly extraordinary.'

Ancestor Xinghai's eyes lit up immediately, showing great interest in this.

During the chaos of the previous extermination of demons, ghosts, and monsters in the Heavenly River Realm, he had made extraordinary contributions and obtained two or three top-grade fifth-tier treasures.

However, such a treasure was not suitable for his cultivation method and techniques.

Even if he stays, it will be difficult for him to improve his strength much.

Therefore, just like when Ling Pengyun obtained various fifth-tier top-grade treasures, he melted them down into precious materials and gradually refined them into the two powerful fifth-tier superior natal spirit treasures in his hands, the Star Sea Flood Dragon Banner and the Star Sea Flying Sword.

Indirectly, the foundation of those two treasures increased dramatically, and they even had the potential to become top-grade fifth-tier spiritual treasures, with a good chance of reaching the top-grade fifth-tier level.

However, there is still a possibility of failure, and it would be best to have the assistance of a high-level weapon refiner.

However, there are very few weapon refiners in the entire Tianhe Realm who possess such skill in weapon crafting.

Moreover, due to the scarcity of high-grade refining materials, most of the refiners have never refined a fifth-grade top-quality spiritual treasure.

Even if you calculate carefully, apart from Ling Pengyun, only the Golden Feather Daoist of the Golden Origin Immortal Sect did this several hundred years ago and made some contributions, refining three special arrow feathers of the fifth rank.

However, this matter is somewhat exaggerated. After all, those arrows were the matching spiritual treasures of the Golden Yuan Immortal Sect's supreme treasure, the Golden Yuan Spirit Bow, and their crafting difficulty was somewhat lower than that of ordinary fifth-grade top-quality spiritual treasures.

Moreover, at that time, it was the three arrows that Xun Lingpeng and Yun had worked together to refine.

Therefore, even though the Star Sea Ancestor had a good relationship with the Golden Feather Daoist, he dared not ask him for help in reforging the two natal spiritual treasures in his hands.

After all, if the reforging fails, the essence of the two treasures will also be damaged, and the cost of restoring them would be extremely high.

Moreover, if one wants to reforge those two treasures, one must hand over the method of reforging those two treasures to Old Daoist Jin Yu.

In this way, the two treasures would be completely exposed to him, as if they were naked, and he would be well aware of their various advantages and disadvantages.

In addition, his relationship with the Yaoxing Immortal Sect has been getting better and better in recent years, so once this matter gets out...

This may affect the strength of the Star Sea Ancestor.

Fortunately, Ling Pengyun's solo reforging of the Black Dragon Armor has come to the fore.

Everything will then take a turn for the better.

If you really think about it, Ling Pengyun is definitely the number one weapon refiner in the Heavenly River Realm today.

In addition, since Ancestor Xinghai had already reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, he was in dire need of some suitable fifth-grade top-quality spiritual treasures to help him. Therefore, he attached great importance to the matter of reforging the two natal spiritual treasures in his hands.

'No, I have to go find Pengyun.'

Ancestor Xinghai secretly made a plan and immediately sought out Ling Pengyun.

After offering his congratulations, he then brought up the matter of entrusting him with the task of reforging the Starry Sea Flying Sword and the Starry Sea Flood Dragon Banner, offering substantial benefits.

Those two treasures were, after all, his natal spiritual treasures. Even if his weapon-refining skills were not strong, they could still play a good auxiliary role in the process of reforging those two treasures, and indirectly reduce the difficulty of reforging.

“Ancestor, the foundation of your two treasures is no weaker than that of my Black Dragon Armor; they do indeed have the foundation of a fifth-grade top-quality spiritual treasure.”

"But I've only just reached the level of a fifth-tier top-grade weapon refiner. Even with your help, which shares the same origin as those two treasures, I'm afraid the probability of me being able to reforge those two treasures is not high."

"In fact, it is estimated that there is only a 30% to 40% chance of failure, with an extremely high probability of failure."

Ling Pengyun had some concerns.

"A 30-40% probability? That's not bad."

"In addition, I still have some materials left from the refinement of those top-grade fifth-tier treasures I obtained. I estimate that I can barely reforge those two treasures one or two more times."

"Upon careful calculation, it is estimated that in the end, there will be at least one piece that reaches the fifth tier of top-grade quality."

"If this can be accomplished, I will be content."

Upon hearing this, Ancestor Xinghai pondered for a long time before making up his mind.

After all, both the Star Sea Flying Sword and the Star Sea Flood Dragon Banner are his natal spiritual treasures. Once they reach the fifth-tier top-grade level, their help to the Star Sea Ancestor will be extraordinary.

"There are extra precious materials available, enough to reforge those two treasures one or two more times?"

"Ancestor, the resources you possess are truly abundant."

"Furthermore, since you have made up your mind, Ancestor, then this junior will follow your lead and take a gamble."

Seeing that his expectations were ordinary and that he had a solid financial foundation, which could be accumulated over several years, and considering that he already had a close relationship with the Old Ancestor of Xinghai, Ling Pengyun decided to give him a hand.

Moreover, this matter is also beneficial to him, since the Star Sea Ancestor has provided a considerable amount of money for refining the weapon.

Furthermore, this incident can indirectly hone his weapon-refining skills, which will be beneficial to his future efforts in reforging offensive spiritual treasures such as the Five Elements Hundred Treasures River.

"So good."

Upon hearing this, Ancestor Xinghai was overjoyed and immediately handed over the reforging methods of the two treasures, Xinghai Flying Sword and Xinghai Flood Dragon Banner, which he had deduced over the years, to Ling Pengyun for him to study.

Furthermore, the methods for reforging those two treasures, like those for reforging the Black Dragon Armor, are closely related to the Silver Moon Barbarian Bear clan.

The Silver Moon Bear clan possesses a rich tradition of weapon crafting, including methods for crafting spiritual treasures such as the Star Sea Flying Sword and the Star Sea Flood Dragon Banner.

In addition, since the Star Sea Ancestor's comprehension was not much worse than Ling Pengyun's, and he also cultivated the art of weapon forging, he used those weapon forging methods to finally modify the method of reforging the Star Sea Flying Sword and the other two treasures.

Although the method of reforging those two treasures was extremely complicated, Ling Pengyun had helped the Star Sea Ancestor reforge those two treasures before.

He had some understanding of those two treasures, which indirectly made it easier for him to comprehend the fifth-order top-grade reforging method of those two treasures.

……

As time goes by.

In the blink of an eye, more than a decade has passed.

During this time, the other experts of the Cangxuan lineage, having witnessed Ling Pengyun's formidable skill in weapon crafting, also sought his help to craft some powerful spiritual treasures.

Even the veteran late-stage Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator Yuan Laodao intended to have Ling Pengyun help him reforge his fifth-grade superior natal flying sword to a fifth-grade supreme quality.

During the previous period of great chaos, he also made extraordinary gains, even acquiring some top-grade fifth-tier materials, which he then refined into the Zhengyuan Flying Sword.

The foundation of the Zhengyuan Flying Sword was then refined to the limit of the fifth-grade upper level.

With Ling Pengyun's help, there's probably a 20-30% chance of successfully reforging it.

Moreover, Master Zhengyuan still had some top-grade fifth-tier materials left, barely enough to reforge it once more.

Upon closer examination, there are two opportunities to reforge the Zhengyuan Flying Sword.

Since this number of times was considered quite good, Ling Pengyun accepted the task.

In addition, Master Zhengyuan also made up for the method of reforging the Zhengyuan Flying Sword through various channels.

Everything was ready, and all that remained was for Ling Pengyun to comprehend the method of reforging.

And this moment.

Cangxuan Mountain.

Inside a certain cave.

'I've finally finished comprehending the method for reforging the Starry Sea Flying Sword, the Starry Sea Flood Dragon Banner, and the True Origin Flying Sword—the three treasures.'

'It would be good to seek out the Ancestor and Daoist Zhengyuan to jointly reforge those three treasures.'

Ling Pengyun slowly opened his eyes, a look of anticipation appearing in his brows.

He then sought out his greatest employer, the Star Sea Ancestor, and together they began to reforge the Star Sea Flying Sword and the Star Sea Flood Dragon Banner.

"Pengyun, I have been waiting for this for a long time."

"It's up to you now."

Ancestor Xinghai had high hopes for this.

He then entered a quiet room with Ling Pengyun.

Immediately afterwards, Ling Pengyun took out the Silver Moon Refining Furnace and had it summon the Silver Moon Weapon Fire to preheat the furnace.

After a while, once the temperature inside the furnace had reached a certain level, Ling Pengyun called out to the Star Sea Ancestor.

"Ancestor, let's reforge the Starry Sea Dragon Banner first."

"After all, it was originally the most precious treasure of our sect, and it has already given birth to a spirit. Moreover, that spirit has a close relationship with us. With its help, we can have fewer troubles in the future when refining weapons."

“On the other hand, although your Star Sea Flying Sword also has a weapon spirit, it is, after all, a powerful weapon for killing, with extremely strong edge, so the difficulty of reforging it is relatively high.” Ling Pengyun analyzed and said to the Star Sea Ancestor.

"Pengyun, what you said makes sense. Let's do it your way."

Ancestor Xinghai nodded, and then took out the Xinghai Flood Dragon Banner and threw it into the refining furnace.

"Refining!"

Seeing this, Ling Pengyun changed his finger technique and immediately began to carefully refine the impurities in the Star Sea Flood Dragon Banner by using the high temperature inside the refining furnace, trying to temper its essence as deeply as possible to pave the way for later.

In addition, during this period, the Star Sea Ancestor would often use some of his natal cultivation techniques to sense the location of impurities within the Star Sea Flood Dragon Banner, assisting Ling Pengyun in refining the weapon.

Gradually, the impurities inside the Star Sea Dragon Banner were completely removed by their combined efforts.

Moreover, the Starry Sea Dragon Banner also transformed into a mass of precious molten iron.

However, compared to the past, its aura is much stronger.

Immediately afterwards, Ling Pengyun and the Star Sea Ancestor began to refine the artifact's patterns.

It has three major fifth-tier high-grade core artifact patterns, one of which is the Black Dragon Transformation artifact pattern. With the help of this artifact pattern, its artifact spirit can transform into a Black Dragon artifact spirit through the Dragon Banner.

Secondly, there is the Black Dragon Giant Power Weapon Pattern, which can amplify the power of the Black Dragon Weapon Spirit.

Thirdly, the Black Dragon's sturdy artifact pattern can enhance the Black Dragon's physical strength.

In addition, there are some common fifth-order or fourth-order auxiliary artifact patterns.

However, perfecting those patterns is quite difficult.

Even as the artifact patterns were being perfected, they and the original source of the Flood Dragon Banner began to fiercely reject them.

Moreover, even the spirit of the dragon banner was temporarily unable to suppress it, and its body was immediately thrown into chaos.

Even if Ling Pengyun and Xinghai Ancestor both possess some methods to suppress the origin and patterns of spiritual treasures, they can barely suppress it.

However, it also consumed a lot of their energy.

In addition, this was their first time reforging the dragon banner, so they were somewhat unfamiliar with it.

Therefore, even if they successively perfected those minor artifact patterns.

Moreover, he perfected the Black Dragon Transformation Weapon Spirit among the three core weapon patterns to the fifth-order top grade, but inevitably made mistakes when perfecting the second and third core weapon patterns.

Ultimately, it failed.

The previously perfected artifact pattern, like something floating without roots, was quickly reduced to its original form.

They even caused a huge backlash, severely damaging the vital energy of the precious iron molten material that the Star Sea Dragon Banner had transformed into.

Its shimmering light dimmed, and its power was nearly 50% weaker than before.

Moreover, according to Ling Pengyun's estimate, given his current injuries, even with the nurturing of the Star Sea Ancestor, it would take at least several hundred years, or even over a thousand years, for him to recover.

"Pity."

Ling Pengyun sighed softly.

“It’s alright. When you and I first reforged it, you were able to perfect the secondary artifact patterns and one of the core artifact patterns, which is already quite good. The progress of reforging it has reached at least 30 to 40 percent.”

"Moreover, with this experience, we will have a greater chance of rebuilding it in the future."

Although the Star Sea Ancestor felt some regret about the failure to reforge the Star Sea Dragon Banner, he regained his confidence when he thought about the good progress of the previous reforging and comforted the old man.

"That's true."

Ling Pengyun nodded secretly.

Afterwards, he and the Star Sea Ancestor briefly reflected on their previous failure. The Star Sea Ancestor then generously took out many top-grade fifth-tier materials with the same attributes as the Star Sea Flood Dragon Banner and invited Ling Pengyun to help repair the Star Sea Flood Dragon Banner.

Ling Pengyun and the Star Sea Ancestor both possessed considerable skill in weapon crafting, and the materials they used were also of high quality.

The Starry Sea Dragon Banner recovered from its injuries extremely quickly.

It was accomplished in just a few years.

Ling Pengyun and Xinghai Laozu then began the second reforging of this treasure.

Although the second attempt also failed, they proceeded steadily and improved two core runes and all secondary runes. Only the last core rune was missing, and the improvement progress had reached 70-80%.

Therefore, they then used some precious materials to repair the Dragon Banner, and successfully reforged it for the third time.

"Fortunately, they seized this last chance; otherwise, if they had failed again, the backlash they would have suffered would have been troublesome."

Seeing this, Ling Pengyun felt somewhat relieved.

Although the Star Sea Ancestor possessed a strong foundation, the treasures he carried were not limitless.

As the Flood Dragon Banner was repeatedly attacked and injured, the precious materials in his hands that shared the same attributes as the Flood Dragon Banner were gradually exhausted.

Indirectly, if the reforging fails a third time, causing damage, the only way to heal it is through the nurturing of spiritual energy.

But this speed can be extremely slow.

"Pengyun, it was the right choice to ask you for help in reforging this treasure. I didn't expect that you would forge a fifth-grade top-quality spiritual treasure so quickly."

"Next, all that remains is for it to pass through the tribulation lightning."

The usually composed face of the Star Sea Ancestor broke into countless smiles as he turned to thank Ling Pengyun.

Afterwards, they used the Silver Moon Refining Furnace to refine the Star Sea Dragon Banner's precious iron material, helping it to integrate with the weapon patterns within their bodies and allowing it to reshape itself.

At that very moment, its aura changed drastically, even triggering a fifth-grade top-tier treasure lightning tribulation cloud.

Moreover, the power of that tribulation cloud was no weaker than the tribulation cloud summoned by Ling Pengyun's black dragon armor.

The final bolt of lightning was still powerful enough to destroy the world.

However, the Star Sea Ancestor had many tricks up his sleeve. During the Demon Extermination Rebellion, he even managed to acquire the Yinming Demon Sect's flagship flying boat fleet and its fifth-tier top-grade protective formation.

Moreover, he is a high-ranking member of the Cangxuan lineage and has the authority to mobilize the protective array of Cangxuan Mountain.

He then used various means to barely help the Star Sea Dragon Banner survive the tribulation lightning.

Then, a drop of sweet dew fell from the tribulation clouds in the sky, helping it to successfully transform and officially enter the fifth-order top-grade level.

"I never expected that it would actually come to fruition."

"Come, let me witness your power."

Ancestor Xinghai was extremely excited when he saw the Xinghai Flood Dragon Banner, and immediately summoned it.

As the Starry Sea Dragon Banner flashed with a burst of spiritual light, it instantly transformed into a colossal dragon nearly 100,000 feet long.

Standing tall in the air, it resembles a massive mountain range.

Moreover, its body was incredibly solid, as if a real dragon had come to life.

Even as the Star Sea Ancestor fully activated it.

Its strength is also extremely powerful, even containing a force of a billion jin.

Its body is comparable to a top-tier fifth-grade defensive spiritual treasure, and it can withstand several attacks from a Nascent Soul cultivator without any harm.

Upon closer examination, it is likely that it is now comparable to an ordinary Nascent Soul stage demon beast.

"This is truly a treasure."

Ancestor Xinghai immediately beamed with joy.

"I wonder if my Five Elements Hundred Treasures River and other attack spirit treasures will have such power when they reach the fifth-order top grade."

Seeing this from afar, Ling Pengyun felt a mixture of envy and curiosity.

Afterwards, he had a brief chat with the Star Sea Ancestor, and then, while the iron was hot, he began to reforge the Star Sea Flying Sword, another treasure in the Star Sea Ancestor's possession.

However, reforging the Starry Sea Flying Sword is even more difficult.

However, Ling Pengyun already had enough experience from the previous events of reforging the Flood Dragon Banner and the Black Flood Dragon Armor.

In addition, the Star Sea Ancestor had prepared a considerable amount of spare materials for the Star Sea Dragon Banner, enough to reforge it two or three times.

Moreover, Ling Pengyun and Xinghai Laozu were also quite lucky this time.

Therefore, they only failed once during the recasting process, succeeding on the second attempt.

Subsequently, the Star Sea Flying Sword triggered the tribulation clouds, but the Star Sea Ancestor helped them overcome the tribulation clouds as well.

It also entered the fifth-tier top-grade level.

Moreover, its power is no weaker than that of the Starry Sea Dragon Banner.

As a result, the strength of the Star Sea Ancestor also increased dramatically.

With the help of his two natal treasures, the Star Sea Flying Sword and the Star Sea Flood Dragon Banner, he was even somewhat confident that he could barely hold his own against the current strongest expert in the Heavenly River Realm, Daoist Yaoxing.

In the past, he was somewhat lacking.

After all, Yaoxing Daojun was a veteran Nascent Soul cultivator at the peak of his cultivation, possessing formidable power.

Moreover, it not only has the assistance of two exceptional fifth-grade sect-protecting spiritual treasures from the Radiant Star Immortal Sect.

He even managed to acquire one or two top-grade fifth-tier spiritual treasures during the previous chaos.

In total, he possessed three or four top-grade fifth-tier spiritual treasures.

His actual strength was extremely formidable, and he had every chance of simultaneously overpowering two or three ordinary Nascent Soul stage cultivators. (End of Chapter)