Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

The Netherworld's Netherworld Qi naturally belongs to Yin Qi, but cultivators in the Yang world cannot absorb or refine this Yin Qi.

If too much of the Netherworld Qi invades the physical body of a cultivator in the mortal world, it will erode the cultivator's physical body.

Conversely, cultivators in the Netherworld cannot absorb spiritual energy from the mortal world, otherwise their physical bodies will also suffer severe damage.

Yin energy also exists in the mortal world, but this yin energy is different from the ghostly energy of the underworld.

This kind of yin energy can be refined and absorbed by some cultivators who practice yin-attribute techniques.

Lu Cheng'an believed that the transformation runes at the bottom of the Yin Gathering Pool could transform the Netherworld Qi, and could eliminate a portion of the harmful power contained within the Netherworld Qi that was harmful to cultivators in the mortal world.

In this way, the remaining power in the Netherworld energy can be refined and absorbed by cultivators in the mortal world.

After studying the transformation runes for a while, Lu Cheng'an put the Yin Gathering Pool into his storage ring.

The transformation runes are extremely profound and cannot be fully understood by him in a short period of time.

He first refined the remaining two materials for the Yin Gathering Pool into a Yin Gathering Pool, which might deepen his understanding of the transformation runes.

Before starting the second refining process, Lu Cheng'an sent a message to Tianyun Shangren, asking him to send a message to Wanshi Laoren, instructing him to immediately refine a Yin Gathering Pool for Wanshi Sect after he had helped Yinhua Sect refine three Yin Gathering Pools.

He can maintain a good feel for refining the Yin Gathering Pool by continuously refining it. If he changes the magic weapon he is refining in the middle, he may lose this feel.

Upon receiving Lu Cheng'an's message, Master Tianyun was extremely excited. He immediately replied to Lu Cheng'an and then promptly relayed the message to Elder Wanshi.

Lu Cheng'an did not look at the reply from Master Tianyun. He began to meditate to restore his depleted magical power.

Then he began the second refining process.

When he refined it for the second time, he was already very familiar with the process of refining a mid-grade fifth-order Yin Gathering Pool, so the refining process became relatively simple and took less time.

Lu Cheng'an spent two years and five months refining the second Yin Gathering Pool in Yongle Road, which was two months shorter than the first time he refined it.

Moreover, the quality of the refined Yin-gathering pool is even better.

"My weapon crafting skills have reached the mid-grade level of the fifth rank, which is the maximum progress. Once I finish crafting these magic weapons for the Yin Hua Sect and the Tian Shi Sect, I can try crafting simpler high-grade fifth-rank magic weapons!"

Lu Cheng'an glanced at the refining progress on the panel, then took out the communication talisman.

"The Elder of Ten Thousand Corpses has arrived at the Yin Hua Sect, and Jin Yuan and Jin Qiu are almost finished refining the materials he brought!"

After reading through the message in the communication artifact, Lu Cheng'an did not reply. Instead, he quickly adjusted his state and prepared to begin the third refining process.

When he refined the Yin Gathering Pool this time, he learned more about the transformation runes within it.

He increasingly felt that this transformation rune was profound and could be extremely useful if used properly.

Two years and four months later, Lu Cheng'an completed the third Yin Gathering Pool.

This time, he shortened the time required to refine the Yin Gathering Pool by another month.

After recovering from his meditation, he sent a message to Master Tianyun and then left the cave.

"Thank you for your help over the years, Fellow Daoist Lu!" Upon seeing Lu Cheng'an emerge from his cave, Tianyun Shangren's face immediately lit up with a grateful smile.

He had already read Lu Cheng'an's message and knew that Lu Cheng'an had successfully refined all three sets of materials for making Yin Gathering Pools into Yin Gathering Pools, and none of them had failed.

"I accepted Fellow Daoist Yue's refining fee; this is what I should do!"

Lu Cheng'an smiled slightly and took the three Yin Gathering Pools out of his storage ring.

"Fellow Daoist Yue, are you satisfied with the mid-grade fifth-order Yin Gathering Pool I refined this time?"

The crafting of a Yin Gathering Pool is quite difficult. Lu Cheng'an spends 15,000 spirit pearls to craft one, which is more than double the cost of a fifth-grade low-level Yin Gathering Pool.

The Seven Elements Nourishing Spirit Flag and the Golden Mother Yuan Plate are not difficult to refine, but compared with the Yin Gathering Pool, they are much easier to refine.

Both of these magical treasures cost six thousand spirit pearls to refine.

This time, Lu Cheng'an needs to help the Yin Hua Sect and the Tian Shi Sect refine a total of six Yin Gathering Pools, three Seven Elements Nourishing Spirit Flags, and three Golden Mother Yuan Plates. The total refining cost is 126,000 spirit pearls, which is a considerable sum.

After Lu Cheng'an finished refining the magic weapons for these two sects, he planned to purchase a fifth-grade high-quality magic weapon refining furnace.

A fifth-grade superior-quality magic weapon refining furnace will not be cheap, and will not be less than 50,000 spirit pearls.

If the refining furnace were of a higher grade, it could even fetch a high price of 100,000 spirit pearls.

Master Tianyun examined the three Yin Gathering Pools that Lu Cheng'an had given him. He could sense that the quality of the three Yin Gathering Pools was different, and the worst one should be the first one that Lu Cheng'an had refined.

Even the lowest quality Yin-gathering pool could meet their requirements.

"Fellow Daoist Lu's weapon-refining skills are superb. I am very satisfied with these three Yin Gathering Pools!" Venerable Tianyun said with a smile.

"As long as Fellow Daoist Yue is satisfied!"

Lu Cheng'an smiled slightly, then turned his gaze to the Old Man of Ten Thousand Corpses.

After receiving the materials for refining the Yin Gathering Pool from the Elder of Ten Thousand Corpses, he returned to the weapon-refining room.

The Heavenly Corpse Sect needs to refine three Yin Gathering Pools and three Golden Mother Yuan Plates. All the materials below the fourth-tier top-grade required to refine these two magical treasures have been tempered by Jin Yuan and his son.

Those fourth-tier and fifth-tier top-grade materials still need to be refined by Lu Cheng'an himself.

After returning to the weapon-refining room, Lu Cheng'an first refined the fourth-grade and fifth-grade materials for refining the Yin Gathering Pool, and then began the fourth refining process.

It's possible that Lu Cheng'an's skill in refining the Yin Gathering Pool has reached a certain bottleneck. This time, the quality of the Yin Gathering Pool he refined did not change much, and the refining time was not significantly shortened.

The same was true for the fifth and sixth pieces. Lu Cheng'an completed the refining of the last three Yin Gathering Pools, taking seven years and one month. After refining the last three Yin Gathering Pools, Lu Cheng'an did not leave the refining room, but continued to refine the Seven Elements Nourishing Spirit Banner and the Golden Mother Yuan Plate, two other magical treasures.

Their crafting difficulty is far lower than that of the Gathering Yin Pool. Moreover, after Lu Cheng'an's crafting skills were tempered by the Gathering Yin Pool, it became much simpler for him to craft the Golden Mother Yuan Plate and the Seven Elements Nourishing Spirit Flag.

Even including the time spent refining the spiritual materials, Lu Cheng'an only used the three Golden Mother Yuan Plates and the three Seven Elements Nourishing Spirit Flags in four years and nine months.

"After spending so much time, we've finally finished refining all these magical treasures!"

"Once I successfully purchase a fifth-grade high-quality magic weapon refining furnace, I will be able to refine fifth-grade high-quality magic weapons and magic treasures."

Lu Cheng'an cast a spell, and all the Yin Gathering Pool, Seven Elements Nourishing Spirit Flag, and Golden Mother Yuan Plate that he had refined over the years appeared before him.

He carefully inspected these magical artifacts, and after confirming that there were no problems, he put them into his storage ring.

Over the years, his crafting skills, including creating the Yin Gathering Pool and other magical artifacts, have greatly improved. Now he is very confident that he can craft a fifth-grade high-quality magical artifact.

After Lu Cheng'an recovered, he sent a message to Tianyun Shangren and Wanshi Laoren, asking them to come to the weapon-refining room.

Tianyun Shangren and Wanshi Laoren had been waiting for Lu Cheng'an's refining results, but after receiving Lu Cheng'an's message, only Tianyun Shangren entered the refining room.

"The Old Ghost of Ten Thousand Corpses has now returned to the Heavenly Corpse Sect. The situation in Qian Yuan Prefecture has changed somewhat in recent years!"

A solemn expression appeared on Tianyun Shangren's face. He continued, "According to the news from Yunhai Sect, Yuanshui Demon Sect has received resource support from Xuehe Demon Sect, allowing one late-stage Nascent Soul demon cultivator and two mid-stage Nascent Soul demon cultivators from Yuanshui Demon Sect to enter the Blood Demon Pool to break through their cultivation levels."

"The late-stage Nascent Soul demon cultivator selected by the Yuan Shui Demon Sect is Yin Wen Demon Child, and the two mid-stage Nascent Soul demon cultivators are the Xu Rong and Xu Tao sisters."

"The Yin-Patterned Demon Child is the adopted son of the Primordial Water Mother. The cultivation technique he practices is called the Yin-Patterned Demon Child Scripture. This technique has an extraordinary origin, and the Yin-Patterned Demon Child's strength is extremely formidable. If his cultivation breaks through to the perfect Nascent Soul realm, even Qingyunzi might not be his match!"

"Xu Rong and Xu Tao are twin sisters. These two demons are skilled in combined attacks, and together they can contend with cultivators in the late Nascent Soul stage. If their cultivation were to break through to the late Nascent Soul stage, they would probably have the ability to contend with cultivators at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage!"

"Blood River Demon Sect's Blood Demon Pool?"

“Even cultivators from the Blood River Demon Sect would find it difficult to enter the Blood Demon Pool, so why would they release so many slots for the Yuan Shui Demon Sect?” Lu Cheng’an asked, frowning.

The Blood Demon Pool of the Blood River Demon Sect is specifically designed to assist demonic cultivators in breaking through their cultivation levels; its effect is stronger than that of pills such as the Fire Deer Pill.

If a demonic cultivator were to break through in the Blood Demon Pool, the chances of success would be extremely high.

"The Blood River Demon Sect agreed because the Yuan Water Demon Sect was pushed too far. If they don't provide support to the Yuan Water Demon Sect, then we will wipe out all the demon cultivators in Qian Yuan Prefecture!"

In recent years, cultivators from the three states of Mengyuan have been entering Qianyuan to hunt demonic cultivators in order to obtain demon-hunting points and exchange them for cultivation resources from the demon-hunting list.

Even demonic cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage died in the hunt.

However, the strength of high-level demonic cultivators in Qianyuan Prefecture is currently inferior to that of the three prefectures of Mengyuan Prefecture, which also makes Yuanshui Demonic Sect, the strongest demonic sect in Qianyuan Prefecture, lack the confidence to engage in a decisive battle with the three prefectures of Mengyuan Prefecture.

The Blood River Demon Sect has been closely monitoring the situation in Qian Yuan Prefecture. If things continue as they are, Qian Yuan Prefecture may indeed be lost in the future.

It was for this reason that the Blood River Demon Sect granted the Yuanshui Demon Sect three slots to enter the Blood Demon Pool.

Of course, these three spots were not given to the Yuan Shui Demon Sect for free; the Yuan Shui Demon Sect also paid a price for them.

As for the specific price paid, the three states of Mengyuan did not find out.

"Since the Blood River Demon Sect is helping the Yuanshui Demon Sect, why hasn't the Golden Flame Sect taken any action?" Lu Cheng'an asked, frowning.

The Blood River Demon Sect is the superior sect of the Yuanshui Demon Sect, while the Golden Flame Sect is the superior sect of the three sects of Mengyuan Prefecture.

Now that the Yuan Shui Demon Sect has received resource support from the Blood River Demon Sect, the Golden Flame Sect should also make a gesture in return.

Otherwise, once Qian Yuan Prefecture gains two more combatants at the peak of the Nascent Soul realm, the three prefectures of Meng Yuan Prefecture will find it difficult to be a match for the Yuan Shui Demon Sect.

"The Golden Flame Sect doesn't have a treasure like the Blood Demon Pool, but they did provide the Cloud Sea Sect with a top-grade fifth-tier Fragrant Dew Divine Essence Pill, which the Cloud Sea Sect can give to cultivators in the three states of Mengyuan Prefecture who have a chance to break through to the Nascent Soul Perfection Realm."

"The Cloud Sea Sect handed this pill over to Lei Potian of the Thunderous Sect, but there has been no good news yet. Lei Potian has had the Fragrant Dew Divine Essence Pill for some time now."

Lei Potian's cultivation level is at the late stage of the Nascent Soul stage. His strength is extremely formidable, and he is only one step away from breaking through to the perfect Nascent Soul stage.

However, breaking through from the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm to the perfect Nascent Soul realm is not an easy task. Otherwise, the three states of Mengyuan and Qianyuan would not have so few cultivators at the perfect Nascent Soul realm.

Of course, there is another possibility: Lei Potian may have already successfully broken through to the Nascent Soul realm, but he just deliberately did not release the news.

Regardless of the type, Qian Yuan Prefecture may gain two more combatants at the peak of the Nascent Soul realm, which is not good news for the three prefectures of Meng Yuan Prefecture.

Once Yinwen Motong and the Xu Rong sisters return from the Blood River Demon Sect, the demon cultivators of Qianyuan Prefecture may launch an attack on the three prefectures of Mengyuan Prefecture.

This attack is definitely different from the previous ones; the demonic cultivators of Qianyuan Prefecture are very likely to go all out.

The existence of the Demon Hunter Ranking will make the three states of Mengyuan Prefecture stronger and stronger, and they will have a stronger motivation to kill demonic cultivators.

However, the Yuan Shui Demon Sect only received resources and support from the Blood River Demon Sect this once. The opportunity to enter the Blood Demon Pool was too precious, and even cultivators from the Blood River Demon Sect had to pay a great price to enter it.

"Golden Cauldron Mountain is too close to Qianyuan Prefecture. Yin Mozi of the Demon-Attracting Sect must have died at Fellow Daoist Lu's hands. The Demon-Attracting Sect only has three mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, among whom Yin Mozi was the most likely to break through to the late-stage Nascent Soul. Fellow Daoist Lu's killing of Yin Mozi will surely provoke a crazy revenge from the Demon-Attracting Sect!"

Master Tianyun looked at Lu Chengan and sighed, saying, "If Qianyuan Prefecture really launches an attack on the three prefectures of Mengyuan Prefecture, Jinding Mountain will definitely be targeted by the Yinmo Sect. Fellow Daoist Lu needs to prepare early. If you are not able to withstand the attack, you should immediately retreat from Jinding Mountain to our Yinhua Sect or Tianshi Sect."

The Yinwen Demon Child and the Xu Rong sisters have only recently arrived at the Blood River Demon Sect. Even if they break through with the help of the Blood Demon Pool, it will still take them a long time.

Therefore, Master Tianyun only sent a message to Shi Ningyu, but did not tell Lu Cheng'an about this matter, so as not to disturb Lu Cheng'an's refining of magic weapons.

In his message to Shi Ningyu, he also explained in detail that if Jin Ding Mountain was indeed attacked by demonic cultivators, she could immediately send them a message for help, and he and the Ten Thousand Corpse Old Ghost would definitely go to Jin Ding Mountain to provide support in time.

The Lu family has built teleportation arrays near the Yin Hua Sect and the Heavenly Corpse Sect, allowing them to quickly reach Golden Cauldron Mountain. (End of Chapter)