The liver is a late bloomer!

"How did you, a Great Luo Realm expert who relies on the Spirit Clan, escape their detection?" Xu Chen asked curiously.

Xu Chen was unaware of the other major clans, but for the human race, the Great Dao Qi would scan the loyalty of many powerful individuals who were attached to other races almost every so often.

"I dare not hide it from the geniuses of the Upper Clan. The Upper Clan bestowed upon me innate spiritual treasures, concealing my loyalty to the human race." Huo Kong chuckled.

"So you're loyal to both the Spirit Race and the Human Race?" Xu Chen understood somewhat.

"You can say that."

A strange, fiery red celestial vessel flew through the Spirit Clan's spatial passage.

Feeling the speed of this magical flying boat, Xu Chen was very unaccustomed to it. It was like a wealthy person who often flew in a private jet riding in a donkey cart. The seemingly fast speed was like a tortoise crawling in his eyes.

"You're a powerful cultivator at the Great Luo Realm, and you don't even have a single Acquired Spiritual Treasure flying boat," Xu Chen couldn't help but complain.

"My lord, our clan's Grand Luo Realm experts are simply not worthy of possessing acquired spiritual treasures," Huo Kong said with a wry smile as he piloted the immortal artifact flying boat.

"Then you should serve the human race well. After we destroy the spirit race, I will bestow upon you a postnatal spiritual treasure," Xu Chen said.

"Thank you for the reward, sir." Huo Kong chuckled, not taking it seriously.

The immortal flying boat traveled through the spatial passage for nine months before finally arriving near the Asura clan.

Xu Chen transformed into a wisp of dust and flew out of the Spirit Clan's spatial passage, landing on the vast land below.

The Iron Spirit Clan is located south of the Asura Clan, and its territory is vast, equivalent to a province of the Human Clan. The fact that it has such a vast territory under the protection of a major clan demonstrates the extent of its favor.

A wisp of dust quietly drifted over the Iron Spirit Clan's main city and entered it, transforming into the most ordinary fire spirit bird in the city, because the Iron Spirit Clan's main city was built on a spirit volcano.

The average Iron Spirit is ten feet tall, humanoid with four arms, and looks like an ape with glossy black skin.

Upon entering the main city, Xu Chen discovered that eight out of ten families here made a living by refining weapons. The larger ones formed merchant guilds, the smaller ones were families, and the smallest were family units.

Besides the weapon-refining workshops, the most common places here are all kinds of weapon-refining academies. In these academies, nothing else is taught except for weapon-refining.

"The Asura clan is really ruthless in their control. Even after you embark on the path of immortality, they don't teach you a single supernatural ability to defend yourself. But that makes it easier to get your hands on them."

Xu Chen, transformed into a fire spirit bird, flew all over the main city of the Iron Spirit Clan and finally found a suitable partner.

Tie Wan ranks in the middle among the many weapon-refining prodigies of the Tieling Clan. He is not particularly outstanding, but his talent in weapon refining has not been overlooked by the clan.

They are at a point where the hope of becoming a talent is slim, but not nonexistent. In the Iron Spirit Clan, becoming a talent means advancing to the Saint-grade weapon refiner level.

Tie Wan has been stuck at the peak of Immortal-grade weapon refiner for over 100,000 years. His cultivation has now reached the Golden Immortal realm, but he is always just one step away from mastering weapon refinement.

But it was this one step that prevented Tie Wan from taking another step for ten thousand years.

Tie Wan has now come to terms with reality. He teaches younger generations at a weapon-refining academy and occasionally takes on orders to refine immortal artifacts. He lives a fairly comfortable life.

"You haven't been able to take this step even after 10 years. It seems your talent has truly been exhausted."

"But don't panic, let me save you."

A flock of fire spirit birds stood on the wall of the academy gate opposite the Iron Ten Thousand Cave.

Upon seeing Tie Wan emerge, a fire spirit bird flapped its wings and landed on Tie Wan's shoulder.

"Go away, I have nothing for you to eat."

Tie Wan waved his hand to drive away the fire spirit bird and returned to his cave.

A month later, the entire main city was filled with celebration. The Iron Spirit Clan had gained another Saint-grade weapon refiner, and the Asura Clan bestowed upon them a large amount of rewards.

"Your years of diligent cultivation and hard work in weapon crafting over the past 100,000 years have not been in vain," said the Saint-grade weapon crafter, the highest-ranking weapon crafter in the Iron Spirit Clan, looking at Tie Wan with satisfaction.

"My clan does not despise my humble talent and has always supported me in the art of weapon crafting."

"I was able to become a Saint-grade weapon refiner entirely thanks to the support of my ancestors. In the future, I will definitely work with my elders to serve the clan."

Tie Wan's bow was sincere and earnest, prompting the Asura clan expert guarding the area to praise him as a good servant.

"Over the past 100,000 years of accumulating knowledge and experience, you should have fully grasped the art of refining sacred-grade artifacts. There's nothing more I can teach you; just keep refining and learning."

"Come on, I'll introduce you to our clan's elders now, and then you'll be spending your lives together."

A powerful member of the Asura clan released a newly acquired magical flying boat, carrying Tie Wan towards a secret realm of the Asura clan.

The secret realm is extremely vast, about the size of a small world, and divided into thirty regions. Each region has millions of alien races, who serve the Saint-grade weapon refiners in that region.

The best cultivation environment, beauties from all races, all kinds of delicacies and spiritual foods, wine pools and meat forests, are countless.

Here, a master weapon refiner only needs to do three things: refine weapons, cultivate, and enjoy life.

"Is the treatment the Asura clan offering not bad?"

The day after tomorrow, the Spirit Treasure Flying Boat slowly landed outside a luxurious palace in a certain area. Ten of the most beautiful women of the Iron Spirit Clan, along with 300 beauties from various other races, stood outside the palace to welcome Tie Wan.

On the outer perimeter, tens of thousands of aliens serving him knelt on the ground, as if welcoming their god.

"From now on, you will be the master of this area, and all living beings in this area will serve you."

"As long as you complete the weapon-refining tasks assigned to you by my Asura clan on time, you can enjoy all of this indefinitely."

"Furthermore, upon completing the weapon forging task, our clan will bestow contribution points, which can be exchanged for any resource you can imagine."

"Alright, before you officially check in, let's do one last thing."

The Asura clan's Grand Luo realm expert who brought Tie Wan over reached out and placed his hand on Tie Wan's head.

Before long, Tie Wan showed signs of pain and finally fainted on the ground.

The ten beautiful women from the Tieling tribe who were there to greet him immediately came over to help him.

"Serve your master well, and let him take on the mission in a month." After saying this, the Asura clan expert boarded the Acquired Spirit Treasure Flying Boat and left.

On a luxurious bed, Tie Wan slowly woke up, a peculiar glint in his eyes.

"You think you can find anything amiss with your meager soul-searching abilities?" A leisurely voice echoed in Tie Wan's mind.

"Master, what should we do next?" Tie Wan's voice rang out.

Xu Chen originally planned to directly possess Tie Wan to carry out the mission, but later felt that with a little guidance, he could become a Saint-grade weapon refiner, so he still had some value. Bringing him back would at least allow him to be put on the production line as a beast of burden.

"Do what you're supposed to do, and find an opportunity to get to know the Saint-grade weapon refiners in this small world," Xu Chen instructed.

"As ordered."

For a period of time afterward, under Xu Chen's guidance, Tie Wan began to clumsily refine acquired spiritual treasures.

"The divine fire's power is too high, reduce it a bit~~"

"That's not how you use the Great Dao Divine Runes in Acquired Spiritual Treasures. Haven't you learned the basics of formations?"

"The material fusion order is wrong!"

"How many times have I told you? The Great Dao Divine Script depends on the time it takes for the materials to fuse!" At first, Xu Chen was able to maintain his patience, but in the end he couldn't hold back any longer and started cursing.

"You son of a bitch..."

Under the tutelage of Xu Chen, a top-tier Saint-grade weapon refiner, Tie Wan made rapid progress, and each of the acquired spiritual treasures he refined showed significant improvement.

For this, he was even commended by the Asura clan.

Inside a magnificent shrine in the secret realm.

Thirty-six Saint-grade weapon refiners gathered together, sitting and discussing their experiences in refining acquired spiritual treasures.

"Master, now is the perfect time to make our move," Tie Wan said excitedly.

"The timing isn't right, let's wait," Xu Chen said leisurely.

Xu Chen has been lurking here for so many years and has figured out the location of the secret realm. He has also used his clone to secretly modify the secret realm's teleportation array and connect it to the outside of the Asura Clan's territory.

Sensing the powerful Grand Venerable Realm guards outside the Spirit Palace, Xu Chen couldn't help but marvel at how much the Asura Clan truly valued these alien Saint-grade weapon refiners.

This secret realm alone will be guarded by at least one Grand Venerable Realm expert.

The Asura race certainly has more than just this one secret realm.

The Asura Clan Grand Venerable Realm expert guarding outside the Spirit Hall stared expressionlessly at all the alien Saint-grade weapon refiners inside, wondering when a Divine-grade weapon refiner would emerge from among them. He had prepared two innate spiritual treasure embryos but had not yet found a suitable Divine-grade weapon refiner to refine them.

Just as the Grand Venerable Realm experts were lost in their fantasies, a hidden power of the Dream Dao quietly took control of all the Saint-grade weapon refiners present.

At this moment, in a certain territory outside the Asura Clan, two teleportation arrays were flashing with spiritual light, their spatial power fully charged and ready to be activated at any time.

This gathering about the art of weapon crafting lasted for half a month before it ended. The Asura clan Grand Venerable Realm experts who were guarding the area entered a state of seclusion after the gathering ended.

At this moment, within the area where Tie Wan was located, hidden spatial forces flickered, and all thirty-five alien Saint-grade weapon refiners were teleported over.

Xu Chen looked at the teleportation arrays with the style of the Spirit Race and nodded in satisfaction. Then he controlled all the alien Saint-grade weapon refiners to board the teleportation arrays that had been prepared in advance and leave the Asura Clan territory.

The Grand Venerable Realm expert, who was still in the early stages of cultivation, did not notice anything unusual.

Upon successfully returning to the Human Emperor Temple headquarters, Xu Chen immediately released five alien Saint-grade weapon refiners.

"How many did you bring back?" Grandmaster Qingzhu asked with a smile.
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"It's barely enough. What about my senior brother?"

"In the Heavenly Tenth Divine Hall." Grand Venerable Qingzhu looked at the five alien Saint-grade weapon refiners, and then at Xu Chen.

"The acquired spiritual treasures refined by the sect's production line still need to be circulated by the Human Emperor Temple. In the later stages, the acquired spiritual treasures sold to the Dark Side Main Realm are even more inseparable from the Human Emperor Temple."

"The Human Emperor Temple will receive a share of all the profits, so the Great Venerable shouldn't even think about the remaining alien Saint-grade weapon refiners."

After Xu Chen finished speaking, he went to the No. 10 Heavenly Hall of the Human Emperor Temple.

A magnificent hall, upon entering, reveals an even more expansive space.

Inside the main hall, at least 100,000 celestial officials were bent over their desks handling various affairs, with jade slips piled up on each desk almost like small mountains.

Yang Wanshan was positioned in the main seat of the temple, handling various matters that he was not authorized to deal with below. In addition, he also had to set up plans for various areas as backup.

The jade slips on the huge table were piled up like mountains, and tens of thousands of jade slips floated in the air above the main hall.

Xu Chen saw a deep weariness in Yang Wanshan's eyes.

He walked step by step toward the head seat, and didn't even notice when he arrived at Yang Wanshan's desk.

Yang Wanshan processed the matters in the jade slip with astonishing speed.

Just as he was concentrating on his work, a cup of divine tea with a strange aroma was placed on Yang Wanshan's desk.

"It's time for tea and a break already."

Only then did Yang Wanshan notice Xu Chen standing to the side.

"Junior brother, what brings you here!" Yang Wanshan said happily.

"I came to hand in my mission and also to see my senior brother."

"Why don't you create a few clones to share these tasks, Senior Brother?" Xu Chen asked.

"The clone that was created collapsed ten days ago. It will take half a month to reassemble a temporary clone."

Yang Wanshan put down the jade slip in his hand and stood up.

"My junior brother has arrived. I'm taking a break from my busy schedule to rest for a while."

"Then I'll treat you to the best restaurant in Nine Emperor City, senior brother!"

Nine Imperial City, Divine Intoxication Tower.

In a secluded spot within a bamboo grove, Xu Chen and Yang Wanshan sipped tea while the chef prepared dishes.

"There are less than five hundred years left until the original thousand-year mark. Will you return to the sect after the deadline, Senior Brother?" Xu Chen asked.

"I'm not going back yet. I've realized that even with the support of humans, there are too many things to be careful about when you leave the human territory and create your own power."

"It would take me at least 3000 years to sort out all these matters."

"The hardship of working at a desk is nothing."

"Compared to the Great Venerable Qingzhu's unwavering management of the entire Human Emperor Temple for hundreds of thousands of years, this little bit of suffering is not even a drop in the endless sea of ​​suffering."

“At least I can steal a moment of leisure from my busy schedule, but Grandmaster Qingzhu cannot.” Yang Wanshan has been particularly respectful to Grandmaster Qingzhu lately.

Seeing that Yang Wanshan could only tell the waiter to serve the food faster, Xu Chen could only watch as Yang Wanshan watched ...

One dish after another was teleported from the void and appeared on the dining table.

The two brothers ate and drank, talking about the recent situation of the Daxi Sect.

“Sheng Qing has handled the sect’s affairs very well. You can entrust the Daxi Sect to him with confidence.”

“I just received a message saying that you brought back at least thirty alien Saint-grade weapon refiners.” Yang Wanshan paused here.

"Based on the intelligence I gathered at the Human Emperor Temple, many powerful clans in the Dark Side Main Realm are at a great disadvantage in their battles against the Main Realm because they have lost more than a dozen Saint Venerable experts."

"But because those Holy Venerables were only taken away by the Lord of the Mist and may return at any time, the major clans of the Main Realm dare not offend them too much."

"Therefore, the current conflict between the main realm and the dark side of the main realm has stopped at the Great Venerable Realm."

"If there are enough Saint-grade weapon refiners, we should open several more production lines for acquired spiritual treasures suitable for use in the Dark Side Main Realm," Yang Wanshan suggested.

"What percentage of the profits should we take in cooperation with the Human Emperor Temple?" Xu Chen asked directly, because the Great Stream Sect was too weak to directly intervene in transactions with the Dark Side Main Realm.

"For others, it's at least 50%, but for you, Grandmaster Qingzhu must give me 30% of the courtesy." Yang Wanshan quickly savored his food, answering Xu Chen's question during a break. (End of Chapter)