Junior sister, I really need to control you

Mu Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief, a look of joy on her face.

A resounding, ancient Chinese bell, rang in Li Yinsheng's ears, a sound only he could hear, and a fleeting look of confusion crossed his eyes.

He then squatted down and said with a smile, "Congratulations, Junior Sister, on successfully refining your first magic weapon."

Of course, he also had to congratulate himself, as his Three Elements True Technique had broken through to the ninth level after his recent seclusion.

"A magic weapon! I've crafted a magic weapon!" Mu Xiaoyu exclaimed excitedly.

However, what excited her was that, as a master craftsman capable of creating magical artifacts, she could finally take a well-deserved rest in the crafting field.

Although magical artifacts themselves vary in quality, the difference between master craftsmen can also be significant.

But as a weapon-refining master who is so young, she deserves to relax for a while, right?

"What Junior Sister crafted... is this a jade seal?"

Li Yinsheng laughed and said, "Junior Sister, do you want to become emperor?"

"No, that's not it," Mu Xiaoyu quickly shook her head, "I just think that when I become a real person in the future, it will be very convenient to use the jade seal to hit people in battle."

"Junior sister wants to keep this magic treasure and prevent the Mystic Crystal Mirror from devouring it?" Li Yinsheng asked.

"Well, although its... grade seems quite ordinary, it is, after all, the first magic weapon I successfully crafted, and I want to keep it as a memento," Mu Xiaoyu nodded.

She opened her big, watery eyes and looked at Li Yinsheng: "Senior brother, is it not okay?"

Li Yinsheng was taken aback, then rubbed her head and laughed, "Since Junior Sister wants to keep it as a memento, then let's leave it here."

He casually remarked, "The Mystic Crystal Mirror is already a top-grade magic treasure. Absorbing such an ordinary jade seal wouldn't significantly increase its power. It would be a drop in the ocean for its future advancement to a quasi-spiritual treasure..."

When Li Yinsheng uttered the words "quasi-spiritual treasure," he paused slightly.

The familiar, resonant sound of bells and chimes rang in his ears, and golden characters appeared.

[The Ambition of Cultivation Continued: The Master of Weapon Forging!]

After successfully forging his first true magic weapon, the Lord of the Grotto-Heaven unexpectedly discovered that there were even higher-level spiritual treasures above magic weapons!

Now that the master of the grotto-heaven has glimpsed a higher level of spiritual treasure, he should strive to improve himself and aim to refine an even higher level of spiritual treasure!

Each time the Lord of the Grotto-Heaven refines a higher-level spiritual treasure, he can receive a reward, and each reward can only be claimed once.

This cultivation journey will last for fifty years, and the types of spiritual treasures to be refined are not limited. The entire refining process must be completed by the master of the cave alone.

Directly transforming innate treasures or similar entities into spiritual treasures is not counted towards the outcome of cultivation.

Refining a semi-finished spiritual treasure into a complete spiritual treasure is not counted towards the outcome of cultivation.

The creation of spiritual treasures whose value is lower than that of the materials themselves is not counted as a result of cultivation aspirations.

Cultivation Rewards:

The reward for successfully refining a quasi-spiritual treasure is eight hundred years of cultivation.

The reward for successfully crafting a spiritual treasure is 1,800 years of cultivation.

[Reward for crafting a divine treasure: 5,000 years of cultivation]

The moment he saw the will to cultivate, even with the tranquility he had cultivated through years of seclusion, Li Yinsheng's heart trembled violently.

He wasn't surprised that the cultivation path of refining magical artifacts would lead to the refining of spiritual artifacts.

He also thought it was normal that there were higher-level beings above spiritual treasures.

But that so-called Creation Treasure, which rewarded him with five thousand years of cultivation, truly made his heart pound.

Five thousand years of cultivation...

If someone were to go into seclusion for an entire period of time, they would probably turn into a stone statue.

But then I thought, spiritual treasures are already treasures used by immortals, so who knows what kind of existence this so-called creation spiritual treasure is?

Anyway, I shouldn't have to think about this until my junior sister becomes an immortal.

There's no point in worrying about this now.

Mu Xiaoyu naturally had no idea what Li Yinsheng was thinking. She only heard her senior brother say that she could keep the jade seal she had refined, and she immediately cheered.

"Thank you, senior brother! You're the best!" She rushed towards Li Yinsheng and hugged him.

He then picked up the jade seal, looked at it from left to right, and his little face was full of pride.

"As expected of a magic weapon I crafted myself, it's truly beautiful, hehehe..."

Seeing his junior sister's excited expression, Li Yinsheng stroked his chin and began to seriously consider something he had thought about before—

After getting to know him, he was certain that Chi Ling was a true top-tier weapon-refining master.

It's definitely not the kind of person who just treats weapon crafting as a hobby because they have the cultivation level of a peak demon king.

Although he couldn't judge whether Chi Ling or Master Cheng of the Ingenious Pavilion had higher weapon-refining skills, Chi Ling's skills couldn't be that bad.

If we could invite her to personally teach my junior sister how to forge weapons, it should allow her to make rapid progress in her weapon-forging skills.

While it's too far off to talk about refining quasi-spiritual treasures, and Chi Ling herself probably couldn't even do it, she can at least get closer to it.

However, this matter requires further consideration.

Firstly, it would be best to wait until my junior sister breaks through to the True Person realm and her strength greatly improves, so that her progress will be faster.

Secondly, he couldn't think of a way to bring it up with Chi Ling.

Although the reward was easy to arrange—he could use his own essence as payment—Chiling, a dignified demon king and a pure-blooded golden crow, would inevitably have her pride and dignity.

Although his relationship with her wasn't bad, it probably wasn't close enough for her to be willing to bend over backwards for a few units of essence.

The idea of ​​a pure-blooded Golden Crow Demon King teaching a newly-formed human girl how to forge weapons is enough to make anyone scratch their head.

After glancing at his junior sister who was still overjoyed, Li Yinsheng hesitated for a moment and still did not immediately pass on the Three Elements True Technique to her.

Let her enjoy her joy first, and don't spoil her mood.

Moreover, there is no difference in effect between transferring power in stages and transferring it all at once. After receiving the sword technique reward, I will go into seclusion again and accumulate more of the Three Elements Qi.

That should be enough to push my junior sister directly to the eighth floor.

It's better to have a short, sharp pain than a long, drawn-out one.

……

A blazing white light descended before Fanghua Pavilion.

Under the slightly strange gaze of the Pavilion Master of Zhule, Li Yinsheng walked up to the top floor.

Li Yinsheng wasn't surprised by the slightly meaningful look in the eyes of the Pavilion Master of Zhule.

From the other person's perspective, a man and a woman meet once a month on the top floor of Fanghua Pavilion, and each meeting lasts for most of the day.

It's perfectly normal for her to make inappropriate associations.

Compared to the opinions of others, Li Yinsheng was more concerned about the important matter of asking Chiling to teach his junior sister how to forge weapons.

Junior Sister needs to refine the Five Qi Pills for at least another month or two to ensure a relatively safe breakthrough to True Person.

Therefore, he wasn't in a hurry to immediately bring Chi Ling over to be his junior sister's weapon-refining mentor.

He decided that this time, he would first try to gauge Chi Ling's opinion before going back to think about how to persuade her.

Besides this, he also had to ask Chi Ling if she had any branches of the Fusang Divine Tree, and whether she would sell them.

But after pushing open the door to the private room, he was slightly taken aback.

Besides Chi Ling, Su Sheng, who had been spying on them the previous two times, was also sitting to the side.

But Li Yinsheng's attention remained focused on Chi Ling. Unlike their previous meetings, Chi Ling appeared to have changed significantly this time.

She put on makeup.

In Li Yinsheng's memory, Chiling was an absolute beauty in human form, but she never wore makeup and was too lazy to dress up.

Given her obsessive focus on cultivation, it's normal for her not to waste her energy on such trivial matters.

But today, Chi Ling was clearly dressed up carefully. Her eyebrows were perfectly proportioned, and a few gold beads were used to make floral decorations on her forehead. She also applied lip rouge to her lips, making her look more delicate and beautiful than usual.

Two bright pearls dangled from the girl's small, snow-white earlobes, and a faint blush appeared at the corner of her eyes.

However, what caught Li Yinsheng's attention the most was that she had styled her hair into a bun and adorned it with a gilded hairpin.

With her usually loose hair pulled up, the girl's slender and beautiful neck was fully revealed, its lines as graceful as a painting.

Li Yinsheng suspected that the neck was so thin that he could pinch it with one hand.

However, upon closer reflection, he realized that Chiling's true form was a golden crow, so it was quite normal for a bird to have a long and thin neck.

"Look, he's stunned!" Su Sheng transmitted her voice, "I know all too well what human men like. Just listen to my outfit, you won't go wrong."

"Why not just use magic to dress me up? You're wasting so much of my time," Chi Ling replied.

"Silly bird! What if he sees through your magic? Of course, you have to do your makeup yourself to show your affection," Su Sheng scolded telepathically.

"What feelings?" Chi Ling frowned slightly, her voice transmission showing a barely perceptible fluctuation. "You said this would help him agree to dual cultivation, so I cooperated with you."

"They're all the same. That's how righteous men of the human race are. They won't engage in dual cultivation without affection. They're so rigid."

Su Sheng transmitted her voice: "In short, proceed according to plan, and cooperate with me!"

She stood up with a smile and looked at Li Yinsheng: "Brother Li, you've arrived? Little Chiling and I have been waiting for you for so long!"

"I'm sorry to have kept Fellow Daoist Su and Miss Chiling waiting," Li Yinsheng smiled apologetically, "Shall we begin now?"

"Oh, no, let's not exchange essence this time. My concubine and Xiao Chiling have something we'd like to ask Brother Li for help with," Su Sheng said.

Instead of showing any impatience, Li Yinsheng raised an eyebrow.

Do you need my help? Great!

I also need to talk to you about something.

"A few days ago, I stumbled upon an ancient ruin outside Shengyuan City. I wanted to explore it with Xiao Chiling, but we were blocked by a restriction."

She said with a troubled expression, "My concubine and Chiling tried to break the restriction, but we did not expect it to be so strong and able to repair itself at an extremely fast speed."

"It just so happens that among the cultivators I have seen, Brother Li's mastery of formations is second to none."

"With Brother Li's help, the chances of breaking this restriction should increase greatly. How about we split the spoils from the ruins equally among the three of us?"

Li Yinsheng was somewhat surprised, not expecting that there would be other ancient ruins in the Earth Immortal's Mansion, which was itself a huge ancient ruin.