My Daoist partner helps me cultivate immortality

Each cultivator can only stay for half an hour to an hour a day.

With the blessing of the Crimson Emperor fragment, Lin Ye's sea of ​​consciousness should be able to last longer, but he doesn't know exactly how much longer he can stay there compared to others.

"Your score will be automatically entered into the Strongest Refiner Challenge - Qi Refining Ranking".

"The challenge begins. Please select three materials from the following ten thousand to craft three magical artifacts, and use these three magical artifacts to complete as many challenge levels as possible."

Chapter Seventy-Seven: You Will Guard the Pass

"The weapon forging process is limited to three days. If you feel weak, please purchase Spiritual Sense Pills every now and then. The bill will be settled after the competition."

Lin Ye looked at the prompt from the desolate curse and shook his head: "It seems that it's the most disadvantageous thing for Qi Refining stage weapon refiners to participate in this kind of challenge—we're the slowest to complete it!"

The unique feature of the Void God Realm is that, regardless of their level, cultivators here will have their divine sense consumed within roughly the same amount of time, unless their divine sense level is stronger than their own realm.

Being devoured by the Realm of the Illusions is equivalent to the tax revenue that supports the continued operation of the Illusionary Realm.

And Huang Zhou is about to exploit us again. The Divine Consciousness Pill is a kind of pill that restores the power of divine consciousness: there are second-grade, third-grade, and fourth-grade versions.

Now, Huangzhou has different ways of exploiting participants of different levels, with higher levels costing more.

However, there is no such thing as a First-Grade Divine Sense Pill.

Even Qi Refining cultivators can only take second-grade pills, just like Foundation Establishment cultivators...

"This is a huge loss!" Lin Ye thought to himself.

In addition, the crafting process of a weapon refiner takes the longest.

Therefore, to complete the competition, more Divine Sense Pills are needed.

The entrance fee for the competition is several times higher than that for talisman makers.

"I don't have much savings, I hope I can hold on."

Lin Ye had just entered the Void God Realm, and had not yet felt any significant depletion of his divine sense.

Lin Ye felt his vision brighten instantly, and he found himself outdoors. The scene before him changed, revealing a massive mountain of minerals.

Looking up, I saw that all the materials here existed in the form of raw ore.

These are all the most primitive forms in the cultivation world.

The scents of the materials were mixed together, making it difficult to determine their grade.

'First, it tests the weapon refiner's eyesight and judgment?'

'Not only that... it also tested hand speed!'

Lin Ye saw a large refining table next to the mine and immediately understood that it was not only a refining workbench that would be used later, but could also be used to make ore picks.

An average weapon refiner's strength is insufficient to mine weapon-refining materials of their own level with bare hands.

Therefore, you need to first obtain low-level materials to make a spirit weapon draft to increase its strength.

Only then can the actual material be chiseled out.

If your eyesight isn't good, you might even dig for the wrong ore!

"I'll just start chiseling..."

Lin Ye is a body cultivator.

The next second, Lin Ye activated the "Mysterious Dao of the Underworld," his body moving like lightning. He climbed to the top of the mine, aimed at the second-grade intermediate refining material he had his eye on, the "Flying Refining Stone," and threw dozens of punches, causing countless slag fragments to collapse.

"So there are technical requirements too! I haven't learned any cultivation techniques or secret methods yet, just body tempering..."

"Body cultivation is indeed exhilarating; the mountain is about to collapse!"

Ignoring everything else, Lin Ye continued to use brute force to smash the material he had chosen, and soon, a small part of the mine began to collapse.

boom!

The mine collapsed with a deafening roar.

Lin Ye's hand emerged from the rubble.

He quickly climbed up, still holding the [Flying Refining Stone] in his other hand.

A hint of joy flashed across his face.

Choosing body cultivation was definitely the right decision.

Violence can solve all kinds of problems!

Lin Ye looked around and found that the blasted-away mineral veins were all low-grade mineral veins.

But along with it, there were also other second-grade intermediate materials that I needed.

The materials were still stuck together, so Lin Ye broke off the parts he needed and took them out, thus gathering all the materials he required.

Materials ready, let's begin crafting!

'Grounds are limited; using classical weapon-forging techniques, we can produce enough magic crystal cannons.'

Lin Ye made the molds for the cannon and the shells, and while casting them, he used his spiritual energy to fine-tune the properties of the materials.

If viewed with divine sense, one would see tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of fine spiritual energy twigs, moving flexibly through the red-hot material along paths containing some mysterious laws.

"Huang Zhou, how many levels are there in the test later, and what are the rewards?" Lin Ye asked when he had a moment.

"The Qi Refining stage challenge consists of 100 levels, and you will encounter exceptionally powerful enemies every 10 levels."

"You will be rewarded with 5 points for clearing the 10th floor. The reward will double every 10 floors thereafter."

Lin Ye nodded.

Clearing level 10 rewards 5 points, which is quite a lot for the early to mid-stages of weapon crafting!

'If you clear all 100 floors, you can get a total of over 5000 points.'

'If this works out, it will significantly supplement our household income.'

This is a huge sum of money that is generally unattainable for those in the Qi Refining stage.

If that's the case, the difficulty of high-level challenges will definitely increase exponentially.

Aside from true combat geniuses, don't even think about clearing the later floors, otherwise Araju will lose money! It's all been calculated!

"How often can a damaged magical artifact be repaired?"

"Restored after each level is cleared."

Lin Ye immediately understood.

This kind of challenge is not only for weapon refiners, but also for other professions. If you don't get the disposable items restored after clearing each level... Talisman Master: Are you kidding me?

Three hours later.

Lin Ye has used up all three materials he selected on the entire mountain.

"That's right, the only restriction is that there are three types of materials, not that each material can only be used in a certain number of units."

"Although there's still a long time before the manufacturing deadline, we don't have the materials, so let's leave it at that."

"I have already taken a Spirit Sense Pill."

"My cursed spirit can't pay the bill, so I'll have to rely on the reward money from clearing the challenge later!"

Thinking of this, Lin Ye took a deep breath: "We can begin the competition."

"Does the player wish to begin the challenge?"

"Yes!" Lin Ye was ready, with three magic crystal cannons placed beside him.

In addition, there are two hundred exploding shells, one hundred incendiary shells, fifty armor-piercing shells, and three special ammunition rounds that will damage the gun barrel.

"pick..."

"challenge...."

"Challenge Level 50,..."

All the way up to level 50.

Huangzhou finally managed to finish the first half of his opening announcement.

Lin Ye made a judgment: "If you're not careful, you'll usually stop at the dozen or so levels in the late stage of Qi Refining."

"The challenges ahead are not for the average person!"

However, Lin Ye's second-grade intermediate magic crystal cannon was not afraid of these enemies at all!

Until the last ten floors, the difficulty increases sharply from the ninetieth floor onwards, and the map becomes extremely large, seemingly because there are too many enemies, giving challengers room to maneuver between cover for a protracted battle.

However, Lin Ye still did not consider moving his feet.

Simply switch to armor-piercing rounds to kill these high-level enemies.

The 100th floor.

Lin Ye frowned. The enemy was a late-stage Qi Refining Insect King larva. It had not yet learned to fly and emitted a sharp screech on the ground. Although it was said to be late-stage Qi Refining, its actual combat power was far greater than that.

Even armor-piercing rounds couldn't penetrate its defenses!

Lin Ye had no choice but to insert the prepared special ammunition.

boom!

After the special ammunition was released, it was clear that the gun barrel was completely destroyed.

The insect queen's hatchling's carapace was then pierced, and it appeared to be on the verge of death.

Lin Ye hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward to clear out a few waves of small monsters, and with a punch, took the head of the Insect King cub.

"Congratulations, cultivator Lin Ye, on passing the Qi Refining stage challenge!"

"Would you be willing to let me set the illusion of you and the magical artifact as the final challenge of the 100th floor? After that, for every challenger who reaches the 100th floor and is defeated by your illusion, I will pay you 1000 points."

After a moment's thought, Lin Ye said, "I agree!"

Chapter Seventy-Eight: Bao Yuan'er, Center of the Void God Realm

An illusion of the realm of the gods.

If things go as expected, Huangzhou will apply it to multiple fields, not just the hundred-layer tower exclusive to weapon refiners.

They can't imitate much of my abilities, but just using these three magic crystal cannons to guard the bottom of the gate should be enough to leave a psychological scar on those little devils who have reached the hundredth floor.

The premise is that they aren't the kind of geniuses who are exceptionally gifted...

As a support profession, weapon refiners might actually want to befriend Lin Ye himself after being defeated by his phantom.

Furthermore, those who can reach level 100 of this challenge are undoubtedly talented individuals, and their families must be quite well-off.

That's why Lin Ye chose to agree.

Moreover, you can occasionally get gold coins from the Wilderness Curse, which is a huge profit.

Huang Zhou added, "You have qualified to participate in the Foundation Establishment Stage Challenge."

"I feel like I'll be tortured, so I'll pass for now," Lin Ye said, feeling a little guilty.

After finishing the Qi Refining stage challenge, Lin Ye returned to the main world of the Void God Realm, which was an extremely vast and spacious flat area, with forests visible in the distance.

But those forests, subtly twisting and changing, represent the areas of the Void God Realm not yet controlled by the Desolate Curse.

They've now erected a barrier to prevent people from passing.

The flat land surrounding Lin Ye was extremely empty, except for the small houses used by cultivators who practiced various arts of immortality.

Lin Ye opened the Desolate Curse and glanced at the friends of his master, Fellow Daoist Xiao, and Fellow Daoist Baili.

"Huang Zhou, do you think it's possible that the Void God Realm can be used not only for cultivators to practice various cultivation arts and engage in combat—"

"It can also have transaction and communication functions?"

Lin Ye tapped the ground with his toe: "For example, if you develop this place into a commercial district, wouldn't many businesses be able to be conducted in the safe illusion?"

The desolate curse remained silent, its red light flickering faintly.

"If you think what I said makes sense, remember to send 100 million points to my account as a thank you."

Huang Zhou: "...I don't think what you're saying makes any sense."