Chapter Eighty-Seven: Competition

  Today's fourth update!!!

  "Eliminating evil is promoting good~~~" Yue whispered this sentence to herself, after repeating it several times, she smiled quietly.

  "Good kid, with your personality, I'll help you out. However, it also depends on your luck. If you can break through the five-tiered illusion array within a year, I can teach you a mental technique called 'Expel Spirit'. With this technique, you can turn that Wang Dao into your personal pawn. But if you fail to break through the array within a year, then I won't be able to help you. Looking at Wang Dao, I think it'll only take him a year to successfully condense his spirit and with his strength, taking over the body should be a piece of cake."

  As soon as Yue said this, Zhang Chong finally understood the importance of the matter.

  He extremely despised Wang Dao, who was not a Jianghu master, but a Yuan Ying-level cultivator on par with Mo He Zhen Lao. Having witnessed Mo He's strength, he naturally understood that Yue was telling the truth. If Wang Dao's powers were to recover, wanting to kill him would be as easy as crushing an ant.

  As he thought of this, a strong sense of crisis also emerged from Zhang Chong's heart, and next, he would have to race against time.

  "You old codger, I'll never be controlled by you. You can just wait to become my subordinate." Zhang Chong thought to himself with a surge of fighting spirit.

  He sat on the ground, following Yue's method, and threw the second-order spiral steel into the air. Then, the two strands of energy inside his body came out, causing the second-order spiral steel to float in mid-air. After that, his palms faced upwards, and two faint blue flames emerged from his palms, floating gently above them.

  Zhang Chong's current flame, although only a second-rate Xuan fire, is extremely pure and can be considered a good refining flame. After the flame was emitted, the spiral steel slowly sank down, gradually sinking to the middle of the two flames.

  At this moment, as if there was a gravitational pull, two flames, one on the left and one on the right, began to rotate slowly along the spiral steel. In this rotation, there were constantly small flames that darted towards the location of the spiral steel. Zhang Chong's palm also had more flames continuously generated.

  Under the relentless burning of these flames, the rebar also slowly melted away. This melting was extremely slow, and at this rate, it's estimated that it would take over three days to completely melt all the rebar.

  However, Zhang Chongdao was not in a hurry and maintained a good attitude. He slowly refined it, resting for a while every four hours, and at the same time refining a White Yang Pill to supplement his physical strength.

  At this time, he also discovered the wonders of the Xuanji Ring that Yue had mentioned. Yue told him that at present, he was using his primordial spirit to refine the Baiyang Dan in the Xuanji Ring, and his body was also refining the Baiyang Dan. In other words, any action he took during his cultivation, any mental state he experienced, could be perfectly replicated on his body, allowing Zhang Chong, even if he left the Xuanji Ring, to fully utilize these skills.

  "It's really amazing!" As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Chong couldn't help but admire Lan Xi Ping. He didn't expect that with just one person's intelligence, he could create such an amazing object.

  "Lan Xiping once said, the way of heaven is to subtract from what is excessive and add to what is insufficient. The way of heaven and earth emphasizes endless reproduction. As for human cultivation, it is through continuous practice that one can align with the heavenly way and utilize even greater power from between heaven and earth."

  He also said that this Xuanji ring was something he unintentionally came up with, and such an opportunity could only happen once and would never come again. If he wanted to refine the Xuanji ring again, it would be impossible for him to do so. This feeling is like the heavens opening the door to a treasure trove in an instant, allowing him to enter and take out one of the treasures. Such an opportunity is truly second only to ascending to immortality.

  "While the Sleeping Dream Heart Sutra is Lan Xi Ping's lifelong learning, constantly pondering the Xuanji Zhikai, and the supreme cultivation method that he has come to realize. He also said that the Xuanji Zhikai may have even greater power, but his realm has not yet reached it, and he cannot fully comprehend it."

  Yue said these words to Zhang Chong with a sense of emotionlessness.

  After these days of time, he and Zhang Chong still got along quite well, chatting extremely harmoniously, and because of this, Zhang Chong didn't feel that the path of cultivation was too dull.

  And his progress was extremely rapid, and for the first time he refined a second-grade spiritual instrument, it was actually done by him in one go.

  The steel thread, under the sway of his breath, completely transformed into a blue **, floating gently in mid-air. In Zhang Chong's heart, he imagined the shape of a sword, and his two hands stretched out towards the half-empty space, beginning to dance rapidly. Under the light movement of his two hands, this blue ** took on the shape of a sword.

  At this moment, all the auras surrounding the sword suddenly dispersed, and the sword body lost its support and began to fall downwards. In that instant, Zhang's two hands shot out, his index fingers swiftly and lightly brushing past the sword's surface.

  As his two hands lightly touched, two faint golden lights floated above the sword body, as if printed on it. In an instant, a faint pattern was printed on the sword body. After the pattern was printed, a strong light burst out, and under the light, they greedily absorbed the dense heavenly power around them. After a breath, they were satisfied and extinguished the light, and the sword body returned to its pale blue color, falling down.

  Zhang Chong quickly stretched out his hand and took over the sword, placing it in his hand. The sword was made of spiral steel and could be considered a top-grade second-rate spiritual artifact. It felt heavy in his hand, estimated to weigh around 1,000 jin. However, this weight was extremely suitable for cultivators with great strength. On the body of the sword, Zhang Chong had inscribed two second-rate symbol arrays: "Wan Jun" and "Qing Li". The former could increase the attack power of his sword moves by 10%, while the latter could speed up his sword moves by 10%. These were two symbol arrays that Qing Xuan often used in her equipment refinement. Since there was no special requirement, Zhang Chong only inscribed these two symbol arrays on this first spiritual artifact he refined.

  The array of talismans is the most important and easiest to fail in the process of refining equipment. Because when the power of heaven and earth is about to disperse, within a breath, the complete talisman array must be imprinted on the spiritual device. If any deviation occurs during this process, it will result in the spiritual device having defects or even becoming scrap, requiring re-refining.

  Yue did not expect that Zhang Chong would be able to refine a second-grade spiritual artifact so easily, and he couldn't help but feel admiration.

  "That's natural, you don't know what kind of person Little Zhang is, he's a synonym for shocking talent." Zhang Chong became complacent.

  However, Yue was not one to mince words and immediately said

  "A good start doesn't mean everything, if you can't break through the fifth stage of array within a year, it's all useless, and you'll only be abandoned by Wang Dao, at that time, no matter how talented you are, it won't belong to you."

  Poor Little Zhang Ge had just floated up to the clouds, but with just this one sentence, he was beaten down again and resumed his arduous cultivation.

  "Brother can't lose, brother can't be taken advantage of."

  Thinking of this, Zhang Chong took out the three-product Liu Hua Tong that Yue had brought for him and began to refine the three-product spiritual instrument.

  His fingers danced up and down, the flames in mid-air, slowly rising to dance. The Lianhua copper was melting slowly in these flames. It had to be said that using second-rate Xuan fire to refine this third-rate spiritual instrument would take a lot more time. However, Yue also told Zhang Chong that only through continuous refinement could the level of Xuan fire be continuously improved.

  Ten days later, Ruri's copper hair had turned a faint reddish color.