Chapter 27: Initial Success, I Am the King!!

  At this moment, Zhang Heng had five spiritual instruments in his hands, and he did not plan to take out the Wu Ling Sword and Yue Xuan first for refining.

  The value of Yuè Shāng has in some ways already surpassed that of ordinary high-grade spiritual artifacts, and its power is also much stronger than that of general mid-grade spiritual artifacts. Zhang Heng kept this artifact as his secret weapon, even at the next month's Fang Yun gathering, he would not easily take it out to use.

  Compared with Yue Meng as a secret weapon, Wuling Sword is the spiritual instrument that Zhang Heng usually uses at ordinary times, and it's not bad to cover people's ears and eyes.

  The unidentified auxiliary spiritual artifact obtained from Ning Xuefeng was also temporarily not refined, as he vaguely felt the unusualness of this hairpin, and he didn't want to refine all of Ning Xuefeng's belongings either.

  The remaining two medium-grade spiritual artifacts are the damaged Fire Feather Fan and the Ling Frost Jade Pendant. Such damaged medium-grade spiritual artifacts can only be re-refined by a foundation-building cultivator, and even if they are re-refined, their power will likely decrease somewhat.

  But for Zhang Heng, whether the spiritual instrument is damaged or not is unimportant. He doesn't need to use these two spiritual instruments, but rather needs to refine and absorb the essence of the spiritual instrument they contain.

  First, pick up the half piece of Ling Xue Yu Pei, then put aside other spiritual instrument fragments and Tie Ling's mother. Next, close your eyes, concentrate your mind, and let the Lian Xū Líng Qì inside your body flow out like a spirit snake, rushing straight towards the half piece of Ling Xue Yu Pei in your hand.

  A faint silver light circulated on Zhang Heng's body, the Lianxu spiritual energy inside his body flowed out from his dantian, then reached the Ling Shuang jade pendant outside his body, rotated a circle on the surface of the half-jade pendant, and finally flowed back into his body.

  The two major cycles of internal and external circulation, flowing endlessly, formed a clever balance. Zhang Heng could feel the essence of Ling Xueyu's jade pendant entering his body with the circulation of Lianxu Spirit Qi.

  However, the refining speed this time seemed to be much slower than before, and it took a whole hour for some inconspicuous cracks to appear on the surface of the spiritual instrument.

  When a large crack appeared on the jade pendant, Zhang Heng found that his refining speed had increased significantly. He felt that the essence of the spiritual instrument was flowing through his body more smoothly and quickly, and the circulation of the Void Spirit Qi was also more rounded and unobstructed.

  About another quarter of an hour, the jade pendant in Zhang Heng's hand turned into a pile of gray powder and fell to the ground. The essence of the spiritual instrument had been completely refined and absorbed by Zhang Heng.

  He faintly sensed that refining half a piece of Ling Frost Jade Pendant had an effect equivalent to refining two pieces of low-grade spiritual equipment. His own guess was correct, high-ranking spiritual equipment would definitely have a greater impact than ordinary spiritual equipment.

  He picked up the other half of the Ling Xue Yu Pei and began to absorb the essence of the spiritual instrument with his Lian Huan Ling Qi. This time, the speed was much faster than before, and it only took a little over an hour to completely absorb the essence from the spiritual instrument.

  It seems that as the number of refinements increases, the refinement speed also becomes faster, and the higher the grade of the spiritual instrument, the more time it takes to refine.

  Zhang Heng was just about to continue refining the remaining spiritual artifact, Huo Yu Shan, when his outstretched hand suddenly froze.

  He faintly felt that when the Lianyuan Spiritual Energy circulated within his body, it was not as smooth and natural as before. Moreover, his body seemed to be unable to withstand the circulation of the spiritual energy at this moment.

  It seems that he was a bit too eager to succeed, so Zhang Heng temporarily gave up his plan to continue refining and closed his eyes to meditate, circulating the Lianyuan Spiritual Energy within his body.

  A silvery white glow flowed through his body, continuously strengthening his physique, including his skin, organs, muscles, skeleton...

  With the help of the mysterious jade cylinder in his mind, his divine consciousness easily merged with the refined spiritual energy, and the refined spiritual energy strengthened his divine consciousness while transforming his physical body.

  It was unclear how much time had passed, but it felt like an eternity since he began refining the essence of the Luminous Spirit. Zhang Heng finally gained control over the Luminous Spirit energy within his body, and his physical form could now withstand its circulation.

  Zhang Heng opened his eyes, picked up another mid-grade spiritual artifact, the Fire Feather Fan. Although the Fire Feather Fan was also damaged, it remained a complete piece of spiritual equipment and had not split into two pieces. Zhang Heng decided to refine it all at once.

  This time the refining speed increased again, and when the entire Huoyu fan was refined into a pile of powder like charcoal, it took less than two hours.

  Then, Zhang Heng sat down and began to condense his physical body and intensify his spiritual consciousness.

  The speed at which the flesh was condensed did not increase much, and after a relatively long period of time, Zhang Heng woke up from his meditative state, with a flash of light in his eyes.

  Looking at the few piles of powder on the ground, Zhang Heng sighed silently. He had already refined four spiritual artifacts into dust, two of which were mid-grade spiritual artifacts and the other two were low-grade spiritual artifacts. One mid-grade spiritual artifact was equivalent to four low-grade spiritual artifacts, so in total, Zhang Heng had refined the equivalent of ten spiritual artifacts.

  Ten spiritual artifacts were not enough to allow him to enter the initial stage of the realm. According to the instructions in the mysterious jade cylinder, at least a dozen more spiritual artifacts would be needed for him to achieve his goal.

  Zhang Heng's gaze fell on the dark and majestic Iron Ridge Mine Mother, his eyes shining with anticipation. With the grade of the Iron Ridge Mine Mother, it should be enough to allow him to step into a newly formed realm.

  Taking a deep breath, Zhang Heng picked up the iron ore mother, and at this moment, he felt that the ore in his hand seemed to be several points heavier than before.

  His eyes stared fixedly at the Iron Ridge Mine Mother in his hand, and this time Zhang Heng did not close his eyes, because he was already familiar with the method of refining the spiritual instrument's essence, and no longer needed to enter a meditative state to refine the Iron Ridge Mine Mother.

  And he also wants to observe the specific process of refining with his own eyes.

  A faint silver glow extended from his body, quickly flowing onto the dark and heavy iron ore mother, circulating on the surface of the ore for a week before flowing back into his body.

  Time passed bit by bit, and Zhang Heng found that there was no change on the surface of the Tieling Mine Mother.

  One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock...

  If it weren't for Zhang Heng being able to feel the essence of the Tie Ling ore mother flowing into his body, he would have really doubted whether this piece of Tie Ling ore mother could take effect.

  As time went by, Zhang Heng also stopped several times along the way to temper his physical body and enhance the intensity of his spiritual consciousness, during which he spent a considerable amount of time.

  Thus, refine the essence, condense the flesh and spirit, and then refine the essence again...

  Day turned into night, and night was replaced by day again, and several days and nights passed continuously.

  Finally, at a certain moment, when Zhang Heng himself felt bored, he found that the surface of the Tie Ling mine mother had several faint cracks.

  Although this represents a significant progress in the refining process, Zhang Heng couldn't help but worry while feeling delighted, wondering if this piece of Iron Ridge Mine Mother could meet his expected goal.

  In this way, the cracks on the surface of Tieling Mine Mother gradually enlarged in Zhang Heng's eyes. Although the speed of crack expansion was very slow, Zhang Heng still had some worries in his heart.

  After a long time, the cracks on the surface of Tieling Mine Mother also became half a centimeter wide, and Zhang Heng's cultivation of abnormal work reached an extreme limit. The speed of improvement in physical and spiritual strength also slowed down significantly.

  Crack

  At that moment, the Iron Ridge Mine Mother suddenly split into four or five pieces, and a burst of silver-white light also erupted from Zhang Heng's body.

  In an instant, the entire training room trembled slightly, and even the numerous defensive seals set up outside shook a few times.

  Then, the silvery white glow outside Zhang Heng's body began to converge inward again, gradually darkening and decreasing, like a stream flowing into the ocean, until it all entered his dantian.

  At this moment, in the depths of Zhang Heng's Dan Tian, a silver light ball the size of a pea was slightly trembling, and a suffocating aura emanated from this silver-white light ball.

  Zhang Heng concentrated for a long time, and the pea-sized silver-white light ball finally calmed down. The spiritual energy in his body also returned to calmness, and the suffocating horror aura on him disappeared. At this moment, he was no different from an ordinary Qi-refining cultivator.

  Looking at the shattered Iron Ridge Mother on the ground, Zhang Heng's face was filled with an ecstatic expression. He hadn't expected that the effect of this Iron Ridge Mother would be even greater than he had anticipated. Even without fully refining it, it had still allowed him to formally enter the Transmutation Stage.

  At this moment, Zhang Heng's strength has reached a brand new height. With every move he makes, he can feel the powerful magic contained within his body, and he also senses that there is still a great hidden potential treasure within him.

  Zhang Heng wanted to test his real strength at this moment, but he didn't dare make a big move, so he lightly spat out a mouthful of silver-white spiritual energy forward.

  A burst of "magnetic" sound, a silver-white spiritual energy surged into the layered restrictions in front of him like a wave of water, bursts of light exploded in the air, and ear-piercing explosions echoed through the room.

  Zhang Heng's seven or eight defensive seals that he had set up with great effort were broken in the blink of an eye, more than half of them destroyed.

  Witnessing this scene, Zhang Heng involuntarily took a cold breath. The power of the Lian Yu Ling Qi was beyond his imagination. Under so many defensive seals, without using any spiritual tools, even a foundation-building cultivator would not dare to break half of the seals so easily.

  Of course, this does not mean that Zhang Heng's refined spiritual energy at this moment is stronger than the spiritual energy in the body of a foundation-building cultivator.

  Zhang Heng couldn't help but think of a sentence describing the refining of spiritual energy in the first floor of the ancient tower:

  Refine the void spirit, penetrate heaven and earth, horizontal and vertical are the same level, I am the king!

  I am the king!

  What power! What disdain!

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