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Chapter 94: Another Hint of Evil

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The battlefield had yet to be cleared so instead of conducting postmortem at the sight, the unconscious man and the corpse of the sick-looking middle-aged man by a hidden ditch were brought over to the location of the massacre. The first order of business was none other than to quickly search the field. Beasttakens bodies were no longer valuable since their mystery was simply given up on. After all, fourth generation and higher births from the beasttakens are almost all humans with a few bestial traits. Their existence was simply an accepted fact. It was also for this reason that Bibi Dong emptied her storage tool filled with the corpses of Beartakens that Ja Sun took out previously.

Everyone quickly began to stab into the heads, limbs, and torso of the beasttakens to find out if any of them dropped a spirit bone. When all the mutated Beasttakens failed to drop any, others were a little disheartened. The cold drop rate of spirit bones smacked everyone right on their expectant expressions until...

"Well... I wanna trade," Liu Erlong smiled, holding a left arm spirit bone consisting of only the forearm portion of the arm with its body rendered cyan and an ethereal glow around it without a drop of blood marring its surface once it was brought out. The fluctuations of the spirit bone could only be considered meek when compared to what their group had experienced overall but this was still a spirit bone. However, Ja Sun glanced at it without much thought and shrugged. He didn't reject it as he already had a value for it.

Indeed, it was a 6000-year-old Cyan Wolf Left Arm Spirit Bone. Probably the same one as the reward of his trait so it could be experimented upon.

"Sure, we'll discuss it later."

Finder's keeper.

Liu Erlong discovered the spirit bone, its true value: Age and attributes, were barely useable for anyone around so she kept it unceremoniously. With this spirit bone, everybody's except Ja Sun's hope was reignited and they quickly covered the entire site but Liu Erlong's spirit bone was the only one. Still, they moved once again and finally returned to their encampment with Olivia and Caihong already waiting nearby and treating themselves to a few berries, out of which, Ja Sun picked one and wiped it clean against a handkerchief and ate it with a blissful expression.

Instead of checking up on the corpse, the group quickly freshened up and only then gathered into the single tent with two bodies placed next to each other.

One of the men was in ragged clothing but the spirit fluctuations on it revealed that he was a Spirit Emperor. The corpse, however, wore blood-red clothes with streaks of dried blood carving through the corners of his eyes, lips, nostrils, and mouth. If it wasn't for such a strange situation, Bibi Dong would have wanted to stay longer and find more clues but they had enough adventure already.

Everyone silently stared at the corpse before Bibi Dong knelt and touched the head of the corpse with her thumb. Her nails grew purple momentarily before she closed her eyes and swept through the internal situation of the corpse with her mental strength.

Ja Sun and others waited idly. It was only after a minute that Bibi Dong opened her eyes and looked at the group.

"His brain imploded within his skull but there is no hint of spirit energy. His other organs are completely fine, too."

Bibi Dong's mental energy was just short to Ja Sun within the group and only because she did not have any of the auxiliary techniques Ja Sun attained from his trait. So, her judgment could be trusted but just the simple explanation couldn't shed light on what happened itself.

"Let's search his storage tool," Ah Yin sighed and pulled the pouch tied to the corpse's waste. Once she completed the check, she couldn't help but frown and from the storage tool, she took out a muddy yellow token and a slightly weary parchment.

Seeing this token, Ja Sun couldn't help but blink.

"Hint of Evil?" He smiled.

The yellow token with brown etchings was similar to the one Ja Sun and Ah Yin procured from the team of four attributes clans and on the parchment, aside from the bold marking: Hint of Evil, and a map, there were two other sentences.

'Chaos worth ten villages.'

'Passive Evil; Mightiest Sin.'

Previously, the parchment from the group in Star Dou Great Forest contained the sentences:

'Goods worth more than 5000 gold coins...'

'Passive Evil; Mightiest Sin.'

Seeing the hint of recognition in Ah Yin's and Ja Sun's eyes, others naturally awaited an explanation and Ah Yin was the one who gave a simple explanation on the matter. She truly feared that Ja Sun might speak something else regarding their first encounter with Violet.

'Hint of Evil...'

After hearing their explanation, everyone turned ponderous. Causing troubles on the border and committing massacres is extremely different from catching rare spirit beasts for money. The latter is one of the major sources of earning for spirit masters while the former is a violent crime that awards the spirit master the title of Evil Spirit Master.

"Though, why would you save a spirit beast? If she can speak human, isn't she even more valuable than just 5000 gold coins?" Xie Xan inquired. Liu Erlong, of course, knew who Violet was. She chased after her only to be defeated by Ja Sun back then.

"Why else," Erlong scowled. She stretched her palms towards her breasts but kept quite a distance between them and hissed, "She was this large and didn't wear anything! Jumping and slithering around with those... giant balls of deception! Of course, this pervert would give his life for an entity like that!"

Ja Sun only smiled. In fact, this was a more believable explanation than he let Violet go due to his interest itself. Curiosity and pervertedness are, after all, divided by a thin line itself.

"R-really?" Hu Lana sucked in a breath of cold air. The size Liu Erlong just showed outgunned everyone present. Within their group, the level of their beauty can be considered almost unmatched. Hu Lana might be considered simply pretty but due to her martial soul, her innate charm, her tone, the sense of her gaze, and the expression of her lips could grip any man's heart but not as tightly as it gripped Xie Xan's.

Ah Yin was the most graceful of all. Blue hair is already a rare sight and her large eyes with sapphire-like pupils, white and healthy skin with her slender curves made her stand out even within this group.

Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong were different. They didn't exude a single quality to the maximum but instead seemed to be the perfect combination of physique, grace, and charm. In layman's terms, Bibi Dong's and Liu Erlong's curves were more prominent than Ah Yin and Hu Lana and while Bibi Dong's hips were her major weapons, which enlarged even further when her lower body turned into that of an arachnid, Liu Erlong governed the group with her bust size.

And if she could scowl at someone else's size, then it meant that it's a real deal.

Ah Yin refrained from saying anything regarding this herself since she was aware of the true reason herself.

Not minding her outburst since he has always been the one to push other's buttons, Ja Sun, too, crouched and began inspecting the corpse.

As Bibi Dong stated, there was nothing else of note aside from the absolutely splashed-out brain within. But Ja Sun began to connect dots at this point. Two individuals, one dead, one unconscious. So, most probably, the two tasks of deception could be divided into two of them. One of them could be the controller while the other one could be illusionist but given the situation of the ragged spirit master, it could also be speculated that he was similarly controlled and enslaved which meant that the corpse was the true controller or...

'The true controller took the chance to escape but whatever the case, this must be affiliated to Hint of Evil? So this organization isn't simple slave traders?' Ja Sun mused and glanced at the unconscious man.

"Anyway, what kind of name is Hint of Evil," Bibi Dong frowned. It truly didn't matter if Ja Sun helped a 1000-year-old spirit beast. After all, the mutation only meant she could be weighed in gold but to a true and excellent spirit master, gold is a simple accessory. Ja Sun could even refine gold into Diamond Essence Gold itself. The fact that their group was even taking care of Olivia and Caihong proved that the hunt of Spirit Beast is most often based on benefits. After all, who would really want to live in a forest and away from civilization when there is no use to this act?

"Maybe they are hinting to everyone that they are really evil? Like little kids do to stand out amongst themselves?" Xie Xan joked, his words relieving everybody's tension but one thing was for sure. Without proper abilities, they would have been torn apart in that small tide of beasttakens. And the ability to control such a force to be reckoned with, after all.

"I've actually heard of them," Liu Erlong uttered with narrowed eyes.

Feeling everybody's gaze landing on her, she crossed her arms below her ample bosom and revealed a distressed expression and her eyes turned strangely gloomy.

"Remember how I avenged my mother? Who was it that informed me of the true culprit?" Liu Erlong's gaze flickered, "It was a servant within the clan. He came to me after I had just buried my mother and told me of the situation. He also said that if I want to kill the bitch who plotted against my mother, the group behind him would help me leave the clan alive... he called his group Hint of Evil."

Everyone felt a little startled.

Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan is known as one of the top three sects of the entire continent! If it was infiltrated by this organization, then what couldn't be expected from this group?

"Teacher, any thoughts?" Ja Sun inquired. The moment the image of the man in red was revealed, Bibi Dong reacted the strongest that almost collapsed the telepathic network once again.

"We wake this man up and question him. If it's anything important, I can contact Spirit City through the Spirit Temple in Dragon Rising City and if not, we can let this man go. Anyway, our focus isn't to snoop around mysterious organization filled with evil cultivators most probably. It's to train and prepare. After the competition, we can focus on something else entirely."

Her words cleared everybody's doubt regarding their next course of action and finally, they simultaneously looked at the unconscious man, the head of whom Ja Sun tapped and sent his incomparably pure spirit energy to rouse him. Had he sent his mental energy with the quality of rot and death, the man would only have been damaged.

"Nghh," A pained groaned uttered through his lips and he finally slowly opened his eyes. The dark-haired man grew a bit dazed due to his blurry gaze landing on the group and he frowned.

"W-who?" He whispered with a parched throat and felt a throbbing pain pass in his head.

"Since we have decided to train instead of pursuing this line of quest, I'm not particularly interested in this. Teacher, can we stay here for a few days longer? I think I'm about to breakthrough and also need to digest my gains from Ghost Canyon."

Ja Sun looked at Bibi Dong as she nodded and he left the tent.

His interest in Hint of Evil was restricted to looting them only. Since it isn't possible still, he didn't particularly care about the situation. In fact, he would rather use this fight as an excuse to finally have some private time and digest most of his gains and finally make a qualitative breakthrough of his physique which was already long overdue.

He also brought Ah Yin out with him and strangely, Liu Erlong followed out.

"Yeah?" Ja Sun looked back and she frowned, huffing, "Remember? I want to see if you have the spirit bone compatible with me."

Nodding, Ja Sun set another tent nearby and brought Caihong and Olivia with him. His energy fluctuations were passively a great resource for spirit beasts so he didn't want the two to laze around outside but next to him. At least, they would gain a few benefits.

Once the tent was erected, the trio sat and Liu Erlong took out the Cyan left arm spirit bone.

Ja Sun looked at the 6000-year-old Cyan Wolf Left Arm spirit bone.

The quality of spirit bones can be observed through their completeness. This spirit bone only represented the left connected Radius and Ulna bones of a human. It wasn't even an entire arm or extended to the wrists so even among its own level, the quality of the 6000-year-old cyan wolf left arm spirit bone is quite low.

Ah Yin sat a little farther from the duo and petted the softly hooting Caihong and Olivia. Since she didn't have anything to trade and was brought by Ja Sun himself, she waited her turn. Clearly, Ja Sun had something to ask of her.

"What you want should be this, right? I did reveal it inside the carriage when Ning Fengzhi brought us to the forest," Ja Sun smiled and pulled out a crimson-red spirit bone.

Unlike the simple cyan bone, this crimson bone was quite complete. Although its size wasn't even close to a human arm, it revealed two sections of the arm extending to sharp bony claws. The fluctuations of the spirit bone spread out till five to seven meters and Liu Erlong's breathing turned slightly ragged.

A 49000-year-old Lava Salamander Left Arm bone!

Be it her martial soul or the configuration of her spirit rings, this Spirit Bone matched her extremely well. In fact, due to her martial soul being a dragon and the spirit bone being taken from a salamander, she could derive more benefits from this spirit bone because her Martial Soul naturally suppressed the spirit bone, making it far smoother of a process to absorb it. But when she looked at Ja Sun's expression, her lips twitched.

Of course, she wanted this spirit bone. She wanted it from the moment he revealed its existence.

Xie Xan had broken through his limits and absorbed a spirit ring higher than what his capacity allowed him to. If he had a spirit bone, he could have strived even higher because a spirit bone not only enhances one's body, it also has a positive effect on one's spirit energy.

"Yes, I want it," Liu Erlong eyed Ja Sun but her fickle lens of calm couldn't cover the whirlpool of desire under her pupils. Most spirit masters live their entire life without a spirit bone much less a compatible one. If Ja Sun hadn't risked offending the entire White Tiger Imperial Clan, he wouldn't have gotten such high quality of spirit bones.

"But just this incomplete spirit bone isn't enough. This is a 49000-year-old spirit bone that is exceptionally suitable for you. I can bet that because of your martial soul, this spirit bone may even enhance slightly and turn into a 50000-year-old one. Not only that, you are a level away from rank 50. This spirit bone can bring you to the peak and improve your body, allowing you to achieve the same feat as Xie Xan but probably more efficiently.

So, the value of this spirit bone to you is incomparable. After all, just this spirit bone serves as a foundation to enhance your future cultivation."

Her thoughts completely exposed and the value of the bone completely revealed, Liu Erlong couldn't help bite her lips.

"You think I wouldn't have thought all of this? What do you want?" Liu Erlong inquired with a heave and Ja Sun frowned momentarily. Even if Liu Erlong added the second spirit bone of hers, she wouldn't be able to match the value of this spirit bone.

He already knew that Liu Erlong was the one to complete the final mission in the war between Balak and Silvers Kingdom. This was also one of the many reasons why Ja Sun poked fun at her. Because he was somewhat petty when it came to such things. However, unlike Liu Erlong stated, Ja Sun didn't have anything he wanted from her.

"Did you already forget?" Ja Sun tilted his head, "You are the one who demanded a trade."

"But you accepted it. I figured that you already know I cannot compare the price and have something else you want as compensation," Liu Erlong glanced at Ah Yin for a moment and when she saw Ah Yin wearing the same necklace that Ja Sun had gifted her in the Star Luo City, her eyes couldn't help but flash.

"You overestimate me too much," Ja Sun's lips twitched.

His mind, at this moment, is practically filled with the digestion of his gains. Sure, staying at this level and facing tougher opponents meant attaining more S-ranked rewards but the main attraction of the trait was to help him grow quickly. If he even forgets this simple thing, then he may as well consider himself a true mission junkie. But now, it was time to settle a little and redefine one's foundation.

On the other hand, Liu Erlong was in a daze. She gazed at the crimson spirit bone set on Ja Sun's lap with an expression of longing and desire. The calm facade already ruined by his words.

"What's your other spirit bone? Take it out," Ja Sun mumbled with a snort.

Taking a deep breath, Liu Erlong revealed a calf bone extending to the foot. Dark-blue all over and a soothing energy around the spirit bone unlike the slightly tyrannical fluctuation around the cyan bone and the explosive heat around the crimson one.

"8000-year-old Gentle Moray Left Leg Spirit Bone."

Liu Erlong introduced.

Ja Sun gazed at the spirit bone before losing his interest but in his own hand, the Salamander bone was basically useless. Still, he was conflicted to just give it away for a loss and he closed his eyes to mull on the situation. Right now, he didn't have any pressing use of Liu Erlong like back then were he truly gifted the Blue Silver Emperor's Core to Ah Yin. Giving this Spirit Bone to Liu Erlong at a loss, now, would only probably gain him her favor which wasn't much of use to him. So, either he had to find a good use of Liu Erlong or reject the trade. There was no other way about it.

Alas, Ja Sun didn't. Shaking his head with a sigh, he finally declined the trade, making Liu Erlong quite upset as she left the tent with slumped shoulders.

"That was rough to watch," Ah Yin exhaled herself as Ja Sun shrugged, "Trading is rough, what did you expect? You should count lucky that I gave you that beautiful pear for... nothing," he pouted and sprawled on the ground.

"Well, it wasn't for nothing," Ah Yin scooched forward while setting the two owls on the ground and gently pick Ja Sun's head and set it on her lap. The affectionate action made Ja Sun's heart thump in excitement as Ah Yin smiled, "If you hadn't done that, could you make fun of all of us now? This is the price of that pearl."

Ja Sun grew dazed momentarily before chuckling out loud.

"Money well spent," he remarked and added, "But I am always hoping for something more."

"Hope does give us strength," Ah Yin winked, "Keep hoping."

'Why does she have to be so difficult!' Ja Sun rolled his eyes. She wasn't the only one difficult. Just a few moments ago, Liu Erlong was basically pestering him for the Spirit Bone. If he had a weaker will, the sight of her jiggle physics unconsciously created from her side would have persuaded him to trade. But pleasure has always been a personal concept for Ja Sun and not a professional one. He knew how to differentiate between needs and desires.

He needed Ah Yin's lips. He desired other beautiful woman's lips. A clear difference.

Seeing his stare not leaving her lips, Ah Yin's soft pink lips tilted slightly upward in a short smile and she leaned down. Her natural fragrance is all Ja Sun could sense at this moment.

"You wanted to ask me something didn't you?" Ah Yin inquired softly.

"Will you cover my tent with your domain so that no spiritual fluctuation leaks out?" Ja Sun inquired after inhaling deeply. He didn't mind even if he did this in front of Ah Yin. Were the two of them not aware of what was happening already?

"Of course, I will," Ah Yin smiled, "How long?"

"Most probably a week."

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Chapter 95: Digestion (1)

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Ja Sun continuously meditated for three hours straight. He didn't leave after Ah Yin set her domain up. Though Ja Sun was aching to know about her domain, he was aching to get to know many things about Ah Yin either way so he didn't even push the matter instead set up his mental defenses in the tent and pumped his fist.

There was no blue silver grass within the tent. Ja Sun's rotten mental energy proved the most effective against any mental probes for the quality of his mental energy is similar to a poison to others.

The rewards of today's mission followed soon.

[Objective: Assist Bibi Dong, Hu Lana, Xie Xan, Liu Erlong, and Ah Yin in wiping out the beasttaken tribe and find an enclosed space privately to pump your fists.

Optional Objectives:

1) Accomplish objective without the said members remaining unscathed.

2) Accomplish objective without utilizing Astral Combatant.

3) Accomplish objective without using the first three spirit skills.

4) Accomplish objective without using Nightmare's Fantasy skull bone.

Mission Rank: A-S-S-S-S

Mission Rewards: 6000-year-old Cyan Wolf Left Arm Spirit Bone—A shard of Life Gold Crystal—Extreme Phantom Shadow Technique—2nd Grade Mystical Light Wisdom Orchid—Mask of Mischievous Deity.]

Using his fantasy skull bone didn't raise any waves in Ja Sun's heart now. He silently stared at the extremely familiar Cyan Wolf Bone forming in front of him and stored it quietly. Though lamentable, Ja Sun did understand that he wasn't the kind to give his treasures, and even if he wanted Liu Erlong to grow since she is a valued and talented teammate, it didn't push him to the limits of charity. If a spirit bone was discovered in a wilderness where everyone contributed and they received a spirit bone that could be helpful to Liu Erlong then naturally, Ja Sun had no issue simply giving it up. There is a fine line between being petty and not wanting to spread one's wealth without any regard.

The second and most important reward began to form and Ja Sun alongside the two owls instantly felt refreshed. Olivia's and Caihong's body wished to move towards the emerald crystal that exuded boundless and extremely warm life force, much similar to Ah Yin's own quality, and yet, for the first time, the mother-son pair felt the danger that every prey, Human-tongue Owls more so, feel when they enter the range of an absolute predator.

Their feathers stood up slightly but they couldn't hoot. They couldn't scream. They couldn't move and they didn't wish to move because this sense of majestic pressure came from the individual that the two were following.

The owls' hearts were forcefully calmed as Ja Sun silently held the thin and long shard of the Life Gold, almost as long as his index finger, and stored it in a storage space without anything else. Since he was planning to use this shard anyway, he didn't prepare any special case to contain it. Glancing at the two greedy owls for a moment, Ja Sun smiled and continued without any worries. He would truly be a fool if he didn't understand how to guard his treasures. A beast always acts on instincts once the item of its desire is placed in front of it. Caihong and Olivia did what their instincts demanded.

So did Ja Sun. They wanted the Shard of Life Gold and Ja Sun's presence surpassed the two owls' by far.

The Extreme Phantom Shadow Technique, as Ja Sun expected, was a technique left by Extreme Phantom Douluo. This fellow must truly be a talent of the generation to be able to create such magnificent techniques. Extreme Phantom Shadow Technique happened to be a movement technique of a quality higher than Storm Steps and Ja Sun definitely intended to learn it, too.

Finally, the last reward of the day appeared in front of him.

It appeared in a small pot filled with pitch-black dirt with thin stalk growing and tilting sideways and yellow-white orchid blooms blossoming over the shifted stalk at the upper and tilted end. A dense spirit energy filled the room but this time, instead of thirst, the trio within the tent was hit by a wave of lightness and satisfaction.

Any herb above the age of 10000-years of cultivation is classified as an immortal herb and from then on, they are divided into grades. Each grade meant that the immortal herb has cultivated enough to match the effects of another 10000 years.

The 2nd Grade Mystical Light Wisdom Orchid is an immortal herb with the cultivation equivalent of 20000 years with its effect particularly suitable for pure light-attributed spirit masters and spirit beasts. Ja Sun's own attributes matched this orchid deeply but a consumption of immortal herb needs to be carefully determined. In life, once an immortal herb is consumed, if the individual wishes to consume another one, they need to consider the first immortal herb itself because the effects of immortal herbs completely change one's body with their medicinal effects. Should Ja Sun consume this Immortal Herb now, his martial soul will be heavily shifted to the light attribute but that wasn't what he wanted.

Spirit Attribute is the Three-eyed Silver Lion's major attribute and Ja Sun wished to continue to grow strong and possibly evolve like Ah Yin based on this attribute itself. If Light and Spatial Attributes were so amazing, they would have long affected his martial soul's development but they didn't and most likely couldn't.

Presently, this orchid was the most amazing present for only one fellow— Bright Goddess Butterfly.

Light flashed between Ja Sun's eyebrows and the skull-sized Bright Goddess Butterfly flew out obediently. Landing on the orchid, the large butterfly with a beautiful golden-white carapace for its body began absorbing the effects of the immortal herb. Her cultivation now surpassed 16000 years so this 2nd Grade Light-attributed immortal herb happened to be an amazing cultivation resource for her.

Seeing the treasure being put to good use, Ja Sun finally started planning his own advancement.

With everything he had, the first and foremost upgrade was definitely booked by his physique and he had just the right items to finally push his physique over the edge.

With a wave of his hand, Ja Sun brought a chunk of a dark ore that gave a dark golden hue while stubbornly encased in a dark-crystal-like shell.

This is the S-ranked reward Ja Sun earned from beating Tang Hao in his bet: Titanium Crystal.

Ja Sun's body had changed for the better once he refined the Vajra Gauntlets as his blood artifact using the Crystal of War God's Essence. He still recalled the so-called God of War. That situation is still quite strange for him. That island and the golden light beneath it. The fight itself was strange. What mattered, however, is that Ja Sun knew he somehow, fortunately, robbed the person who called himself God of War. His body acquired an innate quality that would share the benefits of one part to every corner. Meaning, if he only refines his blood, the boost to his blood would be equally reduced to match the tempering of his body and Vajra Gauntlets.

This also meant that if Ja Sun improved Vajra Gauntlets, it would affect his body as a whole.

But how is this possible?

The answer lied in one thing Ja Sun had been striving for a long time— Digestion of his gains.

In Star Luo Palace, Ja Sun defeated Tang Hao in a refining bet. This earned him multiple ores out of which, two ores filled with yang essence were absorbed by Fiery Golden Pupils to reach the second level of the technique: Golden. Alongside this, he also obtained stumps of Purple Cloud Wood which helped strengthen his entire physique as a whole.

Next, he defeated Taiyin after making a fatal wager. In this wager, he obtained four spirit bones from the Imperial Clan and two spirit bones from his trait. He also obtained the dagger made from the Bite of Jinx Serpent and absorbed all the poison to refine his blood, the effects of which were forcibly transferred to his entire body once again, and his physique was strengthened relatively.

Then, Qian Daoliu gifted him an inheritance for a job well done. This booklet was truly important as it described the Blood Artifacts and their potential. This was something not described within Dragon's Observation since that particular tome only detailed every path of human cultivation and the possible deviations and enhancements. It was simply filled with the experience of multiple cultivation paths and not blood artifacts like Vajra Gauntlet.

It could be said that Ja Sun had barely digested all of his gains yet. Just the two 80000-year-old arm spirit bones constituted half the benefits.

But Ja Sun did plan to digest the other half.

Titanium Crystal, a rare ore that is heavily condensed to the point that hair-like thin strands of crystal condense within its structure and stick together to look like the various direction of smaller plates, represented this other half of benefits.

A blood artifact can be continuously refined. It can be added with materials. But since Blood Artifact comes in various sizes based on the user's choice, the refinement of every blood artifact is different.

Ja Sun's blood artifact is a pair of gauntlets that cannot appear outside of his body like a sword. It cannot be let go of since it covers his palms. So, the refinement of such an item would have been to strike one's palm with a hammer, push it in a furnace and quench it within oil.

But not for Ja Sun.

He didn't pursue the profession of Blacksmithing but Array Refining.

Compared to him, beings like Tang Hao or Lou Gao were definitely better in blacksmithing but Ja Sun was simply too good of an array refiner. Since Ja Sun's arrays are based on smithing for the moment, the best way to gain more blueprints of arrays and expand his knowledge was by sticking to his strength and create multiple low-ranked additional objectives based on array refining.

This is what he did.

Setting up a mission on refining the Titanium Crystal, Ja Sun pulled out his Sigh of Immortal to keep him full of spirit energy and instantly created an array.

This time, the array was different than an ordinary smithing array shaped in a floating circle.

Ja Sun was surrounded by mystical lines of spirit energy shaped in the form of a cauldron. The white lines of spirit energy crisscrossed and covered Ja Sun within as if aiming to temper himself.

This was none other than the greatest array blueprint known to Ja Sun aside from Final Buddha Array and the Myriad Step Refining Array: The War God's Cauldron Array.

The War God is deviously known for his art of refining and smithing, too. This array, if the description of the blueprint is correct, was developed by the so-called God of Blacksmithing. A perfect refinement array capable of drawing an unending amount of spirit energy from the user to develop the best product hence making the energy storage tool such as Sigh of Immortal reveal its greatest use.

Closing his eyes, Ja Sun began refining the Titanium Crystal itself to raise its quality, and only then will he start refining the Vajra Gauntlets.

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"Sigh... that bloke really doesn't have his memories, huh," Xie Xan looked at the middle-aged Spirit Emperor sleeping silently while Bibi Dong nodded.

"But it was because of his martial soul that we were trapped in the illusion. This means that the controller is most likely the corpse or else, this corpse was a distraction and the true mastermind has long left," Hu Lana added.

"Not really. If Hint of Evil is really a secretive organization, it must have ways to prevent the leak of information. Considering that the illusion of the red-haired man we saw happened to be related to the Hint of Evil then... it can be assumed that this man unintentionally let out critical information and was dealt by some mystical means placed within his body," Bibi Dong mumbled.

"Creepy," Liu Erlong clicked her tongue.

"Anyway, since Ka-ul has asked for seven days, we all will cultivate, too," Bibi Dong shook her head and then glanced at the sleeping middle-aged man, "I will take him to the Spirit Temple of the Dragon Rising City tomorrow. Maybe someone within the hall has the skill to recover lost memories. Now, take turns to look over him. Since his hands and feet are bound by Spirit Blocking ropes, he won't be able to mobilize spirit energy.

Erlong, follow me," she directed everyone and then left with Erlong.

A little distance away from the tent, she looked at Erlong and inquired with a smile, "Did you manage to trade with Ka-ul?"

Liu Erlong pursed her lips instantly. Her reaction indicated the failure on the matter and Bibi Dong sighed softly.

"In reality, that spirit bone really is amazing for you but I also agree with Ka-ul's greed. None of us should be expected to just hand out treasures like spirit bones and the fact that he is even willing to trade means that he won't be using those spirit bones on himself anytime soon. But you're almost a Spirit King. So, this spirit bone's value is higher for you."

"I know all of this!" Liu Erlong almost lashed out but faced with calmly smiling Bibi Dong, she felt her anger stifled.

"I will help you gain that spirit bone. You have two spirit bones right now, but there is a possibility that you may have to procure another one to compensate Ka-ul with later on."

Liu Erlong blinked before she became excited, "Teacher, you have another spirit bone?"

"At the start of our training, Ka-ul looted all my wealth... do you think I can still have a spirit bone?" Bibi Dong's lips twitched.

"I see..." Liu Erlong's gaze flickered. Whatever Bibi Dong's methods included, she must have a bit of confidence to proclaim as such so Erlong didn't pursue. But a bit of hesitation still remained in her heart and she finally voiced it.

"Given everything, you should be suppressing me, right? Though I have renounced my clan and cut off my ties with them..."

"Listen well," Bibi Dong's gaze turned strict and a sense of pressure instantly made Liu Erlong's head buzz, "Since I allowed you on this training with all of us, it already means I no longer care about your affiliations. After the competition, go back to your clan if you want and see if I care. The same is for Hu Lana, Xie Xan, Ah Yin, and Ka-ul. I'm your teacher first and a comrade later. Things like distrust for me don't matter anymore."

Don't get close to those you don't trust.

Never distrust those you have finally gotten close to.

Mixing these both concepts is a complicated matter that often blows upon one's face.

Liu Erlong's eyes widened momentarily before she tilted her head, "Then what about the other spirit bones?"

"When their use is greatest for the group, I will naturally talk with him once again. Although, he will definitely demand a pound of flesh," Bibi Dong gave a hollow chuckled and she felt Erlong's gaze roaming over her body.

"Well... you wouldn't lose your touch, teacher," Liu Erlong uncharacteristically praised as Bibi Dong's cheeks felt a little warmer.

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