I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

#239 - Light the Fire

Zhang Chen was merely taking precautions; as for whether or not there would be an anomaly, he couldn't say for sure.

Xie Lingyun smiled upon hearing this, "This matter is simple. Later, I will dispatch three hundred martial arts experts who have cultivated their Qi and blood to come here and watch over you. With three hundred martial arts masters who have ignited their Qi and blood, as long as Yang God experts don't interfere, you should be able to handle it, right?"

The Yang God experts in the Northern Territory were basically crippled by Duguxiu, so where would they have the energy to interfere with Zhang Chen's treasure refining?

During the previous twelfth-order mystery outburst, although the demon king Zhaolie was the first to bear the brunt, the other experts from all walks of life were inevitably affected and suffered heavy losses.

"Thank you, Sister," Zhang Chen said without standing on ceremony with Xie Lingyun.

The two arrived at the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and Zhang Chen shouted impatiently into the furnace at Zhong Xiang, "Young Master Zhong, have you seen enough? If you have, hurry up and come out, I have serious business to attend to."

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, Zhong Xiang happily flew out of the furnace, his eyes full of joy, "A great harvest! My application of flames can be increased by at least 10%."

Then Zhong Xiang saw Xie Lingyun, and his expression changed slightly. However, the Fifth Master of the Zhong family was, after all, an ally on the same front as Xie Xuan before, and the relationship between the two sides was still considered harmonious, "So it's Commander Xie, I am Zhong Xiang, greetings."

"Young Master Zhong, you don't need to be polite, I also want to thank you for helping my younger brother," Xie Lingyun said with a smile.

"Younger brother?" Zhong Xiang was stunned when he heard this, looked at Zhang Chen and Xie Lingyun, and his expression suddenly darkened. An inexplicable discomfort rose in his heart, and looking at the sister and brother, a nameless anger slowly rose in his heart.

This anger came inexplicably, making Zhong Xiang wish he could tear Xie Lingyun's beautiful face apart.

Especially seeing Zhang Chen standing beside Xie Lingyun with a smile on his face, looking at that cheap smile, he felt even more inexplicably irritable.

"How to ignite the furnace fire?" Zhong Xiang asked sullenly.

"Young Master Zhong only needs to drop a wisp of flame into the center of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and naturally, he can ignite the Qi of Creation gathered by the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and at the same time activate the innate runes on the Eight Trigrams Furnace, guiding out the innate power of the Eight Trigrams Furnace," Zhang Chen said.

Zhong Xiang didn't delay either, and with a flick of his finger, the flame shot out and landed in the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Strangely enough, there seemed to be an unknown substance in the Eight Trigrams Furnace. The wisp of flame fell into the Eight Trigrams Furnace, as if a spark had fallen into gasoline. In an instant, the spark turned into a raging fire, igniting the entire Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Zhong Xiang's Qilin flame was originally a red flame, but after being transformed by the mysterious runes on the Eight Trigrams Furnace, it actually turned into a golden flame, filling the entire Eight Trigrams Furnace.

The most important thing was that although the flame was burning in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, there was no heat leakage at all, and all the scorching power was confined within the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Zhang Chen looked at the raging flames burning in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, a look of joy appeared in his eyes, and then he urged the Five-Colored Divine Light. The next moment, a ball of five-colored light flashed in his sleeve, suspended in front of him.

"That's Fifth Master's flying sword!" Xie Lingyun was a knowledgeable person, and she knew all the famous people in the Northern Territory like the back of her hand, "How is his flying sword here with you? This is a flying sword that Fifth Master has refined for decades, nourished with painstaking effort. It can be said that these nine flying swords are equivalent to Fifth Master's incarnations outside his body. Losing these nine flying swords is equivalent to Fifth Master losing half his life, and there is no hope for Yang God in the future."

Zhang Chen smiled upon hearing this, "That mere Fifth Master gained benefits from me, but he actually drove nine flying swords to try to stab me. It was also a coincidence that I obtained a method specifically to restrain flying swords and collected his flying swords."

"You can even collect Fifth Master's flying swords? It's unbelievable! You must know that even a Yang God True Person has to avoid Fifth Master's flying swords, how do you have the ability to collect Fifth Master's flying swords?" Zhong Xiang couldn't help but exclaim, his eyes full of fear as he looked at Zhang Chen.

However, Zhang Chen didn't answer, and directly shook his hand and threw the flying sword into the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

"How could you throw this peerless flying sword into the Eight Trigrams Furnace to refine it! ! !" Seeing that Zhang Chen actually threw the flying sword into the Eight Trigrams Furnace without hesitation, Xie Lingyun couldn't help but exclaim and was about to rush forward to retrieve the flying sword, but who knew that the flying sword fell directly into the sea of fire in the Eight Trigrams Furnace and was engulfed by the sea of fire, disappearing without a trace.

"Each of these nine flying swords is priceless, even an official position of a first-rank official is not worth exchanging for it. How could you throw it into the Eight Trigrams Furnace to refine it?" Xie Lingyun was a little anxious, "Those nine flying swords were refined by the Primordial Gods and Demons with Taiyi Fine Gold. Not to mention that Taiyi Geng Gold itself is indestructible and invulnerable to all laws, the refining and blessing of the Primordial Gods and Demons is also an unattainable creation. How could you refine it? Once the Eight Trigrams Furnace fire refines it back into an iron lump, its value will be nearly halved."

Zhong Xiang couldn't help but curse, "It's simply a waste of natural resources! Any one of these flying swords is enough for a Yang God True Person to break their heads for, let alone nine? Now they have all been thrown into the furnace to melt, it's simply a waste of good things. Even if the treasures you refine are good, can they be better than those refined by the Primordial Gods and Demons?"

Hearing Xie Lingyun's words, and Zhong Xiang's heartbroken expression, Zhang Chen smiled, "This flying sword has been refined and nourished by Fifth Master for decades, and it has long been in harmony with his mind. His essence, Qi, and spirit imprints have already penetrated into the precious sword. Unless he himself takes back the spiritual imprint that has penetrated into the precious sword, even if this precious sword is in my hands, I cannot control it, and the other party can summon it back with a single thought. Even if a Yang God True Person wants to wash away the essence, Qi, and spirit imprints in the precious sword, I'm afraid it will take a Jiazi's time. I don't have that much time to wait, so I might as well just throw it into the furnace and stew it. At least I can use it without hidden dangers, no matter what treasure I can refine."

As he said this, a scream suddenly came from the Eight Trigrams Furnace. Fifth Master's spiritual imprint was howling in pain in the flames. Along with the Taiyi Geng Gold being melted by the flames, Fifth Master's essence, Qi, and spirit stored in the Taiyi Geng Gold were naturally all refined out.

"Boy, how dare you destroy my flying sword, I will never die with you! I will never die with you!"

Fifth Master's spiritual imprint sounded in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and before Zhang Chen could answer, his essence, Qi, and spirit imprint had already been refined into ashes.

The Eight Trigrams Furnace returned to calm. Facing the raging flames of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, so what if it was a peerless divine weapon?

"This time you have completely formed a deadly feud with Fifth Master. Fifth Master's path has been completely destroyed by you. This flying sword is the object of his entrustment to achieve Yang God. Now that it has been destroyed by you, it will take him a Jiazi's time to find a divine object to complete the entrustment. By then, he will be old, weak, and exhausted, where will he have the opportunity to impact the Yang God realm?" Xie Lingyun's eyes were full of seriousness.

"What if I forge a deadly feud? Fifth-Sixth Mister and the Peace-Border Prince's Estate stand together, while I am inherently mortal enemies with the Peace-Border Prince's Estate. I disfigured Zhang Xiaohua, so the two sides already have an irreconcilable hatred," Zhang Chen said, his voice full of indifference.

Zhong Xiang and Xie Lingyun were speechless upon hearing these words, because what Zhang Chen said was indeed very reasonable. They could only silently mourn for Fifth-Sixth Mister in their hearts. To encounter a fellow like Zhang Chen who doesn't play by the rules, he can only blame his bad luck.

Just as Zhang Chen was refining the Acquired Geng Metal, a sudden scream came from within the Peace-Border Prince's Estate. Fifth-Sixth Mister spat out blood, his shrill voice echoing throughout the entire Peace-Border Prince's Estate: "My flying sword! My flying sword!"

The sound was simply heartbreaking to hear. The Peace-Border Prince and others quickly rushed over, only to see Fifth-Sixth Mister slumped on the ground, constantly wailing.

Fifth-Sixth Mister was a renowned Confucian scholar, an important figure in the Peace-Border Prince's Estate, equivalent to the Peace-Border Prince's strategist and brain, the one who devised plans for the Peace-Border Prince. Seeing Fifth-Sixth Mister in such a miserable state, the Peace-Border Prince and Zhang Xiaohua and others were immediately shocked, and they quickly stepped forward to greet him.

"Mister, what's wrong with you? Could it be that someone infiltrated the Prince's Estate to assassinate you?" The Peace-Border Prince quickly stepped forward to check Fifth-Sixth Mister's body.

Fifth-Sixth Mister grabbed the Peace-Border Prince's hand, a look of grief in his eyes, his voice full of determination: "Your Highness! That little beast Zhang Chen has refined my Natal Flying Sword! He destroyed my Natal Flying Sword."

"What!!!" The Peace-Border Prince's expression changed drastically upon hearing this.

Fifth-Sixth Mister was not only his strategist, but also a top expert in the Peace-Border Prince's Estate, the one who protected the safety of the entire Peace-Border Prince's Estate. With such a mishap, the Peace-Border Prince's Estate's days would probably be even more difficult in the future.

"Zhang Chen! It's Zhang Chen again! I must tear this little beast apart alive!" The Peace-Border Prince was furious.

Meanwhile, in front of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, Zhang Chen spoke while his hand in his sleeve clenched that twelfth-order mystery. This object's origin was mysterious and unpredictable, the location of the Houtu Divine's main body, possessing great creation and great divine power. If it were to merge with the physical body, it would definitely achieve the twelfth-order Divine in the future, mastering the power of the twelfth-order. However, Zhang Chen was walking the path of a Qi Refiner, so although this twelfth-order mystery was good, refining it with mana would be time-consuming and laborious, and it also involved the fallen Houtu Divine. Zhang Chen always felt that this was a hidden danger. What if Houtu were to be resurrected in the world one day?

Therefore, it would be better to simply refine it directly and cut off all hidden dangers.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chen made up his mind and flicked out a yellow light from his palm, which flew directly into the Eight Trigrams Furnace, not giving Zhong Xiang and Xie Lingyun time to see clearly. If Zhong Xiang and Xie Lingyun saw that he wanted to refine the twelfth-order mystery, they would probably try their best to stop him.

As the sphere fell into the Eight Trigrams Furnace, the entire Eight Trigrams Furnace emitted a muffled sound. Wind and thunder power flowed within, and a mysterious power circulated in the Eight Trigrams Furnace. The flames in the entire Eight Trigrams Furnace became three times more intense.

"What treasure is that again? You kid sneakily threw it into the Eight Trigrams Furnace, I'm afraid it's not an ordinary thing, I'm afraid its origin is also not righteous." Zhong Xiang opened his mouth and said from the side. He knew Zhang Chen too well. This guy sneakily throwing things in was very abnormal.

Zhang Chen smiled and said upon hearing this: "It's just a little creation I obtained in the past."

Zhang Chen casually perfunctorily fooled Zhong Xiang, then stretched out his palm and touched the barrier of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, pouring mana into the Eight Trigrams Furnace, while also sensing the situation inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace with the power of mana.

As mana was poured into it, Zhang Chen sensed the situation inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace. He saw that the nine flying swords in the Eight Trigrams Furnace were already burning red, but they had not yet been refined.

The khaki-colored bead was tumbling up and down in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, emitting a hazy yellow light around it, as if it was resisting the burning of the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

"If you want to completely refine two treasures, you still need to use creation as charcoal, yin and yang as work, and the five elements as carving." Thinking of this, Zhang Chen did not hesitate, and directly extracted a trace of his own Five Elements Five Qi source and sent it into the Eight Trigrams Furnace. The next moment, he saw five-colored rays of light emerge from the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and the flame also turned into five colors, its power was more than ten times stronger.

Zhang Chen showed joy upon seeing this, and the Yin-Yang two Qi sealed in his left hand also flew out and poured into the Eight Trigrams Furnace. Then, he saw the Five Elements Qi entangled with the Acquired Yin-Yang Qi, and the Five Elements evolved into Yin-Yang to generate each other. The power of the flame increased dozens of times, hundreds of times. Even the Taiyi Geng Metal began to gradually soften at this time, and the bead also began to flicker with khaki-colored beams, constantly circulating runes, and the laws of the Great Dao order were broken. As the laws of order collapsed, it gradually dissolved in the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

At this time, the color of the flames in the Eight Trigrams Furnace had also changed, evolving from five colors to seven colors. In addition to the five flames, black and white colors were constantly derived.

Yin and Yang, the Five Elements transform each other, and then cooperate with and assist the acquired Eight Trigrams in the Eight Trigrams Furnace to complete a large cycle, which already has the power of incredible, the creation of incredible.

"A bit interesting." Zhang Chen said to himself.

"This not only has the power of Acquired Yin and Yang, Acquired Five Elements, and Acquired Eight Trigrams, but also the two materials of gold and earth are the skeleton, and they tolerate and generate each other, and even contain the creation that I don't know." Zhang Chen was thoughtful.

Next was to wait for the refining. Zhang Chen formed a series of seals in his hands, constantly falling on the Eight Trigrams Furnace, controlling the mysterious creation in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and constantly blessing the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

"It's really boring, it's just showing off. My task has been completed, I'm leaving!" Zhong Xiang watched Zhang Chen constantly forming hand seals, and couldn't see any tricks, so he chose to turn around and leave, not wanting to delay time here.

Zhang Chen did not stop Zhong Xiang from leaving, because Zhong Xiang had already completed the agreement.

"Is this what you call treasure refining?" Xie Lingyun looked at Zhang Chen's movements and said thoughtfully: "Is this the so-called immortal method?"

"That's right." Zhang Chen nodded.

Xie Lingyun fell into thought upon hearing this: "I remember that there were fragments of Qi Refiners refining magic treasures unearthed from a large tomb in the past. It said that in ancient times, Qi Refiners seized the creation of heaven and earth, the mystery of ghosts and gods, and possessed incredible abilities, and could refine incredible treasures. Could it be the method you are using to refine treasures now?"

"If there are no accidents, it should be this method of refining treasures." Zhang Chen said.

Xie Lingyun looked at the Eight Trigrams Furnace without speaking, and then suddenly said after a moment: "Have you noticed it?"

"Noticed what?" Zhang Chen looked at Xie Lingyun in confusion.

"Your Eight Trigrams Furnace is actually using the earth dragon vein of the entire Northern Territory as firewood, constantly extracting the power of the Northern Territory's dragon vein and mountains to ignite it." Xie Lingyun's voice was full of horror: "You are drawing the lifeblood of the Peace-Border Prince's Estate."