This refinement of willpower finally unleashed his killing intent completely.
Can Ye also sat down immediately, and hong , Spiritual Qi swirled, also forming three foreign beasts that surged into his body.
‘Sigh, are they all trying to anger me?’
Ling Han shook his head, but also revealed a smile. Through this tempering, Can Ye could really counted as treading the road of elites, and his achievements in the future would be unlimited! In Rain Country, he had had a feeling that Can Ye would become the second Setting Sun Saber Emperor in the future, but now this feeling turned into conviction.
As long as Can Ye could stay alive and keep battling on, he would become such an elite!
Ling Han stroked his chin—should he let Can Ye develop on his own? Following beside him and always receiving his protection, Can Ye would never become a true elite, but only a powerful subordinate.
People arrived in succession, but there were extremely few of them; moreover, Yu Kun Lun and figures near the top of the prodigy roll from the previous generation or the two generations before could not be seen, probably all being those ten charging to the Flower Blossom Tier.
Ling Han thought so shortly and threw that train of thought aside. He longed to pass the third stage and obtain the complete Nine Dragons Tyrant Body Art.
When this day ended, only fourteen people passed. Liu Yu Tong, and Yue Kai Yu still didn’t come up; apparently, their willpower was not firm enough—or freakish, so to speak.
…Shen Zhong Chen spent over nine days to arrive, and even drew forth the Three Beasts Phenomenon; it was enough to see how challenging this was.
So, it was also quite normal for them not to have arrived.
The formation spirit appeared, swept the fourteen people with its gaze, and said, “The third stage’s test is pill refining skill. There is no definite standard, I’ll make the judgment.”
Instantly, thirteen of the fourteen people gave up.
Why? Sh!t, none of them were alchemists, so to hell with the test!
The formation spirit’s expression was somewhat doubtful, staring at Ling Han as it said, “You’re also an alchemist? You’re actually the only alchemist here?”
“Truly not a coincidence!” Ling Han sighed intentionally.
The formation spirit thought shortly, and said, “Even if it’s only you, if the level of the pill you refine is not up to par, you still won’t get any good rewards.”
Was it underestimating the Grandmaster of alchemy?
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“Hurry up and start!” Ling Han was unable to wait, as if he already saw the last part of the Nine Dragons Tyrant Body Art waving at him.
“…Brat, you’re too arrogant!” Even the formation spirit argued needlessly.
Ling Han laughed loudly and entered the building ahead.
Xiu , his figure swayed and appeared in a medicinal room with walls in the surroundings, set with rows of shelves, on which were all sorts of medicinal ingredients, while the medicinal furnace was in the middle.
He sensed it momentarily—well, his divine sense was extracted again.
Ling Han couldn’t help but exclaim what a pity it was. The medicinal ingredients here were at least of the ninth tier, and he wanted to bring out the medicinal pill after refining it. Never would he have thought that it was just a mental space, and all was just an illusion.
“Here, you don’t have to worry about the limit of the fire’s temperature. What ingredients you want to refine will all be on the shelves, and if it’s not there, tell me and I’ll bring it for you.” The formation spirit also appeared.
Ling Han couldn’t help but ask, “What tier of medicinal pill do I have to refine to acquire the last part of the Nine Dragons Tyrant Body Art?”
The formation spirit just wanted to roll its eyes—you haven’t even started refining and already set your eyes on the prize? You’re that confident? It paused and said, “Based on your age, at least high-level Earth Grade to qualify, and it also depends on the quality of the pill formed.”
“Why didn’t you say earlier!” Shua shua shua, Ling Han already picked out medicine from the shelves, extraordinarily fast. “For insurance’s sake, I’ll refine low level Heaven Grade’s ‘Blue Rainbow Clear Soul Pill.’”
The corner of the formation spirit’s mouth clearly twitched—Heaven Grade medicinal pill? You sure talk big.
However, Ling Han already started, both hands turning naturally and smoothly, selecting, cleaning, then refining, and at last opening the furnace to refine the pill. The entire process was done in one go, indescribably smooth and easy.
The formation spirit’s mouth slowly opened up, and became a circle in the end, apparently overly shocked.
How could there be such a freak in this world?
Amazing talent in martial arts and outstanding performance in formations, and at last, even stunningly peerless in alchemy… such an all-round freak would really appear in this world?
Refining a Heaven Grade medicinal pill took a while because only after three days and three nights did Ling Han wrap up, feeling an intense weariness.
After all, it was a Heaven Grade medicinal pill, and his current divine sense’s strength was too weak, unable to endure refining more than one furnace of pills.
The formation spirit didn’t even look at the pill formed. This was all an illusion that changed within its formation. It looked at Ling Han’s every step of pill reining and naturally knew whether the medicinal pill was successfully refined and how many stars it was.
“Take it, take it!” The formation spirit threw a ball of light. Needless to say, this was definitely the last portion of the Nine Dragons Tyrant Body Art.
Ling Han hurriedly caught the ball of light and pressed it on his forehead. As expected, the Nine Dragons Tyrant Body Art changed again, finally complete.
“Kid, you’re qualified to become an internal disciple of the Twelve Palaces. So, under what palace do you want to become a disciple?” the formation spirit suddenly asked.
Ling Han smiled, and said, “Send my divine sense back to my body first. I’ll show you something, but don’t let anyone else know.”
“Tsk, acting all mysterious.” The formation spirited snorted, yet acted accordingly.
Ling Han’s divine sense returned. He was still inside the building but no longer in the hermetic stone room. He also reestablished the connection with the Black Tower. He took out the key of the Sagittarius Palace, swaying it in his hand.
“Huh, you actually have the key to open the Sagittarius Palace?” the formation spirit cried out. “Why didn’t you take it out earlier?”
“If I took it out earlier, how could I have obtained Nine Dragons Tyrant Body Art?” Ling Han replied with a question.
“…Damn brat!” the formation spirit muttered, and suddenly laughed gloatingly. “To tell you an unfortunate news, its not the first time the Sagittarius Palace has been opened, so the treasures inside the palace have already been cleaned out, leaving only two things that can’t be taken out.”
“Sh!t!”
“Haha!” The formation spirit laughed loudly. It had been annoyed at Ling Han for a long time, and now being able to disgust Ling Han once instantly made it feel really pleased. It paused, then went on, “However, the things of true value in the Sagittarius Palace are those two things that can’t be taken away.”
“What are they?” Ling Han asked just in case.
“A Mystical Power, and a set of coordinates,” the formation spirit said.
A Mystical Power!
Ling Han was happy. This was a great thing, but what the heck was the coordinate? He asked, “Coordinates of what?”
“In former years, Heavenly River King once discovered an astounding god’s depository, and just taking a few things allowed him to be all powerful in the Great Brahmas. These coordinates are the location of the god’s depository,” the formation spirit answered.
Ling Han suddenly
realized that what Yan Tian Zhao wanted to take away was definitely those coordinates.
“These coordinates are only in the Sagittarius Palace?” Ling Han asked again.
“No, in all twelve palaces. Being able to inherit the legacy of the Twelve Palaces, one is naturally qualified to receive Heavenly River King’s remaining treasures,” the formation spirit said.
“Right, what sort of a place is the Great Brahmas?” Ling Han asked.
The formation spirit rolled its eyes, and said, “I’m only the core of this formation, not a know-it-all, so how should I know?”
‘Damn, scoffed at by a formation spirit.’
Ling Han pondered, and said, “Is there anyone else who brought a key in this time?”
“What, you guessed even that?” The formation spirit was astounded. “Before you, there certainly was a kid who brought a key over in a rush, and didn’t attend the tests earlier.”
“Is he called Wen Yi Jian?” Ling Han felt apprehensive.
“That’s right.”
As expected, Wen Yi Jian didn’t coincidentally encounter the opening of the Twelve Skies Mystery Realm, and probably paid close attention to north region’s situation ever since he’d obtained the key.
“Which palace did he open?”
“Scorpio Palace.”
Ling Han thought shortly, and said, “Since the Sagittarius Palace has already been opened, has that god’s depository been taken away?”
“No.” The formation spirit shook its head, returned Ling Han the key, and said, “This is not only the key to open the Sagittarius Palace, but also the authenticating object to enter the god’s depository. There lie the restrictions set by Heavenly River King, and without a key, you can’t enter at all. However, the key will disappear after one use. Since its appeared again, it means that previous possessor didn’t enter the god’s depository.”
So that was how matters stood.
“After you leave here, I’ll take you to Sagittarius Palace,” the formation spirit continued.
“Alright!”
Ling Han went out, and quite a few people’s gazes immediately targeted him. Everyone knew that Ling Han was a Heaven Grade alchemist, and he not only passed this stage, but also definitely acquired an extremely good record; he must’ve obtained surprising treasures.
Ao Feng and the other Flower Blossom Tier warriors revealed killing intent in their eyes. If not for fear of the formation spirit, they definitely would attack and seize it.
“You, you, you, you, you.” The formation spirit pointed at those that arrived within ten days. “You guys all qualify to become an external disciple of the Twelve Palaces. Those interested, follow me.”
The thirteen people hurriedly followed—didn’t they come in for opportunities?
Hu Niu didn’t care much. She simply followed Ling Han.
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The formation spirit brought them into the room and performed a ceremony, praying in front of a few memorial tablets. They were now foreign disciples of the Twelve Palaces, and each person would be imparted an art and a skill. However, neither could be imparted to others; otherwise, it would trigger some sort of restriction and wipe out their souls.
Hu Niu didn’t want it—she wouldn’t possibly let others leave a restriction in her mind.
Ling Han could inherit Sagittarius Palace. His status would soon be high as he could almost be called one of the masters of the mystery realm—naturally, he wouldn’t be offered an art or skill.
After everyone received the legacy, they left one by one.
“Alright, the test is all over, go wherever you need to. There’s still ten days’ time to cultivate here, and when the time comes, I’ll send you all out,” the formation spirit said.
Hearing this, everyone naturally dispersed, and as to whether they truly left, only they themselves would know.
…Since they had their eyes on Ling Han.
The formation spirit snorted. It didn’t care about the others, but Ling Han was now the master of Sagittarius Palace, so how could it allow anyone to commit a crime in front of its eyes?
It grabbed onto Ling Han’s shoulder, and xiu, both disappeared without a trace.
“Where’s he!?” Those who were hidden in the dark charged out, but Ling Han and the formation spirit were nowhere to be found.
“Ling Han clearly already received the reward, so why is the formation spirit still with him?” someone said in ponder.
“Could it be?”
“…Could it be?”
“…The stolen key from the Jiang Family is on him!” everyone cried out.
The Jiang Family had a key of the mystery realm, and originally planned to invite a groom through martial arts competition, taking in the strongest son-in-law and giving out a treasure. However, the key was robbed during the martial arts contest, and even a Spiritual Infant Tier elite stepping in couldn’t retrieve it.
Everyone believed that Rong Huan Xuan stole the key, but now, the Thousand Corpse Sect disciple was obviously still at the bottom, not even finished with climbing the stone steps.
Could what Rong Huan Xuan said be true, that his key was truly robbed?
After entering the mystery realm, Rong Huan Xuan said that the key wasn’t on him, but how could anyone believe that. However, now it looked like that guy might not have lied, and the key was actually obtained by Ling Han.
Instantly, everyone’s gaze fell on Can Ye and Hu Niu.
“What do you guys want, don’t even think about fight for food with Niu!” Hu NIu immediately said fiercely, hiding the dried meat behind her back.
“Take them down and use them to threaten Ling Han afterwards. Force him to hand over the treasures!” everyone said one after another.
…
As Ling Han’s figure flashed, he already arrived at a square. In the surroundings of the square were twelve majestic and imposing palaces, but each palace’s door was tightly shut.
Before each palace was a monument; there was a white sheep, a golden cow, Pisces… all were different.
“Here, the Sagittarius Palace is there. You can enter through the palace door using the key,” the formation spirit said, and then was slightly startled, revealing a strange expression as it said, “Someone is going to harm to your companions.”
Ling Han frowned, and said, “Bring me back.”
“No need, I’ll protect them for you,” the formation spirit said smilingly, and its figure flashed and disappeared at once.
With the formation spirit’s protection, they should be absolutely safe; even if that super bug king came, it probably could still block it.
Ling Han took key to the Sagittarius Palace’s entrance. This key wasn’t used to open the palace doors, but to let the palace doors become void, allowing him to pass through.
As expected, the palace was empty, almost without a thing.
It truly was emptied out!
Ling Han sighed. Which senior was so virtueless and left not even a bit for him? Should he dig up that person’s ancestor’s grave in the future? Full of evil intentions, he thought for a while, then set his gaze on a sculpture within the palace. It was a martial artist shooting an arrow at the sky, and though it was simply a sculpture, it stunned Ling Han greatly; it was as if it gently let its finger loose, the raging arrow would shoot down even the sun in the sky.
“Mystical Power! This is an archery technique!”
Ling Han revealed an exhilarated look. “Wait, if this archery technique was coordinated with the Eye of Truth, what sort of effect would it have?”
His felt a rush of excitement. The two Mystical Powers layered on together was definitely not one plus one equaling two, but probably far surpassing that.
“Regardless of all this, I have to obtain this Mystical Power first!”
Ling Han came before the sculpture and pressed his hand onto it.
Instantly, his consciousness shined; an extremely powerful being st
ood in the starry skies and shot down stars in the skies, terrifyingly stunning.
Ling Han only felt like his head was about to split. This person’s presence was too powerful; even if he only saw a few scenes of the person’s display in former years, it made his head feel like it was about to explode. This was too great of an impact on his divine sense.
He forcibly endured, but blood still oozed out from his ears, nose, and mouth. This impact was too frightening.
“So that’s how it is!” Ling Han muttered continuously.
Unlike the Eye of Truth, when he only received a broken eyeball and all had to be discovered on his own, an elite’s image appeared to display the power for him, explaining things in great adetail.
“Annihilating Dragon Star Arrow!”
This was the Mystical Power’s name. At its extreme, it could extract a star as an arrow, killing a true dragon!
“Uh, I acquired Nine Dragons Tyrant Body Art, and at its extreme I can possess the power of nine true dragons. Now, this is a dragon annihilation arrow. Is this implying I annihilate myself?” Ling Han laughed in spite of himself.
“Damn, it’s obviously the Sagittarius Palace, yet it doesn’t even leave me a bow?
But after crossing into the Flower Blossom Tier, I can use my body as a bow, and extract Spiritual Qi from heaven and earth as an arrow. Even without a treasured bow, it can still unleash extremely powerful might. Besides, I also cultivate body art concurrently, and on top of brute force, an arrow’s might would definitely be astounding. This way, I’ll have one more ranged attack method.”
Ling Han sat cross-legged and focused on extracting the power of the legacy within the sculpture. He only had ten days or so, and after a month’s time was up, he would also be thrown out of the mystery realm. So, he couldn’t waste time, and if he didn’t grasp this Mystical Power, he would have to come back in a hundred years.
He didn’t rest and kept absorbing the legacy within the sculpture, doing everything possible to turn it into his own comprehension. Moreover, there certainly was a set of coordinates inside this sculpture, but it was meaningless now since that was in the Great Brahmas, which was probably an area in the god realm anyway.
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