freeallnovels Chapter 349 - 209: Everything is Ready
Chapter 349 - 209: Everything is Ready
With a surge of his Magical Power, the pale Great Sun Demon Fire flared to life, changing freely under Yang Jing’s control, at times morphing into a golden crow, at others a sharp sword.
Controlling this mass of Demon Fire felt as natural as manipulating the Magical Power he had cultivated himself.
He then activated the Demon-Catching Tripod, successively unleashing the Nine Nether Demon Thunder and the Taiyin Moonlight. Aided by the tripod, he wielded these Divine Techniques, unique to High Tier Celestial Demons, with complete ease.
’Now I probably seem more like a Demon Cultivator than most of them actually do.’
Yang Jing retracted a ball of chilling Taiyin Moonlight back into the tripod.
Even among the True Disciples of the Four Demon Sects, very few could master Magic like the Nine Nether Demon Thunder and the Taiyin Moonlight.
"My Lord, the Pot World has expanded by nearly nine times. It could easily hold ninety thousand Celestial Demons, even if they were all trapped at once."
Wanhua Child said respectfully to Yang Jing.
After the tripod’s ascension to a Tier Three Magical Treasure, Wanhua Child’s aura had become much more vibrant. A Cultivator with weaker perception might even mistake him for an ordinary child rather than the Artifact Spirit of a Magical Treasure.
Yang Jing slowly let out a breath.
He had refined two Tier Three Magical Treasures as a mere Foundation Establishment Cultivator, yet the burden they placed on him was actually less than before.
He had personally Refined both of these Magical Treasures, so he didn’t need to make all sorts of promises to their Artifact Spirits just to be able to use them, unlike other Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
On the contrary, the Artifact Spirits—Heavenly Waterfall Child and Wanhua Child—actually had to work for him. Heavenly Waterfall Child could channel Celestial Spirits Star Force, while Wanhua Child could refine Celestial Demons to extract Essence Qi. With one providing input and the other handling output, his situation was on a whole new level.
Previously, Wanhua Child’s ability to refine Celestial Demons and convert them into Essence Qi had completely spared Yang Jing the arduous labor of nurturing his Magical Artifacts.
Now that it had advanced to a Tier Three Magical Artifact, Wanhua Child could even use the Essence Qi gained from refining Celestial Demons to sustain and nurture itself, completely eliminating the need for Yang Jing to expend his own energy on the process.
This was what satisfied Yang Jing the most.
Unfortunately, the Essence Qi obtained from refining Celestial Demons contained a trace of Demon Nature, so it could only be used to nurture Demon Dao Magical Treasures. If he could use it to nurture the Celestial Waterfall Sword, it would be much easier for him to share Heavenly Waterfall Child’s two Talents: Sword Heart Clarity and Sword Shatters Void.
Because it was an order from Canyuan True Monarch, the Northern Army Governor acted with extreme efficiency. Just one day later, a Flying Boat arrived. A Yu Hou at the Foundation Establishment Realm flew down from the vessel and handed Yang Jing three High Tier Storage Bags sealed with Restrictions.
"Minister Yang, these are the armaments from the secret vault. Please inspect them."
The Restrictions on the Storage Bags would self-destruct at the slightest disturbance, destroying everything inside. These High Tier Storage Bags contained a total of over thirty-five hundred Demon Sect Artifacts, a complete assortment ranging from Tier One Magical Artifacts to Tier Three Magical Treasures. There was also a large quantity of captured Spiritual Materials used for Demon Sect Artifact Refining.
The value of these resources was immense; they were the spoils of war collected by the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion over many years.
Yang Jing used his Magical Power to pull the Storage Bags toward him. With a surge of his own Magical Power, he dispersed their Restrictions. He scanned them with his Divine Sense and immediately saw a mountain-like pile of Demon Sect Artifacts inside. These were all just Tier One Magical Artifacts; the Tier Two Spiritual Artifacts and Tier Three Magical Treasures were sealed in Jade Boxes to prevent their Artifact Spirits from causing trouble.
This was an astonishing fortune.
Yang Jing carried the Storage Bags back into the Seven Luminaries Demon-Slaying Array and summoned all five of his disciples.
"Master."
The five disciples stood respectfully in a row.
Yang Jing took out the Demon-Catching Tripod, placed it on the ground, and then emptied out all the Tier One Demon Sect Artifacts.
A thick cloud of Demonic Qi immediately billowed out from the artifacts and surged skyward. The Demonic Qi was so dense that it nearly triggered the Seven Luminaries Demon-Slaying Array’s automatic defenses. The Grand Array, thinking a Golden Core Demon Cultivator had infiltrated its perimeter, was about to autonomously unleash the Seven Luminaries Demon-Slaying Divine Light.
Fortunately, Yang Jing was prepared and activated the Array Disc to halt the Grand Array’s reaction.
"Today, I have a task for you."
With the exception of the still-clueless Yellow Foot, all the other disciples couldn’t help but shiver. Iron Head and Yinjiao, in particular, were reminded of their time back in Huangyuan Marketplace and the bleak, sunless days they had spent digging.
"Yinjiao, Iron Head, and Ji Feng, Wanhua Child will help you channel the Sun Demon Fire and Taiyin Moonlight to break these Demon Artifacts back down into Demonic Materials. Chi Yu and Yellow Foot, you two will be responsible for assisting your seniors. Use this as an opportunity to learn the Artifact Refining Skill."
Using Spiritual Fire to break down the Demon Artifacts would damage the value of the Demonic Materials within, but using the Demon-Catching Tripod to channel Sun Demon Fire posed no such problem.
The individual value of these Demon Artifacts wasn’t high, making them perfect for his disciples to practice on.
Yang Jing also sent out Heavenly Waterfall Child to slice apart the bulkier Magical Artifacts, making it easier to extract the Spiritual Gold from within.
Iron Head activated his Bright Qi Talent, selected a Tier Two Demon Saber from the pile of Demon Artifacts, and sat cross-legged beside the Demon-Catching Tripod. Wanhua Child immediately conjured a plume of Great Sun Demon Fire for him to use in the refining process.
The Great Sun Demon Fire surged, and as a top-tier Tier Two Demon Fire, it instantly heated the Demon Saber until it was glowing red-hot.
Under the searing heat of the Demon Fire, the Restrictions within the Demon Saber were the first to continuously collapse, bursting into brilliant flashes of Spiritual Light.
The Demon Cultivator who had originally refined this Demon Saber had also sealed a Blood Evil Demon inside, intending to release it suddenly during battle to defile an enemy’s Magical Artifact. As the Restrictions crumbled, the Blood Evil Demon escaped from the saber, but before it could flee, the Great Sun Demon Fire instantly incinerated it into a puff of green smoke.
No longer reinforced by the Restrictions, the Demon Saber quickly softened. The various types of Spiritual Gold that had been alloyed together were then separated and extracted. Among them was a finger-sized piece of Nine Deaths Evil Iron.
All the separated Spiritual Materials condensed into variously colored grains of gold and were sorted into different Jade Boxes.
Among the three disciples, Ji Feng, with her superior Artifact Refining Skill, broke down the artifacts the fastest. Iron Head was second, while Yinjiao, who had the least proficiency in the skill, was the slowest.
Meanwhile, Chi Yu and Yellow Foot manipulated the Great Sun Demon Fire to refine and purify the extracted Spiritual Gold of varying sizes and purities, then cast it into uniformly sized gold ingots.
Yang Jing nodded in satisfaction. Although only a very small portion of the Spiritual Materials from each Demon Sect Artifact could be used for Refining the Demon-Catching Tripod, the rest would not go to waste. He could trade them with Wei Ying for other necessary Spiritual Materials.
Spirit Stones were not very useful to Wei Ying and were hard for him to exchange, but he could conveniently use the refined Spiritual Gold to procure various Demonic Materials through him.
As for the minor losses, they were completely negligible.
Canyuan True Monarch had wanted to recruit Artifact Refiners from the Northern Domain Seven Kingdoms to help dismantle the Demon Artifacts, but Yang Jing had refused. ’Secrecy is the key to success.’ If too many people were involved, it likely wouldn’t be long before word reached the Four Demon Sects and the Celestial Demons.
After all, lured by profit, some people were even willing to ambush and kill Independent Cultivators to sell their bodies to the Celestial Demons.
Yang Jing clasped his hands behind his back, watching his disciples dismantle the Magical Artifacts with great efficiency. After offering some guidance to Chi Yu and Yellow Foot on how to purify Spiritual Gold and strictly forbidding Yellow Foot from stuffing random things into his mouth, he stretched lazily and decided to return to his Quiet Chamber to cultivate.
’This is what it’s like to be a master. The disciples only need to bury their heads in their work and follow orders, but the master has so much more to consider.’
As a Tier Three Magical Treasure, the Demon-Catching Tripod only needed to absorb Demonic Qi from the Demon Realm once to provide a stable supply of Great Sun Demon Fire for an entire day. However, Yang Jing’s conscience hadn’t completely vanished, so he only had his disciples spend four hours each day dismantling the Demon Sect Artifacts.
Seven days later, the different types of Spiritual Gold had been sorted and stacked in neat piles, glittering brilliantly under the sunlight. Of that, there were over eight hundred catties of Nine Deaths Evil Iron alone.
An ordinary Demon-Catching Tripod only required just over fifty catties of Nine Deaths Evil Iron; the body of Wanhua Child’s tripod was an exception.
Yang Jing inspected the purity of the Spiritual Gold and nodded with great satisfaction; Iron Head and the others hadn’t slacked off at all. He now had enough Spiritual Materials on hand to craft eight more Demon-Catching Tripods.
Since Canxuan Daoist Monarch had invested such a vast amount of resources, he naturally had to produce some results.
He took the Profound Celestial Furnace out of the Demon-Catching Tripod’s Pot World.
Wanhua Child could freely partition the Pot World. The Profound Celestial Furnace had been kept in a small, isolated Cauldron Space, so it was completely undamaged by the Celestial Demons that had been trapped inside earlier.
Yang Jing activated the Demon-Catching Tripod, igniting a ball of Great Sun Demon Fire that blazed fiercely within the chamber of the Profound Celestial Furnace. Then, with practiced ease, he tossed in the various Demonic Materials.
When it came to refining Demon Sect Artifacts, the Great Sun Demon Fire was far superior to the Profound Evil Yin Fire found in the Fire Rooms of the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion.
With the aid of the Five Ding Divine Craftsmanship, Yang Jing spent less than an hour to successfully forge a Demon-Catching Tripod. Because its main material was Nine Deaths Evil Iron, the tripod was a deep, dark black.
In order to imprison as many Celestial Demons as possible, Yang Jing didn’t skimp on Spiritual Materials. In fact, he deliberately made the Demon-Catching Tripod larger—about the size of a water vat—capable of trapping seven to eight hundred Low-level Celestial Demons at once.
The Demon-Catching Tripod was brimming with Spiritual Essence, a true Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact.
Since he didn’t need to expend his own Magical Power and had the help of the Five Ding Divine Craftsmanship, artifact refining was quite effortless. A day later, eight nearly identical Demon-Catching Tripods, differing only slightly in their Spiritual Essence, were arranged neatly in the courtyard.
Although Canxuan Daoist Monarch was busy with many matters—secretly mobilizing manpower and resources for the preliminary preparations to annihilate the Demon Realm without alerting the Four Demon Sects—he still rushed over the moment he heard the Demon-Catching Tripods had been completed.
After all, this was the most critical factor determining the plan’s success or failure.
"This..."
He stared at the row of Demon-Catching Tripods, lifted one in shock, and inspected it carefully.
The craftsmanship of these Demon-Catching Tripods was superb, and their Restrictions were flawless. Even the tripods wielded by Golden Core Demon Cultivators were far inferior to these.
In fact, after obtaining the Refining Atlas for the Demon-Catching Tripod, Canxuan Daoist Monarch had once asked the Golden Core Realm Hall Master of the Profound Pure Sect’s Artifact Refining Hall to forge one. But to this day, the Hall Master had yet to successfully forge a single tripod, instead losing a considerable amount of materials in his attempts.
"The rumors all say your Artifact Refining Skill is the best in the Northern Domain. It seems now that you truly live up to that reputation."