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“Demonic nature? It’s just a weapon. If used for good, it is good; if used for evil, it is evil.” Zheng Danlian shook his head.

Zhu Xuanji said, “The cultivation techniques, spells, and weapon refining methods of the Night Rain Dynasty have been almost lost after being suppressed and eliminated by a succeeding dynasty and two imperial dynasties. They are vastly different from what we have now.”

“Your viewpoint only applies to the cultivation methods we understand; it doesn’t apply to the Night Rain Dynasty.”

“Think about it, during the Night Rain Dynasty, every time it got dark, under the cover of night, the entire world would descend into endless slaughter.”

“In the darkness, there was only despair and madness, and the people lived in misery.”

“Was there no one rational in the entire world? The cultivation methods must have been the root of the problem. How could weapons forged under such methods not be problematic?”

A group of Golden Core cultivators fell silent.

Zheng Shuangou had to nod in agreement. “Indeed, everything that has been passed down from the Night Rain Dynasty is filled with murderous intent.”

But then, he changed the subject, “Therefore, we conceived for a long time and came up with a comprehensive method to refine it. In this refining process, we must first refine it to death, and then resurrect it, giving it a fresh start and reforming its nature.”

“Chief Constable, we understand your concerns; these are also our worries.”

“Why not refine it according to our established plan first?”

“At worst, we just won’t use it when we enter Fire Persimmon Mountain.”

“Very well!”

Zhu Xuanji sighed softly. Now that the arrow was on the string, he had no choice but to release it. He had been slightly outmaneuvered by the three Golden Core families.

But in this situation, Zhu Xuanji needed the three families’ help, so he could only compromise.

The light of the Celestial Artisan Lamp grew brighter, illuminating the entire weapon refining chamber with a crimson glow.

The red light reflected around, and even the powerful array in operation could not block its penetration.

Every Golden Core cultivator’s face was tinged with a layer of scarlet.

The red light grew thicker and denser, gradually condensing into flakes, forming wisps of clouds, and beginning to fill the weapon refining chamber.

The temperature inside the room rapidly increased. The Celestial Artisan Lamp was specifically designed to focus the power of the flame into a single point, creating a powerful melting force.

The fact that the heat could now leak out indicated that the Celestial Artisan Lamp had been pushed to its limit, and the temperature of the lamp flame had reached a terrifying level.

In the world of the lamp flame, raging flames burned fiercely, reaching seven or eight zhang high, completely enveloping the mechanical black serpent.

The mechanical black serpent lay motionless on the ground.

The pitch-black shadow it emitted had shrunk to its surface, and the demonic aura had become extremely weak.

Even so, the black serpent’s expression remained proud, resentful, hateful, and unwilling to submit.

Zheng Danlian’s face was pale, and his body swayed slightly.

His mana had been consumed too much in a short period of time, and even his Golden Core had fallen into a weakened state.

Fortunately, Zheng Shuangou had quickly recovered and regained thirty percent of his strength, and hurriedly came to fully support Zheng Danlian.

The two of them practiced the same cultivation technique, and at this moment, they jointly performed a spell.

Spell—Fire Sea Dragon Ascension.

With a dragon’s roar, the raging flames, seven or eight zhang high, rose from the ground, transforming into fiery dragons in the sky.

The fiery dragons circled and danced, intertwining with each other.

Then, one by one, they swooped down, crashing into the black serpent mechanism on the ground.

Boom boom boom…

Each impact stirred up boundless waves of fire.

The fiery dragons dissipated, but quickly reformed with the fire waves, their sizes shrinking, and flew into the sky.

In the fire waves, the shadow of the mechanical black serpent continued to shrink until it disappeared from its surface.

The black serpent hissed, filled with pain, unable to withstand the continuous impact of the fiery dragons, its entire body gradually melting.

The two Zheng family Golden Cores paid close attention, their expressions tense.

When the entire mechanical black serpent was melted beyond recognition, the Zheng family Golden Cores looked at each other and nodded simultaneously.

“Now!”

They performed hand seals and suddenly released the mechanical black serpent.

The black serpent was placed into the array outside the lamp, and was immediately locked in place by the array, fixed in mid-air.

Ancestor Ning had already fully prepared and unleashed a Frost spell with all his might.

Beside him, Ning Xiaohui also extended her hands, activating her talent—Icy Jade Hands.

The two forces overlapped each other, eventually transforming into a tiny blizzard tornado, sweeping across the entire mechanical black serpent.

The black serpent was lifted by the pure white tornado, causing its entire serpent body to stand upright.

The blizzard tornado dissipated quickly, leaving behind a circular ice pillar, sealing the mechanical black serpent.

The aura of the black serpent gradually dissipated in the cold ice pillar, until nothing remained.

The ice pillar gradually changed, and a wisp of life aura gradually escaped from the cold aura.

This was the qualitative change produced by Ning Xiaohui’s talent participating in the refining process.

In the ice pillar, the aura of life became more and more intense, and the body of the mechanical black serpent was rapidly restored at a visible speed.

When the aura of life reached its upper limit, it suddenly disappeared, and the ice pillar collapsed on its own, turning into countless grains of ice.

The extremely fragmented ice grains dissipated into nothingness as they fell to the ground.

In the end, what remained on the ground was a complete and flawless mechanical black serpent with a huge and flat serpent head.

“Heaven and earth exhaust, water dragons dance, cold snow freezes to death, gaining new life. Wonderful! Truly wonderful!”

Zheng Danlian’s eyes shone brightly, and he took the lead in reaching out to touch the mechanical black serpent.

His spiritual sense was mixed with his mana and poured into it.

Compared to the previous situation with great obstacles, this time his mana flowed unimpeded, extremely smoothly throughout the entire body of the mechanical black serpent.

Crack crack crack.

After a series of light sounds, the mechanical black serpent quickly transformed, turning into a pitch-black long-handled scythe, held in Zheng Danlian’s hand.

Zheng Danlian took out a remaining piece of Night Wind Soft Iron and threw it into the air.

As the iron ingot fell, the long-handled scythe in Zheng Danlian’s hand trembled slightly.

A faint light flashed and disappeared.

After the Night Wind Soft Iron landed on the ground, it had already turned into ten equal parts with smooth cuts.

Seeing this, Zhu Xuanji’s pupils shrank slightly, his heart greatly shaken, and he couldn’t help but exclaim, “So sharp!”

Zheng Danlian gently stroked the surface of the scythe, with a look of affection and excitement.

Zheng Shuangou laughed heartily, “If it weren’t so, why would our clan go to such lengths and spare no expense to refine it?”

Zhou Nongying congratulated the Zheng family Golden Cores, “This weapon refining is a great success!”

Zhu Xuanji took a deep breath, his expression became solemn, “Even so, we must be strictly guarded against.”
“What you’ve obtained are relics from the Night Rain Dynasty. To have survived from ancient times to the present, they’re likely not simple objects.”

“Our current weapon forging is based on these relics. They were already formed, employing the techniques of the Night Rain Dynasty. We’re merely refining them, and we don’t truly understand the inner mysteries.”

“That’s natural.”

Zheng Danlian continued to stroke the item, replying absentmindedly, his perfunctory tone quite strong.

Zhu Xuanji’s expression worsened slightly.

The Zheng family’s mechanical constructs had already been forged, while Ning Zhuo’s Golden Core-level mechanical ape was still being crafted.

Inside the weapon-refining workshop.

More than thirty Qi Refining cultivators, stripped to the waist, toiled in the sweltering heat, illuminated by the flickering flames, sweat pouring down as they incessantly hammered.

The hammerheads collided with the iron ingots, each strike sending sparks flying.

Forging Myriad Machine Profound Iron required skilled Qi Refining cultivators to use their magic power, striking to create refining patterns before it could be considered successful.

When these refining patterns accumulated to a certain degree, they would connect with each other, vanishing in an instant, and the quality of the Profound Iron would improve by at least one grade.

This was almost the same for the forging of all metals.

And on Myriad Machine Profound Iron, this was especially evident.

In Earth Grade Weapon Refinement Room.

Innate Talent – Metal and Stone Yield.

Zheng Hua deployed his innate talent, affecting the Scarlet Sun Copper.

The latter gradually dissolved into a puddle like water.

The Scarlet Sun Copper flowed through the pipes and into the furnace, where it was immediately baked.

Frequent use of his innate talent caused Zheng Hua’s face to pale, and he swallowed pills in quick succession.

The Zhou Family.

More than a dozen Formation cultivators sat in a circle around a long table.

They all squinted, heads bowed, staring at the Mountain Spirit Walnuts on the table.

Mountain Spirit Walnuts were small, like walnut kernels.

They were the essence of mountain stones, with a solid foundation, capable of bearing a large number of formation patterns.

Therefore, they were often used as formation foundations.

More than a dozen formation cultivators, some holding slender awls, some grinding with magic power, some carefully examining the Mountain Spirit Walnuts.

Ning Zhuo cultivated diligently and tirelessly.

Others were responsible for forging mechanical components, while he painstakingly cultivated his own power.

This was the purpose of managing a faction.

To be able to delegate tasks to others, saving himself a great deal of time and energy, so that he could do more important things.

“Although my strength has increased more than sevenfold now, there is still a huge amount of room for improvement.”

Ning Zhuo’s current strength was far from being fully developed.

He lacked various talents, and he had to enlist the help of the other two families to meet the needs of this forging.

He cultivated the Demon-tainted Blood Meridian Art, still using the crude mechanical apes, making do for the time being.

The progress of the demonic art was in second place.

The Mirror Platform Spiritual Communication Art was still progressing by leaps and bounds.

Since Ning Zhuo began cultivating this method, he had never encountered a bottleneck, and the speed was very fast.

Ning Zhuo had always regarded it as the main focus, and the increase in his divine cultivation had not disappointed his expectations.

This made him inevitably speculate in his spare time: “Why am I so talented in Buddhism?”

“Is it because of the Early Wisdom innate talent? Or because of the innate mysterious talent on my body?”

“Or, am I myself righteous, sincerely upholding justice, punishing evil and promoting good, and in line with the Buddhist and Daoist ideals?”

Among the three cultivation methods, the Five Elements Qi Rhythm Art was the slowest.

However, Ning Zhuo still had two taels of Ice Jade Wine as a backup, so he was not worried for the time being.

With progress in all three cultivation methods, Ning Zhuo not only refined his essence, qi, and spirit, but also actively practiced spells.

The main spells he practiced were the mutual generation and restraint of the five elements.

Every time he practiced, he used the Five Elements Ruler.

This treasure could quickly separate the five-elemental magic power into five strands of single-attribute magic power.

Ning Zhuo then used these five strands of single-attribute magic power to constantly derive, or annihilate corresponding magic power, often gaining insights and becoming extremely skilled.

As for exploring the Immortal Palace, he did it three times a day.

The focus of these explorations was not on Buddhism or Daoism, but on the Demonic Path.

He chose many rewards from the Demonic Path, and many were used on the newly refined mechanical ape.

Such as the Blood Spring Pot, or the Frenzied Thought Riot Drum.

End of Chapter.