Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Zhao Hailin’s withdrawal, while causing a huge commotion, also thoroughly built up the reputation of the Crossed Dharmic Artifacts. Combined with the small number of them, they soon beca rare items.
Even though this scuffle had co to an end and it was no longer trending, the three words ‘Crossed Dharmic Artifact’ were deeply ingrained in the hearts of people. One could say that almost everyone knew about them. Naturally, many people started guessing the identity of the Crossed Dharmic Artifact creator.
However, Wang Baole was full of regret. Zhao Hailin’s withdrawal made him extrely dejected—he felt that he had learned a lot from this friendly exchange of ideas with Zhao Hailin.
Not only did he gain a deeper understanding of Numinous Treasures, he was also more confident about his capabilities in creating them. Previously, he had no confidence in creating a Numinous Treasure, but now, Wang Baole felt like he could start refining Numinous Treasures.
As for exposing himself as the creator of the Crossed Dharmic Artifacts, Wang Baole thought for a while and felt it inappropriate to do so. On one hand, the Crossed Dharmic Artifacts did indeed have problems. On the other hand, Wang Baole personally enjoyed the feeling that he had his own brand on the light side and the Crossed Dharmic Artifacts on the dark side. Having these two brands on the light and dark side made him feel like he was really powerful.
The high officials’ autobiographies once said that, in one’s glorious life, people used many titles to describe them. Right now... I can be considered to have t that criteria.
Although he might have misunderstood the aning of the quote, he felt that he was very extraordinary at that mont.
With a prideful smile, Wang Baole started officially researching and refining third-grade Numinous Treasures. Combined with the various thods that he understood from Zhao Hailin’s videos, other than his fixed daily routine of refining Armant Sand, he spent almost all his attention on refining third-grade Numinous Treasures in the days that followed.
At that point in ti, his list of rewards from the Spirit Breath Village was finally recorded and sent to him. Wang Baole took a rough look, and even he got a shock.
Over 13,600 items...
Wang Baole had not counted the specific number of items when he ransacked the Spirit Breath Village. Now that he saw the items, he finally understood why the Dao College had taken so long to record down the items.
This number was way too large. That was especially so because all of the items had to be entered into the Dao College’s records. Hence, it had taken a longer ti for them to be sent to Wang Baole.
In fact, there were over three thousand items with effects unknown even to the Dao College. These items were specially marked in the list.
After checking, Wang Baole discovered that he could choose over one thousand items from the list of the items. However, for items such as corpses and pills, he could not take everything. He could only choose at most one item from each category.
After contemplation, Wang Baole chose to keep half of his right to choose the items and gave the other half back to the Dao College in exchange for Spirit Stones of equal value. Imdiately, the number of Spirit Stones that he had grew to an alarming amount.
Seeing the massive number of Spirit Stones that he had in his account, Wang Baole was extrely excited. He took a deep breath after a long while.
I’m rich!
His eyes glowed. Seeing how he suddenly had so many Spirit Stones, he bought many ingredients he could not bear to buy in the past few months in one shot and started refining new third-grade Numinous Treasures.
But the difficulty of refining third-grade Numinous Treasures was still imnse even though Wang Baole had already co to understand a lot more.
Two months passed, and Wang Baole had accumulated seven thousand pieces of Armant Sand after a lot of effort. Finally, he succeeded once after going through countless failures.
He had refined his first Numinous Treasure!
This Numinous Treasure was nothing special. It was a flying sword nad Heaven Wave Sword.
Once released, this sword could conjure waves. While its aura was alarming, its offensive power was also impressive. Although it could only be considered ordinary among third-grade Numinous Treasures, and it could not cleave through perfect second-grade Dharmic Artifacts per se, it could still cause them to break into fragnts.
Wang Baole was extrely excited after experiencing the Heaven Wave Sword’s power, but he understood that to beco an Armant Soldier, it was not enough for him to only know how to refine a Heaven Wave Sword.
After all, the Armant Soldier test in the Dharmic Armant Pavilion was a huge deal. After asking around, he understood the rules clearly and knew that every Armant Soldier test required the examinees to prepare a Numinous Treasure for the test.
The main point of the test was the excellence level of the Numinous Treasure. A third-grade Numinous Treasure was just the most basic requirent. It was possible to beco an Armant Soldier by randomly refining a Numinous Treasure, but it depended very much on luck!
So, for a conventional Armant Soldier test, one would always try their best to prepare the best Numinous Treasure that they could refine with their abilities. Once they were done with their preparation, they could apply for the test. Once the Dharmic Armant Pavilion approved their application, they would be given a test date.
When that day ca, the four Deputy Pavilion Heads and the Pavilion Head of the Dharmic Armant Pavilion would make an appearance at the Armant Soldier test’s designated area. As examiners, they would decide whether the examinees could beco Armant Soldiers. anwhile, they would also require examinees to answer various questions on the refinent of Numinous Treasures.
Of course, they would sotis ask an examinee to refine another piece of the sa Numinous Treasure in front of them. There were even tis when a Deputy Pavilion Head asked an examinee to refine a different Numinous Treasure on the spot!
Once there was a mistake in the process, they would fail to beco an Armant Soldier. If they were caught cheating, the consequences were pretty serious. It was enough to get one expelled from Upper Academy Island, and Upper Academy Island would take back everything that they had learned. As a result, there were still people who dared cheat in the Armant Soldier test, but those cases were extrely rare, and they faced extrely severe consequences.
Realizing this, Wang Baole understood deeply that his current standard was still not enough. anwhile, he also had not prepared the Numinous Treasure required for the test.
Besides, my target is to get to a level where I could refine perfect third-grade Numinous Treasures like how I refined second-grade Dharmic Artifacts without much effort. That way, even if soone makes things difficult for , no one will be able to stop from becoming an Armant Soldier!
This was the requirent that Wang Baole had set for himself. He had a decisive look in his eyes and went into seclusion again, refining third-grade Numinous Treasures with greater intensity.
As ti passed and Wang Baole refined his seventh Numinous Treasure, he could feel that his proficiency level in refining Numinous Treasures increased as the days went by. It was at this ti that he finished refining his ten thousand pieces of Armant Sand.
Looking at the Armant Sand and feeling the scabbard within him, Wang Baole pondered. He was at a loss as to whether he should stick to his plan and continue familiarizing himself with third-grade Numinous Treasures or refine his scabbard first.
The forr took a long ti, and Wang Baole felt that he had to keep experinting. Although he was not very confident about the latter, he had already gathered the key ingredients, and he could get the remaining ingredients on Upper Academy Island.
Monts later, Wang Baole made his decision. The Armant Sand and scabbard were too precious, and Wang Baole did not have enough confidence to try refining them. Hence, he continued imrsing himself in refining third-grade Numinous Treasures.
Ti trickled by. When he went into seclusion this ti, Wang Baole steeled his heart and even ate fewer snacks. He lost so weight and seed a lot more handso.
Finally, after three months with the support of enough Spirit Stones, Wang Baole beca more proficient in the refinent of third-grade Numinous Treasures through countless failures. He could finally refine perfect third-grade Numinous Treasures. Although they were of the type that were easy to refine, Wang Baole was already very motivated.
At the sa ti, he also upgraded all of his perfect second-grade Dharmic Artifacts. He even upgraded so of his Crossed Dharmic Artifacts. With his trendous wealth, they all beca third-grade.
Under the brave experintation of Wang Baole and supported by his skill and a little bit of luck, Wang Baole succeeded in one try. Although not perfect, the scabbard also beca a third-grade Numinous Treasure.
However, as the extrely excited Wang Baole waved the scabbard around excitedly and expected sword aura needles to appear within it, sothing happened to make his jaw drop.
Buzzing sounds spread from within the scabbard. Wang Baole was shocked. He stared while in a daze as nine mosquitoes flew out from the scabbard. His gaze montarily lost its focus, and his head buzzed.
“What the heck?”
Wang Baole rubbed his eyes in disbelief and felt that what had just happened was too unbelievable. After coming to his senses monts later, he beca anxious and imdiately checked the inscriptions on the scabbard.
Upon closer inspection, he finally found the reason. Because there were problems with his technique, an accident happened when upgrading the scabbard to the third grade. While the Armant Sand was being infused into the scabbard, it had caused the inscriptions to change and caused an unusual transformation that Wang Baole could not understand at that mont. Hence, this unknown effect appeared.
To a certain degree, this scabbard... was both a success and a failure!
But it was different from a typical Crossed Dharmic Artifact. The transformations for those Crossed Dharmic Artifacts were caused by a grain of Armant Sand. However, the scabbard... had ten thousand grains of Armant Sand infused into it!
“No way...” Wang Baole felt like crying, but no tears appeared. He regretted having itchy hands and refining the scabbard so early. As though soone had thrown cold water on him, Wang Baole’s expectations and excitent disappeared completely. That was especially so when he saw the nine mosquitoes flying in front of him. He almost raised his hand to kill one of them, but when he thought of how he had spent ten thousand grains of Armant Sand and countless ingredients to refine this Dharmic Artifact, he could not bear to do so.
“Mosquitoes... can also be very powerful!” Wang Baole cried and comforted himself. He thought of the horrifying giant mosquito that he had encountered in the Pond Cloud Rainforest.
Thus, he gathered his courage with a grimace and walked out of his cave abode. He decided to test just how strong these mosquitoes were...
“Fatso Forefathers and the grandfathers in the high officials’ autobiographies, please bless . These mosquitoes must have so uses; they must at least be worth my Armant Sand. After all... I spent ten thousand grains of Armant Sand!”
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