Seeing Qi Ruifeng's disbelief, Xu Ning directly took out a pill-refining furnace and imdiately refined a top-grade spirit-level array formation right there in the hut.
Qi Ruifeng watched, his jaw dropping. He couldn't help but stamr, "Disciple, are you... are you serious? You're actually a formation master?"
Xu Ning put away the furnace and said matter-of-factly, "Master, to be honest, I was originally an inner disciple of the Refining Heaven Sect in the Crimson Sea Mountains."
"Later, when the demon race attacked the Crimson Sea Mountains, the sect was destroyed. I fled here to the Ancient Chen Mountains to escape the chaos and hide."
Qi Ruifeng's face lit up with sudden realization. "Oh! So that's how it is! Disciple, don't worry. Your master will never care about your past. From now on, you are my only disciple, and the only Holy Son of the entire Tiancheng Sect! Your background only makes you more qualified."
Xu Ning didn't expect his cheap master to be so easy to convince. He imdiately nodded, putting on a grateful expression. "Okay, thank you for your understanding, Master!"
Qi Ruifeng then smiled warmly and clapped his hands. "Then from now on, the sect affairs will be handled by you, my capable disciple! You're clearly more suited to managent than this old man."
Xu Ning's face fell upon hearing this. So this is what he was waiting for! He just wants to dump all the work on .
But he couldn't work for nothing. Xu Ning imdiately rubbed his hands together in a classic gesture. "Master, since I am your only disciple and the Holy Son of the sect, shouldn't the inheritance of the Tiancheng Sect be passed on to now? I need to understand our heritage to properly lead."
This was what Xu Ning wanted most—access to ancient techniques and knowledge.
Qi Ruifeng fell into deep thought after hearing this. He stroked his beard, his expression serious. After a long mont, he said, "Disciple, it's not that I don't trust you. But the inheritance of the Tiancheng Sect is of paramount importance, passed down for generations. Your strength is not yet sufficient to protect it. Once you reach the Foundation Establishnt stage, I will pass it all on to you. I promise."
Xu Ning was dumbfounded. He really didn't know when he would be able to reach the Foundation Establishnt stage. That could be decades away.
No, he thought, I have to persuade my master. I can't wait that long.
He quickly argued, "Master, if you won't give it to yet, at least let see it! Let study it so I can understand our sect's heritage."
"And Master, the most important part of the sect's inheritance is the cultivation techniques and formulas. What about all those other broken things in the storage bags? Those broken artifacts and materials are the most useless. If they were usable, the ancestors of all generations would have used them long ago. They wouldn't have been left until now."
He pressed his advantage. "Alright, let see the cultivation techniques first. As for the other things, let pick through them and see if there's anything usable. Maybe I can repair so of it with my formation skills."
Qi Ruifeng thought for a mont, then nodded slowly. "That works too. You're right, the old junk has been sitting there for ages."
After saying that, Qi Ruifeng tossed four or five worn storage bags to Xu Ning from his own collection.
Xu Ning quickly and happily accepted them, barely containing his excitent. These were all good things. It was like entering an ancient ruin, but much safer.
"Master, let study these in peace. You go outside and supervise their work. We need to complete the sect's construction as soon as possible. The sooner we're established, the better," Xu Ning said to Qi Ruifeng, clutching the storage bags protectively.
Qi Ruifeng nodded, a bit relieved to be off the hook for supervision. "Okay, I'll go right now. You focus on the inheritance."
But just as he got up and walked halfway to the door, Qi Ruifeng suddenly turned back, his expression curious. "By the way, disciple, what's your current cultivation level? You've never actually told ."
Xu Ning paused, then decided honesty was the best policy. "Eleventh level of Qi Refining."
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Qi Ruifeng was overjoyed, his face beaming. "Really? Eleventh level? That's wonderful! You're completely comparable to the holy sons of so of the major sects here in the Ancient Chen Mountains. Keep it up, and you'll be at the Foundation Establishnt stage soon! My disciple is truly exceptional."
Xu Ning waved him off, already turning back to the storage bags. "Go quickly, Master. We have work to do."
After Qi Ruifeng finally left, Xu Ning eagerly began opening the storage bags and looking through their contents.
He was instantly dumbfounded by the sheer volu. There were so many things, but many seed useless at first glance, such as building materials—bricks, carved flooring, roof tiles, decorative beams.
These alone filled three entire storage bags. He could start a small city with them.
However, thinking of the past glory of the Tiancheng Sect, Xu Ning felt that these things, which had been passed down as heirlooms for generations, must be extraordinary. They wouldn't have kept useless junk for thousands of years.
So, Xu Ning took out a single, surprisingly heavy brick and asked, "Hello, what level of item are you?"
The brick imdiately responded, its consciousness clear. "Hello, Xu Ning. I am a top-grade Yuan-level item."
Xu Ning's mouth dropped open. What?! A top-grade Yuan-level item? A brick?
Just how glorious was the Tiancheng Sect back then! A brick was a top-grade Yuan-level magic weapon!
He knew that in this era, even Foundation Establishnt cultivators rarely possessed top-grade Yuan-level spiritual weapons. They were priceless treasures.
And yet, this was just building material for soone else's house in ancient tis. The scale was unimaginable.
After calming himself down, Xu Ning asked again, "What are the effects of using you and your kind to build a house? What do you actually do?"
The brick replied proudly, "Of course! When assembled, we gather spiritual energy from the surroundings, prolong the lifespan of those inside, accelerate cultivation speed, and enhance comprehension. But a sufficient number is needed to form the array."
"You can also think of it this way: when we were intact as a building, we were actually a single Yuan-level spiritual artifact surpassing even the legendary Yuan-level artifacts. I am just one component of hundreds of thousands of spiritual artifacts of my level, all working together."
This answer completely overturned Xu Ning's understanding. He couldn't help but exclaim, "Wow, that's incredibly luxurious! The construction of the sect's main hall must have been so extravagant!"
The brick corrected him, sounding almost offended. "The sect's main hall? What sect's main hall? We were just a building for the elders' residences. A side building. The main hall is sothing else entirely."
Xu Ning was dumbfounded. "What? You're just a building for the elders? What about the sect's main hall?"
The brick's tone was reverent. "The sect's main hall is built using top-grade Innate-level bricks. Its defensive arrays are so powerful that even a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator from ancient tis could be killed if they attacked it directly."
Xu Ning was filled with shock. Even Nascent Soul cultivators from ancient tis could be killed! Converted to today's power standards, that would be enough to threaten a Void Refinent cultivator.
A sect's main hall was actually this powerful! In ancient tis, things were truly terrifying.
Thank goodness he'd arrived in this Dharma-Ending Age, Xu Ning thought. If it were ancient tis, he'd probably be dead eight hundred tis over.
"So, are you of any use to now, in your damaged state?" Xu Ning couldn't help but ask, coming back to reality.
The brick replied honestly, "We're both in a damaged state right now, separated from the array. So alone, we're not very useful. Of course, you could use as a blunt object to hit people. I'm still very hard."
Xu Ning was speechless. What use was that? It was too small even to be used as a decent shield.
Then, Xu Ning ignored the brick and looked at the fourth storage bag.
Most of the items in this storage bag were completely unfamiliar to Xu Ning. Odd shapes, unknown purposes.
Xu Ning took out sothing that looked like a carved stone base and asked, "Hello, what are you?"
The thing imdiately replied, its consciousness waking. "Hello, Xu Ning. I am a pillar base! A top-grade Yuan-level item. I support the pillars of an elder's hall."
"This thing's useless to ," Xu Ning muttered, tossing it back into the storage bag. He then took out a small, delicate boat-shaped object. "Hello, what about you?"
The boat imdiately replied, its voice crisp. "Hello, Xu Ning. I'm a flying shuttle! I used to be a top-grade transportation magic weapon. Very fast."
Xu Ning was surprised. This thing sounded pretty impressive. Maybe he could repair it.
Next, Xu Ning took out a wooden object shaped like a horse, its carving intricate. "Hello, what are you?"
The horse-shaped object imdiately spoke, its voice surprisingly flirtatious. "Hello, Xu Ning! I'm a... companionship item. Used for... pleasure."
Xu Ning's eyes widened in disbelief. He quickly shoved it back into the storage bag, looking like he wanted to avoid it at all costs. His face was red.
"The ancient cultivators really knew how to live! Even these things are top-grade Yuan-level artifacts. I can't imagine what the main hall contained."
Afterward, Xu Ning examined a few more items and roughly understood that this storage bag probably contained miscellaneous personal items from the elders, useless for his purposes and not worth the effort to repair.
Then, Xu Ning eagerly looked at the fifth storage bag.
Inside were nurous broken array formations, ranging from Spirit-level to Innate-level. Judging from the fragnts and lingering aura, they were all of legendary quality or higher.
These were quite important, Xu Ning realized. Repairing them would be of great use for the sect's defenses.
Xu Ning then opened the sixth and final storage bag with trembling hands. Inside, it was filled with books, ancient scrolls, cultivation techniques, and various spell manuals.
Xu Ning's eyes lit up. These were exactly what he needed!
Xu Ning quickly took out the first book and began reading, hoping to learn about the ancient era and perhaps find techniques that could help him level up his own understanding.
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