Chapter 282: Chapter 248: Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact

A Seven-Star Life Talent would be just barely enough even when he reached the Nascent Soul Stage.

For him, still in the early Foundation Establishment Stage, this was already developing far ahead of schedule.

Even if it truly took ninety years of accumulation to reach an Eight-Star Life Talent, Fang Yun could afford to wait.

Considering his own growth, the average number of Talent Points he gained each month was bound to increase. With any luck, he would also acquire many combat-related talents.

In reality, accumulating one hundred and ten million Talent Points probably wouldn’t take ninety years.

The next step wasn’t to upgrade his Life Talent, but his Combat Talent.

With a thought, Fang Yun brought up the Combat Talent interface.

After a quick glance at the Combat Talent interface, he closed the screen of light.

Compared to the number of Talent Points needed to upgrade his Life Talent from Seven-Star to Eight-Star, upgrading his Combat Talent from Five-Star to Six-Star required far fewer.

It would take about fifteen million Talent Points to upgrade his Combat Talent.

If he could accumulate one and a half million Talent Points a year, upgrading his Combat Talent would only take ten years.

’As expected, now that my Artifact Refining talent is at Seven-Star, I have ideas for how to refine Middle Grade Spiritual Artifacts specifically designed to counter Demons.’

Fang Yun closed his eyes and began to think.

At this moment, all sorts of artifact refining combinations were swirling in his mind.

The primary Spiritual Materials required for these combinations were most commonly found in the territories of the Celestial Demon Sect or the Demon Spirit Sect.

The environments required for these types of Spiritual Materials often needed a mix of Spiritual Qi and Demon Qi, with Demon Qi being the dominant force.

Lost in thought, Fang Yun made his way to his bed to rest.

It had been a long time since he’d properly slept. Today, with all his Life Talents upgraded to Seven-Star, it was the perfect occasion to celebrate with a good rest.

「Early the next morning.」

Fang Yun went to find Bai Qinying.

Bai Qinying was currently meditating and cultivating in her cave residence.

He had promised Bai Qinying that he would find her the moment he was capable of refining a Middle Grade Spiritual Artifact for dealing with Demons.

"Senior Sister, what kind of Middle Grade Spiritual Artifact would you like me to refine?" Fang Yun asked directly after sitting down.

"One for dealing with Demons?" Bai Qinying asked, a little uncertain.

"That’s right."

"So soon!"

Bai Qinying calculated the time. Not even a month had passed.

"Please refine a Middle Grade long sword for me."

"I’m good at those."

Sword-type and shield-type Spiritual Artifacts were, without a doubt, what Fang Yun was best at refining.

He himself had a great need for such Spiritual Artifacts.

"As long as it’s good for dealing with Demons and suitable for me to use with my Thunder Attribute Technique, that’s enough." Bai Qinying knew this type of Spiritual Artifact was difficult to refine, so she didn’t make many demands.

If it were an ordinary Spiritual Artifact, she would have had more requests, as she was confident Fang Yun could fulfill them perfectly.

"Alright."

Fang Yun quickly wrote down the primary and auxiliary Spiritual Materials needed to refine the Middle Grade Spiritual Artifact and handed the list to Bai Qinying.

"Let me see these Spiritual Materials..."

Bai Qinying glanced at the list.

Of the Spiritual Materials Fang Yun needed, she only had a small portion. She would have to gather the majority herself.

"Gathering these Spiritual Materials won’t be easy."

"Senior Sister, in the past, gathering these Spiritual Materials would have been even more difficult. The difficulty has dropped quite a bit now. If you’re lucky, you can have them all collected by next year."

"Yes, compared to before, it really is much less difficult to gather them now."

The conflict between the two great Core Formation Sects would inevitably cause chaos in their respective territories, and chaos was a driving force for the emergence of Spiritual Materials.

After informing Bai Qinying that he could refine the Middle Grade Spiritual Artifact to counter Demons, Fang Yun didn’t chat with her for long.

He soon returned to Artifact Casting Peak.

He didn’t go back to his own cave residence right away, but instead went to find his master, Xiong Xingfeng.

Xiong Xingfeng was not in seclusion, so Fang Yun was able to enter his master’s cave residence without any trouble.

"Master," Fang Yun said, bowing.

"My dear apprentice, what is it?"

"I can now attempt to refine Upper Grade Spiritual Artifacts."

As early as three years ago, Xiong Xingfeng had suggested that Fang Yun begin refining Upper Grade Spiritual Artifacts.

At the time, Fang Yun had pretended to think it over before declining.

His thinking was that it wouldn’t be too late to start refining Upper Grade Spiritual Artifacts after his Artifact Refining talent reached Seven-Star. After all, the Life Talent upgrade wasn’t many years away.

The benefits of refining an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact after upgrading his Artifact Refining talent were self-evident.

"It seems you are fully prepared."

"Yes, Master."

The reason Fang Yun had given for his refusal at the time was that he felt his skill in refining Middle Grade Spiritual Artifacts was still not good enough, not perfect, and that he needed a few more years to let his skills settle.

Xiong Xingfeng had felt his apprentice was already more than capable, but his apprentice held himself to an even higher standard.

As his master, this made him very happy.

"Elder Feng needs an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact refined. As it happens, he was willing to wait for you. I’ll give you the Spiritual Materials now."

In the Celestial Cloud Sect, there was only one Elder with the surname Feng: Bai Qinying’s master, Feng Tianrui.

As Xiong Xingfeng handed the Spiritual Materials and the task slip to Fang Yun, he explained Feng Tianrui’s refining requirements.

Feng Tianrui needed an Upper Grade, ring-type Spiritual Artifact. It required enemy-trapping capabilities, ideally being able to instantly immobilize a mid-Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator. The provided Spiritual Materials were enough to refine an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact with seven Spirit Patterns, though eight would be even better.

Fang Yun took the Spiritual Materials, listening carefully to Xiong Xingfeng’s words while also glancing at the task slip in his hand.

After Xiong Xingfeng finished his explanation, Fang Yun began to examine the Spiritual Materials.

His master must have instructed Feng Tianrui to gather these Spiritual Materials long ago.

At this very moment, a preliminary idea of how to refine the support-type, Upper Grade ring Spiritual Artifact was already forming in Fang Yun’s mind.