God of Pets-Chapter 631: Abandonment

After thinking things through, Chen Guan immediately set about refining the Daoist Mortar, preparing for the fifth awakening using it.

The Secret Technique of One operated frantically, with Primordial Energy continuously being channeled into the Daoist Mortar. When refining a Secret Treasure, each Secret Technique has a different approach.

The approach of the Secret Technique of One is especially simple: keep injecting Primordial Energy and use it to thoroughly cleanse the Secret Treasure for refinement. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Chen Guan continuously injected more than five hundred units of Primordial Energy, but the Daoist Mortar showed no response.

Unable to persist, Chen Guan had no choice but to frantically spin Elixir and Heavenly and Earthly Treasures to restore Spiritual Power while continuously using Primordial Energy to refine the Daoist Mortar.

It went on for four days, but the Daoist Mortar remained unresponsive, still snow-white all over, full of cracks.

"My Primordial Energy can't refine it; who else could refine this thing?" Chen Guan privately wondered. Then he had another thought: "The Daoist Mortar seems to be a defective product. Could there be an issue preventing it from being refined?"

Not willing to give up just like that, Chen Guan could only continue to grit his teeth and persist, while frantically consuming Heavenly and Earthly Treasures and Elixir and slowly inputting Spiritual Power to refine the Daoist Mortar.

Fortunately, perseverance paid off. By the seventh day, the Daoist Mortar finally showed signs of change. The snowy white, jade-like mortar body with ice-like cracks began to show signs of melting like ice.

"What do you think you're doing?" A voice suddenly echoed in Chen Guan's mind.

"Oh no... How did it awaken now..." Chen Guan was startled, while he intensified the refining and said: "You finally woke up; it's great that you're okay."

"Of course I'm okay, I'm asking what you're doing?" The Daoist Mortar was furious, and its body began to shake violently, trying to break free from Chen Guan's control.

"I want to merge with you, sharing our lifespan henceforth. From now on, we are life-and-death companions, not asking to be born together on the same year, month, and day, but asking to die together on the same year, month, and day..." Chen Guan said.

"Sounds nice... But you're clearly trying to refine me into a Celestial Destiny Secret Treasure... stop now, immediately, right away..." The Daoist Mortar was clearly a bit upset.

"I didn't know you didn't want to become my closest partner. I always thought you and I were already treating each other as the sole and inseparable part of our lives. Now that we're this far, there's no way to stop..." Seeing the refining nearing completion, Chen Guan was not willing to stop.

Whether the Daoist Mortar wanted to or not, finishing it quickly was the priority.

The Daoist Mortar was silent for a moment, then its voice sounded again: "In using me as a Celestial Destiny Secret Treasure, you'll have a major problem; you'll die at the time of Five Senses."

"Why would I die?" Chen Guan naturally did not believe, thinking the Daoist Mortar was trying to scare him.

The Daoist Mortar helplessly said: "Because I am originally the core Secret Treasure of the Great Cave Heaven, the foundation of a Great Cave Heaven. Refining me into a Celestial Destiny Secret Treasure would mean refining that Great Cave Heaven. Do you think with your strength and level, you can withstand the backlash of that Great Cave Heaven?"

"Now I haven't been refined yet, and the Great Cave Heaven still can't sense it. But once I am refined, the backlash from the Great Cave Heaven will come. If you don't stop now, you won't have another chance later."

"This sort of thing?" Chen Guan slightly frowned.

Whether the Daoist Mortar's words were true or false, if true, the backlash from the Great Cave Heaven would not be something he could handle now.

But if the Daoist Mortar was lying, stopping now would mean all efforts were wasted.

"If you truly wish to use me as a Celestial Destiny Secret Treasure, there is only one way now. Find the part of me that's missing, the Daoist Pestle. Only when we are combined can we shield against the Great Cave Heaven's sensing and backlash."

"Otherwise, not only you, but I too will be destroyed by the backlash from the Great Cave Heaven. After all, the Great Cave Heaven won't want a core Secret Treasure refined by humans. Once destroyed, it will nurture a new core Secret Treasure."

"Where is the Daoist Pestle?" Chen Guan thought about it, considering the Daoist Mortar likely wasn't lying.

"I don't know. We were scattered at the time." The Daoist Mortar said tremblingly: "The Great Cave Heaven has begun to sense it; you must stop immediately."

Chen Guan, with a thought, withdrew his Primordial Energy, stopping the Secret Technique of One from refining the Daoist Mortar.

"So close... Just a little bit more... Fortunately, you stopped..." The Daoist Mortar seemed to let out a long breath.

"Aren't you the core Secret Treasure of a Great Cave Heaven? You're supposed to suppress things within it. Who could have scattered you guys?" Chen Guan asked.

"Naturally the Secret Spirit of the Celestial Secret Realm." The Daoist Mortar sighed: "Every once in a while, the Secret Spirit of the Celestial Secret Realm harvests the Earth Secret Realm. At that time, regardless of humans, Secret Spirits, Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, Secret Treasures, etc., all are within the harvesting scope."

"We couldn't tolerate ourselves being harvested like crops, so we fought against the Secret Spirits of the Celestial Secret Realm. As a result, countless Secret Treasures and Secret Spirits were suppressed. I and the Daoist Pestle were separated and took heavy damage that has yet to heal completely."

Chen Guan finally understood that the Celestial Secret Realm hunted not just humans but all life within a Secret Realm, including Secret Spirits and these Secret Treasures.

Only then did Chen Guan realize why the Gui Xu's memory of the Secret Realm was so different from the current one, even the types of Secret Spirits within were different.

It turned out that the previous Secret Spirits were also harvested to extinction by the Celestial Secret Realm.

"Why does the Celestial Secret Realm do this? Does it care about these resources?" Chen Guan pondered.

"I don't know. One must break into the Celestial Secret Realm to find out." The Daoist Mortar said: "But you should accelerate your cultivation speed. According to my calculations, the Celestial Secret Realm is about to harvest the Earth Secret Realm again, and this time it's already late."

"It hasn't come late; it's already been here." Chen Guan recounted the incident of the Emperor Ancestor invading the Celestial Secret Realm.

The Daoist Mortar was surprised: "Among humans, such a powerful existence appeared, one capable of battling the Secret Spirits of the Celestial Secret Realm and even breaking into the Celestial Secret Realm? In my era, very few humans could participate in warfare, and none had significant battle strength."

"So, in your era, you were the strongest combat force?" Chen Guan asked with interest.

"Not exactly the strongest, as I am merely a Secret Treasure. The true strongest was the Master of each Secret Realm." The Daoist Mortar thought for a moment and said: "In my era, the strongest Master of the Secret Realm was that Netherworld Emperor."

"Without the Netherworld Emperor, we would have already been harvested with none left." The Daoist Mortar lamented: "Sadly, the Netherworld Emperor and his Secret Realm were suppressed by numerous terrifying existences from the Celestial Secret Realm, forced into Gui Xu, never to emerge again. That's the graveyard for Secret Realms, the final destination of all material. No life can escape from there."