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Chapter 920 - 776: Inkstone (Extra - , please subscribe)

Chapter 920: Chapter 776: Inkstone (Extra Chapter, please subscribe)

Seeing that he had scared Jiang Wangzhi half to death, Fang Xi decided not to push the man any further.

He wasn’t planning to make enemies of the entire world; his plan was simply to deal with one or two major powers, create chaos in Falling Sky Island, and meanwhile make some living space for the part of the Nine States’ Cultivators who were moving.

As for how to expand afterward, that would be the work of The Nine States itself—Fang Xi had no intention of helping them slaughter all the Alien race Integrated Cultivators on Falling Sky Island.

If they couldn’t even manage this, then there was no need to talk about going to the Earth Immortal Realm to avenge the Fang Immortal Taoist Master.

Moreover,

Immortal Cultivators’ various unique Secret Skills and Secret Arts were endless, when specifically targeted, even Immortals would surely come to a bad end!

With his profound understanding now, Fang Xi had learned from an obscure ancient book that in the far reaches of history, there had been a ’True Immortal descent’ in the Earth Immortal Realm. Because of excessive plundering, that Immortal was struck back by the joint forces of the human, Demon, and Demon Beasts, leading to the Immortal’s downfall!

This was the only time in history of the three races’ brief cooperation.

Although that banished Immortal had to endure the terrible Interface Power of the Earth Immortal Realm and might not have reached the True Immortal’s level, it was enough to show how terrifying an Immortal Cultivator with all cards laid out could be!

Fang Xi, who no longer dared to call himself an Immortal, naturally wouldn’t be so arrogant.

In what followed, at most, he would keep an eye on the Black Sky Pavilion series of killings.

Although such actions would seem extremely arrogant in the eyes of outsiders and would sooner or later attract the Black market’s Master,

as for Lord Black Flame’s commercial center? The person itself was the highest battle strength, but now it was no longer a concern.

"Since that is the case, then I thank Sir for the information; we will meet again if there’s fate."

Fang Xi gave a fist salute and transformed into a dark green Escape Light, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

Witnessing this scene, Jiang Wangzhi petted the koi in front of him and suddenly let out a long breath.

"Although my Spiritual Pet koi’s Bloodline is average, it is rumored to possess a strange protective ability, able to add a bit of fortune to its master... It has saved me from dangerous situations many times."

"Today I was lucky to survive, and from now on... I won’t eat fish anymore," he vowed to himself, still feeling palpitations. "To exterminate peers as simply as eating and drinking, and even to kill Lord Black Flame who’s of a higher realm... I originally thought Jianzi was the outstanding figure amongst this year’s Human Cultivators on the island, but now it appears I had only a narrow perspective..."

...

Within the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm,

Fang Xi carefully stored ’Heart of Earth’ and ’Seventh Stage Flower Soul’, and then opened the Storage Bags of the Integrated Cultivators to tally his loot.

Fairy Peony and the Seventh Stage of the Earth clan offered him plenty of Immortal Jade, in addition to a large quantity of rare materials.

On the other hand, Lord Black Flame’s haul from within his Storage Bag somewhat belied his status as a Mid-Stage Integration Cultivator.

"It seems that not all Cultivators are in the habit of carrying their entire fortune with them..." mused Fang Xi, as he opened Jianzi’s Storage Bag.

His eyes then lit up upon seeing a small mountain of Immortal Jade: "Not bad, not bad... With this Immortal Jade, the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm’s growth will be even quicker!"

"In addition to that, there are these many top-grade metallic materials... Could it be Jianzi planned on forging several Flying Swords?"

He meticulously sorted all the materials, and with a flash of dark green light in his hand, a short emerald sword appeared.

This short sword was no more than a foot long, more like an emerald ruler without a handle, the blade etched with curious wood-like patterns.

As Fang Xi drew out the fifth-generation Green Barley Sword, the emerald short sword began to hum as if it had encountered others of its kind.

"Indeed they are from the same source... only, there is a piece of the blade missing, along with several fragments," Fang Xi determined after scrupulously comparing them with his Divine Consciousness.

"Repairing an Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure, I have no idea how to...",

The Treasures of All Heavens would automatically integrate when encountering a fragment, and Fang Xi could not even split them apart.

And when previously forging the Two-Five Soul-Cutting Gourds, he hadn’t really reformed the Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure fragments; he merely altered the exterior and incorporated them into a gourd. Strictly speaking, as long as one’s Divine Consciousness and Magic Power were up to the task, even someone with as crude talisman forging skills as his could easily accomplish that.

However, repairing an Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure was a wholly different level of difficulty.

Not a Grandmaster of talisman forging from within the Integration, or even Mahayana Individual Immortal level characters, would dare to tamper lightly.

Let alone, this broken sword and the fifth-generation Green Barley Sword in Fang Xi’s hands did not match at all.

"These two incomplete Immortal Mansion Rare Treasures together, they could stand in for about sixty or seventy percent of that Immortal Sword...",

"Once fused together successfully, they would indeed possess astonishing power, enough to be used until the Mahayana Realm..."

Fang Xi pondered and suddenly thought of something; he rummaged through Jianzi’s Storage Bag and pulled out dozens of jade slips.

He scanned them one by one with his Divine Consciousness, his eyes suddenly brightened, as he came upon a Secret Skill.

"The method of sword nurturing..."

Fang Xi immersed his consciousness into the jade slip and saw a sword cultivator’s Secret Skill, which was all about how to refine a sword into one’s body, to Blood Sacrifice the sword, hoping for rapid achievement of Unity between man and sword.

Especially when a Cultivator’s realm wasn’t enough, this art was used to forcibly contain and wield high-tier Flying Swords, having exceptional effects!

"Jianzi was a bit too eager for quick success..."

He reflected on Jianzi’s previous performance and sighed. At the end of that Secret Skill, he found a set of verses.

"The method of sword integration... using a multitude of top-grade metallic materials as media, combined with the forging of a special Spiritual Liquid, while nurturing the sword, slowly draw from the power of the same-origin sword and nourish the body?"

"It seems, Jianzi might not have been able to fuse the Green Barley Sword after all..."

"He initially just thought that I possessed fragments of an Immortal Sword and wanted to reclaim them. He then intended to use this method of integrating swords to extract the might from the fragments, enhancing his own Flying Sword?"

"This ’Sword Integration Method’ might not necessarily be effective on treasures from the Immortal Mansion..."

"Moreover, I am not Jianzi with the supreme physique for the Sword Path.

"Wait a minute..."

Suddenly having thought of something, Fang Xi abruptly formed a hand seal with one hand.

Demonic Beast vines fell down, suspending a corpse in front of Fang Xi.

This scene appeared extremely horrifying and terrifying, but Fang Xi had grown accustomed to it.

With a flick of his finger, a beam of Taiyi Green Wood Divine Light shot out, slicing through the skin and flesh of Jianzi’s corpse, revealing the golden Sword Bone beneath.

"With Jianzi’s remains in my possession, I wonder if it’s possible to refine it into a human-shaped ’sword sheath’ using this secret method... When the time comes, command it to deploy the secret skill, extract the might from the fragments of the sword from the Immortal Mansion, and enhance the fifth-generation Green Barley Sword—there’s a glimmer of hope in that."

"However, it’s better to go to The Nine States first to see if there is a method for fusing broken swords..."

The secret skills of Jianzi involve sacrificing the potential of another Flying Sword to benefit one’s own sword, an incredibly extravagant practice.

And it seems that it might be possible to extract the might of the sword from the Immortal Mansion only with his unique Spirit Body in conjunction with the secret skill.

Substituting Fang Xi for this task, it was not certain he could accomplish this.

For Fang Xi, what matters in magical artifacts is quality, not quantity. If he could enhance the might of the fifth-generation Green Barley Sword by a level, even at the cost of damaging the broken sword from the Immortal Mansion, it would be quite worthwhile.

But for most cultivators, they would definitely prefer to use it as two incomplete treasures from the Immortal Mansion or simply sell one to exchange for other treasures, instead of being so extravagant.

Fang Xi put away the two broken swords and took out half of an inkstone.

This inkstone was a dull grayish-black color, its surface decorated with some simple patterns, appearing utterly unremarkable.

But previously, it was with this object that Jianzi had withstood a full-powered strike from the fifth-generation Green Barley Sword!

"It’s not a treasure from the Immortal Mansion..."

"But could it be some kind of treasure from the immortals perhaps?"

Fang Xi released a surge of Integration-level magic power, beginning to consecrate the inkstone, and found to his surprise that there wasn’t the slightest imprint of Jianzi’s magic power within it.

His magic power easily consecrated the inkstone, and it seemed to be impossible to leave his own mark on it as well.

"An Exotic Treasure?!"

He muttered to himself, thinking of a type of treasure in the Cultivation World.

Such treasures didn’t require consecration at all. As long as a cultivator poured in magic power, they could use the object, and its power was fixed from the start.

"Quick!"

With a push of his magic power, a layer of pitch-black light shield emerged above the inkstone.

This layer of dark light exuded an indestructible aura.

His eyes glinting, Fang Xi barely caught a glimpse of several fleeting secret immortal characters on the dark shield...

"It’s not just an Exotic Treasure but a kind like talisman treasure that can be used multiple times. However, its power will one day be exhausted..."

Fang Xi quickly discovered that as the dark shield persisted, suddenly a crack appeared on the inkstone, its color shifting more towards gray. He immediately withdrew his magic power and placed the half inkstone into his Storage Ring.

He suspected that the inkstone was originally whole but had most of its power worn away through several uses.

What remained had been further wasted by Jianzi, and now it likely could only be used two or three more times at best...

"Nonetheless, it can still be considered an unexpected fortune."

After killing Jianzi, the disguise as the Wang Family Ancestor could still be of use.

In a few hundred years, when the Wang Family Ancestor advanced to Integration, he could also enter the Earth Immortal Realm with complete legitimacy.

’With Shi Xianzi and Bai Yusheng as witnesses... the ascending Immortal Fang Xi recently seen in the Earth Immortal Realm has no connection whatsoever with the Wang Family Ancestor.’

’Or perhaps... should I cultivate a few more identities for backup?’

Fang Xi flew out of the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm and entered his temporarily established Dongfu.

His Divine Consciousness swept the surroundings, finding everything unchanged from when he left. He nodded slightly and tossed out a Spirit Beast Bag.

Attached to the Spirit Beast Bag was a talisman, quickly turning to ashes.

"Ying ying..."

With a flash of light, a small two-tailed fox appeared, yipping in a pitiable manner.

Ever since the time in the Seven Treasures Secret Realm, Fang Xi had placed her in the Spirit Beast Bag, and had even sealed her perception of the outside world, making it akin to being imprisoned.

"Oh? Not bad..."

Fang Xi looked at the pitiable little fox, focusing on its tail area. He saw a small tail starting to grow next to its two long crimson tails and couldn’t help but smile.

"I am naturally a Three-tailed monster fox with a pure bloodline..."

Su San couldn’t help but argue back, then her eyes suddenly widened in shock: "Master... you... you have reached the Middle Stage of Integration?"

"Having acquired the opportunity of the ’Innate One Qi Purple Gourd,’ and since my own cultivation had reached the peak of Returning to Emptiness, why couldn’t I ascend to Integration?"

Fang Xi asked back with a smile.