A Century of Sword Forging Hones the Edge, Shaobai Visits the Foothill Cloud Palace Thrice

Sword light suddenly rose to rival the stars, five radiant streaks soaring into the clouds.

With a point of Jiang Sheng's sword fingers, the Qingping Sword and the four swords of Zhu-Lu-Xian-Jue plunged together into the furnace formed by heaven and earth, where spiritual veins converged. A furnace full of tribulation fire burned fiercely, ceaselessly tempering their edges and reforging their bodies.

Atop Foothill Mountain, surging tribulation fate spread for a million li. Boundless thunder and raging fire poured down, turning the entire mountain into Asura Purgatory.

Wind, thunder, water, and fire churned and cycled, while the annihilation of the Three Calamities lingered without end.

Within the furnace of heaven and earth, the five swords showed faint signs of turning insubstantial.

This sword-forging furnace was a qi furnace Jiang Sheng had formed by combining the primordial workings of heaven and earth. The spiritual power of two immortal-grade spiritual veins fed its flames, and the Daoist arts he had cultivated throughout his life served as fuel. Were he to burn another's treasures within it, no matter what wondrous properties they possessed, they would ultimately turn to ash beneath the finality-cutting fire.

But when he burned his own treasures, their shared source allowed them to be tempered repeatedly and raised to greater heights.

Yet tempering treasures required offerings of heavenly materials and earthly treasures. Burning them without replenishment would only damage their spirituality and spiritual essence.

And Jiang Sheng had never lacked offerings.

With the twelve-million-li Little Penglai Immortal Realm in his possession, all manner of heavenly materials and earthly treasures filled Jiang Sheng's vaults. Beyond that, every sixty years, the Penglai Dao Sect deposited another batch of immortal talismans, precious registers, spirit pills, and rare treasures in his name.

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