At the same time.
Because the commotion Ling Pengyun had caused while refining the Fifth Rank Superior Grade Verdant Pine Dharma Bead had been too great, all the Azure Profound Lineage cultivators within Blazing Sun Forest had noticed it.
This matter immediately stirred up waves a thousand feet high.
Although many powerful cultivators of the Azure Profound Lineage had long known that Ling Pengyun's weapon-refining skills were extraordinary, and that he had even consecutively reforged several Fifth Rank Middle Grade Spirit Treasures into Fifth Rank Superior Grade ones.
The difficulty of reforging a Spirit Treasure was far beyond that of directly forging a Fifth Rank Superior Grade Spirit Treasure.
Thus, everyone speculated that Ling Pengyun had likely already touched the threshold of Fifth Rank Superior Grade weapon refinement.
Perhaps, after some more time, once Ling Pengyun mastered the forging of several other types of Fifth Rank Superior Grade Spirit Treasures, he would become a true Fifth Rank Superior Grade Weapon Refiner.
Such figures were exceedingly rare. Even across the entire Heaven River Realm, they could be counted on one's fingers.
Most importantly, although the Azure Profound Lineage possessed astonishing combat strength, even surpassing many upper-tier Transformation God Forces, and was inferior only to those top Transformation God Forces that possessed Spirit Transformation Completion experts.
The Azure Profound Lineage had risen only recently, after all, and had come from a small place like the Azure Profound Realm.
Furthermore, Fifth Rank Superior Grade Spirit Treasures were exceedingly rare and difficult to obtain.
The Azure Profound Lineage's Spirit Treasure foundation was therefore extremely weak.
Aside from experts of the Ling Clan and Star Sea Pavilion such as Ling Pengyun and the Star Sea Old Ancestor, the three major forces—the Supreme Buddha Sect, Righteous Path Alliance, and Four Immortals Alliance—did not possess such treasures.