Outside, discussions raged. People from the many human forces were secretly watching Lin Baichuan, talking about Xue Shanshan going to the mountain peak where he resided.
Yet Lin Baichuan himself knew nothing of any of this.
Because he was fully focused on refining artifacts.
Day after day passed, and in the blink of an eye, five days quietly slipped by.
That day, within Lin Baichuan's Bronze Palace atop the mountain peak, a powerful Dao Rhyme of heaven and earth swept out. Inside the palace, an illusory Alchemy Furnace dissipated in an instant. Countless runes flickered along with it before turning into streams of light and merging into the five clusters of spiritual radiance floating in the air.
Within those five clusters of light floated five weapons.
They were a battle saber, a bow and arrows, a battle robe, a cauldron furnace, and a gourd.
The five weapons simultaneously emitted brilliant, powerful light, while waves of heaven-and-earth Dao Rhyme swept outward.
Buzz...
The next moment, amid peals like morning bells and evening drums, the five streams of light drew inward and merged into the five weapons.
At once, mysterious patterns began appearing upon those weapons.
The patterns seemed naturally formed by heaven and earth themselves, emanating an unfathomable Dao Rhyme. They were precisely Innate Dao Patterns.
Every single one contained astonishing heavenly might.
Only true Dao Artifacts could condense such Innate Dao Patterns.
And naturally, the more Dao Patterns there were, the higher the grade.
One Innate Dao Pattern after another emerged upon the five weapons, blossoming with astonishing Dao Rhyme.
One!
Two!
Three!
Roughly a quarter of an hour later, when nine Dao Patterns had appeared on each of the five weapons, the brilliant spiritual radiance finally dispersed completely.
The Dao Rhyme that had previously revealed such sharpness instantly