Heaven's Dao bless us, this pill refinement had gone smoothly from start to finish.
After refining the pills, Ling Xuanxiao went out.
He spent over a month selling all the pills in his possession in exchange for cultivation resources.
It had also gone surprisingly smoothly. He had originally thought it would take much longer.
After returning to the sect, Ling Xuanxiao entered seclusion once more.
The pill room was drastically remodeled into an artifact-refining room.
Every so often, the clang-clang of hammering metal echoed out.
The Crane-Top Silver Needles had originally been a top-grade spirit artifact.
Spirit artifacts were divided into low, middle, high, and top grades.
Beyond spirit artifacts, they could be called magic treasures.
Magic treasures were likewise divided into low, middle, high, and top grades.
As for Innate Spirit Treasures and Acquired Spirit Treasures, they were not included among these.
They corresponded to cultivators' realms, from Qi Refinement... all the way to Mahayana.
To wield an artifact above one's realm required even stronger and more precise Spiritual Sense.
Thus, artifacts were never better simply because they were higher grade; the best one was the one that suited its owner.
Ling Xuanxiao had originally been in the Foundation Establishment Realm. By rights, the artifacts he could control should have been no more than middle-grade spirit artifacts.
However, his divine ability had evolved into the Spirit Cultivation Technique, allowing him to cultivate his Spiritual Sense, which was exceptionally powerful.
Thus, he could use artifacts one grade above his level.
Now that he had advanced to the Golden Core Realm, his artifacts naturally had to advance as well.
It was just that the resource expenditure... had consumed all the savings he had accumulated over the years.
Just like that, three years flew by.
To cultivators, three years truly amounted