Violet Rainbow Continent, Smuggling Across Dao Domains

Hearing the aged voice, Han Yi remained calm inside and replied respectfully, "This junior is ready!"

In truth.

His expectations for the Ashen Nine Refinements were not particularly high.

Instead, the frenzied slaughter in the mission worlds had brought him enormous gains.

After reaching a record of 100 victories, every enemy he encountered had been in the Outer Dao realm. Among them, he had slain several hundred Outer Dao beings, passed through twenty-one worlds, and suffered crushing defeats 181 times.

Thus came his final record of 121 wins and 181 losses.

The experience of 202 battles against Outer Dao beings was his greatest harvest from entering the Ashen Ruins this time.

Before this, he had not had much experience fighting Outer Dao beings. This assessment had made up for that deficiency, and that was what was most precious.

As the voice faded, a profound scripture suddenly began flowing through his mind. It contained roughly nine thousand runes, every single one brimming with unfathomable mysteries.

Ashen Nine Refinements.

What shocked Han Yi was that this scripture was completely different from the artifact refinement he had imagined. Or rather, it far exceeded the scope of artifact refinement.

This was a special refinement method that could not only forge weapons, but also refine the physical body. At its ultimate stage, it could even refine weapons into the body itself, fusing oneself and one's weapon into one.

Han Yi guessed that if a peak Heavenly Venerable refined nine peak Heavenly Venerable ancient artifacts and stored them all within their body, their combat power could surpass that of a Heavenly Venerable and contend against a Half-Step Transcendent.

Perhaps that was also why Ashen Mountain had dared to confront the Origin Demon Palace head-on back then.

Thinking of the Yueguang Divine Spear he possessed, Han Yi's