"Maybe we can gain some insight from it!"
No one knew who suddenly said those words, but the hearts of the conscious Golden Immortal Mighties shook violently. One after another, they sat cross-legged again, closed their eyes, and once more began comprehending. For a time, the spacious mountain cave grew quiet again.
The fluctuations on the Giant Sword did not cease, but continued rippling with great regularity.
This was the only anomaly that had appeared in the several hundred years since the Giant Sword had been activated by the restriction. That alone was enough to drive the Artifact Refining Masters of Mountain Sea Sect into a frenzy.
Time continued to pass. The mountain cave was silent, so quiet one could hear a needle drop.
Slowly, a mass of energy gathered around Qin Fengming and the round-faced female cultivator. It was not Immortal Spirit Energy of heaven and earth, but a kind of energy that would appear only when artifact refining was about to succeed. It was as if their bodies had become two magic treasures on the verge of taking shape, gathering terrifying might.
None of the Golden Immortal Mighties sitting cross-legged opened their eyes. It was as if none of them had noticed anything unusual about Qin Fengming and the female cultivator at all.
Time slowly passed, and the energy around the two of them grew increasingly dense.
The energy only gathered and did not spread, so if no one specifically probed the two of them, they would not notice the anomaly on their bodies.
More and more energy gathered, forming a mass of mist that completely wrapped the two of them inside. Their figures vanished from sight.
Slowly, that mass of energy did not spread, but instead thinned at a neither-fast-nor-slow pace. The two of them reappeared, and