Young Desolate Heavenly Master

"Teacher, didn't you say we were going to the Northwest Divine Wilderness this time? I could have gone to hunt Savage Beasts there. Why did we end up in Yunhuang instead? Yunhuang is a barren land with not many powerful Savage Beasts!"

The maiden's voice was melodious and pleasant to hear.

"The Northwest Divine Wilderness... alas, you have an Innate Yin Meridian. Your stamina is insufficient. The Northwest Divine Wilderness is overrun with Savage Beasts, including high-level ones. It would be too strenuous for you," the chubby old man shook his head.

"Alright, Xin Tong, I'll give you fifteen minutes to refine this Level Six Ferocious Beast into a Bone Relic. As I said before, this is your trial. Unless your life is in danger, I won't intervene."

The chubby old man's voice was calm. After speaking, he found a large rock, sat down heavily, and began to enjoy the scenery.

The maiden nodded gently. She lightly brushed her finger across her wristband, producing a bronze formation disk covered in dense runes.

As soon as the formation disk appeared, it flew into the sky and expanded with the wind.

Soon, the disk grew to the size of a house. Then, the Level Six Ferocious Beast was directly absorbed by the disk, transforming into a dazzling white light.

Within the white light, the beast's corpse seemed to ignite. Its flesh and blood melted, and the essence of its flesh and blood seeped into its bones. In just over ten breaths, the ferocious beast was reduced to a skeleton.

After another ten breaths, the skeleton began to slowly melt and fuse...

During this time, the maiden's fingers continuously formed seals. Her fingers were very slender, and when she formed seals, they moved so fast that they left behind thick afterimages.

She cast array runes one after another, which flew into the formation disk and merged with the beast's bones.

In less than fifteen minutes, the beast bones had completely melted, finally condensing into a Bone Relic the size of a mung bean.

If Lian Chengyu saw this scene, he would surely exclaim in surprise.

A Savage Heaven Master!

This maiden was a Savage Heaven Master!

She had effortlessly refined a Level Six Ferocious Beast in less than fifteen minutes. Such terrifying power was hard to imagine manifesting in a young girl.

If this maiden were to act, the Lian Clan could refine the Cold Python Savage Bones with ease!

The Bone Relic fell into the maiden's palm. Seeing it, her delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly, clearly not satisfied.

"It's still not small enough."

The maiden shook her head. Her goal was to refine a Level Six Ferocious Beast into a rice-grain-sized Bone Relic within fifteen minutes.

However, it seemed she was still a considerable distance from that goal.

"Xin Tong, there's no need to be anxious. You are the most talented Savage Heaven Master I have seen in all my years traveling the continent. It's a pity..."

The chubby old man sighed as he spoke. At seventeen years old, being able to refine a Level Six Ferocious Beast, flesh and bone, into a rice-grain-sized Bone Relic within fifteen minutes surpassed even the chubby old man's achievements in his youth.

However, it was a pity that this girl named Xin Tong possessed an Innate Yin Meridian. Her pale complexion was due to this.

The Innate Yin Meridian was an extremely rare pulse condition that only appeared in women and was a type of Fatal Meridian.

Women with an Innate Yin Meridian were naturally cold and sensitive to the cold, needing to wear padded clothes even in the height of summer. If a mortal had an Innate Yin Meridian, they would live to at most seventeen or eighteen years old. Afterward, they would fall into repeated comas, each lasting at least two or three days, and growing longer and more frequent. Eventually, they would fall into a coma for half a year or more, their life force slowly depleting in their sleep until they died.

But Xin Tong was born into the ancient Lin Family. With the Lin Family's support, she could consume Bone Relics refined from fire-element Savage Beasts, using the Pure Yang Power within them to neutralize her internal cold.

This would ensure she lived a long life, but as for cultivation...

Those with an Innate Yin Meridian could not truly unblock all their meridians when they reached the Meridian Realm of the Mortal Blood Fourth Layer, leaving hidden dangers.

The further they cultivated to higher realms, the more difficult their progress would become, until they hit a bottleneck!

The Innate Yin Meridian was a curse.

However, there were exceptions. Legend had it that in ancient times, there was a Human Empress who possessed an Innate Yin Meridian.

Yet, she managed to mend her Fatal Meridian through her own power.

After the Innate Yin Meridian was mended, it seemed to undergo unpredictable transformations, but historical records did not provide detailed accounts of these.

Lin Xin Tong's master, the chubby old man, had been trying to mend Lin Xin Tong's Fatal Meridian. He had found several ancient formulas left by Savage Heaven Masters, but none had succeeded.

The ancient formulas were obscure and difficult to understand, and the requirements for both ingredients and refining techniques were perplexing, causing the chubby old man to try repeatedly without success.

Deeply fond of his disciple, the chubby old man scoured the Great Wilderness, searching for possible methods, but failed every time.

"Teacher, don't sigh. Although I have an Innate Yin Meridian, with the support of fire-element Savage Bone Relics, I can at least live for three to four hundred years. Compared to mortals, I'm already much happier."

The maiden had grown up in an ancient clan, living a life of luxury. She had seen countless rare treasures and ancient artifacts.

In recent years, she had gone out to train and travel the Great Wilderness, witnessing the suffering of the world and understanding how mortals struggled in this world.

This filled the maiden with emotion. Indeed, even with her Innate Yin Meridian, she was thousands of times happier than these mortals.

The maiden swallowed the Bone Relic she had refined.

Ferocious Beast Relics refined from ferocious beasts were of slightly lower quality than Savage Bone Relics. However, most Martial Practitioners only consumed Savage Bone Relics occasionally. For their daily cultivation, Ferocious Beast Relics were usually sufficient. Consuming Savage Bone Relics required a considerable amount of time to refine.

"We're about to enter the territory of the Lian Clan. Hmm, the Lian Clan is a small tribe with only about a thousand households. We don't need to go in," the chubby old man said, unfolding a leather map to examine it. He chuckled as he looked, "We have the Brocade Dragon Guard of the Tai'a Divine Kingdom to thank for this map. They've drawn a new map of Yunhuang. The old map of Yunhuang hadn't been updated in about eight hundred years. Many small tribes have moved, and they aren't marked on the old map."

Seeing the map her teacher had produced, Lin Xin Tong suddenly felt a sense of doubt. Drawing a map of Yunhuang was a thankless task. Small tribes were as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, with one potentially perishing at any moment and a new one emerging.

A detailed map, painstakingly drawn, would become obsolete in about eighty to a hundred years.

Recalling the recent frequent activities of the Tai'a Divine Kingdom in Yunhuang, Lin Xin Tong asked, "Teacher, why did we travel millions of miles specifically to come to Yunhuang? And Xin Tong heard that the Tai'a Divine Kingdom has also sent the Brocade Dragon Guard, preparing to hold a grand selection for warriors in Yunhuang soon. Holding a warrior selection in the Great Wilderness is very arduous. Why is the Tai'a Divine Kingdom doing this?"

"Is our visit to Yunhuang related to the Tai'a Divine Kingdom's selection?"