For the second- and third-place finishers after Ye Chen, the rewards you decided on were the Sixth-ring Dao Artifact Heaven Shaking Hammer and the Sixth-ring Dao Material azure eye, which you had harvested from the guardian beast of the Void Holy Spirit Race.
After obtaining the Heaven Shaking Hammer, Zhu Yu became less fixated on attaching himself to Jin Wuya and Jin Jue Ming. The azure eye material Ye Ping'an received also happened to be suitable for artifact refinement, so it could be put to full use.
Yet afterward, you still gave Ye Ping'an a thorough scolding, hoping he would devote at least some of his attention to cultivating Supernatural Powers and Techniques. Specializing was fine, but he could not be so severely lopsided. If he had no strength at all, how could he reclaim and revive Pingyu Jiayi Heaven for Qilin Yuanjun?
Ye Ping'an agreed readily. Judging from his emotional response, he had genuinely taken it to heart, but whether he would actually do so afterward was another matter. Once the child became addicted to refining artifacts, he would not leave the refining room. Once he immersed himself in it, he simply could not stop, and other matters might well be set aside again.
If not for that, after receiving Qilin Yuanjun's inheritance, Ye Ping'an should have broken through to the Immortal King Third Realm before now. He would not still be at the Immortal King Second Realm.
Then again, if he had not been influenced into this sort of temperament by following Zhang Tianhuo, even with the Devour All Creation Body, Ye Ping'an's accomplishments in artifact refinement could not have risen so rapidly in the early stages while he was feeling his way across the river by himself. It could only be said that timing and fate played