The Terrifying Scholar

The Spirit Treasure "Scholar"!

He had finished refining it several years ago.

He had managed it so quickly mainly because his Talent Origin had grown. He had completed most of the refining process with his Talent Ability, especially the final Spirit Restriction, which required the True Spirit Remnant Soul sealed inside the Bamboo Slip. Without his Talent Ability, he could never have succeeded. If he had failed, finding another True Spirit Remnant Soul would have been impossible.

Even so, gathering the souls and materials had cost him countless Spirit Crystals. To refine this treasure, he had been forced to trade away large quantities of precious pills, exposing no small part of his wealth.

Yet after refining it with such high hopes, he had discovered he could not use it at all. He could not even pass the first hurdle of placing his imprint on it, leaving him deeply frustrated.

Now that he had advanced to the Spirit Transformation Realm and possessed Primordial Spirit Power, he needed to try again.

The moment he activated his Primordial Spirit Power, Chen Lin brightened.

Previously, the Artifact Spirit within the statue had shown no response to anything he did, not even when he used the Blood Refining Method to bring it to life.

But now it stirred.

He immediately employed a Secret Art and began refining the Artifact Spirit.

The process took an entire month.

By the time Chen Lin emerged from the Cultivation Chamber, exhaustion covered his face. He was also secretly astonished.

This was a treasure he had personally made with the Blood Refining Method, yet refining it had been this difficult. Had he found or purchased it instead, he probably could not have placed his imprint on it at the Spirit Transformation Stage. He would have needed to reach at least