A Sheep in Passing

The Artifact Refining Cauldron was plain and unadorned, without any decorations or Inscriptions, yet it emitted the aura of a High-grade Sixth-order Magic Tool.

The two tried to take the Artifact Refining Cauldron away, but could not move it in the slightest.

They tried dripping blood on it to pledge allegiance, but it had no effect whatsoever.

Instead, two streams of flame shot directly out of the Artifact Refining Cauldron and attacked them.

This was an attack from a Sixth-order Magic Tool, while the two of them were merely Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators.

Neither dared to take it head-on. They used escape arts and retreated.

The two flames only had a range of one hundred zhang. Once they had withdrawn beyond that distance, the flames stopped pursuing them.

True Lord Heng Hai steadied himself after the fright. "That was close. If those flames had kept chasing us, we would both have died here."

The Wen family cultivator also let out a breath. "A High-grade Sixth-order Magic Tool may very well have been a Seventh-order Magic Tool in the past.

It has been nurtured by earthfire for who knew how many years. There is an eighty percent chance that it has developed an artifact spirit.

Without an owner, the artifact spirit remains dormant and can only attack and defend on instinct.

It seems this artifact spirit has taken a dislike to the two of us and refuses to let us pledge allegiance."

True Lord Heng Hai nodded. "We do not have that kind of fortune. Better not seek death."

With that, they began searching the area around the refining room.

Even if an artifact refining chamber belonging to a major power had no completed magic tools or artifact refining inheritances, it would not lack high-grade refining materials.

The mist inside