Having settled on their next destination, Chu Zheng immediately set out with Fu Quanliang.
He skirted the core territory of the Phantom Spirit Sect. The two cultivated at night and traveled by day, spending over half a month heading more than a hundred thousand li east before entering the territory of a small sect, the Heavenly River Sect.
This place was called the Purple Stone Dynasty. Though it was said to be the sect's territory, it was in truth still within the Phantom Spirit Sect's sphere of control.
The Heavenly River Sect had a legacy of barely a thousand years. Its founding patriarch had been a Rogue Cultivator in the Soul Condensation Realm. Lacking resources, the sect had gradually declined; its strongest member was only at the initial stage of the Entering the Dao Realm and already advanced in years, while there were merely a handful of Spiritual Spring Realm cultivators within the sect.
The entire sect, from top to bottom, numbered only a little over twenty people.
The reason Chu Zheng had come here was that the Heavenly River Sect's grounds housed an Artifact Refiner.
Though he was merely a low-ranking Artifact Refiner capable only of refining First Order dharma artifacts, he was quite renowned among the Rogue Cultivators nearby.
Artifact refinement likewise required divine fire. The Heavenly River Sect possessed a low-grade Fire Seed, and there was a strong chance it was Earth Fiend True Flame.
According to the Grand Xuan Divine Fire Scripture, Fire Seeds in the world were divided into nine orders.
The most common Earth Fiend True Flame was Second Order, and could already greatly increase one's cultivation speed.
With Fu Quanliang in tow, Chu Zheng entered the imperial capital of the Purple Stone Dynasty. After making some inquiries, he soon learned where the Heavenly