Refining a Spirit Treasure on the Eve of the Demon Sealing Abyss

"Trouble in Great Jin?"

"Hmph. What trouble? These factions just found a pretext to hide behind. Anyone could see the Ye Family had been set up." "Tsk. These great powers were masters at playing dumb. If anyone truly meant to strike, how could there be so much thunder and so little rain?"

"The Ye Family was lashing out now partly to vent its anger and steady the spirits of those below. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a terrible loss not even to know who had struck? The other reason was to make a bigger fuss and squeeze out some benefits."

The Great Jin Ye Family had been set up and had even lost the Fire Dragon Ring, a Quasi-Spirit Treasure. The news was undoubtedly shocking.

Some suspected the Ye Family had exaggerated. It might truly have been plotted against, but the claim that it had lost a Quasi-Spirit Treasure was hard to believe.

Great Jin looked turbulent, but the unrest was confined to lower-level cultivators. Those at the top remained remarkably calm.

The two powers that had suffered losses this time, Buddhism and the Ye Family, even clashed openly amid the chaos. In secret, both were investigating. The Ye Family's losses were enormous, while Buddhism had lost two great cultivators at the Nascent Soul Late Stage. It could hardly let that pass. As for the man behind it all, he had already returned to the Spirit Control Sect without a sound.

Inside his cave abode, Lin Chang'an slowly opened his eyes after half a year in seclusion.

"The Fire Dragon Ring has finally undergone its initial refinement. As expected of a Third-Tribulation Pseudo-Spirit Treasure—even badly damaged, it'll take years to refine completely." The ring around his wrist now obeyed his will. Where it had once blazed with spiritual light, it had