As the seasons turned, years passed unnoticed in cultivation.
The Water Mansion's main hall.
A young man, nearly ten feet tall, with three heads and six arms, swayed and returned to his original form.
"Lei Zhan, you've made astonishingly quick progress with your Law of Heaven and Earth and Three Heads and Six Arms."
The lean, white-robed elder beside him stroked his beard and smiled. "Your talent for comprehension is exceptional. In these five years, you've cultivated the God and Devil Body Refining Path to the late Purple Mansion stage. By constantly contemplating the Buddha of Sun and Moon Light, your soul has now reached the Divine Sense level as well. So, are you ready to challenge the War God Hall?"
"Have five years really passed in the blink of an eye?" Lei Zhan sighed.
He still remembered how, five years ago, he had stumbled his way through the three trials set by Immortal Juhua.
Now, five years had passed. With the Black Bead's help, he had gained a profound understanding of the Dao and learned many arts and secret techniques. Even his soul had reached the Divine Sense level.
"Master, I'd like to go to the Hall of Treasures first and exchange for a more suitable treasure."
For these five years, Lei Zhan had been cultivating in seclusion in the Water Mansion, with no chance to fight an enemy to the death.
Once a God-Devil Body Refining cultivator reached the Purple Mansion level, he could obtain a Human-Grade Magic Treasure—or one of equivalent value—from the Hall of Treasures.
Lei Zhan had yet to use this opportunity.
Lei Zhan looked at Immortal Juhua and continued, "It's usually no problem. But now that I've mastered Three Heads and Six Arms, if I unleash it at full power and wield divine weapons in all six hands, I'll be able to raise my strength considerably."
"Mm. Without suitable divine weapons, Three Heads and Six Arms would indeed lose a great deal of its power."
Immortal Juhua nodded with a smile. "Go ahead and choose a treasure from the Hall of Treasures. As for divine weapons, I've already prepared a set for you. With me here, you needn't worry about that."
"Master, you've already prepared a set for me?" Lei Zhan was stunned. He quickly bowed respectfully. "This disciple thanks you for bestowing these treasures!"
"As your master, I naturally ought to prepare some treasures for you. I did tell you to go choose something from the Hall of Treasures yourself, but Blood-Refined Divine Weapons are the most important treasures a God-Devil Body Refining cultivator can have. I couldn't afford to be careless."
Immortal Juhua smiled. "Over the past few years, I've watched you fight those puppets. You had few treasures, and only that one spear in your hands. So I gathered the materials I had and forged three identical spears based on its design."
As Immortal Juhua spoke, he waved a hand, and three spears, each as thick as a man's arm, appeared in the hall.
The spears were long and silver-white from end to end, their blades gleaming with a chill. Fine golden lines flowed along each shaft, gathering into ancient patterns.
They looked as though they had been carved from the same mold as the spear Lei Zhan held.
"These... the aura from these treasures... Earth-Grade Magic Treasures?" Lei Zhan was overjoyed. He had been somewhat prepared, but even so, seeing the treasures before him left him unable to hide his excitement.
The God and Devil Blood Refining Technique was a secret art every God-Devil had to use.
It had been recorded in the notes of a cultivator that Lei Zhan had first obtained, and the spear he used had been made through the God and Devil Blood Refining Method.
When Lei Zhan had found that spear, it had been an ordinary weapon, barely comparable to a Human-Grade Magic Treasure. It was nowhere near the level of the three before him.
"Enough. I merely forged them with a casual wave of my hand. But these weapons aren't Earth-Grade." Immortal Juhua waved, and the three spears flew straight to Lei Zhan.
"Not Earth-Grade?" Lei Zhan was taken aback.
"These weapons are made from precious materials, but they don't have the various qualities a true magic treasure should. They should be just about comparable to Heaven-Grade Magic Treasures," Immortal Juhua explained.
For a God-Devil Blood-Refined Divine Weapon, the better the materials, the greater its power and the faster it would grow.
"Since you're satisfied, let's begin the God and Devil Blood Refining Technique at once!"
"Yes!" Lei Zhan nodded.
The God and Devil Blood Refining Method required a complicated blood-refining ritual, with the cultivator's blood as its essential ingredient.
Ordinary cultivators who bled too much might die from blood loss.
But Lei Zhan's God-Devil Body Refining had reached the late Purple Mansion stage. Rebirth from a Drop of Blood was nothing unusual for him. He could restore a little lost blood by expending some divine power.
That was simply the price required by the blood-refining method.
Once the blood refinement was complete, the weapon could absorb baleful energy, violent energy, killing intent, and other such forces.
After undergoing the God and Devil Blood Refining Technique, the more enemies it killed—and the stronger those enemies were—the more naturally the weapon would improve. It could grow or shrink, become lighter or heavier, all according to its wielder's will.
Lei Zhan's thoughts stirred, and he immediately took out a jade bottle. He put a finger to its mouth, and blood flowed into it.
Blood-refining a single weapon required at most a thousand catties of blood. The jade bottle was a storage treasure of no grade, but it could hold tens of thousands of catties of liquid, making it just right for the task.
Soon, the bottle was filled with over a thousand catties of blood.
"Though the three spears Master forged look exactly like the one I have, their foundations are far better."
Satisfied, Lei Zhan recalled the God and Devil Blood Refining Method in his mind and began the first step of the God and Devil Blood Refining Technique—inviting the Ancestral God!
Rumble~~~
Countless streaks of blood-red light had gathered in the hall, forming a strange God-Devil Script.
The script was ancient and simple, yet it held an aura both ancient and immensely magnificent.
"Kill!" Lei Zhan saw it clearly. Though he couldn't read the God-Devil Script, just as with the character "right" on the Water Mansion's token, he understood its meaning at a glance.
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"
The "kill" characters formed from the blood-red light around them sent out shadow after shadow, which continuously merged into the three spears.
The enormous "kill" character floating in midair grew dimmer and dimmer. At last, it faded away, and the entire hall returned to stillness.
Only then did Lei Zhan let out a long breath.
"It's done!"
"Mm. Now that you have three divine weapons that can grow alongside you, your cultivation path will be much smoother from here on." Immortal Juhua nodded.
"Do these three divine weapons have names?"
"Names?" Lei Zhan looked up at his master, Immortal Juhua, and smiled. "I originally named this spear 'Cold Shadow.' Since these three look identical, I'll give them all the same name."
"Cold Shadow? That's fitting." Immortal Juhua nodded, then called out, "Senior Big Bear, my disciple is going to the Hall of Treasures to exchange for a treasure. Please show yourself."
Whoosh~~~
As soon as his voice fell, space rippled throughout the Water Mansion's main hall, and the phantom of a Yellow-Haired Great Bear appeared out of nowhere. In an instant, the shadow gathered and became a solid, lifelike Big Bear.
"Senior Big Bear." Lei Zhan bowed respectfully. "My God-Devil Body Refining has reached the Rebirth from a Drop of Blood level, so I'm entitled to a Human-Grade Magic Treasure from the Hall of Treasures. Please let me choose one."
"Mm. I know." The Yellow-Haired Great Bear nodded at Lei Zhan, then glanced at Immortal Juhua and turned to leave.
"Lei Zhan, follow me." A faint voice echoed through the air.
"I'll take you to the Hall of Treasures to exchange for a treasure."
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