Would You All Like to Draw the Line?

Gu Yuanqing took up temporary residence in the Spiritual Treasure Palace.

He did not find the place dull. He requested from the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land some books concerning the Xuanqiong Realm, the one hundred and eight Realm Cities, and Extraterrestrial Demons. As he read and learned, he also observed the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land's art of artifact refinement.

Qingping Dao Palace had always excelled at artifact refinement, and Old Man Heavenly Sword had been renowned for his "Three Absolutes." The Dao Palace's library contained countless secret treatises on artifact refinement, so Gu Yuanqing was no outsider to the craft. In terms of knowledge and breadth of vision alone, he was not inferior even to many disciples of great sects who specialized in the Dao of cultivation artifacts.

It was only that he had rarely immersed himself in this path before, so his understanding was not particularly deep. Now that he had come to this grand Dao Palace of artifact refinement, he naturally felt a measure of curiosity.

The Spiritual Treasure Holy Land did not forbid outsiders from observing. The Dharma Treasures refined outside were mostly standardized implements meant to restrain Heavenly Demons. Moreover, the essence of the Holy Land's artifact refinement could never be glimpsed at a glance. The true crux lay in the internal cultivation method, secret soul arts for imprinting spiritual seals, the Dao of fire control, the proportioning of materials, and mastery of the heat at every stage.

The entire palace was vast. Artifact-refining disciples could be found everywhere, and there were no few cultivators who came to visit the Spiritual Treasure Holy Land. Observers were even more countless than stars, yet no one had ever been heard of truly stealing the Holy Land's secret artifact-refining inheritance.

On the contrary, if one could comprehend even a