[After the lot-drawing banquet ended, you returned to a routine of eating, drinking, and sleeping.] [In your spare time, you perfected your Sword Dao Inheritance. So far, you had created it through the Nascent Soul section.] [Since you had only recently been born and your organs had yet to develop fully, you could not cultivate immediately. You could only soak in rare treasures such as millennium spirit milk to strengthen your physique.]
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[In the first year, you were one year old.] [Having absorbed all manner of rare treasures of heaven and earth, you were now no different from an eight- or nine-year-old child aside from having no cultivation, and could run about everywhere.] [One day, you discovered your father, Zhou Shanfeng, approaching Lu Yun with excitement all over his face. He said quietly, "Yun'er, a flame crystal ore deposit has been discovered deep beneath Artifact Forging Valley... Our Artifact Forging Valley... is going to flourish."] ["Flame crystal ore?"]
You were secretly surprised. This ore was a fourth-tier resource, quite rare and highly coveted even by Nascent Soul-level powers. If the deposit was large enough, it might even nurture a flame crystal ore heart, which was a fifth-tier resource.]
``` [Artifact Forging Valley was an Artifact Path power to begin with. Obtaining a flame crystal ore deposit was like a fish finding water.]
[You continued listening to your parents' conversation and soon fell asleep again.]
[You were currently only one year old, having been born just a year ago. Unable to cultivate, you were no different from an ordinary mortal apart from being somewhat stronger, and were rather prone to sleep.]
[Half a month later.]
[You were continuing to perfect the Nascent Soul section of your Sword Dao Inheritance while cautiously attempting to cultivate.]
[Suddenly.]
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