Ye Han piloted the Cloud-Piercing Boat through the sky with Zhang Lingjun.
Zhang Lingjun said to Ye Han, "Junior Brother! Congratulations on earning such great merit this time and becoming a true disciple!"
As he spoke, he patted his Storage Bag and took out an object shimmering with golden light. He offered it to Ye Han and said, "I heard you practice swordsmanship, Junior Brother. Take this geng metal Spirit Stone as my congratulatory gift!"
Ye Han had not expected that Zhang Lingjun's insistence on seeing him off had been for the sake of giving him a congratulatory gift.
Geng metal was indeed extremely important to his swordsmanship cultivation. Although he now possessed a golden immortal root, as well as the powerful metal-type Nine-Turn Vajra Art,
that was a Cultivation Method he had obtained from Wu Xuankong, a true disciple of the Northern Lu Immortal Sect. Yet cultivating the Nine-Turn Vajra Art actually required incorporating some geng metal into it, making his spell power exceptionally sharp, its cutting edge fully exposed. Only then could he unleash its power.
Although Ye Han had encountered a great many opportunities recently, he had obtained very few Heavenly Treasures such as geng metal.
After all, to obtain enough geng metal spirit liquid, he had spent several years in the Heavenly Secret Hall, smelting untold numbers of Heavenly Secret Beast and Heavenly Secret Soldier remains before finally gathering enough geng metal spirit liquid to acquire a metal spirit root.
Obtaining more geng metal spirit liquid afterward had been extraordinarily difficult. He had found only a tiny amount in a few cultivators' Storage Bags-a mere cup of water against a blazing cartload of firewood, nowhere near enough.
He wondered where Zhang Lingjun had obtained such a large piece of geng metal crystal.
The piece he had