Purple Lightning Fiery Energy! Divine Material! Weapon Fusion!

When the two brothers had gathered more than half the precious medicines in the medicine garden, in other parts of the ruins, many other cultivators had also stumbled upon other opportunities—even trouble.

"Brother, the owner of these ruins was way too poor. There isn't even any Sacred Medicine or Divine Medicine."

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun dug through every precious medicine here, but they found no Divine Medicine or Sacred Medicine, only precious medicines of relatively advanced age.

"Jing, we should be content. Most cultivators couldn't take out this many precious medicines. If the ruins hadn't emerged, these precious medicines might truly have had a chance to transform toward Sacred Medicine and Divine Medicine."

Taishu Yun smiled as he spoke.

After that, the two brothers left this medicine garden, leaving nothing behind. Very soon, cultivators arrived at the garden, and when they saw a medicine garden without even a single hair left in it, they beat their chests, stamped their feet, and cursed at the top of their lungs.

However, none of that had anything to do with Taishu Jing and the others.

After wandering around, Taishu Jing and the others arrived at a remote place.

Inside, it looked like a very large room. All sorts of tools were laid out on iron tables, and they looked like unfinished weapons, all of them rough blanks.

There was also an enormous smelting platform. Most eye-catching of all was that firelight still flickered within the smelting platform. It looked like a special flame, purple in color, giving off intense heat, with electric sparks bursting inside it and crackling nonstop.

"Brother, what kind of fire is this? It's purple too. Pretty nice-looking," Taishu Jing asked.

"It should be the Purple Lightning Fiery Energy, one of the seventy-two Earthly Fires. Looks like it was used for artifact refining," Taishu Yun said.

"Little Fire, do you eat fire?" Taishu Jing looked at Little Fire.

Screech!

Little Fire nodded.

"Then eat this flame. It's useless anyway. We don't know artifact refining, so we don't need it."

Taishu Jing looked at the weapon blanks in the room, thinking that he wondered whether there was anything good inside.

Little Fire looked at Taishu Yun. Taishu Yun smiled and nodded at it, and Little Fire happily devoured that Purple Lightning Fiery Energy.

Although the Purple Lightning Fiery Energy was one of the seventy-two Earthly Fires between heaven and earth, Little Fire was a fire-attribute divine beast to begin with and also possessed the powerful Phoenix Fire. That was one of the strongest flames between heaven and earth, so devouring this Earthly Fire was naturally very simple.

After Little Fire finished devouring the Purple Lightning Fiery Energy, Taishu Jing began rummaging through the refining room, checking whether there were any good Spirit Ores. It would be great if there were Divine Materials.

"Jing, what are you rummaging for?"

Seeing Taishu Jing rummaging here and there, as if searching for something, Taishu Yun asked.

"Of course I'm checking whether there are any Divine Materials. Since this place is a refining room, there ought to be something good," Taishu Jing said without even turning his head.

Seeing Taishu Jing acting like a little money-grubber, Taishu Yun shook his head and also helped search.

Most of what was inside were weapon blanks. They had been left here before the next step of forging could be carried out. Although the materials used for these weapon blanks could not be considered very high-grade, they were all Spirit Ores, so they still counted as decent things.

As Taishu Yun searched, he put away these weapon blanks, preparing to take them back to the clan and have the clan's refining room forge them further, casting and refining them into true weapons. Perhaps they could become Spirit Weapons for the Clan Members. After all, they were rough blanks forged from Spirit Ores, and they were still very precious.

"Brother, I couldn't tell you liked doing this kind of thing too, haha."

Seeing Taishu Yun's actions, Taishu Jing was amused. He himself liked the feeling of treasure hunting, and also liked sweeping away every treasure and making those who came after eat dust. Thinking of that, Taishu Jing felt a little happy.

"The materials of these weapon blanks are all decent. They're just right for the Clan Members to use," Taishu Yun explained.

Fine, that really was the style of a protagonist. Worth praising, Taishu Jing curled his lips.

"Huh! This is..."

After rummaging into a corner, Taishu Jing saw a large chest. The chest was not locked, and he did not know what good things were inside, but intuition told him that the things within were not simple.

Creak!

After opening the chest, Taishu Jing saw what was inside, and his eyes could no longer move away. This familiar taste, this seemingly familiar aura—it was actually two pieces of Divine Material!

One piece of Divine Material was only the size of a fist. It looked like an ordinary stone, but its entire body was black and white, circulating the auras of yin and yang, generating and restraining each other, inseparable from one another.

The other piece, meanwhile, was somewhat large, fully the size of a human head. Its entire body bloomed with purple radiance, with lightning flashing inside it. The wild, violent aura of thunder rushed straight at him, identical to the scent of Thunder Tribulation.

"Brother, come over quick! Good stuff, good stuff!" Taishu Jing shouted at Taishu Yun.

"What is it?"

Taishu Yun walked over. When he saw the things in the chest, his breathing also grew somewhat hurried.

These two stones and metals were truly Divine Materials. One was the Yin-Yang Divine Stone, while the other was Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold. Both were relatively rare Divine Materials. There was no need to mention the Yin-Yang Divine Stone; it could only be nurtured in places filled with yin and yang energy. As for Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold, it could only be born within Heavenly Tribulation, showing just how hard it was to come by.

Who knew what kind of dogshit luck the owner of these ruins had stepped in to obtain such good things.

"Brother, you comprehended the Lightning Dao, so this big piece is yours. The small one is mine," Taishu Jing said happily as he picked up the Yin-Yang Divine Stone.

"All right. I won't be polite with you, Jing," Taishu Yun said, picking up the Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold.

"Oh right, Brother, isn't this a refining room? We can just merge the Divine Materials into our Spirit Weapons here. We only need to borrow Little Fire's Phoenix Fire for a bit. It should be very quick."

"All right. Little Fire, we'll have to trouble you."

Screech!

Little Fire nodded, then opened its mouth and spat out a stream of Phoenix Fire, gold-red in color. The Phoenix Fire entered the smelting platform and immediately burned fiercely, illuminating the entire refining room scarlet.

The two brothers tossed their Spirit Weapons and Divine Materials in, then controlled the fusion of the Spirit Weapons and Divine Materials.

Under the domineering Phoenix Fire, although the Yin-Yang Divine Stone and Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold were Divine Materials, they slowly melted and began to merge into the Spirit Weapons.

Hum!

Clang!

The Starfall Bow and the Star Cloud Bell both trembled, letting out crisp and resonant sounds as they accepted the Divine Materials' fusion. Both Spirit Weapons had already gained sentience; after the Divine Materials fused into them, perhaps that spirituality would grow even stronger.

"Jing, engrave the Dao Law Runes onto them too."

"All right!"

Bzzzt!

Countless Dao Law Runes appeared out of thin air, stamping themselves one by one onto the Spirit Weapons and throwing off sparks. It was just like forging the rough blank of a weapon; every Dao Law Rune that was branded onto them was another hammer blow.

Half an hour later, the Starfall Bow and the Yin-Yang Divine Stone, the Star Cloud Bell and the Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold, had all fused together. There were also countless Dao Law Runes, truly flickering across the Spirit Weapons like starlight, shining with dazzling brilliance.

The Starfall Bow had taken on a portion of black-and-white coloring, while most of the Star Cloud Bell had also turned purple.

Neee!

Clang!

The Starfall Bow and the Star Cloud Bell flew out from the fire and returned to their masters' sides. The spirituality within the Spirit Weapons had become even stronger.

After they settled into stillness, both Spirit Weapons returned to their ancient, unadorned appearance. None of that miraculous strangeness from moments ago could be seen at all; only the colors on their surfaces had changed, and an even weightier Dao Rhyme emanated from them.

Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing had engraved all the Dao Law Runes they had condensed onto the Spirit Weapons. Each type numbered over a hundred thousand, and a dense aura of the Great Dao flowed through them, allowing the spirituality within to strengthen and transform even faster. Perhaps before they reached the Inscription Realm, their Spirit Weapons would give birth to Weapon Souls.

"There's still half of the Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold left. Jing, do you need it?" Taishu Yun held the remaining half piece of Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold and looked at Taishu Jing.

"No. Little White, do you want it?" Taishu Jing asked Little White.

Aang!

Little White raised its head and nodded, then shook its head again. Taishu Jing understood what it meant. "Brother, split a little of this Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold off for Little White. It just so happens to know the Lightning Dao too."

"All right. Then I'll melt out a bit more." Taishu Yun threw the remaining Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold into the smelting platform. Under the scorching of the Phoenix Fire, a fist-sized piece of Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold slowly melted free.

"Here." Taishu Yun tossed that piece of Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold to Taishu Jing. Taishu Jing had Little White put it away, and Little White opened its mouth and swallowed that piece of Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold into its internal space.

"Little Fire, take the flames back," Taishu Yun said to Little Fire.

Little Fire opened its mouth and inhaled, and the Phoenix Fire within the smelting platform returned to Little Fire.

Looking at Little Fire, Taishu Jing rubbed his chin. With Little Fire by their side, it was the same as possessing a mobile smelting platform; they could refine artifacts anytime, anywhere. Very nice.

Putting away the last large half piece of Heavenly Thunder Purple Gold, Taishu Yun said to him, "Jing, there's nothing left here. Let's go to the next place."

"Mm, let's go." Taishu Jing nodded.