Profound Yin Sword

Ren Jie knew that the leap in his major realm had come from the video he had watched last time. Even his chance to live another life might have had a great deal to do with it. Now that he had finally opened the video again, he was still immensely excited.

Once all the power had poured in, Ren Jie moved his divine sense and opened the video.

"Boom..." It was no longer completely unresponsive. The instant Ren Jie opened the video with his divine sense, he once again felt as though he had been placed within a full-information projection. From afar, he saw that astonishing scene again.

Five Sages were holding a Sage Dao Discussion in the distance. In that instant, Ren Jie nearly tried to make a sound with his divine sense or do something, only to discover that he could do nothing at all. He could only watch from afar, watch...

However, Ren Jie had already thought a great deal about this moment beforehand, so he was not as flustered as he had been the first time. Since he could not do anything, he would make proper use of this opportunity to comprehend it all. Over this period, Ren Jie had long understood the benefits brought by advancing a major realm. Calming down now, he consciously began using this opportunity to do something for the first time.

Yet at this moment, he seemed immersed in some profound and wondrous state, one so marvelous it was beyond words. With only a little attention, Ren Jie discovered that his divine sense was rapidly changing within this state.

That feeling of being incomparably distant, incomparably long, yet seemingly incomparably brief appeared again.

Feeling this change, Ren Jie thought of doing something. His divine sense could not investigate or spread outward. Besides, here, he was like a drop of water in the ocean—how could he possibly probe everything within the deep sea?

Something else...

Suddenly, Ren Jie thought of something. He had never figured out what was going on with the Middle-Grade Spirit Tool the Fang Family had given him. He had vaguely felt that it was strange, that there was a problem with it. The Yin Sha energy inside seemed capable of harming people. Added to his suspicions about those people from the Fang Family, he had not let Gao Ren open it. The matter had been circling in his mind, and now it suddenly came to him.

At the same time as his divine sense rapidly changed and advanced within this Dao-hearing state, the details of the Middle-Grade Spirit Tool, the Profound Yin Sword, which he had previously been unable to see through, swiftly surfaced in Ren Jie's mind and became crystal clear.

At this moment, as if he were concentrating on overcoming a crucial obstacle, Ren Jie clearly understood the Profound Yin Sword's condition. It turned out to be the failed product of someone refining a High-Grade Spirit Artifact. Though it was a failed product, everything about it had originally been at the level of a High-Grade Spirit Artifact. No wonder he had been unable to see through it at the time.

It had been intended as a High-Grade Spirit Artifact refined using Earth Yin Fiend Qi. Unfortunately, the refinement had ultimately failed, and a massive amount of Yin Fiend Power had surged into it, causing this artifact, which had originally been close to completion as a High-Grade Spirit Artifact, to instantly fall to the level of a Middle-Grade Spirit Tool. That was not even the worst of it. At the time, it had merely been sealed with mana. Once the box was opened, not only would a massive amount of Yin Fiend Power erupt, but this spirit artifact would also be destroyed.

The Profound Yin Sword was like a treasure on the verge of death, sealed within ice. The person who had sealed it had clearly intended to reforge it once their power and skill had grown stronger. But reforging such a failed product was no less difficult than refining a brand-new Top-Grade Spirit Artifact. It required a Top-Tier Spirit Artifact Refiner. A Top-Tier Spirit Artifact Refiner could forge Top-Grade Spirit Artifacts, yet restoring this dying High-Grade Spirit Artifact was even harder, unless one reached an even higher level.

In other words, this thing was utterly like chicken ribs—tasteless to eat, yet a pity to throw away. If one could get someone even stronger than a Top-Tier Spirit Artifact Refiner to act, the cost alone would far exceed the value of this Profound Yin Sword. Even if it were given to them, they might not think much of it; they would rather casually refine one themselves. In the end, this thing became something that harmed weaker people when opened, could not be reforged after opening, and was inferior even to an ordinary Middle-Grade Spirit Tool...

Damn, no wonder Fang Tianen had looked pained on the surface but had not cared much about this Middle-Grade Spirit Tool. So that was what was going on. Yet now, when Ren Jie thought of it within this wondrous state, a method for restoring the Profound Yin Sword appeared in his mind in an instant. This was something he should only have learned how to restore once his major realm reached the Yin Yang Realm and his artifact-refining attainments surpassed those of a Top-Tier Spirit Artifact Refiner, reaching the level of a legendary Celestial Artifact Refiner capable of forging Transcendent Treasures. Yet at this moment, it was simply imprinted in Ren Jie's mind.

"Snap!" The method for restoring the Profound Yin Sword had just completely surfaced when the video ended again.

Ren Jie truly wished he could dive straight into it, but everything had already ended. Counting it up, it had lasted less than one-tenth of the time it had last time. Damn, the consumption was too terrifying.

Five High-Grade Spirit Jades, seven hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Jades, and fifteen thousand Low-Grade Spirit Jades—adding in the fact that High-Grade Spirit Jades had a price but no market, nearly three million Jade Coins had been consumed in less than a minute. The thought made Ren Jie's heart bleed. It was not merely painful to part with the money; even his heart hurt.

Damn it, making money was not that easy. He had only earned so much by fleecing the Fang Family, and even then, it was only because his disciple Chang Lao Si had fanatically insisted on giving it to him, handing over all his savings.

But when Ren Jie examined his divine sense, a wave of comfort immediately washed over him. His divine sense could now probe an area fifty meters around him. Divine Power Realm—this was the level of divine sense one only had after reaching the Divine Power Realm. Though it was merely the feeling of having just stepped into it, Ren Jie was already overjoyed. The benefits brought by advancing realms were enormous. It was not merely the growth of divine sense; the other benefits were even greater.

Right!

Ren Jie suddenly recalled the method for restoring the Profound Yin Sword, which he remembered clearly and completely. If he restored the Profound Yin Sword into a High-Grade Spirit Artifact, damn, would not all his losses be recovered—and with a huge profit on top?

One had to know that even the most ordinary Low-Grade Spirit Artifact cost several hundred thousand to over a million Jade Coins, while Middle-Grade Spirit Tools ranged from over a million to several million Jade Coins. Though one could control spirit artifacts and unleash some of their power starting from the True Qi Realm, these were not things just anyone could afford. As for High-Grade Spirit Artifacts, even the worst were worth tens of millions of Jade Coins. Moreover, this Profound Yin Sword was saturated with Yin Sha energy. If it could truly be restored, it would definitely be a treasure even among High-Grade Spirit Artifacts.

Even the great Lineages regarded such fine items as precious treasures. Ren Jie remembered that the last time an ordinary High-Grade Spirit Artifact short blade appeared in Jade Capital City, it was ultimately bought by a mysterious person for three hundred and sixty High-Grade Spirit Jades. At the normal exchange rate, that was thirty-six million Jade Coins, but in truth it had already approached forty million Jade Coins. And even if one had money, there might not be a single one auctioned off in several years.

Such an item was enough to move even Yin Yang Realm super experts. If an ordinary Lineage possessed one, it would be sufficient to pass down through generations and suppress the clan.

Awesome! Damn it, if I restore it and bring it back to the Fang Family, will I make Fang Qi faint from rage again? Will I make Fang Yan and Fang Tianen vomit blood from anger?

Thinking of this, Ren Jie could not help imagining, rather wickedly, the scene of himself carrying the restored Profound Yin Sword to the Fang Family. But then he thought of another problem. He now knew the method of restoration, but he was still only in the Body Refining Realm. Although the Qi strength within his body was already enough to rival someone at the Body Refining Realm Ninth Layer, he still had no way to restore the Profound Yin Sword.

Yet when Ren Jie inspected his body, he discovered another thing that delighted him. Over the past few days, he had never stopped condensing Qi Strength Rings. Even before Chang Lao Si delivered Spirit Jades worth nearly three million Jade Coins, Ren Jie had already completely condensed all two hundred and eighty-eight Qi Strength Rings and begun circulating the fourth-layer cultivation method of the Jade Emperor Art Body Refining Chapter. Just now, Ren Jie had not yet endured the pain and discomfort brought by the greatly increased gravity and pressure. His body was still in the process of adapting.

However, he had now become accustomed to handling ordinary matters in such a state. Unexpectedly, during the process of opening the video, while a massive amount of Spirit Jade spiritual energy was being drawn into his Sea of Consciousness, a small portion also fused into his body. This nourished his body. Normally, those in the Body Refining Realm neither needed Spirit Jades nor could independently absorb and use the spiritual energy within them.

Yet there was supposedly another method. For example, a super expert could absorb spiritual energy before channeling it into another person's body, accompanying them throughout their cultivation process. But less than one percent would remain, and the waste was unimaginably great. At the very least, even the Five Great Families could not afford such consumption and would not do it. Only in legends did there exist cases of people sparing no cost to lay foundations in the Body Refining Realm and accelerate Body Refining Realm cultivation.

And now, as Ren Jie absorbed spiritual energy through his Sea of Consciousness, the Jade Emperor Art within his body circulated automatically, unconsciously absorbing a very small portion of that spiritual energy.

Though it was very little, it was still greatly beneficial to his current body. Ren Jie discovered that this was roughly equivalent to the state he had expected to reach after cultivating for three to five days. He had nearly adapted to the formation-like gravity and pressure brought by the two hundred and eighty-eight Qi Strength Rings of the Jade Emperor Art Body Refining Chapter's fourth layer.

This counted as a small extra gain. Though it was far inferior to restoring the Profound Yin Sword, it still put Ren Jie in high spirits. After all, being able to accelerate cultivation was something worth being happy about, not to mention such a huge unexpected surprise...

"You little bastard, is there something wrong with your head? Why are you standing there grinning stupidly while holding a piece of trash that was botched during refinement and sealed with so much Yin Fiend Power? Don't tell me you think you picked up a treasure?" Just as Ren Jie casually picked up the Profound Yin Sword he had set aside earlier, happily thinking about the method of restoring it that he had gained from that wondrous Sage Dao Discussion insight, he suddenly heard someone speak.

Fortunately, Ren Jie had been prepared. He had always expected the Smiling Old Man to suddenly appear, but even so, he was startled. If he had not been prepared, someone suddenly speaking beside him at a time like this really could have scared him half to death.

He abruptly opened his eyes and saw the Smiling Old Man staring at him in confusion. That gaze seemed to say: Had he gone stupid?

"I'm perfectly fine. You've finally come, old man. I've been waiting for you so painfully!" Haha, just as he had thought of him, there he was. The moment Ren Jie saw the Smiling Old Man, delight bloomed across his face. He laughed and jumped down from the bed. Now he had a solution.

So happy, and he had been waiting for him painfully? The Smiling Old Man looked at Ren Jie strangely. Had this kid truly gone stupid? He had muddleheadedly seized Ren Jie, said nothing before making him train, then muddleheadedly thrown him back. Yet Ren Jie was so excited to see him and had even said he had waited painfully. How was that the reaction of a normal person? But with his seasoned eyes fixed on Ren Jie, he truly discovered that Ren Jie was not lying. He was genuinely happy from the bottom of his heart.