A Daoist walked alone at night, sword in hand, and gathered a wisp of the Bright Hall Mechanism

Standing amid the blood and filth in the tavern hall, Jiang Yi smiled slightly. "My main concern is whether refining Law Artifacts of blood and Baleful Intent might conflict with cultivating Ding Fire."

He was not someone who failed to appreciate kindness. How could he disdain these Law Artifacts Yang Xun had spent so much Talisman Money buying for him?

"That is no concern."

Stroking his beard, Yang Xun smiled. "Since blood, Baleful Intent, and yin demons have been relegated to the impure Qi of the lower vehicle, while the [Five Phases] occupy a higher position, refining them with our arts means commanding the lower with the higher. They will only become easier to wield. There is no possibility of conflict or incompatibility."

Only then did Jiang Yi set his mind at ease.

Thanks to the selfless contributions of this den of "True Demonic Cultivators" in the tavern, the Law Artifacts were indeed more fully replenished. With the slightest tug of his Divine Sense, they moved as readily as his own fingers, answering freely to his command.

Then another question occurred to him, and he asked it outright. "Grandpa, I once heard that since the [Immortal Dao] manifested in the world, cultivators throughout the Southern Continent have been forbidden to wantonly violate the harmony of heaven and harm living beings. Would killing people to refine artifacts like this break that prohibition?"

Yang Xun narrowed his eyes and tapped a finger lightly, smiling. "You certainly are cautious. In that, you rather resemble me in my younger days, always determined to get to the bottom of everything, afraid of taking even half a step wrong."

Jiang Yi smiled bashfully. Through what had happened with Zheng Qing, he had once again experienced how the Demonic Path Lineage truly concealed dangers at every turn.