Chapter 675: Dharma Treasure Completed

"Junior Uncle..."

Gazing at Baifeng Xianzi's back, Shen Qingmei looked at Aaron with worry, fearing he might lose his composure.

Yet she discovered Aaron looked completely calm and unruffled, merely asking: "If someone in this world slanders me, bullies me, insults me, mocks me, slights me, demeans me, hates me, or deceives me, how should I deal with them?"

"This Disciple does not know..." Shen Qingmei imagined the possible answer from this Junior Uncle, but felt it was better not to say it out loud.

"That depends on the situation. If you can beat them and aren't afraid of their background, naturally you should slap them, slap them, and slap them again... or even kill their entire family!"

Aaron answered with a straight face, leaving Shen Qingmei's expression blank.

【Cultivation Method: Mingyu Art 14th Layer (2256/10000)】

'This method of cutting corners and accumulating fire waste... is actually very uneconomical. After all, no Golden Core Ancestor is so idle that they would spend decades or even a century on a handful of ore sand... and this is still raw ore that needs refining...'

Having applied to guard the mine twice in a row, Aaron felt it was becoming a bit too risky; after all, this was a semi-retirement post, and Shen Fei was still relatively young.

If you spent three hundred years here, believe it or not, even the Nascent Soul monsters of the sect would be alarmed.

The power of a Golden Core Cultivator's Dharma Treasure will continuously increase the longer it is nurtured.

"So it is Deacon Shen!"

【Spell:... Sacrificial Fire Art (1000/1000)】

Refining a Dharma Treasure, theoretically speaking, requires exactly third-tier artifact refining skills!

【Talent: Immortality】

Hongyunzi bowed, knowing that this fellow Daoist 'Shen Fei' was a veteran of this Star Mine, having even outlasted two Golden Core Cultivators, Zhaixingzi and Jiu Popo!

"No need for formalities. There aren't many rules in this mine, just some matters regarding precious spirit ores that you need to pay attention to..."

After all, Junior Uncle Baifeng was a True Disciple, and her prominence was currently unrivaled!

"Then just wait another few hundred or few thousand years!"

Shen Qingmei slandered him in her heart, while her face showed an expression of immense admiration: "Junior Uncle is right!"

【Realm: Early Golden Core】

Furthermore, Aaron did not apply to extend his tenure again, which meant that this old bird who had been coasting through life was finally going to leave the Star Mine.

A translucent, long-needle Dharma Treasure fell into Aaron's hand.

He walked out of his Cave Abode and received a Transmission Talisman.

Anyway, as for a sword, it's actually not much different from a needle; what you need is a sharp edge!

Moreover, compared to such a large sword, a needle-shaped Dharma Treasure is more concealed, capable of harming people invisibly; it is a notoriously vicious design in the Immortal Cultivation World!

After the translucent long needle took shape, Aaron's expression became solemn. His powerful Divine Sense permeated the needle, and he began to engrave tiny Array Formations one by one.

He channeled his Dharma Power, and as a flash of Light appeared on the needle, it vanished from sight.

If an artifact refiner's mastery of Array Formations were even slightly inferior, all previous efforts could be wasted!

Fortunately, Aaron's mastery of Array Formations was also third-tier; he was not confined to rigid arrays but could modify them as he pleased.

'As expected... Junior Uncle would only choose the latter. Decades or centuries? A Foundation Establishment cultivator might not be able to afford to wait...'

After all, when the difference in realms is too great, the superior does not need evidence; if they feel you have a problem, you have a problem!

Reason told Aaron it was time to stop...

【Age: 762】

After all, there is a significant difference between engraving an Array Formation on a Flying Sword and engraving one on a needle.

"My 'Invisible Needle' will be even better in terms of concealment!"

Aaron laughed heartily: "Of course... I was just joking... but even the Xuantian Sect has turned into ruins after one hundred thousand years!"

In the end...

'Of course it was a joke. Even a Nascent Soul monster, could they wait thousands or tens of thousands of years?'

The form of a needle?

'No choice... the fire waste accumulated over eighty years is simply not enough to refine an Invisible Sword, so I can only settle for second best and refine an 'Invisible Needle'!'

"In fact... the reason the 'Invisible Sword' of the Shushan Sword Pavilion has earned such a fearsome reputation is not only because it is peerlessly sharp, but also because its Sword Light is shadowless and formless, difficult to detect—the most vicious of all!"

Suddenly, he transformed into a streak of Light, opened the Array Formation, and saw a frail, elderly Golden Core cultivator, unable to help but smile: "Are you fellow Daoist Hongyun, here to take over? I am Shen Fei..."

Of course, besides this, he had also successively exchanged for the third-tier Four Arts of Cultivation using the Goodness Merit he had accumulated over the years, and practiced them daily; now, he had attained profound mastery in them.

The only physical harvest was this handful of 'Taixu Divine Crystal' sand in his hand...

Star Mine.

Even the Divine Sense of a Golden Core cultivator would find it hard to detect.

"Time passes so quickly; in the blink of an eye, another seventy years have gone by..."

Winter passed and spring came...

Aaron was unhurried, controlling the heat to make the molten ore liquid continuously expand and contract, changing shape...

Aaron took the 'Invisible Needle' into his dantian and slowly nurtured it with Essence Qi.

Then, he took out the handful of 'Taixu Divine Crystal' sand, spat out a breath of Black Sun Demon Fire, and began to refine the Dharma Treasure!

Over these years, he had focused most of his attention on the Dao of Artifact Refining and Array Formations, all for this very moment!

"Although a cultivator's Natal Magical Treasure can be entrusted to others to refine, it is ultimately not as reassuring as refining it oneself, and it allows for a connection of heart and spirit..."

At this moment, trembling with caution, he completed it without any mishaps.

"And what I am about to refine is different from a regular 'Invisible Sword'..."

In the blink of an eye, another few decades passed.

Watching those brilliant crystal sands melt, Aaron continuously urged the flames while adding the auxiliary materials he had obtained from Long Ling'er and subsequently supplemented.

As Aaron explained, he felt somewhat dazed, as if he had returned to the scene eighty years ago when he first arrived here and Zhaixingzi explained things to him...

【Martial Arts:...】

Then... it slowly elongated, turning into...

Then, he added with a smile: "If you cannot defeat them, or cannot handle their background, you can only endure them, let them be, yield to them, avoid them, tolerate them, respect them, ignore them, and just wait a few dozen or a few hundred years, then look at them again..."

【Skills:... Third-tier Jade Bone (549/10000), Third-tier Talisman Making (1899/10000), Third-tier Artifact Refining (3127/10000), Third-tier Alchemy (1092/10000), Third-tier Array Formation (2500/10000)】

During these seventy years, he had been stationed at the Star Mine, and his progress in cultivation techniques had been hindered quite a bit.

Shen Qingmei rolled her eyes inwardly and couldn't help but ask: "What if, after several hundred years, they are still flourishing, or have even formed a Nascent Soul?"

After completing the handover, Aaron steered his light and left the mine where he had stayed for eighty years, then opened up a Cave Abode in a desolate wilderness.

This kind of micro-carving craftsmanship tests an Artifact refiner's skill in Array Formation even more.

Aaron toyed with a handful of multicolored "fine sand" while gazing at his Attribute Panel:

【Name: Fang Yu (Aaron)】

"As for the Taiqing Formless Sword Art... forget it, that is not something I can think about for now. Fortunately, I obtained a fragmentary scroll of the 'Small Formless Sword Art'... after so many years of Can, I have also organized a set of 'Invisible Needle Art'!"

"They are all simplified versions, just make do with them together!"

(End of this chapter)