Chapter 48: Profound Grade Upper-Tier Sword and Watching Toads

Ye Xiaoyao and Jiang Ziyi were almost the first to rush toward the morning star mace.

They needed to confirm!

They could not and did not want to lose to Heng Xian!

Ji Yaoyue also felt a trace of competitiveness and followed closely behind the two, looking at the morning star mace.

At this look, the faces of the three turned red with a "whoosh."

So long, so many spikes!

One doesn't fear not knowing the goods, one fears comparing the goods.

Compared to the morning star mace refined by Heng Xian, theirs were far inferior in both appearance and the sharpness and precision of the iron teeth; it was simply a lethal weapon compared to a child's toy!

The two sides were completely on different levels!

Even Jiang Ziyi, who was prepared to pick bones out of an egg, could not go against his conscience and utter a word of "no."

Immediately, they gathered around the precious sword, and this look made them even more embarrassed and speechless.

The Meteor Copper Sword had a primitive and desolate style, and the fish-scale patterns on it were especially breathtaking.

When they looked back at Heng Xian, Ye Xiaoyao and Jiang Ziyi had faces full of resentment.

This bastard was not taking the assessment for the first time at all; he was likely just teasing them!

The most infuriating thing in the world is wanting to belittle someone, only to find that they are excellent!

Old Xu and the others had no desire to inspect it further and smiled faintly: "Little friend, you this..."

Heng Xian waved his hand to interrupt: "Lend me a wolf-hair brush and spiritual sand!"

Old Xu and the four artifact refiners looked at each other: "You want to... carve inscriptions?!"

Heng Xian nodded: "That's right!"

Ji Yaoyue, Ye Xiaoyao, and Jiang Ziyi were also stunned.

The "inscription technique" of an "artifact refiner" was to carve various "array seals" that enhance spiritual power onto weapons to increase their might!

That is why ordinary weapons can be called spiritual artifacts!

But the "inscription technique" is extremely difficult to master; without ten or eight years of painstaking research, one cannot hope to play with it. How old is this Heng Xian? He even... knows this too?

Old Xu waved his hand, and immediately an artifact refiner apprentice respectfully brought over a wolf-hair brush and a jar of top-grade spiritual sand.

Heng Xian took them, walked toward the precious sword, circulated his cultivation technique, and according to the inscription patterns given by the "Profound Yellow Heavenly Hexagram," wielded the brush like flying, slowly carving.

In the artifact refining room, one could hear a pin drop.

Whether it was Old Xu, the four old artifact refiners, Ji Yaoyue, Ye Xiaoyao, Jiang Ziyi, or the artifact refiner apprentices outside the door, all were watching in a daze.

Heng Xian's seal scripts and patterns were strange and complex to the point of being hair-raising.

These were definitely not mainstream inscription seals for artifact refining!

A full incense stick of time passed before the inscription carving was completed.

Heng Xian put the precious sword back into the refining cart to bake, then bit his finger, dripped blood to activate the profound, circulated his cultivation technique, and whispered: "Open!"

"Hum—"

The entire precious sword flashed with brilliant light, instantly becoming terrifying in momentum and exceptionally sharp.

"Damn! Profound Grade Upper-Tier spiritual artifact?!" Old Xu and the four artifact refiners exclaimed, swearing!

The spiritual artifacts used by low-level cultivators in the cultivation world are divided into Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow, with Upper, Middle, and Lower tiers, totaling twelve grades!

The "Qingcheng Sword" of Donglan City Lord Ye Baili was only Profound Grade Middle-Tier!

Now, a fifteen-year-old child, participating in the artifact refiner assessment for the first time, multitasking, carving inscriptions, and producing a Profound Grade Upper-Tier one???

"This..." Ji Yaoyue, Ye Xiaoyao, and the others were also stunned.

Heng Xian scratched his chin, damn! I followed the patterns given by the Heavenly Hexagram exactly; could it be that I performed too well?

Old Xu stepped forward at this time, his tone excited: "Where did you learn your inscription technique?"

Heng Xian said as a matter of course: "I was born with it, it's innate, is it very difficult?"

Old Xu and the four old artifact refiners were stunned, assuming he was talking nonsense, and shook their heads with a bitter smile: "This is a type of ancient inscription technique that has been lost for a long time. Your Heng Family's foundation is truly remarkable!

But at your age, it's really... sigh!"

The more Old Xu spoke, the more annoyed he became. Comparing people to people is infuriating; when he was fifteen, he was still carrying iron blocks, damn it.

He asked again: "This sword, seeing you refined it so seriously, what is its name, and can you leave it for my Artifact Refining Alliance?"

Heng Xian laughed: "This sword is named 'Awesome', it has already recognized its master, I can't give it to you!

Old Xu, check my artifact refiner assessment, did I pass?"

Old Xu nodded with a look of disappointment: "Of course you passed! Wait a moment, the identity token and registration will take some time!"

Old Xu and the four old artifact refiners left.

Heng Xian carried the sword, ignored the "strange" gazes of Ji Yaoyue and the other three, and walked straight out the door.

In the courtyard of the Artifact Refining Hall, there were winding pavilions and a lotus pond not far away.

Heng Xian stood by the lotus pond, pondering the refining insights he had just gained and the spiritual sword in his hand, while watching a pair of toads huddled together in the pond.

Suddenly, he discovered that there was another toad next to the two toads.

It was actually... a love triangle?!

In the Artifact Refining Hall not far away, a group of artifact refiner apprentices who had just watched the assessment looked at Heng Xian's back from afar.

A thirty-year-old young apprentice shook his head bitterly: "Let me tell you a cruel fact: all the effort and sweat we put in is just to make up for our innate deficiencies.

And some people are born with talent that crushes us!

This child is only fifteen, proficient in inscriptions, and in his first assessment, he refined a Profound Grade Upper-Tier spiritual artifact. Do you dare to believe it?"

"Stop talking! It's annoying!" A group of artifact refiner apprentices were full of depression and dispersed one after another.

Ye Xiaoyao and Jiang Ziyi looked at Heng Xian with expressions of indescribable bitterness and hatred.

Ji Yaoyue was also watching Heng Xian, especially Heng Xian's tall back, straight posture, and his pitch-black, shiny gentleman's bun and long hair.

I wonder what he is thinking about now?

This elegant and quiet temperament is truly good-looking!

For a moment, she was a little distracted.

She never thought that she would actually meet such a person in such a small place!

In the Great Zhou Imperial City, handsome gentlemen are as numerous as hairs on an ox, and geniuses and heroes are everywhere.

In the Da Luo Holy Sect, inner sect talents and proud true disciples are everywhere.

Yet none of them have the certain temperament that Heng Xian possesses!

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but walk over, arrived behind Heng Xian, and coughed lightly.

Heng Xian didn't notice and was still watching the three toads.

At this time, the "third party" was also climbing onto the female toad, and the male toad was kicking with its feet with all its might, but it couldn't get on.

He couldn't help but mutter: "Go on, flip it over, tear it down!"

Ji Yaoyue looked at the bottom blankly, then at Heng Xian: "What are you... muttering about?!"

"You laymen wouldn't understand even if I told you!"

Heng Xian said, looking at her in surprise—no chest, throat not very obvious, but at a glance, she was a woman,

yet she was wearing men's clothes, quite a strange person, and asked casually: "Man or woman?"

Ji Yaoyue's face flushed with shame, the charm of that moment was intoxicating: "If Brother Heng wishes me to be a woman, I am a woman; if Brother Heng wishes me to be a man, I am a man!"

This sentence might have been the first explicit hint in her life.

"Oh, a hermaphrodite, that's good!" Heng Xian nodded, "Thank you for your guidance just now. You stay here, I'm leaving!"

He turned and left, muttering to himself: "Flat as a board, that's really tough!"

The shyness and smile on Ji Yaoyue's face froze, and it took a long while for her to clench her fists: "You person..."

At this time, Old Xu and the others happened to come from the opposite side, and the first to greet Heng Xian, smiling broadly, said:

"Little friend! By logic, you are enough to reach a Third-Grade Artifact Refiner, but considering your age and experience,

therefore, the Artifact Refining Alliance grants you the status of a Second-Grade Artifact Refiner. I hope you don't mind!

Here are the Second-Grade Artifact Refiner robes, the artifact refiner token, and a hammer!"

"Thanks, Old Xu!" Heng Xian didn't mind and left as soon as he took them.

He didn't even look at Ji Yaoyue, Ye Xiaoyao, and the other three not far away.

After walking out the door, he got on the carriage and left directly!

However, he didn't go straight back to the Heng Family, but took a detour, first passing in front of the Xue Family, then the Li Family, the Xiao Family, the Ye Family...

The carriage window was always open, with the Second-Grade Alchemist sign hanging in the front.

And the Second-Grade Artifact Refiner sign hanging in the back!

(End of chapter)