Chapter 1939

He Pingsheng stared at Old Cao, just watching him like that.

He watched for a full three breaths' time.

Old Cao was watched until he felt ill at ease, not knowing what to say.

"Good..." In the end, He Pingsheng said, "I understand now, thank you for the reminder!"

"This matter, someone told me about it before as well!"

"Ah..." Old Cao said, "Hehehe... Actually, this is also something this old servant heard by hearsay, but since it concerns a major matter, even though it is hearsay, I still have to tell Young Master clearly!"

"If there is nothing else, this old servant will take his leave first!"

Old Cao left.

Regarding his suggestion, He Pingsheng certainly took it seriously, because not only did Old Cao say such words, Senior Brother Wang Dun had also warned him.

It seems that to cultivate the Great Dao, one truly cannot casually go around devouring others' Dao methods.

All Dao methods must be comprehended by oneself from within nothingness.

He also left the grand hall and arrived at his own dao field.

Closing the dao field's formation, He Pingsheng immediately took out that half-chi-sized divine artifact fragment.

This was obtained from the Lu family.

Hum hum hum...

In the next moment, Zi Ling and Hong Ling almost simultaneously flew out from their respective divine artifacts, coalesced into form, and landed before He Pingsheng.

"Young Master!"

The two first cupped their hands toward He Pingsheng, then their gazes fell upon the fragment in He Pingsheng's hand and could no longer move away.

"Speak, what exactly is this thing?" He Pingsheng said, "You two, why are you so crazy?"

"This is a good thing!" Zi Ling said, "Young Master... inside this there is a trace of... Hongmeng Purple Qi!"

"What?"

This time it was He Pingsheng's turn to go crazy: "Hongmeng... you say, this thing has Hongmeng Purple Qi inside?"

Damn...

Picked up a treasure.

He Pingsheng did not know what Hongmeng Purple Qi ultimately was, but he had once heard Zi Ling say that even if this thing merely attaches to ordinary metal, it will become divine-grade.

The Hongmeng Purple Jin Gun in his own hand was precisely a wisp of Hongmeng Purple Qi attaching to some metal and evolving into existence.

This divine artifact fragment contains a trace of Hongmeng Purple Qi, then this kind of divine artifact must be earth-shaking.

Such an earth-shaking divine artifact could actually turn into fragments?

What exactly happened?

He Pingsheng directly placed the fragment into the Treasure Gathering Basin, and the next moment took it out again.

Hum hum hum...

Divine Sense swept over, and information emerged.

Name: Divine Artifact 【Hongmeng Ultimate Dao Bell】 Fragment.

Grade: Super Divine Grade.

Function: Contains a trace of Hongmeng Purple Qi, is a supreme artifact-refining material.

Hongmeng Ultimate Dao Bell?

Never heard of it.

"I understand!" He Pingsheng tossed that fragment into the void and said, "Then you two fuse together!"

"Can't do it!" Zi Ling said, "Young Master, this fragment's grade is too high; currently our divine artifacts are only fourth grade, unable to fuse!"

"Ah?" He Pingsheng wore a troubled expression: "Then what to do?"

Hong Ling said, "Young Master, we cannot fuse this divine artifact fragment, however, we can extract the Hongmeng Purple Qi from within this fragment, and then separately devour it!"

"So what we can do now is merely devour this Hongmeng Purple Qi!"

"Good good good!" He Pingsheng said, "You two first extract the Hongmeng Purple Qi from this fragment, remember, only extract, do not devour!"

"Okay!" Zi Ling and Hong Ling nodded in agreement.

Then, the two each employed a secret art, and began refining toward that fragment.

Wisps of purple rainbow carrying dark-gold qi were extracted by them from the divine artifact fragment.

This process was very slow.

He Pingsheng asked, and was told it would take approximately a hundred years.

Forget it!

A hundred years then a hundred years!

I'll wait!

Next, He Pingsheng began secluded cultivation to raise his cultivation base!

One year later, he took out the Treasure Gathering Basin, Divine Sense swept into the basin, and He Pingsheng's brows immediately furrowed: Enhancement failed?

That section of golden small arm bone previously put into the basin was still that same section.

No change!

No enhancement, no repair, no increase.

"What's going on?" He Pingsheng felt inexplicably nervous: This was the first time encountering such a thing.

Although there had been enhancement failure experiences before, there was one kind of thing that had never failed.

That was cultivation manuals and secret texts.

No matter how high-grade the cultivation manual or secret text, as long as it was placed into the basin, it would certainly be enhanced to supreme grade, and would be repaired to completeness.

What's going on this time?

He Pingsheng took out the half-section of golden bone and examined it for a while, forming a guess in his mind: Could it be that the bone's grade is too high, making it impossible to strengthen and repair the Divine Bone, and thus also unable to repair this body-refining cultivation method?

Then I...

Should I engrave it and try strengthening it?

Let's try!

He Pingsheng recorded the content of the cultivation fragment contained within the bone, then copied it onto a jade slip.

This time he placed the jade slip into the Treasure Gathering Basin.

After one year, the jade slip was indeed strengthened into two copies.

"Hehehe..." He Pingsheng laughed happily: As long as the Treasure Gathering Basin is fine.

He took out one of the jade slips to examine.

Name: Peeling Extremity Life Rebirth Rolling Thunder Method.

Grade: Heavenly Tier Supreme.

Function: A body-refining cultivation method assisted by the power of lightning; upon mastery, the body becomes immensely strong and unmatched, capable of resisting lightning force, with lightning augmentation also present in attacks.

That's more like it!

Continue!

He Pingsheng cultivated while also beginning to comprehend the body-refining method.

Thus, unknowingly, another hundred years passed.

Zi Ling and Hong Ling also finished absorbing the Hongmeng Purple Qi from the fragments.

Not much, just a cluster, only fist-sized!

He Pingsheng took the Hongmeng Purple Qi and placed it into the Treasure Gathering Basin.

"Young Master, what are you doing?" Zi Ling exclaimed: "Aren't you supposed to have us devour it?"

He Pingsheng said: "Not urgent, let me strengthen it first!"

Zi Ling breathed a sigh of relief, then shook her head and said: "Young Master, it cannot be strengthened... the Treasure Gathering Basin can only strengthen third-tier divine materials now, impossible to strengthen Hongmeng Purple Qi!"

He Pingsheng said: "How could it be impossible? Didn't I strengthen the Hongmeng Purple Jin Gun back then?"

"That's different!" Hong Ling stepped forward and said to He Pingsheng: "Young Master, Hongmeng Purple Gold can be upgraded; when you first obtained it, it was at the lowest stage, so you could strengthen it, but the initial strengthening was merely a replication of the staff's own strengthening!"

"The Hongmeng Purple Qi hasn't increased!"

He Pingsheng frowned: "How so?"

Hong Ling continued: "After the initial strengthening, the staff became two, but the Hongmeng Purple Qi remained the same amount, merely divided into two parts, infused into the two staves—nothing more!"

"Ah? Is that so?" He Pingsheng finally understood.

He looked at the Hongmeng Purple Qi in his hand and sighed: "Forget it, I was overthinking!"

"How about this: you two each take half of the Hongmeng Purple Qi and devour it!"

Afterwards, Hong Ling and Zi Ling each devoured half.

During the devouring, it went much faster, completed in just a few days.

After the two finished devouring, He Pingsheng asked again: "Besides allowing the Hongmeng Purple Qi to attach to Dao laws so I can prematurely use Dao laws to display divine powers, what other uses does it have?"