I Can Upgrade My Talent Infinitely-Chapter 39: Halfway There
"Yes, I had some success," Fang Yun replied.
Steward Cai was taken aback for a moment, then immediately asked, "You successfully refined a Magical Artifact?"
"Yes."
"Can I see it?"
"Of course." Fang Yun took the Yellow Iron Sword from his Storage Pouch. "Please, take a look, Steward Cai."
"Thank you." Steward Cai offered his thanks, then stared intently at the Yellow Iron Sword on the table.
This was indeed a newly refined Magical Artifact!
After confirming this, Steward Cai picked up the Yellow Iron Sword from the table to examine it more closely.
As he inspected it, he said,
"Not bad, not bad at all."
Finally, he even injected some Spiritual Power into the Yellow Iron Sword.
"Excellent! A very fine Lower Grade Magical Artifact." After placing the Yellow Iron Sword back on the table, Steward Cai gave his evaluation.
This was undoubtedly Fang Yun’s first time refining a Magical Artifact.
And to achieve such results on his first try...
"Your Artifact Refining Talent might even be greater than your Alchemy Talent." Glancing again at the Lower Grade Yellow Iron Sword on the table, Steward Cai confirmed, "No, not ’might be’! I am certain, Fang Yun, that your Artifact Refining Talent is greater than your Alchemy Talent."
"Is that so?" Fang Yun seemed uncertain.
"Absolutely!"
For a moment, Steward Cai found himself quite envious of Fang Yun. Having great Alchemy Talent was one thing, but to also have such amazing Artifact Refining Talent...
He himself had some talent in Artifact Refining, but it was nothing compared to Fang Yun’s.
Then he remembered what Old Zhou had said—that Fang Yun had Mixed Spirit Roots. Not even Four Spirit Roots, but the worst of the mixed kind: Five Spirit Roots.
Thinking of this, Steward Cai’s envy seemed to fade.
"Ahem... well, Fang Yun, although I’m sure your Artifact Refining Talent is better than your Alchemy Talent, you should still focus more on Alchemy in the future. You don’t have Dual Spirit Roots or even Three Spirit Roots. For someone with Five Spirit Roots like you, Alchemy is more beneficial."
Steward Cai hoped Fang Yun wouldn’t go astray and spend more time on Artifact Refining. A disciple with his talents simply had to prioritize Alchemy.
If one couldn’t break through to the next Realm and raise their cultivation level, everything else was just empty talk.
If Fang Yun’s Spirit Root Talent were better, Steward Cai would be saying something entirely different.
"Yes."
Fang Yun was naturally aware of this, but he knew the man’s words came from a place of goodwill.
He had a decent understanding of Steward Zhou’s personality. The fact that this Steward Cai called him "Old Zhou" suggested they had a good relationship. Any Steward who was friends with Steward Zhou couldn’t be a bad person.
From Steward Cai’s words, Fang Yun could already make a preliminary judgment about him.
Since he had said all this for Fang Yun’s benefit, Fang Yun was already thinking that the next time he came for Artifact Refining, he could bring Steward Cai a small gift as a token of gratitude for his guidance.
For about the next hour, Fang Yun and Steward Cai talked a great deal about Artifact Refining, with Steward Cai doing most of the talking.
Through this conversation, Fang Yun also learned a few things about Artifact Refining.
He had the talent for Artifact Refining, but he still lacked experience.
In his future plans, he would refine a few more Lower Grade Magical Artifacts to accumulate some experience before starting on Middle Grade Magical Artifacts.
「Half a month later.」
The date was the twentieth of the ninth month.
Five days prior, Fang Yun had treated Huang Mengzhu to another meal at the Smoke Cloud Pavilion. It was the little girl’s birthday, and the meal was a celebration.
In the past half a month, as for Artifact Refining, Fang Yun had refined two more Lower Grade Magical Artifacts: a Sword Type and a shield type.
For the Sword Type Lower Grade Magical Artifact, the main material was still Lower Grade Yellow Iron, but he added a few more auxiliary materials to make this Yellow Iron Sword even sharper.
In terms of quality, the new Yellow Iron Sword could already sell for ten Lower Grade Spirit Stones.
At this very moment, Fang Yun was in his room, cultivating.
He stopped cultivating before he had completely refined and absorbed an Upper Grade Qi Nourishing Pill.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to continue refining and absorbing the Upper Grade Qi Nourishing Pill, but that even if he refined it, he couldn’t absorb any more.
Having stopped his cultivation, he had reached the peak of the Qi Refining Fourth Layer.
He quickly expelled the medicinal power from the unrefined portion of the Upper Grade Qi Nourishing Pill from his body.
’I still have twenty-two Upper Grade Qi Nourishing Pills left.’
It was just as he’d thought when he began refining Cyan Jade Pills; the Upper Grade Qi Nourishing Pills he had at the time would be enough to support his cultivation to the peak of the Qi Refining Fourth Layer, with a conservative estimate of over ten pills remaining.
Now that he had cultivated to the peak of the Qi Refining Fourth Layer, the next step was to attempt a breakthrough to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer.
Once he reached the Qi Refining Fifth Layer, the effect of Upper Grade Qi Nourishing Pills would be even worse. Since he already had quite a few Upper Grade Cyan Jade Pills, there was no need to use Qi Nourishing Pills to aid his cultivation anymore.
The remaining Upper Grade Qi Nourishing Pills could be sold.
Sect Influence +1%↑
Before Fang Yun could even stand up, he received a notification from the light screen.
His influence within the sect had increased. It was now at 5%, halfway to his goal of reaching 10% sect influence before becoming an Inner Sect Disciple.
The higher his influence got, the harder it would be to increase. The difficulty of raising the next half would surely be much greater.
’A lot of people in the sect must know about my Artifact Refining Talent by now.’
Fang Yun couldn’t help but think this as he opened the light screen.
This one percent increase in influence was still related to his reputation. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
As time went on, his Artifact Refining Talent should be able to raise his influence a bit more.
After standing up and closing the light screen, Fang Yun prepared to make a trip to the Dan Cloud Pavilion on Dan Cloud Peak.
The upcoming breakthrough would definitely require the assistance of medicinal pills. Relying on just two Middle Grade Qi Radiance Pills was a bit too risky.
Qi Radiance Pills could assist with breakthroughs like from the Qi Refining Fourth Layer to the Fifth, and from the Fifth to the Sixth. Their supportive effect was decent.
However, Qi Condensing Pills were even better. Fang Yun was going to the Dan Cloud Pavilion on Dan Cloud Peak precisely to buy Qi Condensing Pills.
The breakthrough from the peak of the Qi Refining Fourth Layer to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer was much less difficult than the breakthrough from the early to the middle stage of Qi Refining, but it was certainly harder than advancing from the peak of the Qi Refining Second Layer to the third.
With Fang Yun’s Five Spirit Roots talent, he could only attempt breakthroughs without pills for the first three layers of Qi Refining.
After leaving his residence, Fang Yun headed to Dan Cloud Peak as quickly as he could.
Upon arriving at Dan Cloud Peak, he once again saw the familiar figure of Senior Sister Wang Yourong standing there.
He hadn’t seen Wang Yourong for nearly two months.
The Wang Yourong of today was no longer wearing the robes of an Outer Sect disciple; the embroidery on her clothes was much more elaborate.
Those were the robes of an Inner Sect Disciple.
This meant Wang Yourong had broken through from the Qi Refining Sixth Layer to the Qi Refining Seventh Layer.
"Congratulations on becoming an Inner Sect Disciple, Senior Sister Wang," Fang Yun said as he approached, offering his congratulations first.
"What’s there to congratulate? It wasn’t difficult for me." Though she said this, a smug smile was plastered all over Wang Yourong’s face.
She had Three Spirit Roots, not Dual Spirit Roots, so breaking through from the middle stage of Qi Refining to the late stage still posed a certain degree of difficulty.
For a Cultivator with Dual Spirit Roots, breaking through to the late stage of Qi Refining was truly no challenge at all.
As for Cultivators with a single Spirit Root, even breaking through a major Realm like Foundation Establishment was as easy as eating and drinking for them.
