#1076 - Soul Breakthrough to Overlord Realm

After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, Jun Wuxie quickly returned to the valley where Jing Ya resided.

He directly set up a rune formation to seal off the valley, summoned the Eternal Sacred Furnace, and took out sacred materials, preparing to refine weapons.

Besides the materials he obtained from Prince Ning, he also had quite a few Rank Three sacred materials of his own, which he acquired from the Ding family's treasury in Yecheng, Hanzhou.

Among the Rank Three sacred materials from the Ding family's treasury, there were a small number of Rank Three peak-grade sacred materials, which were particularly rare, their rarity even surpassing that of Rank Four sacred materials.

Within each rank, low, mid, and high grades were common, usually only these three levels existed.

As for peak-grade, it required extremely harsh conditions to form, even if it was just a Rank One peak-grade natural material, it would be very difficult to find.

"Wuxie, are you planning to refine weapons? The opening of the ancient tomb is only a few days away, will you make it in time?"

Jun Wuxie chose to refine weapons in the center of a flat bluestone slab in front of the waterfall pool, Jing Ya and Xu Yan'ning arriving together.

Xu Yan'ning sized up the ancient and simple sacred furnace engraved with runes in front of Jun Wuxie with curious eyes.

Jing Ya, however, revealed a look of surprise. At first, she didn't notice anything, but now, upon closer observation, she discovered the extraordinary nature of this sacred furnace.

With her identity and vision as a former Heavenly Dao of the Upper Realm, she could naturally recognize what level of sacred artifact the Eternal Sacred Furnace was.

"This weapon refining furnace is actually an Eternal Sacred Artifact!"

Jing Ya was very surprised, but she quickly felt happy for Jun Wuxie.

With such a furnace, the success rate of refining weapons would greatly increase.

She could see that there was a very close connection between this furnace and Jun Wuxie, so there was no need to urge its effects, it would naturally exert its power.

"I'll refine quickly, I should make it in time." Jun Wuxie said while selecting sacred materials from his storage ring, "Border City will face a huge threat. Before entering the ancient tomb, I must prepare as many backup plans as possible."

As he spoke, he took out all the Rank Three peak-grade sacred materials he had, as well as a large number of Rank Three high-grade sacred materials.

"Are you going to refine superior high-grade sacred artifacts?"

Jing Ya was stunned when she saw him take out Rank Three high-grade and peak-grade materials.

She had long known that he had refined a large number of mid-grade sacred weapons before.

However, mid-grade and superior-grade were not on the same level, there were strict requirements for the refiner's own weapon refining realm.

Only a Third Realm sacred artifact master could refine superior-grade sacred artifacts, while superior high-grade sacred artifacts required at least a Third Realm peak sacred artifact master to refine.

Jun Wuxie had never cultivated the art of weapon refining in the Lower Realm, she knew that, and also knew that his rune path cultivation started from participating in the Trial Tower's trials.

In such a short period, becoming a Second Realm sacred artifact master and refining Second Rank high-grade and peak-grade sacred artifacts was already a miracle, a myth.

A Third Realm sacred artifact master was truly unimaginable!

Jun Wuxie gently shook his head: "I want to refine some superior high-grade warships and superior peak-grade sacred weapons. Only superior peak-grade sacred weapons can be effective."

After he finished speaking, he first put a very small amount of Rank Three high-grade materials into the sacred furnace, released the Six Yang True Fire, activated the sacred furnace, and melted them.

He was very careful and cautious, after all, he was refining superior-grade sacred weapons. Compared to the previous mid-grade sacred weapons, the difficulty was definitely much higher.

The materials in the sacred furnace quickly melted into a metal liquid. Jun Wuxie controlled it with his spiritual power, and began to shape it according to the weapon he wanted to refine, while incorporating weapon path runes into it, each strand precisely arranged.

After completing these, he gradually lowered the temperature inside the sacred furnace, causing the metal liquid that already had the shape of a sword body to cool and solidify.

Afterwards, through quenching and forging, then quenching and forging again, repeatedly, a superior-grade sacred sword was finally completed.

At the moment the sword was completed, it rushed out of the sacred furnace, the sword body rang loudly, making a cheerful sword path sound, and a murderous aura permeated between the flowing cold light.

This was a superior high-grade sacred sword, after all, only high-grade materials were used, and it was refined as superior-grade, so the chance of becoming peak-grade quality was very low.

"It's refined successfully just like that?"

Xu Yan'ning was dumbfounded. She had been in Seven Kill Tower for two or three years, and such a sect would naturally not lack weapon refiners. She had also heard about weapon refining.

It was said that weapon refining required a lot of time, consumed a lot of energy, and had a chance of failure.

But Jun Shen's weapon refining was so fast, the whole process was done in one go, taking less than half an hour!

This was too exaggerated, shortening the weapon refining time by dozens or hundreds of times compared to others!

"Your weapon refining technique and speed, I'm afraid it's hard for anyone in the world to match..."

Even Jing Ya was shocked by his move. When Jun Wuxie was refining weapons, the speed of melting materials and removing impurities was too fast. His Six Yang True Fire plus the sacred furnace, the melting speed was beyond imagination. After the sword embryo was formed, his forging speed of the sword body was also unbelievably fast, and it also had incredible effects.

In this world, even the weapon refining holy sect, which is famous in the world and known as the strongest weapon refining place, I am afraid no one can do this!

"What I cultivate is not an ordinary weapon refining technique."

Jun Wuxie waved his hand, and the sacred sword flew to the side, floating in the air.

He put a large number of Rank Two mid-grade sacred materials and some high-grade sacred materials into the sacred furnace.

This time, what he refined was not a sacred sword, but a warship.

He not only incorporated weapon path runes into the warship, but also engraved a void rune array inside the hull, giving the warship a cloaking effect.

Refining warships was much more complicated than refining sacred swords, there were too many processes. The whole process was very complex, which took him a lot of time.

It was not until the third day that he completed the refining of the warship.

He used up all the Rank Three mid-grade sacred materials he had, and refined more than twenty warships in total.

He gave the warship to Xu Yan'ning, and asked her to give these warships to Anning, and told Anning to send people to leave the border city quietly, and send the warships to Changling Pass and other three major pass towns, and give them to the chief commander there.

After Xu Yan'ning left, Jun Wuxie immediately used the soul contract imprint with the Blood鬃 Lion-Dog Beast King to issue orders to the chief commander and senior generals of the three major pass towns, talked about the situation that the border city was about to face, and told them his plan.

"Do you want to take a break?"

Aunt Jing saw that there was some fatigue on his face, even sweat, but he kept preparing Rank Three high-grade materials to put into the sacred furnace, obviously he wanted to continue refining sacred weapons.

"No need, time is not abundant. Let's refine sacred weapons first. If there is still time after refining, it will not be too late to rest."

Jun Wuxie put in a large number of Rank Three high-grade materials, took out the sacred marrow liquid and gulped down a few big mouthfuls to restore the consumed soul power.

Then, he put the Rank Three peak-grade sacred materials into the Eternal Sacred Furnace again.

Jing Ya stepped forward, took out a silk handkerchief, and silently wiped the sweat on his face.

Jun Wuxie summoned the Primal Incarnation, and together they released the Six Yang True Fire, burning and melting the sacred materials in the furnace.

Jing Ya wiped his sweat for him, looking at his focused appearance from the side, with a gentle look in her eyes.

This time, although the sacred weapons refined were superior high-grade or above, and the number refined at the same time was not small, Jun Wuxie still controlled it very perfectly.

He made every process and every detail of weapon refining precise.

Whether it was the heat, or the fusion of weapon path runes, or the timing of quenching, the frequency and strength of forging, and the time point of reheating in the furnace, they were all controlled to perfection.

It's just that it consumes a lot of energy, and his face is covered with sweat.

Jing Ya wiped it for him, and I don't know how many times the silk handkerchief was wrung out.

Looking at his eyes full of bloodshot eyes, the eye sockets were slightly sunken, and his face was full of fatigue, she couldn't help but feel a little distressed.

Rainbow lights rushed out of the Eternal Sacred Furnace, extremely bright, making a clear sword sound, the sword tip facing down, suspended in the air, floating up and down, and the light of runes flashed on the sword body.

When many rainbow lights rushed out, they were vaguely accompanied by the sound of the law, and there were auspicious colors floating.

That was a superior peak-grade sacred weapon!

There were quite a few such sacred weapons, accounting for more than half of the number of sacred weapons refined.

Jing Ya was shocked.

Who in this world refines superior peak-grade sacred weapons like this?

Unless it is a weapon refiner with a very high realm, and then uses this kind of sacred furnace, maybe there is still a slight possibility to do it.

But such a weapon refiner would simply disdain to refine superior peak-grade sacred weapons.

Such a weapon refining speed, such a weapon refining quality, can be called peerless!

In one day, Jun Wuxie finished refining all the sacred weapons in the furnace, there were dozens of sacred weapons in total, more than half of which were superior peak-grade sacred weapons.

His energy was greatly consumed.

But he did not stop to rest, drank the sacred marrow liquid again, and continued to put in all the remaining Rank Three high-grade and peak-grade sacred materials, and continued to refine.

Jing Ya wanted to persuade him to rest, her red lips trembled, but she did not say it, and silently accompanied him.

This furnace of materials was more than the previous furnace.

Jun Wuxie's energy was much weaker than when refining the previous furnace, which made him very hard in the refining process.

Seeing him so hard, Jing Ya felt distressed, and didn't understand why he didn't want to stop and take a rest, but had to refine weapons non-stop, and it was such a big furnace, refining so many at the same time.

This was challenging his own limits, there was a possibility of failure, once it failed, then these materials would be wasted, and it would also affect the plan for the border city.

Fortunately, although the process was difficult, and even almost made a mistake several times, it was finally safe and sound.

One sacred sword after another was refined, rushed out of the sacred furnace, the sound of the sword rang, resounding through the valley, and auspicious colors often appeared, forming a beautiful rainbow in the air.

Two days later, the last sacred sword was released from the furnace. Above the pool, it was filled with superior sacred swords, more than half of which were superior peak-grade sacred swords.

In addition to the sacred swords, there were also many war spears.

This time, the weapon forging resulted in over a hundred Saint-tier weapons, with more than eighty top-grade Saint swords, over ten high-grade Saint swords, and the remaining sixty-plus being high-grade Saint spears.

Looking at the weapons floating in the air, Jingya couldn't believe that these weapons were forged by one person in just five days.

At this moment, Jun Wuxie had no mind to look at the weapons he had forged.

With a wave of his sleeve, he retrieved the Eternal Saint Furnace, drank a large amount of Saint Marrow Liquid, and sat down cross-legged, closing his eyes.

Jingya originally wanted to say something to him, but when she turned her head and saw him sitting cross-legged, his brow shimmering with soul light, and his whole being permeated with the aura of the soul, she was slightly stunned, and then revealed a look of joy.

Wuxie's soul realm was about to break through.

His soul realm had stagnated for several years, and because his realm was relatively high, coupled with the lack of high-grade treasures to nourish the soul in recent years, it was difficult to improve his soul realm.

However, his experiences in the Lower Realm, coupled with his cultivation of the art of weapon forging in the Upper Realm, had greatly enriched his spiritual world.

These past few days of extreme weapon forging, frantically squeezing his essence, energy, and spirit, had finally ushered in a breakthrough.

She felt that Jun Wuxie's essence, energy, and spirit were recovering at an alarming rate, and his soul realm was rapidly improving.

In just a quarter of an hour, a blazing soul light bloomed from his brow, and there, a faint golden figure appeared, sitting cross-legged on the spiritual platform.

That was his nascent soul, now more solid than ever before.

At this moment, in Jun Wuxie's mind, the experiences of his life flashed by like a revolving lantern, especially the doomsday torrents of the Lower Realm, those memories were the most profound, as well as the illusionary experiences he had when he was tested in the Golden Scale Secret Realm in the Lower Realm...

This made him feel as if he had reviewed and experienced his life again, and many emotions arose in his heart.

His nascent soul golden figure became more and more condensed.

His soul realm jumped from the half-step Hegemon Saint realm after the previous breakthrough, directly into the realm of the Hegemon Saint realm.

It was very smooth, without any shackles, just like the cultivation of his realm, there was a quantitative accumulation, and everything fell into place.

The breakthrough of the soul realm, in addition to allowing him to more clearly perceive the laws of heaven and earth, and perceive more keenly, there was no other special feeling.

Speaking of which, the soul realm is a measure of the level and depth of a cultivator's understanding of cultivation, so if you want to break through the realm, you must first improve your soul and deepen your understanding of cultivation.

Therefore, every time a cultivator improves his soul realm, new insights will arise in his heart, and he will have a deeper understanding of his cultivation path, his secret techniques, and so on.

But Jun Wuxie did not.

Because he was once a powerhouse in the Supreme God Realm, these insights were already in his heart.

It was just limited by his soul realm, even if he knew and understood, he could not use it accordingly.

"How do you feel?"

Jingya finally understood why he wanted to challenge his limits, it turned out that it was to try to break through his soul realm.

"I feel very good. The breakthrough in my soul realm means that I will not have any shackles or bottlenecks in my cultivation before the Hegemon Saint realm."

After Jun Wuxie finished speaking, he looked up at the sky above the pool, where one hundred and sixty top-grade Saint weapons were floating.

"Fortunately, there's still enough time."

Tomorrow was the day when the ancient tomb would open. Jun Wuxie waved his hand and collected all the weapons into his body.

He left the valley and soon found Qingmu, Qingxuan, and the others.

Qingyun had come here with the entire sect, and naturally brought the sect's sword formation as well.

It was just that without the five main peaks in Qingyun Cave Heaven as the foundation, and without the Saint Spiritual Origin Energy accumulated by the underground spiritual veins for countless years, it would be difficult to exert the power of the sword formation unless they invested massive resources to activate it at all costs.

The sect's five major sword formations had already been improved by him using the art of runes.

Now, although there was no more energy from the earth vein Saint Spiritual Origin Energy to activate it, there were top-grade Saint swords.

When he sacrificed the top-grade Saint swords, Qingmu and Qingxuan and the others were stunned, their eyes widened, and they couldn't speak for a long time.

They could naturally tell from the aura of these Saint weapons that they were definitely not middle-grade, but top-grade!

To take out so many top-grade Saint swords at once, many of which were heavy swords, and the rest of the swords were almost all refined according to the characteristics of each vein of the sect.

From this, it could be imagined that these Saint swords were not obtained from the Ning Royal Mansion, but were likely forged by him personally in these days!

In the past, refining high-grade middle-grade and top-grade middle-grade Saint weapons had already shocked them, but now they realized that his skills were more than that. He was not a second-realm Saint artifact master, but a third-realm Saint artifact master!

"I will place these top-grade Saint swords in the sword formation to make them perfectly integrated with the sword formation. When enemies come, the sword formation can exert its powerful power. Below the Hegemon Saint realm, no one can escape death, unless it is a half-step Hegemon Saint in the ancient legendary realm."

"What?"

"This..."

Qingmu and Qingxuan and the others almost dropped their eyeballs on the ground.

Top-grade Saint sword?

They could hardly believe their ears!

Top-grade Saint swords, this kind of weapon, let alone third-realm, even fourth-realm and fifth-realm artifact masters, I am afraid it would be difficult to refine, and the success rate is so low that they can only rely on luck.

But he refined so many in a short period of time, there were dozens of them, this was too terrifying!

"Although the five major sword formations are separated by a certain distance now, they are actually interconnected in secret. Once activated, they can instantly converge and evolve into a huge sword formation, covering several mountain peaks. However, because there is a lack of energy support here, the power of the sword formation can only rely on the energy of the sword body itself, and cannot last long. The power of the sword formation will gradually weaken with the increase of use time."

"Therefore, you must remember, unless necessary, do not activate the five major sword formations at the same time. If only two or three half-step Hegemon Saints break in, just one sword formation, covering the target, can kill the enemy!"

"Understood..."

They still hadn't recovered until now.

"Also, in the future, no matter what requirements the Ning Royal side has, you should cooperate as much as possible. But for now, in the eyes of outsiders, we have already broken with the Ning Royal Mansion, so don't get too close these days. Or rather, you should stay here during this time and not leave the mountain, to guard against the possibility of the Myriad Poisons Sect poisoning. After I enter the ancient tomb, it shouldn't be long before a major change will occur in this border city. Make good use of the five major sword formations and cooperate with the Ning Royal Mansion, and perhaps all the invaders can be left behind!"

After saying that, he turned and left, but stopped not far away, turned his head and said: "Qin Yi has already defected to the Myriad Poisons Sect. He will implement the plan of poisoning and breaking the city for the Myriad Poisons Sect. If you see him, you must be careful, but you must not let him suspect that you have seen through him, otherwise it will affect the plan."

His figure disappeared into the void and disappeared from the sight of Qingmu and the others.

Not long after, he came to the City Lord's Mansion and saw King Ning sitting in a special wheelchair in the study.

His current essence, energy, and spirit were not bad. Although his limbs were missing, his realm had recovered a lot, and he was still a great expert.

However, the loss of limbs had a significant impact on his combat power.

King Ning was arranging something. There were several powerhouses in the half-step Hegemon Saint realm in the study, as well as the marshals of the army.

Jun Wuxie waited until they had all retreated before entering the room.

When King Ning saw him, he immediately pushed the wheelchair forward and said: "Everything has been arranged properly. Qin Yi's side has also been arranged. From his appearance, he is very much looking forward to the position of Supervisor."