Therefore, Gao Yan released his divine sense and began to explore the location of the sacred weapon's spirit.

Strangely, he searched the sacred weapon thoroughly but found no trace of its spirit.

"Insightful Eye!"

The next moment, Gao Yan activated his Insight Eye, enveloping the sacred weapon.

A smile soon appeared on his lips.

Because he discovered the existence of the sacred weapon's spirit, which possessed the ability to block divine sense from detecting, his divine sense was unable to find it.

He spoke up, "Spirit of the Sacred Weapon, can we talk?"

A cat-like energy entity lay comfortably in a space inside the sacred weapon, ignoring Gao Yan's words and instead displaying a contemptuous smile on its face.

"You're refusing a polite offer, are you asking for trouble? Spirit, I'll give you a chance, come out and let's talk!"

He spoke again.

But the cat-like spirit looked increasingly disdainful, thinking to itself, "I'm just ignoring you, what can you do to me?"

"very good!"

Gao Yan's eyes turned cold. Since this sacred weapon spirit was so ungrateful, he was too lazy to be polite to him anymore!

"Great Life Technique!"

With a thought, Gao Yan unleashed the supernatural power, the Great Life Technique, upon the artifact spirit.

Sacred weapons have no lifespan, but their spirits are equivalent to life itself, so they do have a lifespan!

Therefore, after the Great Life Technique enveloped the sacred weapon, the weapon spirit's life force began to rapidly dissipate.

The spirit, who had been lying disdainfully inside the sacred weapon's interior, suddenly panicked and cried out shrilly, "Stop! You bastard, what have you done to me?"

"Didn't you refuse to talk to me? Why are you speaking now? Keep acting all high and mighty!"

Gao Yan mocked sarcastically!

"You bastard, stop right now!"

The spirit was almost crying. Although it had a long lifespan, in just a short while, one percent of its lifespan had already passed. If this continued, it wouldn't be long before it died of old age!

"hehe!"

Gao Yan responded with a cold laugh, it seemed that this artifact spirit still didn't quite understand the situation.

The spirit continued to shout, "Do you know that if I'm gone, the power of this sacred weapon will be greatly reduced, so stop right now!"

"It's alright, I can't refine it now anyway. If I kill you, I might be able to refine this holy weapon. It doesn't matter if the power is a little weaker. Anyway, I have more than one holy weapon. I can't have the spirits of my other holy weapons as clueless as you!"

Gao Yan joked!

"Master, relinquish your supernatural powers, and I will submit to you!"

Seeing that another percent of its lifespan had slipped away, the spirit could no longer bear it and pleaded with Gao Yan.

"Why didn't you do this earlier? Why did I have to resort to such methods? You spineless coward!"

Faced with Gao Yan's insults, the spirit's face flashed with resentment, but it dared not retaliate.

"Come out now, let me refine you!"

Gao Yan urged.

The next moment, the spirit emerged from the sacred weapon, looking at Gao Yan with a resentful expression.

"Don't resist!"

The next moment, Gao Yan grabbed the artifact spirit and began to channel spiritual power into it to refine it.

The spirit of the artifact wanted to resist, but considering Gao Yan's evil methods, it had no choice but to cooperate with Gao Yan in refining it.

With the help of the artifact spirit, Gao Yan easily refined it.

He then developed a close connection with the sacred weapon and could control it at will!

"Not bad, we've got another trump card!"

Since the spirit of the artifact had submitted, Gao Yan returned the lifespan that had been taken from it.

Then he took out another sacred weapon.

A short jade sword.

After identifying the spirit within using his Insightful Eyes, Gao Yan directly asked, "Spirit, are you willing to submit to me?"

What Gao Yan found interesting was that the spirit of the artifact was actually a little boy who looked only three or four years old.

"You are too weak to deserve my submission, but if you are willing to serve me, I might lend you a hand if I am in a good mood!"

Small in stature, but big in heart!

Another worthless scoundrel!

Therefore, Gao Yan, too lazy to negotiate with the other party, directly activated the Great Life Technique.

The once arrogant little boy's face showed a hint of fear after the Great Life Technique hit him.

"Damn brat, what have you done to me? Stop it now, or I'll never help you again!"

He sneered and ignored him!

Next, the little boy kept cursing Gao Yan, but Gao Yan still ignored him.

At worst, we can just kill this artifact spirit completely.

Finally, after one-tenth of his lifespan had passed, the little boy's spirit gave in.

It indicates a willingness to submit to Gao Yan.

Gao Yan withdrew the Great Life Technique and then said, "Come out and let me refine it!"

The little boy flew out of the sacred weapon, looking pitiful.

"Don't try to resist, or you know what I'll do!"

After uttering another threat, Gao Yan released his spiritual power to begin refining the artifact spirit.

Soon, Gao Yan refined the weapon spirit, and he was able to control this sacred weapon.

"Your lifespan is being returned to you. From now on, behave yourself!"

The little boy was overjoyed and respectfully kowtowed, saying, "Thank you, Master. I will never disobey a single word of your orders from now on!"

"Oh!"

Seeing this, Gao Yan couldn't help but laugh: "Let's go back!"

"Master, could you give me some spirit stones?" the little boy asked ingratiatingly.

"What do you need spirit stones for?"

Gao Yan asked.

"My lord, I have been confined in the palace for too long. Although I have remained in a state of silence, my spiritual energy is still being depleted. Only by replenishing my spiritual energy can I fully unleash the power of the sacred weapon!"

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