"Intensifying!"

The ninth-tier mask shone brightly, and in a short while, the mask was completely renewed. Crimson-gold stripes spread from the side of the mask and then formed a noble and beautiful pattern.

"Was it successful?"

Jiang Yuan nervously gave his assessment, and then the information on the mask began to slowly emerge.

The Void Spirit-grade Golden Pattern Faceless Item is of perfect quality. It possesses good defensive and camouflage abilities, and is imbued with spirituality. Currently, it can be inlaid with the first Soul Skill.

"It really can now be inlaid with weapon spirit skills!"

Jiang Yuan was extremely excited. For a weapon to possess a spirit is the first step to becoming a powerful weapon. Only by possessing a spirit can a weapon have the potential to grow and can even be inlaid with weapon spirit skills. Otherwise, it can only be like an ordinary weapon that is opened from the core, and is what it is from birth.

"I remember last time one of the cores had a support-type artifact soul skill!"

Jiang Yuan rummaged through boxes and cabinets, and finally found the auxiliary weapon soul skill in a third-tier Radiant Gold Core.

"It seems that this low-level core isn't entirely useless!" Jiang Yuan remarked with a smile.

As his cultivation level increased, he accumulated a large number of low-level cores in his personal space. However, because he had indiscriminately absorbed all the previous low-level holy spirit stones, many cores were left to gather dust in his personal space without being activated.

"It's still an unknown series with a one in ten thousand probability!"

The items obtained from the core will not exceed the third tier of the core realm, except for the unknown series.

After some maneuvering, Jiang Yuan located the auxiliary device's soul skill.

Weapon Soul Skill - Imitation: Collects and imitates all the auras encountered.

This is a purely supportive weapon spirit skill. It has no offensive or defensive capabilities, only the ability to imitate. However, this imitation has already won Jiang Yuan's favor.

"Using a drop of divine blood energy embedding device, Soul Skill - Imitation!"

"Inlay successful. The Void-level Golden Pattern Faceless Void possesses the Weapon Soul Skill - Imitation, activating an additional point of Charm."

Jiang Yuan put on the mask, and at that moment he clearly felt an extra touch of charm, an enhancement of mystery.

"Let's test the effect of the weapon spirit skill!"

As the imitation was activated, Jiang Yuan's aura instantly changed, transforming from his previous reserved and restrained demeanor into a fierce fighting spirit, his imposing presence even somewhat similar to that of the True Spirit of the War Lord who had appeared before.

"Not bad, you even managed to imitate 20% of the aura of the Lord of War!"

This imitation can be considered both a success and a failure. First of all, imitating only 20% of the aura is very low, but if the subject were the Lord of War, it would be extraordinary.

"Try hers!"

Jiang Yuan imitated Mi Tan'er again, this time imitating her. The woman gave him the feeling of being extremely arrogant, and that arrogant aura that went to the bone was also extremely difficult to imitate.

Buzz! His aura changed again. At this moment, Jiang Yuan actually carried a trace of feminine aura, and within this feminine aura was an innate arrogance, as if everyone in his eyes was inferior to him.

Jiang Yuan withdrew his aura, then, thinking of Mi Tan'er, he sneered, "Mi Tan'er, you will regret making the decision to enslave me!"

He dared not approach Mi Tan'er now, because their guardian star relationship was mutual, and Mi Tan'er was far stronger than him, holding the initiative in the Gemini constellation. Therefore, making a rash move would only play right into her hands.

"Walk!"

Jiang Yuan put away the forging platform and headed towards Echo Valley. With the Golden-Patterned Faceless One, his identity would no longer be exposed. Even if he appeared in Echo Valley, others would only assume that someone had gotten there first, rather than suspecting manipulation.

Today's Echo Valley is completely different from the past. The most obvious difference is the number of strange beasts. Here, there is a group of beasts almost every hundred meters. The purpose of these groups of beasts is very simple: the Flame of Life.

This treasure, which can grant eternal life, is something that all mythical beasts would risk their lives to fight for; no beast would miss it.

"The destiny of the Nine Provinces, return!"

Jiang Yuan overcame numerous obstacles and finally retrieved the fortune of the Nine Provinces deep within the Echo Valley.

At this moment, the aura of the Nine Provinces' fortune had weakened considerably, but the life force within him had become increasingly abundant. As the Nine Provinces' fortune returned to Jiang Yuan's body, a refined life force was transmitted to him.

Pure energy detected, Divine Power +1;

Pure energy detected, Divine Power +1;

Pure energy detected, Divine Power +1;

...

Jiang Yuan's divine power reached 511 in the blink of an eye, and the upward trend did not stop. In the blink of an eye, the threshold of the ninth rank, 512, was broken, and his divine power continued to enter a period of rapid growth.

"This Flame of Life is terrifying!"

When the divine energy stopped at 999, Jiang Yuan was shocked. He hadn't expected that the energy feedback from just the initial refining of the Flame of Life would be so enormous.

Previously in the Fire Tower, he had only subdued the Flame of Life, and had not yet begun the true refining process.

"No wonder the aura of the Nine Provinces' destiny is so weak; it turns out it has refined so much energy!"

When he escaped from the Tower of Lifefire, he noticed the increase in his divine power, but he did not expect the growth rate to be so fast. In just a short while, his divine power reached the upper limit of the ninth rank.

At the same time, he sensed the barrier of the spiritual realm.

And it's double-layered!

The first level is the spiritual barrier of a little divine power, which is a thousand divine powers.

This spiritual barrier only exists between the ninth rank and the super ninth rank. However, under the constraints of the battlefield rules, this spiritual barrier is dispensable, because very few people will directly advance from the ninth rank to the spiritual realm, as that would only ruin their future.

As for the second spiritual barrier that Jiang Yuan sensed, it was rather vague.

He vaguely sensed that his true spiritual barrier was around 9,000 points. 9,000 was within his expectations, because of the special nature of his divine power attribute, as well as his bloodline and cultivation techniques; the 9,000-point spiritual barrier was indeed worthy of the name.

But those extra few points are intriguing. His intuition tells him that this is an improvement brought about by his super talent Devouring, because there is a barrier-breaking passive in the super talent template Devouring. For every hundred points of divine energy spiritual realm barrier devoured, the upper limit will also increase by one point.

"Wait, I think I've found a bug!"

Jiang Yuan looked inward at his divine power and said thoughtfully, "If the Desire Rabbit uses the Heavenly Charm Body to absorb my energy, and then I use Devouring to increase my energy, wouldn't that allow me to infinitely raise the upper limit of the Spirit Realm barrier?"

"For every hundred points of divine energy spiritual barrier absorbed, the upper limit will increase by one, so let's max out the last thousand points!"

Jiang Yuan counted on his fingers and exclaimed in surprise, "Then wouldn't it mean that if I absorbed 100,000 units of divine energy, I could break through the limits of the human body and reach an unprecedented 9,999 points of spiritual realm barrier?"

Holy crap!

Jiang Yuan slapped his forehead. He had just realized that he seemed to have pushed An Xiaoyu, the tool, onto Xiao Pang!