After hearing Yin Ming and Ling Yao's guesses, Liu Ying originally planned to set off for the Ice Soul Snowfield immediately.

However, upon hearing that the Spirit Cry Sword had a chance to be upgraded to the Divine grade, which would provide additional assistance, he decided to have Ling Yao and Feng Yan put the matter on the agenda first.

Although Lingyao was able to successfully upgrade the Spirit Cry Sword on his own in the original story, with the help of Feng Yan, a professional blacksmith, the quality of the upgraded sword might even be improved further.

Although Feng Yan was usually unserious, he was indeed quite accomplished when it came to sword forging.

In short, reliable!

...

Yin Ming sat by the coffee table, his hands supporting his chin, his eyes glancing intentionally or unintentionally toward the secret room where Liu Ying usually practiced her skills.

Lingyao and Fengyan have been inside for several days now, and it's unclear how long it will take to get it done.

Lingyao is alright; with his peak ninth-realm cultivation, he no longer needs to obtain energy through food to maintain his bodily functions.

But the fact that Feng Yan could hold out for so long made Yin Ming look at him with new respect.

Perhaps people become so engrossed in what they love that they forget to eat and sleep.

Yin Ming propped himself up with one hand, while the fingertips of his other hand tapped lightly and irregularly on the coffee table.

If the Spirit Cry Sword is upgraded to the Divine grade, then Spirit Radiance should be advancing to the tenth realm soon as well.

Yin Ming was so uncertain because the description of Ling Yao's advancement in the original work was too vague, giving the impression that he had suddenly advanced.

Perhaps, as the author himself said in his diary, he himself is "increasingly unsure of what he is writing."

However, Yin Ming remembered that in the original work, Ling Yao did indeed advance to the next level only after the Lingming Sword had advanced.

Most importantly, in the original setting, only cultivators at the tenth realm can use divine-grade magic weapons with ease.

Although the compatibility between Lingyao and Lingming Sword wouldn't be affected by this setting, he still needs to advance to the tenth realm as soon as possible in order to unleash the full power of this divine-grade magic sword.

Thinking of this, Yin Ming couldn't help but sigh.

I wonder when Lingyao will finally advance...

If they could advance before finding that mysterious organization, their combat strength wouldn't be too far behind the enemy's, and their chances of winning would be much greater.

As Yin Ming was lost in thought, the sky suddenly darkened.

He turned his head to look outside the villa as if sensing something, only to see that the once cloudless sky suddenly became turbulent, with dark clouds rushing rapidly towards his location.

Yin Ming quickly walked out of the villa, looked up at the massive thunderclouds, and his eyes were filled with shock.

Could this be the legendary calamity cloud?!

Yin Ming belatedly looked in the direction of the secret room inside the villa, so... is the advancement of the Spirit Cry Sword about to be completed?

A sudden surge of spiritual energy emanated from the air, and a phantom gradually solidified beside Yin Ming.

Yin Ming turned his head and saw that the person who came was Liu Ying.

Yin Ming wanted to say hello, but saw her staring at the villa in front of her with a worried expression.

In an instant, it dawned on me that this was the house left behind by the original author.

Originally, Liu Ying was worried about being disturbed by the outside world, so she kindly lent her usual training room to Ling Yao and Feng Yan, so that they could concentrate on advancing the Lingming Sword.

But who would have thought that the advancement of the Spirit Cry Sword would attract a lightning tribulation?

It wasn't mentioned in the novel!

Yin Ming gazed at Liu Ying's profile and sighed silently. She would be devastated if the house were destroyed by the calamity clouds.

But then Liu Ying stared intently at the cloud of calamity for a moment, and then stretched out her slender hands and quickly made hand seals. A green-glowing barrier slowly appeared above the villa.

Just as Yin Ming was breathing a sigh of relief, Feng Yan's voice suddenly came from the secret room.

"Senior Liuying, please remove the barrier."

Yin Ming stared intently into the villa and saw Feng Yan rushing out.

He took the sword-forging platform out of his spatial ring and put it away, while quickly explaining, "The Spirit Cry Sword must undergo tribulation of lightning to be upgraded to the divine grade. Please remove the barrier, Senior Liuying."

As he walked out of the villa, the calamity clouds surged and moved over the heads of the three of them.

Liu Ying looked up at the location of the tribulation clouds, and after confirming that the villa would not be affected by the lightning tribulation, she nodded and waved her hand to remove the barrier.

Without the barrier blocking it, the lightning tribulation finally located the Spirit Cry Sword.

Amidst the churning clouds, the tribulation lightning, which had been brewing for half a day, seemed to have found an outlet, relentlessly striking down upon the Spirit Cry Sword in the sword-forging platform!

"If only the tribulation lightning were a bit bigger..." Feng Yan muttered to himself as he watched his sword-forging platform crumble into dust under the tribulation lightning.

Just as Yin Ming was wondering if he had misheard, Ling Yao, who had just walked up to the three of them, calmly glanced at Jie Yun and said indifferently:

"What's so difficult about that?"

A radiant mirror suddenly appeared in his hand. After embedding a Chaos Pearl into the mirror, he waved his hand and threw the mirror to the place where the tribulation lightning was about to strike.

Lingyao casually snapped his fingers, and the mirror instantly doubled in size.

The lightning bolt, which was originally only the size of a bucket, grew to twice its original size after passing through the mirror, and continued to crash down on the Spirit Cry Sword with great force!

The Spirit Sword, which had been quietly suspended in its original position, seemed to sense something and suddenly rose into the air, flattening itself out, as if it couldn't wait to be tempered by the lightning tribulation...

The lightning strike seemed to vanish as soon as it hit the sword. The whole scene looked less like the lightning striking the sword and more like the sword actively absorbing the lightning...

Yin Mingren was completely dumbfounded.

Amplification artifacts can be used like this?!

And the way Lingyao and Lingming Sword were handling things was just too pretentious!

But... for some reason, he actually looks pretty handsome...