With Xing Wuliang's death, the spiritual consciousness imprinted on the three heavenly swords gradually dissipated, and the three heavenly swords eventually lost their agility and fell down, inserting into the grass.
Xue Kong looked down at Xing Wuliang. The little life left in the corpse was continuously being sucked away by the new sprouts growing in the wasteland, and it gradually turned into a shriveled skeleton, full of death.
"The mortal body will eventually turn into dry bones." Xue Kong murmured softly with an expressionless face.
No matter whether they are mortals or monks, no matter how powerful their cultivation is, how high their status is, or how much wealth they have, they will turn into dry bones after death. Everything is like a dream, fleeting.
What you bring into this world you cannot take out.
Only by embarking on the path of immortality can you keep all of this forever.
After Xue Kong pondered for a long time, he stretched out his hand and the new sprouts growing from the wasteland on Xing Wuliang's chest slowly floated up and fell into his palm.
The new sprout absorbed a lot of vitality and is now growing vigorously. Its size has increased by more than four times compared to its initial size.
The spiritual soil where the roots of the new buds have penetrated has become scarce.
"When all the spiritual soil disappears, that will be the day when the wasteland sprouts new life and enters the next stage."
“This stage is just around the corner.”
Xue Kong waved his sleeves, put away the new sprouts from the wasteland, and at the same time shot out a small fireball. The flames fell on Xing Wuliang's dry bones, destroying the body.
After putting away the Nine-Ring Demon-Slaying Sword, Xue Kong picked up Xing Wuliang's storage bag and the three heavenly swords that were stuck in the grass.
He turned around, walked away from this place of trouble, found a cave in a secluded place ten miles away, and stepped into it.
Sitting cross-legged in the stone cave, Xue Kong first took out Xing Wuliang's storage bag.
The original spiritual consciousness on the storage bag had disappeared, and he easily inserted his spiritual consciousness into it and saw what was inside.
"More than a thousand spirit stones, four bottles of elixirs, and some miscellaneous items."
"Wait, this is..." Xue Kong thought that what he harvested this time was similar to the previous ones, but suddenly he saw something and a look of joy appeared on his face.
"The horn of the longhorn lizard?"
Two grayish-white spiritual objects that resembled ox horns lay quietly in the storage bag.
Xue Kong took it out immediately.
These two horn-shaped spiritual objects are slightly larger than the tusks of an adult elephant. They are grayish white in color, and there is a circle of faint white lines every half a finger.
At first glance, this horn looks like it is made up of sections, like a curved bamboo shoot.
But if you take a closer look, you will find that the white lines are just a gelatinous substance that seeps out of the horn.
"He actually got the horn of the longhorn beetle lizard ahead of time... Yes, not long ago he said that he was short of refining materials. This longhorn beetle lizard horn is not only a precious refining material, but also one of the most evil materials."
Xue Kong was a little surprised, but also a little happy.
The horn of the longhorn beetle lizard is the fourth material he was going to find in the Demon Valley. He didn't expect that someone would personally deliver it to his door. This is a great honor... Not only did they give him a powerful magic weapon, but they also gave him valuable materials.
He is such a good person!
Xue Kong smiled and put the longhorn beetle lizard's horn, spirit stones and pills into his storage bag. Apart from that, he didn't care about anything else.
He threw away the Xing Wuliang storage bag casually.
Immediately afterwards, Xue Kong took out the three heavenly swords and made them float in front of him.
"These three Heavenly Swords are of good quality."
"Ordinary magic weapons generally have four grades."
"They are low-grade mortal, mid-grade earth, high-grade heaven, and ultimate spiritual."
"All the magic weapons I have seen before can be called low-grade mortals, but this Heavenly Sword alone has touched the threshold of mid-grade earth level."
"It hasn't been fully condensed yet..." Xue Kong's eyes showed a thoughtful look.
According to Xing Wuliang, this Heavenly Sword is only a semi-finished product, but the semi-finished product has such power that it can match most of Xue Kong's magic weapons if it is fully condensed.
Perhaps it can make it leap to the mid-grade earth grade level.
If the quality of the Heavenly Sword can be successfully upgraded to the mid-grade Earth Grade, its power will increase dramatically, and Xue Kong will have stronger combat power in the subsequent two places.
Thinking of this, Xue Kong put away the other things and only left the three heavenly swords in front of him.
"The higher the quality of the magic weapon, the higher the requirements for the user."
"Ordinary magic weapons can be used casually, but this one, which is of Earth-grade mid-grade quality, may require the use of blood refining to deepen the connection with it."
"Otherwise, if something goes wrong during the battle, it will be a major hidden danger." Xue Kong didn't know whether Xing Wuliang had also practiced in this way, but he would not allow any hidden dangers to occur in himself.
He immediately activated his cultivation and released a series of spiritual spells, which penetrated into the three heavenly swords.
The spiritual power turned into a raging and blazing flame and began to temper the Heavenly Sword.
This process lasted for an hour.
An hour later, Xue Kong's eyes showed a bit of fatigue. Refining magic weapons with blood was an extremely energy-consuming task, and this was just the beginning.
Xue Kong's mind moved, and the storage bag opened automatically. Spirit stones flew out of it and fell around him.
He opened his mouth and took a deep breath.
All the spirit stones around him suddenly emitted pure spiritual energy, which penetrated into his body from all directions.
The flame that tempers the Heavenly Sword becomes even more vigorous.
Xue Kong immediately bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood.
The blood from his heart flew into the flames and merged into the three heavenly swords. He used his own spiritual blood and the raging flames to temper the magic weapons, deepening the connection between himself and the magic weapons and achieving a close fit.
When the fire was a little weaker, Xue Kong spat out blood from his heart again to intensify the flames.
And so on.
After more than ten times, a pale color gradually appeared on Xue Kong's face. The blood-refining magic weapon not only caused a large amount of blood to be lost, but also a continuous consumption of his cultivation.
However, in this continuous tempering.
The three heavenly swords in the air naturally gave off a shocking aura, with a faint hint of blood emanating gently.
Xue Kong was mentally exhausted, but his eyes were extremely bright.
He raised his head and looked at the three heavenly swords. The connection he felt with them in his heart was much stronger than the mere imprint of his spiritual consciousness before.
"Go!" Xue Kong pointed at the three heavenly swords and tried to use them.
As soon as the sound was made, three Heavenly Swords shot out almost at the same time and pierced into the stone wall beside them. The Heavenly Swords were completely embedded in the wall, leaving three smooth and neat gaps.
Xue Kong's eyes showed satisfaction, and he smiled slightly: "Although the blood refining method consumes energy and spirit, it is indeed useful. In this way, even if it is promoted to a mid-grade earth-level magic weapon, I can control it with ease."
As Xue Kong raised his hand and pointed, three heavenly swords flew out from the stone wall and floated in front of him again.
"It's worthwhile to exchange two magic weapons and a demon soul for these three heavenly swords."
Then, Xue Kong took out a dozen spirit stones from his storage bag and began to absorb the spiritual energy in the spirit stones to replenish his spiritual power lost due to the Blood Refining Heavenly Sword.
Until late at night, everything was silent.
The world seemed to be quiet.
The entire Demon Valley fell into silence, and Xue Kong in the cave slowly opened and closed his eyes.
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