Translator: 549690339
In order to suppress the news of Shen Yuan’s appearance, the superintendent of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau personally went to Yun Province to suppress the budding ambitions of the world’s clans and households, even paying the Ancient One, the Book Immortal, a piece of Lang Huan Bibliotheca as a price.
Just half an hour later, a decree was issued within the Golden Throne Hall to gather all information on powerful figures and immortals related to tigers within the past ten thousand years.
Clearly, Emperor Xia and the superintendent of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau have not realized that the so-called Tiger-riding Immortal was merely an accident.
Qing Province, by the Lake Dongting.
The tiger-riding immortal recorded in the memorials, was currently unnoticeably sitting on the shore, clutching his waist.
“Indeed, legends are not to be trusted!”
“It’s already so strenuous to ride a cat, if anyone else says that a tiger can serve as a mount, I’ll fight them on the spot!”
Using the Maine Coon as a mount was entirely due to Shen Yuan finding travel tiresome and wanting to take a shortcut. However, reality dealt Shen Yuan a heavy blow.
As the most typical feline animal, the Maine Coon’s spine would undulate up and down like a spring when running.
If it was just a short duration of contact, it could be endured. When sitting on its back for a prolonged duration, however, the spine’s movement became a kind of cruel torment.
Especially as the Maine Coon could run extremely fast riding on the wind, the amplitude of spine undulation gave Shen Yuan a feeling of riding a high-speed roller coaster.
Having come over all the mountains and rivers, Shen Yuan felt as if he is about to fall apart. Even though the physical fitness of an Essence Refining stage cultivator far exceeded that of ordinary people, he couldn’t stand this kind of ordeal.
Especially since Shen Yuan has not developed mana, he is incapable of using mana to protect his body, making the torment even worse.
In the end, Shen Yuan could only find a reason to cultivate, asking the Maine Coon to stop by the lake.
Sitting on a large rock by the lake, Shen Yuan glanced at Bai Xue on the Maine Coon’s head, finally understanding why Bai Xue would always stay there.
The Maine Coon, oblivious to all these things, was squatting aside, seemingly quite excited.
In the past myths and legends, which of the creatures that could become an immortal’s mount wasn’t an ancient divine beast or a born celestial creature?
As a regular member of the Cat Tribe able to serve as a mount for an immortal, it could certainly be said to glorify the ancestors.
Thinking of this, the Maine Coon became somewhat impatient to carry Shen Yuan straight to Fubo Pond, immediately opening its mouth to ask:
“Sir, when shall we set off again?”
Shen Yuan’s eyelids twitched subconsciously upon hearing this.
He would rather travel on his own legs than endure such torment again.
“Cough cough, since we’ve already arrived at Lake Dongting, the journey to Fubo Pond is not urgent.
Moreover, right now we only know that Fubo Pond is located in the vicinity of Lake Dongting, and do not know the exact location. We will set off as soon as we ascertain the exact location.”
Shen Yuan spoke thus, and the Maine Coon naturally had nothing to say, only restraining its restless thoughts honestly.
“Yes!”
Taking a break by the lake was not only to escape the torment of the big cat mount, but also because Shen Yuan planned to allocate some time to digest the gains from last night.
Actually, if we talk about the difficulty of resolving the Ghost Market issue, it undoubtedly exceeded the two hidden achievements Shen Yuan completed before. But Shen Yuan did not receive any notification of completing a hidden achievement.
In the final analysis, it’s due to the fact that the Ghost Market is merely an aberrant life form that evolved three thousand years ago. Fundamentally, it is neither ancient nor transcendent, completely failing to reach the threshold the Artificial Intelligence System set for recording hidden achievements.
In simple terms, the Ghost Market is not qualified.
This also indirectly shows that the Artificial Intelligence System treats all tasks unequivocally along established logics, not deviating as per your current strengths.
“The rewards do not correspond to the effort, it seems we still need to find information from ten thousand years ago to activate hidden achievements.”
“However, the information left in this world is very scarce, and it’s not a solution to wander around blindly. Perhaps we should start somewhere else?
For example, the blessed land connected to the Hexagram Divination Demon, Lang Huan, seems to be hiding a lot of information.”
Although he was unable to achieve a hidden achievement with this opportunity, by resolving the Ghost Market issue, Shen Yuan did not end up empty-handed either.
In a way, what Shen Yuan obtained was even more suitable for him than completing a hidden achievement.
With this thought, Shen Yuan took out the Primordial Spirit Bead from his storage ring.
Last night under the glow of the moon, Shen Yuan could see the light figures dancing inside the Primordial Spirit Bead, but during the day, the bead dulled and did not show the mystical phenomenon it possessed during the night.
Shen Yuan was well aware that this was because the Primordial Spirit Bead inherently possessed some qualities of Yin God, and the artificial Primordial Spirit that was refined also only carried a part of the Yin God’s characteristics.
Yin Gods can manifest during the night, escaping the body and traveling miles away, passing through the netherworld, possessing various supernatural abilities.
But there is one inevitable drawback of the Yin God; it cannot manifest in the daylight, as a newly born Yin God will disperse if scorched under the intense sun.
Only by invoking the Great Sun’s refining soul to achieve the Yang God can one manifest in daylight. Thereby allowing the body of the Yang God to roam the North Sea in the morning and to reach the vast forests by dusk, without any inconvenience.
However, this is a realm where Shen Yuan cannot reach yet. Achieving success by refining the artificial Primordial Spirit with the help of the Primordial Spirit Bead is enough for him.
As Shen Yuan was preparing to try refining it with the Primordial Spirit Bead in hand, he suddenly realized another problem.
“Refining the Primordial Spirit Bead requires the consumption of mana, but I haven’t even completed the Refining Essence to Qi Transformation. Where will the mana come from?”
Considering the value of the Primordial Spirit Bead, no one who normally obtains it would think about the possibility of refining it without mana.
All the same, there was Shen Yuan, an anomaly, who got the Primordial Spirit Bead as compensation from the Ghost Market.
After a long period of contemplation, Shen Yuan thought of a solution.
“If the essence of the Primordial Spirit Bead is to gather Divine Sense and bring forth characteristics similar to the Primordial Spirit, why don’t I directly encase the Primordial Spirit Bead with Divine Sense for the refining process?
The Sword Technique Seed of Divine Power has already strengthened my Divine Sense, far surpassing normal Qi Transformation Stage cultivators. Maybe I can really accomplish this.”
With that thought, Shen Yuan didn’t have any hesitation. He directed the Divine Sense within his Spiritual Platform to gently encase the Primordial Spirit Bead.
As soon as he made contact, Shen Yuan immediately felt an invisible, cold breath from inside the Primordial Spirit Bead seeping into his Divine Sense, slowly entering his Spiritual Platform at an extremely slow pace.
As time gradually passed, the Great Sun in the sky was replaced once again by a bright round moon. Moonlight scattered over the surface of Lake Dongting, turning the entire lake into a silver mirror.
Shen Yuan sat on the rock stage, refining continuously for eight hours.
In his hand, the Primordial Spirit Bead that should have shown an Immortal phenomena under the moon was already dull and colorless, almost identical to the daytime.
This indicated that the spirit essence within the Primordial Spirit Bead had been completely refined by Shen Yuan with his Divine Sense.
Within Shen Yuan’s Spiritual Platform, a large amount of Divine Sense, under the effects of the Primordial Spirit Bead, gathered and seemed to form a vague human silhouette.
This human silhouette was like a puppet forcibly glued together. A gust of wind would seemingly scatter it completely.
Above the Spiritual Platform, the flying sword formed by the Sword Technique Divine Capacity Seed swirled around the human silhouette curiously observing the changes.
The next moment, the human silhouette formed by the convergence of Divine Sense moved.
When the Sword Technique Divine Capacity Seed swept past its side, the human silhouette grabbed onto the white flying sword.
The Sword Technique Divine Capacity Seed struggled instinctively, attempting to break free, almost tearing the concentrated arm of the human silhouette.
Yet, even so, the vague human silhouette did not let go. In this intertwined struggle, unbelievably the Sword Technique Divine Capacity Seed began to fade and be consumed at a slow rate.
On the contrary, the vague human silhouette started to show signs of becoming solid.
As the human silhouette completely solidified, Shen Yuan, who had been sitting still for eight hours, finally opened his eyes. His calm eyes, as still as dead water, burst out with a brilliant cold glow.
On the Spiritual platform, the successfully refined artificial Primordial Spirit, holding the Sword Technique Divine Capacity Seed, manifested a sword technique and slashed forward.
The next moment, a crisp sword humming sound echoed from the storage ring. The glow from the Darkness-Light Sword’s sword Qi soared skywards, slashing towards the surface of Lake Dongting at a speed invisible to the naked eye.
The gentle breeze was easily sliced open, leaving a huge sword scar that was hundreds of meters long, tearing the silver mirror surface reflected by the moonlight on the lake surface. The water waves ripped apart by the sword scar was akin to a supernatural power splitting the sea, and it took a long time to close.
With the success of the artificial Primordial Spirit refining, Shen Yuan could now use the Primordial Spirit Sword Control Method.
This Primordial Spirit Bead successfully allowed Shen Yuan, who was at the Essence Refining Stage, to master the Earth Fiend Sword Art which he should have only been able to get started with after reaching the Divinity Transformation Realm.
Earth Fiend Sword Art, First Peek Basic Access.

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