I Can Upgrade My Talent Infinitely

’I broke through to the Peak of Foundation Establishment faster than it took me to break through to the late-stage.’

Breaking through to Late-stage Foundation Establishment usually takes seven to ten days.

Breaking through to the Peak of Foundation Establishment can be done in as little as seven days, but it can also take as long as half a month.

This time, it only took Fang Yun eight days to break through to the Peak of Foundation Establishment, whereas his breakthrough to the late-stage had taken over nine days in total.

After his Spirit Root was cleansed, breaking through to a new realm also gave Fang Yun a feeling of exhilaration.

The difference was clear from the comparison.

Unless one’s Spirit Root was cleansed and their talent transformed, even a cultivator with Dual Spirit Roots superior to his couldn’t experience such a feeling.

He didn’t rush to emerge from his seclusion.

Fang Yun chose to consolidate his cultivation.

「Nearly half a month later.」

On the Artifact Casting Peak, inside the Artifact Refining Elders’ meeting hall.

Fang Yun sat in the Management Elder’s seat.

He wasn’t the Management Elder, but the acting one. His master, Xiong Xingfeng, had entered seclusion three months ago to attempt a breakthrough to the Core Formation Stage.

During this period, he was responsible for some of the Management Elder’s duties on the Artifact Casting Peak.

"Elder Fang, these are the tasks that have accumulated for you in the Artifact Pavilion."

The Artifact Refining Elder responsible for the Artifact Pavilion’s affairs handed the information over to Fang Yun.

Currently, there were a total of five Artifact Refining Elders on the Artifact Casting Peak, including Fang Yun. With Xiong Xingfeng in seclusion to attempt Core Formation, there were now four people in the meeting hall.

Fang Yun briefly scanned the task information from the Artifact Pavilion.

’Two more than last time.’

Aside from cultivation and alchemy, Fang Yun invested most of his time in artifact refining. He was already doing his best to complete the tasks from the Artifact Pavilion that specifically requested him as the refiner.

"How are things on your end?" Fang Yun asked the other three Artifact Refining Elders.

"We’ve already finished ours."

Fang Yun understood that his situation was inevitably affecting the other Artifact Refining Elders.

His artifact refining skills were so exceptional that the other elders had to acknowledge his superiority.

Those who specifically requested him had to wait and pay more in Spirit Stones and Contribution Points, whereas going to other Artifact Refining Elders was not only cheaper but also required no wait.

"From now on, increase the Sect Contribution Points and Spirit Stones required for my artifact refining services," Fang Yun instructed.

He only had so much time to spare.

With his current artifact refining schedule and the Golden Core Pills he still needed to refine, the queue for these tasks was already backed up for three years.

A backlog of tasks that could be cleared within a year was, in Fang Yun’s view, an ideal situation.

It was better to let the other Artifact Refining Elders in the sect take on more tasks anyway.

"If it’s a Spiritual Artifact for dealing with Demons, don’t adjust the Sect Contribution Points and Spirit Stones. Keep the price as it is," Fang Yun continued.

Only he could refine this type of Spiritual Artifact, so there was little point in adjusting the fee. Even if the price was set extremely high, the other Elders lacked the ability to accept the task.

"Understood, Elder Fang. I’ll take care of it right away."

The three Artifact Refining Elders all knew that Fang Yun’s motive was to allow them to take on more artifact refining jobs, thereby accumulating experience.

For them, this was undoubtedly a good thing.

During the Artifact Refining Elders’ meetings, Fang Yun was essentially the one who made the final decision on any matter that was raised.

They rarely opposed Fang Yun’s decisions.

This was because Fang Yun’s decisions were mostly beneficial for the future development of the Artifact Casting Peak. As elders of the peak, they were also happy to see it prosper.

...

「In an underground cavern of the Black Ghost Cave.」

The elders with real power from all the various halls of the Black Ghost Cave had already gathered.

There weren’t many Ghost Cultivators at this meeting, but it was all the more important.

This meeting was to discuss only one topic: matters concerning the Celestial Cloud Sect.

"You’ve all read the intelligence we’ve gathered on the Celestial Cloud Sect. Now, you may all speak your minds," Elder Qu, the one in charge of intelligence for the Black Ghost Cave, said, opening the meeting.

Just a moment ago, he had distributed all the relevant intelligence.

"A few years back, when the Celestial Cloud Sect was at war with the Celestial Demon Sect and the Demon Spirit Sect, we thought it was a pity they were going to be wiped out so quickly and considered ’helping’ them. And now look what’s happened."

"’Help?’ What a joke. Did we even help them? I seem to recall that before our people sent to cause trouble at the Celestial Demon Sect even made a move, the joint offensive by the Celestial Demon Sect and the Demon Spirit Sect against the Celestial Cloud Sect had already retreated. We should have realized there was a problem back then."

"That’s right. The Celestial Cloud Sect now has six Core Formation Spirit Refiners. Even if the Celestial Demon Sect and the Demon Spirit Sect team up again, they still can’t destroy an unsupported Celestial Cloud Sect, unless we join them."

"Elder Qi, don’t even think about it. If we cooperate with the Celestial Demon Sect and the Demon Spirit Sect to destroy the Celestial Cloud Sect, there’s too little benefit for us. Even setting aside the benefits, cooperating with the Celestial Demon Sect is one thing, but if we cooperate with the Demon Spirit Sect, it’ll be hard to explain things to the Ghost-Controlling Sect."

The territories of the Ghost-Controlling Sect, their Black Ghost Cave, and the Demon Spirit Sect all bordered one another.

The Ghost-Controlling Sect had a good relationship with them, but a very poor one with the Demon Spirit Sect.

Factions following the same cultivation path mostly have friendly relations with each other. In a few cases, they have long-standing grudges.

At this moment, an Elder Lu, who had cultivated to the true Peak of Foundation Establishment, spoke up.

Among the current Foundation Establishment Elders of the Black Ghost Cave, if he claimed to be second in strength, no other Ghost Cultivator would dare claim to be first.

"Let’s drop the subject of cooperating with the Demons. Even without the Ghost-Controlling Sect, it would be difficult for us to work with them. Once we enter a cooperative relationship, we’ll have some explaining to do to the Celestial Ghost Mansion."

Although the Celestial Ghost Mansion, a Nascent Soul Influence, was quite far from them, it still held significant influence over them.