I Can Upgrade My Talent Infinitely

Everything he did now was for the sake of better concealment.

When he attacked the Celestial Demon Sect’s subordinate Foundation Establishment influences, things were different. He would fly in quickly, not move slowly like this.

He completely avoided using Spiritual Power for anything else.

Using even a little would decrease his chances of successfully infiltrating the Celestial Demon Sect.

The closer Fang Yun got to the Celestial Demon Sect’s grounds, the slower he moved.

Focusing all his efforts on concealment, Fang Yun believed he could successfully infiltrate the Celestial Demon Sect without being discovered.

In reality, he had already been discovered!

「In the immortal cave of Lu Yaoling, the Supreme Elder of the Celestial Demon Sect.」

Unlike the arrangements for their subordinate Demon Foundation Establishment influences, the Core Array Plate controlling the Grand Array within the Celestial Demon Sect was held by their strongest and most powerful figure: the Supreme Elder.

Only when he left the sect would the Grand Array’s Core Array Plate be handed over to other high-ranking members.

A faint alert came from the Core Array Plate. Sensing it, Lu Yaoling immediately took out the plate to examine it.

"This is..."

On the Core Array Plate, a barely visible dot had appeared.

It was the extremely faint fluctuation of a Spirit Refiner.

’...The mysterious Spirit Refiner?’

After only a moment’s hesitation, the thought occurred to Lu Yaoling.

The mysterious Spirit Refiner was exceptionally skilled at concealment, capable of silently wiping out their Celestial Demon Sect’s subordinate Foundation Establishment influences.

At this moment, Lu Yaoling was finally witnessing the mysterious Spirit Refiner’s concealment techniques firsthand.

The fact that their Celestial Demon Sect’s Third Tier Grand Array could only detect such a faint dot was a testament to the mysterious Spirit Refiner’s superb concealment abilities.

It seemed it was truly no wonder their subordinate Foundation Establishment influences had been wiped out so silently.

’He actually dared to sneak into our Celestial Demon Sect. Well, since he’s here, he’s not leaving.’

Lu Yaoling did not activate the Celestial Demon Sect’s Grand Array.

He intended to let this mysterious Spirit Refiner sneak in, then trap and kill him within the Celestial Demon Sect.

This was a classic case of walking into the spider’s parlor.

「A moment later.」

One by one, messages were sent out from Lu Yaoling.

There were four messages in total, all with the same content: he was summoning the upper echelons of the Celestial Demon Sect to his location. He also instructed them to be quiet on their approach and not to fly over directly.

If they flew over directly, the lurking mysterious Spirit Refiner might notice something was amiss and immediately flee.

The high-ranking members of the Celestial Demon Sect arrived one by one.

They were puzzled by Lu Yaoling’s summons, not understanding his intentions.

Lu Yaoling had no intention of explaining until everyone had arrived.

When the last high-ranking member finally entered, Lu Yaoling commented, "We were just waiting for you. What took you so long?"

"Elder Lu, we’re all here now. Can you tell us why you’ve summoned us?" It was Supreme Elder Cao Yuchen who spoke.

This was different from usual. Normally, a summons for all the high-ranking members meant an emergency meeting.

But this time, they had come directly to Lu Yaoling’s residence, not their usual meeting hall.

"Take a look at this."

As he spoke, Lu Yaoling took out the Core Array Plate for the Sect Array.

The eyes of the Celestial Demon Sect’s leadership were immediately drawn to the barely visible dot on the Core Array Plate.

"This is..."

"It must be the mysterious Spirit Refiner," Lu Yaoling said directly, not giving them a chance to speculate.

"That mysterious Spirit Refiner has some nerve, daring to come to the grounds of our Celestial Demon Sect. Does he have a death wish?"

"I wouldn’t call it nerve. I’d call it confidence in his concealment techniques. The fact that our Grand Array can only pick up such a faint fluctuation proves how powerful his methods are. He has reason to be confident."

"Agreed. If his concealment techniques were any stronger, our Grand Array wouldn’t have detected him at all. Then he could have done all sorts of things inside our sect."

After learning more about the mysterious Spirit Refiner, the Celestial Demon Sect’s leadership all came to a tacit agreement on one thing.

The mysterious Spirit Refiner was definitely not in the Foundation Establishment Stage. He had to be at the Core Formation Stage.

A Spirit Refiner at the Foundation Establishment Stage, no matter how powerful their concealment techniques, could never achieve such a feat.

The faint dot on the Core Array Plate didn’t allow them to determine the mysterious Spirit Refiner’s specific Realm. If the dot were any clearer, they would be able to discern his exact Cultivation.

"So he has a Core Formation Cultivation. No wonder he could silently wipe out our subordinate Foundation Establishment influences. I said from the beginning that a Spirit Refiner at the Peak of Foundation Establishment couldn’t have pulled this off."

"So which of the Celestial Cloud Sect’s Core Formation cultivators could be this mysterious Spirit Refiner?"

At this question, all of the Celestial Demon Sect’s Core Formation experts, including Lu Yaoling, fell into contemplative silence.

The Celestial Cloud Sect currently had nine Core Formation experts. If they excluded the four who had reached Core Formation a century ago, none of the remaining five seemed to have any direct connection to the mysterious Spirit Refiner.

Bai Qinying had been the most likely suspect, but a battle during her Foundation Establishment Stage had already confirmed she couldn’t be the mysterious Spirit Refiner.

Besides Bai Qinying, there was virtually nothing to link any of the remaining four to the mysterious Spirit Refiner.

"Elder Lu, perhaps this mysterious Spirit Refiner isn’t from the Celestial Cloud Sect at all. He always shows up in our territory, maybe he’s just an independent ally helping them."

"If he isn’t from the Celestial Cloud Sect, then he must be from the Purple Mist Sect."

Having failed to find a connection, they realized this was the most likely possibility.

If the mysterious Spirit Refiner really was from the Purple Mist Sect, it would mean the Purple Mist Sect had been helping the Celestial Cloud Sect fight against them all these years.

If that were the case, then it was no wonder they had been consistently losing to the Celestial Cloud Sect in battle.

"There’s no need to overthink the mysterious Spirit Refiner’s identity. We’ll find out once he’s inside," Lu Yaoling said. "Regardless, this mysterious Spirit Refiner must die today!"

"This mysterious Spirit Refiner is taking his sweet time. We’ll probably be waiting for a while. We might as well guess his identity. We could even make a wager," the Celestial Demon Sect Leader said.

’We’re just sitting around idle anyway,’ he thought.

Besides, this mysterious Spirit Refiner was being overly cautious. His movement could be described as a snail’s pace, as if he was afraid moving any faster would get him discovered.

Little did the mysterious Spirit Refiner know, he had already been discovered.

The high-ranking members of the Celestial Demon Sect were all in high spirits at this thought.

"What a shame." After they had chatted for a while longer, the Celestial Demon Sect Leader shook his head.

"A shame about what?" Lu Yaoling asked.

"It’s a shame that we’re going to eliminate the mysterious Spirit Refiner today. If we had confirmed he’d broken through to the Core Formation Stage earlier and reported it to the Black Dragon Hall, they might have issued a bounty for him. That way, we’d get a bigger reward for killing him."

"You wish."

"I doubt the Black Dragon Hall would issue a bounty anytime soon, even if they knew his identity. They’d at least wait until he breaks through to the Late-stage Core Formation. Right now, this mysterious Spirit Refiner is most likely only in the Early-stage Core Formation."

Although the Core Array Plate couldn’t determine the mysterious Spirit Refiner’s exact Cultivation, it wasn’t difficult for them to make an educated guess based on previous information.

Knowing that the mysterious Spirit Refiner had been at the Late-stage Foundation Establishment until recently, there was a greater than ninety percent chance that he was now in the Early-stage Core Formation after his breakthrough.

If he were at the Mid-stage Core Formation, then the mysterious Spirit Refiner could only be a Cultivator from the Purple Mist Sect.

The Celestial Cloud Sect couldn’t possibly have enough resources for the mysterious Spirit Refiner to break through to the Mid-stage Core Formation in such a short time.

As the five Core Formation experts of the Celestial Demon Sect chatted back and forth, the display on the Core Array Plate showed that the mysterious Spirit Refiner had finally entered the range of their Grand Array.

In other words, the mysterious Spirit Refiner had officially set foot on the Celestial Demon Sect’s grounds.

"Elder Lu, is it time to act now?"

"Wait, don’t be hasty. From this position, the mysterious Spirit Refiner still has a chance to escape."

"Indeed, Elder Lu is right. The deeper the mysterious Spirit Refiner ventures, the smaller his chances of escape become."

"I have one question, though. Why exactly is the mysterious Spirit Refiner sneaking into our Celestial Demon Sect? What is he trying to do?"