Chapter 512 - 363: The Impervious Shield
Pang Feng called an emergency meeting of the Demon Spirit Sect’s upper echelon.
At the meeting, he not only relayed the news to the other leaders but also shared his own speculations.
The Celestial Cloud Sect’s intelligence-gathering capabilities were currently far greater than they had imagined.
His most important theory, however, still concerned the actions of the mysterious Spirit Refiner.
"Feel free to share any thoughts you have."
When Pang Feng said this, the other Supreme Elders of the Demon Spirit Sect remained silent.
A moment later, one of the Supreme Elders asked.
"Elder Pang, do you have any thoughts?"
All eyes turned to Pang Feng.
Pang Feng hadn’t offered his opinion last time, so they all felt he ought to say something now.
"I’ll defer to the group’s decision this time," Pang Feng said initially. But seeing that the other Supreme Elders of the Demon Spirit Sect were still looking at him, he added, "If I didn’t have to consider the sect, the first problem I’d want to solve is the mysterious Spirit Refiner. If we can’t find the Spirit Refiner, we can always go cause trouble in the Celestial Cloud Sect’s Earth Realm."
This sentence made his current attitude perfectly clear.
If he were only thinking of himself, he would have acted long ago.
After all, he didn’t have much Life Span left. Reaching the Nascent Soul Stage was out of the question; even cultivating to the peak of the late-stage Core Formation would be an incredible challenge.
"Elder Pang’s way of thinking is truly..."
The Supreme Elder of the Demon Spirit Sect who had spoken trailed off, unable to continue.
Some things were better left unsaid.
Given Pang Feng’s attitude, it was for the best that he didn’t participate in the upper echelon’s decision-making.
Faced with Pang Feng’s line of thinking, some of the Supreme Elders who had initially been inclined to take action were now having second thoughts.
Pang Feng would undoubtedly be involved in any future external operations.
If Pang Feng were to do something rash, events would no longer proceed as they had planned.
They wanted to draw some of the Celestial Cloud Sect’s fire to help the Celestial Demon Sect bear its burden, but they didn’t want to draw too much. If they did, wouldn’t the tables be turned?
Besides, the Celestial Demon Sect hadn’t even paid them for their help yet.
Due to this combination of factors, the Demon Spirit Sect’s leadership meeting quickly came to a conclusion.
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「Two years later.」
In all that time, Fang Yun never once set foot in the Demon Spirit Sect’s Earth Realm.
The Demon Spirit Sect had been quiet ever since his last trip to their Earth Realm, where he had wiped out two of their vassal Foundation Establishment Influences.
As long as the Demon Spirit Sect remained quiet, he had no reason to specifically target their vassal Foundation Establishment Influences.
If the Demon Spirit Sect resumed helping the Celestial Demon Sect ease the pressure from their offensive, he would resume his own activities.
Of course, his actions would be completely unpredictable.
Any of the Demon Spirit Sect’s vassal Foundation Establishment Influences could be annihilated at any moment.
After that one warning, the situation had developed favorably.
This was exactly what Fang Yun had hoped to see.
It was also worth noting that Miao Qinghong had entered seclusion last year to attempt a breakthrough. She had succeeded on her first try, smoothly advancing to the mid-stage of Core Formation.
This brought another boost to the Celestial Cloud Sect’s overall strength.
Miao Qinghong’s breakthrough to the mid-stage of Core Formation would allow the final step of the plan against the Celestial Demon Sect to proceed more smoothly.
In the Artifact Refining Room.
Fang Yun was about to begin the refining of a Magical Treasure.
This time, he was going to refine his third and final Lifebound Magical Treasure.
He already had a Sword-Type and a shoe-type Lifebound Magical Treasure. All that was left was the final piece: a shield-type Lifebound Magical Treasure.
’The design is sound, and its defensive capabilities are comprehensive.’
He was refining the shield-type Lifebound Magical Treasure last because it required a vast amount of Spiritual Materials.
The more Spiritual Materials used and the more requirements it had to meet, the more complex the resulting Prohibitions would be. This, in turn, significantly increased the difficulty of refining the Lifebound Magical Treasure.
However, at Fang Yun’s current level of Artifact Refining, successfully forging it despite the increased difficulty would still be a relatively simple matter.
All the materials for refining the Lifebound Magical Treasure were laid out before him.
The final item he laid out was a Third Tier Spiritual Material: the Dream Stone.
This was the last Spiritual Material he had managed to collect.
For a Lifebound Magical Treasure intended to be functionally comprehensive, protection against Spiritual Attacks—such as Illusion Techniques and assaults on one’s Divine Sense—was essential.
Though he had rarely needed to use a shield-type Magical Treasure in his battles to date, it was still a necessary precaution.
Lurking in ambush and launching a decisive, fatal strike was his preferred combat tactic. Since he wasn’t one to needlessly court death, his killing blows were almost always exactly that—lethal.
The last time he’d used a shield was way back when he was at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment. That was also the only time he had ever used a shield-type Spiritual Artifact in an actual battle.
Once Fang Yun had adjusted his condition to its absolute peak, he began refining the shield-type Lifebound Magical Treasure.
Because the shield’s defensive capabilities were so comprehensive, he decided to name this Lifebound Magical Treasure:
No-leak Shield!
Perfectly comprehensive protection, with no gaps.
The time it took to refine the No-leak Shield also made it the longest he had ever spent on any Magical Treasure to date.
The main reason it took so long was its sheer complexity.
The time and resources it consumed were immense; had he been at the Peak of Foundation Establishment, completing this Lifebound Magical Treasure would have been nearly impossible.
"Phew!"
"It’s finally done!"
The moment the No-leak Shield’s refining was complete, Fang Yun let out a long sigh of relief.
As the No-leak Shield entered his Qi Sea, an invisible force enveloped his entire body.
This Lifebound Magical Treasure he had refined was unlike any of his previous shield-type Magical Artifacts or Spiritual Artifacts. It didn’t need to be actively deployed; the No-leak Shield could defend him passively.