Master of Strange Dao

"That was the Big Seal of Xu Yang, the former County Magistrate of Jiayin City. He passed it on to me."

Xu Hang looked at the Big Seal, his expression suddenly becoming complex, his face filled with struggle.

After a moment, he regained his composure and slowly said,

"That was my ancestor. He once sacrificed himself to save Jiayin City."

"He indeed succeeded, waited for people to arrive, and resolved the disaster then."

"I truly am not as good as my ancestor, ashamed beneath the name of my forefather."

The two of them fell into silence together, and after a long while, Yu Ziqing spoke.

"Can you tell me what happened then? How did you seal away that Evil?"

A trace of reminiscence flashed in Xu Hang's eyes. After recalling for a long time, he slowly said,

"That Alien Realm came from beyond the heavens, pierced through the world, and fell there.

A large number of Evils surged out from within. I led Jiayin City along with the forces of several nearby small towns to fight against them.

But there were simply too many Evils, and there was an even larger Evil at the back.

I reported to the court, but at that time the court was engaged in battle with Daqian. The war was intense, and they also had to guard against the Southern Sea and Dali.

There was no army to spare to rush aid to Jiayin City.

The courtiers argued incessantly every day, unable to come up with a solution.

We in Jiayin City, and the few small surrounding towns, could only fight on alone.

Then one day, I finally discovered the problem, that the connection between the Alien Realm and this world was not very strong.

I devised a plan, led an attack inside, used myself as bait for that Evil, and it indeed fell for it.

Unfortunately, my strength was limited. Eventually, I could only seal its essence within my body and be fully sealed along with it.

It still wanted to struggle. I told it that I had found the greatest flaw of the Alien Realm.

If it didn't want to be sealed, I would take it with me, and together we would fall into the Void with the Alien Realm.

At that time, both its body and its essence would be lost in the Void, with no hope for life again.

It hesitated, and finally, its essence allowed me to seal it, leaving only its body in that Alien Realm.

It thought that compromising could leave a slim chance, and if not, there would be no chance at all.

Nowadays, after the Evil Dao appeared, it thought the opportunity has come.

There are four Evil Dao practitioners there, one of them Eighth Tier, and in such a place boiling with Evil Qi, you have no chance. Give up, leave.

Dadui is gone already, there's no need for you to continue risking.

Those of us who died for Dadui are already too many. We don't need to continue dying, it's not worth it."

The more Xu Hang spoke, the more disheartened he seemed.

Yu Ziqing didn't say much, he only asked,

"I don't want anyone to die for Dadui either. I'll take all my friends with me and then leave here.

By the way, is there any place here to do Artifact Refining?"

"There is, about twenty or so miles south of the city, there's an Artifact Refining Workshop. Take the County Magistrate Seal of Jiayin City, no one will trouble you."

Yu Ziqing stood up, clasped his hands in farewell.

He did not continue forcing Xu Hang to do anything, nor did he say more.

He left the city and found the Artifact Refining Workshop Xu Hang mentioned. Within it, the flames flickered, but there was only a doorman, no Artifact Refining master present.

Yu Ziqing sealed the entire Artifact Refining Workshop, isolated everything outside, borrowed the artifact furnace, and began to temper things.

He had once punctured the entire meteor during the Meteor Disaster.

Apart from the final small piece of fully tempered material, all the rest were not even equivalent to ore.

He needed to refine that earth, extract usable materials, and try making something out of it.

Originally he hadn't planned on using those things, only wanted to take them back to Jinlan Mountain, use them quietly as Array materials, or just leave them there.

Creating a Magical Treasure or weapon from this thing had drastically different implications.

Just placing it in Jinlan Mountain could allow one to deflect responsibility to Jinlan Mountain, claiming it was Jinlan's Alien power. As long as you didn't get close to Jinlan Mountain, there would be no trouble.

But making it into a Magical Treasure or weapon meant it could be taken elsewhere.

There wasn't a single Qi Refinement cultivator who could disregard such materials.

If recklessly brought out, and someone stirred up a fuss, it could easily become the public enemy of Qi Refinement cultivators.

If Jinlan Mountain was already powerful enough to dominate, Yu Ziqing naturally wouldn't care, whether using such a weapon or not, I can defeat you.

But if the strength was insufficient, yet holding a weapon specifically designed to suppress Qi Refinement cultivators, with potential mass production, then the nature changed.

Originally, Yu Ziqing didn't plan to use it, but now not using it wasn't an option.

Those Evil Dao, one Ninth Tier, three Eighth Tier, and who knows if there were hidden ones not yet revealed.

Under the massive Evil Qi there, those three Eighth Tier even had a Ninth Tier aura.

If conflict arose, and their side was suppressed by the environment, they wouldn't stand a chance, no need to think.

Yet Yu Ziqing knew that even if successfully completing the sealing, they'd afterward still likely have to fight.

He didn't believe those Evil Dao would just let them off after everything was done.

So this Magical Treasure or weapon definitely had to be refined first.

During that meteor incident, after refining and fusing everything together, even someone as strong as King Xiang would be suppressed to the point of being unable to use the Levitation Skill.

If a part was separated, its power would surely drop, but there would still be effects.

The more purely it was refined, the better the effect; the greater the quantity, the better the effect.