Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

Pacifying Double-Yolked Egg was quite troublesome, especially when the Double-Yolked Egg was all excited.

The two yolks had completely opposite personalities. The previous yolk was calm and collected, speaking in a coherent manner.

This yolk was suited for announcing lottery results to the dead.

Luckily, the two yolks shared memories, so many things didn't need repeated explanations.

Wei Dalu watched as the yolk was already about to crown itself emperor in this room, and appoint all its dear subjects as crown princes, finally feeling relieved.

This was the familiar old friend, the pretentious and neurotic yolk.

He just saw the yolk in a certain state and thought that maybe the yolk was a bit reserved due to the crowd.

Zhang Ze and others examined why the yolk had two states and found that they seemed related to the sun.

Even though the concept of time underground was infinitely diluted, at this moment, the sun had just risen over the Northern Territory.

Wei Dalu always visited the yolk during the daytime.

As for whether the yolk's personality transformation was strictly based on time or aligned with the sun, that remained to be discussed.

No one knew whether the yolk needed to adjust the time difference if it went to the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion.

Zhang Ze was determined to invite the yolk to the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion; such talents ought to be part of ambitious young people there.

However, they first needed to finish the previous discussion.

"Could we pause for a moment and continue the previous topic?" Zhang Ze pointed at the half-finished scroll in the yolk's hand.

"Hmm, this is your request? Alright, the great yolk shall fulfill your wish." After the yolk circled around Zhang Ze two and a half times, it finally stopped.

"Shang Ding, he is my master."

The yolk carefully stored the scroll away, then called a metal board from the shelf and handed it to Zhang Ze.

"The clever yolk imprinted the contents of the scroll here, take a look, there are my annotations too."

Zhang Ze took the metal board, channeled Spiritual Qi into it, and rows of round text appeared before him.

They were simple explanations of this mysterious Artifact Refining Technique, along with some chronicles of Shang Ding's life.

This cultivator named Shang Ding was a traitor from Dongqi, who defected around The 78th Year of Tianwu in Dongqi.

The reasons for and details of his defection weren't mentioned, just two random notes.

The first note.

"Minister Shang Ding is honest and loyal."

The second note was.

"Emperor and Crown Prince, full of nonsense and trivial matters."

Zhang Ze reminisced that according to records obtained by grave-digging and archaeology from the Taoists of Dragon Tiger Mountain, there was only one usurpation event in Dongqi's history.

The Fourteenth Prince, or rather that Prince, assassinated Emperor Tianwu with hardly a hundred years on the throne, but before his seat got warm, he was beheaded by King Jing who had returned from the Western Barbarian border.

It seems this Shang Ding was implicated due to this event, likely included in someone's line of nine generations.

Before being connected in a "candy crush" style game, Shang Ding fled the Imperial Capital ahead of time.

And took many things along, some materials, arrays, and those empty Stone Pills.

According to records, these things weren't of much importance at the time, stacked haphazardly in the lowest level Tang-grade warehouse of the Observatory.

Shang Ding merely scavenged things like a rabbit-hunting farmer and took everything at once in a hurry while fleeing.

He was pursued by Dongqi's Brocade Dragon Guard, escaping to the Northern Territory Great Wall, using Magical Treasure to feign death and accidentally getting washed away by the Dark River into this Earth Vein world.

Escape Technique was ineffective here, unsure of outside conditions, Shang Ding settled down.

Unable to cultivate with an abundance of mineral resources, Shang Ding unwillingly resorted to researching his old profession to pass time.

However, human capability is limited, Shang Ding didn't complete this nameless Artifact Refining technique he created alone.

Instead, he started to tinker with the set of arrays and those stone balls he took whimsically.

"Then Master died, what happened later isn't documented in the notes."

The yolk finished and pointed at the broken array saying, "No one knows who harmed him."

"I can't repair this array either, and staying here is dull, so I just study the artifact refining technique left by Master."

"One study led to now."

Zhang Ze looked at the yolk in its daylight mode, unsure whether to reveal the truth.

He felt the array might have been used to summon Stone Pill, Shang Ding summoned the yolk, causing the array to malfunction and explode, killing himself.

Zhang Ze didn't dwell on this issue, he continued asking, "Have you accomplished the research then, moreover you could have long left this place, correct?"

"The great yolk is humble, thus I can only be honest.

No.

These Magical Artifacts can only fully unleash their power when I use them." The yolk spun around again.

"Then what about your stepfather's hand?" Bai Tao asked.

Responding to the mention, the yolk directly exerted Spiritual Qi to take Wei Dalu's Iron Hand over.

This hand only served as a weapon and scratcher currently with Wei Dalu, but displayed more functions.

Wei Dalu looked at his dry goddaughter, "I indeed couldn't understand, I had to adapt for ages to make it comply like a normal arm, the yolk's mind works differently from ours."

The yolk returned the Iron Hand to Wei Dalu.

Then opened the original scroll and carefully turned it to the last page.

There was a phrase not noted on the metal board.

"Artifact refining technique, myriad transformations form the Righteous Path"

"That's my Master's dream, so I asked Wei Dalu to help me find brothers, I feel if several yolks unite, you might solve the issue of not being able to use these Magical Artifacts."

"Solve this obstacle, and the great yolk can then emerge to become a First Generation Grandmaster, letting everyone know the name Shang Ding!"

This was a coincidence-filled inheritance lasting tens of thousands of years.

The path of Artifact Refining post-primordial was passed down and evolved over countless generations, today's Artifact Refining techniques across Four Continents are inherited from Dongqi.

Shang Ding charted a unique course, though never reached the opposite shore, yet the yolk from primordial times inherited his mantle.

The yolk stood on the shoulders of predecessors, using its unique thinking to pave a new path for the Path of Artifact Refining.

A path between traditional Artifact Refining technique and Thousand Mechanism Technique.

Zhang Ze watched the yolk flying around, considering introducing Lily to it.

Took out the small walnut, the signal was poor here, but could still be maintained somewhat.

"Zhang Ze: Did you find Tang?"

"Lily: Tang came back on his own, what's up, boss, is there anything else?"

"Zhang Ze: I'm introducing someone to you, perhaps your brains could hit it off."

"Lily: Who is it? Male or female?"

"Zhang Ze: It's not a person, it's a double-yolked egg."

After speaking, Zhang Ze handed the small walnut to the yolk, the yolk was curious but fiddled with it only to return it to Zhang Ze.

"I can't figure out this thing of yours."

Just as Zhang Ze couldn't utilize the yolk's Magical Artifact well, the yolk too couldn't grasp this small walnut.

Zhang Ze pondered and took out his three-fold, "Never mind, let's video chat."

Soon, the historic first meeting between Lily and the yolk commenced.

"Hello, I am the great yolk."

"Hello, hello, I am the great Lily."

...

Two peculiar minds clicked instantly, the egg and person quickly fell for each other's unfathomable thinking.

Lily thought the yolk's thinking was fantastic, far more practical than brains with its two yolks.

While the yolk too was eager to visit the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion and see the purported Thousand Mechanism Rune Array.

Coaxing the yolk to the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion was smoothly resolved, Zhang Ze arrived to the array which likely summoned Stone Pill, continuing his research.

Though incomprehensible, time was organized.

Dongqi studied Stone Pill after Shang Ding fled, first Big Head, then Xiaoxuan, until Dongqi's demise.

Unsure if Dongqi took the Stone Man route relates to that array Shang Ding stole.

"Suppose after repairing this, it could materialize a group of yolks..."

"Forget it, ask the yolk later, then package and move everything to the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion."

"Yolk how do we leave?" Zhang Ze asked.

"Wait, I need to tidy up things first." While chatting with Lily, the yolk began packing up the room it had lived in for countless years.