Chapter 85

Dark, dense clouds pressed against the sky, obscuring the recent crimson expanse, heavy as if about to fall, creating a suffocating silence over the entire world. The indifferent wind fiercely swept through, and the delicate flowers and grass had already trembled and bowed to the ground. It was truly a sign of an impending storm!

Fine rain drizzled down, like tears of long-suppressed longing, evoking your lost melancholy and the lingering good nights.

Inside the humble cave, it formed a stark contrast to the outside world.

Golden light shone brilliantly.

In the Eight Trigram Immortal Furnace, Qingming Stone, thousand-year-old copper essence, Jade Heart, and Black Iron Ingots were thrown in without restraint, continuously added by Yang Qifeng.

What was being refined now were armor, weapons, and military banners.

The refinement of the black knife had already been completed, sweeping away all other magical artifacts, leaving only a set of thirty-six magical needles.

The black knife’s Earthly Prohibition had a significant enhancement, increasing from over twenty to forty Earthly Prohibitions, adding more than ten Earthly Prohibitions, doubling its power.

However, it still fell short of Yang Qifeng’s expectations for the black knife to reach the upper-grade magical artifact level, which required forty-eight Earthly Prohibitions, the dividing line between mid-grade and upper-grade magical artifacts.

The black knife was limited by the inherent insufficiency of its materials, and the growth of its Earthly Prohibitions was extremely slow. If not for the fact that the black knife was the most convenient for him to use, refined according to the Great Sun Knife Technique, making it the most suitable weapon, Yang Qifeng would not have considered using the black knife as the main body and integrating other magical artifacts into it.

Yang Qifeng was now very busy. After successfully refining the black knife and doubling its power, he did not take a moment’s rest and immediately continued his work.

This time, he was refining armor and weapons for the demon soldiers. After years of training, the three hundred demon soldiers had now formed an army.

The demon soldiers generally had reached the first realm of the Condensation stage in the Three Realms of the Dao.

These demon soldiers all had good innate qualities, none of them were inferior beings transformed by the demon-summoning technique, each with their own destiny.

Reaching the Three Realms of the Dao was not difficult for them; what had always constrained them was not the spiritual energy but the cultivation techniques.

The Daze Mountain was rich in spiritual energy, not the best place, but not bad either, being a third-grade divine mountain. The demons here had much better conditions for cultivation than in desolate mountains and wild valleys.

Since Yang Qifeng passed down the cultivation techniques, the three hundred demons’ cultivation progressed rapidly, and they had few complaints about his strict training.

In an era where cultivation techniques were not to be easily imparted, a single cultivation technique could trigger a bloodbath.

The value of cultivation techniques made the demons feel deep gratitude towards Yang Qifeng.

Such rigorous training, what was it? If they had to choose again, they would still do the same.

The rain continued, the raindrops densely striking the tranquil Nine Mountain Lake, like tears from the heavens, the teardrops forming rain threads that slowly danced in the cold, slanted wind.

The refinement of standardized equipment was a tedious process. Refining armor and weapons for the demon soldiers was not difficult, but it was rather complicated.

Whether demon soldiers or heavenly soldiers, their strength was not very high, generally only reaching the Three Realms of the Dao. Their main cultivation level was not high, but the key was their equipment, which, when combined with battle formations, could produce a terrifying power.

Especially the heavenly soldiers, who were most proficient in the Heavenly Net Formation. With ten thousand heavenly soldiers deployed, whether you were an Earth Immortal or a Heavenly Immortal, you would be captured. Since the establishment of the Heavenly Court, countless demons, gods, and devils have been hunted and killed over the years.

It could be said that the demon soldiers trained by Yang Qifeng, in terms of strength, were only two realms behind ordinary heavenly soldiers, both belonging to the Three Realms of the Dao, but one was just entering the Condensation stage, while the other was at the Transformation stage.

The difference in strength was not significant, but the difference in equipment was vast.

None of the equipment refined by Yang Qifeng was magical artifacts; the three hundred sets of armor and weapons were all at the quasi-magical artifact level, just one step away from being magical artifacts.

The astonishing effect was due to the materials and the Three Pure Fires.

A large amount of materials was spent, and the materials Yang Qifeng had plundered were almost all used up, resulting in three hundred complete sets of weapons and armor.

There was no choice; Yang Qifeng’s alchemy skills were not good, so he had to seek methods in materials and fire, using materials to forcefully create quasi-magical artifacts at great cost.

The three hundred demon soldiers, supported by the Daze Mountain, were already at their limit. Yang Qifeng’s previous idea was too naive. Special demon soldiers like the Fire Crow Soldiers, with his current capabilities, could not be supported.

The resources required for the Fire Crow Soldiers’ array flags and the incubation of Fire Crows were astronomical. Refining the equipment for the Fire Crow Soldiers was beyond Yang Qifeng’s capabilities.

This made Yang Qifeng extremely wary of the Heavenly Court. Just thinking about the three hundred demon soldiers, which had cost him a great deal of effort and resources, and the Heavenly Court, which had millions of heavenly soldiers, often deploying ten thousand at a time, was enough to make anyone wary.

No wonder everyone was deeply wary of the Heavenly Court.

As the greatest power in the mythological world, the Heavenly Court extended from the Thirty-Three Heavens to the Eighteen Layers of the Underworld.

The deities of mountains, rivers, land, stoves, and doors were as numerous as the hairs on a cow.

Yang Qifeng felt immense sympathy for the monkey, daring to rebel against the heavens, truly courting death.

The Heavenly Court’s greatest strength was not in its martial power but in the positions it controlled.

These positions, in other words, were the laws of heaven and earth.

With the cooperation of the deities and the imperial edict of the Jade Emperor, no matter how strong you were, could you surpass the laws of heaven and earth?

For those novels that boasted about killing the Jade Emperor, that was purely fictional.

Ordinary deities, like the Daze Mountain’s land deity, would have some感应 if you mentioned them in the Daze Mountain. If not for the assistance of the Dry Blue Demon God, who severed the connection, how could Yang Qifeng dare to discuss such matters?

Let alone the Jade Emperor, the supreme ruler of heaven and earth, who Yang Qifeng usually referred to as a lowly servant to avoid any感应.

A huge rumbling sound echoed, the earth shook, and Yang Qifeng, who had just completed the refinement of the array flag, stumbled. His eyes inexplicably turned toward the Daze Mountain, a sharp light flashing and then disappearing.

That person had already begun to refine the Mountain God Seal, and the decisive battle was about to begin.

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