?Chapter 928: Volume 6: Spirit Treasures Chapter 925: Imperial Clan of Great Jin Chapter 928: Volume 6: Spirit Treasures Chapter 925: Imperial Clan of Great Jin The Earth Fire Hall, being the most important building of the Artifact Refinement Hall, was not particularly large-spanning only about a hundred zhang-but it was divided into three levels: upper, middle, and lower.


    The upper level was where materials were stored, the middle level was connected to the earth fire for refining those materials and crafting low-grade Spiritual Artifacts, while the lower level had already delved twenty to thirty zhang underground, specifically for utilizing the Essence of Earthly Fire from the earthfire pit to refine high-grade Spiritual Artifacts.


    The secret chamber where Han Li usually refined materials was located on the middle level.


    With Princess Lv Xiu in tow, Han Li walked unhurriedly into this secret chamber.


    The chamber appeared somewhat cluttered, and he began to tidy up on his own.


    “Is this where Brother Han refines objects?” The girl looked around curiously at everything in the cramped chamber, particularly interested in the Giant Cauldron in the middle and the eight gourds that lay scattered around it, as if she were seeing such a place for refining artifacts for the first time.


    “Oh?


    Hasn’t the Princess ever tried refining Magic Artifacts before?” Han Li raised an eyebrow and asked indifferently.


    “Since I was young, I’ve been cultivating techniques with Aunty Yu; where would I find the time to learn the ways of Artifact Refining?


    Normally, I just practice cultivation in the residence,” the palace-clad girl said with a smile, patting the cauldron’s ear lightly.


    “Cultivation in the residence?


    Could it be that the Prince’s Residence is built on a spirit vein location?” Han Li asked casually while sorting through the remnants of materials in the cauldron.


    “Eh!


    Brother Han really doesn’t know my true identity?


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    Don’t tell me you actually believe I’m a Commandery Princess from some Prince’s household in Great Jin?” The girl paused, then suddenly pressed her red lips together and smiled.


    “Being uninformed and out of touch, I am not quite clear about the Princess’s true identity,” Han Li said with a laugh, his interest piqued.


    “Uninformed and out of touch?


    Hee hee, that’s great.


    I don’t have to keep up any Princess pretense then.


    In fact, I’ve never even met the Emperor of Great Jin face-to-face.


    My connection to the Imperial Clan is very slight.


    I’ve always been cultivating in the mountain cave residence with my master and never been to any Prince’s Residence,” the girl said with a playful smile that flashed through her eyes, her entire demeanor suddenly changed from a dignified young lady to a peculiarly spirited girl.


    “Not Imperial Clan?” Han Li’s face showed surprise.


    He was taken aback both by the sudden change in the girl and the unexpected content of her statement.


    “What, surprised you, did it?


    The title of Commandery Princess is indeed real, personally granted by His Majesty himself.


    If it hadn’t been for Aunty Yu insisting that I mustn’t lose face for the Imperial Clan before I left, I would have been too lazy to continue such restrained and constrained behavior.


    Then on the way here, those people got tangled up with me, and I had to talk slowly and tediously all the time, which was really tedious.


    Now that there’s only Brother Han here, I can finally relax and be myself.


    Surely you won’t be so thoughtless as to gossip after going out, right?” The girl sat down on the only chair in the secret chamber, tilted her head and said with a giggle.


    “Cough…


    Whatever makes the Princess comfortable.


    I’ll pretend I didn’t see anything.


    But, your ancestor must be an extraordinary person, right?” Han Li coughed a few times, completely at a loss for words.


    “Have you heard of the Great Jin’s four renowned Loose Cultivators?


    My grandfather is one of them,” the girl said without any intent to conceal, shaking her head and speaking as if quite proud of it.


    “The four renowned Loose Cultivators?


    Even if I’m uninformed and out of touch, how could I not have heard of them?


    It turns out the Princess is a descendant of a great personage; I am truly negligent.


    This status is certainly no less distinguished than that of your identity as a Princess.


    It seems you are bound to have a limitless future,” Han Li said, his expression changing slightly as he truly began to feel amazed.


    These four renowned Loose Cultivators-he had heard about them from Cao Mengrong.


    Among them were cultivators at the late and mid Nascent Soul Stage, each with incredible Divine Skills, far beyond what ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators could compare to.


    “Hmm!


    Is that so?


    Almost everyone who knows of my grandfather behaves the same way toward me; it must be true then!” The girl accepted Han Li’s compliment without any modesty.


    Han Li touched his nose, feeling a headache coming on.


    Without further attention to the young girl, he formed several hand seals, and struck the Giant Cauldron with a few spell incantations.


    Instantly, the cauldron began to buzz and hum, slowly floating up amidst a swirling red glow.


    The girl made no attempt to hide her curiosity, staring with her ebony eyes wide open, unblinking as she watched Han Li’s movements.


    “Bring out the materials,” Han Li said, turning to the girl after the Giant Cauldron was fully activated.


    “Here you go!


    But let me be clear, what I said outside doesn’t count, okay?


    That was just polite talk in front of others.


    If you really mess up my hard-won Blood Silk Silver, you have to compensate me,” the girl said with a twinkle in her eye and a light chuckle.


    Then she flipped her hand, pulling out a fist-sized item from her storage pouch and tossed it over.


    It looked like an ordinary silver ore, yet it was interwoven with countless fine threads resembling blood stains.


    Looking at the ore in his hand and hearing the girl’s teasing words, Han Li could only roll his eyes internally.


    Such a rare material, even Foundation Establishment cultivators, let alone Qi Condensation disciples, would be hard-pressed to obtain a piece.


    If he were truly a Qi Condensation cultivator, being able to afford compensation would be quite the surprise.


    Without saying much more, Han Li threw the material into the cauldron along with several other auxiliary ingredients, and then he sat down cross-legged on the ground.


    He slapped a Daoist paper talisman onto his body, and a light blue protective barrier emerged, while incantations began to chant from his mouth.


    As a result, the eight gourd-shaped Magic Artifacts on the ground burst into bright light, and after a flash of red from the mouth of the gourds, eight crimson flame pillars shot out, precisely targeting the lower half of the Giant Cauldron.


    And suddenly, the entire secret chamber was filled with an overwhelming, stifling heat.


    …


    While Han Li was busy refining the Blood Silk Silver, in a quiet and secluded attic at the peak of a mountain, an icy old Daoist nun and a solemn middle-aged beautiful woman were discussing something important.


    “The time is almost upon us.


    For this plan, our Imperial Clan has prepared for over four hundred years.


    Through the painstaking efforts of seven or eight generations of emperors, we managed to keep it secret without a whisper of it leaked.


    But if we fail and do not obtain those two treasures, I’m afraid the entire royal family will immediately encounter a great disaster.


    Do not be deceived by the silent accumulation of strength by our Ye Clan in recent years; if we truly clash with forces like the Daoist and Buddhist sects, we probably won’t stand a chance.


    And those Decadent Confucians, despite their talk of defending imperial power, will be the first to strike at us if their interests are compromised.


    I always feel that our Ye Clan is playing with fire,” the Daoist nun said gravely.


    “My aunt’s words, how could we not be aware?


    But this is also the best chance for our Ye Clan to completely extricate ourselves from the influence of other powers.


    Do not forget how our Seventh Uncle perished.


    Wasn’t it because the royal family’s power grew slightly and produced a few more Nascent Soul cultivators, which led the major forces to secretly join hands and strike at our uncles?


    Afterwards, they even brushed it off with an excuse.


    If we don’t break free from this predicament, even though our Imperial Ye Family is known as the foremost noble family in the realm of immortal cultivators, in reality, we’re just a pawn subject to compromise by the major forces.


    If the rumors are true and we really obtain those two Spiritual Treasures, and with the strength that our Ye Clan has painstakingly cultivated over the years, we can deter other powers from easily making moves against the Ye Clan again.


    It’s a risk worth taking,” the beautiful woman sighed lightly, speaking slowly.


    “Hmph!


    Even though the legends speak of the tremendous and unimaginable power of the spirit treasures, I find it hard to believe that just two treasures can turn the tide and allow us to stand on equal footing with the major powers.


    I fear we may be overreaching and inadvertently provoke the covetousness of other forces, bringing about the calamity of ‘possessing a treasure without peace.’ Do not forget, even with the spirit treasures, behind those forces exist beings of such high caliber.


    Although it is unclear how many there are, just one stepping out would be enough to annihilate our Ye Clan,” the Daoist nun’s eyes flashed with a cold light, speaking with great dread.


    “The presence of Deity Transformation stage beings in our world is truly invincible.


    Even if our Third Uncle holds a spirit treasure, against such old eccentrics, he would probably only be barely able to protect himself.


    But this matter does not require too much of my aunt’s concern.


    Our Ye Clan began investigating the existence and weaknesses of these old eccentrics as early as a hundred years ago.


    After extensive analysis, we estimate that even if the lifespans of these old eccentrics are indeed a thousand years longer than those of the Nascent Soul cultivators, as conjectured, there haven’t been many cultivators in Great Jin who advanced to the Deity Transformation stage or could have possibly advanced in the past two thousand years.


    Additionally, a small portion of them have ascended to the next world.


    Those who remain in the human world number at most two or three.


    Moreover, those who linger in the human world have paid a heavy price.


    Not only can they not engage in combat and deploy their full cultivation, but even if they do, they try to keep their power at the late Nascent Soul level.


    Although we are not sure of the exact reasons, this makes these old eccentrics not as invincible as the rumors suggest.


    Moreover, it’s very likely that these old eccentrics would not interfere with the rise and fall of any sects or forces,” the middle-aged beautiful woman frowned slightly before speaking earnestly.


    “How could you possibly know these things?


    Don’t tell me you’re basing this all on your speculations or on hearsay.


    Over the years, countless cultivators have tried to uncover the secrets and information about the Deity Transformation cultivators who remained in the human world, but all to no avail.


    You, in just over a hundred years, claim to have figured it all out with such confidence.


    Do you really think I’m getting senile, easily fooled?


    What else have you not mentioned?” the old Daoist nun’s face suddenly turned chillingly cold, not pleased at all.


    “But we indeed have no intention of deceiving my aunt.


    These messages were not discovered by our own Ye family members, but obtained from an elder whom our family took in a few years ago.


    We have cross-referenced it with other clues we’ve obtained, and it all matches.


    So when we say our Ye family discovered it, that’s not entirely wrong,” seeing her aunt’s anger, the beautiful woman hurried to explain.