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"This is up to you, I won't force you." Ye Chen shook his head.

Gu Yan pondered for a long time, and then laughed bitterly: "My sleeves are already empty, if I still have anything, I am afraid that I will have to be loyal. Although I am still unable to help you, I hope that you can accept me, I, Gu Yan, swear to the heavens!"

"Forget it, I believe you!" Before Gu Yan could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Ye Chen, "Looks like you've stayed here for a long time. On account of your sincerity, I'll let you out."

"Thank you, thank you!" Gu Yan was extremely excited, his voice trembling. He had already been alone in the bone blade for a few thousand years, so he had had enough.

After thinking for a long time, Ye Chen still chose the Golden Crow Fire Crystal in the end. This was already all he had left, and of course, if he could use this bit of Golden Crow Fire Crystal to exchange for a Luoling Stage Ranker, Ye Chen would still be very willing.

The next thing Ye Chen wanted to do was to refine a special item, the item must be able to contain a living being's soul like a bone blade.

Normally, it wouldn't take much effort for Ye Chen to refine items below the level of Profound Artifact, but it wouldn't be that simple if he wanted Gu Yan to survive. He had to use some of the Cultivation Realm's methods — — Formation Techniques.

Just as Ye Chen was refining with all his might, something major happened in the Bai Clan of Tianlan City. In the middle of the hall laid a bloodied corpse, covered with a white cloth.

He was the hall master of the Tianlan Prefecture, Bai Tianming. Bai Tianming slowly bent his body over, and with one hand, he lifted the corpse cloth with a trembling. When he saw the corpse's face clearly, his body involuntarily fell to the ground.

"Who is it?" Bai Tianming's body erupted with a terrifying killing intent, a burst of immense aura rushed out in all directions, causing everyone in the hall to tremble.

"Master, this has something to do with someone called Chen Ye." Suddenly, a black-robed man walked out. It was obvious that he had already investigated the situation between Drunken Fragrance Inn and the underground black market very clearly.

"Where is he?" Bai Tianming's killing intent surged, he only had this one son, and now the corpse of his son was lying at his feet, how could he not be angry.

"The underlings have long heard about it." The black-robed man bowed.

In the blink of an eye, four hours had passed, yet Ye Chen had been extremely cautious with his artifact forging this time. Floating in front of him was a humanoid figure of about 1.7 meters, which was a humanoid shape artifact that Ye Chen had refined using all his effort.

"Gather!"

Ye Chen formed a seal with his hands and released a dense magical technique. This was a barrier unique to the cultivation world. The humanoid object's chest emitted a bright light, which then formed a multicolored vortex that frantically sucked in the surrounding spiritual energy.

Ye Chen quickly took out a few Profound Crystal s, and after a while, countless of Profound Crystal s turned into ash, and at the same time, the humanoid artifact seemed to come to life as it rolled its eyes, looking exactly the same as a human body.

"Although it is only considered a top-grade Profound Artifact, it contains nine defensive arrays and eight offensive formations. Its strongest attack should be much stronger than normal Void Spirit Stage, and with the addition of the Luoling Stage Expert's soul, it should be called a humanoid weapon." Ye Chen looked at the masterpiece he refined with satisfaction, and started to imagine in his heart.

According to the rank, this humanoid weapon could definitely be compared to normal weapons. Of course, Ye Chen also kept a narrow eye, and placed nine Spirit Essences on the humanoid weapon, as long as he used the power of wind and lightning to seal the nine Spirit Essences, the humanoid weapon would not be able to move.

Ye Chen then placed the bone blade on the human-shaped object's chest, and a cold wind blew in the room. A ray of blood red light shot out from the bone blade and quickly fused into the human-shaped object, the Spirit Qi around it swarmed and the humanoid object fluctuated. Only after a long while did the room calm down, and a tall and sturdy man appeared.

"Gu Yan greets Master. Thank you for your grace." He was extremely shocked in his heart. As a Luoling Stage expert, he had seen many refining geniuses, but he had never seen anyone who could refine humanoid objects like Ye Chen. The most important thing was that it could fit a person's soul.

"Are you satisfied with this body?" Ye Chen laughed faintly, he was satisfied with Gu Yan's attitude, the Xiao Feng stared at Gu Yan in alert, then looked at Ye Chen weirdly, as though it did not understand why there was such a person here.

"Of course I'm satisfied." Gu Yan's voice was no longer hoarse and she shook her arms. A powerful energy fluctuation spread out and she laughed loudly: "Master, if I use all my strength in defense, I should be able to easily defend against the King of Void Spirit Stage!"

"King?" Ye Chen revealed a puzzled look, could it be that the division of Void Spirit Stage was different from the others?

"Master hasn't reached that level yet, so it's normal for me to not know." Gu Yan still found it hard to suppress the excitement in his heart as he laughed: "I think master's heavenly passage must have already started to solidify. Once it is completely solidified, the heavenly passage will transform into a potential spirit pearl, and comprehending the profound mystery will allow one to break through the Profound Spirit Stage. This is also the reason why many Spirit Insight Stage cultivators start to comprehend the profound mysteries below, and the lower the cultivation that comprehends the profound mysteries, the larger the heavenly passage will be, and the greater the potential spirit pearl will be."

"What's the difference between this and Void Spirit Stage?" Ye Chen did not understand.

Gu Yan paused for a moment before explaining, "The Profound Spirit Stage comprehends profound mysteries while simultaneously continuously increasing the potential of the spirit pearl. When the potential spirit pearl reaches the peak, the spirit pearl will begin to slowly dissipate.

Ye Chen revealed a look of sudden enlightenment, if he were to release the Heavenly Passage that was in his body, it would be a full two zhang, the only problem was he did not know how big it would be when he condenses the Potential Spirit Orb.

Seeing Ye Chen's puzzled expression, Gu Yan continued: "The ordinary Void Spirit Stage is only stronger than the average peak Profound Spirit Stage. Ninety-nine out of a hundred cultivators all possess the normal Void Spirit Stage, and only the remaining one will have the possibility to become the king of the Void Spirit Stage."

"The King of Void Spirit Stage?" Ye Chen squinted, as he too was filled with yearning for his own future.

"Surround the inn, and only enter and leave the inn. Violators will be executed without mercy!"

Suddenly, a shout came from outside the door, followed by a flurry of footsteps, filled with killing intent, Ye Chen's expression became gloomy, he walked to the door and looked through the crack in the door, only to see a large group of black clothed men surrounding the inn.

"Qingfeng Hall?" Ye Chen's expression tensed up, he instantly guessed what had happened. He had let Hall Master Qing Feng's son, Bai Shaofeng, pee his pants in front of a lot of people, and this caused Bai Tianming's face to darken. But even if it was only a private matter, how could Bai Tianming easily use the powers of the Pure Wind Hall?

"Chen Ye, get the hell out here." An angry shout sounded out, Bai Tianming's gaze coldly swept across the entire room. Ye Chen felt a strong Power of The Soul passing through his body, and his heart told himself that it was not good.

Before he could even react, a Sharp Light slashed towards the room he was in. The house instantly exploded, and dust flew everywhere.