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A black mist enveloped Xie Qichao's spirit body, causing it to tremble, and it quickly begged for forgiveness, "I'll say, I'll say everything …" He then spoke out the method to open it.

After Han Yan obtained the technique, he activated a technique on the copper mirror. A ray of light shone from the copper mirror, and a ray of yellow light floated on the mirror. He cast a few more spells, and the flames on it turned from red to red. After the red light faded, Han Yan was unable to execute many techniques, and the color remained the same.

Han Yan frowned and asked Xie Qichao: "Why can't the temperature of the flame increase?"

Xie Qichao seemed to have resigned himself to fate, and only hoped that after the situation was completely explained, Han Yan would let him go, thus he said: "Because your cultivation is not strong enough, and you cannot release even stronger flames. "Unless …" He saw Han Yan's expression darken and quickly said, "Unless you use your lifeblood essence to pay tribute to the copper mirror, you can forcibly raise the temperature of the flames by one level."

Han Yan nodded, with a flip of the copper mirror, the mirror turned to point at Xie Qichao.

Xie Qichao's face sank as he said in a frightened voice, "You … What are you doing? "

A trace of killing intent flashed across Han Yan's eyes. With a thought, the yellow flame turned into a line of fire and flew in front of Xie Qichao. Xie Qichao's spirit energy was in Han Yan's hands, and only half of his body was exposed outside, so he couldn't escape at all. As he struggled, he angrily roared, "Han Yan, you're not keeping your promise …" The line of fire landed on his spirit body, and with a pa sound, the spirit body collapsed, turning into countless specks of light and disappearing into the air.

Han Yan coldly looked at Xie Qichao, who had turned into countless specks of light, and felt no guilt in his heart. He said in a low voice: "If I had kept my promise, I would probably have died a long time ago." After he put away the copper mirror and the green small sword, his figure flashed and he arrived in front of the flame. The flame was still floating in the air, and a gentle breeze was blowing.

Han Yan looked at it for a moment, then extended his wrist forward, condensing a big hand made of spirit energy, and grabbed at the flame. As soon as his hand touched the flame, it disappeared. Han Yan's brows tightly knitted, and his divine sense spread out. He arrived in front of the flames, and his divine sense once again scattered everywhere. After hesitating for a moment, Han Yan took out the Heavenly Dao Imperial Jade Seal.

This action, was like a moth flying into a flame, and Han Yan forcefully imprinted his consciousness inside the flame. He didn't believe that with the continuous replenishment of his spiritual power, he would be unable to subdue this strange flame. Han Yan's idea was not bad, but he had truly underestimated the temperature contained within the flames. Even after half an incense's time, he still did not succeed.

Han Yan retracted his exhausted consciousness, he gasped for breath and thought about the solution. One thought after another appeared in his mind, all denied by him. He was truly unwilling to give up on the fire. Just as he was about to forcefully subdue the flames like he did with the talisman treasure Sun Yu, an idea suddenly flashed through his mind and he hurriedly took out the bronze mirror from the storage bag.

With a flash of yellow light, the copper mirror appeared in Han Yan's hand. Han Yan used a technique on the copper mirror, aimed straight at the flames. The flame was still floating in the air, not moving at all. Han Yan threw the bronze mirror in his hand at the flame, and the bronze mirror flew past in a trajectory in the air and landed beside the flame. When the mirror came into contact with the flames, the entire copper mirror shook violently. Then, with a flash of white light, the flames disappeared and reappeared within the mirror.

At the same time, the copper mirror shook even more violently. The divine sense that Han Yan was controlling was weakening quickly, and just as it was about to disappear, it ended its connection with the copper mirror.

Han Yan's heart thumped once, as an even larger consciousness was released, landing on the mirror.

Han Yan constantly used up his spirit sense and released it. A tug of war began.

After an incense worth of time, the copper mirror finally calmed down. Han Yan waved his hand and the copper mirror flew into his hands. Han Yan looked carefully, and when he saw that there was no flame inside the mirror, he was a little disappointed. Just as he was about to study it more carefully, he was surprised to find that out of the nine golden crows on the copper mirror, one of their eyes lit up and turned white.

Seeing this, Han Yan was overjoyed, and immediately looked towards the other eight Golden Crows. The eyes of these eight golden crows were all the same. All of them were black, and only the top one had turned white. A bold assumption appeared in Han Yan's mind. That flame just now, had possibly satisfied some of the copper mirror's requirements, and then stored in the mirror's body, lighting up a Golden Crow's eye. It hesitated, but the flame was white, so the Golden Crow's eyes were white.

Han Yan didn't know if his guess was right, but he knew that this copper mirror was a treasure. When Xie Qichao recounted the incantation for activating the copper mirror, he also recounted the origin of the copper mirror. According to him, his ancestor had inadvertently acquired the copper mirror from a mountain range. When he acquired the mirror, aside from a manual recording the copper mirror's activation, he didn't say a single word about the copper mirror. Therefore, he wasn't sure whether or not the copper mirror contained any powerful divine abilities.

Divine abilities were powerful techniques. Regardless of whether it was cultivators who cultivated their own techniques or the techniques hidden in magic treasures, as long as one had extremely powerful abilities, they were all turned into sacred arts by people with Taoism. Of course, while divine abilities were very hard to learn, refining them inside magic treasures was much easier. It only took a bit more spiritual energy to use them.

Seeing those eyes light up, Han Yan's blood boiled. If he could completely light up the eyes of the nine golden crows, wouldn't he be able to activate the divine ability of the golden crow? Han Yan thought about it and then activated a technique on the copper mirror, on the mirror surface, two rays of light appeared, one was yellow and the other was white. The yellow light did not even reach the center, but the white light was right above the mirror, similar to the location of the Golden Crow.

Seeing the white light appear, Han Yan knew that his thought was right. He activated a technique on his white light and a ripple appeared on the surface of the mirror. Han Yan hesitated for a moment, then activated a technique on the yellow light. With a flash, the white light flew into the mirror, and the yellow flame floated above the mirror.

With a thought, Han Yan directed the copper mirror, under the control of his divine sense, at a large tree that stood not too far away from him. Yellow flames flashed as it turned into a line of fire, flying straight towards the tree. The next moment, there was a loud bang. The tree was split in half. The other half hadn't even landed on the ground when it was set ablaze. In the blink of an eye, the entire tree was burnt to ashes.

Han Yan's eyes flashed with an excited light as he put away the copper mirror. After that, Han Yan cleaned up the mountain valley quickly, cleaning up some traces of the battle before taking out his magic tool and flying towards the Profound Immortal Sect. When he arrived at the sect, he secretly heaved a sigh of relief as he did not encounter any questions from disciples.

Profound Immortal Sect was different from Tianming Sect. Although there were disciples hiding and protecting the surroundings, there weren't many. Unlike the Tianming Sect, it was everywhere. Of course, this was also related to the rules of the two branches. The Profound Immortal Sect may be extremely wealthy, and have very few restrictions on disciples. Other than the orders from the sect, which one must unconditionally obey, there were no restrictions on the location of cultivation. It was not like the Tianming Sect, where the cultivation and spiritual root were distributed according to the location of the cave.

After Han Yan returned to his cave abode, he summoned out the green small sword and started casting techniques on it. Every time he performed a technique, the small sword would release a green light. After continuously executing over a hundred techniques, Han Yan's spirit energy was still exhausted. He took out the Heavenly Dao Imperial Jade Seal, and continued to draw techniques while absorbing spirit energy.

A cultivator's magic treasure had two types of refining methods. One was to refine it through sacrifice, and the other through blood refinement.

After obtaining the magic treasure, if he didn't have a magic technique to activate it, although he could control it, he would only be able to unleash less than a layer of power. After the refinement, the power would be different depending on the degree of refinement. If the magic tool was completely refined, it would be easy to use. Of course, magic treasures weren't refined once. As a cultivator's cultivation level rises, they must be refined once more, otherwise not only would they not be able to withstand even more powerful spiritual energy, but if the magic treasure was too weak, it might even collapse.

Blood refinement, as the name implies, was the most commonly used method used by cultivators above the golden core stage to refine magic treasures using their lifeblood essence. The refining speed of a blood refining treasure was very fast and the amount of spiritual energy it consumed was at most a few days. At the very least, it would take half a day to succeed. After he succeeded, his cultivation would increase and he wouldn't need to refine it. Of course, there was a drawback to blood-refined magical equipment, and that was uniqueness. A cultivator could only have one blood-refined magical equipment and become a Intrinsic Magic Weapon. When the Intrinsic Magic Weapon was heavily injured, the owner of the treasure would also be affected. Different degrees of injury, different kinds of impact, the light ones would be heavily injured, and the heavy ones would be the drop of cultivation.

Of course, there would always be gains if there were any losses.

It could allow the mind to communicate with one another, and share both honor and disgrace. As long as he thought about it, he would be able to attack according to his own plan, and his attack power would be far greater than that of the refined magic treasure. When a cultivator's cultivation level increases, the power of their blood-refined magic treasure would also increase. As long as the magic treasure's materials could keep up with the limits of the spiritual energy, their magic treasure would continue to grow. However, if the material of the magic treasure was too poor, then forcibly channeling spiritual energy into it to attack would cause it to fail as well. If that was the case, he could only find a good material to continue refining and further raise the quality of the magical equipment.

Although blood refinement and refining were different, they both had the same goal: they could use magic treasures more easily.1

Although this green small sword was not a treasure, it still possessed a trace of a soul and could be refined through blood. However, it was a pseudo-magical equipment after all, so its refining process was extremely difficult. Luckily, Han Yan had his Heavenly Dao Imperial Jade Seal and could continue refining it. If it was an ordinary cultivator like Han Yan, they would not be as refined as him for the past three to five years.

Refining it wasn't difficult, but the key point was that he needed a lot of time to use up his spiritual energy to recover. How many cultivators would waste their time here? As a result, many cultivators chose blood refinement. If it was a blood-refined treasure, it had to have the cultivation of the golden core stage. Han Yan could be said to have gotten a huge advantage in obtaining the green small sword. If the cultivator who previously bought him this small sword knew that this was a pseudo-magical equipment, he would probably vomit blood from anger and ask Han Yan for more money.

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