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[Hearing Old Zhang say this, your eyes lit up.]

[”That’s great!”]

[”Huh?”]

[”No, I mean, your master’s star ark—it can cross between stars, right?”]

[”Probably...” ]

[”Have you seen it? Is it still around?”]

[”It should still be there. My master hid it pretty well, but it’s broken.”]

It didn’t matter whether it was broken or not; you had some confidence in your artifact forging skills.

The key was that this was a chance to leave this damn third-class star!

Although Old Zhang didn’t have much cultivation, he generally knew the Real Realm’s cultivation system.The Real Realm’s cultivation levels were divided into: Postnatal Martial Artist, Innate Martial Artist, Qi Transformation Realm, Core Formation Realm, Extreme Terrain Realm, and Transcendent Realm.

Among them.

Postnatal Martial Artist was equivalent to the Void Realm’s Body Refining, Spirit Gathering, and Soul Tempering.

Innate Martial Artist was equivalent to the Void Realm’s Golden Body, Spirit Sea, and Spirit Condensation.

The Real Realm also referred to these two realms as martial artists, but the concept was different from the Void Realm.

Here, martial artists seemed more low-martial, with simpler cultivation. It wasn’t like the first six realms of the Void Realm, which already involved repeated tempering of essence, energy, and spirit.

These first two realms in the Real Realm focused entirely on enhancing physical body strength, with little involvement regarding the soul or aura.

This wasn’t hard to understand.

The Real Realm had stronger laws, making it difficult for cultivators to easily touch upon these domains.

Upon reaching the Qi Transformation realm, some cultivators began practicing Qi Refining Arts. True Qi would appear within their bodies, allowing them to display all sorts of profound techniques.

The professional academic term for these techniques was ”spells” or ”killing moves.”

Why ”some” cultivators, you ask?

According to Old Zhang’s master, the path of cultivation wasn’t singular.

When the physical body was strong enough to withstand Immortal Qi, not all races followed the path of Qi Refining Arts.

But most did.

The Qi Transformation realm had nine minor rotations, each rotation enhancing the density and intensity of True Qi within the body.

The Void Realm’s Martial King, Martial Saint, and Martial God corresponded to three of these rotations, respectively.

[”Finally, I’ve come across ’Core Formation.’”]

The term ”Core Formation” had already appeared back when the Mortal Bones were extracted.

But only today did you truly understand where it fit in.

If the realms were divided this way, you realized that the Half-Emperor for a Thousand Ages’ ”+1 realm” didn’t actually enhance by a major realm, but by a third of one.

If you continued to break through and reached the seventh rotation of Qi Transformation, you estimated it would directly send you into the Core Formation realm!

Then, Mortal Bones would take effect, and you could comprehend Divine Abilities!

That was a power the Void Realm couldn’t withstand!

Old Zhang said his master was at the ninth rotation of Qi Transformation, and the Winged God Church’s White Priests were all at the Core Formation realm.

As for the Red Cardinals, they might be at the Extreme Terrain realm, or possibly also at Core Formation.

Your heart calmed down slightly.

The enemy was weaker than you had imagined.

Dealing with alien races should be fine if they were one major Real Realm standard realm above you.

But two realms higher would be difficult.

Especially since even Yi Chengsheng knew to use divine marks to weaken your combat state; the Real Realm people who were more proficient in divine marks needed no mention.

So, you decided to maintain the status quo for now and wait for a change in circumstances.

[The ninth year, age thirty-three.]

You discovered an abandoned mine shaft in the minefield. It was deep underground and rarely visited.

Those alien races who lived their lives as the upper crust would never come to a place like this.

You had Chen Two put on your face and replace you as a laborer.

Meanwhile, you yourself studied the Divine Armament Revelation in this hidden spot where no one would notice.

This was an Immortal-Grade martial art.

According to Real Realm standards, this was a fourth-grade spell.

The Low-Grade, Mid-Grade, High-Grade, Earth-Grade, and Heaven-Grade of the human world corresponded to grades nine through five in the Real Realm. So, Immortal-Grade was fourth grade.

Once the Divine Armament Revelation was mastered, one could use one’s own True Qi as a guide to enhance magical artifacts.

If the proficiency realm was high enough, one could also achieve ”unity of man and artifact,” greatly enhancing the artifact’s power.

In the state of ”unity of man and artifact,” a fatal wound would be borne by the artifact that was merged with you, effectively giving you an extra life!

[”It’s really powerful... Although ’unity of man and artifact’ requires the Pinnacle realm to unleash, simply ’enchanting’ the artifacts beforehand is already quite practical. What a shame, all my treasures were snatched away by that old hag, ugh...”]

Through studying this technique and increasing its proficiency realm via Proficiency,

you became more and more familiar with and knowledgeable about the effects of the Divine Armament Revelation.

You discovered that this ”enhancing magical artifacts” wasn’t limited to magical artifacts.

You could also enhance the mining picks of your fellow workers, making them able to cut through iron like mud and incredibly hard.

If you consumed a large amount of True Qi, you could even transform these mining picks into low-grade magical artifacts that carried their own spells!

When the proficiency realm of the Divine Armament Revelation reached the Mastery level, this ”enchantment” effect shifted from a short-term, temporary boost to a long-term, sustained enhancement.

If you cycled through enchanting every mining pick in the entire mine, by the time you were done, the first pick would still have the effect!

The True Qi you consumed couldn’t be restored by circulating the Qi Refining Arts, because there was no Immortal Qi here.

But there were plenty of Source Stones.

As long as you could hand over enough output every day, no one in the Winged God Church would know if you secretly used some.

With four clones, could output really be an issue?

That day, you were still monotonously practicing the Divine Armament Revelation.

This spell had already reached the Minor Achievement realm.

The Divine Armament Revelation was of higher quality than any technique you had cultivated before, so increasing its proficiency required the most repetitions ever.

You didn’t know how many times you had done it. You had lost count. From morning till night, day after day, you did nothing else but focus on improving this spell.

To reclaim your magical artifacts, to find that old hag and take revenge, and to leave this third-class star.

You forced yourself to persevere, unwilling to let go of any chance to grow stronger.

[”Boss! Something’s wrong! White Porridge has been exposed!”]

Chen Two’s voice rang in your mind.

He was currently at the mine, working in your place.

This was a wonderful use of clones you had discovered—being able to talk with other clones in your mind. There was a distance limit, though.

Someone like Chen Four, who was in another world, definitely wouldn’t work. It was simply too far.

[”Stay calm, I’m coming!”]

At that moment, in the center of the large mining pit.

All the human miners had been gathered together and forced to kneel on the ground in neat rows.

Standing up high was Locke, the White Priest, his white robe immaculately clean.

”Speak. Who has been secretly giving you food, and how did he bring it in?”

The entire crowd was dead silent.

Locke let out a cold laugh.

”You don’t want to give him up, do you? Fine, I’ll kill you one by one until you’re willing to talk!”