Chapter 773

I Can See Through Everything – Chapter 773

Chapter 773: Supreme-Grade Spiritual Artifacts, Secrets of Dao Artifacts

“Ah Qing!”

Xiao Li came out of the space where it had been in secluded cultivation, delighted as it threw itself into Lu Qing’s arms.

“Not bad. Your cultivation has improved quite a bit.”

Lu Qing rubbed the little fellow’s head, feeling rather satisfied.

After several years of secluded cultivation, Xiao Li’s cultivation had risen a great deal. It had now stepped into the eighth transformation of the Golden Core Realm—an astonishing pace by any measure.

Moreover, there was a faint ripple of spatial power around it. Clearly, under Old Canglong’s guidance, it had made tremendous progress in how it used spatial power.

“Mhm! Grandpa Canglong taught me tons of things, and he even gave me lots of pills to eat, so I got to the eighth transformation so fast!”

Xiao Li happily nuzzled against Lu Qing’s hand as it bragged.

“Many thanks, Senior, for nurturing Xiao Li.”

Lu Qing gave Old Canglong a respectful salute.

“No need to be so polite. Xiao Li counts as my disciple, doesn’t it? What kind of master wouldn’t devote himself to teaching his own student?” Old Canglong laughed. “Besides, Xiao Li’s aptitude is excellent, and its comprehension is strong—of course it can progress this quickly.”

Old Canglong was extremely pleased with Xiao Li.

Partly because the little fellow was sweet-tongued and well-behaved, and partly because its talent was truly outstanding.

Having achieved results in cultivating Nine Transformations of the True Dragon, Xiao Li’s true dragon bloodline was now even more concentrated than that of most of the top prodigies of the Canglong clan back in the day.

On top of that, it possessed spatial divine ability. It was a natural darling of the Dao of Space.

In fact, in cultivating the way of space, it was even more favored by heaven than the Canglong clan itself.

It could be said that Xiao Li had already fully grasped the entry-level essentials of the Canglong clan’s secret arts.

What it lacked now was only time and tempering. Given enough time, it would inevitably master them completely and carry them forward.

“Ah Qing, Grandpa Canglong said we’re leaving this place?” Xiao Li asked.

“Yeah. We’ve been out for quite a while. If we don’t go back soon, Master and Xiao Yan and the others will worry again,” Lu Qing nodded.

Especially Xiao Yan. Back then, everything happened so suddenly—the Void Flying Boat had abruptly carried him to the Gui Xu Secret Realm, leaving him no chance to send a message.

If he stayed away too long, who knew what that girl would start overthinking again.

Now that matters here were settled, Lu Qing naturally wanted to return as soon as possible.

“I miss Xiao Yan too,” Xiao Li said softly.

“Ah Qing, before we go out, there’s a place we want to take you,” Old Canglong said at that moment.

Lu Qing blinked. “Where does Senior intend to take us?”

Old Canglong lifted a claw. Dense spatial power surged forth, enveloping Lu Qing and Xiao Li, along with the Black Savage Bull and Ming Feng.

In the next instant, Lu Qing discovered they had arrived in a brand-new space.

Before he could properly take in the surroundings, he felt the Void Flying Boat inside the Heaven and Earth One Qi Bag begin to tremble violently.

At the same time, he sensed a call coming from somewhere ahead.

“This is…”

Lu Qing followed the direction of that call and looked forward.

Then he saw a scene so shocking it made his scalp tingle.

In the center of the vast space, a boundless golden flying boat lay there.

It was enormous beyond belief, like an entire mountain range.

Standing before it, Lu Qing and the others seemed as tiny as ants.

Yet the golden flying boat’s condition was clearly not good.

Its body was battered and ragged, and more than half of its rear section had collapsed into ruin.

It looked as though it had gone through an unimaginably brutal battle, reduced to this near-shattered state.

But even so—despite looking almost broken apart—it still radiated an indescribable aura.

Simply by lying there, it suppressed the eight directions, as if it were the sole existence between heaven and earth, and even the laws of heaven and earth had to revolve around it.

“This is one of the master’s most powerful treasures back then: the Flying Immortal Vessel.”

Old Canglong’s voice sounded. As it gazed at the golden flying boat, its eyes went distant, as though it were remembering something long past.

The Black Savage Bull and Ming Feng looked the same—staring ahead in a daze.

“The Flying Immortal Vessel… then doesn’t that mean…”

Lu Qing recalled the information the Void Flying Boat had once transmitted to him, and at last understood why it had grown so restless the moment they arrived here.

“That’s right. This Flying Immortal Vessel is the mothership of the Void Flying Boat you hold,” Old Canglong said. “It was originally a dao artifact, peerless in might.

“Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of years ago, during a catastrophic battle, this powerful dao artifact took a devastating hit and was nearly shattered.

“Even its artifact spirit was almost completely extinguished, leaving only the final thread of spirituality to maintain it.

“Now its might is less than one ten-thousandth of what it once was. It can no longer be used.”

Old Canglong sighed, full of lament.

Lu Qing stared at the broken hull, finding it hard to imagine what kind of war could smash a powerful dao artifact into such a state.

“Ah Qing, take out the Void Flying Boat you’ve mastered,” Old Canglong said after a moment.

Lu Qing complied, taking out the Void Flying Boat that had already been trembling nonstop.

The instant it appeared, the Void Flying Boat flashed forward, unable to wait a second longer. It flew toward the Flying Immortal Vessel and merged into it.

Almost simultaneously, a faint golden light shimmered across the Flying Immortal Vessel.

“Senior Canglong, this is…” Lu Qing asked, puzzled.

“Don’t worry,” Old Canglong smiled. “This isn’t a bad thing for you.

“Although the Flying Immortal Vessel is nearly shattered and retains only a tiny fraction of its former might, it still preserves a sliver of its original capabilities.

“The Void Flying Boat in your hands is one of its one hundred and eight child boats.

“Back then, even a single child boat, taken out alone, possessed at least supreme-grade spiritual artifact might.

“When all one hundred and eight child boats were deployed together and formed an array, the power they could unleash exceeded even ordinary dao artifacts—an unimaginable level of might.

“Sadly, in that battle, the Flying Immortal Vessel’s vast majority of child boats were destroyed.

“The only one that should have survived is the one in your hands.

“However, the child boat you have must also have suffered serious damage, yes?”

Lu Qing answered, “Yes. When this junior first obtained the Void Flying Boat, it only had low-grade spiritual artifact might. Later, this junior accidentally found a Void Core and merged it into the boat. Only then did it barely recover to high-grade spiritual artifact might.”

“That explains it,” Old Canglong said. “The Flying Immortal Vessel was originally refined by the master from a section of the trunk of a world treasure tree he obtained by chance while traveling the starry skies.

“The one hundred and eight child boats were refined from the leftover scraps, and share the same origin as the mothership.

“That’s why, no matter how badly a child boat is damaged, it can return to the mothership to recuperate and be restored.

“That’s exactly what your Void Flying Boat is doing now.

“Once it finishes recovering, it will return to you.”

So that was why the Void Flying Boat had been so restless—because it wanted to return to the mothership and repair itself.

Hearing that, Lu Qing felt even more at ease.

And sure enough, Old Canglong’s words proved true.

After they waited in this space for several days, the Flying Immortal Vessel suddenly trembled and slowly spat the Void Flying Boat back out.

Now, the Void Flying Boat looked entirely different.

The faint scars it once carried had been completely repaired. Its surface was smooth, and not a trace of damage could be found.

Silver light flowed across it, exuding a mysterious aura. It looked extremely beautiful.

Even the might it radiated was noticeably stronger than before.

However, Old Canglong frowned slightly as it sensed the Void Flying Boat’s aura.

“Why did it only recover to the level of a newly advanced supreme-grade spiritual artifact?”

It glanced at the Flying Immortal Vessel ahead, which seemed to have dimmed a bit more, and immediately understood.

Shaking its head, it said, “It seems the Flying Immortal Vessel’s condition is even worse than I expected. It’s already so weak that it can’t fully restore even a single Void Flying Boat.”

“Senior, hasn’t the Void Flying Boat already recovered to the level of a supreme-grade spiritual artifact?” Lu Qing asked, stunned.

Through his mental connection, he could clearly feel its might had surged—an unmistakable leap into the ranks of supreme-grade spiritual artifacts.

Yet Old Canglong sounded dissatisfied, which left Lu Qing confused.

“Back at the Flying Immortal Vessel’s peak, each of the one hundred and eight child boats possessed the might of a supreme-grade, peak-tier spiritual artifact, and had the foundation to advance into a true dao artifact,” Old Canglong said, shaking its head.

“Now this Void Flying Boat has only recovered to the early tier of supreme-grade. Compared to its peak, it’s still far behind.”

“I see.”

Lu Qing finally understood—but unlike Old Canglong, he wasn’t disappointed at all. Instead, he smiled.

“Senior needn’t feel that way. For this junior, the Void Flying Boat reaching this level is already more than satisfying. With this junior’s realm, the gap between early-tier supreme-grade and peak-tier supreme-grade isn’t actually that meaningful.”

Lu Qing was only a six-tribulation Nascent Soul cultivator. With his current realm, even a high-grade spiritual artifact might not be something he could fully unleash—let alone a supreme-grade spiritual artifact.

So whether it was early-tier supreme-grade or peak-tier supreme-grade, the difference was essentially the same to him.

Because he couldn’t truly bring out its full power either way.

“That’s true as well. A supreme-grade spiritual artifact is a precious treasure even for those in the Dao-Integration realm. Most of them might not even possess a single one,” Old Canglong nodded, agreeing.

It wasn’t that the Guixu Immortal Palace lacked spiritual artifacts. There were many, and even in the palaces outside the main palace, quite a few were stored.

But most of them were only low-grade spiritual artifacts. Even mid-grade ones were not common.

As for the path of treasures, its hierarchy was strict. Advancing even a single tier was exceedingly difficult.

With spiritual artifacts, low-grade and mid-grade could still be considered relatively common.

A more seasoned Nascent Soul cultivator could generally control one or two.

But once it reached high-grade spiritual artifacts, the number dropped sharply.

Many times, even top-tier Nascent Soul experts at eight or nine tribulations would struggle to control a single one.

Someone like Mo Tushan, who could wield the Nine Abyss Demon Tower, could do so only because of his exalted status—he was a beloved junior of a Dao-Integration realm powerhouse.

As for that purple-robed middle-aged man, it was because his clan had deep ancestral foundations, and because he himself was the clan head of the Great Yuan Immortal Clan, that he was qualified to bring the clan’s two great high-grade inherited spiritual artifacts with him.

If an ordinary faction’s top-tier Nascent Soul cultivator wanted a high-grade spiritual artifact, they would have to painstakingly gather resources themselves, invest massive effort, and spend a long, long time slowly polishing and refining one.

As for supreme-grade spiritual artifacts, they were treasures even Dao-Integration realm experts coveted.

Because each supreme-grade spiritual artifact represented reaching the pinnacle of the spiritual artifact path.

The laws contained within were already extremely complete.

Take one more step forward, and it would condense true Great Dao intent and metamorphose into a dao artifact.

What is a dao artifact? A powerful treasure that contains one complete strand of true Great Dao intent—that is a dao artifact!

Yet dao artifacts were incomparably powerful. Even a Daoist of Transcendence who wanted to refine one would find it extraordinarily difficult.

It required unimaginable resources, and only under all manner of fortuitous coincidences would it be possible.

Besides refining one from scratch, there was another way a dao artifact could be born.

That was to force a supreme-grade spiritual artifact to transform and advance into a dao artifact.

But that path was equally difficult.

Although a supreme-grade spiritual artifact contained extremely complete laws and formidable might, making the artifact itself nurture a complete strand of true Great Dao intent from those laws was nearly impossible.

Unless a powerful Dao-Integration realm cultivator controlled a supreme-grade spiritual artifact that matched them perfectly.

In that case, they could not only comprehend the laws within it to clarify their own path,

but also continuously imprint their own insights into the artifact, further supplementing and perfecting it until it reached consummation.

If that Dao-Integration realm cultivator ultimately broke through and stepped into the Daoist of Transcendence level,

then at the instant of breakthrough—seizing the opportunity of the heaven-and-earth fluctuations and the Great Dao’s震荡—if they imprinted all their comprehension of the Great Dao into the artifact,

only then might it be possible for a supreme-grade, peak-tier spiritual artifact to metamorphose into a dao artifact.

That was why the value of supreme-grade spiritual artifacts was self-evident.

“Early-tier supreme-grade is fine. Once you break through to the Dao-Integration realm in the future, you can imprint laws into the Void Flying Boat yourself and restore it for real,” Old Canglong said, its earlier regret now dispersing.

“Indeed. For this junior, this might actually be the better outcome,” Lu Qing said.

In recent days, Lu Qing had gone through the remaining trial passages outside, and obtained quite a few more inheritances.

Among them, after passing the trial of the path of artifact refining and gaining the inheritance within, he had learned much more about the mysteries of dao artifacts.

“It seems you already have a clear understanding. There are still some treasures left in the Guixu Immortal Palace’s treasury, but none of them compare to the Qingmang Sword and the Void Flying Boat in your hands, so I couldn’t be bothered to bring them out,” Old Canglong said.

“There’s no need, Senior. The treasures this junior holds are already enough. Any more and I wouldn’t be able to control them,” Lu Qing replied.

He wasn’t exaggerating.

He truly had many treasures.

Leaving aside the low-grade and mid-grade spiritual artifacts he had obtained back in the Great World of Tianyuan, he now carried several high-grade spiritual artifacts as well.

And now there was also the Void Flying Boat, restored to the level of a supreme-grade spiritual artifact.

Even with his abundant mana, there was no way he could command that many powerful treasures at once.

So even if Old Canglong gave him more, it would only be waste.

“Since that’s the case, then I’ll prepare to send you out,” Old Canglong said.

It didn’t hesitate any further. After Lu Qing put away the Void Flying Boat, Old Canglong swept a claw. Spatial power surged once more, enveloping everyone.

In the next instant, their figures vanished from where they stood.

In that vast space, only the gigantic Flying Immortal Vessel remained, lying there forever, unchanged through the ages.

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