The Story Never Ends

"I really want to check the grade of this blade as it is really tough. I think it should at least be a middle-stage Devil Artifact." Davion thought.

"Speaking about the artifacts, even though I obtained a lot of information about them, I couldn't find anything about the strange orb that I had brought back from the Blood Saber Sect. Doesn't it mean that it is not a spiritual artifact?" He pondered while on his way to the Artifact Peak.

It has been many days since he found it and he still hadn't discovered anything unusual about it. He even tried to see what would happen when he used his force. However, it remained unscathed. So, he could only give up.

***

When he reached Artifact Peak, he found that the temperature here was much hotter than outside.

"This should be due to the flames required for forging the artifacts." He already had beads of sweat on his forehead.

This peak looked totally different from the one he was in. The steps were not rocky but rather looked like it was made from marble as it was shiny and beautiful. He saw many disciples climbing up there. There were even outer disciples and handyman disciples among them. So, the Peak looked quite lively.

He climbed the steps and didn't see any courtyards but rather small residences having only one room. Not only that, there was a stall in front of each of them. In every stall, a person could be seen shouting.

So, he went near a stall with curiosity and finally heard what the person was yelling.

"My Senior Brother just finished forging a lower-grade sword. It is more powerful than the regular lower-grade weapons. It will amplify the sword energy by at least 10% and contains a charging function. Once you charge your Qi inside it, the next blow would be far more terrifying than the regular blow."

The moment he finished saying this, many disciples became interested and someone asked, "So, what's the cost?"

"Even though the normal price of a lower grade artifact is 500 contribution points, this sword is far better than them. So, our Senior Brother will only accept a price not lower than 650 contribution points." The person replied.

"It seems to be expensive."

"Yeah, I found even better than this earlier at a cheaper price."

The disciples gossiped among each other.

Seeing that the disciples were not attracted, the person panicked and started boasting, "I don't think that this sword is expensive. My Senior Brother allowed me to try this sword against him. As someone in the late stage of the Qi Refining Stage, I charged it and attacked him with my strongest move. But who knew that I would manage to hurt him?"

"What? Is this true?"

"Isn't his Senior Brother at the early stage of Golden Core Stage?"

This piqued the interest of the disciples and many of them were ready to fight for it.

Some distance away from here, Davion shook his head, "That person is clearly lying. It looks like inside the residence his Senior Brother might be forging an artifact, while he might be his confidant selling them outside."

"Now, I finally know how things work at this peak." He left and went towards the top in search of the stalls where the middle-grade spiritual artifacts could be found. As they could only be forged by someone above the Golden Core Stage, naturally they would be at the top.

On his way, he saw different types of artifacts. This widened his horizon. Not only they sold spiritual artifacts but raw materials too.

***

Two hours later, in the courtyard at the bottom of the Inner Court Disciple Peak, a young man was holding a 2 meters long halberd. The staff was black colored while the ax blade and the pike head at the end of it were completely golden. Various images of dragons and phoenixes were carved on it. Thus, the staff looked quite exquisite.

"Haha, who could have thought that I would get a middle-grade weapon this easily?" Indeed, this young man was Davion and he was laughing maniacally.

From a distance, both heads of Ryland were looking at him as a fool. They couldn't understand what was so interesting in that strange-looking weapon.

"I thought that it would be really expensive as even a lower-grade sword cost 650 contribution points. But I was wrong. The price of a normal middle-grade artifact is 1000 contribution points just like the spiritual arts. However, the better ones having special attributes had a very high price. I even saw a saber costing 3000 contribution points." His heart was beating wildly thinking about it.

"If only I had enough contribution points…" He sighed.

"It's useless to think about it. This halberd is also not bad." He stroked the surface of the ax and smiled.

"I was planning to buy a normal middle-grade sword with the points I had. But I suddenly caught the sight of this halberd. This halberd according to that person was forged by one of the elders in the Sect hundreds of years ago. Yet, nobody bought it due to various reasons."

So, he got curious and asked him. However, his response made him speechless. The main reason was that there were no Halberd Arts in the Sect. Secondly, nobody was interested in carrying such a big weapon to fight. Even if someone wanted to buy it, its price was quoted at 2500 contribution points which were not worth it as there were no arts to follow it up. Thus, it became useless and nobody bought it for a hundred years.

"Hehe, is it fate? I bought it for just 1000 contribution points." He couldn't contain his excitement.

"Time to refine it," He muttered and slid his thumb finger on the sharp edges of the blade of the halberd.

Few drops of blood dripped on it and he immediately channeled his spiritual energy into it at the same time.

After a few minutes, the halberd shined and a mixture of golden and black color light was produced. Ryland at the side couldn't take the bright light and closed both pairs of his eyes.

During this time, even some information poured into his mind. Only when the light dimmed down, did he stop.

"It heard from him that it would take a couple of hours to refine a middle-grade artifact for someone in the Golden Core Stage. But it only took a few minutes for me. This might be due to my stronger blood and better quality of spiritual energy." He thought and threw the halberd on the ground a few meters away from him.

"Bang."

A hole a few meters deep was formed and dust scattered around it. He then looked at it and said, "Come."

The halberd automatically flew in the air and came towards his hand. He caught it and smiled, "Interesting."

Ryland was looking at him from a distance with some excitement. Seeing this, he laughed and threw the halberd straight in his direction.

Ryland got shocked and tried to run away but felt a dangerous aura locking him. He found that he couldn't move. Thus, he closed his eyes and waited for the imminent disaster. However, he found that the halberd had stopped a few centimeters ahead of him and nothing had happened.

He then set his sights on Davion and saw that he was laughing. Feeling that he was being mocked, he got angry and flew towards him.

Seeing this Davion hooked his index finger and the halberd turned back and chased Ryland. Ryland who was about to near him again found a dangerous aura coming from behind his back. So, both of his heads looked behind and panicked. In a panic, the Red Head tried to fly to the right while the Blue Head tried to fly to the left and thus Ryland made a blunder and paused in the air.

Davion who saw everything was astonished as he couldn't believe that something like this could even happen.

"Haha, Ryland, it seems like you don't even know how to fly properly." David had tears in his eyes after laughing out so hard.

Ryland in the air felt very humiliated but he couldn't do anything as the halberd was still behind him. He could only try to fly properly and escape.

"Rayland, you need to work hard. How could you be lazy the whole day?" Davion perfectly controlled his halberd and made it difficult for Ryland to dodge. If anyone saw how good Davion was at controlling the middle-grade artifact, then they would surely have a heart attack as only someone in the Nascent Soul Stage could control it perfectly. This was all due to the fact that his control of spiritual energy always improves as the level increases.

"Ryland, from now on we will train like this every day. I won't give you spirit stones if you won't be able to dodge it cleanly." Davion's calm voice reached into the heads of Ryland.

Ryland, who was dodging in the air, got really angry this time when he heard this. So, he transformed into his true form and spat out a ball of flames and ice spikes from both of his heads towards Davion.

"Ryland, My God! What are you doing?"