This is a magical treasure truly capable of possessing an extraordinarily strong defensive ability.

The material of its body has already reached the level of a half-step fifth tier.

By simply adding fifth-tier materials that match its attributes, there is a certain hope to elevate it into a fifth-tier treasure.

Then, it wouldn't be wrong to reluctantly call it a Spiritual Treasure.

The only thing it's missing is its spirituality.

Currently, this is also the common weapon held by most Divinity Transformation venerables and fifth-tier Demon Emperors in the Southern Wilderness Realm.

This is the origin of the so-called name of the incomplete Spiritual Treasure.

After all, to let a fifth-tier magical treasure truly develop spirituality,

besides requiring the corresponding precious Spiritual Objects, a little bit of fate is also needed.

And it also requires the owner to nurture and temper the treasure day and night.

If any link in this process is missing, it can render the formation of a true Spiritual Treasure impossible.

At this moment, Ji Haoyuan happens to have the materials on hand that can make the Dragon Bone Umbrella truly advance to the fifth-tier level.

This was what he obtained from the Storage Magical Treasure of the Red Flood Dragon King.

It's called Dragon Cloud Red Gold.

This object can only possibly take shape in Dragon Race lairs that have existed for over a thousand years.

Unfortunately, the former Red Flood Dragon King, although being of dragon descent, seemed to lack much related Artifact Refining heritage in its bloodline.

Thus.

Even though it had materials sufficient to promote the Dragon Bone Umbrella to the fifth tier, it still failed to successfully advance the Dragon Bone Umbrella.

If it were otherwise, if the former Red Flood Dragon King truly had such a fifth-tier magical treasure at its side.

He and the Feichen Sword Monarch would almost certainly have found it impossible to kill it.

Now, instead, Ji Haoyuan gets the benefit of it.

At this moment, Ji Haoyuan hesitated no longer.

A top-tier fourth-rank Artifact Refining furnace thunderously descended before him.

In the next instant, the Pure Yang Fire, entirely golden in color, began burning fiercely inside the furnace.

About half a year later.

A long dragon's roar suddenly emanated from the Artifact Refining furnace in front of Ji Haoyuan.

Then came a clattering sound.

The furnace lid burst open with a bang.

Amid swathes of auspicious clouds, a dragon-shaped virtual shadow wrapped around a Dragon Patterned Umbrella, presented in red gold, mysterious yellow, and blue hues, soared into the air.

The entire umbrella, from its appearance, was distinctly changed from its previous form.

The umbrella handle and body, originally composed of dragon bones, had turned red gold, with spiral-shaped dragon patterns etched upon it.

On its surface, clouds resembling pure golden flames floated.

A dragon-shaped virtual shadow circled and danced among them.

Like a living thing.

Such a treasure, henceforth calling it the Dragon Bone Umbrella is evidently no longer suitable.

"Hmm, let's simply call you the Dragon Patterned Cloud Umbrella."

Buzzzz!

As Ji Haoyuan's words fell, the Dragon Patterned Cloud Umbrella softly trembled.

As if it was responding to Ji Haoyuan.

Those unaware might truly think that the treasure had already developed a sliver of spirituality.

But only Ji Haoyuan himself understood.

This was not the treasure developing its own spirituality, but merely an instinctive resonance between the treasure and its master.

Wanting this treasure to develop spirituality at present, unless you can obtain the Primordial Spirit of a fifth-tier Dragon Emperor and refine it into this umbrella, there's a fair chance it could directly become a true Spiritual Treasure.

However, a fifth-tier Dragon Emperor is an existence comparable to their human race's Divinity Transformation.

Could it be that easy to acquire the Primordial Spirit from such an entity?

Without lingering more in the cave abode.

After collecting the Dragon Patterned Cloud Umbrella, Ji Haoyuan opened the restriction and left.

Outside.

Ji Haoyuan located True Monarch Baihua, who was overseeing the area during this period, and inquired about the situation over the past six months.

Overall, this last half year was the same as the one before.

The Demon Race outside Four Symbols Pass still hadn't launched any major scale attacks.

The fourth-tier Demon Kings present there remained at the back of the battlefield, never showing themselves.

This was undoubtedly a good thing for them now.

After all, having the opportunity to cultivate peacefully in one's own cave abode, who would want, unless necessary, to engage in lethal combat with a Demon King of the same level?

However, the situation at the other major human fortress cities outside Four Symbols Pass wasn't as optimistic.

Inside the strongholds, without Peak True Monarchs like Ji Haoyuan and Feichen Sword Monarch willing to take action, the threat posed by the Demon Race army had already caused countless casualties.

According to the information True Monarch Baihua obtained over this period,

The human side had already lost twenty-five Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

The battle losses of Golden Core cultivators had reached as many as one hundred and twenty.

And as for the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators below them, their numbers could no longer be accurately counted.

It could be said that the severity of this conflict between the two races had already surpassed that of the previous one.

If not for Ji Haoyuan and Feichen Sword Monarch earlier greatly weakening the forces of the Demon Race on their side, causing a gap in the Demon Race's overall combat power,

The situation at other strongholds would have likely been even worse.

"What is the current status of Feixing Palace and the Ten Thousand Demons Demon Sect?"

Upon hearing True Monarch Baihua mention the situation of the other strongholds, Ji Haoyuan couldn't help but frown slightly.

But he quickly thought of the two Divinity Transformation sects, Feixing Palace and the Ten Thousand Demons Demon Sect.

"Have they truly defected to the Demon Race?"

"So far, we have not entirely received such news."

True Monarch Baihua shook her head.

"However, they have not sent anyone to garrison the major defense lines lately; they are basically staying within their sects and the surrounding areas."

"How is this different from completely siding with the Demon Race?"

Ji Haoyuan's face involuntarily turned somewhat cold.

Truthfully, the current approach of Feixing Palace and the Ten Thousand Demons Demon Sect was the most disgusting.

As Divinity Transformation sects, to shrink back in the human race's rear like this — how would those cultivators on the front lines see this? How would they feel?

Oh...

Those people fight the Demon Race to the death on the front lines, while you all simply stay securely in the back doing nothing.

The blow this would deal to the morale of their human race was far more severe than some strongholds being breached and losing battles.

Moreover, there's one crucial reason.

That is, the current Feixing Palace and Ten Thousand Demons Demon Sect have become a hidden danger at the rear of their human race.

After all, no one can guarantee whether these entities positioned behind the human race might backstab them at some critical moment one day.

Don't say such a thing is impossible.

From Ji Haoyuan's understanding of individuals in those two sects, such events, if not absolutely certain, still had a probability of over fifty percent.

Thinking of these, Ji Haoyuan suddenly felt it was about time to devise some preemptive arrangements and precautions concerning the matters of Feixing Palace and the Ten Thousand Demons Demon Sect.

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