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The head of the Qingyun Sect, Lu, held an octagonal ancient mirror floating in his hand.

This mirror is called the Azure Wood Mirror, a low-grade spiritual artifact. It is entirely dark blue, and the surface is engraved with wood grain patterns.

"Fellow Daoist Qingmu, please help me slay this enemy before me." Sect Leader Lu took out ten mid-grade spirit stones and placed them into the Qingmu Mirror.

A beam of spiritual light shot out from the Green Wood Mirror, and the ten mid-grade spirit stones vanished instantly.

After absorbing ten mid-grade spirit stones, the low-grade spirit artifact, the Azure Wood Mirror, underwent a miraculous change.

A beam of dark blue light burst forth from the Azure Mirror.

The light coalesced, and a small blue fox appeared before everyone.

"This is a magical artifact!" Jiang Shi exclaimed seriously upon seeing this.

The ability to summon a spirit is a power possessed only by standard spirit artifacts.

Jiang Shi had once seen Biluogu Master Hua Luoyu use a magical artifact.

With her low-grade spiritual artifact flower basket, she easily defeated Shangguan Shuo of Lingxu Sect and Lu Chuanxuan of Qingyun Sect.

Moreover, Hua Luoyu did not summon the spirit of the artifact at that time, meaning she did not use her full strength at all.

This time, Sect Leader Lu of Qingyun Sect used ten mid-grade spirit stones to summon the artifact spirit right away.

It's obvious that he's angry!

Jiang Shi's act of killing Liang Junran at Qingyun Sect has already crossed Sect Leader Lu's bottom line!

If it were just outside, no matter how many Qingyun Sect disciples Jiang Shi killed, Sect Leader Lu wouldn't care.

However, this is Qingyun Mountain, the territory of the Qingyun Sect. To make a move here would be to slap them in the face.

The spirit of the weapon has been unleashed; it's a fight to the death!

The little blue fox transformed into a blue streak and rushed towards the river stone.

Not only that, at the same time, Sect Leader Lu made a ring shape with his hands, and a ring of blazing fire burst forth, attacking Jiang Shi from the left and right, along with the little blue fox.

The fiery ring kept spinning, and even before getting close, Jiang Shi could already feel the terrifying power within it!

This was the most terrifying fire-based spell Jiang Shi had ever seen since he began cultivating.

His fire-based spell is probably already at least at a high level.

This Headmaster Lu of the Qingyun Sect truly lives up to his reputation!

Both being late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, his strength far surpasses that of Lu Chuanxuan, who is at the same level.

Faced with the combined attack of fire magic and the weapon spirit, the Jiang Shi of the past would probably have fled in a sorry state, only able to retreat using his movement techniques.

However, Jiang Shi has now mastered four of the Five Elements Refining Techniques, and is only one step away from mastering the fifth.

Aside from lacking a low-grade spiritual weapon, his strength was in no way inferior to anyone below the Golden Core stage in the three major sects.

Faced with the fire magic, five drops of magical water exploded in Jiang Shi's dantian, releasing a large amount of magical power that also interacted with the Gui water energy inside his kidneys.

A curtain of azure water blocked Jiang Shi's path.

The flame spell was enveloped within the water, and instantly, the fiery ring was extinguished by the azure water curtain.

This move is the first technique of the "Gui Water Transformation Qi Technique" - Gui Water Heavy Curtain.

It possesses the ability to defend and trap enemies.

Just then, Jiang Shi also mastered the true meaning of the mutual generation and restraint of the five elements.

Using this move, annihilating fire-type spells of the same level is no problem.

At the same time, Jiang Shi was engaged in battle with the blue fox spirit.

This little fox looks weak, but Jiang Shi's magic had little effect on it.

Jiang Shi dared not take the streaks of blue flame that shot out from its mouth head-on.

This cyan flame contains the true meaning of "Wood generates Fire". Even if Jiang Shi uses water-based magic to break it, it will be swallowed up by the wood element and the five elements cannot counteract each other!

For a moment, Jiang Shi really didn't have a good way to deal with this little blue fox spirit.

In terms of magical abilities, Jiang Shi is not afraid of Sect Leader Lu; in fact, his magical abilities are even superior to Sect Leader Lu's.

However, this low-grade spiritual weapon is indeed difficult to deal with.

Spiritual artifacts are not like magical artifacts that can be easily countered. Even though Jiang Shi possesses multiple high-grade magical artifacts, he cannot possibly contend with this spiritual artifact.

Even the worst low-grade spiritual artifact is the same.

The artifact possesses a spirit, and can no longer be simply considered a vessel.

Even Sect Leader Lu had to address this Green Wood Mirror as a fellow Daoist.

However, even if Jiang Shi had this low-grade spiritual artifact, there wasn't a good way to deal with it.

He remained completely calm. Jiang Shi stepped on lotus flowers and moved left and right, so the little blue fox couldn't touch him at all.

"This boy's spells are of a high grade, all of them are above the Earth grade!" Sect Leader Lu had a high eye for talent, and he could tell the grade of Jiang Shi's spells at a glance.

"Could this person be a disciple from a top-tier power? Did he come here just to hone his skills?" Sect Leader Lu wondered to himself.

It's no wonder he thought that way, as this kind of Earth-grade cultivation technique is rarely seen.

Even the core figures of the three major sects in the Canglin region only cultivated one or two earth-grade techniques.

The Foundation Establishment stage cultivator in front of them had already used four or five Earth-grade techniques in a short period of time.

It also includes wood-based magic, water-based magic, and metal-based magic.

This indicates that the other party is a great cultivator with three spiritual roots.

Such a person could never appear in a small sect or a small force.

Only the top ten sects and the most prestigious families possess such strength.

Sect Leader Lu was unaware of what Jiang Shi had done in the Stone Tower Secret Realm.

At that time, in the Stone Pagoda Secret Realm, only Lu Chuanxing and Ouyang Yu knew about Jiang Shi's magic and magical artifacts.

Since Lu Chuanxing had already been killed, naturally no information was sent back to Qingyun Sect.

As a member of the Lingxu Sect, Ouyang Yu had even less reason to inform the Qingyun Sect of Jiang Shi's information.

This has led to the current Qingyun Sect Master Lu believing that Jiang Shi is a disciple from a major sect or powerful force.

This has happened before; some disciples from powerful families have gone into hiding, venturing into the cultivation world to hone their skills, and playing the fool to outwit their opponents.

Thinking of this, Sect Leader Lu gradually lost his killing intent.

Jiang Shi is not easy to deal with either. If we really want to kill him, we'll probably have to use a high-grade spiritual weapon.

Just as Sect Leader Lu was thinking this, suddenly...

The world changed color, and deep within the Dragon Pool, the red light seemed to crack open.

"The Fire Elemental Realm has opened!" Everyone present ignored Jiang Shi and looked towards the depths of the pool.

"Now that the fire-type secret realm has opened, there's no need to continue fighting this guy surnamed Lu," Jiang Shi thought to himself. This low-grade spiritual weapon was indeed difficult to deal with.

Thinking of this, Jiang Shi flashed and moved above the Falling Dragon Pool.

"See you in the secret realm, everyone." After saying that, Jiang Shi fell into the water like a fish and disappeared.

After Jiang Shi entered the secret realm, Sect Leader Lu summoned the little blue fox back.

His gaze fell upon the fire-elemental secret realm, and he fell silent for a moment, lost in thought.

"Sect Leader..." Lu Chuanxuan flew over, about to speak.

"No need for further words, Xuan'er. This fire-elemental secret realm is fraught with danger. As the next sect leader, you must not take the risk. Let the other inner disciples go," Sect Leader Lu said, leaving no room for argument.

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