The stele had four sides, but only one faced Qian Duoduo directly.
He closed his eyes and released his Spiritual Awareness to meticulously read the entire stele.
At the very bottom of the stele, the engraved content was the first volume of the Encyclopedia of Weapon Refining, the spiritual plant volume.
Above it were the Spiritual Beast Scroll, Spirit Birds Scroll, spirit mine scroll, followed by the weaponry scroll, defensive artifact scroll, utility artifact scroll, and Puppet Scroll, with the Artifact Transformation Scroll and Combination Scroll at the very top.
The content of the Artifact Transformation Scroll and Combination Scroll was extremely abstract; a single pattern often represented multiple, even more than ten, types of artifacts, and only those who had passed the examination could discern them.
Qian Duoduo's heart was pounding.
He secretly glanced at Shi Chongyang and Gong Dian with his Spiritual Awareness; they sat motionlessly, showing no unusual signs.
Qian Duoduo tried to calm his excitement—
It was only natural for the Refining Saint Wall to have the Encyclopedia of Weapon Refining engraved upon it; there was nothing strange about it.
The Encyclopedia of Weapon Refining was a common textbook for Lower Road Artifact Refiners, and many people should have been able to recognize that the patterns on the outside of the Refining Saint Wall matched the Encyclopedia of Weapon Refining.
With his Spiritual Awareness encompassing the entire stele, Qian Duoduo calmed himself and carefully comprehended the stele's content, finding new content in each volume, with more new content appearing the higher he went.
Suddenly, the Spiritual Awareness gathered at the top of the stele discovered a small hole in the very center of the top—
"Could this be the Sacred Artifact lock for the Entering Saint Key?"
Just as Qian Duoduo was about to make a move, the small hole suddenly generated a tremendous suction force, actually drawing in all the Spiritual Awareness he had enveloped on the Refining Saint Wall.
All the Spiritual Awareness was sucked into the small hole, yet the small hole remained unfulfilled, and the suction force remained immense.
Qian Duoduo steeled himself, gathered the Spiritual Qi from his Upper Spirit Sea, converted it into Spiritual Awareness, and continued to pour it into the small hole.
If the Upper Spirit Sea was insufficient, he would draw from the Middle Spirit Sea.
If the Middle Spirit Sea was insufficient, he would draw from the Lower Spirit Sea.
Finally, after drawing most of the Spiritual Qi from his Upper, Middle, and Lower Spirit Seas, and even nine-tenths of his Purple Eyes were utilized by Qian Duoduo, the small hole was filled, and a groove appeared at the bottom of the small hole.
The shape of the groove was precisely that of the Entering Saint Key.
"I've finally found the Sacred Artifact lock!"
If he hadn't opened up the Upper, Middle, and Lower Spirit Seas, and hadn't expanded them with the gold brick, Qian Duoduo would have been unable to fill the small hole at all.
If he couldn't fill the small hole, he wouldn't even have found the Sacred Artifact lock.
Qian Duoduo secretly glanced at Shi Chongyang and Gong Dian; they were both in meditation, their eyes closed in contemplation.
Wrapping the Entering Saint Key with his Spiritual Awareness, he swiftly entered the small hole, and Qian Duoduo carefully placed the Entering Saint Key into the Sacred Artifact lock.
As the Entering Saint Key fell into the Sacred Artifact lock, its core gently pulsed, and all nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine small holes opened.
The Sacred Artifact lock opened silently, and all of Qian Duoduo's Spiritual Awareness in the small hole suddenly began to fall downwards.
After the Spiritual Awareness entered, the small hole closed again.
Because most of his Spiritual Awareness was sealed within the small hole, Qian Duoduo was split into two.
His Physical Body was still meditating beside the Refining Saint Wall, while his Spiritual Awareness had entered inside the Refining Saint Wall, becoming a soul body just like Liu Boli!
"A Saint is not an artifact; it is by not being an artifact that one becomes a Sacred Artifact!"
A passage of words suddenly surged into Qian Duoduo's Spiritual Awareness like drumbeats.
Entering Sainthood Incantation!
Qian Duoduo's spirits lifted, and he couldn't help but speak out: "A Saint is not an artifact; it is by not being an artifact that one becomes a Sacred Artifact!"
As soon as his voice fell, his Spiritual Awareness was suddenly illuminated, revealing a new world.
This world was permeated with Spiritual Qi, containing billions of Magic Treasures, each with life; some transformed into spiritual plants, growing in the soil.
Some turned into Spirit Birds, flying in the sky. Some became Spirit Beasts, running in the forest. Some transformed into Spirit Fish, swimming in the water.
Qian Duoduo suddenly felt that the Refining Spirit Sect's Burial Instrument seemed to be a replica of the Refining Saint Wall.