According to what he had learned in class, the criteria for an immortal artifact to acknowledge a master was more or less the same: fortune, cultivation level, bloodline ties, karma, and compatibility with one’s cultivation methods. Wei Yuan was aware that he probably didn’t meet a single one of these criteria except for fortune. Considering Qingming’s level of existence, he did not think that an Avatar Trueman could control it, and even a True Lord was only good enough to make an attempt. No, the only existence with a solid chance of success was an Immortal Lord.0

After activating Qingming, Wei Yuan finally understood how difficult it was to obtain its approval. However, the discovery only made him scorn Yun Xihe even more.0

The guy probably did not realize that he needed the immortal artifact’s approval to become its master from the start until the end. That was why he had toiled diligently as a physical deity for over fifty years until his primordial spirit was ultimately dissolved by the power of incense prayers.1

Even if he managed to erode the Immortal Lord’s divine thought, Yun Xihe would never be able to convince Qingming to accept him as its master. Besides that, the entire reason the immortal had left behind a divine thought was to teach them the activation array and allow Qingming to seek out their fated one. This did not happen only because an accident happened during his demise, and the divine thought inherited the pain and madness he felt during his last moments instead, transforming what...0