Lee Dong and Jing Ling, the employees of the God of Fate was now kneeling in front of their superiors. They were from different dimensions, ones that had already been conquered by the God of Fate, but they were equal in that of their fear in him.
"This was our first time actually doing a job, and you two doofuses messed up so badly, I don't even know how am I supposed to punish you. Should I exterminate your whole planet or just sentence you to the eternal chamber of pain?" Their knees got wobbler as they heard about the types of punishment that was awaiting them.
"It was him... he was the one that messed up, not me!" Lee Dong shakily pointed his finger at Jing Ling, who just kept shaking his head. The both of them were doomed, so doomed!
"Ah, relax. I'm just messing with you guys. Both of them seem to be doing well with each other's system. Li Tang Zi has already become well known with the beauty system, and Shen Ying has some good stuff, even thought I need to find a way to punish Shen Ying..." While their superior was thinking, Lee Dong and Jing Ling quickly slipped away.
By the time the God of Fate had finished thinking, he noticed that Lee Dong and Jing Ling had already disappeared. "..." He was left speechless.
Shen Ying put her palm on her forehead, as she looked at the dagger with a mismatched handle and hilt. How was she supposed to use it? It was too troublesome to use as a dagger, and too short a blade as a sword.
Well, at least there was a silver lining in all of this madness. She managed to successfully craft her first artifact, even though it was extremely flawed. While she used this logic to calm herself down, tears were streaming down from the corner of her eyes.
Artifact Refining is so hard! The God of Fate really loves to play pranks on a mere mortal like her. Just as she thought this, a bolt of lightning struck the artifact that was in front of her.
"Wah! What the hell is happening!" Ruining the shape of the artifact wasn't enough, you now want to destroy the artifact?
If the God of Fate haven't given her the system, she would certainly curse and swear at him a million times. I thought that you were supposed to help me. Little did she know that the systems had been mixed up... and that she was being penalised for Lee Dong's and Jing Ling's mistakes.
Si Xiu, who was deep in her cultivation, suddenly opened her eyes. She had felt a trace of Heavenly Tribulation, which was used to suppress Rotating Core cultivators who were advancing. Was there a cultivator advancing to Astral Projection nearby?
What if the Astral Projection cultivator came to find trouble with them? Si Xiu stopped cultivating, and quickly moved out of the Spatial Ring that she was cultivating in by removing her Spiritual Essence. Immediately, she arrived at the Empress Carriage again, to see a Heavenly Tribulation hit Shen Ying's artifact one more time.
"I can't believe it... a perfect grade artifact? How is this possible?" Si Xiu was put into momentary shock. She never expected that the Heavenly Tribulations created was caused by Shen Ying's artifact upgrading to the Perfect grade.
Even though the artifact was still only a Tier-1, it had reached the Perfect Grade. The effects of it would be amplified by 4 times! It could very well exceed the prowess of a Tier-2 Average Grade artifact. The highest grade she had cultivated in her life was exactly that. Shen Ying was talented beyond belief! She had made the right decision in cultivating her for the Holy Heart Sect.
She had earlier suspected of the God of Fate was cheap and had given this Shen Ying character a bad gift, but it turned out that he had given her a high value gift. If she could manipulate Shen Ying for herself, her future would be so bright in this cultivation world. Shen Ying could be thought of as a living trump card for her.
"A perfect grade artifact? What's that?" Shen Ying furrowed her brows, as she did not know what Si Xiu was thinking or talking about. She only knew about the different tiers of artifacts, and not the grades at all.
"Oh, I forgot that you don't have knowledge of the grading. The grading of an artifact is determined by how purely forged it is, and when an artifact reaches the highest grade, it goes against Heaven's will, and would be destroyed by Tribulations if it is too weak." Shen Ying understood what had happened after the explanation. The spiritual sealing was not wasted after all!
At this point, the Tribulations has stopped hitting the artifact that was laying on the workshop's table. However, Shen Ying and Si Xiu had forgotten one thing. They were inside the Empress Carriage...
"Wait! Why am I suddenly floating?" Shen Ying was shocked as she noticed that she had been floating centimetres away from the floor the whole time. Si Xiu also suddenly realised that she was floating too. She looked around and saw the holes created by the Heavenly Tribulations.
"We're dropping! Quick, jump out! If we crash, the Qi explosion would kill both of us!" Si Xiu anxiously warned Shen Ying. The Empress Carriage was a Tier-2 Average Grade artifact that was continually refined, so it should be able to resist at least 100 attacks from Rotating Core cultivators.
The Heavenly Tribulations penetrated the artifact, disrupting the Qi flow and caused it to fall. The Qi explosion caused if it suffered more pressure was more than enough to annihilate anyone inside.
"But... but I'm scared of jumping!" This was first time in Shen Ying's life that she had been this high up in the air. Her father did not allow people to carry her upwards. She hugged her artifact tightly as her legs refused to move.
"There's no time, we have to jump!" Si Xiu pushed Shen Ying down, who started to scream, before she calmed herself down and followed Shen Ying downwards.