novelraw Chapter 289
Chapter 289
The refinement of a life-bound artifact, due to the guidance of the cultivation method, required almost no extra effort. It would naturally be refined to completion. He only needed to act as a tool that continuously supplied mana.
This was all due to the special refinement method of a life-bound artifact.
What was inscribed within the artifact was not artifact-crafting sigils but the circulation pathways of the Ice Soul Holy Demonic Scripture. Aside from the influence of materials, the divine ability power was entirely blank.
This was why a life-bound artifact did not require specific materials but only those with matching attributes. Its power came from an extension of the cultivator’s own abilities.
This was the reason it could grow together with the cultivator’s advancing realm and also the reason why others could not unleash the full power of another person’s life-bound artifact.
Aurora Escape, Ice Soul Divine Light, Guanghan Twelve Phases.
All three could fuse with the Glazed Iceheart Tower. With the strength of the artifact, they could expand the might of his divine abilities. They could even be separated from the cultivator himself and be activated directly by the artifact.
For hegemonic sects like the Blood Reversal Sect, which had existed for countless years, each of their Nine Peaks and One Hall possessed something called an Ancestral Artifact.
It was the life-bound artifact nurtured by an ancestor from ancient times. It possessed spirituality and was also called a Spirit Treasure. It was a true fifth-rank treasure.
As long as a successor who cultivated the same lineage received recognition from the artifact’s spirit, they could wield the might of the Ancestral Artifact.Right now, all nine peaks’ Ancestral Artifacts were in the hands of the Peak Lord.
Among the Peak Lord’s disciples, whoever received recognition from the Ancestral Artifact would have the rightful claim to be the Young Peak Lord or Young Sect Lord.
He did not know the situation of the other peaks.
But on Cold Blood Peak, there were four senior brothers and sisters ahead of Yan Ling. They had all failed. If Yan Ling failed too, she would have to wait for the next generation of True Disciples.
Or attempt to undergo evaluation by the artifact spirit through other means.
In any case, before the Peak Lord passed away, the matter of choosing an heir to the Ancestral Artifact was the highest priority.
While refining the artifact, these thoughts flashed across Wang Yu’s mind.
On his right hand, the orange-yellow Three-Flavors True Fire had already refined the Fengshui Compass into an outer shell. In the center of the heavy, earth-like, bronze compass.
The molten dark copper flowed into countless hair-thin copper tubes like the pathways of the stars. A portion of the Four-Directions Four-Seas Qi streams merged into it.
The fine copper rings rapidly fused. From numerous chaotic strands, they gradually thickened into willow-branch sized copper rings, suspended about an inch above the compass. At the center hovered a black sphere.
It was completely different from the aged Fengshui Compass that Long Yiran had once displayed. Perhaps that compass was too ancient and had lost some of its functions.
In any case, most of the Fengshui secrets recorded in the Earth Mother Scripture required a Fengshui Compass to use. Heavenly stems and earthly branches, yin and yang, five elements, cosmic sundial, auspicious and inauspicious directions, all could be judged.
Aside from the effort he spent studying the Golden Vision of Qi Observation, he had actually researched many other Fengshui secret arts. Many he had not yet begun practicing, nor had the chance to use.
If the Fengshui Compass could be refined successfully, these secret arts could finally be studied in depth. Perhaps when visiting the Ancient Burial Pit, he would have a chance to put them into practice.
Artifact refinement consumed much time. Even though both items were relatively simple, it still took far longer than refining pills.
Therefore.
When Tantai Chan awoke and discovered that Wang Yu had gone into seclusion, she could not help feeling a bit disappointed. She remembered the previous day.
She hurriedly took out clothes from her storage pouch to change into. Just as she opened the door, a floating jade slip suddenly appeared and Wang Yu’s voice sounded from within.
He explained that when Yu Tangtang arrived a month later, he would instruct her in pill refinement techniques and that he was not intentionally avoiding her.
Hearing this, Tantai Chan finally relaxed.
She feared her own abnormal behavior had affected Wang Yu’s perception of her, causing him to feel disgust. Receiving this message immediately reassured her.
Only then did she quickly leave Wang Yu’s cave mansion.
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Two months later.
Day sixty-one of a certain person’s Elder Life.
"Wang Yu, come quickly and see what I brought you."
Yu Tangtang’s lively and adorable voice suddenly sounded. Her small, round body walked a circle inside and, failing to find Wang Yu, she immediately pouted.
"Wang Yu."
"I am here, Sister Tangtang."
A short while earlier.
Inside the cultivation chamber, after one month of painstaking effort, two artifacts were successfully born.
The Glazed Iceheart Tower, a hexagonal pagoda, thirteen stories tall.
It was composed of the tower base, tower body, tower top, and tower spire.
Its coloration used the deep blue of profound ice as the base. Under sunlight, seven-colored glazed radiance flowed across the tower, looking extraordinarily beautiful.
The tower spire, constructed from thousand-year Ice Marrow Jade and the Coldmoon Spirit Pearl, glowed with a crystalline, icy blue transparency.
Snow Mountain Heavy Profound Iron and two yin-attribute materials merged into the tower base and tower body, increasing its durability and initial mass.
Ice Soul Stone melted into liquid and engraved the Guanghan Twelve Phases onto each layer of the tower. The top layer displayed the scene of a Frost Moon hanging in the sky.
This Glazed Iceheart Tower was spinning rapidly in his palm.
As a freshly completed life-bound artifact, its initial grade was naturally third-rank lower-grade, but it could grow together with Wang Yu’s cultivation, advancing in sync.
It would become an indispensable part of a cultivator’s strength after forming a Core.
As a tower-type artifact, sealing and suppression were abilities inherent to such treasures. The divine ability amplification and the mental purification effect were unique to Wang Yu alone.
General effects such as size manipulation were also included.
The size manipulation of artifacts was usually achieved through mana to proportionally enlarge them. The maximum size depended on the output of mana. It was said that the mana of a Spirit Transformation cultivator was enough to allow an enlarged artifact to exist forever.
Wang Yu did not understand this yet and could not accomplish it.
The Glazed Iceheart Tower was still in its initial state. Only after Wang Yu cultivated his life-bound divine ability and then communicated and fused with the artifact would it become suitable for real combat.
Therefore.
After observing it for a short while, he stored it into his Qi Sea to warm it with mana. Compared to this, the other treasure, the Fengshui Compass, appeared plain and unremarkable.
It was a functional artifact entirely reliant on the cultivator’s skill. It did not fall into the usual grading system. The depth of one’s Fengshui mastery determined the upper limit of the compass’s power.
Additionally, by merging the Qi flows of a Heaven and Earth Geomantic Formation and allowing it to evolve alongside the changing formation, the effectiveness of the Fengshui Compass could be enhanced.
If one had to compare them, a Fengshui Compass could only be compared to another Fengshui Compass. Whoever merged more geomantic qi mechanisms into theirs would be the stronger.
The Blood Reversal Sect had a ready-made earth formation. Wang Yu naturally would not miss it. Collecting the qi mechanisms of a geomantic formation would not affect the formation itself and was extremely difficult to detect.
Hence, he did not need to worry about incurring baseless consequences.
After completing everything and storing it all into his Qi Sea, Tantai Chan arrived even earlier than Yu Tangtang.
At this moment, hearing Sister Tangtang’s voice calling.
Wang Yu adjusted his clothes, his breathing slightly uneven. He lifted the bead curtain from the back of the hall and said calmly.
“I was instructing Tantai Chan in pill refinement. Come with me.”
Yu Tangtang stared at him suspiciously.
“Wang Yu, you smell like Little Chan’er.”
“Perhaps I stood too close while instructing her.”
Wang Yu replied without changing expression. He then smoothly shifted the topic. “Sister Tangtang, what did you say you wanted to show me?”
“Oh, right.”
Although Yu Tangtang was nearly a hundred years old, her temperament was restricted by her physical form and remained similar to that of a five- or six-year-old child.
She had always been like this for many years. Naturally, her mentality was difficult to grow. Coupled with her bright silver hair, she looked like a cute, exquisite doll.
Children forget quickly. With Wang Yu’s interruption, her attention shifted immediately.
“Look at this. Tangtang searched for a long time, but Father found it for me. He said that since you can refine the pill recipe, this spirit item should be given to you.”
“Oh?”
Wang Yu’s eyes lit up because the item in Yu Tangtang’s hands was precisely the final material he had been searching for, the Seven Apertures Qi Root.
The final main ingredient for the ancient pill recipe, the Exquisite Inner Pill.
He had too much to learn now, and the Exquisite Inner Pill, which could enhance comprehension, was undoubtedly a tremendous aid that could greatly increase his growth speed.
Yu Tangtang bringing the Seven Apertures Qi Root was perfectly timed.
He had already studied the pill recipe for the Exquisite Inner Pill and put it aside. Although it was not perfected yet.
In short, once he completed both his pill refinement technique and the recipe, he would be able to refine it.
He was determined to refine a supreme-grade Exquisite Inner Pill.
His pill arts required another twenty years to advance. In the past he did not find this long, but now it felt a bit lengthy. He could try concentrating his Idle Slots to quickly push pill arts to third-rank.
With the enhanced comprehension from the Exquisite Inner Pill, he could then feed that progress back into his divine abilities and secret arts. It might not delay him and could even speed things up.
As for the pill recipe Yu Tangtang mentioned, it was indeed an unusual technique called Flood Dragon Heart Ancestral Blood Pill. The medicinal ingredients were extremely complex and numerous, exceeding one hundred kinds.
The most important main ingredient was the essence blood of a fourth-rank flood dragon.
The more essence blood used, the better the resulting pill’s effects. Its primary function was to purify the bloodline and enhance one’s foundation.
Yu Tangtang already possessed an Earth grade pure-blood flood dragon lineage. The next step was Heaven grade bloodline, which meant the innate potential to reach Spirit Transformation through normal growth.
A third-rank spirit pill could not elevate her to Heaven grade bloodline, but every great achievement began with small accumulation. Without daily refinement, how could one await the day of breaking the cocoon to emerge transformed?
Since it was so effective, not only Yu Tangtang could benefit. By adjusting some ingredients, Wang Yu believed it could also help cultivate his Dragon Spine.
He had experienced the benefits of increasing foundation many times when using dragon blood secret medicines in the past. Though his realm would not break through, his physical body grew stronger day by day.
It was a limitless, comfortable transformation.
“I understand.”
He received the pill recipe and the materials. The main ingredient was undoubtedly the essence blood of the Blood-Eyed Demonic Flood Dragon.
He was truly generous.
Demonic beast essence blood was extremely difficult to nurture. Even their entire body of blood could yield only a few drops.
But the late Nascent Soul Demonic Flood Dragon King surely had several thousand drops of essence blood. Using some to strengthen Yu Tangtang’s foundation was not a loss.
After thinking for a moment, he said.
“Sister Tangtang, this pill recipe has many variations, and its grade fluctuates greatly. I need time to study it. Give me three years. Three years from now, I will start the furnace and refine the pill.”
“Okay.”