The spiritual objects produced in White Cloud Peak of Tianmen Island are mostly of the ice attribute. The Ice Bamboo is one of its specialties. A hundred-year-old Ice Bamboo can be used to refine high-grade magical artifacts, and a three-hundred-year-old Ice Bamboo can easily refine top-grade magical artifacts.
Besides the Ice Bamboo, there was also a Flame Wood tree of several hundred years in the original medicine field, which was also used by Zhang Ling to refine sword talismans.
Sword talismans are one-time attack methods, and their power varies depending on the materials used. Five to six hundred-year-old Iron Wood can condense sword talismans that are even more powerful than Heavenly Thunderbolts.
The sword talisman condensed from Flame Wood was even more powerful when dealing with the silver iridescent clam before.
As for why not refine more sword talismans?
Because refining sword talismans takes a lot of time. Every ten days or so, they need to be re-refined with one's own spiritual power. Otherwise, the sword talismans on the spiritual wood will be swallowed and digested by the spiritual wood itself.
This is a waste of time. Refining one more sword talisman would delay Zhang Ling's own cultivation time.
After planting the Ice Bamboo, Zhang Ling left the medicine field and returned to the quiet room for cultivation. With a wave of his hand, an ancient bronze lamp appeared. This treasure was obtained from the silver giant clam.
During this time, he had done some research on this object. Although there were many small cracks on the ancient lamp and it was very dilapidated, he used many attack methods, but these attacks did not cause any damage to the ancient lamp.
Zhang Ling also consulted many classics for the ancient characters engraved on it, but he did not recognize them.
However, after experimenting, he also discovered some of the wonderful uses of the bronze lamp.
As long as the bronze lamp is lit, a wisp of gray-green flame will emerge. This wisp of flame can be used to enhance the strength of one's spiritual consciousness. And it doesn't just increase it by a little, but increases it by more than double.
At the same time, he also thought of the silver iridescent clam, which gave birth to a seven-colored treasure pearl, and its own strength was not weak. It was probably also related to this ancient lamp.
There are treasures that increase the strength of spiritual consciousness in the world of cultivation, but the increase is often very small. Being able to increase spiritual consciousness by about 30% is considered a heaven-defying treasure.
Moreover, it is not something that ordinary cultivators can possess. Even Nascent Soul old monsters do not have such treasures.
Zhang Ling immediately realized that this ancient lamp was definitely not an ordinary object. Besides the mysterious small bead, the ancient lamp was the most valuable thing he had.
The method of lighting the ancient lamp is not with spiritual power or spiritual consciousness, but with one's own blood essence.
Zhang Ling had experimented twice. Lighting the bronze lamp once consumes a lot of blood essence, and the duration is very short.
The bronze lamp is completely a blood-sucking thing, using blood essence as lamp oil.
Zhang Ling also tried using other people's blood essence or monster beast blood essence, but it did not increase his spiritual consciousness at all.
He also experimented with storing some of his own blood essence. This method was useful, but the longer the blood essence was stored, the weaker the increase in spiritual consciousness after lighting the ancient lamp. Once it exceeded ten days, even if the blood essence could be lit, it would no longer have the effect of enhancing spiritual consciousness.
This shortcoming made Zhang Ling feel both helpless and pained. The benefits of enhancing spiritual consciousness are huge, especially since he also has a Refinement Art in his hand, which contains a spiritual consciousness attack spell. If he could use it in actual combat, his strength would also increase a lot.
Blood essence is not ordinary blood, it is also extremely precious. In times of crisis, it can also be used to increase the power of spells and magical artifacts.
If a cultivator loses too much blood essence, it will have a great impact on their strength, and even a drop in their realm is common. Replenishing blood essence is not easy either.
Zhang Ling was troubled for a while about how to choose. He could only consider it when fighting. Although he had these concerns, the value of the bronze lamp in his heart remained unchanged.
In the following time, Zhang Ling often appeared in the market. He was looking for things that could enhance the Corpse Bear puppet.
The Corpse Bear's strength is comparable to that of a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, but it is no longer easy to further enhance the puppet's strength.
Although Zhang Ling did not cultivate the Underworld King Art in his mind, there are many ghost techniques in it, including the refining methods for monsters like zombies.
In general, the most suitable and simplest way to quickly enhance the Corpse Bear's strength is to find a place with Yin energy and let it absorb the Yin energy on its own.
Now Zhang Ling is focusing most of his attention on his own cultivation, so this method is not suitable for him, and there is no place with Yin energy around Azure Water City.
The remaining option is to find things containing Yin and cold spiritual power for the Corpse Bear to absorb, but such things are scarce in the world of cultivation. After searching for a period of time, Zhang Ling only found a dozen low-grade Yin spirit stones and a few pieces of Cold Jade.
These things can only supply the Corpse Bear's cultivation for half a month. In the end, Zhang Ling could only use a clever method from the Underworld King Art to let the Corpse Bear devour a large amount of blood food to enhance its strength.
This method is the fastest, but also the most expensive. Even with his wealth, he could barely afford it.
Every month, he bought more than a dozen monster beast corpses from the market for the Corpse Bear to devour. Most of the monster beast corpses he could buy were first-tier monster beast corpses, and second and third-tier monster beast corpses were rare.
These monster beast corpses were incomplete, and the materials on them had mostly been processed by other cultivators, leaving only some flesh and blood.
Although monster beast flesh and blood are not as valuable as other materials, they can also be used to extract monster beast blood essence, which can be used to refine pills and make cinnabar for drawing talismans.
Even with these least valuable monster beast flesh and blood, Zhang Ling spent two to three hundred spirit stones on them every month. Adding the Yin spirit stones and other things, the annual consumption was three to four thousand spirit stones.
Zhang Ling was also a little overwhelmed, but this method could only quickly enhance his strength if it was continuous. The short-term effect was not high.
In addition to this, Zhang Ling was also paying attention to some monster souls and essences. He wanted these monster souls to refine Soul Shattering Beads.
The Soul Shattering Bead is also a one-time magical artifact, but in battle, it can cause cultivators to lose their minds and attacks the cultivator's soul. In some ways, it is more powerful than the sword talisman he condensed. Its advantage lies in being difficult to defend against.
In Azure Water City, these monster soul essences are not as rare as in the Northern Yuan cultivation world, but here, cultivators often use such things.
In the Flowing Cloud Sea cultivation world, in addition to cultivators, there are also demonic cultivators, and most importantly, there are also demon refiners. Their cultivation relies heavily on things like monster soul essences.
Zhang Ling had studied several demon refiner techniques. Although this cultivation path originated from ancient demon cultivators, the demon refiners of the Flowing Cloud Sea have formed their own school after so many years of evolution.
Once a demon refiner's cultivation breaks through to the Foundation Establishment stage, they can cast a Soul Sealing Secret Technique to seal the monster beast's soul in a special way on their body, constantly refining it to enhance their own strength.
It is very similar to the secret techniques of some demonic and ghost cultivators, but the Soul Sealing Technique cultivated by demon refiners is somewhat different.
Demon refiners need complete monster souls, and they will not erase the monster soul's consciousness. It is said that this is related to their subsequent advancement in realm.
And refining monster souls requires devouring other monster souls, so the higher the level of monster souls that appear in the market, the more expensive they are, and they will attract many demon refiners to compete for them.
During this time, Zhang Ling only collected one third-tier monster beast soul and two second-tier souls. In the end, he only refined two Soul Shattering Beads, and he ruined another one during the refining process.
Time flew by in such busyness.
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