A flash of golden light appeared from the black gourd's opening, and the Azure Finch flew out.
This fellow was still the size of a sparrow, with most of its body covered in golden feathers, but the long plumes at the tail and some of the hairs on its head were cyan-blue.
However, Zhang Ling's eyes flashed as he noticed a feather behind the Azure Finch's tail, its color extremely peculiar. It actually displayed a tri-colored aura of gold, blue, and black, with some purple spirit patterns that seemed out of place.
Sensing the spiritual light of this feather, it was a mixed aura of demonic essence. Without a doubt, this fellow had refined true demonic energy, transforming it into such a strange feather.
"It seems that Senior has successfully refined the true demonic energy," Zhang Ling licked his lips and chuckled.
"A wisp of true demonic energy, although I've lost my physical body, it's not difficult to refine." The Azure Finch seemed to be in a good mood as well, flapping its wings a few times to adapt to its new spiritual form. After flying around a few circles, a flash of spiritual light appeared on its wings, scattering a golden glow in front of it.
"This is what I promised you, take a good look, I'll only write it once."
The golden light flowed rapidly, with specks of blue light within. It transformed into text. In a moment, dense, small blue characters appeared.
Zhang Ling was originally about to ask about this, but he didn't expect Azure to answer proactively.
He didn't dare to be negligent. A flash of white light appeared in his hand, revealing a jade slip. His eyes stared unblinkingly at the small characters in front of him, and he released his spiritual sense to carefully examine these characters, imprinting them onto the jade slip at the same time.
The spiritual light characters in front of him introduced the Two Elements Gourd, a treasure of heaven and earth. After a moment, the spiritual text disappeared, and Zhang Ling narrowed his eyes, carefully examining it.
Not long after, he opened his eyes, but his expression became somewhat strange as he looked at the Azure Finch and asked, "Senior, could you be mistaken? The Two Elements Gourd is a five elements spiritual object, which is very different from what I know."
"Hehe, believe it or not, I didn't lie to you. The azure and white energies in the gourd are just what you humans call them. In the spirit world, the special spiritual energy contained in the Two Elements Gourd is called the Five Vices Spiritual Light, and its greatest use is to cleanse various treasures and materials. Otherwise, why do you think the Two Elements Gourd is known to have the ability to nurture the power of treasures?"
"The five elements spiritual energy is the basic spiritual power between heaven and earth. No matter how special various materials are, they all carry the power of the five elements. The greatest use of this treasure is to assist in refining treasures, so it is often fused and refined into a special space treasure, used to cleanse and contain various materials." The Azure Finch glanced over, humming with dissatisfaction.
Zhang Ling didn't pay attention to the Azure Finch's expression, his mind repeatedly recalling the information he had just received.
He had previously seen in ancient books that the Two Elements Gourd belonged to a special seventh-grade spiritual root, and the azure and white energies contained within could continuously refine the treasures placed inside, like a cultivator's alchemic fire.
That's why he refined it into his natal magic treasure.
The information that the Azure Finch passed on to him, the introduction to the Two Elements Gourd, also stated that its greatest use was the same.
It was just more detailed, with a clear explanation of the azure and white energies contained in the gourd. The azure and white energies, which the Azure Finch called the Five Vices Spiritual Light, were a special spiritual energy transformed from the five elements spiritual power.
The five elements spiritual power is indeed the most basic spiritual power between heaven and earth, with endless transformations through mutual generation and restraint. Therefore, it has evolved into all things in the world. All things in the world have the shadow of the five elements spiritual power, even ordinary soil, rocks, grass, and trees.
It's just that most things only manifest one appearance.
Ordinary dust is formed by the accumulation of earth spiritual power, and soil and rocks mostly contain metal and earth spiritual power. In addition to these ordinary things, the various spiritual ores commonly used by cultivators are also like this.
The Geng metal material that he had just obtained not long ago was a top-notch material with extremely sharp metal energy, containing the most abundant metal element spiritual power.
Materials like flame iron ore, fire flame crystal, and red cloud iron not only contain a small amount of metal and earth power, but also fuse with the fire spiritual power of heaven and earth to give birth to spiritual ores.
The spiritual power of grass and trees is also the same, but most spiritual herbs have the most abundant wood attribute spiritual energy. However, wood spiritual power can also be transformed into other spiritual energies in different environments.
The changes within this are endless, and the types of spiritual plants are countless.
And the heavy water contained in the Azure Finch's black gourd is water spiritual energy, a spiritual water formed by extreme compression.
From ordinary materials to various spiritual objects, all contain the five elements spiritual power.
The common terms used by cultivators, such as wood attribute materials and fire attribute spiritual objects, are not accurate. These terms only describe the most manifested five elements characteristic of a certain material.
Often, the most utilized aspect of these materials is the five elements attribute manifested in the material's characteristics.
However, many materials are not of a single attribute. It can be said that any material possesses the power of the five elements. It's just that the power of the five elements is expressed differently in various materials.
Often, one attribute is the most prominent, while other attributes are dim, and even weak attributes can be ignored.
This determines the attribute characteristics of a certain material. In the end, they are all transformed from the power of the five elements. Of course, there are also many materials that manifest two or three five elements attributes.
The utilization of these materials varies from person to person.
The degree of utilization of the same material is different in the hands of different people. Different alchemists may research different pills from the same spiritual herb, exerting a certain medicinal effect of the material.
The same principle applies to refining tools. For example, a jade stone called water-fire spiritual ore contains both water and fire power.
This material can be refined into fire attribute treasures, and it can also be refined into water attribute treasures. If the refining technique is special, it can even be refined into water-fire treasures.
Of course, no cultivator dares to say that they can perfectly utilize materials with multiple characteristics.
Although the cultivation world has various techniques, such as immortal cultivation and hundreds of arts, they are not immortals after all. There are so many things in the world, how can they all be understood?
Even true immortals cannot. There are many mysteries within this, such as the rules of heaven and earth, and the evolution of all things. Perhaps only the vast heaven and earth can understand the origin of all things.
But does this heaven and earth itself have consciousness?
A strange thought suddenly popped into Zhang Ling's mind, and he wandered off. After a long time, he shook his head, abandoning his distracting thoughts. He laughed self-deprecatingly, looking at his natal magic treasure, the Two Elements Gourd.
The five elements spiritual object refers to a material in which the power of the five elements is manifested.
His Two Elements Gourd has been refined in his body for more than a hundred years, and he has often studied the azure and white energies, but other than being able to use it to nurture treasures, he had never thought that this special spiritual energy was transformed from the five elements spiritual power.
Because the azure and white energies did not evolve into five-colored spiritual light or obvious spiritual power fluctuations like ordinary five elements spiritual objects.
But thinking about it, the azure and white energies, the Five Vices Spiritual Light, can be used to cleanse various treasures, and the power of the five elements is indeed indispensable. Holding the Two Elements Gourd, he rubbed his head and pondered again.
The information that the Azure Finch passed on, in addition to the introduction of the Two Elements Gourd, also contained a secret technique called the Five Vices Treasure Art.
It recorded several refining methods, which looked like a refining technique.
Of course, it was not an ordinary refining technique. Although he hadn't studied refining techniques very deeply, he could tell that this secret technique was not a refining technique from the human world.
Most of it talked about the use of the Five Vices Spiritual Light. That is, the method of using the azure and white energies in the gourd.
The simplest way to use the Two Elements Gourd is to refine this treasure into an auxiliary treasure refining treasure. Constantly refining various materials through the Five Vices Spiritual Light.
This treasure can play the greatest role in the hands of a treasure refining master.
Zhang Ling refined the Two Elements Gourd into his natal magic treasure, which was a bit unusual. He couldn't always use this treasure to refine magical artifacts and magic treasures, right?
The natal magic treasure is the cultivator's natal object, which is constantly refined by their own essence, energy, and spirit, and the power that can be exerted is gradually increased.
Even if it was just an ordinary magic treasure at the beginning, after constant tempering, its power can be no weaker than the top magic treasure. It is even possible to be promoted to a spiritual treasure with some opportunities.
But due to the particularity of the Two Elements Gourd, no matter how it is tempered, the Five Vices Spiritual Light within it basically does not change. In other words, this is a fixed-power auxiliary treasure refining device.
So refining it into a natal magic treasure seems a bit useless.
This secret technique also recorded.
Put five five elements treasures with different attributes in it. Then bury this treasure in a place with abundant spiritual power, seal it for one or two thousand years, and there is a high probability that five spiritual treasures will be bred.
This method has detailed recorded methods. Obviously, cultivators have successfully tested it.
Similarly, an ordinary five elements treasure placed in the gourd can also be cultivated into a top five elements spiritual treasure. But this kind of treasure refining method is the practice of refiners, or some powerful sects in the spirit world will do this.
Because this method is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the Two Elements Gourd is not an ordinary spiritual object. The gourd must contain the Five Vices Spiritual Light, and it must grow for at least tens of thousands of years. This is not something ordinary cultivators can possess.
However, the Five Vices Treasure Art secret technique has done a lot of research on the Five Vices Spiritual Light.
In addition to refining various materials, the greatest characteristic of the Five Vices Spiritual Light is to balance the five elements spiritual power. It is also the same when placed on living beings.
In other words, the Two Elements Gourd can also be used to balance its own five elements spiritual power.
First of all, no matter what kind of exercises the human cultivators in the spirit world practice. In the human world, the exercises they practice are mostly based on a single attribute.
There is also a record above of the deeds of a spiritual world cultivator.
A human cultivator called the Five Lights Old Ancestor also refined the Two Elements Gourd into his natal magic treasure by chance. With this treasure, this person successfully advanced to the Refining Void Realm in 1,500 years.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling didn't feel anything strange. It is impossible for a cultivator in this realm to appear in the human world.
But this Five Lights Old Ancestor is a spiritual world cultivator after all. The spiritual world has a strong spiritual energy, which is not comparable to the human world. Various natural treasures are extremely rich, and there are many people with this kind of cultivation.
Although Zhang Ling couldn't imagine having such a high cultivation level in 1,500 years, there must be many geniuses among the cultivators in this upper interface.
The Azure Finch had previously revealed that his full strength was above the Transformation God Stage. Although he didn't know if it was true or false, Zhang Ling had never thought that the arrogance on the Azure Finch's body was fake in these years.
But after reading on, he was a little surprised.
Because the Five Lights Old Ancestor was different from what he had guessed. His aptitude was said to be extremely poor, only a four spiritual root cultivator. It is difficult for this kind of aptitude to reach the Foundation Establishment Stage in the human world.
Even in the spirit world, with many opportunities, it is absolutely impossible to easily have the strength of the Refining Void Stage.
This person may have other great opportunities. But after reading the deeds of the Five Lights Old Ancestor, Zhang Ling was still surprised.
In the end, there is a record that the Five Lights Old Ancestor's strength reached the peak of the Refining Void Realm, and he once fought against more than ten cultivators of the same rank without losing ground.
He even successfully advanced to the Body Integration Stage and became a famous strongman in the human race. It is said that this great power went to the outer barbarian to travel in order to break through to a higher realm. After that, there was no more record of this person's deeds.
And the Five Lights Old Ancestor was a casual cultivator from beginning to end.
A cultivator in the Body Integration Stage is definitely a real strongman in an interface like the spirit world. Equivalent to the Nascent Soul cultivator in the human world. The Body Integration Stage, one step further is the Mahayana Stage, and if there is a chance to survive the Heavenly Tribulation, you can ascend to the Immortal World.
However, the deeds of this strongman are not over yet.
After I don't know how many years, there was a very small immortal cultivation sect in the human race, the Five Elements Sect, which cultivated several Refining Void Stage cultivators in a short period of time.
The power of this sect expanded rapidly, which naturally attracted the prying eyes of many forces.
Sects like the Five Elements Sect are very common, and Zhang Ling has even seen several sects named the Five Elements Sect in the classics.
It is natural to be surprised that a originally weak sect has appeared many strongmen. With the exploration of various forces, the secrets of the Five Elements Sect were revealed.
This sect once spent a lot of money to find a Two Elements Gourd.
In the end, the Five Elements Sect also admitted that it was because of the Two Elements Gourd that the sect's strength greatly increased. And at the same time, it was also rumored that the core inheritance of their sect came from the Five Lights Old Ancestor.
The Five Lights Old Ancestor once left a secret technique of the Five Vices Treasure Art, which can increase the probability of breaking through for cultivators below the Refining Void Stage when combined with the Five Vices Spiritual Light.
Because of this secret, a disaster was also caused to the Five Elements Sect, and many disputes occurred.
Behind this passage of the Five Lights Old Ancestor's deeds, there is a record of the secret technique of the Five Vices Treasure Art, which looks like it came from this Five Elements Sect in the spirit world.
It's just that after studying it several times, Zhang Ling felt that this secret technique was a bit incomplete. He frowned slightly and hesitated for a moment, asking his doubts. "Five Vices Spiritual Light, Senior, this Five Vices Treasure Art seems to be incomplete."
"Hee hee"
At this time, the Azure Finch had landed on the Xuan Turtle's shoulder, and his small body was closing his eyes as if he was closing his eyes to rest. Hearing his question, he opened his dark bird eyes and made a crisp laugh.
"This treasure art was obtained by my body from a human old monster who was beheaded. As for the true origin of this secret technique. I don't know.
However, I have also studied this secret technique. Although it is incomplete, the several theories recorded are complete. If you want to fully use the Two Elements Gourd, this secret technique is most suitable for you. I am in a good mood today, so I will tell you another secret." As the Azure Finch said, he suddenly thought of something, raised his head and stared at him, revealing a mysterious look.
