"The power has nearly doubled. As expected of the hand bone of an ancient giant. Once its spirituality is restored, its power might be comparable to a spiritual treasure."
Zhang Ling was standing in the sky, muttering to himself with a smile. He was covered in dust from head to toe, but he didn't care at all, unable to hide the joy in his heart.
This was only after merging with the essence blood and restoring the blood and Qi power of the bone claw. If he collected all the materials needed by the Void Demon True Monarch to refine this treasure, its power would definitely be even greater.
"Can't you be a little quieter? Making such a big commotion."
Suddenly, a black shadow rushed out of the mountain and landed beside Zhang Ling, conveying an angry voice.
"Please forgive me for disturbing you, Senior. I was re-refining this treasure and testing its power a little," Zhang Ling glanced at the blue bird on the Xuanwu's shoulder and nodded.
"Hmph, making such a big commotion while testing a treasure. Or rather, you didn't control this thing well enough." The blue bird flapped its wings and glanced at the giant claw protruding from the mountain, scoffing with disdain.
"Haha, I didn't expect to be seen through by Senior. I really can't control it well," Zhang Ling's face darkened and he chuckled awkwardly.
The bone claw had just been refined, and he had fully activated it to test its power. But the power exceeded his imagination, and he didn't control his spiritual power well, causing such a big commotion.
"With Senior's discerning eyes, can the power of this treasure match a spiritual treasure?" Zhang Ling's eyes darted around, and he smiled.
"Do you think spiritual treasures are a dime a dozen? This bone claw is originally the hand bone of an ancient giant. The material is top-notch. If it fell into the hands of a spiritual realm weapon refiner, the probability of directly refining it into a spiritual treasure would not be small. But in the human realm, it is absolutely impossible to directly refine it into a spiritual treasure, because to directly refine a spiritual treasure, the final step is to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to form the special spirituality of the spiritual treasure. In your human realm, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth simply does not meet this condition, so how can it be refined into a spiritual treasure?"
"However, this bone claw is already quite good. After the bottle of essence blood restored its spirituality, its power already has about 20-30% of the power of most spiritual treasures. It can already be considered a good treasure."
"Twenty to thirty percent of the power?" Zhang Ling narrowed his eyes and nodded while staring at the giant claw.
He had never seen a spiritual treasure unleash its power, but 20-30% of the power was already so strong. Then the true spiritual treasure, it was likely that a Core Formation cultivator could not unleash its full power at all.
With a thought, Zhang Ling cast a ray of spiritual light.
With a series of loud rumbles, the bone claw in the mountain trembled, and then transformed into a red-black spiritual light, gradually shrinking, and turned into a half-zhang long bone claw, flying back to his side.
After the bone claw regained its spirituality, a layer of red-black scab grew on the original black and shiny bone claw, like skin wrapped around bones, instead resembling a dried-up hand claw.
He was already very satisfied with the power of this treasure. But fully activating this treasure also consumed nearly 30% of the spiritual power in his body. While the power was greatly enhanced, the consumption of spiritual power was also multiplied.
With his current cultivation, he could only unleash three attacks at most by fully activating the bone claw. Unless absolutely necessary, he must never use it in such a spirit power consuming manner.
With such a powerful attack, if it solidly hit a Core Formation cultivator, he wouldn't dare to say about the late-stage Great Cultivators. A mid-Core Formation cultivator would very likely be directly killed.
This treasure was enough to serve as a trump card for him now.
Thinking of this, Zhang Ling was naturally in a very good mood. He blinked his eyes a few times and asked with a smile, "By the way, I don't know how to use the true demon qi I collected before. Can Senior give me some guidance? Of course, if Senior has any instructions, I will fully assist."
As he spoke, Zhang Ling's expression became much more sincere. During this time, besides refining the bone claw, he had studied the true demon qi a lot, but the true demon qi was not easy to refine and was extremely prone to backlash.
Now that he had an old monster with profound cultivation by his side, he naturally couldn't waste it. Of course, he and the blue bird were in a cooperative relationship, so he said these words.
The blue bird let out a childish laugh, spread its wings and flew around him twice, making Zhang Ling feel a little strange. Fortunately, the old monster then spoke, "I told you to switch to demonic cultivation before, but you were unwilling. Why ask me now?"
This guy first mocked him, and then changed the subject, "However, for me to merge with my true body faster, I'll give you a bargain this time. Take out a jade slip, I'll tell you a set of secret techniques, refining the true demon qi will definitely not be a problem."
"Thank you, Senior," Zhang Ling was overjoyed and unhesitatingly threw out a cyan jade slip. The blue bird grabbed the jade slip in one go, its body flashed with spiritual light a few times, and then threw the jade slip back.
"This is a set of spirit transformation methods that is quite widespread in the spirit realm, and is most suitable for refining special spiritual energy. However, with your strength, don't be greedy. It is best to only refine two or three strands of true demon qi in a short period of time. It is not a problem to use this to cast some demonic secret techniques, otherwise, the demon qi will attack your heart, and you may become a half-demon like an alien demon. You are not a demonic cultivator, nor an alien demon, so refining the true demon qi is very risky. Fortunately, the vine on your body can serve as a medium to reduce the risk. Furthermore, the Five Elements Spiritual Light in the Two Extremes Gourd can balance the five elements of spiritual power, and it also has a certain suppression effect on this rather violent true demon qi. This is also one of the reasons why I asked you to switch to demonic cultivation before.
There is another set of secret methods inside, which will be of great help to your cultivation, and you should also practice it at the same time. You better advance quickly, if the progress is too slow, hmph…." The blue bird solemnly instructed, and after speaking, it disappeared into the Xuanwu's sleeve.
To be precise, this guy entered the black Two Extremes Gourd on the Xuanwu's body. It was said before that the black Two Extremes Gourd was refined by him into a space treasure called the Void Spirit Gourd.
The Void Spirit Gourd is a rare space treasure that can be used as a temporary cave dwelling. To be precise, it is a Sumeru cave treasure.
The refining method of the Void Spirit Gourd is also recorded in the Five Elements Treasure Technique given to him by the blue bird. However, the materials required are all extremely rare space spiritual objects. Zhang Ling had not even heard of several of them.
Just the Void Spirit Stone, Profound Light Jade, and Wind Stabilizing Stone that he had heard of were already top-notch materials that were difficult to regenerate in the human realm.
Zhang Ling patted the dust off his body and abandoned the distracting thoughts in his mind. At the same time, he also finished checking the secret methods in the jade slip.
There were two secret methods recorded inside. One secret method was called the "Myriad Spirit Transformation Yuan Method", which was a method for using spiritual power. With this method, he could refine the true demon qi for his own use.
The other secret method was called the "Demon Yuan Tempering Spirit Technique". After reading the introduction of this method.
Zhang Ling was shocked. This method actually relied on demonic qi to temper his own spiritual power to stimulate his own spiritual power, which was not easy to cultivate.
However, cultivating this method could speed up the progress of his own cultivation. It seemed that the blue bird had specially chosen it for him. Zhang Ling couldn't help but stroke his chin and pondered.
Cultivating this method would be accompanied by great pain, but whether or not to cultivate it was up to him.
This time, the blue bird did not make any demands and easily gave him the secret method. Zhang Ling was still quite surprised. In short, he had benefited.
Even if the blue bird had any tricks, he was not afraid. After all, this guy did not have a physical body now, and was just a phantom formed by a spiritual body. Even if he had some strength, Zhang Ling was confident that he could control it.
Thinking in his mind, he flew with the Xuanwu towards the collapsed mountain at his feet.
Looking at the rubble all over the ground, he smiled bitterly. He mobilized the spiritual power in his body, released a yellow spiritual light, and submerged it into the ground. Large and small stones flew up one after another, and began to repair the collapsed mountain.
This island was just a temporary foothold he had chosen, and he originally did not plan to stay for long.
But now he had to cultivate the Two Extremes Gourd, and he still had to stay for a few years. Naturally, he could not let the only mountain on the island collapse like this.
He cultivated earth spiritual power, and also had the cultivation of the Core Formation stage. Repairing a mountain was easy, just a waste of some spiritual power.
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Time flies, and eight years have passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, Zhang Ling left the deserted island with the Xuanwu.
In eight years, it was naturally impossible to cultivate all four Two Extremes Gourds. Only one was cultivated.
Although the mysterious little bead in his hand was heaven-defying, it could only exert its effect once every twelve days. The layer of ice crystal condensate on it could make a spiritual plant grow for more than a hundred years of medicinal age overnight.
If all of it was used to cultivate a spiritual plant, it would only be possible to cultivate a spiritual plant of about three thousand years in one year.
And the Two Extremes Gourd would only give birth to the Five Elements Spiritual Light after growing for more than ten thousand years.
Of course, the Two Extremes Gourd that Zhang Ling cultivated had grown to its limit, for more than twenty thousand years. That would take seven or eight years.
Fortunately, this matter was not urgent, and he could slowly cultivate it when he had time.
During this time on the deserted island, he naturally wanted to cultivate another Two Extremes Gourd as soon as possible, because the secret method for refining the Five Lights Treasure Gourd recorded in the Five Elements Treasure Technique, the Five Elements Gathering Yuan Formation, would not only be effective if he collected five gourds.
The Five Lights Treasure Gourd could be slowly refined, and it was not necessary to collect all the materials immediately.
According to the records, two Two Extremes Gourds could initially enhance the effect of the Five Elements Spiritual Light.
Therefore, he wanted to cultivate another Two Extremes Gourd first, engrave the Five Elements Gathering Yuan Formation on it, and see the effect first.
At this moment, he was flying while looking inside his body at the condition of the two Two Extremes Gourds.
The new Two Extremes Gourd and the original natal magic treasure Two Extremes Gourd had both been re-refined by him not long ago, and the Five Elements Gathering Yuan Formation had been engraved on them.
In the dantian, Zhang Ling's Nascent Soul was sitting in meditation with its eyes closed, and two gourds were floating beside it, slowly rotating around it.
The two gourds were slightly different. One was dark cyan, and the other was light cyan. But they were both surrounded by a layer of cyan-white spiritual light. As they rotated, two seemingly identical spiritual lights were intertwined with each other.
Occasionally, they would turn into a ball of cyan-white spiritual light that was indistinguishable from each other, and occasionally they would separate again.
Faintly visible, dense spiritual patterns appeared on the surface of the two gourds. These spiritual patterns outlined strange dark patterns such as mountains, rivers, and clouds. They looked somewhat mysterious.
Suddenly, the spiritual patterns on the dark cyan gourd turned golden-white, trembled, and let out a sword cry. Instantly, seven cyan-golden sword qi spewed out from the mouth of the gourd.
The seven sword qi surrounded Zhang Ling's Nascent Soul, flowing quickly like flying birds. After a while, the seven sword qi entered one after another and re-entered the dark cyan Two Extremes Gourd.
Immediately afterwards, the spiritual patterns on the other light cyan gourd also changed, turning earthy yellow. The entire gourd also turned light yellow, and a rustling sound rang out. A ball of golden-yellow streamer spewed out from the mouth of the gourd, also flowing around Zhang Ling's Nascent Soul.
These streamers were naturally the Heavenly Star Sand that he had refined, and then these spiritual sands slowly fell into the gourd.
The two gourds returned to calm, but before long, this scene changed repeatedly.
This was the two Two Extremes Gourds that had been re-refined with the Five Elements Treasure Technique. They were very different from before.
The two gourds complemented each other, and the Five Elements Spiritual Light they each nurtured could merge with each other without any repulsion. The speed of nurturing magic treasures was also more than half faster than before.
It was no longer the previous natal magic treasure, but was constantly refined according to the method of nurturing the Five Lights Treasure Gourd.
The Heavenly Star Sand and the seven flying swords were also distributed into two gourds. The dark cyan gourd was his original natal magic treasure, and it was now nurturing the flying swords. The light cyan gourd was nurturing the Heavenly Star Sand.
These two gourds, according to the name of the Five Lights Treasure Gourd, one was the Golden Yuan Gourd, and the other was the Earth Yuan Gourd. Each only nurtured one attribute of treasure.
Therefore, the treasures in each gourd were also purer. For example, his seven flying swords, now placed in the Golden Yuan Gourd for nurturing, even if some of the materials mixed in the original flying swords were not metal-based materials.
But after continuous nurturing, these materials would all be washed and refined into materials with sharp gold energy, and the power of the flying swords would increase a lot.
This was also one of the reasons for speeding up the progress of refining magic treasures.
Of course, to maximize the effect of the Five Elements Spiritual Light, the other three attributes, the Water Yuan Gourd, the Fire Yuan Gourd, and the Wood Yuan Gourd, Zhang Ling also planned to refine them all.
Then, nurturing these three attributes of treasures in them would be a complete set of Five Lights Treasure Gourds.
He had a mysterious spiritual bead, and if he wanted to refine it, he would naturally refine the entire set of treasure gourds.
This was not only to lay the foundation for the subsequent cultivation realm. And thinking about hundreds of years later, the treasure gourds would surely give birth to five spiritual treasures.
Then his strength would greatly increase.
As for what treasures to nurture in the other three treasure gourds, Zhang Ling had not yet thought about it. Of course, he was not in a hurry, and he had plenty of time to consider.
At the same time, in addition to refining treasures in the past few years, his cultivation had also increased slightly. He had cultivated the Earthly Fiend Earth Spirit Divine Power, and had also achieved a little success. He could already condense sixteen Earth Spirits at a time.
After further hard cultivation for a period of time, it would not be far away to condense the twenty-four Earth Spirits needed for the Vicious Earth Formation recorded in the technique.
In addition to this, Zhang Ling had also refined three strands of True Demon Qi, and it was not a problem to cast some demonic divine powers.
He had originally collected many techniques, and had also soul-searched the Void Demon True Monarch before. This was a former Great Elder of Myriad Manifestations City, and there were many demonic secret techniques in his memory.
He had also practiced several of them in the past few years, although they did not help much in increasing his cultivation. But they could enhance a lot of strength in battle.
