Chapter 772 - 545: Pill Formation Ceremony

Chapter 772: Chapter 545: Pill Formation Ceremony

Magical Treasures are artifacts that have completely entered a new stage, distinctly different from Magical Artifacts and Spiritual Artifacts, with a very special refining process.

When a Magical Treasure is first refined, it can only be called an artifact embryo, with none of its properties activated. If a cultivator uses it directly, it can only be thrown or produce some basic changes in Spiritual Qi, but it is not useful.

At this time, the owner must sacrifice it with heart and blood and nurture it with Spiritual Qi. During this process, the connection between the artifact embryo and the owner will become tighter every day, adapting constantly to the owner’s spiritual sense strength, spirit root attribute, and spiritual power flow characteristics, and it will be firmly imprinted with the owner’s divine sense.

During this process, the cultivator chooses the Magical Treasure, and the Magical Treasure also chooses the cultivator. If the cultivator’s attributes do not match the artifact embryo’s, it is extremely difficult to successfully sacrifice it, and its mystical properties are hard to activate, remaining a dull object.

Only when the sacrifice is completely successful does the artifact embryo reveal its brilliance, fully activating and defining all its mystical properties, transforming into a true Magical Treasure.

The success of this sacrifice is directly related to the cultivator’s cultivation level, the characteristics of the Magical Treasure, and the compatibility between the cultivator and the Magical Treasure. It can take from one or two years to over ten years.

Therefore, when a completed Magical Treasure is seized, cultivators often find it difficult to use. Even if they re-sacrifice it and remove the original owner’s divine sense imprint, the Magical Treasure is inherently aligned with the original owner, and it cannot completely match the owner.

In other words, this Magical Treasure already takes on the mold of the original owner. You may be able to use it, but it will never feel as comfortable as with the original owner.

Only in very rare cases where there is a perfect match, or if the Magical Treasure itself is special, can its power be harnessed to over ninety percent.

Strangers find it difficult to use, and it is challenging to extract good materials upon reprocessing; thus, completed Magical Treasures are difficult to sell at high prices in the market.

Currently, the treasury of the Yunshan Sect has the following Magical Treasures: Qiming Spirit Monarch’s Venus Unity Ball, Master Fengfeng’s Hundred Blessings Spiritual Ruyi and Glazed Cyan Crane Mirror, along with six Magical Treasures in total from Master Lingyin and Master Yuhu.

Among these Magical Treasures, only the Hundred Blessings Spiritual Ruyi is special, having no requirements for the owner’s spirit root attribute or spiritual power characteristics, and can be used after re-sacrificing. The rest either do not match Lu Qian and Wu Yan, or Lu Qian considers them not valuable enough to invest heart and blood.

Now under the leadership of the Tao Brothers, the Yunshan Sect can also refine artifact embryos of Magical Treasures. But the Tao Brothers, being only at Foundation Establishment cultivation level, even with the support of high-tier Spirit Veins, high-level refining equipment, rare materials, and the Yunshan Sect’s financial prowess, along with the Dharma Gate of "Ten Thousand Refinements Golden Touching Wondrous Method" and the blueprints of "Treasure True Mirror," they can refine artifact embryos of Magical Treasures, but cannot guarantee success rate and quality.

The success of the Ming Snake Daoist Soldier prototype was costly, consuming five times the normal materials, along with Lu Qian’s full efforts using Golden Core level divine sense for spiritual infusion, completing initial meridian passage, power supply, linking, fusion core, and metamorphosis, which enabled the Ming Snake Daoist Soldiers to develop beast-like combat instincts and basic spiritual wisdom, capable of freely moving by absorbing Spiritual Qi from the Spirit Veins.

Currently, the overall strength of this prototype fluctuates between early and mid-stage Golden Core levels.

In this situation, although preparations were made for Golden Core Magical Treasures for Lu Qian and Wu Yan, successfully refining four artifact embryos, they were at most only mid-tier.

Lu Qian and Wu Yan have just successfully advanced and haven’t had the chance to perform the sacrificial ritual yet, when now, unexpectedly, Miaomiao Profound Monarch was generous, granting each two pieces of top-grade artifact embryos!

In this way, the Yunshan Sect’s own refining products prepared earlier can now be stored away.

The difference between top-grade Magical Treasures and mid-tier Magical Treasures is not minor, with the former being priceless and rare, even in Plum Blossom Marketplace, appearing very seldom; if they do appear, the price could be raised to about ten times that of mid-tier Magical Treasures.

Lu Qian suspects whether these four top-grade artifact embryos were acquired from the eighteen treasure ships awarded by Taiyi Paradise.

These artifact embryos currently remain unnamed, waiting for Lu Qian and Wu Yan to sacrifice them into Magical Treasures before naming them.

Lu Qian received two artifact embryos: a mirror and a tower, both auxiliary Magical Treasures.

The mirror has effects of delaying, dispelling illusions and delusions, revealing, and tracking, along with the ability to clear one’s mind, calm the heart tide, aiding the owner to adjust their state. In this regard, it is beneficial for crossing the Heart Demon Tribulation to form a Nascent Soul.

The tower, when attacking enemies, has effects such as binding, immobilizing, suppressing, while for oneself, it can protect the body, resist attacks, serving as a versatile companion both externally and internally.

Miaomiao Profound Monarch presumably thought that Lu Qian, as an array cultivator, does not require attack-type Magical Treasures, thus selecting these two, which align with Lu Qian’s preferences.

The two artifact embryos given to Wu Yan are a sash and a disc, glittering brilliantly, ideally suited for female cultivators.

The sash has the ability of extending or shortening at will, can bind, immobilize, protect, shield, transform variously, and can be both offensive and defensive, exuding agility.

The disc is a purely offensive Magical Treasure. Crescent-shaped, exceptionally sharp, swift, silent in flight, unseen when breaking through clouds.

Currently, Wu Yan’s spirit root attribute has not been fully revealed; from limited information, most people assume she possesses a Water Attribute Celestial Spiritual Root.

All four Magical Treasure embryos possess numerous mystical properties and require significant effort and time to successfully sacrifice, likely taking several years of hard work.

Therefore, from this perspective, at the initial Golden Core stage, when Magical Treasures are yet to be formed, it is the time when a Golden Core Master is most vulnerable.