Chapter 178 - 118: Eternal Night Cold Tide and Cyan Jade Gourd

Chapter 178: Chapter 118: Eternal Night Cold Tide and Cyan Jade Gourd

Chen Shang stored the gourd into the Space Book. "Exactly. This is just a temporary transition. Besides, after using the Witchcraft, you can refill it... Plus, you can put other things in it."

Alicia stood up. "This thing can hold other items?"

Chen Shang scratched his head. "It can only hold Witchcraft. If it’s a physical object... it might shatter."

He was telling the truth. Although this gourd used a Space Storage Rune, it hadn’t been engraved with any Space Stability Runes. Its outer shell was simply a hexagonal mesh woven from Void Silk, lacking sufficient strength.

Storing Witchcraft was fine. Witchcraft was an Energy Body without mass, so it wouldn’t exert pressure on the mesh.

However, storing physical objects wouldn’t work. A stone, a sword, or a Potion—they all had mass.

Under the gravity of a physical object, the spherical Space inside the gourd would deform, stretching the mesh. The confinement seal would fail, and the entire gourd would shatter from the inside out.

He couldn’t create a true Space Alchemy product. That required a High Level Wizard to forge it into shape using stable Space Materials.

He could only cobble together a crude version using entries and Void Silk. It was barely usable, but one shouldn’t expect it to serve as Space storage equipment.

***

Chen Shang was in no rush to head to the Earth Element World. The Golden Crow had completely digested the Cyan Bird Face’s Spiritual Power Fragment and undergone a few Mutations... It could now manipulate a trace of the Wind Element!

Hovering in midair, the Golden Crow gently flapped its wings. A gust of cyan-white wind surged from beneath them, and an incredibly thin Wind Blade precisely sliced halfway through a piece of scrap paper on the Recording Platform.

"Boss, you chose the Fire Element route for me. Have I gone off track now?" The Golden Crow landed back on Chen Shang’s shoulder, a hint of confusion in its deep red eyes.

"Of course not!" Chen Shang shook his head. What a joke, who said it couldn’t manipulate the Wind Element? The true Golden Crow merely had True Sun Fire as its core, but its Rainbow Transformation Technique was also a Great Divine Technique.

"Test your limits," Chen Shang said.

The Golden Crow nodded and flapped its wings again. This time, instead of a Wind Blade, a gentle thrust propelled it from Chen Shang’s left shoulder to his right. Its speed was so fast that the naked eye could only catch an afterimage.

Chen Shang opened his Eye of Truth and scanned it. The Golden Crow’s Sea of Consciousness had doubled in size compared to before, and the resilience of its Spiritual Force Field had improved by two levels.

The Cyan Bird Face’s Spiritual Power Fragment had been completely absorbed. Those instincts regarding Wind Element Perception and Energy tracking had become its own.

Its Spiritual Power had jumped from Tier One to Tier Two, a whole Level higher than its physical tier.

Chen Shang took it off his shoulder and placed it on the Recording Platform. "Your body can’t fully unleash the might of your Spiritual Power. It’s time for an evolution!"

The Golden Crow beamed with joy. "Boss, I’m always ready!"

Chen Shang spent a few days preparing. Three days later, a bottle of deep red Fire Seed Essence sat before him.

It was refined using the Crystal Core Powder of a Fire Elemental Spirit, the blood of a Magma Giant, and the tinder of the Samadhi True Flame, making it exceptionally suitable for the Golden Crow’s current attributes.

Additionally, there was a fist-sized Fire Attribute Crystal Core of extremely high purity, which could provide the Energy for its evolution.

Chen Shang set up a miniature Rune Array in the Temperature-Controlled District to stabilize the Golden Crow’s body temperature and Spiritual Power fluctuations. He then placed the Golden Crow inside, having it squat at the center of the array.

"Drink this first." Chen Shang brought the Fire Seed Essence to the Golden Crow’s beak.

The Golden Crow swallowed it in one gulp. The moment the Potion slid down its throat, its body suddenly tensed. Its feathers puffed up, its body temperature skyrocketed, and a dark red glow surfaced beneath its skin.

But it didn’t panic. After multiple experiments, it had grown accustomed to this process.

Chen Shang pressed the Fire Attribute Crystal Core against the Golden Crow’s chest, activating it with Spiritual Power. The Crystal Core began to glow, and dark red light seeped from its surface, penetrating into the bird’s body through the gaps in its feathers.

The Golden Crow’s body instinctively absorbed the Fire Element, causing the Crystal Core to shrink at a visible rate.

Simultaneously, Chen Shang unrolled some Rune Carriers, gently wrapping them around the Golden Crow. The Runes lit up, and pale golden light patterns spread across the surface of the Golden Crow’s feathers like blood vessels.

He began to guide the flow of the Samadhi True Flame. Starting from the heart, it traveled through the throat to the tip of the beak, turned back down to the wings, and finally branched out to the three claws. Every single path was precisely calculated.

Finally came the fusion. Chen Shang guided a sample of the Wind-Binding Mark to the top of the Golden Crow’s head, letting it slowly rotate like a miniature crown.

This wasn’t to add the Wind Attribute to the Golden Crow, but to use the residual Wind Element from the Cyan Bird Face and merge it into the Golden Crow’s Samadhi True Flame.

Within the Golden Crow’s Sea of Consciousness, the two Powers began to clash violently. The Wind Element was pale Blue, permeating like mist, while the Samadhi True Flame was bright Gold, churning like magma.

They devoured each other, but with the enhancement of the Fire Attribute Crystal Core, the Wind Element was like water without a source and was rapidly defeated.

The Golden Crow’s body trembled violently within the Runes. It shed layer after layer of feathers. The old feathers fell to the ground, spontaneously combusting into Ashes.

New feathers sprouted from beneath its skin. They were crimson-gold, with edges shimmering in a faint cyan light.

Ultimately, the Wind Element mist was engulfed by the Flame, reshaped in the high temperature into something carrying a Flame Attribute.

Through Chen Shang’s Eye of Truth, he saw that deep within the Golden Crow’s Sea of Consciousness, the Spiritual Power core that originally belonged to the Dream Crow had vanished. Taking its place was a cluster of burning pale golden Flame.

The Flame was shaped like a curled-up bird, its wings folded and its head buried in its chest, burning quietly. The foreign Samadhi True Flame had finally become the Golden Crow’s own origin.

A few Hourglasses later, the Golden Crow opened its eyes. Its pupils had shifted from deep red to bright Gold, sharing the exact same color as the little Flame at the tip of its beak.

It stood up and shook its wings. Under the Rune Lamp, its new feathers gleamed with a dark golden luster, and the edge of every feather bore an extremely fine ring of fire patterns.

The Golden Crow opened its beak and let out a low cry, sounding like a metallic resonance.