In the first few months of seclusion, Zhang Ling studied the corpse refining technique left by the Hundred Souls True Master, and re-refined the owl corpse demon. He fused the pair of bone wings into the corpse demon's body, greatly enhancing its strength.
Controlling the corpse demon and releasing it to fight against others would definitely be a great help.
After resting for a few days, he began to refine the Black Bone Giant Claw again. The materials for re-refining this treasure had already been collected. He intended to refine the Black Bone Giant Claw into a pseudo-spiritual treasure.
Inside a fiery red refining room, the Black Bone Giant Claw transformed into a giant claw thirty to forty zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length) in size, floating in mid-air, being tempered by wisps of earth fire emerging from the ground.
Zhang Ling sat cross-legged on a jade platform beside it, spitting out a ball of yellow infant fire from his mouth, also tempering a bright white stone.
This stone was only the size of a palm, as smooth as a mirror, with traces of golden light on it. This was the Taiyi Gold Crystal.
It was impossible to temper it open with earth fire alone, so he could only use the infant fire of a Nascent Soul cultivator to temper it repeatedly.
This scene lasted for more than ten days before the Taiyi Gold Essence gradually softened and melted into a mercury-like liquid.
Continuously spitting out infant fire was extremely draining on spiritual power. Even though Zhang Ling had many pills to restore spiritual power, his face was still pale after refining this piece of Taiyi Gold Crystal.
The spiritual power in his body was already bottoming out, and he had even lost some vitality.
Of course, if he used the Myriad Year Spiritual Liquid, the spiritual power in his body would instantly recover to eighty or ninety percent. But using such a life-saving item here would be too wasteful.
As for the lost vitality, it would recover after half a month of recuperation.
After all, he didn't have much Myriad Year Spiritual Liquid left. He had only used one drop of Myriad Year Spiritual Liquid himself, and two small bottles of Myriad Year Spiritual Liquid had been used by Blue Sparrow. Now, only the slightly larger jade bottle remained, with only about ten drops left at most.
After refining the Taiyi Gold Essence, Zhang Ling immediately sat down cross-legged to recover the spent energy. After recovering, he continued to refine other materials.
A giant iron-green tree, thirty people could hug, was taken out by him. This was a ten-thousand-year-old Profound Wood, also a top material that could be used to refine top-grade wood-attribute magical treasures.
Without hesitation, Zhang Ling threw out seven flying swords, transforming them into a golden giant sword, and struck the giant tree with one blow. But he did not split open this Profound Wood.
He only split open a large gap. After splitting it more than ten times, this Profound Wood was split into two halves.
In the center of the two halves of wood, the heartwood of several rings of annual growth was pitch black. With the casting of spiritual light, the heartwood was carefully taken out by him. The heartwood of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Wood was not hard, but extremely tough, like a beef tendon.
This was the material he needed.
Taiyi Gold Essence, Geng Gold(庚金: Geng Gold, a type of metal element in Taoism), Ten Thousand Year Profound Wood heartwood, Purple Essence Copper. These top materials were repeatedly refined by Zhang Ling, either melted into liquid or turned into silk threads.
In addition to other auxiliary materials, he spent a full year just processing these refining materials.
Until the third year, with a loud bang, the heavy stone door of the refining room was blasted open. In a cloud of smoke, a black, red, and cyan giant claw flew out. With a gentle wave of the giant claw, dense black claw lights appeared out of thin air, sweeping around with ear-piercing squeals.
Like a large wind blade, the surrounding walls and ground instantly became fragmented, with crisscrossing claw marks.
"Hehe, not bad, not bad, the power has indeed greatly increased."
Zhang Ling walked out from behind with a happy expression on his face. With a flash of spiritual light in his hand, the giant claw flew back into his hand, turning into a dry hand claw. But it looked very delicate, like a bone claw carved out of jade.
This treasure, as a whole, is Xuan black, black with red light, and the front end of the five sharp finger bones is jade white, exuding a trace of cold light.
Now, with a flash of yellow light, he flew directly out of the cave and into an open space outside to test the power of this treasure.
After some testing. The Black Bone Giant Claw has become sharper than before. In terms of attack power alone, it is twice as powerful as before. More importantly, the speed of driving this treasure has become much faster.
Originally, urging this treasure, even at the cost of spiritual power, would take at least five or six breaths of time. Now, two or three breaths of attack is enough.
But correspondingly, the consumption of spiritual power is naturally more. Now, exerting this treasure with all its strength will consume 40% of the spiritual power in the body at a time.
This treasure can be regarded as a pseudo-spiritual treasure, and it focuses on attack power. Once the attack power of this treasure is fully exerted, it is enough to destroy the enemy with one blow.
Speaking of spiritual treasures, the real spiritual treasure in his hand, the Wind Fire Orb. Zhang Ling naturally values it more. Because the Wind Fire Orb is not an ordinary spiritual treasure. It is a Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure.
After returning to the sect, Blue Sparrow had fallen into a deep sleep. She still hadn't woken up after three years. Obviously, the previous battle with the Rakshasa(罗刹: Rakshasa, a type of demon in Buddhism) female warrior had consumed too much energy.
However, on the way back, he told her about his previous encounter after separating the independent space and Blue Sparrow. The most important thing was that he obtained this spiritual treasure.
After seeing the Wind Fire Orb, Blue Sparrow exclaimed, Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure.
Seeing Blue Sparrow exclaim, Zhang Ling realized that the Wind Fire Orb did not seem to be an ordinary spiritual treasure. He naturally asked quickly.
According to Blue Sparrow, spiritual treasures also have grades. But they are not divided into middle, upper, and top grades like ordinary treasures. Instead, they are divided into ordinary spiritual treasures, Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasures, and Innate Spiritual Treasures.
Ordinary spiritual treasures are easy to understand. During the refining process, they absorb the spiritual power of heaven and earth and give birth to independent spirituality.
The Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure is based on this, and the treasure has given birth to spiritual rhyme, and the spirituality has been further enhanced.
It is called Heaven-Penetrating because, according to the spiritual rhyme in the treasure, monks can sense and study a set of methods specifically for controlling the Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure, called Tongbao Jue(通宝诀: Tongbao Jue, a special method to control the Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure).
That is to say, each Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure has a unique Tongbao Jue. Each Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure is also unique. Even if the same materials and the same refining techniques are used, the same Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure cannot be refined.
Because spiritual rhyme is born independently during the process of refining treasures. Only by thoroughly studying the spiritual rhyme on the Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure can the full power of the Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure be brought into play.
As for what spiritual rhyme is, there is actually no accurate answer. The spiritual rhyme in some Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasures is presented as special spiritual patterns, while others are transformed into the appearance of heaven and earth exotic beasts.
Even some spiritual rhyme is a group of elusive spiritual light, visions, and other more ethereal forms.
The spiritual rhyme on the Wind Fire Orb is the two little pigs.
Zhang Ling originally thought that the two little pigs in the Wind Fire Orb were similar to sealing the essence of a monster beast inside to make a tool spirit. But according to Blue Sparrow, it is not a tool spirit, but was born independently during the treasure refining process.
As for the Tongbao Jue of the Wind Fire Orb, it is the special magic formula he studied before.
After Blue Sparrow saw the fireball, she said that this Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure has two layers of Tongbao Jue. The magic formula he saw was the first layer. There is also a second layer of Tongbao Jue hidden above.
In the spirit world, Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasures are also snatched by everyone. It is difficult for Deification and Void Refinement monks to obtain one. And the power of the Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure can also be judged according to the Tongbao Jue.
The power of a Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure that can only study one layer of Tongbao Jue is not much different from that of an ordinary spiritual treasure, but it is only more spiritual.
The power of a Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure with two layers of Tongbao Jue exceeds that of an ordinary spiritual treasure.
The most powerful Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure can study nine layers of Tongbao Jue. Its power is enough to achieve the real thing of moving mountains and seas, covering the sky and the sun.
The power of the Heaven-Penetrating Spiritual Treasure is even greater than that of the Innate Spiritual Treasure. The Innate Spiritual Treasure also has another name, which is Immortal Artifact.
Blue Sparrow did not explain too much, but said that she had not seen the Innate Spiritual Treasure either. She only knew that there were not many of these treasures in the spirit world.
After understanding this information, Zhang Ling only sighed a few times. This information can only be regarded as an increase in knowledge for him.
The most important thing is how to exert the power of the Wind Fire Orb.
According to Blue Sparrow's suggestion, to fully exert the power of the Wind Fire Orb, you must simultaneously master the power of wind and fire and fully display the first layer of Tongbao Jue.
As for the second layer of Tongbao Jue that is still hidden above, it is not something he can consider now.
Zhang Ling was very troubled by this matter. He has neither fire spiritual roots nor wind spiritual roots. How can he master the power of wind and fire at the same time.
Although he can transform the power of wind and fire according to his own spiritual power, it can only be regarded as a reluctant trend, which cannot be regarded as control.
Controlling the Wind Fire Orb in this clever way is a bit of a tasteless thing for him. Although the power exerted is also very strong, it is actually not as good as the current Black Bone Giant Claw.
In a battle, the enemy will not give him too much time to transform his spiritual power.
Zhang Ling thought about it and thought that he could only find a way to master the power of wind and fire. He naturally asked Blue Sparrow for his opinion on this matter. It is not a display to have an expert by his side.
Blue Sparrow chuckled a few times and said, What a difficult thing this is. Although he does not have the spiritual roots of the fire and wind attributes, he can replenish the spiritual roots.
Zhang Ling was very surprised when he first heard the words replenish spiritual roots. Spiritual roots are innate, and they can still be replenished. But after thinking about it, it is not completely impossible.
Spiritual roots are, in the final analysis, the induction of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. To absorb spiritual power and strengthen oneself.
All living beings in heaven and earth, whether they are mortals or cultivators. Living in the world, they are actually absorbing spiritual energy all the time.
It is just that mortals find it difficult to sense spiritual energy, so they cannot use spiritual energy to strengthen themselves. In the end, they are born, old, sick, and die, and their life span is limited.
Cultivators sense spiritual energy and absorb spiritual power for their own use, so that they can strengthen their own energy, spirit, and spirit. Therefore, they have great powers, and their life span is also increasing step by step. They can live for hundreds, thousands, or even immortality.
This is the goal of all cultivators.
However, even if cultivators are strong, their descendants do not necessarily have the spiritual root qualifications to sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
They are like this in the human world, and of course there are mortals in the spirit world.
In order to allow those who do not have qualifications to embark on the path of cultivation, some powerful people have created the method of replenishing spiritual roots.
In fact, spiritual root qualifications are not fixed. As cultivation increases, like Zhang Ling, a Nascent Soul cultivator, even if he does not have spiritual roots of other attributes, he can sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth of other attributes.
He does not have fire spiritual roots, not because he cannot sense any fire spiritual energy.
When he was in the Qi Refining stage, it was indeed difficult to feel the fire spiritual power. But after Foundation Establishment and Golden Core, with years of cultivation, the sense of spiritual power is naturally deepening.
Although it is very weak, this is the result of years of cultivation. He mainly cultivates earth spiritual energy. The earth spiritual energy is absorbed into his body over and over again, thus subtly changing his qualifications.
When he first started cultivating, the test results showed that he had three spiritual roots qualifications, but now he is a Nascent Soul cultivator, and he can no longer use simple three spiritual roots qualifications to summarize his current sense of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
If he is lucky enough to reach the Deification cultivation, his sense of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth will be more profound. This is also the fundamental reason why Deification monks can mobilize the vitality of heaven and earth.
It is the perception of the spiritual power of heaven and earth.
Blue Sparrow also said that if you want to break through the Void Refinement stage, you must have a sense of the power of the five elements.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is changing every moment. The power of the five elements restrains each other and transforms each other, and exotic spiritual energy such as wind, thunder, and ice also emerge.
The most fundamental vitality of the vitality of heaven and earth is the power of the five elements. Most of the special spiritual energy such as demonic energy and yin energy are in the five elements.
The five elements of energy are balanced, and the world is stable.
Of course, there are also some areas where the power of the five elements is out of balance, but the areas are often not large and are insignificant compared to the entire interface.
This kind of place is either in a special space or caused by special spiritual objects.
Before he went to the ice field to find top-quality gold spiritual stones, he entered the ancient abandoned mine. The gold evil energy was strong there. But the most important reason for the bottom line was caused by the Gold Devouring Beast.
After the Gold Devouring Beast leaves, the gold evil energy in that abandoned mine will fade after a while and re-transform into ordinary spiritual energy from heaven and earth.
If a mortal stays in a place full of spiritual energy for hundreds of years, he is no longer an ordinary mortal and may have spiritual root qualifications.
Of course, it is difficult for mortals to live for hundreds of years, but it is not impossible.
When discussing this matter with Blue Sparrow, this guy said that she had traveled in the human territory of the spirit world and accidentally heard in a fairy city that a mortal had taken a Heavenly Longevity Grass that increased his life span by three hundred years.
This person has lived at the foot of a spiritual mountain for three hundred years. He naturally knows that there are cultivators who are suffering from not having spiritual root qualifications and cannot become cultivators.
Originally, he just wanted to live his life in a muddle-headed way. But one day, he found that he could sense spiritual power, and he randomly found a practice method, and he actually succeeded in cultivation.
After that, this person specifically tested his qualifications. He did have cultivation qualifications. Although it was just an ordinary five spiritual roots, he could indeed cultivate.
There is more than one such example in the entire spirit world. Like someone who has taken a special elixir, they can directly give birth to spiritual roots. Even the qualifications far exceed those of ordinary cultivators.
This kind of thing is a coincidence and a special case.
The most widely spread method of replenishing spirits in the spirit world is to replace spiritual roots with other spiritual objects.
It is like refining treasures, refining a special treasure hidden in the body, and using the power of the treasure to sense spiritual energy and act as the role of spiritual roots.
Of course, this method is also limited.
The first is that it has little effect on mortals. After all, mortals have a limited lifespan and can only live for more than a hundred years at most. Even if there is such a treasure in the body, the time is still too short to change his qualifications.
Blue Sparrow said that in the spirit world, some monks have specifically calculated that if you want to use this method to allow mortals to cultivate, the life of mortals must reach at least three or four hundred years. And the probability is not high, and the qualifications are often unsatisfactory. They are all pseudo-spiritual roots.
It is also difficult for this kind of treasure to be integrated into the mortal body, because the materials used to refine the spirit-replenishing treasure mostly contain powerful spiritual power, which mortals cannot bear and may even harm the body.
The biggest use of this spirit-replenishing method is actually the most used by monks in the Deification stage.
Due to the breakthrough to the Void Refinement stage, one needs to comprehend the power of the five elements. However, whether in the human realm or the spirit realm, most cultivators practice with a single attribute of spiritual energy. Even if some cultivate other attributes concurrently, very few cultivate all five elements.
After all, a cultivator's lifespan is limited.
Therefore, they will refine this kind of spirit-supplementing treasure, using it to sense other five-element attributes, and reach the minor five-element realm, so they can smoothly break through to the Void Refinement stage.
After the Blue Sparrow finished introducing the spirit-supplementing method to him, she immediately mentioned that the parasitic vines on his body could allow him to sense wood spiritual energy now, which was actually a spirit-supplementing treasure in itself.
After hearing this, Zhang Ling nodded repeatedly. This kind of spirit-supplementing method, as it turns out, he had personally experienced it.
The parasitic vines had been on his body for two hundred years. In the beginning, they would absorb his own blood essence, causing him to become weak. As his cultivation continued to increase, after reaching the Golden Core stage, the parasitic vines never backfired on him again.
If he wants to master the power of wind and fire, according to this method, finding a wind and fire spiritual object and refining it into a spirit-supplementing treasure can achieve the goal.
Or separate fire attribute treasures and wind attribute treasures, refining them into two spirit-supplementing treasures, can achieve the same goal.
Of course, this matter is not urgent. His current cultivation has reached the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage. Zhang Ling plans to retreat for a period of time and break through to the mid-Nascent Soul stage before talking about it.
He is quite confident in breaking through to the mid-Nascent Soul stage. He had previously taken the Bewitching God Fruit, which is of great help in breaking through bottlenecks.
