Zhang Ling carefully observed Elder Long's actions throughout the entire process. The spiritual patterns engraved by formation masters are somewhat different from those of weapon refiners.
However, there are also many similarities. The most important step in refining magical artifacts is to observe the characteristics of various spiritual materials. The reason why this old man observed the emerald bamboo for a long time just now was to do this.
Elder Long held the metal writing brush and injected spiritual power into it, causing the metal writing brush to glow. Zhang Ling knew that this person had begun refining.
As Elder Long concentrated on engraving runes on the spiritual wood, the entire emerald bamboo was also enveloped in a layer of golden light.
This scene lasted for more than two hours before it ended.
"This treasure has been refined." Elder Long stood up with a tired face and let out a long breath.
Everyone also turned their eyes to look. After the emerald bamboo was refined, golden runes appeared on it, and between these golden runes, there were also fine purple lines connecting them. It looked as if some gold had been decorated on it, which was very exquisite.
Elder Long took the refined emerald bamboo and walked to the specific formation plate of the Wood Genesis Formation that had been set up. He also took out a few formation plates and built a simple spiritual platform.
Then he placed the emerald bamboo in it and began to cast spells.
After a cup of tea's time, the emerald bamboo floated in the middle of several formation plates, emitting a verdant light.
With the six-hundred-year-old emerald bamboo as the formation eye, the few of them immediately felt that the surrounding wood spiritual energy suddenly became much richer, and even thecyan light罩 formed in the sky became visibly thicker.
Afterwards, they discussed the details of retrieving the treasure, and Elder Long also suggested that they should recover their consumption.
Naturally, the others had no objections, until more than an hour later.
The crowd formed a circle, took out the spirit protecting formation they had used before, formed a five-colored shield, and stepped onto the altar.
As soon as they stood on the altar, the five-colored spiritual light罩 was instantly deformed by a powerful force.
Seeing this, Elder Long cast a few spells. At the same time, Zhang Ling and the other three also increased their mana injection to stabilize the shield.
With the shield defense, the few people walked step by step towards the bronze cauldron in the center.
Soon after, they crossed most of the distance, and when they were only ten zhang(丈: zhang - a unit of length) away from the bronze cauldron, the five-colored shield began to become unstable again. The pressure was very high.
At this time, a green beam of light rose from the five people, dividing into countless tiny spiritual lights, hitting thecyan light罩 formed by the Wood Genesis Formation.
This was Elder Long fully activating the Wood Genesis Formation. Subsequently, on thecyan light罩, spiritual light continued to flicker, and spiritual light runes sprinkled down like rain.
As soon as these runes appeared, their goal was very clear, all spreading to the few giant rock pillars that were still flashing with spiritual light.
After a few breaths, those rock pillars were dyed yellow and green, and the light on them dimmed a lot.
And the five people walking on the altar suddenly felt that the external pressure had been reduced a lot.
The few people, holding up the five-colored shield, entered within ten zhang(丈: zhang - a unit of length) of the cauldron.
Instantly, waves rose from the surroundings without wind, smoke and dust filled the air, and strands of yellow spiritual power rose from the altar, turning into grains of yellow sand. The outside of the light罩 became dim and abnormal, as if they were in a storm.
The howling of the wind continued, and the strange cracking sounds were even more endless.
At the same time, countless grains of yellow sand rotated wildly, forming a sandstorm, hitting the shield.
There were also bursts of popping sounds.
At this time, the people in the shield also showed their own shields or took out defensive magical artifacts.
From the outside, the space in the center of the altar was like a sandstorm, with yellow sand all over the sky, only a dim five-colored shield constantly moving forward.
This scene looked simple, but the people in the shield were not relaxed. As they continued to inject spiritual power to thicken the five-colored spiritual light, Zhang Ling and the others' spiritual power was also rapidly being consumed.
Each time they approached, the surrounding pressure increased greatly. Outside, there was also yellow sand constantly hitting, causing painful eardrums.
They moved forward with difficulty all the way, and it took them two hours before they managed to step into three zhang(丈: zhang - a unit of length) of the great cauldron.
Just as everyone thought that they could get the treasure if they persisted for a while, the formation plate in Elder Long's hand suddenly shook violently, and small cracks appeared on it.
"Not good, the spirit protecting formation has reached its limit and can't hold on anymore."
As soon as these words came out, the faces of the few people became extremely ugly. At this moment, they had entered a dilemma, and naturally it was impossible to retreat.
They had anticipated this situation before. Once the five-colored shield shattered, they could only withstand the sandstorm outside.
Zhang Ling did not hesitate to pat his storage bag, and two spiritual符(灵符: spiritual 符) were activated by him, formingcyan and yellow shields to protect himself. Then, a black light flashed from his sleeve, and the Wujin shield appeared.
This magical artifact has been restored to its full power after years of nurturing. Under normal circumstances, it would not be a problem to resist the attacks of monks of the same rank.
Shield-like defensive magical artifacts have strong one-sided defensive power, but their shortcomings are also obvious. They can only block one or two sides of attacks at most.
Unlike body protecting spiritual light, which is an all-around defense.
Just like the sandstorm they are in at the moment. The attack intensity is endless and comes from all directions.
At this moment, only by constantly increasing the defense can they break through this barrier. The others had the same idea as him, and they also cast spells to stack defenses.
A round treasure珠(宝珠: treasure 珠) appeared in Ye Zimei's hand, her delicate eyebrows slightly frowned, and a mass of white essence sprayed on the treasure珠(宝珠: treasure 珠).
The treasure turned around and flashed to the top of her head, emitting a scarlet light, forming a layer of condensed fire spirit罩.
And Ding Ruozhao also shook her hand, and a silver light flashed, and a ribbon flew out of her sleeve, surrounding her body, forming a layer of defense.
Furthermore, thecyan python Taoist's body flashed with golden light. It seemed that he used some secret technique to form golden spiritual light on the surface of his body, which was quite dazzling.
Elder Long, who was standing in the center, also had a gloomy face, and the token magical artifact he had obtained not long ago appeared in his hand, withcyan light flashing on it.
Situations like this, where magical artifacts are used as soon as they are obtained, are actually not very common.
Because magical artifacts need to be refined by monks to exert their full power. Using them directly can only exert about 60-70% of their power at most.
But defensive magical artifacts are stronger than monks' spiritual power shields as long as they exert half of their power.
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After a dozen breaths, a cracking sound rang out in the five-colored shield.
The formation plate in Elder Long's hand shattered into countless pieces first. At the same time, the light on the formation plates in the hands of Zhang Ling and the other three dimmed, and they all lost their effect.
After a few loud bangs, the five-colored shield finally collapsed under the heavy pressure and shattered like a bubble.
The next moment, yellow sand rushed towards them.
