Upon this ancient book, Zhang Ling also saw the Soul Nourishing Wood in his hand defined as a Rank Seven spiritual root.
And a spiritual plant of the same Rank Seven, called the Two-Yin Gourd, was very similar to the gourd vine in his medicine garden.
This kind of gourd, when grown for about a thousand years, could be used as the primary material for magical treasures, but its power would only be considered average.
However, once it grew for more than ten thousand years, it would be called the Two-Yin Gourd, containing two special spiritual energies that constantly generated and regenerated, called Azure and White energies, which had many mysterious properties.
Its greatest effect was that the Azure and White energies could continuously temper any magical treasure, greatly increasing its power. It was said that any magical treasure, if nurtured within it for a thousand years, would have a high chance of reaching the level of a spiritual treasure.
What is a spiritual treasure? Actually, a spiritual treasure is also a magical treasure.
Those magical treasures that have a weak consciousness are called spiritual treasures, which are also known as the psychic treasures that cultivators often talk about.
After reviewing a large number of ancient books, Zhang Ling learned that some powerful spiritual treasures could achieve true mountain-moving and sea-filling feats, possessing earth-shattering magical powers. Legend has it that spiritual realm cultivators in ancient times brought them down to deal with ancient demons.
Judging from the tools used by cultivators, magical implements are the weakest, and magical treasures are stronger than magical implements. Magical treasures are further divided into ordinary magical treasures, natal magical treasures, and ancient treasures passed down from ancient cultivators.
Among them, natal magical treasures are quite special, and their power gradually increases according to the cultivator's own essence nurturing.
The power of ancient treasures is generally much stronger than ordinary magical treasures, but weaker than spiritual treasures. It is said that above spiritual treasures are immortal artifacts that can only be used by immortals.
The Azure and White energies contained in the Two-Yin Gourd can accelerate the advancement of a magical treasure's rank, which is enough to shock anyone.
In the cultivation world, Zhang Ling had never heard of anyone possessing a spiritual treasure.
The probability of a spiritual treasure appearing is also extremely low, unless those sects with tens of thousands of years of inheritance might have one passed down.
In addition, the Azure and White energies in the gourd seemed to be usable for combat, but these ancient books did not record it in much detail.
Zhang Ling didn't care about this; things that had long become extinct were unlikely to be fully understood by anyone.
Now that he knew that the gourd vine was a Rank Seven spiritual plant, the Two-Yin Gourd, Zhang Ling was naturally overjoyed, and then he immediately returned to Fire Cloud Island, heading straight for the spiritual medicine field.
After careful comparison, this gourd vine was indeed exactly the same as the Rank Seven spiritual root, the Two-Yin Gourd, recorded in the ancient books.
Zhang Ling decided to use this Two-Yin Gourd as his natal magical treasure.
He waited directly in the medicine field for three days. At midnight three days later, it would be the time when the mysterious little bead would show its power again.
At midnight.
The moment Zhang Ling felt the icy cold sensation from the yellow little bead in his hand, he stood up instantly. A ball of spiritual power rose in his palm, enveloping the mysterious little bead, and peeled off the thin ice on it, turning it into a few drops of mysterious liquid.
He walked straight to the root system of the gourd vine and dripped the mysterious liquid that promoted plant growth directly onto the gourd vine.
Zhang Ling stayed in the spiritual medicine field for another night. When he looked at the gourd vine again at dawn, there was no obvious change. From then on, he would go to the spiritual medicine field regularly to carefully observe this gourd vine.
At the same time, he became busy, traveling back and forth between the cave and Myriad Manifestation City. For this reason, he had also been to Huolong Shangren twice, and learned from him the location of several hidden shops.
He was collecting auxiliary materials for refining his natal magical treasure. This cost him a lot of spirit stones, but there were still several rare materials that he had not been able to find.
In addition, he also collected a lot of low-level materials to practice the art of refining. With his current refining skills, the success rate of refining top-grade magical implements was not very high, and he was probably far from being able to refine magical treasures.
Ordinary cultivators would not worry about this.
For a natal magical treasure, the magical treasure embryo before it takes shape can be completely handed over to those refining masters in the market to refine. As long as the magical treasure merges with one's own essence and true energy before it takes shape, it is a natal magical treasure.
This is also the main way for most Golden Core cultivators to refine their natal magical treasures.
Zhang Ling couldn't do this, after all, he was using the Two-Yin Gourd, such a rare material. Once it was taken out, it would attract the covetousness of many experts, and he wouldn't know how he died.
He could only rely on himself to refine it, so the art of refining naturally had to be put on the agenda. If his refining ability was too poor, he was afraid that he would ruin the raw materials.
Of course, he didn't need to worry too much. As long as he could keep the gourd seeds, he could refine them repeatedly even if he failed.
However, doing so would also waste a lot of time. It would be more worthwhile to use the time to practice the art of refining.
Next, Zhang Ling wasted half of his time every day practicing refining techniques, and the other half of his time was used for cultivation. Thus, he entered a boring refining career.
Time flies, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Zhang Ling stood in the medicine field, carefully looking at the gourd vine.
Except for the few thousand-year-old spiritual trees, this medicine field had been cleared out by him. Leaving a few thousand-year-old spiritual trees was only for the gourd vine to use as a support for climbing.
Now the gourd vine was thicker and covered with more than a dozen gourds. These gourds were not the same as he had imagined before. Not all of them could be called Two-Yin Gourds.
These gourds were wrapped in a layer of fluorescent light, some gourds were cyan and some were pale white. The sizes of the gourds were also different, the smallest were only the length of a finger, and the largest were half a person tall.
Only one cyan gourd about a foot in size was wrapped in a ball of cyan energy and a ball of white energy, this was the Two-Yin Gourd.
Looking at this gourd, Zhang Ling was a little excited. Suddenly, he flipped his hand, and a blue flying sword appeared in his hand. He saw a flash of blue light, and a blue sword energy shot out, heading straight for the cyan gourd.
But he saw that at the moment when the blue sword light approached the gourd, the Azure and White energies flowing on the gourd suddenly burst without warning, forming a blue mist that covered the surrounding space of several feet in size.
The sword energy pierced into it and disappeared silently.
After a few breaths, the mist re-condensed on the gourd. The Two-Yin Gourd was not damaged in the slightest.
Zhang Ling couldn't help but grin, the two layers of spiritual energy contained in the Two-Yin Gourd were indeed a bit extraordinary. In addition to being happy, he also thought in his heart whether to pick this gourd now to refine the treasure.
However, he immediately suppressed this somewhat excited thought. If he continued to let this Two-Yin Gourd grow, he didn't know what changes would happen.
With this in mind, Zhang Ling continued to use the mysterious bead to continuously catalyze this gourd vine for a period of time.
As a result, in the past six months, the only Two-Yin Gourd on the gourd vine stopped growing, but the Azure and White energies on it became a bit stronger.
It seemed that each gourd vine could only produce one Two-Yin Gourd.
Zhang Ling was a little unwilling to give up and did not stop the spiritual liquid catalysis, and then a strange change really happened. It's just that the change was a bit strange.
The Two-Yin Gourd did not change much, but the other gourds changed.
Those large and small gourds that did not belong to the Two-Yin Gourd only had one kind of special spiritual power, either white or cyan. With continuous catalysis, the spiritual power on them became more and more intense.
Zhang Ling didn't know whether this phenomenon was good or bad, so he could only come here to observe it every once in a while.
In addition, as time passed, his attainments in the art of refining also improved by leaps and bounds, and now he could stably refine top-grade magical implements.
