Could it be that the gourd vine has reached its growth limit? This question popped up in Zhang Ling's mind.
During this time, he had been instructing the puppet to use the mysterious beads, dripping all the growth-promoting spiritual liquid onto the gourd vine every twelve days.
In reality, this gourd vine had been planted for eleven years. For the first five years, he was in closed-door cultivation, transcribing his cultivation method, and didn't fully focus on promoting its growth. In the following six years, all the growth-promoting spiritual liquid was used on the gourd vine.
Calculating its growth age, this gourd vine has grown for over 20,000 years. With such a long growth period, it's truly possible that it has reached its limit.
The Two-Realm Gourd belongs to the seventh-grade spiritual root, a rare treasure in the world, but that doesn't mean it can keep growing forever.
Some special spiritual herbs even wither after growing for only about a hundred years, but their rarity remains undiminished.
Generally speaking, the value of spiritual plants is determined by two aspects. The first is determined by the characteristics of the spiritual plant itself, and the second is that the longer the age, the greater the value.
Ordinary thousand-year-old third-grade spiritual herbs are not as valuable as four or five-hundred-year-old fourth-grade spiritual herbs.
The reason why spiritual plants are different from ordinary plants is because they themselves contain spiritual power. For example, the blue and white energy contained in these Two-Realm Gourds is even more special. This is determined by the inherent characteristics of the Two-Realm Gourd.
Zhang Ling stared at the gourd vine, pondered for a moment, and then walked to the Two-Realm Gourd that was only a foot or so in size. Currently, this gourd hasn't undergone any changes, but the blue and white spiritual energy on it is much thicker than before.
Zhang Ling flicked his finger, and a yellow sword light flashed, slashing at the junction of the Two-Realm Gourd and the vine.
Immediately, the gourd fell off. A flash of spiritual light appeared in Zhang Ling's hand, and a yellow spiritual power hand firmly grasped the gourd.
As this gourd, which had grown for over 20,000 years, fell into his hand, Zhang Ling felt a sinking sensation in his hands. This gourd didn't look big, but its weight was not small. It was estimated to weigh at least a thousand pounds.
After separating from the gourd vine, the spiritual light on the gourd gradually dissipated, revealing the gourd itself.
The entire gourd was dark cyan in color, with a gradual change in color from cyan green at the top to dark cyan at the bottom. Some white spiritual patterns appeared on the outer skin, like some kind of pattern, but it was impossible to see any regularity.
Zhang Ling held the gourd and carefully observed it, and couldn't help but release his divine sense to probe the gourd. A layer of cyan and white spiritual energy immediately appeared on the surface of the gourd.
The spiritual energy looked thin, but it blocked the probe of his divine sense. Naturally, Zhang Ling was unwilling to give up and immediately mobilized all of his divine sense.
He saw the Two-Realm Gourd in his hand tremble a few times, as if it had been hit by some force, and the spiritual energy on it also flowed.
The cyan and white spiritual energy only slightly blocked his divine sense, and Zhang Ling probed towards the gourd's main body.
After a few breaths, Zhang Ling touched the space between his eyebrows, feeling a little pain. Even using all of his divine sense, he couldn't penetrate the gourd's outer skin to see the inside.
The gourd didn't feel special to the touch, but its density was unexpectedly so high. With his current divine sense strength, he could even probe more than ten feet deep inside the rock.
Zhang Ling wasn't disappointed, but instead, he couldn't help but laugh twice. The stronger this gourd is, the stronger the natal magic treasure that is refined from it will naturally be.
He took out a square white jade box, carefully placed the Two-Realm Gourd in it, and then attached a few spiritual talismans before putting it into his storage bag.
Now that the main material is available, the most important thing next is to refine this gourd into a natal magic treasure.
Looking at the remaining dozen or so gourds of different sizes on the gourd vine, Zhang Ling thought about how to deal with these gourds.
The growth years of these gourds are also the same as the Two-Realm Gourd. It's more than enough to refine magic treasures, but these gourds only have one special spiritual power.
Whether it's the blue spiritual energy or the white spiritual energy, it's different from ordinary five elements spiritual power. Moreover, they are clearly distinct, and each gourd only has one kind of spiritual energy. It seems that the two groups of energy are conflicting.
However, the Two-Realm Gourd contains two kinds of spiritual energy, obviously the blue spiritual energy and the white spiritual energy are compatible.
Not understanding what is special about these two groups of spiritual energy, Zhang Ling looked at the gourd vine and waved his hand again, releasing two sword lights, cutting off two small gourds from the gourd vine.
One of the two gourds was attached with white light and the other with blue light. The sizes were also similar, only an inch or so in size, and they were the smallest two gourds on the gourd vine.
Zhang Ling rolled his sleeves and grabbed the two gourds in his palm, leaving the spiritual medicine field.
Taking away these two small gourds was naturally to study the secrets of the Two-Realm Gourd. Only by understanding the characteristics of these gourds can they be handled well.
In the following months, Zhang Ling spent most of his time in the earth fire house, constantly studying the art of refining.
His main target was naturally refining magic treasures. Until one day half a year later, a loud rumbling sound came from the earth fire stone house,
Soon after, the sound stopped, and amidst a cloud of smoke, Zhang Ling opened the stone door and walked out.
At this moment, his hair was disheveled and the black robe he wore was damaged in many places, looking exactly like a beggar, but his face was full of excitement.
At this moment, he was also holding a purplish-black short sword in his hand.
Zhang Ling stared unblinkingly at the short sword in his hand, his body's spiritual power surged, and a condensed yellow spiritual power was injected into it. Immediately, the short sword emitted a roaring sound.
With a gentle flick of the short sword, the sword changed in front of his eyes. A black light flashed on the sword body, releasing a circle of black mist, and then more than a dozen black sword lights rushed out, quickly rotating around his body, and then these sword lights all overlapped in an instant, turning into a black-purple giant sword.
With a loud bang, the giant sword directly slashed on the rock wall next to it, and the ground trembled. The entire mountain wall was directly slashed with a huge opening five or six feet long, and looking at the depth of the crack, it was also several feet deep.
With a wave of his hand, Zhang Ling saw the giant sword sway, transforming back into mist and landing in his hand, forming a black short sword.
"Not bad, I'll call you Black Cloud."
Zhang Ling smiled and gave the short sword in his hand a name. Just now was just a casual blow from him. If he were to fully activate it, its power could be increased several times.
This Black Cloud Sword was the first magic treasure he had truly refined. The main material was refined from a thousand-year-old third-grade Black Cloud Wood.
Black Cloud Wood is not a wood-attribute material, but a spiritual wood that grows in water. The magical artifacts or magic treasures refined from it are more inclined to water attributes.
The power of this Black Cloud Sword can only be regarded as the most ordinary magic treasure, even worse than the blue flying sword he is currently using.
He even failed once during the refining process, wasting a lot of materials. The materials wasted alone could be exchanged for more than 100,000 spirit stones.
But after all, this Black Cloud Sword was the first magic treasure he successfully refined, and Zhang Ling couldn't help but feel pleased with it.
