Chapter 355: Celestial Heart
Chapter 355: Chapter 137: Celestial Heart
‘Activating the Divine Technique “Immortality” will grant me a one-time rejuvenation. It’s a complete cleansing that reverses my physical state. That should be enough to purge the Spiritual Poison, right?’
‘Oh well, I’ll find out when the time comes. For now, I’d better take a look at my other gains.’
Fang Rui shook his head and took out some Treasure Materials from his Spirit Ring.
That’s right, just these Refining Materials.
As for the Four Symbols Order?
It was tied to the Innate Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Four Symbols Banner, and he was worried about being tracked through it. After cleansing and sealing it with his Spiritual Essence, he still felt uneasy, so he hid it outside, planning to retrieve it only when he needed it.
‘Golden Crystal Stone, Ice Soul Cold Iron, Profound Yuan Heavy Water, Star Sand… These are all top-quality Treasure Materials!’
‘Even when a Source Realm Master upgrades their Lifebound Magical Treasure, the materials they use are probably no better than these.’
In fact, Fang Rui’s guess was correct.
Bao Sichun had spent most of his life accumulating these Treasure Materials. His original plan was to try and break through to a higher Realm after extracting Li Xuantong’s Flood Dragon Qi Fortune, and while he was at it, refine his Magical Treasure to raise its grade.
But unfortunately for him, Li Xuantong was a duck just waiting to be cooked, and Fang Rui had come along and stolen the entire pot!
Later, after Bao Sichun fell to the Deceit Path and his Half-Immortal Dharma Aspect turned into a giant of flesh and blood, he had no use for these Treasure Materials anymore.
This was all to Fang Rui’s benefit.
‘Materials that even a Source Master could use to upgrade a Magical Treasure… for me to use them now to refine a Lifebound Magical Artifact is downright extravagant. However, it will also maximize its potential.’
Generally speaking, to bolster their combat power, other Spirit Masters with the necessary resources would begin refining a Lifebound Magical Artifact right after crossing the threshold to become an Upper Grade Spirit Master.
For Fang Rui to only start refining his Lifebound Magical Artifact now was actually a bit late, but being late had its advantages.
‘An ordinary Upper Grade Spirit Master probably couldn’t even handle these Treasure Materials, but I’m different.’
On the Spirit Master path, he had already reached the very limit of an Upper Grade Spirit Master, and his Martial Arts Realm was that of a Primordial Sea Martial Saint!
‘My power is at the peak of the Upper Grade Spirit Master level, and it’s supplemented by the Spiritual Essence from my Martial Saint Realm. With this, I can use far more refined techniques to forge my Lifebound Magical Artifact.’
“Go!”
With a flick of his sleeve, Fang Rui’s Spiritual Essence surged, taking the form of an azure jade Treasure Furnace. Beneath it, flames of Spiritual Essence blazed fiercely.
‘Refining Treasure with a mortal furnace and mortal fire? How can that possibly compare to modeling my craft after heaven and earth?!’
‘The Great Powers in the myths of my past life took Heaven and Earth as their furnace and Creation as their artisan, Yin and Yang as their charcoal and the myriad things as their bronze.’
‘My current Realm is nothing compared to that, but I can still grasp a bit of the essence.’
Fang Rui murmured to himself as he controlled the various Treasure Materials, sending them flying into the flames in the correct sequence.
GURGLE! GURGLE!
Under the scorching flames of Spiritual Essence, the Treasure Materials began to melt after a long period of burning. They tumbled and rolled as their essences were tempered and their impurities were stripped away.
‘Next step, purify the Chaos Dragon Pearl Origin.’
Fang Rui directly separated out half of the Chaos Dragon Pearl Origin. He burned it repeatedly with Spiritual Essence, simulated a baptism of crashing lightning to cleanse it, and even used concepts from his past life, such as chemical centrifugation…
Finally, after all that trouble, he managed to extract a single wisp of Chaos Qi.
‘The next step is to form the embryo. Now… fuse!’
The Spiritual Essence in Fang Rui’s body surged as he unleashed it without holding anything back. He controlled the droplets of purified essence from the various Treasure Materials and the wisp of Chaos Qi, causing them to slam together in midair.
BOOM!
With a flash of chaotic light, a pearl-shaped Treasure Artifact gradually took form.
‘The Treasure Embryo is complete.’
‘The final step: completing the treasure!’
With a flash in his eyes, Fang Rui forced out a drop of his own blood essence and infused it into the artifact, placing his Divine Soul Seal upon it.
VMMMM!
In midair, a golden pearl spun rapidly, erupting with brilliant light. It illuminated the entire secret chamber, and its glorious radiance rippled like waves on water.
“What a treasure!”
Feeling his Heart and Spirit Linked to the Treasure Pearl, a pleased smile appeared on Fang Rui’s face. “Its most precious component is the wisp of Chaos Qi extracted from the Chaos Dragon Pearl Origin. Chaos Qi is Taiyi, the Great Oneness. The ‘Jin’ for gold signifies its imperishable, indestructible nature…”
“Therefore, I shall name it the ‘Taiyi Golden Pearl’!”
As soon as the words left his lips.
VMMMM!
The Taiyi Golden Pearl spun, and another layer of shimmering light emanated from it, as if it were rejoicing in its new name.
“Hahaha!”
Fang Rui let out a long laugh and caught the Taiyi Golden Pearl in his hand. “This treasure has immense potential and a promising future. But for now, it’s still only at the level of a Magical Artifact. It won’t increase my combat power by much at the moment.”
“However, when my Spirit Master cultivation breaks through to the Source Technique Realm, it will cause the Pearl to advance to a Magical Treasure, raising it by a major level. It will be able to catch up then.”
“Additionally, nurturing it over a long period will also increase the power of this Lifebound Magical Artifact. After a few hundred years, its power will probably be on par with a Super Grade Secret Treasure. If I continuously nourish it with Great Magical Power for tens of thousands of years, its might could even rival an Innate Supreme Treasure!”
“Not bad! Not bad at all!”
Fang Rui put away the Taiyi Golden Pearl and gave a big stretch. “What an ordeal. It’s finally done, for now. I’ve really worn myself out. I deserve a good, long rest.”
“Ah, the longer you live, the more you understand… you have to learn to please yourself, to be at peace with yourself.”
…
「That afternoon.」
By the pavilion in the backyard, a spring gurgled softly and a small stream trickled by. The shade of the trees draped over the area, casting cool shadows on the ground.
In the small pond, the newly planted Jade Lotuses, which looked as if they were carved from jade, bloomed with wisps of golden light. Dragonflies hovered over the pointed tips of the young lotus buds.
In the bright sunlight of late summer and early autumn, a gentle afternoon breeze rustled through the air.
Mrs. Xue of the Fang Family, Third Lady, Fang Ling, and Nannan were in the pavilion, playing with bone tiles.
Fang Rui sat nearby, holding a book. It wasn’t some secret manual of ancient techniques, just a common storybook. He was simply enjoying a moment of leisure with his family.
The only one who didn’t seem happy was probably the little girl, Fang Li.