Chapter 64

Jie Ming couldn't wait to take out the "Eye of Scouting" prototype from the storage ring, as well as some rare materials prepared earlier for improving seal wizarding tools.

Under the support of new mental power and true essence, Jie Ming's grasp of runes, material properties, and details was more precise.

He modified the structure of the runes, adjusted the flow of energy, and integrated some more refined runes into it.

After some refining and reshaping, that originally rough transparent crystal became more brilliant, and the runes inside seemed to come alive, emitting faint and restrained light.

The appearance didn't change much, still that crystal eyeball look, but it looked more perfect.

"Should be fine." Jie Ming suspended this new "Eye of Scouting" prototype in the air.

Closing the protective barrier of the laboratory, Jie Ming activated the seal, and his mind connected with it.

He walked to the door of the laboratory, placed the Eye of Scouting silently on the top of the door frame, and then returned to his seat.

This time, the information perceived was no longer blurred and scattered fluctuations.

The Eye of Scouting seemed to have truly become an eye, "projecting" the scene within a range of several hundred meters around it into Jie Ming's divine sense in a peculiar way.

He could clearly "see" the figures of apprentices in the corridor, perceive the life force fluctuations in their bodies, and even distinguish the faint energy emitted by the wizarding tools they wore.

And this kind of perception was continuous, like connecting to a surveillance probe; as long as the Eye of Scouting was not destroyed, it could continuously transmit information, and the mental power consumed by himself was negligible, only the extremely low consumption required to maintain the soul connection.

Of course, the prototype still had shortcomings.

Its perception range was still limited, unable to penetrate thick walls or powerful barriers.

In complex environments, such as a battlefield full of energy interference like the Greyrock Realm, its perception effect might be greatly reduced.

Moreover, it could only be passively perceived and did not have active scanning or tracking capabilities.

"There is still a lot of room for improvement." Jie Ming looked at the Eye of Scouting floating in the air, his eyes filled with enthusiasm.

From the effect, the current Eye of Scouting was not even as good as the range of his active release of Alchemy and Analysis.

However, since the initial prototype had been completed, the next step was just to continue optimizing along this line of thought.

Jie Ming didn't continue the experiment, put the Eye of Scouting back on the experimental table, and focused his attention on the depths of his consciousness with an excited expression.

Now, the research on scouting-type seal wizarding tools had a clear direction, and his cultivation had also reached the late stage of Qi Refining.

This meant that he could start working on the next, and also his most important plan all along.

That was—Artifact Refining!

It was time to start refining the first magic treasure of his own!

Late stage of Qi Refining.

According to the records of the cultivation method, at this stage, a cultivator's true essence has accumulated to a certain extent, and divine sense is sufficient to carry more complex tasks, so one can start to contact some auxiliary skills that have higher requirements for cultivation.

Among them, the most important is Artifact Refining.

Although ordinary cultivators can also refine some small objects through various means, there is only one result that can be properly called Artifact Refining, and that is "Magic Treasure."

Magic Treasure is a unique concept in the cultivation system.

It is not just a powerful object, but also the embodiment of a cultivator's "Dao," a life-bound object connected to the heart and mind, capable of growing with the cultivator, and even possessing incredible power.

This is essentially different from wizarding tools refined by wizards or small objects refined by other cultivators—wizarding tools and talismans rely more on external energy and precise structures, and their strength mainly depends on materials, runes, structures, and the level of energy injected, with a relatively indirect connection to the user.

Magic Treasure requires the cultivator to integrate their own true essence, divine sense, and even a trace of soul origin into it, using their own true fire to temper the spirituality of the materials, using divine sense to engrave arrays containing the corresponding "Dao," and finally refining a life-bound vessel that is in harmony with their own aura, can be driven as one wishes, and can even grow with the cultivation level.

Simply put, Artifact Refining is not just a skill, but the process of embodying one's own understanding of the "Dao" and the rules of heaven and earth into a powerful object.

This concept of engraving one's own "imprint" into an object, making it possess "spirituality" and "growth potential," is something that ordinary objects do not possess.

And for Jie Ming, besides being able to improve combat power, refining a magic treasure is more important because it can make up for the defects in his existing combat system.

With seal wizarding tools, he actually doesn't lack means of attack.

The reason why he intends to refine an artifact is that he values the "spirituality" of the magic treasure itself the most.

The reason Jie Ming skipped the manufacturing of intelligent auxiliary machines and prioritized making scouting-type seal wizarding tools is because of this idea—he intends to let the magic treasure that has initially possessed spirituality serve as an intelligent terminal to help him process information.

Spirituality cannot be counted as a special attribute unique to magic treasures; after all, those high-tier wizarding tools or runic artificial intelligence not only possess spirituality, but can even give birth to "wisdom" under suitable conditions.

But at the current stage, the only option that can make an object possess spirituality is a magic treasure.

Sinking his mind into the depths of his consciousness, Jie Ming began to choose from the various magic treasure refining methods provided by the Great Dao Library.

Considering that the wizard world and the cultivation world are different, Jie Ming's requirements for magic treasures were also quite strict.

First is that the cultivation requirement for manufacturing cannot be too high, then is the limitation of manufacturing tools—after all, some furnaces dedicated to artifact refining need to be manufactured at the Golden Core stage.

So he could only choose the kind of magic treasure that could be refined using the most primitive refining methods.

Considering that there is no spiritual energy in the wizard world, it is best to reduce the dependence of the magic treasure on spiritual energy to the lowest.

In this way, those magic treasures that excel in frontal attacks were almost completely excluded, fortunately Jie Ming didn't lack means of attack.

Considering the difference in materials, magic treasures that need precious materials or special substances to manufacture were also directly ignored.

Fortunately, because the cultivation civilization has evolved the ability to extract concepts, the limitations in terms of materials are not too great.

Because this magic treasure is mainly used as an intelligent terminal to help him process information, the spirituality born after refining needs to be strong enough.

On the other hand, it is best if this magic treasure can make up for the defects in his existing combat system, and it would be even better if it could save his life.

……

After filtering through all the requirements, even Jie Ming felt that he seemed a bit excessive, but the Great Dao Library still gave him a massive number of choices.

Spending a few days picking and choosing in the depths of his consciousness, Jie Ming finally found the target he was satisfied with among the vast sea of magic treasure manufacturing diagrams.

Magic Treasure—Five-Cloud Transformation Rainbow Mirror!