Chapter 65

Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror. The collection of novels on TTKS. TW is complete; read anytime.

A sharp tool for escape among magic treasures. According to the introduction in the Great Dao Book Pavilion, once this item is refined, the user can drive the magic treasure with their mind to transform into light and travel, allowing them to burst forth with extraordinary escape speed in a short time.

During the transformation into light, one can even be immune to most physical attacks and can even penetrate some weak energy barriers and non-physical obstacles.

The drawbacks are also obvious: first, this magic treasure has no offensive or defensive capabilities.

Second, the consumption is immense; every use will drain the vast majority of the cultivator's true essence and spiritual sense.

Moreover, because the escape effect grows almost without limit as the cultivator's level increases, no matter what level the cultivator reaches, they will consume true essence and spiritual sense proportionally after use.

It belongs to the category of desperate escape trump cards and must not be abused.

Furthermore, because the speed after transforming into light is too fast, if the cultivator's level is too low, they can only move in a straight line when using it and it is difficult to control the landing point.

This problem can only be alleviated after reaching the Nascent Soul Stage.

Additionally, the magic treasure is connected to the cultivator's mind; if it is powerfully shattered while in the light-transformed state, the cultivator's soul will also suffer heavy damage.

However, for Jie Ming, these drawbacks can be ignored.

After all, the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror makes up for his lack of escape methods, and if the moment truly arrives where he needs to use the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror, he would not be counting on being able to counter-kill the enemy anyway.

According to the effects demonstrated by the Great Dao Book Pavilion, even with the most elementary Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror, a cultivator will escape at sub-light speed after transforming into light.

If he can be intercepted by an enemy while using this, he might as well just wait quietly for death with his current strength; there is no need to worry about the issue of soul damage.

And besides these drawbacks, there is also the flaw of being difficult to refine.

Not to mention the difficulty of the production technique, the manufacturing materials alone are quite "cumbersome."

The main materials required to refine the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror are all conceptual materials.

The operating principle of the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror magic treasure is to collect, condense, and then master the concept of light.

The core concepts lie in the speed, penetration, color, rhythm, and life-and-death of "light."

One must refine these intangible concepts into a tangible object, and then let the object nourish the self when needed, transforming into light of the same source concept.

Therefore, the materials for refining the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror only need natural light rays that contain the pure "concept of light."

If the light rays needed to be collected were translated into plain language, they would roughly be the light of morning glow, the light of rainbows, the light of moonlight, the light of stars, and the light of splitting thunder—five types in total.

Each of these five concepts of light represents a unique characteristic of light, corresponding to certain attributes within the Five Elements, and also corresponding to the "Five Elements" in the name of the magic treasure.

They must be captured and condensed directly from the natural world through specific mental cultivation methods at specific times and locations.

Fortunately, although collecting these concepts is somewhat cumbersome, it is still better than magic treasures that require materials that do not exist at all in the Wizarding World.

"Refining is truly difficult; the true fire aspect alone is quite troublesome."

Although the process of refining the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror does not require a furnace, one must refine spirituality with true fire, condense the vessel embryo with spiritual sense, integrate concepts into the object, and only then can one refine a magic treasure connected to one's own soul.

"True fire as the guide, spiritual sense as the labor, materials as the bone, concepts as the soul..." He wrote these few words in his notebook.

These are both the core techniques of artifact refining and the most basic means.

Simply put, the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror tests a cultivator's mastery of basic skills.

"First... let's try to condense true fire."

The Wizarding World also has flame wizardry, but that is more about invoking external fire elements, which is different from the true fire of a cultivator.

A cultivator's true fire is the manifestation of highly condensed true essence; in essence, it is high-purity energy containing the cultivator's own spiritual power, capable of refining impurities in materials and stimulating their spirituality.

Jie Ming prepared for a long battle; according to the Great Dao Book Pavilion, ordinary cultivators can even spend several years when condensing true fire for the first time.

Then...

"That's it?!"

Looking at the pale golden flame the size of a grain of rice before him, Jie Ming was dumbfounded: "Could it be that I am actually a genius?!"

Although it took some time, all in all, Jie Ming spent less than a day to condense the first wisp of true fire.

Of course, saying he is a genius is actually a joke; Jie Ming knows very well why he condensed true fire so quickly.

"I didn't expect that the basics of practicing alchemy and analysis could actually be used in condensing true fire; what a gain."

Alchemy initially requires manipulating mental power to analyze all things, and the practice of analysis requires sensing energy fluctuations from the very beginning.

Combining the two, plus the fact that both types of wizardry can be used on oneself, Jie Ming's ability to control his own power far exceeds that of a normal cultivator without him realizing it.

Having solved the problem of true fire, the next step is to construct a carrier capable of bearing the concept of light—that is, the most basic vessel embryo.

Through professional vessel embryo condensation methods, one can use mental power to condense a vessel embryo connected to one's mind, serving as the prototype of the magic treasure and the carrier of concepts.

This involves integrating a portion of one's own true essence and soul origin into the materials, making them possess preliminary "spirituality" and "plasticity."

After capturing the "concepts" contained in the intangible and formless light rays, use special techniques to transform them into tangible "Light-Essence Spirit Dew" or "Light-Condensed Crystal Sand," and then integrate them into the magic treasure vessel embryo for tempering.

Generally, reaching this step means a magic treasure has already taken shape; what the cultivator needs to do afterward is continuous, long-term ritual refining day and night.

"Practicing the vessel embryo condensation method and collecting light concepts both take time, and I still need to perfect the Eye of Detection and other talisman wizarding tools... Oh right, I also need to study alchemy and potion knowledge; it seems the time ahead will be busy."

Having listed the things he needed to do next, Jie Ming stretched.

Although there is a lot to do, especially in refining the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror, the most difficult part is not the artifact refining itself, but the "light-collecting" process in the early stages.

But fortunately, time is quite abundant; there are still five years until the general academy test of the Nuolun Workshop, enough for him to take his time.

Looking up out the window, Jie Ming was surprised to find that, without realizing it, it was already early morning.

His mind suddenly thought of one of the materials for the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror: the light of morning glow.

This light belongs to the wood and fire elements, presiding over growth, representing the first wisp of speed and penetration of light as it pierces through darkness when all things awaken.

It must be collected when the morning glow first appears and the purple energy from the east has not yet dissipated (approximately at the transition between the Yin and Mao hours).

Looking at the sun on the horizon, Jie Ming subconsciously operated his cultivation technique and reached out toward the morning sunlight.

The next instant, looking at the wisp of fluorescent light in his palm, Jie Ming couldn't help but grin:

"It's a good omen."