Chapter 6: Dharma Treasures Have Their Strengths and Weaknesses: Replacing Bird Guns with Cannons

So be it. Whatever schemes she may have, to me, they are all like a meat bun thrown at a dog—gone forever without return.

Better to take the advantage first. Fang Longye thought to himself.

Fang Longye used his Golden Finger to trade the "Heavenly Snake Moon-Swallowing Art" for the "Vermilion Toad Sun-Absorbing Skill," a marvelous technique specifically for absorbing solar essence to temper the body. After all, even if he hadn't eaten pork, he had seen pigs run; he knew the principle that isolated Yin cannot grow.

However, he would not practice blindly in the short term; his next goal remained achieving the Yin Spirit and entering the Primordial Spirit Realm.

On the other hand, the numerous spells attached to it once again enriched his repertoire.

Of the two divine abilities gifted by Qingshe Niangniang, one, "Ingestion," was traded for "Guidance."

A "Twelve Phases Yuan Chen Moon Wheel Method" was traded for a divine ability called "Blue Sea Mitian Art."

Both were illusion-type divine abilities; one was a Taiyin illusion, the other a water-attribute illusion. The former leaned toward offense and killing, while the latter leaned toward trapping and killing. Fang Longye had not forgotten that he was a water-attribute monster.

As for the treasure-refining technique gifted by Qingshe Niangniang, the gains from trading it through the Equivalent Balance were even greater.

According to the description in the Jade Slip, the grades of Dharma Treasures in this world, from low to high, are divided into Dharma Artifacts, Dharma Treasures, and Spirit Treasures.

Among them, a top-grade Dharma Artifact has 72 Earthly Fiend Restrictions when fully refined. Afterward, these 72 Earthly Fiend Restrictions are refined and merged into one Heavenly Dipper Restriction, which counts as advancing to a Dharma Treasure. Only upon reaching the Dharma Treasure level can it be taken into the dantian Purple Mansion within the body for nourishment.

A fully refined Dharma Treasure has 36 Heavenly Dipper Restrictions. Afterward, refining and merging these 36 Heavenly Dipper Restrictions allows it to advance into a legendary Spirit Treasure.

The treasure-refining technique imparted by Qingshe Niangniang was sufficient to refine a Dharma Treasure with 36 complete Heavenly Dipper Restrictions.

One must know, according to the description in the Jade Slip, many figures who had already stepped into the Immortal Realm were still using Dharma Treasures! It was for this reason that Fang Longye felt he had taken the life-buying money Qingshe Niangniang had paid him.

Compared to the treasure-refining technique imparted by Qingshe, the treasure-refining technique Fang Longye obtained through the Golden Finger's equivalent trade was even more miraculous.

The treasure-refining methods of this world require the refiner to gradually improve their skills to be able to refine Dharma Treasures and Spirit Treasures.

This type of treasure-refining method gives you a set of Forbidden Techniques and leaves you to explore by trying out materials; there is no fixed formula. What grade of Dharma Treasure one can refine depends not only on the combination of materials, but at higher stages, it also requires True Fire to burn and forge, and Primordial Spirit to temper.

More crucially, these rely not only on experience but also on cultivation level; below the Primordial Spirit, one can at most refine Dharma Artifacts, and only above the Primordial Spirit can one begin to explore the refinement of Dharma Treasures.

But this "Small Heavenly Dipper Cloud Restriction Method" obtained through trade is different. This set of Cloud Restrictions has a total of eighteen variations, and each variation corresponds to a specific method for refining a Dharma Treasure.

This treasure-refining method is unique and ingenious; it is equivalent to being given a specialized ritual. As long as one carves the Cloud Restriction talisman array, places the corresponding spiritual materials required for the Dharma Treasure into it, and activates the talisman array with Dharma power, it can be refined.

"It seems I'll be busy again." However, Fang Longye did not feel there was too much to do; instead, he was happy because he had a direction for his cultivation.

In the Black Water Wild Marsh, inside the underground karst cave where Fang Longye originally practiced, a Night-Shining Pearl was embedded in the cave ceiling, illuminating the surroundings as bright as day.

A stone altar, nine zhang in circumference and nine chi high, stood like a small island in a pool of water in the center of the cave.

It was covered with talisman scripts drawn in fresh blood as ink, forming a slightly eerie talisman array.

Fang Longye sat cross-legged to one side, his expression solemn.

He released his inner core to hover above his head, and a phantom moon-white wheel emitting twelve rays of light appeared behind the inner core. If not for his still-fierce appearance, he would truly look like an immortal or Buddhist figure.

It was precisely the initially mastered "Twelve Phases Yuan Chen Moon Wheel Method"! Since obtaining numerous techniques and divine abilities, Fang Longye had, on one hand, sent his subordinate minor demons to scatter and search for various ores and spiritual herbs, and on the other, practiced the strange scriptures and divine arts he had acquired with peace of mind.

This was because he understood that cultivation was the foundation, and everything else was trivial. Especially when he was not yet in mortal danger, Dharma Treasures were truly not the priority.

Through the Golden Finger's constant exchange for spiritual pills and medicines more useful to him, combined with the two divine abilities of "Ingestion" and "Guidance," he had undergone three years of bitter cultivation.

Now, the progress on his Yin Spirit Embryo had reached a certain level of maturity, and his Dharma power had become extremely profound; the calculation of quantity had gradually moved beyond the scope of being described in years.

Ordinary spells had also been mastered; now, he could control wind, tread waves, manipulate water, generate fire, spread mist, bewitch souls, transform, enter dreams... all sorts of spells were at his beck and call. With one breath, clouds and mists swirled; with a wave of his hand, gold was opened and stones were split; with a stomp of his foot, the earth shook and mountains swayed; with a turn of his body, rivers surged.

Having reached this step, he felt he finally had a bit of the demeanor of a monster from myths and legends, and he began to prepare for the refinement of a Dharma Treasure.

Now that the talisman array was carved, he moved his mind, and pieces of ore and spiritual materials were taken out from his Storage Bag, flying crookedly toward the center of the talisman array under the influence of his Dharma power.

These spiritual materials included thousand-year-old black iron, five-hundred-year-old purple copper, silver essence with excellent Dharma power conductivity, spiritual wood impervious to water and fire, a mass of flexible cotton iron, and half a chi of hundred-year-old ice silkworm silk... some of these were collected from the Jinsha River region, some were gifts from Qingshe Niangniang, and others were obtained through the Golden Finger's equivalent trade.

Boom! As the Dharma power was activated, the fresh blood patterns on the talisman array erupted with blood-colored flames, just like the witch arrays described in the magic-themed novels of Fang Longye's past life.

As the flames burned continuously, a large amount of waste slag from the ores and spiritual materials was refined out. Only the pure treasure-refining materials remained, hovering above the talisman array.

Fang Longye maintained the infusion of Dharma power, and the materials in mid-air automatically fused under the effect of the talisman array, turning into the shape of a flagpole.

The remaining materials were stretched into long threads thinner than a strand of hair in the air, continuously weaving back and forth, weaving into a dark cyan flag.

Next, the blood-flame talisman array began to shrink toward the banner, turning into cloud-patterned precious seals to form layers of Restrictions. In the end, a misty precious light flashed on the dark cyan banner.

At this very moment!

Fang Longye activated his inner core, and the Twelve Phases Yuan Chen Moon Wheel divine ability enveloped the banner, concealing the rainbow light produced by the refinement of the precious flag.

This was also the reason he had operated his divine ability from the beginning to wait quietly.

Swallowing his inner core back and withdrawing his divine ability, Fang Longye reached out with his right hand, grabbed the dark cyan flagpole, and examined it.

It felt slightly heavy in his hand. This precious flag was named "Mitian Banner." Besides being able to shield his aura and conceal the divine sense probes of those below the True Immortal level, it also came with a Mitian Array, capable of sealing the heaven and earth's essence and confusing souls.

Inside were twenty-seven Heavenly Dipper Restrictions, making it a top-grade Dharma Treasure.

Fang Longye refined this Dharma Treasure first precisely to conceal his tracks and refine other Dharma Treasures with more peace of mind.

After all, this method of refining treasures was too astonishing; while his strength was insufficient, it was better not to let others know.

For this reason, he even specifically mobilized the Golden Finger's concealment ability to mask his aura and tracks.

At this moment, if Qingshe Niangniang wanted to find him, unless they were face-to-face, even if she scanned with her divine sense, she would only find that there was nothing here.

Even so, he planned that later, when using this method to refine other Dharma Treasures from the "Small Heavenly Dipper Cloud Restriction Method," besides using the Mitian Banner, he would still add this higher-dimensional concealment from the Golden Finger.

Once the other Dharma Treasures were successfully refined and refined into his dantian Purple Mansion, before becoming an immortal, he would never reveal them in front of others unless at a moment of crisis.

As for the Mitian Banner, it could be left unhidden; if it were truly seen through by someone, he would just treat it as his own fortuitous encounter.

Only by mixing truth and falsehood can one maneuver and shift.

If you let others see through you, you are in danger. If you let others be unable to see through you, you might be in even greater danger.

With a surge of Dharma power, the seven-chi-tall Mitian Banner quickly shrank and was taken into his body, surrounding his inner core, receiving nourishment from his Dharma power and tempering from his spirit.

"What an incredible treasure-refining technique~ Clearly, I only know that it is so, but not why it is so, yet I can still refine it successfully."

"Even the fact that the treasure-refining talisman array is written with one's own fresh blood as ink is not without reason. In this way, once the Dharma Treasure is successfully refined, it is equivalent to being completely refined."

Even though it had been successfully refined, Fang Longye still clicked his tongue in wonder at this method.

The myriad worlds are indeed magnificent and varied.

Newbie on the road~ requesting follow-up reads, bookmarks, and comments. A cute newbie asks for a hug~ (End of chapter)