Chapter 150: Refining into Accumulation

Lianqi Phase cultivators have only two choices when selecting an Accumulation Device.

Combat and auxiliary cultivation types; Exotic Accumulation Devices are generally not something a Lianqi Phase cultivator can possess.

Because Exotic Accumulation Devices have very unique functions, they cannot be successfully refined just by luck.

Yan Buji now wants an auxiliary cultivation Accumulation Device, but that would require matching his basic Five Elements technique; constructing one suited to his cultivation method would take too much effort.

Moreover, the trial-and-error cost is too high, so it's not advisable to consider it now.

However, he does indeed need an offensive Accumulation Device, but he doesn't know any powerful techniques, so there's no need to consider a device that amplifies techniques.

"On the contrary, cold weapons are relatively simple."

Yan Buji has a long-blade Accumulation Device and a short-blade Accumulation Device in hand; with the Accumulation Device refining method, they can be disassembled.

He spent three days disassembling the two Accumulation Devices, during which a minor mistake destroyed the short blade's tip core, but it's not a big problem.

Looking at the Accumulation Device parts laid out on the table, Yan Buji pondered them carefully for a long time.

"Hmm, these Accumulation Devices were refined by predecessors; even if I re-refine them now, their efficacy would be greatly reduced. However, this combined refining method is inferior to the refining method given by Lidao."

Although Yan Buji doesn't know the name of the Accumulation Device refining method given by Lidao, he can tell its superiority from the refining techniques of these few parts; it's clear Lidao was quite generous, not just giving him junk to get rid of him.

Yan Buji considered it carefully, then suddenly recalled the three divine-demon illustrations of Guan Tian Deng Mou Zhuang, and inspiration struck.

"Ah, right, according to those three divine-demon illustrations.... the one most resembling an Accumulation Diagram is the Shura Blood Sea; the armor worn by those Shuras is somewhat interesting."

"Although it's just speculation, perhaps we could refine a form like that; maybe pairing it with Guan Tian Deng Mou Zhuang would have wonderful uses." Yan Buji thought it over and made up his mind.

Combat-type Accumulation Devices basically fall into two categories: protective and offensive.

Armor, as the most protective Accumulation Device, is also the hardest to combine and refine, but Yan Buji isn't in a rush; since he can't find an opportunity to get close to the Third Princess anyway, he can't just idle.

However, the difficulty of refining armor is somewhat high; Yan Buji thinks it's better to take it slow.

The composition of armor includes head, body, limbs, and heart-protection mirror; first refine the heart-protection mirror to see if it can succeed.

Yan Buji took out a black cloth and carefully examined the Shura Blood Sea diagram.

Although Yan Buji doesn't know the situation of the Youming Realm, if he could obtain some local specialties from there, it would surely be more suitable for refining his own Accumulation Device armor.

"Hehe, just forget it; if I really had to go to the Youming Realm again, wouldn't that be courting death?"

Yan Buji covered his face, recalling his first entry into the Youming Realm; to this day he dares not take out the Youming Book, only able to store it in a Storage Accumulation Device to gather dust.

However, Shuras should be a very combative kind of ghost in the Youming Realm, right?

Yan Buji feels that since he personally experienced the Youming Realm, the real-world myths about hell and the underworld are not very credible.

It would be better to just look at the Shura Blood Sea diagram and contemplate it.

After carefully observing the armor on those Shuras from all angles, Yan Buji attempted to draw it himself on paper.

However, he only drew the heart-protection mirror part of the armor, because the other parts are really hard to draw.

Not to mention those complex lines, even the skull wrapped around the mirror surface on the heart-protection mirror makes him feel dizzy when trying to draw it.

"What's going on? Even with my current spiritual sense strength, if I can't achieve a divine-level depiction, I shouldn't be unable to even copy it; these three divine-demon illustrations are truly strange, involving these ghostly deities, to the point that even copying them is this difficult?"

Yan Buji looked strange, but at least he managed to draw the main body of the heart-protection mirror.

The remaining time, Yan Buji attempted to decompose the heart-protection mirror drawing into components: the raised mirror surface, the encircling band, the skull, and the nail-inlaid edging at the joints.

The main body is naturally the raised mirror surface; this part needs to be refined from extremely tough Spiritual Material to reach sufficient strength to protect the vital heart.

With a rough shape in hand, Yan Buji began the first refinement of Spiritual Material into an Accumulation Device.

Since the blueprint isn't finalized yet, we need to refine each Accumulation Device first and then check how well they fit.

If they don't fit, we must rework; if it turns out impossible to combine and refine, we have to start over. Hence the trial-and-error cost of refining Accumulation Devices is high, and obtaining one that truly matches oneself is really difficult.

Yet cultivators cannot do without Accumulation Devices' aid; without one, battle power is vastly weakened—who could accept that?

Yan Buji wandered within Lingyu for a few days and found a First-Tier Spiritual Material called Firm Heart Earth that suited him; this material is originally used to nurture special earth-type Spiritual Materials, but conversely Firm Heart Earth is also quite hard, comparable to stone core and marrow Spiritual Material.

After obtaining Firm Heart Earth, Yan Buji currently cultivates the Heavy Mountain Technique; the fire-reducing refined earth makes earth-type spiritual power more easily refine Firm Heart Earth.

Firm Heart Earth is similar to ordinary yellow mud on the ground; the only difference is that it contains some specks of light within the soil. This light is not from sand or gravel scattering, but is an inherent property of the material itself.

Since this is Yan Buji's first time refining into an Accumulation Device, he hasn't bought other needed Spiritual Materials all at once; instead, he plans to refine Firm Heart Earth into an Accumulation Device first, understand its properties, then match other Spiritual Materials to see which fits better before continuing refinement.

"First preliminarily refine the Spiritual Material, purify and refine, eliminate impurities....."

Yan Buji pinched the hand seal, and from his mouth spewed Spiritual Fire that continuously melted the Firm Heart Earth floating in his palm.

Through the nameless refining method, Yan Buji can roughly judge how refined the Firm Heart Earth must be to be considered completely pure.

After a few days.

Yan Buji watched the large lump of Firm Heart Earth in his palm shrink into a small clump of pure Firm Heart Earth, and he nodded.

"This mana consumption is really huge; I have to maintain the Spiritual Fire and drive the nameless refining method—if my mana can't support this refinement, all previous effort will be wasted and capital lost." Yan Buji let out a breath of relief.

After obtaining pure Firm Heart Earth, one still needs to spend a little time initially imprinting one's essence-energy-spirit into it, so it can be absorbed into the body for the second step.

This time turned out shorter than Yan Buji imagined, possibly thanks to the nameless refining method; the next day he felt his essence-energy-spirit had already invaded the Spiritual Material, condensed and not dispersing.

Pinching the hand seal, Yan Buji spat out a strip of earth-yellow silk from his mouth, wrapping the Firm Heart Earth within and swallowing it into his dantian, using spiritual power to begin the second step.

This step doesn't need much attention; one only needs to expend some essence-energy-spirit each day to change the spirituality within the Spiritual Material to be dominated by one's own essence-energy-spirit, so as to facilitate the third step's shaping!

"So refining an Accumulation Device is actually similar to cultivating a technique? Techniques absorb heavenly and earthly spiritual qi to become one's power, while Accumulation Device refinement absorbs Spiritual Material, turning it into one's own?" Yan Buji's eyes lit up.

Many things are only understood after experiencing them for the first time, revealing their subtleties.