Chapter 41: Spiritual Artifact Refining Technique

  The material of Yu Fu is usually extremely hard. To engrave a pattern on it, one must first find a sharp ritual object.

  Li Muran made the Night Pearl emit as much light as possible, and then carefully searched around to find the flying knives he had just shot out one by one.

  There were nine flying knives in total, each with a black blade as thin as a cicada's wing, but extremely sharp. These flying knives were forged from the feathers of an iron-winged eagle, originally more than ten feathers, but the swordsmith of the Sword Casting Pavilion made mistakes several times and finally obtained nine flying knives.

  "Huh, there's a short arrow here!"

  While searching for the flying dagger, Li Muran inadvertently found a short arrow. The short arrow was only three inches long, with an arrowhead that shone with a cold light, appearing extremely sharp. Moreover, a faint sweet and fishy smell wafted over, indicating that the arrowhead had been coated with a potent poison.

  This short arrow is not Li Muran's thing, it's obviously from that Master Mo.

  "With such a short arrow, it's definitely not suitable for use with ordinary bows and crossbows!" Li Muran's heart moved, and he immediately took out the wrist-like spiritual instrument Dark Moon Crossbow from his storage bag.

  Li Muran inserted the short arrow into the groove on the Dark Moon Crossbow, and it fit perfectly, very harmonious!

  "This crossbow has three grooves, at least there are three short arrows!" Li Muran continued to carefully search around inch by inch, and soon found two more short arrows.

  These short arrows should be extraordinary in material and were not destroyed in the explosion just now, but were blown away to various places.

  "Let's try the power of this Dark Moon Crossbow!" Li Muran said, putting on the Dark Moon Crossbow on his wrist, hooking the trigger with his finger, inserting a short arrow and loading three spirit stones full of energy. Finally, he stretched out his hand and aimed at a giant stone over ten zhang away.

  Li Muran's mind stirred, and the fingers hidden in his sleeve lightly manipulated the mechanism. In an instant, a spirit stone was reduced to powder, its contained yuanqi being directly absorbed by the Dark Moon Crossbow and transferred to a short arrow.

  The short arrow shot out with a "hiss" and sped away at an extremely fast speed. Li Muran, who had been prepared early on, only saw a faint afterimage.

  "Boom!" The short arrow accurately hit the giant stone, and the giant stone that was hit by the short arrow burst into four or five pieces in a loud crash, turning into flying debris that splashed everywhere.

  "What incredible power! What incredible speed!" Li Muran's eyes widened in shock and he jumped back in fright.

  "Nor did he know what effect this arrow would have on defensive spells!" Li Muran decided to try again.

  He pasted a golden talisman on a boulder and activated it, instantly enveloping the boulder in a layer of golden light.

  Li Muran followed suit and shot another arrow at the mountain rocks in the golden light.

  "Bang!" The short arrow directly pierced through the golden canopy, turning the rocks inside into powder once again!

  "Even the Golden Armor can't stop this arrow!" Li Muran's heart skipped a beat, his face slightly changed.

  For ordinary disciples, the Vajra Seal is already a very strong defensive means, and those who can possess high-quality defensive artifacts are only a handful of people.

  Li Muran even felt that if someone used this Dark Moon Crossbow to launch a sneak attack on him, it would be extremely difficult for him to escape with his life!

  Li Muran retrieved the short arrow from among the rocks and then put the Dark Moon Crossbow and the short arrow into his storage bag.

  However, after careful consideration, Li Muran took them out again and put them on his wrist.

  "It's still worn on the body, in case of an emergency!" Li Muran thought to himself, anyway he had enough self-control and wouldn't randomly trigger the Dark Moon Crossbow.

  Li Muran tried it out and found that wearing the Dark Moon Crossbow on his hand would not be inconvenient at all, and did not affect his spellcasting in any way.

  After obtaining the complete Dark Moon Crossbow, Li Muran became even more curious about the contents of the jade slip. The crossbow left by Xiao Shusheng and Mo Shixiong was extraordinary, so the information recorded on the jade slip must not be ordinary either.

  Li Muran tidied up his surroundings and then moved to a quieter location, where he began repairing the jade slip.

  He first stored his Fa power in his fingertips, conjured up a thread of flame, and then used the flame to burn through the gap at the broken jade slip.

  Wherever the spark passed, the jade slips burned and merged into one, but only the "document seal" character was interrupted and could not be connected automatically.

  Li Muran picked up a flying knife and carefully engraved the seal character. His foundation in talisman crafting was solid, the flying knife was very sharp, and the character wasn't particularly complex or difficult, so it didn't take long for him to successfully repair the character, making the jade slip usable again.

  Li Muran first used two yuanqi symbols to refill the yuanqi of the jade slip, then infused a spell into the jade slip to unlock the sealed document on it.

  In an instant, a ray of light flashed on the surface of the jade slip, and this light gradually grew larger, slowly floating in mid-air to form a light wall about one zhang in size.

  On the light wall, ancient texts gradually emerged, which were exactly the graphic information recorded in the jade slips.

  "Five Elements Mixed Yuan Formula!" Li Muran suddenly realized: "It turns out that this is a manual of martial arts."

  Li Muran looked carefully and found that this technique actually had a great origin, the one who left this technique was a great cultivator who had cultivated to the True Person stage.

  "True Man period, isn't it the same as the cultivation realm of our sect's founder, Fu Sheng Zushi!" Li Muran was greatly surprised. This high-level person's left behind method, is naturally not ordinary, no wonder it would cause Xiao Shusheng and Mo Shixiong to fight over it.

  This technique, apart from its extraordinary origins, has another bizarre aspect - it cultivates all five elements. Li Muran had read countless technique manuals in the library, but the vast majority were techniques with a single elemental attribute, such as the fire-attribute "Fierce Flame Technique" and "Burning Heart Technique", or water-attribute "Wave-Cutting Technique" and "Surging Wave Technique". However, this "Five Elements Mixed Origin Technique" cultivates all five elements, and even brazenly claims that after achieving minor success in its practice, one can transform the five elements and counter any technique with elemental attributes.

  However, the mantra also mentions that to cultivate this set of skills, it is best to have a divine light with five elements from the beginning of the enlightenment, so as to make progress more smoothly. If it is a single-attribute divine light, the initial cultivation will be even more difficult, but if one can cultivate small achievements later, they will also slowly get on the right track.

  "It seems that this technique is not necessarily suitable for me!" Li Muran's heart sank, his ancestral aperture divine light was very special and unpredictable, and he didn't know what five elements attribute it belonged to, or if it even existed within the five elements attributes. Although he could also cultivate some five elements attribute techniques, these techniques were just a way of mobilizing and using the power of the law, which was far different from cultivating the technique itself. This did not mean that he himself could cultivate this "Five Elements Mixed Yuan Technique". People like Xiao Shusheng who opened their apertures with ordinary five elements attributes, on the other hand, were able to cultivate this set of techniques.

  "If only it were a set of exercises that could be practiced at night!" Li Muran sighed softly and continued to look down.

  Li Muran quickly browsed through it, and after finishing reading the text on one side of the light wall, he only needed to input a spell, and the jade slip would reflect another side of the light wall, continuing to reveal the next content.

  "This set of skills is quite complete from the Qi Mo period to the True Man period!" Li Muran thought to himself, "In the future, I'll try to cultivate this set of skills when I have the chance. If it doesn't work out, it won't be a waste of too much time."

  The formula recorded in the Jade Simplified Script, when it reached the True Person stage, was gone. Li Muran had thought that the information recorded in the Jade Simplified Script would end there, but unexpectedly, after the formula, several light walls suddenly appeared.

  The texts on these light walls record not any martial arts, but rather the art of artifact refinement - and specifically, they are classics that specialize in the techniques for refining spiritual artifacts.

  "Not only is there a technique for refining low-grade spiritual artifacts, but also mid-grade, high-grade and top-grade spiritual artifacts!"

  "The lower-grade refining techniques still have some circulation, but the higher-grade spiritual equipment refining techniques are said to be long lost. I didn't expect that this jade slip would have detailed records, and it's only attached after the cultivation method's oral formula."

  "It's said that in ancient times, the art of refining spiritual artifacts was quite popular. It seems that the content recorded on this jade slip is likely to be passed down from ancient times."

  Li Muran's heart moved slightly, his skills might not be applicable, but this refining technique could be practiced.

  Especially after he had just witnessed the power of the Dark Moon Crossbow, he was even more interested in this convenient and effortless way to offer sacrifices without needing any magic.

  "It's not the time now, I'll study it slowly later!" Li Muran put away the jade slip and continued to search for treasures in this vast mountain range.

  Li Muran took out a golden talisman and stuck it to his chest, activating it and covering himself in a layer of golden light. Using the golden talisman for protection was quite draining on his energy, and most disciples only used it when they encountered danger. However, Li Muran thought that energy could be replenished with an energy talisman, and even if the energy talisman was used up, it could still be remade. But in case of a sudden unexpected danger where there wasn't enough time to prepare, having a layer of golden light shielding his body beforehand would make things much better.

  When Li Muran walked near a mountain valley, he felt gusts of cold wind coming towards him, and even with the protection of his Vajra umbrella, he couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine.

  "It seems that the aura of evil is even stronger here, and treasures often appear in such places!" Li Muran slowly made his way into the mountain valley, illuminated by the glow of the night pearl.

  Not long after, he suddenly found that there were dozens of small, dim red lights in front of him.

  "What a treasure! It's actually emitting a faint red glow!" Li Muran's heart skipped a beat, and judging from the amount of red light, there was still quite a bit of this treasure left!

  Li Muran slowly approached, but his nose caught a wave of indescribable stench.

  "This smell is somewhat similar to the smell of an iron winged eagle's nest, but it's also distinctly different. What exactly is it?" Li Muran's mind was racing, and suddenly he remembered some content mentioned in the classics.

  "Blood Bat!" Li Muran was shocked, his hand probed into his bosom and immediately pulled out a thick stack of talismans, which he flung towards the red glow with a toss of his hand!

  At the same time, those red lights suddenly flashed and approached Li Muran from all sides at an extremely fast speed!