Chapter 59: Unity of Tool and Spirit

  All the way flying to Tieling Peak, Zhang Heng soon returned to his own courtyard.

  After entering the house, I found that the ban I set was still there. So I took out the poor-quality storage bag that had been broken before and transferred everything inside to this latest purple-black storage bag.

  This newly acquired high-quality storage bag has enough internal space for Zhang Heng to store more things, and it will be an indispensable backup support for Zhang Heng's future murder and treasure snatching.

  After doing all this, Zhang Heng hung a closed sign in front of the door and planned to spend some time using the Void Flame to refine the mid-grade spiritual instrument Moon Sorrow he had obtained earlier.

  Although Ou Yang had previously given himself a lot of spiritual pills and also promised that as long as he could enter the later stage of Qi Refining, he would reward himself with another top-grade spiritual artifact and remove the Soul-Devouring Gu from his body.

  However, Zhang Heng understood that if it were any other ordinary cultivation method, the rewards he had received should have been enough to allow an average spiritual root user to enter the later stages of Qi Refining.

  After all, even a Foundation Establishment cultivator can use the Supplemental Spirit Pill, and it can even help Qi Refining cultivators break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

  Such a spiritual elixir can completely replace the Foundation Establishment Pill, which is almost extinct, with a certain amount.

  But Zhang Heng's cultivation of his abnormal abilities couldn't be measured by ordinary standards.

  Zhang Heng still remembered that when he had cultivated his Deviant Technique to the initial stage of the Initial Realm, he had consumed an amount of rare and precious items equivalent to several tens of pieces of Spirit Equipment. According to the information obtained from the jade cylinder, cultivating to the small success stage would require over a hundred pieces of Spirit Equipment.

  It was impossible for Zhang Heng to take out hundreds of spiritual artifacts at this moment, but fortunately, after Zhang Heng "refined" the ice mountain that Luo Xue had created with her secret technique, he not only cultivated the Void Flame, but also nearly entered a small realm of transformation.

  Zhang Heng was still nostalgic for the iceberg that had been "refined" by himself, and he didn't know what kind of thing Luo Congxue's true body was. The iceberg that was created using a secret technique actually contained such heavenly treasures.

  Moreover, the essence contained in that iceberg was mostly used for refining the Void Flame, which means that just a small part of that iceberg allowed Zhang Heng's cultivation to almost reach the Small Accomplishment boundary of the Transcendent Realm.

  Zhang Heng still had two low-grade spiritual artifacts that could be used for "refining" in his hands, one of which was obtained from the leader of the seven evils of Narosan, and the other was the Wuling Sword that was about to be eliminated by him. In addition, there were unknown fragments obtained from the street stalls of Dutiange Fort and the Iron Ridge Mine Mother who had already been refined halfway.

  All of these things were enough for Zhang Heng to cultivate his perverted skill to a small accomplishment realm, and even had plenty to spare.

  As for cultivating to the realm of great completion, Zhang Heng now simply doesn't dare to hope for it. The number of spiritual instrument-grade items required is in the hundreds, unless another ice mountain like before is given to Zhang Heng, otherwise, within a year, Zhang Heng will not be able to cultivate to this realm.

  Zhang Heng sat cross-legged on the cushion, closed his eyes, and slightly drove away his slightly restless state of mind. He thought to himself that being eager for quick success was not a good thing.

  After cultivating the Deviant Technique, Zhang Heng's lifespan far exceeded that of his peers, giving him more time to cultivate and no need to worry about not being able to grasp the cycle of life and death in his lifetime.

  After calming down, Zhang Heng opened his eyes and took out the mid-grade spiritual artifact, Moon Sorrow, from his storage bag.

  With his hand stroking this mid-grade spiritual artifact that was faintly gleaming with a cold light, a chill and suffocating aura emanated from the blade. From its appearance, this spiritual artifact's shape resembled that of a crescent moon curved knife.

  "Yuè Shāng..." Zhang Heng silently recited the name of this spiritual artifact, he understood that this artifact would probably be with him for a while.

  Zhang Heng found that the spiritual instruments he had used before seemed to have improved in quality. Zhang Heng guessed that this refined spiritual energy had the ability to improve the quality of spiritual instruments.

  The Wuling Sword used previously has shown some signs of spiritual awakening, and its own power has also been slightly increased. However, due to the limitations of its own level, the extent of the increase is not very large.

  A gentle lift of the palm in mid-air, and a special ripple spread through the air.

  A transparent flame of Void Fire was jumping joyfully above Zhang Heng's palm.

  Zhang Heng withdrew his hand and let the empty flames float in mid-air. He then picked up the spiritual artifact, Moon Sorrow.

  A faint silver glow revolves above the moon's wound, like a wheel of desolate beauty.

  After wrapping the Moon Burial in Refined Void Spirit, Zhang Heng began to manipulate the free-floating Void Flames in the void with his Heart Spirit.

  A wisp of divine consciousness had already merged with the Void Flame, and then quickly manipulated the incantation gestures. In a short while, a layer of silver flames burst out from the Void Flames.

  With a "poof", a silver flame descended onto Yuèshāng.

  Refining a spiritual artifact cannot use the true body of the Void Flame; doing so would only cause this artifact to disappear from the world.

  A layer of silver flames flowed continuously on the surface of Yuè Shāng, and with the protection of Liàn Xū Líng Qì, the silver flames would not damage the material of the spiritual instrument itself, but slowly seeped into it.

  Because Zhang Heng's divine sense had already merged with the floating Void Flame, as the Silver Flame gradually merged into the spiritual instrument, his divine sense also began to slowly merge with this spiritual instrument.

  During the process of infusing the silver flame into the spiritual artifact, the refined spiritual energy attached to the surface of the artifact by Zhang Heng was also being constantly consumed, but Zhang Heng continued to supply it without stopping.

  As time went on, Zhang Heng's connection to the spiritual device grew closer and closer, until he felt that it had become a part of his own body.

  The reason why the master of the foundation period can exert the full power of the spiritual instrument is that he uses the innate true fire in his body to imprint his own divine mark on the spiritual instrument.

  In this way, the spiritual instrument can be controlled to attack between thoughts. For cultivators in the refining stage, they still need to constantly cast spiritual decisions to combine their divine consciousness with the spiritual instrument, and then launch an attack, which unknowingly falls into the lower level, and can only exert a few points of the spiritual instrument's power.

  At this moment, Zhang Heng's consciousness had gradually entered the internal of the spiritual instrument, together with the silver flame to temper this spiritual instrument, until it made this spiritual instrument completely become a part of Zhang Heng's body.

  Time passed quickly and by the second morning, Zhang Heng had finally fully refined the spiritual artifact.

  If such speed were known to other foundation-building cultivators, I wonder what they would think.

  Generally, during the foundation-building period, a cultivator uses the innate True Fire within their body to refine and transform their spiritual instrument. To truly achieve unity between the instrument and the spirit, it is impossible to do so in less than ten days or half a month. During this time, a large amount of spiritual elixirs are also needed to supplement one's magical powers.

  But in front of Zhang Heng who possessed the Void Flame, everything became much simpler.

  Under Zhang Heng's mental manipulation, this mid-grade spiritual artifact darted about the room with the agility of a fish, its speed more than double what it was before, leaving behind trails of sword shadows in the empty air.

  As long as Zhang Heng had an idea, the Moonlit in the air could perform various high-difficulty movements that he imagined, and was even more agile than his own arm.

  Suddenly at some point, Lingqi Yuexu suddenly stopped in mid-air.

  Zhang Heng's eyes flashed with a hint of divine light, and the crescent moon-like Moon Sorrow slashed through the room, leaving a trail of cold, residual arc that brutally cut towards the several restrictive seals set up outside the house.

  "Pffft——" A sound like tearing leather, the several seals set by Zhang Heng were broken in an instant.

  A faint look of surprise appeared on his face, he understood the intensity of these layers of prohibition, even if let Fang Yunshan's refining period cultivators take the spiritual instrument to smash, it would take a lot of twists and turns to break through.

  Lingqi Yuexuan is already enough to contend with the foundation-building cultivators under Zhang Heng's control.

  This also means that Zhang Heng has already possessed the strength to challenge across levels, and among those of the same level, almost no one can pose a threat to him.

  Yi Nian manipulated the Moon Burial again in the house for a while before Zhang Heng stopped.

  At this moment, he no longer needed to put the spiritual instrument into his storage bag, because the refined and transformed magical treasures and spiritual instruments had already become a part of the cultivators' bodies.

  Only to see Zhang Heng's mouth lightly open, the Moon Sorrow hovering in mid-air slightly paused, and with a blink of an eye it transformed into a tiny spirit device the size of a fish ball, which quickly flew into Zhang Heng's mouth and finally entered his body.

  In Zhang Heng's body, at the location of his dantian, a small, curved moon-shaped spiritual instrument was suspended above a silver light cluster. Under Zhang Heng's intentional control, a small amount of silver particles overflowed from the silver light cluster and slowly seeped into the spiritual instrument with the help of the Lian Yu Ling Qi.

  He slowly let out a breath, and Zhang Heng believed that under his relentless tempering, the quality of this spiritual instrument would surely surpass that of top-grade spiritual instruments.

  Under Zhang Heng's tempering of the Void Spirit Qi, any magical treasure or spiritual instrument in his hands can become an upgradable weapon.

  It can be said that Zhang Heng's body at this moment contains infinite heavenly and earthly essence, equivalent to a mobile potential treasure trove, which is not much inferior to those heavenly treasures.

  If a certain alchemist were to capture Zhang Heng and refine him into a spiritual elixir, the effect might be beyond imagination.

  After refining this spiritual instrument, Zhang Heng began to sit cross-legged on the mat, slowly recovering his vitality.

  The spiritual energy between heaven and earth quickly entered his body, first through his hair, then through his muscles, and finally seeped into the silver light ball inside his body.

  In this series of processes, the external heavenly spiritual energy undergoes complex changes and is finally converted into Zhang Heng's internal Lianxu spiritual energy.

  However, although this method can restore Zhang Heng's physical energy, it cannot change the quality of his spiritual energy.

  To enhance the intensity of his spiritual energy and physical body, he had to obtain more rare and precious objects that contained the essence of heaven and earth. Only then could Zhang Heng's strength be fundamentally improved.

  After sitting in the house for a day and night, Zhang Heng's vitality was fully restored. He opened his eyes with a confident gaze and walked out of the practice room with steady steps.

  Just then, he discovered a surge of spiritual energy outside the door.

  With a slight glance, Zhang Heng took over two transmission talismans in his hand.

  Judging from the marks on this transmission talisman, its master seems to be transmitting a talisman for himself for the first time.