Chapter Thirty-Two: Green Jade Calabaza
In the secret room of a mansion, Yu Feng was sitting in the center of the formation, with a nearly transparent flame rising between his hands. This was the Samadhi True Fire that only appeared when a Taoist cultivator reached the stage of refining Qi and transforming into a spirit. The jade stones on the ground flew towards the flame one by one, instantly turning into something like clear water - this was the Jade Essence refined through the Samadhi True Fire.
In the past, when Yu Feng was still absorbing air into his body, he had also refined some objects. At that time, he couldn't use the Triple Heaven True Flame yet, so he used a giant Spirit Gathering Array to provide energy for the Nanming Fire Array to generate the Nanming Fire. The quality of the objects he refined at that time was far inferior compared to now, and the speed wasn't even in the same league. Now, Yu Feng can directly produce Triple Heaven True Flame out of thin air, and in one day, he can do what took him a month before. This shows just how great the difference is between the states of absorbing air into the body and refining energy to become a god.
It only took less than five days for the jade stone to be fully refined into jade essence, and with the remaining time, Yu Feng was using his divine sense to set up layer after layer of hidden escape arrays. Now, setting up such ordinary small arrays with his divine sense had almost no consumption for Yu Feng, and in just half a day, he could completely set up half the number required by the Dark Council.
He had to consider the use of those dark souls sent by the Black Church. Now he didn't have any particularly good equipment materials, nor did he have any special equipment techniques, it was just that Ling Songzi's equipment technique was too little, and some poor treasure residue looked down on him, it was better not to refine them, so as not to waste those hard-won dark souls. After putting the dark souls in the Yin Mountain Cave to nourish his divine soul with the yin energy, he would wait until later when he found better equipment materials and techniques before taking action. The problem was that all the cultivators in this world had disappeared, so where could he find those technique materials?
Yu Feng didn't want to be bothered by these things anymore, so he took out a calabaza that looked like it had just been picked. This calabaza was also from Yu Feng's Yīn Shān Fǔ (Hidden Mountain Mansion). More than 40 years ago, Yu Feng traveled all over the Divine State and found a calabaza vine on a cliff with some spiritual energy. He moved it to Hidden Mountain Mansion and nourished it with spiritual energy that was hundreds of times stronger than the outside world. In recent years, three calabazas grew, which were already considered good materials for refining instruments in the barren Middle Earth. Only one had matured, so Yu Feng picked it and planned to refine it into a wine container later. Now it seemed like that wouldn't happen, so Yu Feng carefully used his Three Meditations True Fire to purify the calabaza of impurities. As he did this, he infused the refined jade essence into the calabaza while his divine thoughts arranged an array within it. If not for this, the calabaza would have been incinerated by the power of the Three Meditations True Fire.
Yu Feng still felt it was not enough, so he took out the large number of refining materials he had obtained when attacking those temples before, selected some of them, increased the power of the Three Realms True Fire, and refined all of them. Finally, Yu Feng took out a small jade bottle from the Qian Kun Ring, which contained the extreme yin energy and a considerable amount of Huang Quan water that he had collected before coming to the Western Continent. After absorbing the extreme yin energy and Huang Quan water into the gourd, Yu Feng finally showed a hint of a smile on his face. At this time, the green gourd was already showing a cyan jade color, somewhat like crystal, presenting a semi-transparent color. When touched by hand, it no longer felt cold, but rather warm, as if touching a warm jade.
Now, hundreds of millions of yin souls can be stored in it, and their power will continue to grow. With so many yin souls inside, one can use the Yellow Spring water and the Extreme Yin energy inside to nourish the divine soul. Two, it can also make these yin souls' yin energy temper this green calabaza. As time passes, the two will become more powerful together.
The number of vengeful spirits is too great, and ordinary magical artifacts cannot contain so many. Moreover, most of these vengeful spirits were collected by dark sorcerers and necromancers on the battlefield, and they have been outside for too long, losing their divine consciousness. Even if a Buddhist master were to try to redeem them, they would no longer be qualified to reincarnate. With so many vengeful spirits gathered together, the amount of malignant energy and resentment produced is too great. If they were all released at once, the massive malignant energy and resentment would likely trigger a heavenly calamity, otherwise everything within a thousand miles would perish.
The Dark Council has made a big move by sending so many yin souls to Yu Feng at once. Although these things are not very useful for them, the accumulation of such a large number of useless things will also make them more valuable. They don't have a container that can hold this many dark artifacts, so the Dark Council had to take out a dark holy artifact to gather all the yin souls from the dark wizards and necromancers' hands and store them together. Of course, they couldn't give this holy artifact to Yu Feng as well, so he could only prepare it himself.
Otherwise, Yu Feng wouldn't have to refine this gourd in such a way. But after adding many materials and refining it, the gourd's function is not just for containing yin souls, but also has other uses. If not, it wouldn't be worth Yu Feng wasting so many materials, even using those spoils of war from the church. After refining, this gourd can withstand water and fire, and with the help of the materials used to refine it, the Ji Zi Na Xū Mi Zhen method can contain a lake's worth of water. If those yin souls enter, Yu Feng can use their power to make the space even larger and more solid. By putting the gourd into his body, letting his own true yuan continuously temper and refine, one day this gourd might be able to contain a river's or even an ocean's worth of water. However, by that time, this gourd will no longer be just a ordinary Qing Yu Hu Lu, but a top-grade magical artifact.
Yu Feng continued to stay in the manor for several days, increasing the gourd's defensive power. By then, this gourd could even be used as a defensive treasure. During these days, he constantly laid down restrictions inside the gourd. Two days ago, those dark souls had moved from that dark sacred artifact into this gourd. At that time, Yu Feng ran to the seaside to test the gourd's true effect, filling it with seawater. After two hours, a huge whirlpool formed on the sea surface due to the gourd's suction power, and yet the gourd was only half full. Only then did Yu Feng stop, tossing the gourd into the water without feeling any increase in weight.
The scene stunned the two dark council envoys beside him. This kind of magical treasure they had never seen or heard of in their lives, and only now did they recall that the ancient tomes of the Dark Church spoke of Chinese cultivators having the power to move mountains and seas with a mere hand gesture. At the time, they thought it was just exaggeration by their predecessors, but now looking at this low-ranking disciple from the Middle Earth Sect, it seemed that all of this might be true. How laughable that the Light Church still dared to provoke them on their own territory, truly not knowing life or death.
