Volume 1: Rebirth and Refining Chapter 25: Secret Chamber Refines Treasure

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  As a man of action, Chu Yu didn't say another word and let Duan Zhongyuan lead the way to the secret room upstairs. Meanwhile, Duan Ziyu was chased back to his own room by his father and not allowed to follow, because only the head of the Duan family knew the location and opening method of the secret room, even if it was his own son, Duan Zhongyuan didn't allow him to step into the secret room.

  Of course, this rule for Chu Yu was directly ignored by Duan Zhongyuan at this moment. Joke, a person who can casually give away a set of top-notch cultivation methods would not care about the secret room of a mid-level cultivator family.

  "Please, after you." In the study, Duan Zhongyuan unhesitatingly opened the secret room in front of Chu Yu, and two rows of bookshelves made of fine steel slid open to reveal a hidden door. Duan Zhongyuan led the way and invited Chu Yu to enter.

  This secret room was obviously well thought out, and upon entering it was surprisingly spacious, roughly the size of half a basketball court. Along the walls of the secret room were over a dozen hollow cabinets, each one piled high with various objects.

  "Your collection isn't small." Chu Yu, who hadn't refined any treasures in a long time, saw the room full of refining materials at this moment. Although most of them were some common and unremarkable refining materials, it still made him feel itchy in his heart. His gaze quickly swept over the refining materials piled up in various places in the room, occasionally furrowing his brow, occasionally shaking his head. After about a few minutes, Chu Yu walked forward on his own, taking three items from among the many refining materials.

  "Three taels of refined gold, three pieces of Bi Chao stone, sixteen teeth of the hundred-year-old tiger shark... Adding to that the Yun Mo crystal stone I already have in hand, it should be enough to refine a small, beginner-level item." Chu Yu Xin said as he took out four refining materials.

  "Lend me this secret room for a use, and as compensation, I'll give you a treasure when I come out."

  Duan Zhongyuan almost jumped for joy and bumped his head on the ceiling, shaking his head vigorously, "Am I dreaming or hallucinating... a treasure... is the Immortal Elder really going to give me a treasure?"

  Facing Du Zhongyuan's somewhat excessive surprise, Chu Yu shrugged and said, "Don't you believe I can refine a magic treasure?"

  "No, I didn't mean that... It was my fault, I got too excited. Please forgive me, Senior Xian. You can use this secret room for as long as you want, I'll withdraw first and wait outside the door." Duan Zhongyuan bowed slightly and quickly exited the secret room.

  It's no wonder that Duan Zhongyu was so excited, after all, for a cultivator, the importance of a magic treasure is not inferior to a top-notch cultivation technique. Moreover, for most cultivators, possessing a magic treasure is indeed a very luxurious thing.

  Firstly, the materials needed to refine a magic treasure are often very troublesome to prepare. More importantly, even after obtaining these materials, not everyone can refine them. Without having reached the Yuanying stage or above in their cultivation, it's almost impossible to have anything to do with magic treasures. The reason is simple: only by reaching the Yuanying stage can one cultivate the true yuan fire, and the primary condition for refining a magic treasure is being able to burn and melt various materials with this true yuan fire.

  Like Chu Yu, who can cultivate the Five Aggregates True Flame in the foundation-building stage, is absolutely unique in the world. After all, the Lianbao Pavilion's lineage is based on refining artifacts, and if they don't have some superior methods for refining artifacts, how can they be successful?

  Even if a cultivator who has mastered the True Primordial Fire in the Yuan Ying period or above, it is unlikely that they can successfully refine a magical treasure. The refinement of a single magical treasure involves too many subtleties, such as controlling the fire timing, embedding array methods, matching attributes, and selecting and proportioning materials, all of which are indispensable when refining a magical treasure. Without years of accumulated experience, one might as well forget about mastering it.

  And once failed, not only the material is destroyed, but also the alchemist himself will suffer no small injury. I ask you, where in this world can one find so many materials to experiment with? And who can endure the injuries caused by failure after failure, not to mention the psychological shadow of failure?

  Unless they are cultivators who have reached the level of breaking through to a higher level, they may be able to rely on their own strong cultivation to make up for the lack of means to refine treasures. Of course, the premise is that the magical weapons they refine are those low-grade trinkets.

  Let's take the Mo Luo Sect, a mid-tier demonic sect that the Duan family relies on. Within the entire sect, only the sect master and a few high-ranking elders possess one or two magical artifacts, which are mostly useless trinkets.

  For example, Huang Chen and Xuan Fengzi, the Emei sect rebels who were originally seen as having died together, had obtained their treasures in a different way. Huang Chen's "Nu Feng Sword" was something he had secretly taken from the outer treasury of the Emei sect before betraying his school. Otherwise, with his Jindan-level cultivation, how could he have used such a powerful treasure? As for Xuan Fengzi, he didn't even have half a piece of treasure on him. If he did, he wouldn't have had to resort to self-destructing his Jindan in order to die together with Huang Chen.

  After Chu Yu exited the secret room, a slight force emerged in his hand, and a piece of Bi Chao stone was pinched into a faint green powder. As he walked out several steps, the powder in his hand scattered, revealing an extraordinary symbol drawn with the powder on the ground. After the powder in his hand was scattered, Chu Yu crushed another one, and all three pieces of Bi Chao stone were turned into powder and scattered, forming a massive symbol over ten meters wide that appeared on the ground.

  Chu Yu sat cross-legged on the giant talisman without any hesitation, and lightly shouted "Array Start". Along with his constantly changing decisive seal, a faintly visible cyan halo lit up around him, which was exactly the talisman revealed by the powder of Bi Chao Stone.

  Chu Yu changed the seal again, his right palm slowly extending and opening, the unique fire control of Lianbao Pavilion began to operate, and the true yuan force in his body moved in an unusually strange way through his meridians. As the speed of the true yuan force increased, Chu Yu's clothes fluttered without wind, and his hair also flew up in the invisible wind.

  A loud noise rang out, and a cluster of colorful flames burst forth from Chu Yu's open palm. Chu Yu remained still, pointing his left hand at the flames in his right palm as he muttered to himself.

  It was originally only a spark, but in the blink of an eye it had turned into a foot-high flame, with five colors - cyan, red, white, silver and gold - blending together, looking very beautiful.

  Looking at the fluctuating Five Elements True Yuan Fire in his palm, Chu Yu's mouth curled up into a satisfied smile, "Old friend, I can finally refine equipment and craft treasures with you again..."