Seeking Immortality in a Bizarre World-Chapter 436 - 431: Spiritual Treasure Formation! Advancement to Spiritual Treasure!_1
The quota for the Small Purification Spirit Pool had been used up, and the waiting time for the Pure Spirit Pond started at fifteen years.
The special Spiritual Liquid had been completely exchanged by others. To quickly cleanse a Demon Treasure, one could only learn the related secret technique.
Besides that, there was another way: exchange the Demon Treasure for a Spiritual Treasure.
After a Demon Treasure was cleansed into a Spiritual Treasure, its Spiritual Energy severely declined; a regular Spiritual Treasure was worth two cleansed Spiritual Treasures. As long as the selling price was higher than this cost, one could make a steady profit.
However, Jia Ren didn’t have enough time.
The Spiritual Materials had already fused. His subsequent time and energy had to be devoted to Artifact Refining. This kind of detailed operation couldn’t be carried out by the Spirit Treasure Refining Furnace. He would use the Silk Refining Treasure Technique, drawing the material into Spiritual Silk and inscribing it with the Flame Dragon Spiritual Treasure Inscription. Next, he would pour in the Heavenly Fire Liquid, add seventy-two different types of flames, and inscribe the Flame Control Spiritual Treasure Inscription.
In this way, the Heavenly Fire Divine Mantle Spirit Treasure he refined would be immune to seventy-two types of flames and would also have very strong resistance to other flames.
Finally, the Nine Refinement Treasure Technique involved repeatedly forging the refined Spiritual Materials; the "nine refinements" were not limited to just nine times. It could be ninety-nine times, nine hundred and ninety-nine times, or even nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine times. The more times it was done, the better the effect. However, the Artifact Refining time would also be longer.
Unknowingly, five years passed. The door of the Refining Workshop slowly opened.
"It’s finally done!"
Jia Ren looked at the bright yellow jade mantle, upon which faint dragon patterns emerged, as perfect as a piece of art. A dragon-form Spirit Artifact awoke, emitting waves of dragon roars as scorching heat washed over him.
Placed in the Lingbao Vault, the Heavenly Fire God Cover would be among the top-tier defensive Magical Treasures, and Jia Ren’s creation was of refined quality. This Heavenly Fire God Cover’s quality could have reached Master Level, but that would have been too conspicuous, so he had deliberately lowered its level slightly.
Even so, a refined-quality Spiritual Treasure, once it entered the vault, would definitely be snatched up in seconds. Some might even learn of the Heavenly Fire God Cover and preemptively seize it before it even entered the Lingbao Vault. True treasures were not something unaffiliated disciples of the Lingbao Sect would even get a chance to see.
Jia Ren wouldn’t tolerate such a thing. Good items should be offered first to those close to him; at least he could earn a favor.
However, this matter wasn’t urgent for now. He didn’t want to expose the fact that his Artifact Refining speed was too fast. The normal time allotted to refine a Heavenly Fire God Cover was ten years. Newcomers were given an additional two years, for a total of twelve, yet he had only used five.
Exposing that he could refine Spiritual Treasures too quickly and at too high a quality was not a good thing. It could lead to increased tasks and greater difficulty in future Artifact Refining assignments.
It would be better to seize this opportunity to cultivate, raise his Cultivation Level, and hand over the Spiritual Treasure only when the agreed time approached.
There wasn’t enough time to reach the Nascent Soul Limit through the Heavenly Treasure Spirit Cultivation Technique. It was better to find a way to exchange these gains for Spiritual Treasures or Spiritual Materials.
He left the Refining Workshop and headed straight for the trading stalls.
This time, in addition to exchanging for Spirit Treasure Material, purchasing Formations was also one of his goals. Compared to the contribution point prices within the Sect, vendors wanting to make quick sales had to offer good quality at low prices. Of course, without a discerning eye, one could easily be tricked.
Upon arriving at the Spirit Law Pavilion, the crowd at the stalls was much sparser than before. A Grey-robed Protector in charge of selling treasures was mostly dealing in Demonic Path Spiritual Treasures and Spiritual Materials; not many disciples from the Lingbao Sect were present. Demon Treasures came from the Secret Realm Battlefield. It was highly probable that the Lingbao Sect Cultivators who had slain Demon Cultivators to acquire these Demon Treasures had gone to the Secret Realm Battlefield. Thus, the task of selling Demon Treasures could only be left to the Protectors.
There weren’t many people at the stalls. The lively hawking of busier times was absent, and most Cultivators were resting with their eyes closed. Jia Ren surveyed the stalls; out of ten, nine were selling Demon Sect’s Spiritual Treasures. There were too many Demon Treasures, and exchanging them for Spiritual Treasures was no easy task.
He wandered around and finally found two stalls where he could potentially acquire Spiritual Treasures, but they offered extremely low value for trade-ins.
"Two Demon Treasures for one Spiritual Treasure!" one stall proclaimed.
"One portion of Spiritual Materials plus one hundred Superior Grade Spirit Stones to acquire a Demon Treasure," offered another.
A middle-aged man with graying hair sat quietly before a meditation cushion, his attitude markedly indifferent. With an overflow of Demon Treasures, and with Purification Spirit Pools and Purification Liquids being insufficient, Cultivators had a backlog of Demon Treasures they couldn’t convert into combat power. If you didn’t sell, someone else would. As long as someone sold a Demon Treasure to them, these stallholders could make a huge profit.
Although a Demon Treasure, once cleansed, became a Spiritual Treasure quite inferior to a genuine one, the difference in value ultimately didn’t justify a two-for-one exchange. Being offered merely one portion of Spiritual Materials plus a hundred Superior Grade Spirit Stones for a Demon Treasure was an insultingly low price.
These terms were utterly ruthless!
Jia Ren found a stallholder and attempted to negotiate. "How about three Demon Treasures for two Spiritual Treasures? I won’t accept cleansed Spiritual Treasures in return, though."
If he traded three Demon Treasures for two genuine Spiritual Treasures, he could absorb them with the Spirit Devouring Treasure Art to rapidly increase his Cultivation Level. This would be much better than obtaining cleansed Spiritual Treasures, and it would save him the time and Sect contribution points needed for cleansing.
The other party didn’t even lift their eyelids, replying flatly, "No bargaining."
They were only interested in exploitative, one-sided deals. For them, even giving two Spiritual Treasures for three Demon Treasures would yield a profit. But why would they do that when their current offer—essentially two Spiritual Treasures for four Demon Treasures—was so much more lucrative? To them, earning less was as good as a loss!
Jia Ren didn’t want to be taken for a sucker. He tried another stall, but the response was the same.
It seems I can only exchange them for Spiritual Materials! Or I could learn the Spirit-Cleansing Secret Art and handle the Demon Sect’s Spiritual Treasures myself.
If he still had to participate in the Secret Realm war, Jia Ren would definitely choose to learn the secret technique and become self-sufficient. But as a Spirit-level Artifact Refiner, he could stay safely within the Sect. As long as the Sect didn’t perish, he wouldn’t need to venture out.
It was still better to exchange the Demon Treasures for Spiritual Materials and then refine Spiritual Treasures himself.
Moreover, Jia Ren didn’t want to use the Demon Soul Refining Method to advance his Life-bound Magic Treasure; he preferred the Spirit Activation Method. As such, he had to find suitable Spiritual Materials.
Jia Ren searched through various stalls and saw many selling Spiritual Materials. Unlike Demon Treasures, the Lingbao Sect had many Artifact Refiners, so the sales volume for Spiritual Materials was much higher.
Devil God Jade Marrow?!
This was a material for refining Evil-Warding Spiritual Treasures, and it might serve as the core component for the Demon-Sealing Tower’s promotion to a Spiritual Treasure.
"How do you exchange for these Spiritual Materials? Can I use Demon Treasures to trade?" Jia Ren asked a vendor.
"Demon Treasures?" the stall owner repeated, his expression souring. He hesitated for a moment but didn’t reject the idea outright. "One Demon Treasure for two pieces of Spiritual Material."
Although this exchange rate was far worse than trading for a Spiritual Treasure directly, it was much more reasonable than what the other stalls had offered for his Demon Treasures.
"Can I get one more piece of Spiritual Material if I trade three Demon Treasures?" Jia Ren asked. Getting only two pieces per Demon Treasure was a loss, but he had no choice. With so many Demon Treasures around, they were hard to offload. The best solution would have been to trade Demon Treasures with Cultivators from the Shimo Sect for their Spiritual Treasures; that would benefit both sides. However, if such a transaction were discovered, the consequences would be extremely severe. If he wanted to exchange the Demon Treasures quickly, he had to accept some loss.
"Alright," the vendor conceded. "I’ll give you this piece of Spiritual Material too!"
The stall owner casually tossed Jia Ren the coveted Devil God Jade Marrow as if it were a mere bonus.
Jia Ren was stunned. If this piece of Spiritual Material were in the Sealed Land, countless factions would fight to the death over it.
But the Mysterious Realm was different. In the Mysterious Realm, Bizarre Demons were almost extinct, with only the Suppressing Trickery Lineage needing Evil-Warding Treasures. The problem was the scarcity of Bizarre Demons. With no demand for Evil-Warding Spiritual Treasures for many years, there was naturally no market for their materials. Evil-Repelling Spiritual Material wasn’t considered precious here; otherwise, it wouldn’t have been given away so casually as a mere bonus.
Jia Ren exchanged all three Demon Treasures he had with him, receiving a total of seven pieces of Spiritual Material, including the Devil God Jade Marrow. Unfortunately, spatial Spiritual Materials were rare, and he didn’t find any.
Next, Jia Ren looked for a usable Fifth Order Array Plate at the stalls, preparing in advance for the Formation in his Cave. There were plenty of Formations at the stalls, each Fifth-order Array having its own unique characteristics.
A vendor explained, "The Five Treasures Chaotic Deity Array is a Fifth-order Array that blocks the probing of divine consciousness. Inserting five Spiritual Treasures that interfere with divine consciousness can maximize its power; not even an Integrative Cultivator could see through it."
"Another was the Inverted Primordial Treasure Light Array!" the vendor continued. "Up to seven Spiritual Treasures can be inserted. Using Spiritual Treasures aligned with the Five Elements and Yin-Yang as the Formation Base can maximize this treasure Formation’s power."
The Formations of the Lingbao Sect were rather unconventional, resembling special treasure Formations created by combining Spiritual Treasures and standard Formations. They required Spiritual Treasures to bring out their full strength. Imitation Spiritual Treasures and even standard Magical Treasures could also activate the Formation’s function, but their power would be significantly reduced. Apart from the Lingbao Sect, no other Sect would choose such an extravagant method of employing Formations.
Jia Ren’s eyes brightened; having witnessed the power of a Spiritual Treasure Formation, he was full of anticipation. The Sun Devouring Divine Dog Formation and the Treasure Light Barrier Formation from the Heiyuan Secret Realm had made a profound impression on him. Though the Five Treasures Chaotic Deity Array and the Inverted Primordial Treasure Light Array were less potent than those two, their advantage was that a single person could activate them; they didn’t require the combined efforts of many Sect disciples.
After spending seven Thousand-Year-Old Spiritual Medicines, he obtained the Array Plates for these two Fifth-order Arrays.
Jia Ren didn’t rush back to his Cave to set up the Formations. Instead, he returned to the Hall of Artifice.
This time, he began Artifact Refining again—or more accurately, he began the process of promoting Magical Treasures to Spiritual Treasures. Jia Ren had several Magical Treasures that had been elevated to the late stage of Soul Transformation with the help of the Demon-Sealing Tower. These could all be promoted to become Spiritual Treasures.
The Demon-Sealing Tower wasn’t an urgent matter; it was his Life-bound Magic Treasure and of great importance. He planned to completely reassemble and thoroughly remold the Demon-Sealing Tower, for instance, by changing its three Spirit Treasure Patterns into an entirely new foundation.
Completely reshaping his Life-bound Magic Treasure? Jia Ren didn’t have complete confidence yet, so he was in no rush to attempt it.
For treasures like the Xuan Gui Shield and the Purple Thunder Exorcising Sword, which currently had no substitutes, his plan was to first promote them to Spiritual Treasures. Later, he might devour them using the Spirit Devouring Treasure Art, but not before finding suitable replacements. Until replacement Spiritual Treasures appeared, there was no urgency to process them in this way.
Jia Ren was preparing to promote the Qingyun Sword and the Xuanjia Flying Shield. These two Magical Treasures had been crafted in the Sealed Land and elevated to the pinnacle of the God Transformation Level with the help of the Demon-Sealing Tower. Originally, his plan had been to promote them to Spiritual Treasures and then exchange them for cultivation resources when an opportunity arose. After joining the Lingbao Sect and learning the Spirit Devouring Treasure Art, Jia Ren changed his initial plan.
What could be better than promoting them to Spiritual Treasures and then devouring them to increase his Cultivation Level? Only one’s Realm and Cultivation Level would never betray oneself.
"Let’s start!"
"Demon Soul Refining Method!"
Jia Ren took out the Qingyun Sword, a Magical Treasure, and the Demon Refining Pot, then released a demon soul produced by the pot.
"Transforming Demon Liquid!"
He applied a layer of azure liquid—the Transforming Demon Liquid—to the Qingyun Sword, completely enveloping the blade. A misty, cloud-like demon soul emerged from the pot. As Jia Ren cast a spell, the demon soul was drawn to the Qingyun Sword and flew straight towards it. The moment the Fifth Rank demon soul merged into the Qingyun Sword, the blade radiated a vibrant turquoise treasure light.
"Capture!"
As the demon soul and the Qingyun Sword were in a state of partial, unstable fusion, the demon soul began to take on a tangible, almost solid quality.
"Azure Spirit Treasure Pattern!"
With another spell, Jia Ren stabilized the semi-solidified demon soul and rapidly inscribed the Azure Spirit Treasure Pattern onto it. This pattern was the core of the Qingyun Sword’s promotion to a Spiritual Treasure.
Once the Spirit Pattern and its associated micro-formation were completely inscribed, the demon soul transformed into the Spirit Artifact for the Qingyun Sword, merging with it and becoming one.
With this, the Magical Treasure was successfully promoted to a Spiritual Treasure!
