Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 345 Refining Treasures

After watching Master Tianque leave, Chu Tai acted as if nothing had happened. He maintained the many arrangements in the cave on a daily basis, checked the physical conditions of the thirteen Jinhua Sect fellow disciples, and inspected the many magic weapons kept in the cave.

As the base camp of an immortal sect, the number of classics, immortal scrolls, rare treasures, and elixirs stored in the cave far exceeds the imagination of ordinary people.

Apart from some treasures that were severely affected by the laws and principles of foreign lands, there were more than forty magical weapons of first-class quality and power, and many top-notch materials numbering thousands.

In comparison, Chu Tai's previous collections and the many magic weapons he obtained from the Youkan Sect, excluding the two special magic weapons, the Miro Sky-covering Umbrella and the Sun and Moon Eternal Lamp, the rest of the magic weapons can basically not be compared with the sect's collection. Even the Taiyi Two-Phase Ring can only be regarded as the top second-rate, or the bottom of the first-rate.

However, the magic weapon in Chu Tai's hand has been refined for many years and is more suitable for Chu Tai to practice than the magic weapons collected by the sect.

This also means that Chu Tai's daily work has one more task: refining magic weapons, comprehending the meaning of magic, and repairing the Miro Sky-covering Umbrella.

On that day, in order to fight against the four-eyed square-faced Nuo mask of ancestor Haha, the Miro Sky-covering Umbrella was under heavy pressure, and the Nine-Bend, Fire-Repellent, Water-Repellent, Dust-Repellent, and Wind-Repellent beads that adorned it could not bear the weight, and fine cracks appeared on the surface.

The umbrella ribs made of thirty-six pure bamboos were entangled with the aura of disaster. The purity was gone, and the spiritual light collapsed. The bright yellow silk threads condensed from the thirty-six strands of dark yellow energy hanging from the ends of the ribs also turned gray and could not last long.

The most troublesome thing is that the all-encompassing Dharma of [Qian Kun Wan Xiang] in the Miro Sky-covering Umbrella has also been slightly damaged.

Most people faced with this kind of situation can only work on it day after day, repairing the problems bit by bit. However, Chu Tai, who inherited the Jinhua Sect's Taoist tradition, quickly found suitable repair materials within the sect, and tried to hang the Taibai Thousand Light Lock inside the umbrella while repairing the Miro Sky-covering Umbrella.

As one of the three great cave-suppressing magic weapons of the Jinhua Sect, the Taibai Thousand Light Lock is essentially a protective treasure that simulates the vast sky and has a protective ability that is almost as great as the sky.

Originally, under the refinement of successive generations of masters, it already had the aura of a third-grade treasure. Unfortunately, it was hit by the fragments of the Dao Fruit by the Golden Crow Square Cauldron, which destroyed the original balance of the thousands of lights in the sky. The treasure that was used to protect the Dao became a killing object, and it fell from the level of an extraordinary treasure of the immortals back to the level of a top-notch magic weapon.

Now, although it has recovered a little under the baptism of the true qi passed down by the ancestors of all generations, the third-grade aura cannot be restored.

Chu Tai hung it under the Miro Sky-covering Umbrella, which not only gave the Sky-covering Umbrella more powerful power, but also gave Taibai Thousand Light Lock more changes.

"If we can really evolve a universe within the Heaven-shading Umbrella in the future, this treasure will surpass the Liangyi Qingning Fan, and even be better than the Emei Sect's Thunder and Fire Twin Swords."

Chu Tai looked at the magic weapons that were shining with spiritual light and had been mostly repaired, and took out the Sun and Moon Eternal Lamp, Taiyi Two-Phase Ring, Taiyi Immortal Banner, Dragon-Tiger Hook, Purple Bamboo Branch, Five Dragon Demon-Slaying Wheel, Qianyuan Ruyi Heart-Turning Lock and other magic weapons.

Among them, the Sun and Moon Eternal Lamp is the simplest to upgrade. The power of this treasure itself is not great. The mystery lies in the Sun True Fire and Moon True Fire burning inside, as well as the ray of sword light enshrined in it that is polished and nurtured by the two true fires and should come from Jade Calendar True Lord.

Chu Tai selected suitable materials from the sect's treasury, and after increasing the power of the Ever-Bright Lamp, he purified the Sun and Moon True Fire inside it, and after the lamp body completed a transformation from tangible to intangible, and then from intangible to tangible, he hung the treasure directly above the Cave Yuan Palace, and in accordance with the principles of the Cave Heaven, operated the sun and moon in the Cave Heaven, and accepted the repeated flushing of the Cave Heaven's vitality, which gradually strengthened its foundation. The Taiyi Two-Phase Ring and Taiyi Youxian Banner both contained Chu Tai's understanding of the [Yin and Yang] principles. Now with the support of the Jinhua Sect's treasury, Chu Tai began to optimize the two magic weapons.

The upgrade of the Taiyi Two-Phase Ring is very simple. As a secret magic weapon of the Jinhua Sect, it has been studied a lot within the sect, and there is even a pair of semi-finished products.

After Chu Tai disassembled the semi-finished product, he integrated them into his own treasure ring to improve its foundation. He then wore it daily, repeatedly polishing and purifying it with his own true energy.

The Taiyi Youxian Banner is a little more troublesome. As a new magic weapon formed by combining the Jinxuan Danxia Banner and the Qiyin Huasha Banner, although it contains the [Yin and Yang] magical power, it actually has more of the [Flying Immortal] magical power.

After studying many of the sect's flying magic weapons, Chu Tai further integrated the [Yin and Yang] principles in the Youxian Banner. He used the Red Fire Danxia Golden Light and the Seven Yin Mysterious Evil Light as the basis, and smelted the blue sky air, the Nine Heavens Cloud Peng feathers and other rare treasures to form a Taiyi Feixian Light as a treasure for his future flying.

Further down, the magic weapon Dragon-Tiger Hook originated from Kan Youmen. Due to the failure of refining in the past, the newly added [Blue Dragon and White Tiger] magic power and its original [Yin Fire and Yang Water] magic power were blended to form an alternative change of gold, wood, water and fire.

This disordered combination makes the pair of hooks not restrained by most of the five elements, and also has the characteristics of disordered five elements. Generally, a flying sword is caught by it and turned lightly, and the power of disordered five elements can crush it.

This is the characteristic of the Dragon-Tiger Hook, but also its limitation. The predecessors of the Youkan Sect at that time had no way to deal with it.

But in the Jinhua Sect's medicine garden, the four seniors with banners of the Four Symbols and Twenty-Eight Constellations on their heads believed that this treasure still had a chance of being saved.

The four people instructed Chu Tai to split the two kinds of Dharma again, and then add special earth-related treasures such as the Tujing Baoyu and Wanzai Kunshan Jade. While stabilizing its foundation, it also repaired the five elements and laid the foundation for subsequent improvements.

This process is the part that Chu Tai involves the least content, and it is also the only place where obvious mistakes occurred during this upgrade process.

Fortunately, Chu Tai still had an ancient golden spear in his hand that he had taken from Yuan Pi of Danxia Mountain. With the help of four predecessors, Chu Tai used the power of the cave sky to extract some of the charm and essence of the ancient golden spear and integrated it into the dragon-tiger hook, completing the perfection and transformation of this treasure.

"The ancient artifact was supplemented by the power of the ancient golden spear, and the transformation of [Blue Dragon and White Tiger] was perfected by the four of us. The disordered five elements settled in the Central Plains. If the foundation can be improved a little bit, the future achievements of this treasure may not be worse than the current Taibai Thousand Light Lock."

Looking at the newly-born Dragon-Tiger Hook, Chu Tai and the four seniors were very satisfied. This also attracted the attention of several other Jinhua Sect cultivators, and they all started to offer advice.

Therefore, it was much easier to upgrade and refine treasures such as the Purple Bamboo Branch, the Five Dragon Demon-Slaying Wheel, the Qianyuan Ruyi Heart-Turning Lock, etc., and it was also during this process that Chu Tai gradually developed a close relationship with the thirteen seniors.

After finishing the refining of the last magic weapon and completing the qualitative transformation of his own magic weapon, Chu Tai very calmly asked the thirteen people about their practice of the Lingtai method.

(End of this chapter)