Primordial Era: Starting with the repair of Penglai Immortal Island

"The powerful physical abilities of the great shamans were so great that they couldn't even touch a single feather of the Golden Crow in the Great Luo Realm using the Rainbow Transformation Divine Power, let alone cause it any damage."

This is undoubtedly the biggest embarrassment for the Wu Clan in the face of the Golden Crow's harassment—they have the power, but they can't hit an opponent with extremely fast speed.

Even with my bow, it would take several arrows to truly threaten those hairy beasts, but I didn't even have a chance to fire a second arrow.

At this moment, Hou Yi seemed to suddenly remember something, and looked intently at Huanglong.

With a mixture of curiosity and inquiry, he asked, "Young friend Huanglong, I remember your Five Elements Pagoda clearly. Back then, at the foot of Buzhou Mountain, it was a mid-grade acquired spiritual treasure. Its essence was scattered by Xing Tian, ​​and it almost collapsed."

"Why was it that when you unleashed it before, although the tower's shape remained unchanged, the five elements' Daoist energy it emitted was perfectly integrated and inexhaustible, its power increasing by more than a hundred times compared to before?"

"That inner radiance, interwoven with laws, has already reached the level of a top-grade acquired spiritual treasure, hasn't it?"

Huanglong smiled faintly at Hou Yi's question, seemingly quite pleased with himself.

With a flick of his wrist, the Five Elements Pagoda appeared in his hand.

Huang Long smiled and said, "Senior is right, the Five Elements Pagoda has indeed been reforged and upgraded."

"My master is the Primordial Heavenly Venerable of Kunlun Jade Purity, who holds the supreme art of weapon forging in the primordial world. His creations are mysterious and unparalleled in the primordial world."

"As a disciple personally taught by my master, I have naturally learned some of the true meaning of weapon crafting. This spiritual treasure of mine was crafted by collecting many essences of the five elements and innate divine materials, and by expending a great deal of effort to refining and tempering it."

When Hou Yi heard that Huang Long, that top-grade acquired spiritual treasure, was actually refined and enhanced by himself, his previously tired and dejected eyes suddenly burst forth with terrifying golden light!

The light was incredibly intense, like a drowning person grasping at the last straw.

He took a sudden step forward, his massive body radiating an intense sense of oppression. His gaze was fixed on Huanglong, and his voice was somewhat hurried with excitement:

"Young friend! You...you really can refine top-grade acquired spiritual treasures on your own?!"

He paused, seemingly feeling it wasn't precise enough, then quickly added, "No, what I mean is... young friend, could you, tailor-make a bow for me? A divine bow suitable for the Witch Clan, capable of shooting down those flat-feathered crows!"

Upon hearing Hou Yi's request, Huang Long's smile vanished instantly, and he fell silent.

He frowned slightly, his mind racing as he considered the feasibility of the matter and the enormous causal implications behind it.

Forging weapons suitable for the use of the witch clan is by no means an easy task.

The cultivation path of the Wu tribe is unique, completely different from the immortal path passed down by the Dao Ancestor, and even from the cultivation methods of other races.

Most importantly, the Wu tribe does not possess a primordial spirit, nor comprehend the Dao of Heaven; they focus solely on unlocking the potential of their physical bodies and forging their physical forms.

Because they lack a primordial spirit, most spiritual treasures in the prehistoric world, whether conceived innately or refined later, require the imprinting of a primordial spirit and the driving force of magic power, making them nothing more than scrap metal to the Wu tribe.

Therefore, most of the Wu tribe warriors rely on their powerful physical bodies and special innate supernatural abilities to fight.

Even if Hou Yi used a bow and arrow, and Xing Tian used a giant axe, they were not "spiritual treasures" in the ordinary sense.

That is their "natal weapon" formed by combining their own abundant blood and qi with various incomparably sturdy innate divine iron and strange bones, through bloodline secrets, and by spending countless years, day and night, nurturing and polishing it with their own blood and qi.

This weapon, having been connected to its owner by blood and power over the long years, can perfectly bear their vital energy and malevolent attacks. However, the forging process is extremely slow and can hardly be done by others.

Now, Hou Yi is asking him, a Taoist immortal, to forge a powerful bow and arrow that the Wu tribe can use, and that can pose a fatal threat to the Golden Crow Prince.

The difficulty involved is self-evident.

Huang Long's mind raced.

If the weapon is for use by the lower-level witch clan, perhaps there is no need to consider too many mysteries. Just pursue the ultimate in weight, hardness, and sharpness, and use brute force to overcome skill.

But Hou Yi's requirements were clearly not limited to this.

This bow must be able to withstand the infusion of his vast, domineering, and incomparable Great Witch Blood Fiend Power without breaking; the bowstring must have enough toughness and elasticity to allow him to draw it with enough force to shoot down the Golden Crow; and the arrows must be able to restrain the protective divine light of the True Sun Fire and damage the Golden Crow's essence.

This is no longer just an extremely profound field such as the "hardness" law of restraint; the requirements for the skill of the weapon refiner and the materials used are extremely demanding.

If the materials are substandard and the crafting skills are not high enough, even if Hou Yi can barely use it, he will not be able to unleash his full power. The arrows he shoots will probably not even be able to scratch the feathers of the Golden Crow.

"Special materials... must be able to perfectly bear the bloodthirsty power of the Witch Clan, and also be able to restrain the Golden Crow's Solar True Fire, containing either extreme cold or destructive attributes...!"

These key conditions were repeatedly pondered in Huanglong's mind.

A moment later, a flash of inspiration streaked across his mind like lightning!

He remembered! Wasn't the "Innate Cold Soul" from the Northern Abyss sealed within the Creation Gourd that his master had bestowed upon him?

That was one of the apologies that the demon master Kunpeng once gave to resolve the karma between his child and his mother.

That piece of innate cold spirit was formed over countless eons since the beginning of time in the vast Northern Darkness. It contains the original source of innate Taiyin cold energy, and its nature is extremely Yin and extremely cold.

With his current cultivation level of early-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal and his powerful physique, if he were to be in direct contact for an extended period of time, he would feel his blood and qi stagnate and his primordial spirit feel frozen, and he would have to temporarily seal it within the Creation Gourd.

It is precisely because of the existence of this piece of cold spirit that the extreme cold it emits affects the balance of the small world inside the gourd, causing the gathering speed of the Three Lights Divine Water inside the gourd to become negligible, almost stagnant, over the past 12 eons.

Huanglong's original plan was to keep this high-quality innate cold soul and, when the opportunity arose, earnestly request his master, Yuanshi Tianzun, to help him. With his saintly status and the top-tier weapon-refining skills of the primordial world, he was certain that he could refine this item into an infinitely powerful acquired treasure. If he were to supplement it with a massive amount of merit power, transforming it into an acquired merit treasure, it would not be afraid of even innate treasures.

If he were to refine it himself now, limited by his own cultivation level and crafting skills, even if he exerted all his strength, he could only reach the quality of a top-grade acquired spiritual treasure at most.

Moreover, and most importantly, the "magical treasures" used by the Wu tribe are judged by completely different standards than those of acquired spiritual treasures. Their quality cannot be determined by the number of restrictions or the amount of innate essence contained within them.

It places more emphasis on the intensity of the amplification of the user's Qi and blood power, the compatibility with the path cultivated by the user, and its own solidity and special power.

At this moment, facing Hou Yi's hopeful gaze, Huang Long thought long and hard. It seemed that the only thing he had that could simultaneously meet the two conditions of "ultimate material" and "restraining the Golden Crow" was this piece of innate cold soul.

With its extremely yin and cold nature, if it can be successfully refined into an arrow, it will definitely have a fatal restraining effect on the Golden Crow, which is extremely yang and hot.