Tempered Immortal

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In fact, among the same-level cultivators, Lin Xuan’s treasures are so many that it’s jaw-dropping. Other Foundation Establishment middle-stage cultivators probably have one high-grade Spirit Tool, which is already amazing, but Lin Xuan has an astounding amount of Top Grade Spirit Tools.

But he also often meets opponents who are higher level than him. Compared to them, Lin Xuan seemed to be in contrast.

The Jade Snow Bracelet has been given to Yue’er, and the Wu Hook which was obtained from the Sect Master of Spirit Flame Sect. Is already a Top Grade Spirit Tool. To strengthen its power, one of the effective ways is to assimilate it with the Mystic Black Iron.

But the Mystic Black Iron is a material for refining Magic Artifacts, that even cultivators of the Core Formation Stage, regard as a treasure. And most cultivators of the Foundation Establishment Stage have never even seen it before.

However, there is exactly one in this ‘Heavenly Thunder Art’ book.

Lin Xuan pondered for a moment and held it with his hand to the Alchemy room, a Spirit Art was formed, and the head of a beast on the ground burst with the blazing fire of the Earth Vein.

Spirit Pill Mountain is well-known for its Alchemy, but in fact, it has a lot of miscellaneous studies and is also involved in Tool manufacturing. It is not surprising because this technique has many similarities with Alchemy.

Lin Xuan has also read many books pertaining to this area. Of course, it is impossible to refine Spirit Tools at his current level. However, there should be no problem in separating the material.

Lin Xuan made a spell gesture with his hand, and used a floating technique on the ancient books of “Heavenly Thunder Art”, and then used his Spiritual Sense to control the Earth Vein of Fire, and began to slowly refine the suspended pages.

…

After a few hours.

Lin Xuan’s expression was ugly and with a wave of his hand, the ancient books flew back into his palm.

He spread it out in front of his eyes, and carefully looked at it, Lin Xuan’s expression became even more and more gloomy. The Earth Vein of Fire is no less than a few thousand degrees, but although it burned for a long time. The book has not been melted at all.

It is no wonder that Lei Ao once said that this book is quite a pain. Spiritual weapons are hard to damage. He tried all kinds of methods but still couldn’t separate the Mystic Black Iron.

Lin Xuan showed mixed emotions.

He’s happy that this material for refining Magic Artifacts really deserves its reputation.

And depressed about where to go from there.

How to do it?

Lin Xuan frowned slightly, and his fingers gently tapped his knees. In fact, he’s not without options. For example, he could ask Tong Yu for help.

Although he is his teacher. And officially he’s just a cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Stage, but since he knew the secrets of Spirit Pill Mountain, Lin Xuan didn’t look at it that way.

Being able to become the Sect Master of a Sect, which has been inherited for thousands of years and hides its great strength, the cultivation base of the Daoist Master is definitely not that simple on the surface.

Although unproven, Lin Xuan is certain that he had entered the Core Formation Stage.

If he wanted to separate the Mystic Black Iron, he must first melt the book.

The fire of Earth Veins couldn’t do it, but with the three-colored fire of a Core Formation Stage cultivator, it should be a breeze.

But Lin Xuan does not intend to ask for help. Because he has too many secrets.

Shaking his head, Lin Xuan was preparing to put the ancient book in his hand into the Storage Bracelet, but suddenly stopped, and his face showed a strange expression.

At this moment, his expression was very unreadable, he smiled, then suddenly showed a solemn expression. After that he was distressed, and even a little eager to try, as if he had encountered a difficult decision.

After quite a while. Lin Xuan gritted his teeth and sat down in Lotus Position, no longer hesitating.

With both hands stretched in front of his chest, he sandwiched the ancient book of “Heavenly Thunder Art” between his two palms, and he then took a deep breath and began to drive the Blue Light Orbs inside his body.

Lin Xuan suddenly had an idea. Since the Blue Star Sea ability can separate the impurities from Spirit Pills and Spiritual Herbs. Probably other materials can also be purified.

For example, the Mystic Black Iron in the ancient book!

It’s a bold idea. To be honest, Lin Xuan is not sure if he’ll succeed. But he has to try it before he knows the result.

Lin Xuan started doing it cautiously, after all, it was his first time, and he also thought that it was definitely much harder than purifying Spirit Pills.

…

The night passed quickly.

Lin Xuan opened his eyes, stood up from the ground, and stretched his aching body. The expression on his face was neither joyful nor angry.

After trying it yesterday. He didn’t know whether to be happy or depressed.

Well, in general. He’s still mostly excited.

Although Lin Xuan did not separate the Mystic Black Iron, that is not to say that his assumptions are wrong. On the contrary, this kind of thinking is completely feasible.

The Blue Star Sea’s ability is to purify. In addition to medicine pill, Tool manufacturing materials can also be purified by separating the Impurities.

That is to say, in theory, Lin Xuan can completely remove the Mystic Black Iron from the pages of the ancient book through the Blue Star Sea.

But…how to put it, his cultivation base is still lacking, the volume of the Blue Star Sea is directly proportional to his Spiritual Qi, with the strength of Lin Xuan’s current Foundation Establishment Stage Third Layer, he cannot smoothly separate the Mystic Black Iron.

Lin Xuan was surprised to find that every bit of movement consumed more than a thousand times the light orbs than that of purifying Spirit Pills.

He didn’t expect that purifying Tool manufacturing materials would be so difficult. It seems that before entering the Core Formation Stage, it was an ability he could imagine but not use.

Lin Xuan smiled bitterly.

However, after being depressed, he calmed down. After all, this is also a great discovery. Although it could not be used now, it will be of great benefit in the future.

As you’re aware, after a cultivator enters the Core Formation Stage, he’s able to use Magic Artifacts.

Magic Artifacts are completely different from Spirit Tools. The materials for refining them are extremely rare, and many Core Formation Stage cultivators are still unable to collect them. Therefore, in the Cultivation World, there is such a saying:

“Core Formation is difficult, and it’s even harder to obtain a Magic Artifact after condensing a Golden Core.”

It is not an exaggeration, but the reality of today’s Cultivation World.

Although it seems to be too far to consider these things now, the discovery that the Blue Star Sea can purify tool manufacturing materials is still incredibly useful.

After entering the Core Formation Stage, it will be much easier to find the materials for refining Magic Artifacts. In addition to a few raw materials like the Mystic Black Iron, many other materials can also be purified from some common things.

Although it is temporarily unavailable, Lin Xuan did not put the ancient book into his Storage Bracelet, but slowly read it.

“Heavenly Thunder Art” is just the Cultivation Method of the fourth-rate Heavenly Sword Sect. It is reasonable to say that it is useless to Lin Xuan who has the Nine Heavens Profound Art.

However, after Lin Xuan thought about it, he felt that this matter was quite strange.

Thinking about it, if it’s really just a Fourth-rate trash Cultivation Method, would it be preserved into an ancient book assimilated with Mystic Black Iron. They could’ve just engraved it in a Jade slip, Lin Xuan did not think that the Heavenly Sword Sect’s ancestor did it for fun, it definitely has another mystery.

After an hour, Lin Xuan put down the book.

No gains.

He read the Heavenly Thunder Art repeatedly over and over again. It is indeed a very common Cultivation Method. And he really didn’t see anything strange.

Lin Xuan’s complexion was gloomy, but after a while, he calmed down and said to himself: “This book has been inherited for hundreds of years in the Heavenly Sword Sect. If the secret is so easy to find, a disciple would have long since found out about it.”

After thinking about it, he felt a lot better.

After collecting the ancient book, Lin Xuan rested for two days, letting the body and mind relax, and then began his cultivation.

A few days later, Lin Xuan came out of his Cave Mansion. After closing the door and setting up a Restriction, he left Spirit Pill Mountain and flew to the southeast.

Speaking of this trip, it was purely an accident.

Originally, Lin Xuan intended to advance his cultivation two steps in one breath, enter the Foundation Establishment Late-stage, and then refine the Mystic Fire God Pearl.

Before practicing, Lin Xuan took the jade pendant that he obtained from Leaping Stream Mountain.

So far, Lin Xuan has only figured out one of its functions, which is to supplement the soul energy of Beast-Soul Talismans.

When he first discovered this, Lin Xuan was very excited because it meant that he could use the Beast-Soul Talisman, a practical and powerful thing without any scruples.

In the battle with Master Yin Ghost, the Soaring Heaven Bird’s Soul energy was heavily consumed, so Lin Xuan intended to supplement it with the jade pendant just like last time.

But something jaw-dropping happened, and it didn’t work.

Could it be that last time was an illusion, Lin Xuan was a bit dumbfounded.

However, after calming down and studying it carefully, he finally found out the reason.

The energy in the jade pendant does not appear out of thin air. You need to find a Spirit Beast and absorb its Soul before adding it to the Beast Talisman.

For example, last time at the Medicine Garden in Blue Cloud Mountain, the jade pendant was able to supplement the Soaring Heaven Bird because it absorbed some Soul energy from the Level-3 Spirit Beast.

Simply put, it plays a role similar to that of a charger.

After figuring this out, Lin Xuan thought about it for a while and finally decided to go out and look for Spirit Beasts.

After all, wanting to cultivate to the Foundation Establishment Late-stage is not something that can be done in a year or two.

And now that the Beast Talisman’s energy is quite lacking, if he met a strong enemy again, his strength would be greatly reduced.

Although theoretically speaking, it is unlikely that it’ll happen while he’s in closed-door meditation in the Cave Mansion of Spirit Pill Mountain. But as the saying goes, it’s better safe than sorry!

Translated by: James1kd2

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