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Chapter 382 - 358: New - - One Object, Ten Thousand Shapes

Chapter 382: Chapter 358: New Chapter - One Object, Ten Thousand Shapes

After a careful examination of the stone bead, using various methods of testing, Wang Zijia concluded that, its only intact ability, apart from being able to differentiate into a host of subsidiary beads, was to convert incense into a mysterious energy.

Apart from this, it had no other magical properties, not even a particularly durable substance.

As for the manifestation of thousands of gods and images, he detected none of it.

Wang Zijia pondered for a moment and couldn’t think of any other use for it.

"If that’s the case, then I might as well use it as refining material to test my previous ideas!"

With this thought, Wang Zijia did not immediately begin his experiment.

First, he conjured up three secret books from thin air.

"Refining: Variety", "Refining: Fusion", "Refining: Soul Loading".

These were the three top-grade magic manuals Wang Zijia had left, as the Sect’s records claimed that merging these would create the Third-Class Scripture: the One Object, Ten Thousand Shapes Chapter.

This sequence was a necessary part of any sect elite refiner’s set of specialized skills and could be used as a primary method in battle.

Wang Zijia had chosen all five top-grade magic doors himself when he was in the Lower Realm, thinking about being profitable. As for the current three, they were prepared by him for his initial breakthrough in the path of Perfected Being to the middle stage, to greatly enhance his powers in manipulating the Artifact Shattering Spear!

By then, he could throw out a long spear, explode a sky full of magical tools, form a sea of tools, and then explode the target again after attacking it.

In addition to the three magic doors and the previously mentioned "Supreme Purity Method" and "Flesh and Blood Manipulation Method", these were the five top-grade magic doors he had acquired during his journey to the Lower Realm.

As for the other 270 first-grade techniques that came with the ten sets of top-grade magic manuals, he had chosen all of them in the Lower Realm because he wasn’t aware that the Qinglian World already had such a foundation. So, almost all of them were part of the Nine Foundation Techniques series for part-time jobs.

For example, the Nine Alchemy Techniques, the Nine Weapon Refining Techniques, the Nine Talisman Creation Techniques, and even the Nine Coffin Entry Techniques.

Wang Zijia originally planned to produce some basic goods and then use the rest of these things to vigorously develop secondary careers, create a complete ecosystem for the Qinglian World, and pave the way for the future.

With the difference in the rate of time elapsed, once completed, his Fake Talisman Lineage would have a steady stream of big shots ascending, thus driving a healthy ecosystem for the Fake Talisman Lineage, allowing his faction to take shape, and becoming a significant school within the Sect in a short time.

After entering the Lower Realm, however, things turned into this kind of situation.

Of course, this did not affect his plan.

He was still some distance away from breaking through to the middle stage of the Perfected Being, so there was no need to learn these three magic doors now.

But the experiment he was about to do required significant tool refining skills. Although he had used a fair amount of the Refining Technique as its core when constructing his Crystal Red Long Gun, he was, however, just using some non-professional methods which didn’t exactly align with these techniques.

So he decided to take them out in advance and learn them first!

In his thoughts, Wang Zijia was constantly flipping through the three top-grade magic door manuals.

Although the three were combat-oriented techniques, they were more focused on tool refining so that Wang Zijia lacked some foundation.

Therefore, even though these were merely manuals, using his current cultivation base and the foundation of Tao Law, it took him several days to comprehend them.

Wang Zijia then took another thread of Sinister Core and allocated a value of 500,000 to the skill.

Dao Cultivation: Three hundred years (221/1000 million)

Variety Refining Technique (Not Yet Started 3000/10,000)

Fusion Refining Technique (Not Yet Started 3000/10,000)

Soul Loading Refining Technique (Not Yet Started 3000/10,000)

Taiji: 551,000

Would you like to spend 147,000 worth of value to improve the second-grade technique: Variety Refining Technique to Great Mastery?

"Yes!"

Would you like to spend 147,000 worth of value to improve the second-grade technique: Fusion Refining Technique to Great Mastery?

"Yes!"

Would you like to spend 147,000 worth of value to improve the second-grade technique: Soul Loading Refining Technique to Great Mastery?

"Yes!"

Would you like to fuse similar-graded techniques, Variety, Fusion, and Soul Loading, to condense into a new Chapter?

"Yes!"

With hundreds of thousands of value consumed, countless insights began to emerge in Wang Zijia’s mind.

In a daze, he felt as if he had transformed into a tool refiner, practicing day by day in a volcanic melting cave, seeming tireless.

In the blink of an eye, after hundreds of years, there came a day when he thoroughly understood and incorporated all his life’s learnings, refining them into a technique that could both be used for tool refining and battling.

Dao Cultivation: Three hundred years (221/1000 Million)

Scripture: One Object, Ten Thousand Shapes Chapter (Beginner 100,000/200,000)

Taiji: 60,483

One Object, Ten Thousand Shapes Chapter: Any of your techniques can be used as a tool refining method to produce corresponding magical tools. Furthermore, they can take a myriad of forms, no longer constrained by the system.

For example, according to the characteristics of the Molten Fireball Technique, you can create explosive magic tools for one-time use. According to the Earth Spear Technique, you can create long spear-like magical tools.

Feeling the newly fused lower-grade scripture, Wang Zijia raised his hand and a long spear emerged.

Straight away, in Wang Zijia’s hands, the long spear slowly transformed into a long gun, a long stick, a long sword, and even a round wheel and a crystal ring.

Apart from the shattered crystal red form, the figure can be freely changed, no longer limited to the spear system.

Besides, every spell he knew could condense into a corresponding magic tool that he could use for combat, or toss out as a spell.

This was a dramatic leap in his combat power—the versatility of his methods was staggering!

Moreover, Wang Zijia had grown very familiar with the path of refining tools. Of course, he probably wouldn’t pursue the path of a Refiner Master himself. The Sealing Technique was definitely more profitable.

His current refining ability was absolutely sufficient for crafting a few things for himself.

After quite some time, once he’d absorbed all his gains, Wang Zijia turned his attention back to the stone bead in front of him.

Flipping his hand, he drew out a pile of spiritual materials and tapped on the broken stone papers in front of him.

"Crash!"

Some worn-out god statues that were exuding sinister energy tumbled out of the papers.

These things might look like trash, but... they really were trash!

However, as the saying goes, trash is just treasure in the wrong place.

After being tempered by the mysterious domain for hundreds of years and eroded by sinister energy, what might have once been just clay statues had started to give off the aroma of unique spiritual materials.

Looking at the materials in front of him and gearing up for action, Wang Zijia suddenly stopped, feeling a little apprehensive and lost.

Although he hailed from the Qifu Sect and had incorporated several refining techniques into his foundation spells, he’d never actually crafted a magical tool.

So even though he possessed the refining technique of the third-grade Great Mastery, and had learned a professional refining magic law, theoretically, he should have been able to craft spiritual tools by then.

But he had never learned any diagram for crafting, never really created a proper magic tool, so when he finally started, he felt a sense of confusion.

It felt like being a pro at driving in a virtual simulator for a thousand years, but feeling completely lost when finally getting in the real car.

Just like Alchemist’s pill recipes, the blueprints for a refiner in the Shen Hong Realm were not ordinary blacksmith diagrams either.

Each blueprint was a magic book.

It not only contained knowledge about crafting a series of magic tools, but it was also a spell itself!

If a refiner wanted to create a tool with a specific function, they needed to first learn the relevant spell and condense a corresponding magic tool.

Of course, that didn’t mean that one magic book could only craft one kind of magical tool. The style could be varied, but the tool’s core abilities would be determined by the properties of the secret book.

For instance, Wang Zijia’s Crystal Red Long Gun could be used as a standard blueprint for refining tools.

After learning this technique, a Refiner could create a series of Shattered Weapons—it didn’t necessarily have to be a gun, it could be a longsword, a long knife, or even Shattered Bricks.

The style was never the key; the specific ability of the magic tool was what mattered.

Each functional magic tool represented a blueprint and the condensation of a magic tool.

Therefore, a master refiner was bound to be an extremely powerful monk.

With a simple gesture, they could condense a sky full of magic tools, engulfing their opponent like a king opening his treasury—very powerful and extremely shocking.

Of course, there was a significant difference between a professional refiner and a half-learned person like Wang Zijia, even though he had ample theoretical knowledge.

A professional refiner could turn the functionality of all spells they’d learned into magic tools.

For example, once Wang Zijia learned One Object, Ten Thousand Shapes, he was basically set.

In the blink of an eye, he pushed down the confusion in his mind.

Since he wasn’t proficient in traditional fire refining, he’d go with the familiar talisman refining approach!

Wang Zijia first beckoned, and the gray stone bead fell into his hand. He gently exerted mana, and with a slight fluctuation of the sinful energy, the stone bead in his hand turned into two—one main and one auxiliary.

Having never crafted a magical tool before, even though he had a third-grade professional technique and magic law for refining, Wang Zijia decided to test the waters first.

The spiritual materials around him exploded and turned into a large lump of red spirit ink under the control of his mana.

Using the auxiliary bead as the core, Wang Zijia began to engrave various runes onto it.

Compared with traditional refining methods, Wang Zijia preferred to start with the talisman method. The essence of the two was not much different; they were just different schools of thought.

With every rune that was engraved, the stone bead began to exude a faint spiritual aura.

Once Wang Zijia had finished inscribing a complete set of runes, he pointed at the paper in front of him and a large amount of stone fragments fell from the worn-out paper.

In front of Wang Zijia, they were wrapped with his red mana, slowly softening like modeling clay, and merged with the stone bead in his hand.

Once the two had completely fused together, the piece of clay, under the control of Wang Zijia, slowly condensed into a palm-sized sculpture.

It had sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes with a handsome face.

His long hair was slightly bundled behind his head and he was dressed in an ethereal white cloud robe—it was a miniature sculpture of Wang Zijia.

"Is it done?"

Wang Zijia looked at the magical tool and his mind moved. A book flew out, and a page containing a bit of remaining incense flew out.

The incense from the mysterious domain, no longer restrained, spread out in front of Wang Zijia.

Wang Zijia activated the statue in his hand, but it didn’t absorb the incense.

"I’ve made it, so why can’t it absorb the incense? Where’s the problem?"

After pondering for a moment, Wang Zijia suddenly remembered the effect of the stone bead.

Item: Sinister Core

Level: None

Effect: Absorbs incense, converts it into sinister energy, needs a fixed anchor, or corresponding divine position, to absorb the corresponding incense.