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Chapter 453 - 410: Sacrifice and Refinement of a Magic Treasure!!! _2

Chapter 453: Chapter 410: Sacrifice and Refinement of a Magic Treasure!!! _2

"No problem at all." Zhou Zhiyong laughed heartily and said, "In the past, the data was indeed a weak spot. However, assuming that there are no basic fees, just commissions, quite a few clans of sacrificial wine brewers choose to take a chance."

"Junior brother, you don’t have any objections to taking on a second-grade assignment, do you?"

"No objections. Let’s get the data first and then talk about the rest. I get it!" Wang Zijia nodded in agreement.

Even in his previous life, it was rare for an attorney to take on a big case at the onset, right?

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The two casually chatted about a variety of matters.

"Let’s leave it at that then. You can just go home and wait for the notification, junior brother."

Zhou Zhiyong stood up to see him out.

"Thank you so much, Senior Brother Zhou!" Wang Zijia said as he took out three jade talismans and continued,

"These are secondary Fu treasures that I have created. Each jade talisman can unleash an attack at the peak of a Perfected person. It’s quite interesting. You can use it for research or give it to your disciples. It’s a decent little thing."

Zhou Zhiyong’s face beamed with laughter as he said, "I’m too embarrassed to accept these."

"These are my research works. It’s my pleasure if you could help me with my research. I am the one troubling you!" Wang Zijia retorted with a smile.

"Well...then I’ll have a look?!" Zhou Ziyong said, his face lighting up with a radiant smile as he took the jade talismans from Wang Zijia.

They then bid each other farewell, like old friends parting.

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Wang Zijia left the Inheritance Registry Hall, looking back at the antiquated great hall, he paused for a moment before transforming into a streaming light and shooting up into the sky.

Instead of returning to the White Peach Peak immediately, since he had come to Qifeng, Wang Zijia took a detour to the base of the mountain and entered the preaching department.

He visited some of his peers, who were true men of transmission.

Although he was a part of the Outer Sect, he still belonged to the same faction and, coupled with his renowned reputation, he was able to mix with them.

It wasn’t until the evening that Wang Zijia left Qifeng and returned to White Peach Peak.

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Xiang Feifei did not work overtime that day. By the time Wang Zijia came back, she was resting in the courtyard.

They chatted casually about their day, had dinner, and with a mutual understanding, returned to their rooms.

Wang Zijia mentioned that he might have to retreat for a few days again.

Perhaps sensing Wang Zijia’s unspoken agreement, Xiang Feifei’s lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, she remained silent.

Wang Zijia laughed and shook his head.

This life, filled with various small intrigues, was actually quite pleasant, at least better than what Wang Zijia had experienced in his previous life.

Ignoring Xiang Feifei for now, Wang Zijia went into the cultivation room.

As his mana fluctuated, the ground beneath him squirmed, and a dark, bloody staircase appeared.

As Wang Zijia descended the steps, the ground quickly grew dark red crystals to seal the hole. Soon, everything returned to normal.

Upon arriving at the blood-red underground laboratory, he saw the Five Ghosts in the refrigeration area, supervising the Paper Doll Avatar in receiving and handling the corpse duty, when he remembered that he had forgotten about them last night.

It was just that last night’s batch was too extravagant, leaving him quite worn out.

After reassigning the Five Ghost Protectors, he first took the spiritual objects he had ordered Gou Hongyuan to purchase.

Then, with a wave of his mind, a blood-red book appeared in front of Wang Zijia.

Item: False Dao True Zhuge Scripture

Belongs to: Inheritage Netherworld Device

Level: Third-Class Spiritual Device (Top grade 8460 million/100 million)

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After several years of refinement, training, and working as his main spiritual tool, it had finally come this far.

Taking stock of the high-level refining materials he had left, he believed it was time to consider promoting it to a Magic Treasure!

The promotion to a fourth grade for the artifact, just like a monk’s promotion to an Infant God, involved fundamental differences.

As far as usage was concerned, artifacts lower than the third grade, even those high-grade spiritual tools with strong spirits, needed a person to input mana into them for maintenance. Otherwise, they were as good as a stick used for starting a fire, excluding special tools.

For example, like the Spirit Puppet.

Even when a magic treasure of the fourth grade or above isn’t in use, it can still function autonomously due to its inherent power.

The reason for this difference lies in the fundamental differences in the methods of sacrifice and refinement.

For third-grade utensils, apart from the materials, a refiner master simply needs to use Spirit Ink to engrave a rune of corresponding ability into the core of the utensil, which then acts as a controller.

It’s equivalent to affixing a template within the magic tool; infuse it with mana, and it can activate its abilities, much like traditional talismans.

Above fourth grade, however, the crafting of magic treasures calls for physical runes to serve as core materials on top of ordinary materials!

For a fourth-grade refiner, there are a plethora of choices when it comes to refining a magic treasure.

Apart from traditional materials, a fourth-grade demon pill or something akin to a disembodied spiritual property of an infant god is required as material.

The ultimate goal is to utilise the Great Mastery Rune that forms within!

Of course, Technique Manuals can also serve as the physical embodiment and carrier of runes. However, this requires an advanced artifact making method.

Because of this, fourth-grade magic treasures are distinct from utensils of the third grade and below — magic treasures are imbued with an extraordinary ’heart’: the rune!

The difference between an innate life magic treasure and an ordinary magic treasure lies in the fact that an innate life magic treasure usually uses the Great Mastery Rune condensed from the Tao Law the cultivator has learned as its core.

Just like the various Great Mastery Runes in Wang Zijia’s mind right now!

This is why when an innate life magic treasure gets damaged, the monk controlling it gets severely injured — the crux of the matter!

Because, since the moment your rune gets refined into your innate life magic treasure, it essentially becomes part of your Dao Consistency.

This is the most basic type of innate life magic treasure. More elaborate ones directly incorporate the Dao Foundation and Rune Seeds into the magic treasure as sacrficial refinement materials.

In this way, you and your magic treasure are intrinsically linked — if one is damaged, so is the other; if one is honored, so is the other.

Such a type of innate life magic treasure is called Life Implement!

After being sacrificed and refined in this manner, the cultivator’s physical body becomes less vital. Even if their body is damaged, the cultivator can continue their cultivation. Owing to several reasons, there are still many cultivators of Life Implements today!

Of course, Wang Zijia’s False Dao True Record does not need to refine his runes again.

Because the Fake Taoist had already performed a sacrifice and refinement once but failed to ascend. However, the runes that were fused internally did not dissipate.

That’s also why most Inheritance Spiritual Artifacts make the best magic treasure embryos — they come with all the necessary ingredients!

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Lost in thought, Wang Zijia had already maneuvered his human skin avatar into the Hundred Demon Bewitching Domain.

Floating in the sky above the Hundred Demon Bewitching Domain, Wang Zijia glanced at the vast and misty Mysterious Domain and the blood-colored book floating before him.

He took another look at the book’s information.

Level: Third-class spiritual object (Top-notch: 84.57 million / 100 million)

Taking a deep breath, he turned his palm up and took out a number of top-grade materials.

A crystal skull, obtained from the Ghost Spirit Altar, which had already been sacrificed by ghosts into an infant god skull, an embryo for creating magic tools;

A mysterious iron tablet, obtained from the Qinglian World, Time Forbidden Area, and the interior of the Kongming Cicada;

A space crystal the size of a pigeon egg, Kongming Worm Crystal, also obtained from the Qinglian World, Time Forbidden Area, and the interior of the Kongming Cicada;

A jade bottle talisman and a fourth-grade life-saving coin, obtained from Du Wanhai, a wealthy disciple from the Wentian Pavilion.

These things were the top-grade materials Wang Zijia currently possessed. They were more than enough for the final push in upgrading the Blood Jade Book into a magic treasure — they were, in fact, more than sufficient!

After a long deliberation, Wang Zijia finally decided on the mysterious iron tablet among the five items.

He couldn’t fathom this thing; he’d even gotten a broken Godly Decree Summoning Talisman from it. It is still lying in his mind even now!

’Let’s use this thing. While the remaining three things could probably form a magic treasure, it’s unlikely they would condense a new core function when the magic treasure is formed.’

With determination, Wang Zijia ceased wavering.

He suspended the tablet before him, then drew out the stack of spiritual materials prepared by Gou Hongyuan.

Blood-red magical power surged out like a tide, and the spiritual materials began to disintegrate into globs of spirituality. Soon, all the spiritual materials vanished, and a head-sized lump of blood-red spirit ink was left floating in front of Wang Zijia.

Just this lump of ink alone must have cost at least a hundred thousand materials!

Once everything was ready, Wang Zijia’s gaze gradually hardened.

He clenched his hands into a gesture, and the spirit ink flowed. One by one, blood-colored runes formed in front of Wang Zijia and were infused into the mysterious iron tablet in front of him.