Chapter 105: Successful Ritual Refinement of the Magical Treasure

After hearing Li Yunfei's words, Honghong smiled brightly and said, "Hand-to-hand combat relies on limbs, that's you humans. I'm different!"

"My tails are as agile as limbs. I have three tails, and in battle, I can use them to entangle opponents. That's why I can perfectly control seven magical treasures."

Li Yunfei was momentarily speechless, then shook his head with a smile. Animals have their own unique advantages that humans can only envy.

Just as humans are naturally faster at cultivation than all other creatures, that is a human advantage animals cannot emulate.

"Alright then! You will temper three purple-gold hammers, three flying swords, and a gourd. From now on, you'll be our team's primary damage dealer."

Li Yunfei took out an additional purple-gold hammer and two flying swords, and also purchased a batch of soul pills to give to Honghong.

The method of tempering had already been shared with her through the system. In other words, whatever cultivation techniques and spells Li Yunfei understood, Honghong understood as well, though she had never practiced them.

Now that she had taken human form, theoretically, she could switch to practicing Daoist magic.

However, her current power was still demon energy, which inherently conflicts with Maoshan Daoist magic's power to dispel evil. Using Daoist magic with demon energy is tantamount to suicide.

Only after converting demon energy into spiritual energy could she freely wield the Daoist arts from the Supreme Clarity Secret Manual.

But there was no need to switch to Daoist magic immediately.

The "Heavenly Fox Dao Inquiry Technique" granted by the system was the cultivation method most suited to her. Upon reaching the Six-Tailed Spirit Fox realm, her demon energy would naturally transform into spiritual energy, allowing her to use all Daoist arts.

If she switched to the Supreme Clarity Great Cavern Emperor Court True Manual now, she could instantly convert her demon energy into spiritual energy, but she would lose the innate skills granted by the system.

Every major realm breakthrough bestowed upon her a unique talent skill from the system—in essence, these talents were the gifts of the Heavenly Fox Dao Inquiry Technique.

These skills were powerful and practical, and more formidable skills would unlock in the future. Losing them would be a pity.

Most importantly, if she switched to Daoist magic now, though her cultivation would continue to advance until she attained immortality, she would be perpetually stuck at three tails and would never grow even one more tail, let alone evolve into a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox.

A three-tailed immortal fox just looked plain unimpressive.

It was better to wait until she had cultivated the Heavenly Fox Dao Inquiry Technique to its limit, evolved into a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox, and mastered all the heavenly fox talents before switching to Daoist cultivation.

By then, she could enjoy the best of both worlds.

"Let me try once first. If it works, you can start your tempering," Li Yunfei instructed, then used his divine sense to make a purple-gold hammer float before him.

The first step was to separate a thread of his primordial spirit and infuse it into the magical treasure.

This separation did not mean tearing the primordial spirit apart. Tempering a magical treasure did not require such drastic measures; it was not like cultivating a permanent clone.

For example, the "Blood God Great Technique" used to cultivate Blood God progeny required tearing the primordial spirit, merging part of it into the clone.

Thus, each clone was essentially the original body, and to kill a practitioner of the Blood God technique, one would have to kill all his Blood God progeny.

It was like earthworms—cut one in half, and you might get two worms; cut again, four worms.

But the pain of ripping apart the primordial spirit was unbearable, far worse than being cut into pieces.

Tempering a magical treasure by separating the primordial spirit was more like trimming fingernails or hair.

Excess fingernails or hair seemed useless, and cutting them off had no effect on oneself—no pain, no discomfort, no sensation.

Yet no one would say fingernails and hair aren't part of the body.

Infusing a primordial spirit imprint into a magical treasure was similar. Of course, primordial spirit is not the same as flesh and blood; this was merely an analogy.

After all, fingernails and hair lack neurons and cannot be controlled by the brain.

But primordial spirit was different—even the tiniest fragment was part of it and could be controlled by divine consciousness.

After Li Yunfei separated a thread of his primordial spirit and infused it into the purple-gold hammer, his hands began forming continuous hand seals.

Under the shifting hand seals, runic light marks formed from spiritual energy were continuously imprinted onto the hammer's body.

As time passed, a subtle sensation of unity began to emerge.

It felt like a paralyzed person gradually regaining sensation, slowly being able to move limbs again.

Though still faint, this was because too little primordial spirit had been infused into the treasure.

Li Yunfei moved his divine sense, causing a soul pill nearby to float up and approach the hovering purple-gold hammer.

He used spiritual energy to dissolve the pill’s medicinal power, enveloping the hammer and gradually refining it into the weapon.

After a moment, Li Yunfei smiled; his idea was feasible. Soul pills could indeed strengthen that thread of primordial spirit.

However, magical treasures were not human bodies; their effectiveness was only about ten percent, and absorption rates less than ten percent.

After refining the medicinal power of ten soul pills into the hammer, the primordial spirit's strength was only one-third that of an ordinary person’s soul.

The eleventh pill had no effect, indicating that the pill usage limit was an ironclad system rule—no being could break it.

What a pity; he had hoped to use soul pills to directly nurture a weapon spirit. It seemed his hopes were a bit too ambitious.

Though only one-third as strong, the primordial spirit was not even intelligent, but it greatly enhanced the hammer’s spiritual awareness.

At the completion of tempering, Li Yunfei felt the purple-gold hammer was no different from his own limbs.

It was truly an extension of himself, requiring no focused divine sense to control; with a mere thought, the hammer moved accordingly.

Where he willed it to fly, it flew; where he willed it to stop, it stopped; it danced in the air with perfect responsiveness.

In the cramped hotel room, Li Yunfei commanded the hammer to fly at top speed without hitting a single obstacle, demonstrating its incredible flexibility.

Another benefit of tempered magical treasures was that when flying, one no longer needed to stand on the treasure.

Since the treasure and owner had become one, the treasure was effectively part of the owner's primordial spirit.

When summoned, the treasure could connect through the primordial spirit and carry the owner directly.

Even if not summoned, the treasure could envelop the owner inside and fly.

This explained why cultivators fighting with magical treasures could hover midair; if the treasure was damaged, and the owner lacked flying skills, they would fall.

Having successfully completed one example, the rest was easier.

Li Yunfei and Honghong each tempered their treasures, and the night quickly passed.

Li Yunfei only needed to temper four treasures, while Honghong had seven.

After finishing his own tempering and storing the treasures internally, Li Yunfei helped Honghong with hers.

The core step in tempering was infusing primordial spirit; whoever’s primordial spirit was infused owned the treasure, so it didn’t matter who performed the tempering.

Only after four a.m. did they finally complete tempering all their treasures.

After taking the Pig King Pill and meditating for a while, their cultivation had fully recovered by dawn.

The two, one large and one small, cuddled on the sofa scrolling through their phones, catching up on the latest international news to make up for the past month’s absence.

The phone had remained in the system’s storage while in the forest, barely consuming power, but it still needed charging today.

Li Yunfei skimmed through the trending news of the past month and gained a general understanding.

The whole world was undergoing mutations—not quite an apocalypse, but chaotic and wild, a world in turmoil.