Inside the bamboo hut, a system prompt rang in Chu Huaixu’s ears.
“【Ding! Congratulations, you et the binding conditions and have successfully bound your Life-bound Magical Treasure.】”
Hearing this sound, his eyes narrowed slightly.
“et the binding conditions?” He quickly caught the key point.
In his mory, when he bound his Life-bound Magical Treasure before, these words should not have appeared.
This ant that this Black Bead and the dicinal Cauldron inside it were very likely truly connected to the power of the 《Dao Canon》 within his body!
“No wonder there was a mysterious resonance, and right from the start it completely drained , sucking dry all of my Spiritual Energy, not even sparing what was within my flesh.”
At that instant, Chu Huaixu had a feeling—that was... it was hungry?
In just a blink, it had devoured him clean, leaving nothing behind.
After finishing this, he drew a drop of blood from his fingertip and dripped it onto the sword scabbard, carrying out the blood-recognition ritual for 【Ding Fengbo】. But he did not rge it with his Sea of Consciousness to make it his Life-bound Treasure.
A Life-bound Treasure was unique—this was unchangeable for anyone.
Chu Huaixu opened his Character Panel and checked his 【Equipnt Slot】.
【Ding Fengbo】 had recognized him as its master, and now, resting across his thighs, the 【Equipnt Slot】 displayed it as: Equipped.
But very soon, he noticed sothing strange.
【Ding Fengbo】 was marked as: Offensive-type, Auxiliary-type Magical Treasure.
【dicinal Cauldron (Life-bound Magical Treasure): Unnad】, was marked as: Defensive-type, Secondary-class Magical Treasure.
This left Chu Huaixu a bit surprised.
He hadn’t expected that this sword scabbard could actually be offensive-type.
Auxiliary-type he could understand—that was within his speculation.
“But this sword scabbard can actually be linked to offense?”
Chu Huaixu imdiately checked the functions of the Magical Treasure.
Then, his heart grew clear.
“So that’s it. It can store all of my Spiritual Energy in the form of Sword Qi inside the scabbard.”
“With my current 【Magical Treasure Developnt Degree】, I can only store 7 tis.”
“In other words, I can rely on the sword scabbard to unleash seven pre-stored strikes of Sword Qi.”
“But because these are stored, although each Sword Qi consud all of my Spiritual Energy, the damage it can cause is still inferior compared to my normal full-powered strike.”
“It can only reach 30% of the effect.”
“The emphasis lies in numbers—winning through quantity.”
Chu Huaixu felt that this could indeed beco one of his trump cards!
Even more importantly, the number of stored Sword Qi could be increased.
For low-level cultivators, even holding a supre treasure would be like a Pearl Covered in Dust if one could not bring out its full power.
One’s cultivation realm must rise to match it.
According to the settings in 《Borrowed Sword》, once datafied, this beca 【Magical Treasure Developnt Degree】.
“Normally, a cultivator’s Life-bound Magical Treasure has the highest developnt degree, while for non-Life-bound treasures, the degree is halved.”
“For Life-bound Magical Treasures, a low-grade Spiritual Artifact can reach 100% at the First Level.”
“Mid-grade Spiritual Artifacts require reaching the Third Level, high-grade Spiritual Artifacts the Fifth Level.”
“As for the peerless Supre-grade Spiritual Artifacts, one must reach the Seventh Level to reach 100%!”
【Ding Fengbo】 was not Chu Huaixu’s Life-bound Magical Treasure, so its developnt degree was halved. Therefore, at present, it only had a pitiful 7.14%.
Even if he cultivated to the Ninth Level, rounding off, its developnt degree would only be 64%.
This was the difference between non-Life-bound Magical Treasures and Life-bound ones.
Ultimately, the reason was that it only possessed spirituality, but lacked a Spirit within the artifact that could resonate with its master’s heart!
“Because now it’s only at 7%, I can only pre-store 7 strikes of Sword Qi.”
“Once this number rises, becoming 14, 21... or even 64! That would be terrifying!”
“A Supre-grade Spiritual Artifact is truly frightening.”
Moreover, 【Ding Fengbo】 was not only offensive-type, but also auxiliary-type.
Its auxiliary function lay in its second wondrous effect.
A sword scabbard’s purpose was to sheath swords.
Its auxiliary role leaned toward sealing and suppressing.
It could weaken all Spirit Swords in terms of speed and effect.
For non-sword type treasures, the weakening was halved.
The exact weakening value depended on the difference in strength between the two sides.
Of course, the higher the developnt degree, the stronger the effect.
“If one’s cultivation suppressed the opponent, if one’s Sword Dao realm suppressed the opponent, and the gap in strength was vast, it could even make the opponent’s sword unable to leave its scabbard! And even if unsheathed, unable to attack!”
“Now this is interesting.”
“This ability, together with my 【Heart Sword】, can form a mutually reinforcing effect.”
“The scabbard suppresses the treasure itself, while the Heart Sword suppresses the sword’s spirit.”
This was absolutely an unexpected joy!
Chu Huaixu could already imagine how terrifying this would be in actual combat!
“Later, I’ll try it out on the Big Ice Block.” The Dead Fox was itching to bully a woman.
Imdiately after, his gaze shifted to the true highlight—the dicinal Cauldron.
Chu Huaixu’s glance swept over it, and his eyes couldn’t help but freeze.
“What’s going on?”
“Why is the developnt degree only 10%?”
“Even if it’s a Supre-grade Spiritual Artifact, at the First Level it should be over fourteen percent!”
“Could it be...” A shocking thought rose in his heart.
This dicinal Cauldron seed to be the Life-bound Magical Treasure of the Dao Ancestor during his lifeti.
Just like the Bronze Sword on the mountain, it transcended the category of Spiritual Artifacts!
Sitting on the ditation cushion, Chu Huaixu looked out the window, forcing himself to calm down.
The more he thought about it, the more credible the rumors seed. The more he suspected this was truly the Dao Ancestor’s Life-bound Treasure!
Even if not, then it was at least the dicinal Cauldron the Dao Ancestor used regularly!
“After all, the Dao Ancestor was the greatest alchemist of all ti.” ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ Novᴇl_Fire(.)net
“Only the Pill King could barely be compared with him.”
Chu Huaixu’s heartbeat faintly quickened. He had not expected that this trip to Hidden Spirit Mountain would allow him to obtain such a treasure!
He began to carefully examine the functions of the dicinal Cauldron.
It was a secondary-class Magical Treasure, which did not surprise Chu Huaixu.
A dicinal Cauldron was naturally used for refining pills and dicines, an essential tool for alchemists.
Things like pill refining, artifact refining, talisman crafting, and formations... all these fell under secondary professions in 《Borrowed Sword》.
“But since it is also a defensive-type Magical Treasure, I must carefully study its defensive effects.”
The result, ridiculously enough, in the system introduction, the defensive effect was followed by three question marks.
Chu Huaixu instantly grew furious.
“What the hell! This is my Life-bound Spiritual Artifact, and you won’t even give access to its details?”
Such a phenonon was unheard of—utterly incomprehensible!
As things stood, he could only, like Han Shuangjiang next door, rely on himself to explore the properties of the Magical Treasure.
Taking a deep breath, Chu Huaixu next examined its secondary functions.
After just one glance, his left eyelid twitched violently.
Because what he saw was this:
“【Secondary Profession: Alchemist.】”
“【Status: Not Initiated.】”
“【First-grade Low-rank Pill, Current Success Rate: 100%.】”
These three lines left Chu Huaixu dumbfounded.
Because the third line did not align with the first two at all.
He had not studied any pill-refining thods.
Pill-refining belonged under the category of 【Techniques】, and could be studied on the fourth floor of the Outer-Gate Scripture Pavilion.
The Dao Gate had an Alchemy Grandmaster—its Second Elder—but he was not currently on the mountain.
“I haven’t even studied yet, and the success rate for refining First-grade Low-rank Pills is already 100%?”
“What does this an, I just toss the raw ingredients into the dicinal Cauldron and it’ll succeed?”
“What kind of fully automatic pill furnace is this!” Chu Huaixu was astounded.
He even felt an urge to imdiately acquire a pill formula for a First-grade pill, get so raw materials, throw them into the dicinal Cauldron, and see if it really worked so magically.
At that thought, Chu Huaixu slapped his thigh hard.
“Damn it, I spent over four hundred Sect Contribution Points to exchange for pills!”
“What a loss!”
He deeply regretted it.
After all, even without relying on taking pills to gain Experience Points, he still had other thods—though admittedly, not as convenient.
As ntioned before, so Secret Realms already explored by others would be modified by the Dao Gate into trial grounds, opened to its disciples.
These were essentially sect dungeons, and Chu Huaixu could earn Experience by clearing them.
Sighing, he began to adjust his mindset.
He was not one to dwell in self-bla.
“Forget it. As a dignified transmigrator, I shouldn’t be petty over a few contribution points.”
Chu Huaixu lowered his head, gazing at the Black Bead hanging from the sword scabbard.
Inside the bead was an inner world, and it seed to be integrated with the dicinal Cauldron.
He didn’t even need to take the cauldron out—he could activate it within the bead’s space!
This made it far more discreet.
Chu Huaixu began carefully examining his Life-bound Magical Treasure, not missing a single detail.
This dicinal Cauldron was pitch black throughout, its material unknown.
Like most cauldrons, its form was: three legs, two handles.
Hence the saying “a tripod cauldron stands firm.”
Compared to the simple, unadorned sword scabbard, this dicinal Cauldron was engraved with far richer patterns.
On it were intricate carvings of birds, beasts, plants, fruits, and even demons and spirits.
Everything imaginable was present, vividly lifelike.
When his divine sense entered the bead’s inner world, he could sense the state of the cauldron’s artifact spirit.
—It was hungry!
It desperately wanted to devour Chu Huaixu’s Spiritual Energy.
Apparently, what it had drained earlier was not even enough to fill the gaps between its teeth.
After so thought, he poured his Spiritual Energy into the Black Bead, which the dicinal Cauldron absorbed.
In the next instant, he felt the artifact spirit grow livelier.
But once he cut off the energy, it imdiately reverted to its previous state—hungry.
Perhaps his cultivation was just too low.
Right now, the dicinal Cauldron gave him the impression of sothing insatiable.
And he still didn’t know what use this absorbed Spiritual Energy served.
“When I channel energy into the sword scabbard, at least it turns into Sword Qi.”
“But for this dicinal Cauldron, nothing is apparent.”
Of course, a Life-bound Spiritual Artifact required constant nourishnt from its owner.
The mainstream thod was to nourish its spirit with one’s divine sense, supplented by special items crafted by artifact refiners for maintenance.
It was like people saying when buying a car: “I can afford to buy it, but not to maintain it.”
The better the artifact, the costlier it was to “raise.”
Settings like these in 《Borrowed Sword》 also existed in many gas, where equipnt ca with a 【Durability】 value.
“Could it be that the way to nourish this dicinal Cauldron is simply through continuously devouring Spiritual Energy?”
Chu Huaixu tried communicating with the artifact spirit, only to find it seed to lack much intelligence, forever conveying just one thing—hungry!
“Are you kidding , are you Taotie reincarnated?” Chu Huaixu was speechless.
And indeed, among the engravings, he spotted Taotie, as well as dragons, phoenixes, and qilin.
Since he was idle, he began carefully inspecting every carving on the cauldron.
Chu Huaixu even started counting.
In the end, he tallied a total of eighty-one types.
After finishing the exterior, he examined the inside.
There, on the inner wall, he found three characters.
They were not deeply engraved and were easy to miss unless closely inspected.
“Could this be the na of this dicinal Cauldron?”
“It does correspond well with the patterns carved outside,” Chu Huaixu thought.
On the inner wall of the dicinal Cauldron were inscribed: 【Dao Birth One】.
—dicinal Cauldron: Dao Birth One!
This inevitably reminded him of the saying:
Dao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two, Two give birth to Three, and Three give birth to all things!
User Comments
0 comments from readers