Free Web NovelChapter 151: Limits of the Calyx
Perhaps there were other prophecy-type supreme treasures in this world, but they were simply not recorded in the book.
Even if the Void-Time Calyx was only a top-grade spiritual treasure, its ability to foresee the future was already extremely valuable.
Because of this, after his shock, Xiao Shou became extremely excited.
He never expected to refine such a treasure.
Concealment Stone concealed spiritual energy, the Flower of Eternity controlled time, Ice Heart Tree controlled space, and so on.
None of these materials had the ability to foresee the future.
The only exception might have been that unknown shell artifact.
What exactly was that shell?
Xiao Shou who had not yet realized that the key point lay in the crystal Fu Young had given him let this thought flash by.
Then he ignored the issue of not having a spatial time-attribute spiritual root.
The ability to foresee the future was simply too important.
Although he knew his disciple Fu Young would later cultivate a spatial time-attribute spiritual root, Xiao Shou also considered that with his contract enhancement from Yao Heng, he already had the equivalent of half a time spiritual root.
Combined with his long-standing fear of the unknown future, he still suppressed his guilt toward his disciple and directly dripped blood to recognize the Void-Time Calyx as its master, binding it and refining it slightly.
Of course, because he did not possess a spatial or time spiritual root, he could not refine it into a life-bound treasure.
Moreover, the Void-Time Calyx did not match his spiritual root, so it could only become a supplementary artifact.
In the novel Longevity Love, every cultivator after reaching the Golden Core stage could bind and refine one life-bound artifact.
The minimum requirement for this artifact was at least a magical treasure level.
Of course, with sufficient resources, the higher the grade and the better it matched one’s spiritual root, the stronger it would be.
However, the amount of spiritual energy required for binding must still be within what the cultivator could withstand.
Auxiliary artifacts had no such restrictions.
Their number was unlimited, their grade was unrestricted, and the spiritual energy required for binding was very low.
Xiao Shou’s life-bound artifact already had a refinement blueprint within his cultivation technique.
He would need to collect materials himself to forge it and fully unleash the technique’s potential.
Fu Young’s Ninety Nine Calamities Cycles Art was the same.
Because of its special nature, and the assumption that reaching the Golden Core stage was still far away, he had not paid much attention to collecting materials for his life-bound artifact.
Now it seemed that after leaving here, he needed to start gathering them as soon as possible.
This thought flashed by.
Xiao Shou then began testing the Void-Time Calyx.
After refining it and obtaining more detailed information, and personally testing it, he finally fully understood the capabilities of this top-grade spiritual treasure. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
It was not as overpowered as he had imagined.
Its defensive and trapping abilities were limited.
If the opponent’s spiritual energy or cultivation was one to two minor realms higher than his, the Void-Time Calyx’s effects would be completely ineffective.
As for its ability to foresee the future and observe the past, that was even more restrictive and unreliable.
Being able to see was limited to the user’s immediate surroundings in the past and future.
This surrounding area was also restricted by the user’s cultivation level.
With Xiao Shou’s current cultivation, he could only perceive himself and a radius of about forty meters around him.
Macroscopic observation of the past was not too difficult and did not consume much.
However, predicting even one second of the future required an enormous amount of time energy.
After almost exhausting all of his spiritual energy, he could only glimpse about three breaths into the future.
Still, it was not completely useless.
After Xiao Shou recovered his spiritual energy, he tried arranging materials for fusing and visualizing the process of merging them later. Then he activated the predictive ability of the Void-Time Calyx for a few seconds.
As expected, he successfully saw the failure of that fusing.
After that, he used the ten-to-one advancement fusing method and tried again.
This time, he successfully saw the fusing succeed.
Using this method, all of his spiritual energy was converted into time energy, allowing him to use the ability about fifty times.
With this approach, when using the third fusing method on precious materials, unnecessary losses were greatly reduced.
Thinking about it this way, it was actually quite practical.
After comforting himself with this somewhat optimistic reasoning, Xiao Shou returned to another round of fusing.
With the Void-Time Calyx’s predictive ability and the third fusing method working together, he was able to alter outcomes that were originally destined to fail.
He actually managed to create quite a number of useful items.
At the very least, his personal equipment and weapons were upgraded to high-grade magical artifact level after combining them with various materials.
More importantly, the black dagger obtained from the ancient cultivation cave was successfully fused.
After adding materials such as the Concealing Stone, it was refined into a sword called the Dark Night Spirit Sword.
It was a high-grade spiritual weapon with no elemental requirement.
It was a magical sword for general use.
By injecting spiritual energy, the user could form sword energy of varying sizes depending on input, and the sword energy carried a special piercing effect with strong armor breaking power.
Why did everything he fused feel like equipment in the game?
This thought briefly flashed through Xiao Shou’s mind, but he did not dwell on it.
He continued experimenting with fusing.
However, after the hourglass turned four times and his spiritual energy was exhausted and restored more than ten times, the result remained the same.
Aside from these four successful items, all other combinations still showed failure in the predictive vision, no matter how he arranged them.
In the end, he had no choice but to give up temporarily.
