Eternal Life Begins with Learning

Chapter 460: Chapter 423: 1 Realm Apart, 1 Chess Piece

After an unknown amount of time, the fiercely surging Earth Fire atop the high platform finally began to slowly dissipate.

Below the high platform were piles of assorted Artifacts. Beside Chu Mu, various refined Artifacts were similarly piled high.

However, compared to the assorted collection below the platform, the Artifacts piled beside Chu Mu seemed to possess a certain inherited similarity.

These Artifacts took various forms—a pagoda, a shield, a lamp, a Command Token, a Four-sided Cauldron—but without exception, all were inscribed with faint, shimmering dragon patterns.

The dragon patterns were crimson. Wisps of crimson flame flickered and stretched along the patterns, making them look, at a glance, like Fire Dragons coiling around the Magical Treasures.

Evidently, these Magical Treasures were all experimental pieces related to his Lifebound Treasure.

Though they were experimental pieces, there was no doubt that each one would be considered an incredibly rare and precious item in the outside world.

Magical Treasures are also divided into four grades: Lower Grade, Middle Grade, Upper Grade, and Top Grade.

And while these were all ordinary Magical Treasures, not Lifebound items, they were, almost without exception, all Upper Grade or Top Grade Magical Treasures.

After closing his eyes to regulate his breathing for a moment, Chu Mu slowly opened them and casually picked up the three-inch-tall Nine-Layered Pagoda before him.

The pagoda’s body was a dark gray. From bottom to top, each layer was encircled by a dragon pattern. Tiny lamps hung from the eaves, complementing the dragon patterns like a perfect finishing touch, making the entire piece exceptionally exquisite.

Within his Divine Sense Perception, the dragon patterns transformed into Fire Dragons. Nine Dragons spiraled around the pagoda’s body, and amidst the scorching heat, an indescribably terrifying aura faintly manifested.

Nine Dragon Prison Suppression Tower!

It was refined with Tier Three Upper Grade Dragon Pattern Stone as the primary component, supplemented by numerous other Spiritual Materials. With its Nine Dragons Spiral, much like the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Array, it could be used for both offense and defense.

’Even better, if I were to refine a Spiritual Object like Celestial Cyan Amethyst—one that can change its size at will—into it, and then reforge it with the legendary Sumeru Mustard Seed Technique, then this treasure could surely contain all things in the world, becoming a massive prison!’

’When facing an enemy I can’t overpower, I could wield this treasure, draw them into the pagoda, and seal them inside for suppression!’

’With the Refinement of the Nine Dragon Divine Flame, even a great demon from the Demon Realm probably wouldn’t last long before being refined into nothingness.’

Of all the experimental Magical Treasures created based on his Lifebound Treasure, this pagoda was the one that satisfied him most.

But satisfaction was one thing...

Chu Mu still felt that this Nine Dragon treasure was somehow lacking Perfection.

This feeling stemmed from his instincts as an Artifact Refining Master.

Yet, for the life of him, he couldn’t figure out the source of this imperfection.

After pondering in silence for a long time, he set down the Nine Dragon Prison Suppression Tower, his gaze shifting to the other Nine Dragon Magical Treasures beside him.

There was the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Shield, a large, transparent, crimson shield. Nine crimson Fire Dragons extended upwards from its rim, looking so lifelike they exuded a terrifying aura.

There was the Nine Dragon Demon Refining Lamp, a simple, ancient lamp with Nine Dragons spiraling around it and inscribed with the Array Patterns of the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Array. When necessary, it could serve as the eye of the array. If its flame were lit with a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Flame, it could instantly form a Grand Nine Dragon Divine Fire Array, capable of refining all demonic evils in the world.

There was also the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cauldron. With Nine Dragons spiraling around it, it could serve as a Top-Grade Pill Furnace. It was also designed based on the concept of the Nine Dragon Demon-Sealing Tower, intended to become a great worldly prison for suppression and Refinement, possessing limitless potential.

There were others as well, such as the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Banner and the Nine Dragon Talisman. For the sake of his still-conceptual Lifebound Treasure, he had truly racked his brains. He used this opportunity to explore a great many designs, refining them into physical form.

Although none of these were related to the Fiery Sun Fire Essence or Fusang Wood, for him, it was simply a matter of substituting the main materials in the Artifact Formula.

’Now that I’ve obtained the Artifact Refining General Outline Lower Volume, the entire Tier Four Refining Technique is recorded inside. And in the final section... are there even records of the Tier Five Refining Technique?’

’Though it’s only a few short passages, Tier Five Refining Technique is a near-legendary mystery even throughout the entire Cultivation Immortal Realm, and even to its top factions!’

’With such a complete system for the Artifact Refining Skill, combined with the heaven-defying wonders of Spiritual Radiance, there are just too many possibilities!’

"Could it be... something beyond my comprehension?" Chu Mu wondered.

’For a Cultivator, what my Divine Sense perceives and what my naked eye sees could both be false. There are too many methods to fake such things.’

’But instinct is different. For any Cultivator, an instinctual premonition is an absolute truth!’

’Forget it...’

Chu Mu shook his head to himself and let out a long breath.

’The Refining of my Lifebound Treasure is still some time away. I have enough time to polish and study this treasure further.’

’There are still a few days left in the one-year pact. And this Inheritance Land offers more than just the inheritances of Arrays and Artifact Refining.’

’Among the Hundred Skills of Cultivation Immortal, I still have Alchemy, a skill for which I am famous in the Cultivation Immortal Realm.’

Chu Mu rose to his feet and gestured with his hand. With a mere thought, the room, the high platform, and the many piled Magical Treasures and Artifacts all began to distort like reflections in a mirror or the moon on water, then slowly dissipated.

He took a step, and in the next instant, he was outside the door. The circular space containing the inheritances of the Hundred Skills of Cultivation Immortal once again came into view.

Chu Mu pushed open the gateway for "Pill" and disappeared inside.

The door remained tightly shut. On approximately the sixth day, it opened, and Chu Mu emerged.

Without being greedy for the other skills, Chu Mu pushed open the gateway for "Skill," and his condensed Divine Soul body began to slowly dissipate from the Inheritance Land.

「Returning to reality.」

His Divine Soul and physical body merged. Chu Mu waited only a moment for the one-year pact to conclude. The world spun around him, and when he once again felt solid ground beneath his feet, he had returned to the bottom of Sword Washing Lake, nestled among the mountains.

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