The Spirit Formula Cauldron, as its name implied, was naturally tied by countless threads to formulas and incantations.
As for Five Elements spells, putting their power aside, they were a compulsory lesson for every newcomer who had just stepped onto the immortal path.
Yet as one's cultivation rose, the spells cultivators used became fewer and fewer instead. Especially at Lin Xuan's level, during magical combat, they very rarely used spells to attack each other anymore.
This was not because Five Elements spells were useless, but because in the process of battle, whether for defense or offense, pure spells were clearly not as handy as treasures tempered through a thousand hammerings and a hundred refinements.
Dharma Treasures were the important factor that determined a cultivator's strength. Whether one knew powerful formulas or not had instead become something dispensable.
But could spells truly already be ignored?
In the current cultivation world, perhaps that was indeed the case.
Yet in ancient times, the views of those mighty cultivators were utterly different.
Five Elements spells, as the foundation of the cultivation world, still had great use even when one's cultivation had reached an extremely high realm. The power of spells was directly proportional to a cultivator's realm and spiritual power; as cultivation grew, their might also increased step by step.
In ancient times, there had even appeared a group of cultivators who specialized solely in spells and did not refine treasures. Their use of Five Elements spells was pure and practiced, almost to the point where they could release and withdraw them at will, and their strength was far from ordinary. Compared with treasure-refining cultivators of the same rank, they were not the least bit inferior, shining brilliantly for a time. Unfortunately, it was as fleeting as an epiphyllum's bloom; with the passage of