Feng Yan had once told Su Hao that Dharma Artifacts were the epitome of Formations. Only after Su Hao had mastered the knowledge of Dharma Artifacts did he understand what Feng Yan had meant.
Art Methods, Dharma Artifacts, and Formations complemented and promoted one another. Throughout the history of cultivation's development, they had been impossible to separate.
Formations expressed humanity's ambition to conquer nature.
Art Methods had arisen from envisioned Formation effects.
Dharma Artifacts were the result of using materials and structures to simulate the conversion principles of Art Methods.
Formations could then be carried upon Dharma Artifacts, unleashing tremendous power.
This was a complete cyclical cultivation system built upon spiritual power.
Once he understood the role Dharma Artifacts played within the cultivation system, understanding the principles behind refining them became very simple.
Before learning Artifact Refining, one had to discuss the history of Dharma Artifact development. Without the weight of history, Dharma Artifacts seemed to lack a soul.
Over ten thousand years ago, the earliest cultivation pioneers had spent a long time compiling the properties of spiritual power transforming within different materials, successfully establishing the prototype of a cultivation-specific "materials science." Fire Spirit Steel, Wind Spirit Stone, Thunder Origin Ore... When spiritual power passed through these special materials, it transformed into energies of different attributes.
Perhaps these ores had been the earliest Cultivators' weapons.
Whenever people fought, they would pull a stone from their clothes and shout, "Watch my Fireball Art!" "Watch my Gale Art!" "Watch me shock you!" "Watch me splash you with water!"...
Then, after another long stretch of time, someone suddenly brought out something different. The spell it released was astonishingly powerful.
After changing hands many times, people later discovered that some fortunate fellow had picked it up in the mountains. This special stone had, by