About five hours later.
"Analysis Two complete!"
"Material: Fire Melting Divine Crystal. The Blazing Flame Blade contains sixteen Innate Treasure Restrictions formed from the laws of fire. The restrictions are as follows..."
"Analysis Three: Deep Analysis begins..."
When it reached Analysis Three, the analysis of the Blazing Flame Blade took considerably longer.
It took Luo Qing a full ten days before Analysis Three was finally complete.
"Analysis Three complete. The arrangement and combination of Innate Runes forming the Innate Treasure Restrictions are as follows..."
"Success!"
Luo Qing revealed a delighted expression and hurriedly paused the Eye of the Great Dao.
If he continued analyzing, he would touch upon the essence of matter's composition. That was something Luo Qing could not understand at his current level.
All he wanted was the information on the Treasure Restrictions of the defective Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Blazing Flame Blade.
In the Primordial Wilderness, artifacts born innately were limited to Innate Supreme Treasures and Innate Spiritual Treasures.
There were also Innate Treasures that were defective versions of Spiritual Treasures.
To Innate Sacred Beings, even Innate Spiritual Treasures might be worthless.
Defective Spiritual Treasures? They were even more useless—those beings would not spare them a glance.
But to Acquired Immortal Gods like Luo Qing, or even people whose cultivation had not reached the Earth Immortal realm, they were different.
Forget Innate Spiritual Treasures—even Innate Treasures were things they could only dream of possessing.
People said that during the early days after the Primordial Wilderness was created, treasures were everywhere. Anyone who went out for a stroll could pick up several Innate Spiritual Treasures.
But most of those opportunities had nothing to do with Acquired Beings. They belonged to the top Innate Gods and Innate Sacred Beings.
What could one do without an artifact to use?
Thus, the Art of Artifact Refining first began to flourish throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
All kinds of Acquired Magic Treasures imitating Innate Spiritual Treasures and Innate Treasures consequently came into being.
Magic Tools were provided for weak beings to use.
Spirit Tools were a level stronger.
Then came Acquired Divine Artifacts and Immortal Artifacts for Immortal Gods to use, and finally Acquired Spiritual Treasures.
These were also the artifacts used by most beings in the Primordial Wilderness whose cultivation was not particularly high.
Over the previous century, Luo Qing had already gained a comprehensive understanding of Magic Tools, Spirit Tools, and Divine Artifacts one after another. (Divine Artifacts corresponded to Immortal Artifacts.)
But these were ultimately only Acquired Magic Treasures. As for what Innate Spiritual Treasures and Innate Treasures were truly like, Luo Qing had never had an accurate understanding.
"So the Treasure Restrictions of Innate Treasures are also formed from Innate Runes!" Luo Qing was delighted by the analysis results.
After analyzing the Blazing Flame Blade to the third depth, its Innate Treasure Restrictions no longer held any secrets for Luo Qing.
According to Luo Qing's detailed analysis, whether they were Innate Treasures or Acquired Magic Tools and Spirit Tools, the restrictions within them were all formed from individual miniature Innate Runes.
The only difference was that compared with the Innate Treasure Restrictions on Innate Treasures, the Acquired Immortal Restrictions on Immortal Artifacts were vastly inferior in both the number of Innate Runes and the complexity of their arrangements.
Spirit Tools imitating Immortal Artifacts used Acquired Magic Restrictions that were a level weaker still.
As for Magic Tools, they did not even contain a single complete Magic Restriction. They only had scattered Innate Rune imprints etched onto them.
"I suppose most Artifact Refiners know only how to refine artifacts. They may not necessarily understand why those artifacts take shape."
Three months later, Luo Qing conducted an in-depth study of the sixteen Innate Treasure Restrictions on the Blazing Flame Blade.
He compared them one by one with the Acquired Immortal Restrictions and Magic Restrictions he had obtained before.
There was no difference between the Innate Runes themselves. The differences lay only in their quantity, combinations, and arrangements.
These Treasure Restrictions and Immortal Restrictions felt to Luo Qing like miniature formations formed from Innate Runes.
Luo Qing thought of the legendary Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and the Great Formation of the Stars evolved from the River Diagram and Luo Script.
Perhaps these famous formations really had been deduced from the spiritual restrictions composing Innate Spiritual Treasures.
"Everything is ready. I can begin imitating an Innate Treasure!"
A sharp glint flashed through Luo Qing's eyes.
Since he was cultivating the Art of Artifact Refining as a secondary path, Luo Qing was naturally unwilling to refine only Immortal Artifacts or Acquired Spiritual Treasures.
No matter how powerful an Acquired Spiritual Treasure was, it was still a level inferior to an Innate one.
With the Eye of the Great Dao assisting his analysis, Luo Qing naturally hoped that one day he could refine an Innate Spiritual Treasure, or even an Innate Supreme Treasure.
But great towers rose from the ground. For now, Luo Qing only hoped that he could successfully imitate the Blazing Flame Blade.
For a time, the temperature inside the cave rose rapidly. One precious immortal treasure and spiritual material after another melted in Luo Qing's hands.
Over the years, relying on the convenience provided by the Eye of the Great Dao, Magic Tools and Spirit Tools had been effortless for him.
Thanks to his identity as an excellent Artifact Refiner, even though Luo Qing had not become an immortal after a century, he had still lived quite comfortably in the Huoshi Battalion.
At the same time, he had gathered a large pile of high-quality artifact-refining materials.
Another three months later, just as Luo Qing integrated the final Fire Element Innate Rune into the Treasure Restrictions,
Boom! The Treasure Restrictions, which had almost taken perfect shape, suddenly exploded.
Luo Qing's face darkened. The nine layers of protective shields that had appeared before him were instantly blasted apart, seven of them destroyed.
This was already the fifth time in three months that Luo Qing had engraved Rune Restrictions onto the blade embryo.
Yet every time, the Treasure Restrictions exploded just as they were about to take shape.
"Damn it! Is my strength insufficient? Is the treasure embryo too poor? Or can these Innate Treasure Restrictions only be generated naturally by Heaven and Earth and not imitated by humans?"
Luo Qing could not help cursing aloud.
Five consecutive explosions had dealt a devastating blow to Luo Qing's complacent confidence.
Whatever the reason, Luo Qing knew that his plan to refine an Innate Treasure had failed.
"sigh! It seems I still can't rush things. I need to accumulate more knowledge about Treasure Restriction Runes."
After sitting in meditation for three days and recovering somewhat, Luo Qing seriously summed up the gains and losses from his failed artifact refinement.
Luo Qing felt that the number of Innate Runes he had accumulated was still insufficient.
The Three Thousand Great Daos each gave birth to Innate Spiritual Treasures, Treasures, and spiritual restrictions with different attributes.
But how many Innate Runes composed those spiritual restrictions and Treasure Restrictions?
Luo Qing had no idea. He had accumulated the greatest number of Fire Element Innate Runes, and even those numbered more than ten thousand.
"Still, although imitating the Blazing Flame Blade failed, it wasn't a complete loss."
Looking at the first-rank Fire Origin Divine Pearl in his hand, its Spiritual Light dim, Luo Qing muttered.
Just one exploded Treasure Restriction had nearly blasted through a Defense Immortal Artifact.
What if all sixteen Treasure Restrictions exploded at once? Could their power match the Blazing Flame Blade's self-detonation?
If a Mid-grade Innate Treasure self-detonated, then if the enemy was careless, it would be enough to drag a True Immortal to the grave with it. It could even heavily injure a Mystic Immortal.
Earth Immortal, Celestial Immortal, True Immortal, Mystic Immortal, Golden Immortal, Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and Grand Luo Golden Immortal.
These seven cultivation realms constituted the current cultivation system of the Primordial Wilderness.
The path of gods and demons also had corresponding realm names, matching the Immortal Dao one for one.
An artifact capable of killing a True Immortal could be said to possess tremendous power.
Luo Qing's immediate superior, True God Huoshi, was comparable to a True Immortal.
He managed the Crimson Flame Tribe's First Battalion, which had over a thousand clansmen, and could already be considered one of the Crimson Flame Tribe's higher-ups.
He thought of the Crimson Flame Tribe's coming adult hunting ceremony five years later.
"That's what I'll do. I'll first refine five Pseudo Treasure Artifacts capable of self-detonating."
The hunting targets would naturally be ferocious beasts. To guard against the unexpected, Luo Qing also made up his mind to refine some things that could save his life at a critical moment.
Half a year later, the Blazing Flame Blade that Luo Qing had borrowed flew back on its own.
Another four years later, the sealed stone door finally opened.
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