After gathering all five conceptual materials of light, Benjamin decisively returned to his private laboratory at Noren Academy.
After studying for so long, he knew the next steps by heart.
In summary, the process that followed was to refine these spirit dews and crystal sands containing pure concepts into the Dharma Treasure's vessel embryo.
Before that, however, he first needed to condense the foundation of this Dharma Treasure—the vessel embryo.
A vessel embryo was not a physical entity that existed from the outset.
It was an illusory image condensed within a cultivator's Spirit Sea, using their own refined True Essence and a thread of their soul origin as the catalyst.
It was the prototype of a Dharma Treasure, the point that bore concepts. Closely connected to the cultivator's mind, it was the key to transforming "formless and immaterial" into "formed and material."
According to the Great Dao Library's records on artifact refinement, under normal circumstances, condensing such an illusory spiritual body into a sufficiently stable, semi-material vessel embryo capable of bearing concepts within the upper dantian... or, as wizards called it, the Spirit Sea, was quite difficult for a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator.
If a mere late-stage Qi Refining cultivator wished to condense a vessel embryo alone, they generally needed to use special arrays to gather spiritual power, or consume costly secret medicines to aid their concentration.
Otherwise, they would have to spend years, or even more than a decade, visualizing specific cultivation diagrams day and night, tempering the vague and intangible thoughts within their Spirit Sea over a long period until illusion became substance and falsehood became truth.
It was an exceedingly long process that tested one's talent, patience, and resources.
Benjamin had also prepared himself for a protracted battle. His original goal had been to complete this Dharma