Puppet Art

Although the artifact spirit nurtured by the Three Treasures Artifact Nurturing Technique had no physical form, it could not begin refining without a physical vessel.

Artifact nurturing required a rudimentary artifact form to nurture. Essence, Qi, and Spirit, along with the essences of various artifact-refining materials, were infused into this rudimentary form.

Only once the artifact spirit took shape could this rudimentary form be discarded.

The requirements for this rudimentary artifact form were extremely high. It needed to bear vast amounts of spiritual power and the essences of artifact-refining materials.

After all, nurturing an artifact spirit required a sea-like quantity of spiritual power, divine sense, and other forms of energy.

The spiritual power such a spiritual item could contain had to be no less than the total spiritual power of one million High-grade Spirit Stones.

Returning Origin Sword Immortal had been rather considerate and listed quite a few usable spiritual items.

For example, a High-grade Sixth-order Pseudo Dragon Pearl or a high-grade fifth-order Spirit Spring Pearl.

Such things were not easy to find. Any one of them was something one could only encounter by chance, never seek out.

At the very least, it had to be a Mid-grade Fifth-order Essence of the Five Elements.

Wang Daoyuan actually had such things: Wutu Essence and Geng Metal Essence.

The Geng Metal Essence was high-grade fifth-order, more than sufficient for the task.

The Wutu Essence was still Low-grade Fifth-order and would need a few more years of growth before it could be used.

As for the other supplementary materials, that depended on what characteristics the refiner wanted.

Since Returning Origin Sword Intent could contain all things, it naturally possessed tremendous inclusiveness.

The cultivation art in the Returning Origin Record was attribute-free, while the Taiyi Divine Sword of North Abyss was of the Metal