Acquired Spirit Treasure

In just three short years, Yellow Dragon had completely comprehended the inheritance from low-grade spirit artifacts to supreme-grade spirit artifacts!

"Just looking is useless. I have to get my hands dirty!"

Yellow Dragon abruptly opened his eyes, golden light flashing within them.

With a wave of his hand, several chunks of red copper flew out from the pile of spirit materials in his cave abode. They came from the mother lode of red copper ore he had traded from Senior Sister Golden Spirit back then. Yellow Dragon had placed it beside the metal-element innate spirit vein in his grotto-heaven, and after several hundred years of evolution, it had given birth to a small innate red copper vein.

Now that Yellow Dragon had decided to refine artifacts, he happened to need these innate spirit ores. He casually dug out several hundred chunks to use for practice.

Chunks of red copper floated before Yellow Dragon. A wisp of true fire wrapped around one fist-sized piece and began tempering it. Strands of black impurities continually drifted out above the true fire. In less than a few hours, that chunk of innate red copper had melted into a mass of crimson-gold liquid.

Next came the melting of various spirit ores. Clumps of liquid refined from all kinds of spirit ores floated before Yellow Dragon. Then came shaping, engraving spirit patterns, and finally awakening the spirit—all in one smooth motion!

Looking at the low-grade spirit artifact floating before him, Yellow Dragon thought artifact refinement was nothing much after all. Anyone with hands could do it!

Low-grade, middle-grade, high-grade—one spirit artifact after another was successfully refined by Yellow Dragon, then casually tossed aside.

Everything went smoothly. The only slight obstacle Yellow Dragon encountered came when refining supreme-grade spirit artifacts. For the first few, he failed to properly grasp the mutual generation and restraint between the spirit patterns, forcing him to open several temporary cave abodes anew.

But none of that was a major problem. After Yellow Dragon moved into his sixth cave abode, he successfully refined his first supreme-grade spirit artifact. With the experience of that first success, he became like a finely tuned machine tool afterward, producing supreme-grade spirit artifacts one after another.

Yellow Dragon wore more than ten supreme-grade spirit artifacts from head to toe, their spirit light shimmering and their aura of wealth overwhelming.

Yellow Dragon was exceedingly pleased with this set of supreme-grade spirit artifacts.

"If I had a full set of spirit treasures, even if they were only Acquired Spirit Treasures, it would still make one yearn for them beyond measure!"

After savoring a cup of Dao Enlightenment Tea, Yellow Dragon began comprehending the inheritance of Acquired Spirit Treasure refinement...!

One cup... two cups... three cups...!

When Yellow Dragon prepared to brew another cup of Dao Enlightenment Tea, his reaching hand grasped only emptiness. The jade box holding the tea leaves had long since been completely empty, while several jade boxes lay scattered across the ground. Only then did Yellow Dragon realize that he had drunk all the Dao Enlightenment Tea on him.

"This isn't scientific... Didn't I learn spirit artifacts in just a few moves?"

"Isn't an Acquired Spirit Treasure just a spirit artifact with one extra word...! How could it be like this...!"

At this moment, Yellow Dragon was beginning to wonder whether he really was a transmigrator—or merely that Yellow Dragon True Person who was good for nothing.

Otherwise, how could he fail to comprehend even the inheritance of a low-grade Acquired Spirit Treasure, let alone refine one!

But aside from his cultivation progress being a little slow during those hundred thousand-odd years on the island, he had broken through realm after realm all the way to the late Golden Immortal stage in only a few thousand years. He had even cultivated the Sweet Dew Technique taught by Green Dragon into a divine ability.

"This is what's normal!"

Yellow Dragon looked at the mysterious images forming the inheritance imprinted in his mind. The obscure, unfathomable mysteries they emitted were like gaping mouths, seemingly mocking Yellow Dragon for overestimating himself.

"Calm my mind, calm my mind...!"

"The Great Dao is formless, yet gives birth to Heaven and Earth. The Great Dao is emotionless, yet sets the sun and moon in motion. The Great Dao is nameless, yet nourishes all things...!"

A Scripture of Clarity and Stillness that he had memorized in his previous life surfaced in Yellow Dragon's mind.

As Yellow Dragon silently recited the Scripture of Clarity and Stillness, he reviewed everything he had experienced: transmigration, transforming into a dragon, Dragon Court, Penglai Immortal Island... Every last detail surfaced bit by bit within his mind!

As Yellow Dragon's restless Dao heart gradually returned to calm, the two drops of Creation Origin he had nearly forgotten quietly emitted a faint spiritual glow, rippling through his heart.

"Creation Origin can strengthen one's innate origin and nourish the Pure World White Lotus. There seemed to be a reason it also helped the Sweet Dew Technique evolve into a divine ability back then!"

Placing a freshly picked tea leaf in his mouth, Yellow Dragon once again began comprehending the mysterious method of refining spirit treasures. Unlike before, a drop of Creation Origin floated above his Primordial Spirit, and specks of seemingly invisible light drifted down from it onto his Primordial Spirit.

This time, the artifact-refining inheritance that had previously ignored Yellow Dragon as if he were beneath notice seemed to shed a thick veil of adamantine gauze, laying the true essence of all spirit treasure refinement bare before him.

The obscure and incomprehensible inheritance now seemed like first- or second-grade addition and subtraction to Yellow Dragon, without the slightest difficulty remaining!

Once Yellow Dragon had fully grasped the materials, shaping, and most importantly, the innate spirit restrictions for refining low-grade Acquired Spirit Treasures, the streams of inheritance abruptly changed from one plus one in elementary school into advanced university mathematics, leaving Yellow Dragon no choice but to stop comprehending the inheritance.

The drop of Creation Origin floating above his Primordial Spirit had already vanished without a trace!

"Using cheats is still better. That feeling really makes a dragon unable to stop!"

Looking at the last remaining drop of Creation Origin in his body, Yellow Dragon forcibly suppressed his urge to use it.

He would first see whether he could truly refine a low-grade Acquired Spirit Treasure, then decide where to use that final drop—on which blade's edge.

Inside a supreme-grade spirit artifact refining cauldron, a pagoda-shaped spirit treasure embryo forged by fusing several top-grade divine metals spun ceaselessly. The methods for refining all kinds of low-grade Acquired Spirit Treasures flashed through Yellow Dragon's mind, while innate spirit restrictions containing the laws of Heaven and Earth emerged one after another.

Metal spirit, sturdy and sharp; wood spirit, endlessly flourishing; water spirit, supple yet able to pierce stone; fire spirit, wild and violent, burning Heaven and destroying Earth; earth, heavy and thick, bearing all things...!

Yellow Dragon raised both hands, his ten fingers moving like phantoms as he formed thousands of hand seals and struck them into the pagoda embryo. Innate spirit patterns slowly began to emerge within the pagoda!

"Metal Spirit Restriction, inscribe!"

Bzzz—!

Countless fine golden patterns inside the pagoda stretched and linked like living creatures, forming an incomparably sharp innate spirit restriction!

Yellow Dragon's face was grave. Beads of sweat emerged on his forehead, only to be instantly vaporized by the high heat. The spiritual energy within the grotto-heaven surged madly toward this place.

Once his mana had recovered, he formed hand seals again. Strands of deep blue light poured from his fingertips, sprinkling down onto the pagoda drop by drop.

"Water Spirit Restriction, condense!"

Sss—!

A deep-blue, supple water-element spirit restriction struggled into manifestation amid the clash of energies. Yet the metal-element spirit restriction that had formed first extended a pattern, merging with the newborn water-element spirit restriction. With the metal-element spirit restriction's aid, the water-element spirit restriction rapidly took shape.

Yellow Dragon paused once more, drawing in innate spiritual energy to restore his mana.

"Wood Spirit Seal, arise!" Streams of emerald light surged from Yellow Dragon's fingertips, sprinkling over the pagoda like spring rain.

As the emerald radiance sank in, the pagoda abruptly erupted with vitality! A vibrant Wood Spirit Seal condensed at an even faster pace.

"Fire Spirit Seal, form!"

Rumble—!

A blazing crimson Fire Spirit Seal appeared domineeringly within the pagoda's core.

"Earth Spirit Seal, suppress!"

A heavy, solid earthen-yellow Spirit Seal slowly took shape, gradually linking with the other four Spirit Seals.