"This fellow." Yu Chen had already returned to Shangqiu's Dao Palace. The instant Daoist Tongtian obtained the Fishing Drum, he sensed it and could not help shaking his head.
Any Dharma treasure equivalent to, or close to, the Dao Realm was far from simple.
Just as with refining pills, for immortal cultivators—especially Dao Realm cultivators—refining treasures was likewise a process of cultivation. To them, forging a Dharma treasure was itself an exploration of a certain principle.
The completion of a Dharma treasure signified the perfection of a path, or the conclusion of one's comprehension of some Dharma principle.
After all, treasures of this level inherently represented a Dao Fruit that was near perfection, or already perfect. Unless that Dao Fruit conflicted with one's own foundation, the vast majority of cultivators would choose to merge it into their own Dao qi and make it part of themselves, rather than allow it to exist independently outside.
Its specific manifestation was similar to cultivators of the Great Firmament immortal path: after sensing Great Firmament Heaven, their natal Dao qi would form a Dao Palace within it. The Dao Fruits derived from that Dao Palace would become palace after palace within it, and once the palaces gathered in numbers, their natal Dao qi would transform along with them.
Therefore, the vast majority of Dharma treasures at the Dao Realm or near-Dao-Realm level were protective treasures that certain cultivators had refined and nurtured from weakness onward. Otherwise, they had stumbled upon some special material whose essence was immensely high, close to the Dao Realm, yet incompatible with their own attributes, and thus refined it into a Dharma treasure.
But neither of those cases applied to the Fishing Drum in Tongtian's hands.
This Fishing Drum had originally been some special material. After that middle-aged Daoist discovered