The two things Xiao Ying most eagerly anticipated and valued were the Heaven-Supporting Emperor Pagoda and the Book of Life and Death!
Or perhaps he should have said three.
The Book of Life and Death and the Eternal-Reincarnation Brush were a matching set, after all, and thus two separate items. Yet the Book of Man-the Book of Life and Death, one of the Three Books of Heaven, Earth, and Man-and the Eternal-Reincarnation Brush were unfinished products. Neither had undergone refinement through the Upper Realm's Path-Entering Realm methods. Even with spirituality, they could not be refined into his Primordial Spirit to become Primordial Spirit treasures, so each counted as only half a treasure!
The difference between supreme treasures of a lesser world and those of the Upper Realm lay in whether they could be refined into a Primordial Spirit and become Primordial Spirit treasures. The Primordial Spirit was a cultivator's foundation, after all. Even the witch path, which placed the greatest emphasis on the physical body, was no exception.
In the Upper Realm, the vast majority of things that could not be refined into a Primordial Spirit were classified as ungraded mundane objects or materials.
Of course, Sacred Treasures such as the Great Wilderness Cauldron could not be refined into or merged with a Primordial Spirit either. They were exceptions. This was not because their grade was too low, but because the person refining them lacked the cultivation realm to truly refine them. Could anyone call a Sacred Treasure low-grade on that account?
The functions of the Book of Life and Death and the Eternal-Reincarnation Brush were actually somewhat similar to the Witch Clan's most essential, clan-safeguarding mystery... the Totem Pillar.
Or rather, the Witch Clan's Totem Pillars might have been modeled on the Book of Life and Death and the