By then, more than a month had passed!
"It's about time I wrapped up this round of Pill Refining. Elder Yuan and the others must be burning with impatience by now!"
Tang Changsheng smiled faintly, but he had no intention of leaving Jinghong Temple. With his fourth Divine Soul formed, he could use it to control the Jade Ruyi. His preparations were nearly complete, too. It was time to enter the Cave Abode and take a look.
By now, Tang Changsheng had also performed Ritual Refinement on the White Jade Alchemy Furnace and left an Essence Soul inside it. He could wield it as easily as his own arm, enter its Treasured Artifact Spirit Void again, and return to the Ritual Altar. There, he faced the five-colored pearl that had left him utterly helpless last time.
"This Five-Colored Bead gives off Five-Colored Light. Like the Reverse Five-Elements Grand Formation, it must embody the power of the Five Elements..."
The power of the Five Elements was nearly material in nature. It was how the Daoist Tradition and the Central Land classified the physical world—or, to borrow a phrase from the West, the basic elements that made up the world.
No matter how powerful the Primordial Yang Divine Lamp was, it could not affect matter. No wonder it had been useless against the Treasure Pearl last time!
But Tang Changsheng had come prepared. The Primordial Yang Divine Lamp could not affect matter, but the Jade Ruyi was different.
Fortunately, Tang Changsheng had plenty of Treasured Artifacts at his disposal. Otherwise, he would have been like Li Qinghe: knowing a mountain of treasure lay here, yet unable to find a way in, left only to gaze across the ocean and sigh!
Tang Changsheng sent his Strength Soul into the Jade Ruyi and refined