With the experience of his first successful magical treasure refinement, Liu Changxu found his subsequent attempts much smoother.
Liu Changxu spent over two months successfully refining his second lower-grade third-tier magical treasure, the Heavenly Gang Moon-Slashing Saber.
Then, building on his success, Liu Changxu spent another three months or so refining a lower-grade third-tier Vajra Shield.
Having refined three lower-grade third-tier magical treasures in succession, Liu Changxu had brought his artifact refining skills to a respectable level. The time was ripe to refine a Life-Bound Magical Treasure.
Thus, shortly after successfully refining the Vajra Shield, he began working on his Life-Bound Magical Treasure.
Compared with ordinary lower-grade third-tier magical treasures, Life-Bound Magical Treasures required higher-quality materials, making them far more difficult to refine.
However, Life-Bound Magical Treasures offered several advantages that ordinary magical treasures could hardly match:
First, once consecrated with a cultivator's essence blood, a Life-Bound Magical Treasure became connected to their mind and spirit, becoming part of their body. It could normally be stored in their dantian to be nurtured, and when needed, a mere thought would send it out to meet an enemy. This was far more convenient than using an ordinary magical treasure.
At the same time, a Life-Bound Magical Treasure nurtured year after year by the magic power within the dantian was far more powerful than an ordinary magical treasure.
For this reason, Golden Core cultivators using ordinary magical treasures struggled to contend with those of the same cultivation level who possessed Life-Bound Magical Treasures. Their combat strength was simply on entirely different levels.
Second, the grade of a Life-Bound Magical Treasure could continually improve. When its cultivator advanced to a higher realm, it could advance along with them merely by having some high-tier spirit gold added to it or by being nurtured for a