Another reason Wang Yu had come to Cold Billow Market City was to find materials for White Glaze, who had already advanced to a second-tier spirit beast, and refine a suitable second-tier magical artifact for the beast.
This was much like how human Foundation Establishment Cultivators could nurture a magical artifact within their divine sense sea, gradually increasing its power.
Most demon beasts of the second tier or above that had awakened their intelligence could naturally swallow external objects into their bodies, slowly hone them into artifact embryos with their own demonic power, and gradually condense inscription patterns upon them, internally refining life-bound magical artifacts suited to themselves.
This process of internally refining magical artifacts usually took high-tier demon beasts a very long time-at least decades, or even centuries-but once the artifact had been nurtured to completion, it naturally fit the demon beast perfectly.
Moreover, unlike human Foundation Establishment Cultivators, who could wield several magical artifacts against enemies in addition to their life-bound magical artifact, second-tier demon beasts could usually nurture only one object inside their bodies at a time and generally could wield only one magical artifact. Thus, they treasured the artifact within them and would not readily spit it out to fight.
In ordinary battles, second-tier demon beasts mostly relied on their powerful bodies and innate abilities. Otherwise, once their life-bound magical artifact was destroyed, they would have to find another external object and nurture it anew. The time this required was easy to imagine.
For human cultivators, dealing with a broken magical artifact was much simpler. They only needed to find an Artifact Refiner to patch it up, or simply buy a new magical artifact to replace it.
Likewise, spirit beasts with masters differed from wild demon beasts. They did not need to choose external objects themselves;