Not bad. That Five Elements Rod had far exceeded Xiao Hua's expectations. Like the Pingtian Rod, it was another Daoist Sect method for imitating the Five Elements As-You-Wish Heaven-Piercing Staff. It was only that this refinement method had been damaged beyond measure, with only a few crucial portions still comprehensible. Relying solely on this jade slip, it would be absolutely impossible to forge the Five Elements Rod.
Yet, with Xiao Hua's current attainments in artifact refinement, he immediately saw the importance of these tricks. They were precisely what the Pingtian Rod lacked, several absolute shortcomings in its forging. For example, although the Pingtian Rod also required the five-element materials to be gathered and refined together, it relied on blood sacrifice, requiring vast amounts of spirit blood to fuse those exceedingly heavy five-element materials together. This was the Blood Fusion Xiao Hua knew of. In the Five Elements Rod, however, the blood sacrifice method was replaced by five-element spiritual objects. These spiritual objects served as the foundation, upon which all the five-element materials were constructed and assembled into a magical artifact like a world unto itself! The two methods each blazed their own trail and possessed their own wonders; naturally, both had successful examples as well.
But in Xiao Hua's eyes, the Pingtian Rod's forging method was somewhat bloody, leaning too heavily toward the power of bloodlines and lacking the balance of the five elements. The Five Elements Rod's refinement, meanwhile, leaned toward the construction of heaven and earth and the equilibrium of the five elements, yet lacked cohesion. If the two methods were combined in a single refinement, it ought to draw even closer to the Five Elements As-You-Wish Heaven-Piercing Staff!
Of course, saying it was simple, but doing it was exceedingly difficult! Since ancient times until now, how many