Meanwhile, in the Flower Realm, Ao Tu's rewards began to be tallied.
[Settling rewards. Total time obstructed: 1,059 days.] [Reward obtained: Jade Ginseng.] [Reward obtained: Sixth-Turn Golden Elixir.] [Reward obtained: Fire-Repelling Pearl.] [Reward obtained: Houtian Spiritual Treasure · Mysterious Tripod.] [Reward obtained: Witchcraft · Spring Sacrifice.] [Reward obtained: Jianmu · Incomplete.] [Reward obtained: Book of Life and Death · Fragment.] [The surplus 694 days will automatically carry over to the next side quest. Next side quest: Road blocked at Flaming Mountain.]
The Fire-Repelling Pearl was a very basic treasure. Its effect was just as its name suggested: it could repel fire. If embedded in another treasure through artifact refinement, it would be somewhat more powerful than when used alone.
But for Ao Tu, who had already mastered Great Sun True Fire, the Fire-Repelling Pearl's usefulness was very limited.
Ordinary flames could hardly hurt him, and the Fire-Repelling Pearl probably could not defend against flames that could. Still, the next ordeal was Flaming Mountain, so perhaps it would have a chance to prove its worth.
The Houtian Spiritual Treasure · Mysterious Tripod was similar to the Alchemy Furnace from before. Both were Numinous Treasures of roughly the same grade. Alchemy furnaces were mostly used to refine elixirs, while tripods were better suited to refining artifacts.
But this was not set in stone. Sometimes alchemy furnaces could also refine artifacts, or refine things like monkeys, or even be used to smash people or defend oneself. In short, they had many uses.
The supernatural ability, Witchcraft · Spring Sacrifice, was an extremely ancient supernatural ability for making offerings to the land. It resembled the Witchcraft: Myriad Things' Growth that Ao Tu had obtained before, but was more powerful.
The Dragon Race's ancient texts contained a few related records.
In ancient times,