Having progressed from seclusion to the point where Three Palaces have opened, the purpose of this seclusion in terms of cultivation has been basically achieved.
The One-Disaster Golden Core continuously provided a massive torrent of Magic Power, and the abundant energy throughout his body made Li Xingkong feel a slight sense of expansion.
He even felt that if he were to shine, the sun around him would pale in comparison.
A massive flow of Magic Power coursed through his body, and if not consciously controlled, it even caused changes in the attraction and magnetic fields of the surrounding environment.
Li Xingkong slightly loosened his control, sensing the impact of this immense Magic Power on the surroundings.
At a distance of about one kilometer, one can clearly feel this influence acting on the body. This influence is so strong that if an ordinary person were to come into contact with it, it would cause the entire body's magnetic field to become disordered, and the body's normal functions to fail.
At the same time, due to gravity, those who are thinner or weaker will be directly sucked in front of Li Xingkong.
The closer one gets to Li Xingkong, the greater the effect becomes. Standing in front of him, the immense gravity can even cause one's body to collapse and shrink into a ball.
This was not a spell that Li Xingkong deliberately practiced, nor was it some kind of mystical thing like the domain of a Golden Core cultivator. It was just a side effect caused by the excessive flow of Magic Power within Li Xingkong's body.
If you had to categorize it as a specific field, that wouldn't be wrong, but it's still somewhat different from the field Li Xingkong envisioned.
After spending several days fine-tuning the flow of Magic Power within his body, Li Xingkong gained a certain degree of control over the unexpectedly created domain.
Even if he doesn't use it in battle, at least he can control it freely now; otherwise, Li Xingkong wouldn't be able to face anyone after emerging from seclusion this time.
With his cultivation advancement complete, Li Xingkong immediately began the next phase of his cultivation.
Regarding weapon crafting and the cultivation of the Five Elements Divine Light.
The main reason I want to learn weapon crafting is that after reaching the Golden Core, cultivators who are capable generally replace their weapons and clothing with magical artifacts.
In the eyes of Golden Core cultivator, magical artifacts are already considered toys that are not worthy of being presented in public.
It's like when you're a kid, you play with wooden sticks, then when you get older you want to play with swords, and when you become more familiar with society, you want to touch a Type 59 rifle.
As people age and their level of understanding increases, their desire for weapons also increases. Of course, besides power, appearance is also a very important factor.
Even if he held a nuclear bomb in his hands, he wouldn't give away the bamboo walking stick that had been with him for many years.
Compared to magical artifacts, magical treasures are far superior in every aspect, including materials, combat capabilities, and effects. Moreover, magical treasures possess sentience and, once granted permission, can fight independently and stand alone.
In other words, the magic weapon is a robot that can transform into a weapon; in addition to assisting in combat, it also possesses considerable abilities on its own.
If we're going to use a slightly more abstract analogy, then the mythical beasts in old-school animations are arguably the most vivid descriptions of magical artifacts.
Of course, it's also common for many magical artifacts to have their intelligence deliberately weakened in order to increase their power.
When Li Xingkong received the documents on the crafting of magical artifacts and the crafting techniques for those who had reached the Golden Core Stage from the system, he was taken aback.
There are just too many.
Although his study of space-related theories had given Li Xingkong a sufficient mental expectation of the knowledge points involved in weapon crafting, after completing the course, Li Xingkong still felt that his expectations were too low.
Or perhaps, Li Xingkong underestimated the complexity of the art of weapon crafting.
As a side discipline within the cultivation civilization, the art of weapon crafting, though it cannot directly lead to immortality, still involves a great deal of principles and knowledge.
After all, cultivation requires theoretical support, and so does weapon crafting.
To master a technique related to gravity, one must first understand what gravity is. Similarly, to forge a weapon related to gravity, one must also understand what gravity is.
The same knowledge point, when applied to cultivation, becomes a technique; when applied to crafting magical artifacts, it becomes weapon crafting.
Without a solid foundation of knowledge, even if one does not wish to cultivate oneself but wants to promote a heterodox path, it will be extremely difficult.
Even within the cultivation civilization, the sects and factions specializing in weapon crafting are numerous and diverse, making the situation far more chaotic than that of cultivation sects.
After all, cultivation sects only need to be able to fight; the strongest one can dominate. But weapon-refining sects are different.
If one sect develops a new weapon, even if other sects steal all the forging techniques, they might not be able to use it, since the two sects may have completely different fundamental knowledge.
One company might be skilled in coating magical artifacts, while the other excels in alloy evolution. Even if their manufacturing processes were simply given to the other, they probably wouldn't be of any use.
So when Li Xingkong confidently wanted the system to provide a comprehensive weapon-refining manual, he was horrified to see that the knowledge transmitted by the system directly filled the memory capacity in his body, and after it flooded into the Crimson Palace, it still occupied a memory space as high as a small mountain.
Fortunately, the Crimson Palace had been refined beforehand; otherwise, this attack would have blown Li Xingkong's brain apart.
After much effort, Li Xingkong finally sifted through so many memories to find a simple outline, which he then began to read.
The Golden Core Stage weapon-refining manual covers a lot, starting with the material refining section, which provides processing methods for hundreds of millions of materials, as well as the characteristics and origins of various materials.
Li Xingkong had seen some of them before, but most of them were things Li Xingkong had never seen before. Later on, he didn't even know which universe they had gone to. Li Xingkong was completely confused by all the elements and materials mentioned. He couldn't even understand the words, let alone the names.
The refining part used to be the techniques of weapon forging, such as fire forging, water forging, and all sorts of forging techniques that he had heard of or had never heard of before. Each one gave Li Xingkong a headache.
After that, countless other miscellaneous materials appeared, including patterns and designs of magical artifacts, detailed drawings of the patterns engraved on them, the functions and appearances of common magical implements, and so on.
"That's settled then, "Li Xingkong shook his head and put down the general outline in his hand.
It's absolutely impossible to learn it all at once; you can only choose certain parts to learn first, and getting yourself a set of magical artifacts is the most important thing.
I currently only have a Screening Baleful Qi that can be used to forge a Seven-Colored Cloud and Rosy Mist Robe. I might as well start with this material and forge this magic weapon first.
As for learning all of this weapon-refining knowledge, that would be a real challenge for Li Xingkong right now.
He moved all the knowledge related to weapon crafting to the Crimson Palace, finding a corner to transfer it there. Only then did Li Xingkong follow the clues, searching for the keywords related to "Screening Baleful Qi," and selecting the relevant theories to study.
Compared to the Crimson Palace, the memories existing on the original body are obviously faster to access. This is like the difference between RAM and a hard drive. Now that Crimson Palace is used as a memory bank, those less frequently used memories can be transferred to it, leaving only the most commonly used methods on the body.