On the top floor of the Mingxin Xuan Chamber of Commerce, Ji Yuan awoke from deep cultivation.
He slowly exhaled a breath of clear qi, and a sound like surging waves echoed within his body.
The magical power, far exceeding that of cultivators in the same realm by several times, surged in his dantian like a vast ocean, emanating an extremely powerful aura.
Above the surging magical power, a crystal-clear nine-story pagoda slowly rotated.
With each rotation, streaks of clear light descended from the pagoda, drawing in a large amount of magical power into its body.
Every wisp of magical power swallowed by the pagoda and then falling like a waterfall became one degree purer.
In half a year, Ji Yuan not only digested all his insights but even went further, comprehending the spiritual items of the Xuantiandao Scripture more thoroughly.
In addition, the restrictions within the Xuantianshiling Pagoda were completely refined by him.
After years of effort, he had finally gained complete mastery of this treasure.
It was understandable, however, given that Ji Yuan had now entered the ranks of contemporary prodigies.
He had not only cultivated two different phenomena but had also condensed a "Triple Bloom Above the Head."
For ordinary cultivators of the third realm, refining such a magical treasure would not be difficult for him.
At present, his realm was sufficient to refine magical treasures with less than eighteen layers of acquired restrictions.
If it were innate restrictions, the upper limit would be around fifteen layers.
Ji Yuan sat cross-legged on a futon, with a stick of incense burning beside him, which had the effect of calming the mind and focusing the spirit.
He formed a hand seal and connected his consciousness to his external avatars and clones, receiving all the memories from the past six months.
After confirming that there were no particularly important matters, his mind stirred slightly, and the Xuantianshiling Pagoda flew out of his dantian.
The nine-story pagoda, a few inches in size, hovered before him, its crystal-clear body rotating slowly, containing an extremely strong spiritual pressure that was not yet fully revealed.
He took out the spiritual items he had prepared, all materials for refining magical treasures as recorded in the Xuantiandao Scripture.
After a moment of contemplation, Ji Yuan spread his palm, and a powerful Dao rhyme surged from his body, transforming into a mass of dark, mysterious flame in his palm.
This was the Fire of Dao Rhyme, extremely difficult for cultivators in the mid to late stages of the third realm to condense.
Without the condensation of the "Triple Bloom Above the Head," it would have taken at least the peak of the third realm to achieve such a feat.
He gently pushed his palm forward, and the Fire of Dao Rhyme immediately enveloped the Xuantianshiling Pagoda.
The already crystal-clear nine-story pagoda body became almost transparent under the illumination of the flames.
Half an hour later, as streams of pure magical power were injected, the Fire of Dao Rhyme burned even more vigorously.
Precious spiritual items were thrown into the fire and refined in a very short time.
Most of the impurities and less effective parts were removed.
The remaining essence merged into the Xuantianshiling Pagoda.
For a full month, spiritual items worth hundreds of spirit coins were refined, becoming nourishment for the small pagoda, pushing its grade up significantly.
The Xuantianshiling Pagoda, in its initial state, was at the bottom of the low-grade magical treasures.
Through multiple refinements over the years, it had gradually improved.
Now, under Ji Yuan's Dao Rhyme refinement and after absorbing numerous precious spiritual items as nourishment, its quality had reached the level of a mid-grade magical treasure!
Moreover, with the refinement of the Fire of Dao Rhyme, the Xuantiangzhenyi not only altered the restrictions within the pagoda but also added several more.
The Xuantianshiling Pagoda now possessed fifteen acquired restrictions.
And its entire body emanated a powerful Dao rhyme, identical to Ji Yuan's own.
He nodded in satisfaction, then dispelled the Fire of Dao Rhyme, swallowed the small pagoda back into his abdomen, and placed it in his dantian for quiescent nurturing.
While being nourished by magical power, this pagoda would also slowly purify the magical power within the dantian.
Although only a tiny bit at a time, it was constant.
After completing the refinement of the Xuantianshiling Pagoda, Ji Yuan fell into silence.
He looked at the Patriarch's sword "Yuanbao" and his own natal flying sword "Xiaobai" before him.
For a moment, he felt a sense of bewilderment.
Such an expression was hard to imagine on a third-realm cultivator who was hailed as a contemporary prodigy.
"What exactly are you?"
Ji Yuan murmured to himself.
A long sword, a flying sword, had been in his hands for over a decade.
Yet, even now, he had not truly refined them much.
He could not even perceive the restrictions within them.
Whether his cultivation was in the first realm or the current third realm, the power they displayed could grow with his realm.
Now, simply by channeling magical power into them, their displayed power far surpassed that of magical artifacts with nine layers of restrictions.
However, despite this power, not a single restriction had been refined or activated.
They relied entirely on their own strength.
After Ji Yuan's cultivation advanced greatly and his realm rapidly ascended several levels, he had also earnestly tried to refine the two treasures, but still could not sense the restrictions within them.
This situation left only two possibilities.
One was that the items themselves had no restrictions.
The other was that his current cultivation realm was not yet sufficient to perceive the restrictions within them.
Ji Yuan leaned more towards the latter, as the former was too inconceivable.
Such existences were not non-existent, but rare innate items of the world.
They were naturally formed by heaven and earth, originally intended for celestial beings to forge immortal treasures.
"Could it be that only after reaching the Golden Core stage will I truly be qualified to control you?"
Ji Yuan gave a wry smile, but the more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
Yuanbao was originally the Patriarch's sword of the Xuantian Temple, containing the complete inheritance of the Xuantian lineage.
As for Xiaobai, it was forged by a powerful being who stole the essence of a thousand-mile terrestrial vein and ten thousand years of jade marrow, along with his entire life's fortune.
Both were related to powerful beings. If they could only be initially refined successfully at the Golden Core level, it seemed somewhat plausible.
Shaking his head, Ji Yuan took the flying sword into the Sea of Consciousness between his eyebrows and nurtured it with the lake of sword qi.
Then, carrying the long sword on his back, he slowly rose and left the private room he had used for seclusion.
He walked to the outside of a private room and gently knocked on the door.
A moment later, the door was opened, and Mo Zigu looked at the person outside with some surprise.
"Come in."
He invited Ji Yuan into the room, his attitude unchanged despite the other party's increased cultivation.
However, compared to the beginning, he could at least personally pour a cup of hot tea now.
"Is something wrong?"
Mo Zigu asked.
Upon hearing this, Ji Yuan nodded and directly stated his intention.
"I'd like to learn from you about how to cultivate spirit fire."
He said unhurriedly.
Through the creation of heaven and earth, spirit fires often appeared in the world, possessing various mystical powers.
For example, Mo Zigu's Scarlet Bright Fierce Horse, besides its properties of extreme hardness and Yang, could add a violent aura when used to refine magical artifacts and pills, making the artifacts more aggressive and the pills' effects more potent.