The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

As the name suggests, the natal magic weapon is a magic weapon that is closely related to the life of the cultivator himself. They prosper together and suffer together.

This kind of magic weapon has many advantages. The most important point is that the grade and power of the magic weapon can be improved as the cultivator's cultivation level increases, but this is not unconditional.

For example, if Xu Zhiyu really wanted to start refining this kind of natal magic weapon now, it is very likely that the grade of the newly refined one would only be the lower fourth grade.

But from now on, as long as he carefully uses his magic power to nurture his dantian, allowing the magic weapon to be in tune with his mind and be controlled as easily as his arm, when his cultivation level is elevated to the late golden elixir stage, the power of his magic weapon will also be elevated to the fourth-grade upper grade.

However, if you want to advance across a large class, it is not such a simple matter. In addition to the owner of the magic weapon first improving his cultivation to the Nascent Soul stage, many auxiliary materials need to be added to the original natal magic weapon, so that the magic weapon can be advanced to the fifth-grade lower level.

Instead of simply changing with the cultivation level of the magic weapon's owner, for example, when you refine your own magic weapon, you use fourth-level refining materials.

After that, you overcame all the difficulties and raised your cultivation to the level of the Spiritualization. Then, the original life magic weapon made of fourth-level materials was upgraded to the sixth level so easily. Isn't this nonsense? How can it be so simple?

There is no magic weapon that can be used forever and forever. It also needs the addition of new precious materials to continuously improve its quality.

The second is the spirituality of the magic weapon, which is far superior to ordinary magic weapons of the same level. This is very important for cultivators. Generally, a magic weapon can only exert its power if you input mana, control it with spiritual consciousness, and issue commands to it.

As for letting them act independently, that would be too difficult for them, after all, they are just dead objects.

However, the natal magic weapon will not be painful. It has a very strong ability to "automatically protect the master". It can even burst out with power far exceeding the power of the magic weapon itself when the cultivator consumes his spiritual consciousness to activate it.

Many high-level cultivators relied on the help of their natal magic weapons to defeat the strong with the weak. This was also the reason why Xu Zhiyu had to refine his natal magic weapon. Although he had basically no shortage of means now, he still felt a little strange without his natal magic weapon.

Moreover, the magic weapon he refined is both offensive and defensive, and is of some help in improving his strength at this stage.

Of course, the main purpose of his refining this magic weapon was its ability to weaken the thunder, and everything else was secondary.

Of course, there is no perfect treasure in the world, and the same goes for the natal magic weapon. Although it has many advantages, it also has many prominent disadvantages.

The first shortcoming of the natal magic weapon is that it is closely related to the life of the cultivator.

This is quite easy to understand. After all, in addition to using magic power, nurturing a magic weapon also requires the cultivator to give up a part of his spiritual consciousness and connect it with his natal magic weapon. Otherwise, where would the spirituality of the magic weapon come from?

If the immortal cultivator's natal magic weapon is destroyed, he will suffer backlash and his sea of ​​consciousness will be severely damaged. Even if he does not die, he will fall back to a lower realm, thus seriously damaging his vitality and even affecting his future path.

In order to address this shortcoming, Xu Zhiyu's plan is to wait until his natal magic weapon is successfully refined, then just put it in his dantian and nurture it with the golden elixir magic power, without refining part of his spiritual consciousness into it. In this way, even if his natal magic weapon is damaged, he will not suffer any harm.

The second shortcoming is that the spiritual objects used to refine the natal magic weapon are all rare and hard to find spiritual objects. The more powerful the natal magic weapon is, the rarer and harder to find its refining materials are.

He had a deep understanding of this. In order to collect these materials, he traveled across two continents and hundreds of millions of miles. He experienced countless difficulties and even risked his life several times.

Generally speaking, when cultivators are refining their own magical weapons, they will choose a magical weapon that is compatible with their own skills.

This is also the reason why one third of the materials he collected were related to thunder materials. After his spiritual roots were transformed, they now became innate thunder spiritual roots, and at the same time, the cultivator was practicing thunder techniques.

Usually, some techniques that can be cultivated to the Golden Core Stage will come with one or several methods of refining natal magic treasures.

The reason why there are several types is to give monks choices.

Those with more wealth can pick up those that require precious materials to refine, and those with average wealth can choose to refine those that do not require many precious materials. However, there is not much room for upgrading this kind of magic weapon, and it is difficult to make up for it in the later stage.

When a cultivator reaches the Golden Core Stage, he can search for materials and refer to the refining methods recorded in the exercises to refine his own magic weapon.

However, the materials for refining the natal magic weapon are hard to find. It is rare to see cultivators who wait until the golden elixir is condensed before considering looking for materials to refine the natal magic weapon.

After opening up the Purple Mansion, most cultivators would begin to pay attention to collecting materials for refining their own magical treasures. Some even started planning for this as early as the foundation-building period.

However, this also requires a prerequisite, that is, the level of the technique you practice is high enough, and you must ensure that you will not change the technique in the middle, otherwise all the preparations will be in vain.

Once the collection is completed before the Golden Elixir, then after breaking through the Golden Elixir and becoming a Golden Elixir cultivator, you can immediately start refining your own magic weapon.

For a cultivator in the Jindan stage, the earlier he can refine his natal magic weapon one day, the earlier he can nurture it, cultivate tacit understanding, and then increase its power, so that it will be stronger in the future.

A newly refined innate magic weapon, no matter how rare the materials are, or how powerful it is, if it is not nurtured for enough time, its power will definitely not be comparable to those magic weapons made of the same materials but nurtured for hundreds of years.

In a word, it is better to refine your natal magic weapon as early as possible rather than late.

The ideal situation would be to start refining immediately after breaking through the Golden Core Stage, but such good things are rare. Most cultivators have to slowly search for materials after condensing the Golden Core.

Xu Zhiyu was different. The technique he practiced during the Purple Mansion period could only be practiced to the ninth level of the Purple Mansion. There was no mention of anything about his natal magic weapon at all, so he started looking for materials to refine his natal magic weapon after breaking through the Golden Core Stage.

In order to refine his own magic weapon, Xu Zhiyu took great pains.

After checking the refining materials, he carefully studied all the knowledge about refining his own magic weapon on the jade slips of the exercises, and finally mastered them thoroughly.

This step took him a long time, two and a half years.

According to records, "The Art of Controlling Thunder with Yin and Yang" was created by Duo Chuang, a Mahayana cultivator from the Shenxiao Palace. When this master created this technique, he also created two innate magic treasures that were integrated into the technique.

These four magic weapons are "Five Thunder Golden Lanterns", "Mixed Thunder Pagoda", "

Each of these two or four magic weapons has its own magical uses. At first, Xu Zhiyu didn't know which magic weapon he should choose to refine, because they all have their own advantages and disadvantages. Finally, after some thought, he decided to refine the Hunyuan Pagoda. Because this pagoda has the effect of weakening the thunder tribulation, when a cultivator is going through the heavenly tribulation, he only needs to enlarge it and place it on the other person's head, and then the thunder tribulation that strikes this person will be absorbed by this pagoda. It is so magical.

To refine one's own magical weapon, there are basically no requirements for the refining skills of a Jindan-stage cultivator.

This is understandable to the beast, because it is impossible for cultivators who have cultivated to the level of Golden Core to be weapon refiners. What about those who are not weapon refiners? Will they not refine their own life magic weapon?
Therefore, to refine your own magic weapon, as long as you study the refining method thoroughly, take it slow and proceed step by step, it will be enough to ensure that you can refine your own magic weapon in one go.

For Xu Zhiyu, the most difficult part of this refining process was probably melting a piece of material called "Six Yang Thunder Gold".

This "Six Yang Thunder Gold" is enough material to refine a sixth-rank magic weapon, but it is a treasure that even the most powerful cultivators would fight for when they see it.

This material was obtained by him in a trade with Tiangang Dao Sect in the space channel. He used a sixth-grade low-grade longevity elixir. This shows how precious this material is.

Even if an ordinary Jindan stage cultivator obtains this material, it is difficult to melt it.

However, for Xu Zhiyu, who masters the "Infinite Thunder and Fire", this is not a problem.

This 'Infinite Thunder and Fire' is a magical power included in the "Yin Yang Thunder Control Art", which can transform thunder into fire and has infinite power. He has done experiments before and found that the power of this thunder and fire is enough to refine fifth-level refining materials.

There should be no problem with the sixth-level materials, it just might take more time. However, Xu Zhiyu has more than enough time.

Refining your own magic weapon is different from refining ordinary magic weapons. You can stop and rest in the middle.

The main reason is to take care of those Jindan cultivators who are not weapon refiners. It is impossible to ask them to refine dozens of materials one by one and then refine them successfully in one go.

To put it simply, it is to refine the raw materials one by one according to the refining steps, then combine all the solutions together in order, and then knead them into a rough embryo.

The last thing to do is to slowly calcine it with fire to give it its final shape.

The whole process can be said to be quite tedious and complicated, and it is very challenging for the patience of the cultivator. However, any cultivator who can cultivate to the Golden Core stage generally has good patience.

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When a person concentrates on doing something, he will feel that time passes very quickly.

This sentence happens to apply to Xu Zhiyu now.

Before I knew it, eight years had passed.

"It's finally done!"

In the quiet refining room, Xu Zhiyu let out a long breath and stared motionlessly at a glittering golden pagoda in front of him, his eyes full of joy.

After eight years of seclusion, he finally completed this natal magic weapon, which was of great significance to both him and the entire Xu family. It was also the first natal magic weapon in his life.

As for why he said it was the first one, it was because he had already made up his mind that if there was an opportunity in the future, he would collect all the materials for refining the "Five Thunder Golden Lamp" and refine it as well. This magic weapon also had a very important function.

However, there is no hope for the time being, because the materials needed for this life-saving magic weapon are more precious than the "Hunlei Pagoda". They are often sixth-level materials, and there are several seventh-level materials, which cannot be found in the human world at all.

It is also mentioned in the Yin-Yang Thunder Control Art that even the Shenxiao Sect, which is ranked among the top three in Zuzhou, only has one replica of this kind of life-saving magic weapon, which is ranked as the sixth-grade upper grade.

He looked up and saw a pagoda floating in front of him, emitting golden light and some golden lightning arcs flashing on it. It was truly a myriad of immortal lights and auspicious auras.

The tower is divided into nine floors and six corners. Each floor has an arched tower door. The base also has two semicircular doors that can be opened and closed, but they are all closed at the moment.

In addition to absorbing thunder and lightning, the main function of this tower is suppression and defense.

Since the main material for refining the "Hybrid Thunder Pagoda" is "Six Yang Thunder Gold", even though it has just been refined, it can barely be considered a fifth-tier magic weapon, but if calculated solely by hardness, it is comparable to a sixth-tier magic weapon.

Such a hard material allows it to calmly deal with the enemy's attacks when suppressing the enemy, without destroying the magic weapon itself.

That’s right, his natal magic weapon is different from other cultivators’ natal magic weapons. It is close to the fifth level from the beginning. There is no other way, because the grade of the materials used in refining it is too high.
As for the specific value, it is even more difficult to measure. Anyway, he roughly calculated that if all the spiritual objects he paid were exchanged for spirit stones, he would still have hundreds of thousands of high-quality spirit stones, and tens of billions of low-quality spirit stones. It was exaggerated to think about it.

But for him, these are all worth it. Since he has the sealed space, spirit stones are just numbers to him.

But don't forget that he still has a large spirit stone mine that has not been excavated. If he really runs out of spirit stones one day, he can put dozens of third-level puppets in it and let them mine directly.

The reserves of large-scale spirit stone mines start at at least tens of billions of low-grade spirit stones, which can never be used up.

“Generally speaking, after a life magic weapon is successfully refined, it needs to be stored in the body and nurtured for more than 500 years, and with the addition of suitable fifth-level materials, it can be upgraded to a fifth-level magic weapon.

However, my "Mixed Thunder Pagoda" is made of the extremely precious "Six Yang Thunder Gold" as the material, and the starting point is different. The time should be greatly shortened. Perhaps it will be promoted to a fifth-level magic weapon in less than ten years.

Even if it breaks through to become a sixth-level magic weapon, it probably won’t take a thousand years.”

A gleam of light flashed in Xu Zhengyang's eyes. He opened his mouth and sucked hard. The golden pagoda in front of him, which was about three feet high, shrank to the size of a sesame seed and then went straight to his dantian.

If you observe its Dantian at this time, you will find that directly above the golden elixir, there is a small and exquisite object floating above it, passively accepting the nourishment of the magic power.

He then rested for two days, and after recovering his mental state, he prepared to leave the retreat, as he still had important things to do. (End of this chapter)