The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 175 The Forbidden Magic Baby, Returning to Simplicity (Second Update)

As one's cultivation level is elevated, one's immortal energy must be reorganized and refined to reach its optimal state, and one's great immortal techniques must also be reconstructed in order to maximize their effectiveness in combat.

Therefore, Luo Zu stayed in this place for seven days.

Patting off imaginary dust, Luo Zu stood up, and with a thought, a massive sword as thick as a panel appeared before him.

This great sword is Luo Zu's Giant Sword. He drove the sword into the fine gold vein beneath his feet, allowing it to directly absorb the fine gold energy within the vein and then drive the evolution of the seventy-two magical restrictions that had already been refined on it.

In Luo Zu's deduction, a magical artifact is considered complete when its magical restrictions are refined to seventy-two levels. Although materials can be added to it to one hundred and eight, or three hundred and sixty-five, the resources required for refining the magical restrictions after that are astronomical. It can be said that the resources consumed by each level are equal to the sum of the magical restrictions that have already been refined.

Not many people can withstand such a drain, and even Luo Zu couldn't. Moreover, this was only his first magic weapon, partly experimental, so there was no need for much refinement. He wanted to test the possibility of upgrading the magic weapon to a magic treasure.

Of course, before that, he had conducted many experiments in the world within the pot, upgrading some of the magical artifacts in the world within the pot to magical treasures.

The immortals in the world within the pot didn't want to keep using magical artifacts in their battles. Moreover, based on their battle experiences before they became immortals, they knew that a high-quality magical artifact could significantly enhance a cultivator's combat power. So, upon hearing that magical artifacts could be considered treasures, they naturally took their own natal magical artifacts and hurriedly began to refine them.

Some succeed, some fail. Those who succeed gain a significant boost in combat power, while those who fail suffer a decline in their cultivation.

With some failing, the immortals became more cautious, fearing that their own cultivation would be affected by the failure of their natal magic weapon's advancement.

However, as time went on and the intensity of the war on the front lines increased, the immortals also became more anxious. They first took out the magical artifacts that their sects had refined over many years, and then, with their own great magical power, they used the strength of their entire sect to painstakingly refine them to perfection. After that, they personally refined them to push them to the extreme and upgrade them into magical treasures.

As a result, Luo Zu also gained a lot of experience in refining magical artifacts.

It took a full ten years (in the world within the pot) to finally deduce a method for refining magical artifacts.

Magical implements are just tools, without any sentience. However, when magical treasures develop sentience, they need to have a brain like living beings. These magical restrictions are the vessel for the sentience that the magical treasure is about to develop. Therefore, by refining these magical restrictions one by one, we are building a brain for the magical treasure.

After gaining sentience, the magical artifact underwent an unprecedented transformation, much like a mortal ascending to become a true immortal.

Even the most intellectually limited beings can integrate these magical restrictions, unleashing unprecedented power and bringing a leap in strength to their master.

This is like the great immortal technique that Luo Zu comprehended.

As the saying goes, a single thread cannot make a line, but thousands of threads can be twisted together to form a rope.

The same applies to the great immortal techniques and the magical restrictions of this artifact.

However, Luo Zu had a way to make the magical artifacts first possess sentience, and then gradually unify the laws and prohibitions.

He possesses the supernatural power to manipulate creation.

This supernatural power can enlighten spirits and give rise to wisdom. He had previously used this supernatural power to enlighten a group of plant spirits in the Heavenly Pot, so what harm is there in enlightening a Vajra Greatsword now?

He can't let the egg hatch into the chicken, so he'll let the chicken lay the egg; the chicken comes first, then the egg.

That's why the Giant Sword could infiltrate the refined gold veins and absorb the refined gold energy to replenish its own reserves.

This is because the ancestor of Luo gave it some wisdom and spiritual insight, which enabled it to have this move.

As it returned to his front, Luo Zu communicated with its shallow intelligence for a while, then scanned its sword with his divine sense, sensing the spirituality contained in each of the magical restrictions. Luo Zu then realized that the time had come.

So he urged the spirit of the magical artifact to begin its own advancement.

In an instant, thunder and fire rained down like sweet rain, washing over the giant sword. The sword was constantly being cleansed by the thunder and fire, and quenched again and again.

It clanged and banged, and there was a crunching sound, as if a row of sharp teeth were gnawing at the broadsword.

Luo Zu sat to one side, watching the lightning and fire clinging to the giant sword stuck in the ground, sensing in detail the mysterious and amazing changes within it.

The restriction was gradually dissolving, but it did not dissipate; instead, it was slowly merging into one, about to transform into a talisman similar to the restriction.

This is the Treasure Restriction, as the true immortals of the world within the pot call it. It is a new type of talisman formed after the perfect restriction is fused together.

The treasure seal extracts and refines the essence of the original magic seal, and then merges the accumulated spiritual energy and creation into one. Thus, when the new treasure seal in the magic artifact carries the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, a point of spiritual light is generated. Then, the spiritual light is slowly nurtured and transformed into spiritual wisdom.

Therefore, the world within the pot divides the magical treasures into three levels: spiritual light, penetrating truth, and harmonizing with the divine.

After passing through these three levels, the magic weapon can proceed to the next step.

It gives birth to a true spirit, which transforms into a spiritual treasure.

Of course, these are just speculations; what will actually happen in the future depends on the specific circumstances.

At this moment, the Giant Sword had already been enlightened by Luo Zu, and directly skipped the process of refining a magic weapon.

If it succeeds this time, it can directly enter the ranks of the true magic treasures. In addition to its size and the material that has been repeatedly refined by Luo Zu, it can cut any continent in the world within the pot in two with a single sword strike.

Rumble!

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning descended from the sky, shattering the previous lightning and fire, and then slammed heavily onto the Giant Sword.

The hilt of the Giant Sword turned charred black, and Luo Zu's eyelids twitched slightly at the sight.

This is the Giant Sword, a celestial metal forged from many common metals in nature and metals with mysterious auras, yet it couldn't withstand a single thunderbolt from it.

Luo Zu looked up and saw a dark cloud hovering in the sky, coldly staring at the Giant Sword.

It wouldn't be accurate to call it cold, since it was just a dark cloud, containing no monsters or thunder gods, but simply a thundercloud formed by the unusual aura of the Giant Sword that resonated with the heavens and earth.

Soon, another ball of lightning split off from the thundercloud and crashed down.

Clap!

The lightning struck the Giant Sword squarely, arriving at an incredible speed, almost at the speed of light. The Giant Sword had no way to dodge and could only take the full force of the thunderbolt.

Luo Zu's eyelids twitched again.

But then things calmed down, and seven more bolts of lightning struck. Luo Zu was neither alarmed nor distressed, but simply watched quietly.

It was as if the giant sword no longer belonged to him.

In fact, he was paying attention to the spiritual changes within it. Such thunder had never appeared in the world within the pot. Perhaps it was because the size of the world was different that the primordial world had given such a creation.

As bolts of lightning struck, the Giant Sword turned charred black, but its interior seemed to have been crafted by nature over millions of years. The originally orderly and deliberately arranged immortal metal alloy inside was now filled with a strange rationality and became even more natural.

Luo Zu was not stunned for a moment, but quickly recorded the process and result of the change.

"Returning to simplicity and authenticity, following the natural order," Luo Zu murmured to himself.

This was truly an unexpected bonus.

After the nine bolts of lightning struck, the dark clouds gradually dissipated and did not change again.

Luo Zu was still not satisfied, but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't stop the lightning from falling, nor could he stop the dark clouds from dissipating.

However, it left Luo Zu with a brand new, familiar yet unfamiliar giant gate.

(End of this chapter)