Treasure Gathering Immortal Furnace

Inside the cave, Lu Fan spent nearly half an hour completely erasing Gu Chen's soul imprint, then imprinted his own mark and dripped his essence blood, thus completing the recognition of Gu Chen as master.

Then the Eight Treasures Mirror floated around Lu Fan, constantly circling him and emitting bursts of light.

"Not bad, as expected of a top-grade magic weapon," Lu Fan said with a smile.

After all, it can automatically defend itself, which is much better than the Jade Spirit Armor. It can even withstand an attack from a Core Formation stage cultivator, and it can still be used even after one reaches the Core Formation stage.

Moreover, top-quality defensive magical artifacts are naturally rarer than other magical artifacts, making them truly high-end items.

Then Lu Fan picked up the dragon-patterned giant sword, and as soon as he held it, he felt its unusual weight.

"So heavy?" Lu Fan tried twice but couldn't swing it smoothly. After all, he wasn't a pure sword cultivator and hadn't practiced any secret techniques for controlling a giant sword.

Therefore, it is particularly awkward to use, but it must be said that this dragon-patterned greatsword can pierce through the defense of the human-faced thunder vulture in one strike, and its attack power is quite formidable.

It should be a top-tier magical artifact primarily designed for destructive power.

"Forget it, let's leave this heavy greatsword to Ziyuan," Lu Fan said, raising his hand to put the greatsword into his storage bag.

With her early-stage Core Formation strength, Zi Yuan could wield this giant sword with ease, and it also compensated for the puppet's lack of magical artifacts, serving as a low-level magical artifact.

After putting away the magical artifact, Lu Fan carefully took out the two jet-black bird eggs wrapped in spiritual energy from his arms.

He had personally witnessed that this bird egg could control ordinary crows to gain the ability to come back to life, and could even contend with fifth-tier demonic beasts.

The crow inside that egg is definitely no ordinary creature!

But Lu Fan hesitated, after all, he was not a spirit master and did not know how to tame demonic beasts into spirit beasts.

And we don't know how to hatch these two bird eggs.

After some thought, Lu Fan decided to try the conventional method. He pinched his index finger and dripped two drops of blood essence onto the two bird eggs.

This essence blood is something condensed from pure spiritual energy mixed with the cultivator's own bloodline. Overuse will result in a loss of spiritual power. However, unlike true essence which directly depletes lifespan, essence blood depletes lifespan by a very small amount. Therefore, it is mostly used to feed spirit beasts, enhance the bond, or for blood recognition.

really!

After the blood essence was dripped, the two bird eggs immediately emitted a dark light and devoured the blood essence completely.

"It seems the conventional methods are working. If we continue to feed it with its essence and blood, it might hatch soon."

"Let me see what you really are then."

Lu Fan released his spiritual energy to envelop the bird egg and put it back into his pocket, since he didn't have a spirit beast pouch.

If I have the chance in the future, I'll find a market and buy a spirit beast pouch, so I won't have to keep it so close to my body like this.

Since Lu Fan couldn't show his face in public for the time being, he simply decided to stay here and cultivate in seclusion for a while.

Once the storm has passed, we will continue searching for materials to form the Golden Core.

Having planned his future path, Lu Fan took out the Heaven-Mending Furnace, replicated one hundred Spirit-Refining Pills and one hundred Body-Refining Pills, and began his seclusion.

The small island occupied by the Red Eyebrows is surrounded by mountains and lush vegetation, making it a rare place of peace and tranquility, where they are undisturbed.

Lu Fan only needs to release Zi Yuan to guard him from the side, and he can devote himself wholeheartedly to the task.

Time flew by as he sat there, but Lu Fan did not simply go into seclusion; he basically followed the cultivation path of three seclusions followed by one emergence.

He secluded himself for three months and emerged for one month. During this month, he practiced sword techniques and strengthened his physique, while also feeding bird eggs with his own blood essence every day.

This ensures that one's cultivation level steadily improves while maintaining combat power, resulting in a relatively balanced improvement.

In this way, a year passed and his cultivation improved considerably, especially the Sword Shadow Splitting Light Technique, which showed signs of reaching the fourth level.

Lu Fan originally planned to leave the seclusion, but he found that after a year of careful feeding, the two bird eggs seemed to have become much more active, and the baby crows that had already formed inside the eggs could be clearly seen when the light shone through them.

This is clearly a sign that the egg is about to hatch. It seems that this crow is indeed no ordinary creature, after all, what bird egg doesn't hatch even after a year of incubation?

This forced Lu Fan, who wanted to leave the seclusion, to temporarily suppress the idea and plan to wait until the bird egg hatched before leaving.

And so another year passed in a flash; Lu Fan had been here for two whole years.

His Sword Shadow Splitting Light Technique has successfully reached the fourth level, and his cultivation has also advanced to the peak of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, with the late stage just around the corner.

At this point, regardless of whether the bird eggs had hatched or not, Lu Fan no longer wanted to continue his seclusion, as he was still far from having enough materials to form his core.

He didn't want to reach the late stage of Foundation Establishment without the necessary materials for closed-door cultivation.

But one day in the following year, Lu Fan, who was preparing to leave the pass, suddenly noticed that the two bird eggs he had placed on the stone platform next to him shook violently!

"Is it about to hatch?" Lu Fan was overjoyed and quickly went forward to check.

I noticed a tiny bird's beak pecking at the eggshell, but it stopped after a few pecks, clearly exhausted.

"Let me add fuel to the fire for you," Lu Fan said, extending his index finger and immediately dripping three drops of his blood essence onto each of the two bird eggs.

As the essence blood dripped down, the extremely pure spiritual energy was quickly absorbed by the two little ones, as if they were instantly filled with strength.

It started pecking at the eggshell with force.

Click...

As the eggshell cracked, two bald little creatures crawled out.

Chirp chirp chirp~

As soon as the little one came out, even before it opened its eyes, it instinctively regarded Lu Fan as its mother, making cries and opening its mouth wide to beg for food.

Looking at the crow, which was already the size of a palm after hatching, Lu Fan also showed a loving smile.

But just as Lu Fan was carefully observing the crow, he suddenly realized that this crow was different from others.

This little guy even has a vertically closed eye between its eyebrows! That means it has three eyes!

"A three-eyed raven?" Lu Fan was immediately surprised. This was the first time he had ever seen such a rare bird.

Moreover, he had read countless records of cultivation in his early years and was familiar with many rare and exotic beasts, but there was not a single record of the Three-Eyed Raven.

Furthermore, the fact that the Three-Eyed Raven could control ordinary crows while still in its egg-like state within the Misty Forest Valley, and even grant them the power to revive the dead, is enough to demonstrate that it is no ordinary creature.

If trained properly, they might become Lu Fan's powerful assistant in achieving unexpected victories.

"Looks like I'll have to buy some spirit beast pills from now on. I can't keep feeding them essence blood," Lu Fan said with a wry smile, then gently put the two little guys into his arms.

I plan to leave the pass immediately, find a market, and buy some spirit beast pills and spirit beast bags.

Moreover, he has been in seclusion for two years, so the storm should have passed by now. After all, even if Gu Chen was angry, it wouldn't have been two years before he was still lurking near the Misty Forest.

Lu Fan then closed the cave's restrictions, opened the stone door that had been sealed for two years, and stepped out.