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Chapter 110: Refining the Golden Attribute · Huangfeng Valley
Chapter 110: Refining the Golden Attribute · Huangfeng Valley
Xiao Chen stared at the thick, ancient tome in his hands, its yellowed pages betraying its age.
He asked directly, "Second Senior Uncle, I don’t understand these scriptures. What exactly is a Buddha bone?"
Chen Tianfeng pointed at the text. "Look here, and here too—the descriptions match this jade bone perfectly."
"This proves the jade bone was actually taken from the remains of a Golden Core Arhat."
He flipped through several pages. "According to this passage, after undergoing the Buddhist sect’s ritualistic refinement techniques, it becomes a Buddha bone—immortal for a thousand years, indestructible for ten thousand."
Golden Core Arhat was the Buddhist sect’s term for a cultivator at the same level as a Golden Core Zhenren in the Li Zhou tradition.
"Oh, I think I get it now", Xiao Chen said.
He continued, "But Second Senior Uncle, what’s this thing actually used for?"
"Excellent question." Chen Tianfeng pulled out several more books. "The Secret Records of Ancient Buddhas doesn’t specify clearly, but we can infer it’s used to suppress certain evil spirits."
"Never mind—after checking the sect’s Scripture Pavilion and our family archives, I finally found the answer."
"You’ve heard about the common traits of bone-type spirit herbs, right?"
He launched into a fifteen-minute lecture, citing scriptures and historical texts.
"In summary", he concluded, "this jade bone almost certainly contains a trace of the golden attribute left behind by that unknown Golden Core Arhat. Otherwise, we couldn’t explain the three key characteristics I mentioned earlier."
"Therefore, using it as a spirit herb—rather than a mere spiritual material—would be far more effective."
Xiao Chen blinked. "Oh, I see now."
In short, after ritualistic refinement, the bone had become indestructible. Using it as forging material was impractical, but its golden attribute could be absorbed through mana refinement.
In other words—edible.
Back at Cuiwei Valley, Xiao Chen immediately began refining the Buddha bone with his mana.
For the first hour, the jade bone remained unchanged, as if his efforts were futile. But he persisted patiently.
After four full hours of refinement, a faint golden speck appeared within the bone’s pristine whiteness.
Four more hours, and the speck stretched into a thin golden thread.
Xiao Chen rested overnight.
The next day, he spent the entire day refining it further. The thread thickened, branching into a dense network resembling a frozen yarn ball trapped in ice. A thin golden film emerged on the bone’s surface, wrapping it like a protective shield.
By the third day, the entire jade bone had turned pure gold. On the fourth day, it emitted a faint golden radiance.
On the fifth afternoon—forty-nine hours of continuous refinement later—the Buddha bone finally shed its last veil, blazing with brilliant golden light.
Xiao Chen inhaled sharply, drawing the radiance into his body.
He immediately turned his spiritual senses inward, watching the golden light pierce through his flesh and fuse into his bones.
A sensation beyond description struck him.
It felt as if ten thousand blades scraped his skeleton, ten thousand hammers pounded it, ten thousand iron clamps stretched it.
Yet strangely, while he felt his bones being ravaged, there was no pain.
"Does the Divine Veil have pain-suppressing properties?" he wondered. "Or was the pain so intense my mind blocked it out?"
He soon found the answer.
An hour later, the strange sensation vanished, replaced by searing pain.
Even as he channeled mana to suppress it, his bones ached as if shattered.
But the agony faded quickly, replaced by a surge of power.
Never before had he felt such raw strength.
His physical power had skyrocketed, giving him the fleeting illusion of invincibility.
He stomped the ground.
Boom!
The impact left a conical crater over ten feet deep.
He punched a tree thirty feet away.
The sheer force of his physical strike snapped the trunk, scattering leaves like rain.
Too bad there was no ox nearby to test his strength.
He settled for testing the valley’s slopes.
After confirming his body now matched a mid-stage Foundation Building body cultivator—surpassing his actual cultivation realm—he grinned.
This meant spells from ordinary cultivators couldn’t harm him even if he stood still. In duels against Foundation Building peers, he’d be like a warrior wearing top-tier defensive artifacts.
The only downside? A mid-stage Foundation Building physique couldn’t grant new hexes.
"Not a problem", Xiao Chen mused. "Only a small cultivation stage away now. At this rate, three or four months of normal cultivation should do."
He checked the date. "Wait, what day is it today?"
After calculating, he realized it was already the thirtieth day of the eleventh month.
Tomorrow was the Huangfeng Valley Mutual Aid Assembly.
"Good thing I can still make it."
Ever since experiencing the Six Harmonies Spirit Water’s effects, he’d sought shortcuts.
Wealthy in spirit stones, he never hesitated to invest in himself.
Back when he was mid-Core Formation, he’d already used Nourishing Qi Pills to accelerate cultivation.
To Xiao Chen, money was meant to be saved and spent—especially on cultivation.
Unfortunately, Lihuo Bazaar offered no substitutes for the Six Harmonies Spirit Water.
Six days ago, he’d used his last drop, settling for the inferior Fragrant Secret Dew.
The Huangfeng Valley assembly would surely attract Foundation Building cultivators—perhaps even those with the spirit elixirs he needed.
Securing enough would cut his cultivation time in half.
He quickly informed Mei Yong of his departure before rushing toward Huangfeng Valley.
(End of Chapter)
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