32 Refining the Talisman

Universe in Bag, as the name suggested, was an amazing talisman with a separate huge space inside.

To open or close Universe in Bag for storing or taking out the items in it, as the book said, Wei Gaoyuan must refine the bag by integrating his own spiritual mark into it.

However, controlling power of spirit freely needed at least the stage of Condensed Qi, which was also the sole access to the cultivation of Taoism Arts from the Tao of Martial Arts. (break through the peak of the Nature to enter the stage of Condensed Qi, so the stage of Condensed Qi was usually called "the door to the Taoism Arts for martial artists".) Wei Gaoyuan's current stage was just eighth-level of the Mystery, roughly equivalent to the stage of Building Base in the system of Taoism Arts, still extremely far from "the door."

He turned to his master with full of hope for some information and suggestion about "the door", but the answer from the Elder of Dark-Feather was just a cold water extinguishing the fire of his hope.

His master, Elder Wu, told him: as far as he knew, there was still no such a martial artist in the current domain of Martial Arts who was able to open "that door." Even if there was such a unique being beyond what he knew, it probably belonged to the sect of much higher star level.

As Elder Wu's description, Qizhou was one city of Da Xuan country, which was ruled by Da Xuan Sect, a powerful six-star sect. The East Mountain Sword Clan, as a four-star sect, had its own strongest martial artist at the Ninth Heaven of the Nature, who was the Grand Elder in charge of the outer section.

In country of Daxuan, there were a few sects outstanding in domain of Martial Arts, for instance, Sect of Dual Sword, Infinite Heaven Sword Sect, Mountain-Overwhelming Sect, etc. Sad to the domain of Martial Arts, however, for almost five hundred years no martial artist in those sects had broken through the peak of Martial Art to stride into the stage of Condensed Qi.

Admittedly, it had disappointed nearly all the martial artists and those who longed for entering world of Taoism Followers through the cultivation of Martial Arts. The former grand Tao of Martial Arts, in other words, seemed to have fallen. Anyone who was talented, even if not that high talented, tended to choose the Tao of Taoism Arts, which was the promising way to get immortality; or to choose the pursuit of powerful Talismans, which could supplement their cultivation, or strengthen their power, or even made up for their innate drawback. How strong should a martial artist's body and his martial techniques be to withstand impact of a high-level magic talisman? No one could give it an exact answer.

However, the necessary key to drive the talisman was the Spiritual Qi. For this reason, the direction of the cultivation in the world of Taoism Followers had been determined before a long, long time — It was the cultivation in spirit that built the primary foundation of Taoism Arts, which almost excluded those in Tao of Martial Arts from the cultivation of Taoism Arts, including using the talisman. (Tao of Sword is generally regarded as a unique branch of Tao of Martial Arts)

Wei Gaoyuan was so depressed after consultation, owning such a huge treasure mountain, owning no way to explore it, though.

Hand it over to the out section or the clan? He was not an idiot…

So he didn't give up, continuing to look for some information else in the library, which might offer other ways to refine the Universe in Bag.

After another two days, he did find something else.

Universe in Bag was actually classified as one of space talismans, which could not only be refined with commonly spiritual methods but also with another two methods: essence-blood-refining and soul-refining, whereas these two methods had been listed as taboos. Only a few crazy evil guys or factions had used them while none would like to use them ever to refine Universe in Bag, a space talisman.

Because both methods were deadly dangerous!

Essence-blood-refining and soul-refining were usually used to refine, to breed more precisely, the offensive talisman: the former made the talisman refined with the essence-blood of its owner, and the later with the power of its owner's soul. Long-term refining by both methods would probably enable the talisman to generate its own spirit and intelligence. Even more fatal, the talisman's demand for essence-blood and power of soul would be getting bigger and bigger during the refining process, and might finally swallow all the essence-blood and power of soul of its owner to turn into an extremely wicked talisman with destructive power.

(essence-blood: different from the common blood mentioned in daily life, it's the general term for essence and blood, and is the basic substance running in meridian-collateral system for maintaining all beings' life activities and good health.)

Reading here, the fire of hope that Wei Gaoyuan had just ignited was disillusioned again, because the following was all stories about tragedies, like some evil giant in some year lost control of his talisman in the course of essence-blood-refining or soul-refining, and what tremendous disasters it brought about or whatever. Apart from it, however, there was nothing useful for how to refine the talisman by the two prohibited methods.

In desperation, he could do nothing but carefully keep the Universe in Bag himself and continued to find the refining method available later. If there was really no suitable way, he had to bother sister Yun, and surely, he never mind presenting half of the items in the Universe in Bag to his sister~