Chapter 365 - 188: Obtaining Another Prismatic Augment
Chapter 365: Chapter 188: Obtaining Another Prismatic Augment
’When I go to the Eastern Domain to search for the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm in the future, I should also take the opportunity to collect some Tier Three Magic.’
’But back to the present, the time to choose an Augment is almost up. I need to decide quickly.’
Following the principle that true power lies within oneself, he first eliminated "Worth the Wait II."
Of the two remaining Augments, "Forest Illusion" definitely had the highest future potential, as it could grow along with him.
But after weighing his options, Xiao Chen still chose Featherweight III.
Compared to the numerical advantage and future potential of Forest Illusion, he preferred the qualitative edge and immediate Combat Power.
Besides, a cultivation speed a hundred times faster was just too good to refuse.
With a turn of his Thoughts, he made his choice.
He immediately felt the circulation speed of the True Essence in his body accelerate by another ten times.
Streams of True Essence surged through his Meridians like untamed wild horses, running rampant.
It took him a full Quarter Hour to adapt to the new enhancement.
Looking around, the entire crater was now filled with depleted Spirit Stones, completely drained of their Spiritual Qi.
All sixty-six thousand, six hundred and sixty-six of them were completely used up.
At the same time, the three hundred Spirit Stones in the portable Spirit Gathering Array were also depleted, rendering it useless.
Xiao Chen retracted his Inner Core, dug out the buried Array Plate, and also collected the Array Flags from around the crater.
Speaking of which, the Yellow Wind Flowing Sand Formation had only been triggered once since he’d gotten it.
And that one time, it didn’t even have any effect, so it was basically useless.
It was currently Noon, and it happened to be a clear, sunny day without a cloud in the sky.
Xiao Chen stood on the edge of the crater, letting the sunlight fall on his face as he admired the specks of young grass around him.
"This breakthrough... it must have taken thirty days."
Although he was immune to heat and cold, judging by the warmth of the sun, it was probably late June now.
After basking in the long-missed sunlight for a while, he didn’t rush to leave.
Instead, he leisurely took the White Bone Soul-Calling Banner and the Ghost-Faced Profound Light Shield out of his Storage Bag.
Other Golden Core True Men would have to worry about acquiring Spiritual Artifacts after their Core Formation.
But Xiao Chen had no such concerns, as he already had these two Spiritual Artifacts—one for offense and one for defense—ready.
With a turn of his Thoughts, True Essence flowed from his Golden Core, down his arm, and into the Spiritual Artifacts.
It was completely different from when he had used Magical Power for refinement. The moment the True Essence entered the Spiritual Artifacts, they immediately began to glow with a brilliant light.
’Damn, the requirements are this high?’
As he completed the initial Refinement, Xiao Chen was surprised to find that wielding these two Spiritual Artifacts was no simple matter.
To simply activate the White Bone Soul-Calling Banner, he needed at least thirty streams of True Essence.
As for the Ghost-Faced Profound Light Shield, the cost doubled, requiring a full sixty streams of True Essence.
Moreover, according to the records in the Yellow Springs Secret Scripture, Spiritual Artifacts were fundamentally different from Magical Artifacts.
There was no clear-cut grading system among different Spiritual Artifacts; only their varying True Essence consumption could be used as a reference.
One that required a lot of True Essence wasn’t necessarily powerful, but one that required little was definitely not going to be very strong.
Therefore, many powerful Spiritual Artifacts also demanded an enormous amount of True Essence.
Some Spiritual Artifacts even required as many as two hundred and seventy streams of True Essence.
An Early Stage Golden Core Cultivator, under normal circumstances, would have at most three hundred and thirty-three streams of True Essence, which was clearly not enough to use them comfortably.
Not to mention, many Tier Three Magic spells also consumed a great deal of True Essence in pursuit of power.
To solve this problem, many Spiritual Artifacts were designed with two forms during their creation.
These were a normal form that could be wielded after initial Refinement, and a Spirit Ascension Form that could only be activated after complete Refinement.
Generally, there would be at least a twofold difference in True Essence requirement between them to ease the burden of daily use.
However, after Xiao Chen recovered for a bit and poured all his True Essence into the White Bone Soul-Calling Banner, he found he still couldn’t completely Refine it.
’Holy shit. It needs at least four times what I have.’
The Yellow Springs Dao really spared no expense for its potential successor.