Forging Immortality through the Dao Seed

Boom——

The moment the Soul Bell of the Dark Water was engulfed.

The Five Treasures Ling River surged violently, and then began to roar wildly.

A touch of repressive atmosphere filled every corner of the room.

Zhang Jing's expression remained unchanged.

He successively took out the other four middle-grade magic artifacts from his hand and, following the order of generation according to the Five Elements, fed them into the Five Treasures Ling River.

In this process.

The aura of the Five Treasures Ling River became even more terrifying.

However, when the last magic artifact, the Mysterious Gold Heavy Mace, entered the Ling River, the violent aura suddenly disappeared.

All was calm once again.

At the same time, an unexplained connection faintly appeared between the five magic artifacts.

Zhang Jing couldn't help but look at the Five Treasures Ling River at this moment.

In his view, the five magic artifacts were bobbing in the river, revolving and colliding around the Soul Bell of the Dark Water, sometimes rotating and occasionally colliding, making clanging sounds.

It was incredibly pleasant to the ear.

The next moment.

His mind moved.

A large wave rose, accompanied by the loud sound of the magic artifacts colliding.

Under Zhang Jing's control, the Five Treasures Ling River moved from extreme stillness to extreme movement in an instant, the terrifying momentum of tsunamis pushing against gigantic waves tore everything apart, rushing at an incredible speed towards the bluestone wall directly in front of him.

However.

The very instant the wall seemed about to be destroyed.

The Five Treasures Ling River abruptly disappeared, as if the previous scene were merely an illusion.

Whoosh——

Zhang Jing sitting on the bed took a deep breath.

His face was a little pale, and his forehead was already covered with fine beads of sweat.

Yet his eyes were full of irrepressible excitement.

After filling the Five Treasures Ling River with a powerful top-grade magic artifact and four excellent middle-grade magic artifacts, its power exploded just as he had expected, causing a qualitative change.

The state of full activation just now only lasted for an instant.

Yet in that brief moment, the terrifying momentum the Five Treasures Ling River erupted with sent a chill coursing through Zhang Jing's body.

Even though the attack had been under his control.

Zhang Jing subconsciously compared the force dispersed by the Five Treasures Ling River during the attack with the White Deer.

He was surprised to find that if one were to simply compare the strength of their auras, the Five Treasures Ling River at its peak had already far surpassed the White Deer.

He even felt its power had surpassed those at the Qi Refinement Level 7 at the Dao Institute he had seen.

However, compared to the Qi Refinement Level 8, it was still a bit weak.

Overall.

The current power of the Five Treasures Ling River, when fully activated, should be somewhere between Qi Refinement Level 7 and Qi Refinement Level 8.

If he were to replace the remaining four magic artifacts with top-grade ones...

Zhang Jing smirked secretly.

However, he quickly realized that this would be suicidal. Activating the Five Treasures Ling River, made up of five top-grade magic artifacts, one time could completely drain him.

Thinking of this.

His Spiritual Sense unconsciously swept over his Dantian

Only to see that the previously abundant Spiritual Power there was now only about a tenth left.

Zhang Jing's eyebrows couldn't help but furrow slightly.

Although the Five Treasure Ling River had tremendous power, the consumption it caused was truly terrifying! Merely activating it once cost nearly all of the Spiritual Power in his Dantian.

This meant... he only had one chance.

One chance to catch the White Deer off guard and kill it!

"One chance... If I can't kill it in one hit, or if there's some other accident mid-process, what should I do then? Rely on the Five Treasures Ling River?"

Zhang Jing had some apprehensions.

In his opinion.

Doing this was a bit too risky.

At the very least, he had to be sure the Five Treasures Ling River had the ability to attack two or three times.

But... remembering Senior Brother Li's advice not long ago, Zhang Jing understood his remaining time wouldn't be enough to break through to the Qi Refinement Level 5.

If he couldn't, he might as well jointly develop the medicinal garden with Senior Brother Li.

Zhang Jing suddenly thought.

Wait a minute!

Just then, when the Five Treasures Ling River was activated.

It seemed like it had absorbed a portion of the Spiritual Energy in the room.

That means...

He reopened the Five Treasures Ling River and took out a few Spirit Stones from his storage bag to feed into the Ling River.

After about ten breaths.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The withered and dim remnants of the Spirit Stones fell to the ground one after another.

Seems to be feasible!

Suddenly, a look of excitement appeared on Zhang Jing's face.

However, the next moment, he realized something and his expression quickly returned to normal.

This plan could work, but the Spirit Stones he had were like a drop in the bucket, and worst, they were being absorbed too slowly.

So-- Demon Core?!

Zhang Jing instantly thought of another similar thing imbued with spiritual energy in his possession.

If Spirit Stone didn't work, he might try the Demon Core. It was formed by condensing the essence of spiritual energy inside the devil.

No sooner thought than done.

Zhang Jing decisively took out a second-level Qi Refinement Demon Core and threw it directly into the Five Treasures Ling River.

What happened was.

The moment this Demon Core entered the Ling River, it was instantly torn apart by the colliding Magic Artifacts within, resulting in a sudden explosion of pure spiritual energy.

This spiritual energy was quickly absorbed by the Ling River and then began to circulate continuously among the five Magic Artifacts.

At the same time.

Traces of black smoke were released and slowly dispersed in the air.

"Are these impurities tainted by the devil's breath within the Demon Core?"

Zhang Jing looked at the smoke, a realization in his mind.

What followed was excitement.

The Demon Core could replace the spiritual power to drive the Five Treasures Ling River.

With this, his greatest concern was all but gone.

He would go to that medicinal garden first thing in the morning, pick the spiritual medicine, and then prepare to return to Dao Institute.

Zhang Jing was silently firm about this decision.

Just then.

He suddenly felt an inexplicable addition to the illusory river inside him, formed by the water elements drawn from the Five Zang organs, of a purity of spiritual energy that he had never seen before.

As the time went on, this spiritual energy started to increase.

And as soon as this spiritual energy appeared, it was directly refined into spiritual power and entered the Dantian.

The speed reached its extreme!

"Where did this spiritual energy come from?"

Zhang Jing was puzzled but his gaze instinctively turned towards the Five Treasures Ling River.

Four hours later.

After in-depth research, he generally understood the origin of this inexplicable spiritual energy.

To put it simply.

The spiritual energy that burst out from the shattered Demon Core inside the Five Treasures Ling River, after going through the cycle of the Five Elements in the five Magic Artifacts, was amazingly refined once again.

This refined spiritual energy would seep into the illusory river within him through the special connection with the Five Treasures Ling River.

Compared to spiritual medicine.

This kind of spiritual energy was more pure and more suitable for his own refining!

Once everything was cleared up.

Zhang Jing instantly reacted.

It seemed that... he had found a quicker and more efficient way of cultivation than consuming Spiritual Medicine and Spirit Pill!

He could feel a stirring sensation in his cultivation level.

Zhang Jing's eyes instantly showed a firm gaze.

The next moment.

He threw the sixth-level Qi Refinement Demon Core, which had just arrived recently, directly into the Five Treasures Ling River, closing his eyes slowly, and fully activated the Water Principle Guide.

The previously set plan changed again.

First, cultivate in seclusion to break through to the fifth level of Qi Refinement, and then go to deal with the White Deer!

With the assistance of this sixth-level Qi Refinement Demon Core, he had plenty of time.

...

Two days later.

The door of the Talisman shop was gradually opened.

The figure of Zhang Jing appeared in the doorway.

His aura had incredibly reached the fifth level of Qi Refinement.

Moreover, with the improvement of the cultivation level.

The Five Treasures Ling River had transformed again, increasing the capacity of the spell to thirty-two, and the Five Treasures Ling River could accommodate up to eight Magic Artifacts.

However, Zhang Jing was not going to put more Magic Artifacts into it for the time being.

There was no need to.

With his current Qi Refinement of level five, he could barely fully drive the Five Treasures Ling River five times, and its attacking power could just approach the level eight of Qi Refinement.

Adding more middle-grade Magic Artifacts.

First, the power would not change much.

Second, wouldn't this return him to the embarrassing situation where he could only attack once, just like in the fourth level of Qi Refinement?

As a man, Zhang Jing could by no means accept this.

Moreover, he had a more important task at hand now!

Before long.

A Spirit Crane carrying Zhang Jing shot straight into the sky, flying directly to the southeast of Langya County.