161 Armament Sand! (1/2)

With this in mind, Wang Baole couldn't help but feel moved. He quickly opened the jade slip of the Technique of Infinite Armament Transformation. After reviewing it, he took out the materials and tried manufacturing and refining Numinous Treasures for the first time.

Let me choose an easy one first!

Wang Baole's eyes showed anticipation. Using the Dharmic Armament guidebook from the Dharmic Armament Pavilion, he found a Numinous Treasure known as a Water Droplet Separator. It was considered an easy to refine among the third-grade Numinous Treasures. However, it required one hundred thousand Inscriptions.

Looking at the requirements for the Inscriptions, Wang Baole was quite speechless, but after regulating his own breathing, he decided to give it a shot.

Time passed, and after five days, Wang Baole let out a long sigh. He was forced to give up on this attempt. Spirit Kernels for Numinous Treasures usually required at least a hundred Spirit Stones to condense.

Since too many Inscriptions were required, and almost all of them required advanced variations of the study of Inscriptions, it was strenuous even for Wang Baole. A single mistake could lead to the Spirit Stones' collapse, resulting in the failure of the refinement process. After studying the recipe, he realized that the second stage of refinement was way harder than Dharmic Artifacts.

More importantly, Wang Baole discovered that though the Inscriptions of the Numinous Treasures looked the same as Dharmic Artifacts, he had a nagging feeling that they were somewhat different. Yet, he was unable to figure it out exactly.

I was too complacent in the past. The knowledge required for making Dharmic Armaments is too vast. I still need to continue learning and studying!

Wang Baole took a deep breath. He knew that his biggest issue was not craftsmanship but that he had not mastered the knowledge of Upper Academy Island's Dharmic Armaments. As such, for the days ahead, he frequently went to the various halls in the Dharmic Armament Pavilion to learn the knowledge in the Technique of Infinite Armament Transformation and searched for videos and information on the Spirit Intranet. Occasionally, he also consulted Chen Yutong.

Like a sponge, he kept absorbing the more advanced knowledge of Dharmic Armaments, as well as studied the recipe for the third-grade Numinous Treasure.

Just like that, time passed. Gradually, Wang Baole started to have a better understanding of the differences between Dharmic Artifacts and Numinous Treasures.

Regardless of whether it is the seniors in the halls or Chen Yutong, they all tell me that the linchpin of refining Numinous Treasures is the temperature and the changes of the Inscriptions. However, for the specifics, I will still need to figure them out and understand them all by myself.

The requirement for perceptivity and aptitude is high for Dharmic Armaments. Many of the principles explained by others are just the basics. Only with my own understanding can I master it.

After trying, Wang Baole realized that even though he knew the principles, when it came to actual work, it seemed virtually impossible to complete because of a lack of understanding.

This made him quite worried, but he knew that he could not rush the matter. Unless there were other opportunities, he could only accumulate knowledge and wait for the fruits of success to ripen when the conditions were right. As such, he had no other choice but to settle down and treat the refinement of the third-grade Numinous Treasures as a mid to long term goal.

But I cannot waste this period of time. Can I start refining using the recipe given by Little Missy? Wang Baole took a deep breath. He felt that making Dharmic Armaments would only become harder. However, he did not give up. Instead, he became more spirited and pumped.

In the following days, he simultaneously learned and studied the Numinous Treasure recipe, as well as attempting to refine the scabbard.

Since Wang Baole was already extremely familiar with making perfect second-grade Dharmic Artifacts, the past difficulties of refining the scabbard were no longer challenging to him, regardless of whether it was sword-shaped Spirit Stones or the extremely complex Inscriptions that became Spirit Kernels. Although he didn't succeed at once, after failing multiple times, he finally…

After ten days, Wang Baole completely refined the scabbard Spirit Kernel.

Furthermore, in terms of quality, it was considered perfect!

Looking at the colorful scabbard-shaped Spirit Kernel that seemed to be circulated with light, Wang Baole was a little excited. It had been quite some time since he first obtained the recipe for the scabbard, but only then had he managed to complete the first phase.

The difficulty level of scabbards is second only to Numinous Treasures. Wang Baole sighed and settled down. He proceeded to the materials stage, by infusing the Spirit Kernels into various materials, which could be used to refine artifacts at the end.

But at that step, Wang Baole knew that there was a difficulty that had to be overcome; otherwise, the material forging stage might not be successful.

”It requires one hundred grains of Armament Sand!” Wang Baole muttered. He had seen this material when he studied the recipe earlier and had gone on the Spirit Intranet to search. Nevertheless, he could not find the Armament Sand on either the Spirit Intranet or the material list of the Dharmic Armament Pavilion.

He had even gone to ask Xie Haiyang, but he had not heard of such a thing. At this stage, Wang Baole understood that this Armament Sand was one of the materials that had not been found by the Federation. In order to obtain it, the only solution was to ask Little Missy.

Coming to this conclusion, he took out his Hallucination Pillow and plunged straight into his dream to start asking.

This time round, Little Missy—wearing a black mask—did not pose difficulties for Wang Baole. After Wang Baole completed his question, she immediately gave the answer, as if she already knew that he would come and ask.

But after Wang Baole took a look, he started to be suspicious.

”Recipe for Armament Sand? Is this Armament Sand not a material but a Dharmic Artifact?” Wang Baole scrutinized it while still puzzled. Slowly, he became astonished. The Armament Sand was indeed a material, but it required refinement processes. As for the materials required for these processes, they were mostly ordinary. The main component required was even simpler—Rainbow Spirit Stones.

”Why do I feel that this seems to be specially prepared for me?” Wang Baole hesitated for a while and looked at the black mask suspiciously. Then, he continued to look down and study the recipe for making Armament Sand.