Chapter 299 Spiritual Energy Is Hard to Move Magical Treasures Black Mist Is a Supernatural Power

Refining magical artifacts doesn’t require much effort.

In fact, any unclaimed magical artifact, even a spiritual treasure, can be freely refined and made into one’s own by a Qi Condensation cultivator.

But even if you refine it, whether you can actually use it is another matter.

The powerful magic weapon, when activated, possesses immense power.

However, the spiritual energy required for magical artifacts is also as vast as the sea. What can a novice cultivator use to activate it?

Therefore, there is no such thing as a noob who accidentally obtains a powerful artifact and can then rampage through the world, killing people across borders as easily as killing chickens!

Since his own spiritual energy was insufficient to even move a divine artifact, how could he possibly kill enemies indiscriminately?

Covered in spiritual energy, the previously ownerless white ruler was instantly refined by Yu Xian and became his possession.

Then Yu Xian began to perceive the function of this white ruler magic weapon: whether it was for attack, defense, or some other purpose.

With careful observation, Yu Xian quickly learned the first use of the white ruler.

attack!

say:

A jade ruler measures life and death in mid-air; the boundless universe makes the Dao difficult to achieve.

According to the small characters recorded on the white ruler.

This precious ruler was made by refining the ancient spiritual treasure Qiankun Ruler and is called the Xuanxu Ruler.

Of course, any magical artifact that imitates the spirit treasures of ancient times mostly only imitates its form, but it is difficult to imitate its abilities.

The same goes for the Xuanxu Ruler; it only obtained the form of the ancient spiritual treasure Qiankun Ruler, but not even one ten-thousandth of its power.

Even so, it is still a top-grade sixth-tier magic weapon, and its power should not be underestimated!

Yu Xian’s eyes flashed, and he quickly channeled his spiritual energy into the Xuanxu Ruler, attempting to unleash its offensive power.

But the next moment, Yu Xian’s expression suddenly changed!

His powerful Qi Sea suddenly surged into the white ruler like a cascading river, instantly consuming ninety percent of it, and it was still pouring out, as if it was about to be completely depleted!

The rate at which spiritual energy is consumed is even more ferocious than opening that top-grade storage bag!

Yu Xian also understood why Mu Hanling had never used the Xuanxu Ruler until his death.

He really can’t use it!

If he were to use the Mysterious Ruler, he would be immediately suppressed and killed by the great formation, without even a chance to resist.

Because his spiritual power will be completely drained on the spot!

Without spiritual energy, what would be the point of activating any protective spells or magical treasures? He would die instantly!

With a pale face, Yu Xian hurriedly took out a high-grade spirit stone and frantically absorbed it, barely managing to supply the spiritual energy pouring into his dantian.

And so, Yu Xian absorbed high-grade spirit stones to supply spiritual energy to his Qi Sea.

The Mysterious Ruler absorbs the spiritual energy from Yu Xian’s Qi Sea.

This continued for about ten breaths before the spiritual energy was finally sufficient to satisfy the Xuanxu Ruler’s strike!

Yu Xian quickly raised his hand and pointed forward.

The white ruler, which had absorbed the spiritual energy from Yu Xian’s two Qi Seas, suddenly flashed and disappeared from the spot, reappearing fifty feet away the next moment!

boom!!

With a loud bang, the air exploded as the white ruler struck, creating a shockwave visible to the naked eye that spread outwards!

The noise startled Shen Ce and Wei Yun, who opened their eyes in shock and looked toward the source of the sound.

Even Hua Yuan was startled and quickly opened his eyes to look over.

Yu Xian had already waved his hand and retrieved the Mysterious Ruler.

Although there was no physical object to refer to when this attack missed.

But just based on that thunderous explosion and the visible ripples…

This strike from the Xuanxu Ruler, saturated with spiritual energy, is far more powerful than the combined strike of the three thunderbolts!

Although Yu Xian had never seen a Golden Core expert make a move, he was certain that this single strike was no weaker than a strike from a Golden Core expert!

“What happened?”

Hua Yuandu looked at Yu Xian, then at the Xuanxu Ruler in his hand, his eyes flashing as he said, “Oh? This magic weapon, wasn’t it taken by Yun Buyi from that formation? That’s right, you killed that Yun guy, so this magic weapon naturally returned to its rightful owner. It was this magic weapon that caused the commotion?”

Yu Xian exhaled, took out a low-grade spirit stone and slowly absorbed it to replenish his Qi Sea. He nodded and said, “Hmm, this treasure is quite powerful.”

“Is it acceptable?”

Hua Yuandu raised an eyebrow: “You call this ‘acceptable’ when you’re hitting thin air? Even a cultivator in the early Golden Core stage could only manage this much with all their might.”

Yu Xian flipped his hand and put away the Xuanxu Ruler, saying indifferently, “This treasure is quite powerful, but it consumes too much spiritual energy. For me at the moment, it’s like a chicken rib, basically useless.”

“It consumes too much spiritual energy…”

Upon hearing this, Hua Yuandu nodded and sighed, saying, “My Heavenly Void Mirror was the same way. It consumed too much spiritual energy, and I could only fully utilize it after reaching the Golden Core stage. If I tried to use it now, I would be crippled before even fighting an enemy.”

Yu Xian nodded slightly, closed his eyes, and said no more, focusing on absorbing spiritual energy to replenish his Qi Sea.

Hua Yuan sighed again, his face full of regret.

It’s so frustrating that I can’t use this amazing weapon.

As for reaching the Golden Core realm? That will take at least another ten years.

Shen Ce and Wei Yun exchanged a glance, each seeing envy in the other’s eyes.

Such a sixth-tier magic weapon is extremely rare and hard to come by.

The value of a sixth-tier magic weapon is far beyond what a Foundation Establishment or Pseudo-Core Formation cultivator could possibly acquire. It starts at tens of millions of spirit stones, and that’s for the lowest-grade sixth-tier magic weapon.

However, judging from their conversation, they treated it as if it were just an ordinary magic weapon, without showing any excitement whatsoever.

That makes sense. How could someone with such low talent, struggling and cultivating so hard, compare to these geniuses?

They saw the helplessness in each other’s eyes, and with a wry smile, they gradually calmed down.

Let’s take it one step at a time.

As long as one can obtain the method to condense a pseudo-elixir into a golden elixir…

As long as one can break through to the Golden Core stage…

Then you can ascend to heaven in one step! A thousand-year lifespan—anything is possible!

Then the four of them rested quietly.

Another half hour passed, and Hua Yuan opened his eyes, his eyes gleaming with a sharp light, having recovered to his peak condition. He breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Yu Xian, saying, “How are you recovering? Should we wait a little longer?”

“No need.”

Yu Xian opened his eyes. His injuries had completely healed, and his Qi Sea had been replenished. He said calmly, “Let’s go in and take a look.”

“Then let’s go.”

Hua Yuandu laughed loudly and took to the air: “The third trial will definitely not be difficult for you and me!”

Yu Xian also paused in his steps, then took flight.

Shen Ce and Wei Yun quickly followed.

The four of them quickly flew high into the air, and a moment later they plunged into the darkness that stretched across the sky.

Entering the darkness, one is surrounded by black mist, making it extremely dim. The area within sight is at most two or three zhang (approximately 6-6 meters), and the spiritual energy is also blocked.

The black mist posed no real danger; it simply swept past the four of them, who only felt a gentle breeze on their faces and experienced nothing else unusual.

“maze?”

Hua Yuandu glanced around, frowned, and muttered to himself.

Yu Xian looked around and nodded, saying, “It seems to be a maze.”

“It should be.”

Hua Yuandu nodded slightly, then turned to look at Shen Ce and Wei Yun, who were following closely behind him, and said, “You two stay close. Once you get lost in this kind of maze, it will be difficult to find each other again.”

“Um!”

Upon hearing this, the two nodded quickly and followed closely.

“This third level is such a maze, with no sound cues. What exactly is this Void Returning expert trying to do?”

Hua Yuan kept flying away, and after about two hours, he finally couldn’t help but mutter to himself.

Are you suggesting we just let everyone fly around in the dark?

“If it’s a maze, does that mean we need to find a way out? Once we get out, we’ll have successfully completed the trial?”

Wei Yun thought for a moment and then tentatively said.

“oh?”

Upon hearing this, Hua Yuandu’s eyes flashed, and he turned to look at Yu Xian, asking, “What do you think?”

Yu Xian nodded and said, “If there are no hints, then that should be the case. Otherwise, it would be meaningless for that powerful person to create such a maze.”

“It seems this is a test of our ability to find our way out of the maze.”

Hua Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, looked ahead, and slowly stopped his flight.

It is a maze, and before finding a way to break the maze, flying away is meaningless.

To outsiders, the four of them might even appear to be fools, going around in circles.

Yu Xian also stopped, looked around, and pondered to himself.

Shen Ce and Wei Yun were also pondering, searching for a way to escape this maze.

The maze has no killing power; its purpose is to make those who enter it lose their way, wander in circles, and become trapped inside, unable to break free. It’s like a toad—it doesn’t bite, but it’s disgusting.

This kind of formation, although not as difficult as those killing formations.

Breaking through it is not easy. The most important thing in breaking through the maze is to find the right route and the location of the formation’s energy in order to get out and break the formation.

“Gentlemen.”

The four of them pondered for a while.

But Yu Xian spoke up, saying, “Perhaps this isn’t a maze; we’re just overthinking it.”

“Um?”

Hua Yuan was pondering how to break the maze when he heard Yu Xian’s words. He quickly turned around and looked at him: “What ideas do you have? Tell me quickly, you are very smart.”

The word “smart” is fine, but adding the word “big” makes it sound awkward.

Yu Xian glanced at Hua Yuandu, scanned the surroundings, and frowned in thought, “If it really is a maze, aren’t the powerful figures afraid that the inheritor will never be able to break out of the maze and will be lost forever?”

“It can’t be that bad, can it?”

Hua Yuan stroked his chin and said, “Give it some time, and even the dumbest person will stumble upon it by sheer luck.”

“That’s the problem.”

Yu Xian looked around and said, “If you just stumbled out by luck, what’s the point of this maze? A powerful person wouldn’t leave such a place of inheritance to waste the inheritor’s precious cultivation time wandering around aimlessly, learning nothing and gaining nothing, just relying on luck to stumble out of the formation. So this place is not a maze.”

“Then what is this place?”

Shen Ce and Wei Yun couldn’t help but speak up as well.

“If I’m not mistaken, it should be magic.”

Yu Xian said slowly, “We are within a spell.”

“Spells?”

Hua Yuandu was shocked. Recalling the celestial canopy that spanned the sky, he couldn’t help but exclaim, “This is magic? How powerful must that magic be?! Half the sky is gone!”

“My two fellow Daoists.”

Shen Ce’s expression turned solemn as he said, “This shouldn’t be called magic anymore. If we are within the scope of this magic, then this magic should be called… supernatural power!”

“Supernatural power…”

This was the first time Yu Xian and Hua Yuan had heard this name.

Shen Ce said, “I only heard about it by chance in some ancient books. Supernatural powers are different from magic spells. Supernatural powers contain the rules of heaven and earth. Their power varies. The weak ones are not as good as the great magic spells, while the great ones can even change the world!”

“Supernatural power…”

Hua Yuandu narrowed his eyes slightly and said, “I remember now. My master once said that those who comprehend the power of heaven and earth and surpass great spells are those who possess supernatural abilities!”

Yu Xian nodded and said in a deep voice, “Then we’ll be within a single divine power.”

“Is it a divine power left behind by that Void Returning expert?”

Hua Yuan frowned and said, “That shouldn’t be the case. How long has he been dead? How could this supernatural power still be manifesting and not dissipating? Is the Void Returning Realm that powerful? Can a single supernatural power last for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years?”

“Of course not.”

Yu Xian shook his head and said, “So this supernatural power is actually an illusion, just like the three mountains we encountered at the beginning.”

“The Mountain Character Formula?”

Hua Yuandu quickly scanned his surroundings again, and after observing intently for a while, said, “Are we being asked to comprehend magic again?”

“Wind, fire, mountain, forest.”

Yu Xian said, “That powerful man once said that he left behind these four spells to pass on to future generations. We comprehended the Mountain Spell before, so this black curtain should be one of the other three spells.”

“What wind, fire, mountain, and forest?”

Hua Yuan frowned and said, “What did he say? I don’t know anything about it.”

“Um?”

Yu Xian looked at Hua Yuandu and saw that Hua Yuandu looked puzzled. He immediately understood that the sentence was only said to him, the first person to comprehend the Mountain Character Technique!

Yu Xian didn’t hide anything from him and told Hua Yuandu what he had heard. Then he said, “That’s why I said that this secret might be one of the three secrets, and it’s also for us to understand.”

“So that’s how it is.”

Hua Yuandu said, “But two days ago, Yun Buyi, Zhou Feng, and Gao Yu were studying this black curtain together, but judging from their expressions, they didn’t gain any insights. Although these three guys are a bit despicable, I still acknowledge their talent and comprehension.”

“Not all spells are the same. One spell can be comprehended in this way and gain profound insights, but the next spell is completely different. That’s why the three of them have gained nothing after two days of comprehension.”

Yu Xian exhaled, sat cross-legged in mid-air, and calmly said, “Since looking from afar is useless, let’s try to comprehend it properly within this spell. Perhaps we can gain some understanding. If not, we’ll think of other methods.”

“I’ll listen to you!”

Hua Yuan stopped questioning and immediately sat cross-legged to begin his comprehension.

Shen Ce and Wei Yun both showed joy and sat down cross-legged.

With these two geniuses leading the way, the two of them didn’t need to do anything at all; they could just follow orders!

Since it is a transmission of magic, then hurry up and comprehend it.

The two understood the power of the Mountain Technique.

Now what wind, fire, and forest are there?

That must be a supernatural power no weaker than the Mountain Technique. Once you comprehend it, it will be an improvement in your strength!

The four of them were surrounded by a gray-black mist that drifted around them. When they thought this place was a maze, they thought the mist was just a way to bewitch people.

But upon closer inspection now, these wisps of mist seem to carry strange, mysterious fluctuations, drifting with the wind…

Clouds drift… the wind blows…

“wind……”

With a clear mind, Yu Xian watched the drifting mist. After an unknown amount of time, a thought suddenly struck him.

But the mist became increasingly transparent.

Despite the fact that the wind movement was invisible beneath the transparent surface, Yu Xian keenly noticed and saw it.

Wind is formless and intangible; when weak, it arises from the smallest things, but when strong, it can destroy mountains and move seas!

Throughout the vast expanse of heaven and earth, the wind is everywhere.

Yu Xian suddenly raised his hand and grabbed: “The wind is coming.”

As Yu Xian made his grab, a wisp of gray-black mist was drawn over, slowly rotating in his palm like a gentle breeze.

“not enough.”

Yu Xian frowned slightly, clenched his fist and extinguished the breeze. Looking at the countless gray-black wisps of mist ahead, he had an epiphany and grabbed again: “Wind, come!”

Whoosh!

A whirlwind formed from black mist suddenly took shape!

The black wind howled and arrived in front of Yu Xian, coiling around his body like a whirlwind.

Black Dragon!