Longevity: Starting with an infant's innate growth potential

"Mu Yang, the city lord of the Eight Min Immortal City, killed a third-tier black dragon demon and gained 1,000 immortal merits. With 3,000 immortal merits, he can become a seventh-rank immortal official."

"In addition, you can consume your immortal cultivation to enter the Immortal Dynasty's treasury and exchange it for the treasures you need."

At this moment, a line of golden prompts appeared on the jade seal.

"This Xuan Seal is truly advanced; it can even sense my killing of the black dragon?"

Looking at the gold lettering, Zhou Ling couldn't help but show a look of surprise.

This Celestial Official's Mysterious Seal is even more advanced than the Dao Alliance's seal.

It not only possesses the ability to unleash powerful attacks, but also the ability to search for demons and even connect to the celestial dynasty's treasure vault.

Almost everything was settled with a single printing.

As for the fact that three thousand military merits would make him a seventh-rank celestial official, he didn't care about it.

After all, it was just a trial. Once it was over, he would leave the Void Realm and return to the Dao Alliance.

"If we could use this method of refining mystical seals, it would be much more convenient."

Zhou Ling thought to himself.

However, he quickly shook his head.

Different realms operate under different rules of heaven and earth. Treasures that can be used in the Void Realm may be subject to restrictions when they reach the Dao Alliance.

Therefore, each specific situation needs to be analyzed individually.

"Let's see what we can exchange these thousand immortal merits for?"

Zhou Ling thought to himself.

Immediately, his divine sense entered the jade seal.

Suddenly, a misty aura flashed before my eyes.

The next second, Zhou Ling felt as if he had entered the Dao Alliance's treasure trove.

A series of treasures were displayed before them.

There are books, cultivation techniques, various magical artifacts, elixirs, and so on.

"I wonder if I could exchange it for the method of refining the Mystic Seal?"

Zhou Ling glanced at them and thought to himself.

He wasn't very interested in other treasures.

The main reason for coming here is for this ancient weapon-refining method.

This will also improve my weapon crafting skills in the future.

Although it is also possible to exchange for sixth-order weapon refining inscriptions from the Dao Alliance.

However, through the [Advanced Observation] and [Advanced Analysis] just now, he discovered that this Xuan Seal is in no way inferior to the Ming Seal.

In some aspects, it is even better.

If the two patterns can be combined and fused together, the resulting artifact will be even more powerful.

"Third-order profound seals integrated!"

"It requires five hundred immortal skills in exchange."

Looking at the information that appeared on the jade box wrapped in yellow silk, Zhou Ling pondered for a moment.

Then I chose to exchange it.

He exchanged the remaining five hundred Immortal Palaces for five bottles of pills to restore his cultivation.

As the azure glow on the jade box dissipated, the immortal power on Zhou Lingyu's seal was also reset to zero.

When his consciousness withdrew from the jade seal, he also had a jade box and five wooden pill bottles in his hand.

Zhou Ling opened the jade box, inside which was a set of antique-style books.

The front features several ancient characters, representing the three-tiered Xuan Seal Collection.

Zhou Ling picked up the book and started reading.

After an incense stick had burned, he put down the book, his eyes flashing, "The method of refining this Xuan Seal is similar to that of inscription."

"However, the steps are different; the Xuan Seal is divided into visualization, condensation, and imprinting."

With [Advanced Observation] and [Advanced Analysis], these three levels of profound seals posed no difficulty for him.

"Time is limited right now, so we must use our best resources where they are most needed."

"I can first use the inscription to create one or two fourth-tier mystic artifacts to enhance the combat power of the Eight Min Immortal Dynasty's mystic army."

Zhou Ling's gaze shifted.

This competition is of paramount importance to him; whether he can become the head of the Xuanjun Division will directly determine whether he can weaken the Liu family's power.

Therefore, the next step is to remove the evil spirits from the Eight Min Immortal City as quickly as possible.

And they established the Xuan Army, which has always been quite powerful.

And this mysterious artifact is of utmost importance.

Due to time constraints, it is also difficult to implement any specific policies.

Even if he removes all the evil spirits from the Eight Min Immortal Dynasty, once he leaves, the Immortal Dynasty will not have enough means for the evil spirits to continue to grow.

These are not things he can completely solve.

Therefore, the main thing is to focus on the key points that suit your own trial situation.

The focus of the Eight Min Immortal Dynasty is on the Xuan Army.

First, enhance the Xuan Army's combat strength, then eliminate the evil spirits of the Eight Min Immortal Dynasty.

In this way, he could earn a lot of military merits.

What will happen next?

That depends on the circumstances of the trial.

After putting the books away, he opened a bottle containing two crystal-clear black pills.

This is a third-tier Soul Power Pill.

"These ten pills should be enough for my recovery!"

Zhou Ling thought to himself as he closed the elixir bottle again.

With his current spiritual cultivation level, the effects of third-tier pills are limited, but he also has talents such as [Spiritual Medicine Stress Response] to assist him.

Therefore, the medicinal power exerted by these third-tier pills is sufficient to reach the fourth-tier level.

"Let's modify Wu Jia's golden sword first and see how powerful it is."

Zhou Ling's gaze then fell upon Wu Jia's golden knife.

As he activated [Advanced Observation], he was able to clearly see the Mysterious Blade Seal on the blade.

It also includes two ancient characters representing the elements of fire and metal.

This is the basic composition of the Mysterious Seal, which is centered around the Mysterious Seal and incorporates ancient texts.

The more ancient texts are incorporated, the greater the power of the Mystic Seal.

Different ancient characters represent different attributes and powers.

It mainly focuses on the ancient Chinese texts related to the Five Elements.

With the interplay of [Advanced Observation] and [Advanced Analysis], Zhou Ling gradually gained direction in improving the Xuan Blade and Xuan Seal.

The enhancement of a Xuan Seal mainly involves two aspects.

First, add mystical patterns; second, incorporate more classical Chinese characters.

The Golden Blade Mystic Seal in my hand still has room for improvement in both of these aspects.

The central seal can also add two more mysterious patterns.

The ancient Chinese characters for "metal" and "fire" can also be integrated into the two ancient Chinese characters.

However, ordinary cultivators in the Void Realm are unable to refine profound runes, let alone repair or enhance them.

This also requires the jade seal issued by the Celestial Dynasty.

Only by visualizing specific jade seals containing these mystical seals and ancient inscriptions can this be achieved.

Fortunately, I don't have any restrictions in this regard.

"Let's try using [Illusionary Realm Deduction] first and see how it goes?"

Without hesitation, Zhou Ling entered the illusion.

The scene before him hadn't changed, but Zhou Ling knew he had entered an illusion.

They immediately began to attempt to draw the mysterious patterns.

The drawing of the Xuanwen (mysterious patterns) and the inscriptions both require the use of tools such as brushes and ink.

However, Zhou Ling possesses the Soul-Devouring Flame, which allows him to directly draw using the spiritual flame.

Moreover, the Xuanwen is mainly formed by visualizing and circulating magical power to condense into Xuanyin, and then combined with ancient texts to finally become a true Xuanyin.

Generally speaking, without the blessing of a celestial artifact or a visual object, it is difficult to draw a celestial seal.

However, with the aid of his talent, Zhou Ling was able to draw it using only the original imprint.

No need to use the Xuan Yin for visualization.

As the golden sword and mystical seal appeared in his sea of ​​consciousness, he began to try to condense mystical runes with the help of the Soul-Devouring Flame.

After a stick of incense.

A golden blade-shaped seal appeared in Zhou Ling's sea of ​​consciousness, emanating a profound Daoist aura.

The central image of the Xuan Seal resembles a golden knife pattern, flanked by ancient characters for "gold" and "fire," forming the Golden Knife Xuan Seal.

As the Xuan Seal took shape, Zhou Ling continued to refine it with his soul power, making it even more condensed.

"The Golden Knife and Mysterious Seal are complete!" After a while, Zhou Ling's face lit up with joy, and he let out a long breath.

This Golden Blade Mystic Seal is a low-grade third-tier mystic seal, but under his refinement, it can reach the mid-grade third-tier.

"Let's see how much this can improve Wu Jia's Xuan Blade?"

Zhou Ling pondered to himself.

They then left the illusion.

A ripple of light flashed before his eyes, and he returned to reality.

He immediately began attempting to condense the Golden Blade Mystic Seal and integrate it into the Golden Blade.

"Hoohoo!"

After an incense stick had burned, the golden knife gleamed.

"Mid-grade third rank, not bad."

Zhou Ling nodded in satisfaction. Although he had only raised the Golden Blade by one small level, this small level was enough to give Wu Jia the power to fight the Black Dragon.

"In addition, with the aid of Soul-Devouring Flame, the consumption is not large."

"This profound seal primarily consumes soul power, so it should be able to fuse with the inscription."

With the foundation of refining the Mystic Seal, Zhou Ling pondered the possibility of combining the two.

The structure of the Xuan Seal can be used as a basis to incorporate the inscription.

Or could we use inscription nodes as the structure and fill them with ancient text?

Zhou Ling's mind was filled with all sorts of possible solutions.

The integration between the two is mainly a structural integration.

Having come up with an idea, Zhou Ling re-entered the [Illusionary Realm Simulation] and began to try it out.

He planned to first use the Golden Core Mystic Seal he had just refined to fuse with the Overlay Inscription Seal to see if he could construct the Overlay Mystic Seal.

As the key to the success of the Xuan Seal was revealed, a golden light suddenly flashed between the two during the superposition.

As the golden light flashed, a tremendous repulsive force was exerted between the two mystical seals, making it difficult for them to get close.

Even if Zhou Ling forcibly suppressed it and managed to fuse it, it would quickly crack apart.

Clearly, this approach cannot achieve a stable structure.

Zhou Ling then changed to other structural approaches.

But after several attempts, none of them succeeded.

However, Zhou Ling was not discouraged, after all, this was a fusion of two different weapon-refining methods.

It's not that easy.

Once successfully fused, it will be a completely new method of weapon crafting.

This will greatly improve your weapon crafting skills.

"Hmm, it seems that using only inscriptions as the structure is not enough to support the profound seal. How about trying to use the profound seal as the structure?"

Zhou Ling used the Xuan Seal as the main structure and the inscription as the nodes.

After all, his current state is still that of a soul.

Comparatively speaking, the structure of this Xuan Seal is more stable.

The structure of the Xuan Seal is also divided into many types, including interwoven, encircling, complementary, and Bagua types.

Zhou Ling first chose the most common wraparound design as her entry point.

The same golden knife and mystical seal were used as a test.

In the Xuan Seal, ancient scripts are replaced with inscriptions of the metal and fire attributes.

However, the result of the fusion left Zhou Ling somewhat disappointed. Although the two inscriptions could be fused with the Xuan Seal, the power they unleashed was limited.

It is far less powerful than classical Chinese texts.

"The structure itself is fine, but the fusion of the nodes between the patterns doesn't meet the requirements..."

Under the "Advanced Analysis" tool, Zhou Ling roughly understood the problem.

Meeting the requirements for both the mystic patterns and the inscriptions simultaneously is quite challenging.

It requires more precise control to fully blend the two textures.

However, the current approach is clearly feasible.

Meanwhile, with the help of [Advanced Observation] and [Advanced Analysis], Zhou Ling gained a deeper understanding of the integration of the two.

Although the two patterns are not part of the same system, they both operate according to certain rules.

If one can truly achieve fusion, it will greatly enhance one's weapon-refining skills.

Especially these mysterious patterns and seals, they all convey a sense of profound simplicity.

"Within the third tier, inscriptions are more advantageous and easier to refine."

"However, the power of the fourth-tier and higher Xuan Seals is relatively stronger because they contain certain rules of heaven and earth."

"Therefore, drawing inscriptions of the fourth rank or higher and fusing them with mystic seals to refine them will result in even greater power."

"Moreover, if the fusion is successful, the consumption will be even less."

Zhou Ling thought to himself.

Because the Advanced Analysis tool also has the power of deduction.

The effect will be even better in the [Illusionary Realm Simulation].

Once Zhou Ling had a general idea, we were able to deduce feasible results for him in the right direction.

Following this line of thought, Zhou Ling continued to try.

However, drawing a fourth-order inscription is quite costly.

It's much bigger than the Golden Knife and Mystic Seal from before.

However, if it were to succeed, it would be to forge a path of weapon crafting that belongs to him alone.

This amount of consumption is naturally negligible.

As Zhou Ling attempted to condense a fourth-order sword seal, he could sense that this seal contained a mysterious power that was difficult to control.

After several attempts, Zhou Ling's eyes flashed with a bright light, "Use Soul-Devouring Flame to condense nodes, and give the nodes the attribute of devouring, so that the two patterns can be fused together very well."

"It can also store power and unleash greater power."

At that moment, he felt a sense of sudden enlightenment.

Using the Soul-Devouring Flame to combine the two patterns is the feasible method at present.

Of course, this is not the only method.

But it is Zhou Ling's most direct solution at the moment.

The fourth-order inscription, after being integrated in this way, can actually reach the power of a fifth-order inscription.

"So, in that case, I am a true fifth-tier weapon refiner!"

Zhou Ling was quite excited.

Although they were already able to refine fifth-tier inscriptions, they mainly relied on their talent for assistance.

Even without his talent, he can now create fifth-order inscriptions using his own strength and the Xuan Seal.

Furthermore, the inscriptions drawn with the help of talent are naturally of a higher grade.

"We'll study the rest of the competitions properly once we get back to the Dao Alliance."

"Right now, accumulating points is the most important thing."

Zhou Ling immediately exited the illusion, took out the Soul Power Pill, swallowed it, and recovered.

Having mostly recovered, he took out the Immortal Official Jade Seal again to study it.

The mystic seal on it has even greater potential for improvement.

It could even be upgraded to a fifth-grade Xuan weapon.

However, it is much more difficult than the Golden Knife and Mysterious Seal.

Therefore, Zhou Ling did not rush to make a move.

After all, this jade seal is a symbol of his status, so he won't destroy it.

"I wonder how the other three are doing now?"

After recovering slightly, Zhou Ling thought to himself.

After all, we've been in this virtual world for two days already.

He then took out the Soul Jade of Integral Points.

These Soul Jade Points are the same as the Soul Jade Points from the original trial.

It can display the scores of the four competitors, as well as some additional information.

On the Soul Jade, Liu Zhengshang is ranked first with 1,500 points.

A mid-stage Tier 3 evil spirit was killed.

The second one is him, with 1,300 points, for killing a Tier 3 early-stage evil spirit. The other Tier 2 spirits are not listed.

The third place is Chu Zhengqi, with 600 points.

Fourth place: He Yongnian, 500 points.

"It seems that they have all settled down in the last couple of days."

"The next step is to see who develops faster."

Zhou Ling's eyes flashed. (End of Chapter)