I, a cultivator, have ended up in the wizarding world.

Chapter 65 The Five Aggregates Transform into the Rainbow Mirror

The Five Aggregates Transform into a Rainbow Mirror.

An escape tool among magical artifacts, according to the description in the Great Dao Book Pavilion, once mastered, this artifact can be activated by thought, allowing the user to transform into light and unleash extraordinary speed in a short period of time.

Even during the transformation into light, it is immune to most physical attacks and can even penetrate some weak energy barriers and non-physical obstacles.

The drawbacks are also obvious. First, this magic weapon has no offensive or defensive capabilities.

Secondly, it consumes a great deal of energy; each use will drain most of the cultivator's true essence and divine sense.

Moreover, because the escape effect grows almost without limit as the cultivator's level increases, it will consume true essence and divine sense proportionally after use, no matter what level the cultivator reaches.

It's a trump card for a desperate escape, and shouldn't be used indiscriminately.

Furthermore, because the speed after transforming into light is too fast, if the cultivator's level is too low, they can only move forward in a straight line when using it, and it is difficult to control the landing point.

This problem will only be alleviated after reaching the Nascent Soul stage.

Furthermore, since magical artifacts are connected to the cultivator's mind and spirit, if they are powerfully destroyed while in a state of transformed light, the cultivator's soul will also be severely damaged.

However, for Jemin, these shortcomings can be ignored.

After all, the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror made up for his lack of escape methods, and if the moment really came when he needed to use the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror, he could not expect to be able to kill the enemy.

Based on the demonstration at the Great Dao Book Pavilion, even the most basic Five Elements Rainbow Transformation Mirror caused cultivators to escape at near-light speed after transforming into light.

If he can be stopped by the enemy, with his current strength, he can just quietly wait to die without worrying about his soul being damaged.

In addition to these drawbacks, there is also the difficulty in refining it.

Putting aside the difficulty of the production process, the materials alone are quite "cumbersome".

The main materials required to refine the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror are all conceptual materials.

The operating principle of the Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror is to collect, condense, and then control the concept of light.

The core concepts lie in the speed, penetration, color, rhythm, and birth and death of "light".

These intangible concepts should be refined into tangible objects, and then the objects should be allowed to feed back into them when needed, transforming them into the light of the same source of concepts.

Therefore, the materials needed to refine the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror only require natural light containing the pure "concept of light".

If we translate the light that needs to be collected into plain language, it would roughly be five kinds: the light of dawn, the light of rainbows, the light of moonlight, the light of stars, and the light of lightning.

Each of these five concepts of light represents a unique characteristic of light, corresponding to certain attributes in the Five Elements, and also to the five aggregates of a magical artifact.

It is necessary to directly capture and refine it from nature through specific mental techniques, at specific times and places.

Fortunately, although collecting these concepts is somewhat tedious, it's still better than those magical artifacts that require materials that don't even exist in the wizarding world to craft.

"It is indeed difficult to refine; the process of obtaining the true fire alone is quite troublesome."

Although the process of refining the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror does not require a furnace or cauldron, it does require refining spirituality with true fire, condensing the embryo with divine consciousness, integrating concepts into the object, and only then can a magical treasure connected to one's own soul be refined.

"True fire as the catalyst, divine consciousness as the craftsman, materials as the bones, and concepts as the soul..." he murmured to himself.

These are both the core techniques and the most basic methods of weapon crafting.

Simply put, the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror tests a cultivator's mastery of basic skills. "First... let's try condensing true fire."

The wizarding world also has fire magic, but that mostly involves calling upon external fire elements, which is different from the true fire of cultivators.

The true fire of a cultivator is the embodiment of highly condensed true essence. In essence, it is a high-purity energy containing the cultivator's own spiritual power, which can refine impurities in materials and stimulate their spirituality.

Jemin was prepared for a long battle. According to the Great Dao Book, it could take an ordinary cultivator several years to condense true fire for the first time.

then……

"Wait, is that all?!"

Staring at the pale golden flame that was no bigger than a grain of rice, Jemin was completely dumbfounded: "Could it be that I'm actually a genius?!"

Although it took some time, in total, it took Jemin less than a day to condense the first wisp of true fire.

Of course, calling himself a genius was just a joke; Jemin knew very well why he could condense true fire so quickly.

"I never thought that the basics of practicing alchemy and analytical techniques could be used to condense true fire. What a steal!"

Alchemy begins with manipulating mental energy to analyze all things, and the practice of analysis begins with sensing energy fluctuations.

The combination of the two, coupled with the fact that both spells could be used on himself, allowed Jemin to unknowingly gain control over his own power far beyond that of a normal cultivator.

Having solved the problem of real fire, the next step is to construct a vessel capable of carrying the concept of light—that is, the most basic embryo.

Through a professional method of condensing the embryo, one can use spiritual power to condense an embryo that is connected to the mind, serving as the prototype and conceptual carrier of a magical artifact.

This involves integrating a portion of one's own true essence and divine consciousness into the material, giving it preliminary "spirituality" and "malleability".

After capturing the "concept" contained in the formless and intangible light, it is transformed into tangible "light essence dew" or "light condensed crystal sand" using special techniques, and then integrated into the embryo of a magical artifact for forging.

Generally, reaching this stage means that a magic weapon has been formed. After that, what the cultivator needs to do is to continuously refine it day and night for a long time.

"The method of condensing cultivation artifact embryos and the collection of light concepts both require time. I also need to further improve the Eye of Reconnaissance and other rune artifacts... Oh right, I also need to learn alchemy and potion-making. It seems I'll be quite busy in the coming days."

Having listed out what he needed to do next, Jemin stretched.

Although there is a lot to do, especially in refining the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror, the most difficult part is not the refining itself, but the process of "lighting" in the early stages.

Fortunately, there is still plenty of time. There are five years until the final academy test at Norren Workshop, which is enough time for him to take his time.

Looking out the window, Jemin was surprised to find that it was already morning without him realizing it.

Suddenly, one of the materials for the Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror came to mind: the light of dawn.

This light belongs to the elements of wood and fire, which represent growth and development. It signifies the speed and penetrating power of the first ray of light piercing through the darkness when all things awaken.

It should be collected at dawn, when the purple aura from the east has not yet dissipated (around the time of Yin and Mao).

Looking at the sun on the horizon, Jieming subconsciously activated his cultivation technique and reached out his hand towards the morning sunlight.

The next instant, looking at the glimmer of light in his palm, Jemin couldn't help but grin:
"It's a good omen."

(End of this chapter)