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Although there are many types of spirits, their overall numbers are quite small. Most spirits are relatively gentle and can coexist peacefully with humans. Some noble families often like to tame spirits as pets.

Demon spirits have extremely long lifespans, and their cultivation level is determined by their bloodline inheritance. The more inheritance left by ancestors in their bloodline is awakened, the greater the potential for improvement in their cultivation level.

Some powerful demon spirits possess strength surpassing that of Heavenly Realm experts, and even powerful dynasties and noble families are wary of their existence.

The demon core is the essence of a demon's cultivation. It contains not only powerful spiritual energy but also the inheritance of the cultivation techniques practiced by the demon.

If one can refine and absorb it, not only will one gain powerful profound cultivation, but one may also cultivate the unique techniques of demon spirits.

Demon spirits generally need to cultivate to the equivalent of the Heavenly Rank cultivation level in humans before they can condense a demon core. The color of the demon core condensed by demon spirits with different talents is also different. Initially, the color is lighter, and as the cultivation level increases, the color of the demon core will gradually become darker and more vibrant.

The biggest difference between a demon core and a magic crystal is that not all demon spirits can condense a demon core, and they generally can only condense a demon core after reaching adulthood, and their cultivation level also needs to reach something similar to the early stage of the Heavenly Realm in humans.

Demon spirits condense demon cores not to enhance their cultivation, but for other purposes. Some are for inheritance, some are for use as combat techniques or weapons, and some are for survival. The nature of the demon core mainly depends on the demon spirit's choice.

Monsters automatically condense magic crystals when they are young. As the monsters grow, the magic crystals also level up. The quality of the magic crystals is equivalent to the strength of the monsters' abilities.

The demon core that Mo Yuming obtained was clearly only of initial quality.

However, given the scarcity of demon cores, even those from the early stages are priceless treasures.

Not to mention that this is an extremely rare Illusionary Spirit Pill.

The spiritual energy emitted by the Illusionary Spirit Core has extremely strong penetrating power. Ordinary wooden boxes or jade bottles can hardly seal it. Only a wooden box made of the rare and precious Qingling Wood can isolate the spiritual energy emitted by the Illusionary Spirit Core.

The Pure Spirit Wood only grows in the desolate valleys where miasma and poisonous fog gather year-round.

Ordinary plant life finds it difficult to survive there.

The place where the Qingling Tree grows is like a natural haven. Wherever its branches and leaves can cover, miasma and poisonous fog will be kept out. Its leaves can cure strange poisons. Anyone who is poisoned by miasma in the valley can be cured by eating a few leaves.

In addition to its detoxifying properties, the tree trunk also has the effects of breaking through obstacles, warding off evil spirits, and calming the mind. Carrying a piece of Qingling wood with you can protect you from the intrusion of evil spirits and poisons.

However, it grows slowly and is difficult to mature, making it an extremely rare treasure. Its value is no less than that of an early-stage Illusionary Spirit Pill.

To a knowledgeable person, the value of this small wooden box, along with the Illusion Pill inside, could be said to be equivalent to all the rare treasures in the entire study.

However, Lord Liao casually tossed it into a corner, showing that he didn't recognize its value and treated it as an ordinary magic crystal after looting it.

The fact that the iron ore emitting a faint blue light and the rusty sword were also placed in Liao's study indicates that Liao knew they had some value, but he couldn't fully understand them, so he simply stored them away for the time being.

The blue-glowing iron ore is a piece of cold iron ore from an extremely cold place. The iron ore contains cold iron essence. If some cold iron essence is added to the refining of weapons, the weapons can be given ice attribute damage. It is a treasure that those who cultivate water and ice-type techniques dream of.

Mo Yuming had seen a scimitar forged from cold iron in the Tomb of the Souls in the canyon. The scimitar had fallen to the bottom of the valley many years ago, but it remained as bright and new as ever despite the wind and rain. People could feel the chill emanating from it from a distance of ten feet.

The rusty iron sword was only a little over two feet long and about three fingers wide; it looked like an ordinary, low-quality iron sword.

Moreover, the forging technique was crude, and the forging marks on the sword were very obvious, with varying depths of hammer marks, making it look more like an unfinished sword blank.

But the fact that this crudely made sword blank could be looted by the man surnamed Liao and placed alongside those dazzling treasures proves that its value is absolutely extraordinary.

In the three years after Xinlan left, Mo Yuming learned a lot of other things besides cultivating Xuan Gong in order to pass the time, such as Li Mubai's mechanical formations, Mo Wen's medical alchemy, and Zhang Tieqiao's weapon forging. Although he did not make great progress, he could be considered to have entered the basics. What he lacked was only improvement and practice.

The most basic principle of weapon crafting is to be able to identify various minerals, understand their properties, and know how to refine them.

Zhang the blacksmith was originally the lord of a fortress from a family of weapons makers. He was very experienced in identifying various minerals and had a unique refining method.

Under Zhang the blacksmith's unreserved instruction, Mo Yuming's weapon-forging skills were only at the beginner level over three years, but he had already memorized the basic knowledge thoroughly.

Therefore, when Mo Yuming saw the sword blank, he immediately thought of a type of iron ore.

This iron ore is one of several top-grade primary iron ores. Primary iron ore refers to the main material used in the forging of weapons.

These ores can be individually crafted into excellent weapons, or they can be combined with other characteristic minerals to improve the quality of the weapons.

The main iron ore is like a container or skeleton into which various substances can be added to give it distinct characteristics, and it can also allow several substances that are originally incompatible to be fused together.

Therefore, any good weapon must be made using these main iron ores, and such weapons have great potential for future improvement.

The most common type of iron ore is used for iron smelting. Weapons made from this type of iron ore can be enhanced by adding any type of ore with different attributes. It is commonly used by most practitioners of profound arts because the ore is abundant, easy to mine, and therefore relatively inexpensive.

If you can add a high-grade attribute ore, you can forge a decent weapon. However, the downside is that iron smelting has poor compatibility; once an attribute ore is added, it cannot be refined again.

Then there's the black iron ore. Black iron ore is of better quality than refined iron ore and has much stronger compatibility. You can add two different ores of the same attribute to it to improve the quality of the weapon.

In the future, higher-grade ores of the same attribute can be used to replace the original lower-grade ores.

This significantly increases the potential for weapon upgrades.

Moreover, Xuan Tie is stronger and more rigid than Lian Tie, so it can be forged into a sharp blade even without adding attribute ores.

However, pyrite is much rarer than iron ore, and its price is much higher, generally more than five times that of iron ore.

A slightly better mineral than black iron ore is soul iron ore, which is a by-product of black iron ore. Generally, three to five kilograms of soul iron ore will be found alongside one thousand kilograms of black iron ore.

However, Soul Iron Ore has a much higher density than Black Iron Ore. A piece of the same size of the two ores will weigh five times as much as a piece of Black Iron Ore.

Therefore, the price of Soul Iron Ore is more than a thousand times that of Black Iron Ore.

Therefore, in terms of price alone, weapons forged from Soul Iron ore are priceless treasures.

The biggest advantage of using Soul Iron Ore for refining is that it can accommodate two or more different attribute ores at the same time.

This allows two different types of ores to complement each other without conflict. For example, you can first infuse the Soul Iron Sword with Cold Iron to give it the characteristic of ice damage, and then add Thunder Stone so that the Soul Iron Sword also has the function of electric shock.

Furthermore, weapons forged from Soul Iron ore can have their quality further improved by adding other attribute ores. In other words, if higher-level attribute ores become available in the future, they can be further refined.

Therefore, weapons forged from Soul Iron Ore are called Spirit Treasures and are rare and priceless treasures.

At this point, Mo Yuming had gained a deeper understanding of these different iron ores.

He realized that in the world of weapon crafting, choosing the right primary iron ore is the key to forging a powerful weapon.

This rusty sword blank was very likely made from Soul Iron ore.