Chapter 2303 — The Refining Method
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
This was something even Old Jiao and Uncle Qing—even the Thunder Pig and the Wind-Thunder Violet-Lightning Beast—did not know the use of. Yet they knew, and they even had the refining method for an essence necklace. Wei Zhao found it almost unbelievable. Just how deep were the Tagan clan's foundations?
No wonder the power behind them had been able to wipe out an ancient sect like Uncle Qing's. Even if Uncle Qing's sect had been a second- or third-rate ancient power, to be able to annihilate it at will was not something an ordinary force could accomplish.
Shaking his head, Wei Zhao set these thoughts aside for the moment and took out the book on the method for condensing an essence necklace, leafing through it carefully. This, he felt, was the greatest prize of the journey. If an essence necklace could be refined, it would be a treasure of the very first order.
"Method for Condensing an Essence Necklace"—eight large characters leaped into Wei Zhao's eyes. This was a thread-bound secret manual in photocopy form; the original had been handwritten, but the Tagan clan's copy was a reproduction. With technology so advanced nowadays, there was no need for anyone to copy texts by hand; these clans and sects had also adopted this more convenient method of reproducing their manuals.
"Basic requirement for condensation—a weaponsmith!"
A weaponsmith? Wei Zhao frowned. This thing required a weaponsmith to condense it? Before he could even read on, the basic requirement on the first page gave him a headache. A weaponsmith had to possess a constitution with the metal, wood, and fire attributes!
Wei Zhao thought of his own situation—he could not even become an alchemist, let alone a weaponsmith, who required one more attribute, metal, than an alchemist did! What a headache!
He had thought he had gotten his hands on something good, only to discover it was utterly unattainable. Yet this also proved something indirectly: the Tagan clan was truly extraordinary. They even had a weaponsmith—a profession that had vanished from the world. This already exceeded the level of ancient existence.
But none of that mattered now. However formidable the Tagan clan might be, they operated only within Ruileida Town; their influence had not extended beyond it. At least, Wei Zhao had so far found no connection between the ancient sects here and them.
Although Wei Zhao believed he was no weaponsmith, he kept reading anyway. Curiosity, after all, made him unwilling to give up just like that.
"Base material required for refinement—one piece of superior-grade jade pendant!"
One piece of superior-grade jade pendant? Wei Zhao frowned, but after reading the explanation below, he understood what it meant. So the spirit-beast essence cores could not exist in standalone form; they had to be inlaid in a piece of superior-grade jade pendant to function. The jade pendant was like a great base material, carrying these essence cores.