**Chapter 64: Magical Treasure**
Eagerly, Jie Ming retrieved the Eye of Detection prototype and rare materials prepared for upgrading talisman artifacts.
With his enhanced mental energy and true essence, his grasp of runes, materials, and details became more precise.
He refined the rune structure, adjusted energy flow, and integrated finer runes.
After meticulous forging, the once-rough crystal gleamed brilliantly, its internal runes seemingly alive, emitting a subtle, restrained glow.
Its appearance remained a crystal eyeball but now looked flawless.
“It should work.” Jie Ming suspended the new Eye of Detection prototype in the air.
Disabling the lab’s protective barrier, he activated the talisman, linking his mind to it.
He placed the Eye of Detection atop the doorframe and returned to his seat.
The Eye functioned like a true eye, “projecting” a vivid view of the surrounding hundreds of meters into his divine sense.
He could clearly “see” apprentices in the corridor, sense their life force, and even detect faint energy from their artifacts.
The perception was continuous, like a surveillance feed, transmitting data as long as the Eye remained intact, with minimal mental energy cost—just enough to maintain the soul link.
The prototype still had flaws.
Its range was limited, unable to penetrate thick walls or strong barriers.
In chaotic environments like the Limestone Realm’s energy-saturated battlefield, its effectiveness might falter.
It could only passively sense, lacking active scanning or tracking.
“There’s room for improvement.” Jie Ming gazed at the floating Eye, his enthusiasm undimmed.
Its current range didn’t surpass his active use of Alchemy Technique and Analysis Technique.
But with the prototype complete, he could refine it along this path.
Jie Ming set the Eye back on the workbench, excitement shifting to his inner consciousness.
With a clear direction for detection talismans and his cultivation at late-stage Qi Refinement, he could tackle his next, most critical plan.
It was time to forge his first magical treasure!
Late-stage Qi Refinement.
According to the technique, cultivators at this stage had sufficient true essence and divine sense to handle complex tasks, including advanced auxiliary skills.
Chief among them was artifact forging.
While ordinary cultivators could craft minor items, true artifact forging produced only one result: a magical treasure.
A magical treasure was unique to the cultivation system.
It wasn’t just a powerful item but an embodiment of a cultivator’s “Dao,” a natal object linked to their mind, capable of growing with them and wielding incredible power.
Unlike wizard artifacts or talismans, which relied on external energy and intricate structures, their strength tied to materials, runes, and infused energy, a magical treasure required a cultivator to infuse their true essence, divine sense, and a trace of soul origin. Forged with true flame to awaken the material’s spirituality and inscribed with arrays reflecting the cultivator’s “Dao,” it became a natal tool perfectly attuned to them, growing with their cultivation.
In essence, forging a magical treasure was a craft and a process of manifesting one’s understanding of the Dao and the laws of heaven and earth into a powerful object.
This “imprinting” of spirituality and growth potential set it apart from ordinary artifacts.
For Jie Ming, forging a magical treasure would not only boost his combat power but address flaws in his current system.
With talisman artifacts, he didn’t lack offensive means.
His focus on forging was the treasure’s inherent “spirituality.”
He had prioritized detection talismans over intelligent assistants because he planned to use a treasure’s nascent spirituality as an intelligent terminal for processing information.
Spirituality wasn’t unique to treasures—high-tier wizard artifacts or runic AI could develop “wisdom” under the right conditions.
But at his current stage, only a magical treasure offered accessible spirituality.
Sinking his mind into his consciousness, Jie Ming sifted through the Great Dao Book Pavilion’s myriad forging methods.
Given the differences between the wizard and cultivation worlds, his requirements were stringent.
The treasure’s forging must not demand high cultivation.
It couldn’t rely on specialized forging cauldrons, which required Golden Core stage to craft.
Thus, he needed a treasure forgeable with the most basic methods.
Since the wizard world lacked spiritual qi, the treasure’s reliance on it should be minimal.
This ruled out most offensive treasures, though Jie Ming didn’t need more attack methods.
Treasures requiring rare or unique materials were also dismissed, though the cultivation system’s concept extraction ability eased material constraints.
As the treasure would serve as an intelligent terminal, its spirituality needed to be robust.
Ideally, it would address his combat system’s weaknesses, preferably enhancing survival.
After filtering through countless requirements, even Jie Ming felt he was being excessive, yet the Great Dao Book Pavilion offered a vast array of options.
Spending days in his consciousness, he finally selected his ideal target from the sea of forging blueprints.
The magical treasure—Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror!