**Chapter 67: Raw Materials**
Fortunately, Jie Ming needed concepts, not physical objects. As long as the light was perceived as “moonlight,” he could collect its concept—white moonlight wouldn’t suffice.
Full moons were rare on Noren Plane 13, occurring once every three months, and today was perfect.
Atop the highland, bathed in the cold, purifying moonlight, Jie Ming employed a specialized light-collection technique from the Great Dao Book Pavilion.
Unlike dawn’s light, moonlight lacked explosiveness, carrying a calm, introspective quality that seemed to permeate all.
Touching the moonlight with his divine sense, Jie Ming felt not a surge but a gentle embrace.
He patiently guided his true essence, weaving it like a soft net to capture the essence of “serenity” and “endurance.”
When he came to, gazing at the warm, lustrous glow in his dantian, he promptly took out a bottle of liquid.
This was rootless pure water—dew infused with spiritual energy.
He introduced the moonlight concept into the rootless pure water, nurturing it with true fire.
Under his will, the moonlight concept blended into the water like dye, emitting a faint silver-white halo.
The droplets became miniature moons, radiating a cold yet gentle glow—Light-Infused Spiritual Dew, a crafting material embodying light’s concept.
The Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror required no special furnace because most processing occurred during material collection. Each of the five light types demanded unique preparation methods.
Fortunately, aside from light concepts, the remaining materials were easy to acquire, needing only reprocessing with Jie Ming’s true essence.
Over one night, he condensed four drops of moonlight-infused spiritual dew, storing them carefully in a refined gold bottle.
The third concept was starlight.
Starlight embodied “Distant Anchor” and “Constant Guidance,” representing a steadfast beam piercing endless voids, pointing to a clear direction.
Collection required a clear, moonless night, resonating with a bright, stable star.
While other conditions were manageable, finding a moonless, starry night in this plane was challenging.
Jie Ming ventured to a vast desert in the continent’s interior.
Here, nights were free of light pollution, the sky like black velvet studded with countless twinkling gems.
Crucially, the water element was so scarce that projections from the water elemental plane couldn’t form, meeting the moonless, starry requirement.
Under the starry canopy, he chose a star marked as “Titan’s Grip,” a plane-level wizard construct, as his primary starlight source.
Such constructs were supremely stable, unlikely to falter unless the wizard civilization collapsed.
Capturing starlight’s concept was difficult, requiring one to sense the “distance” and “constancy” enduring across vast distances and eons.
It demanded immense patience. After half a month, Jie Ming grasped the knack, his divine sense piercing the plane to touch that distant end.
Capturing a trace of the concept felt like holding an unyielding “coordinate.”
He infused it into a pure crystal, condensing it with true fire and divine sense.
The starlight concept solidified into a tiny, twinkling grain of Light-Condensed Crystal Sand.
Unlike dawn’s sharp crystal sand or moonlight’s gentle spiritual dew, it carried a stable “anchor” sensation.
He spent several more moonless nights in the desert, condensing three portions of starlight crystal sand.
The fourth and fifth concepts were collected simultaneously.
Jie Ming sought a region with a unique climate, waiting a month in the dry season for a grand thunderstorm.
The light of cracking thunder embodied “Momentary Force” and “Tearing Might,” the most explosive and dangerous of the five concepts.
It wasn’t distant rumbling thunder. Collection required close proximity to a lightning strike’s fleeting electric glow.
Jie Ming chose the storm’s highest point, setting up protective talisman artifacts as a precaution.
When a dazzling purple bolt tore through the air with a deafening roar, he activated his light-collection technique, probing his divine sense into the transient thunderous glow.
It was pure “eruption” and “destruction,” carrying uncontrollable, wild power.
The moment his divine sense touched it, Jie Ming felt as if his mind was struck by lightning, a sharp pain surging through.
With stubborn resolve, he clung to the concept, channeling it into a special lightning-sensitive crystal.
The crystal shattered, but within, a grain of blinding purple-white Light-Condensed Crystal Sand persisted, exuding extreme eruption and tearing, as if it might explode.
During the storm, Jie Ming braved repeated attempts.
Stray lightning energy injured him multiple times, and several protective talisman artifacts were destroyed.
Ultimately, he condensed three portions of Cracking Thunder Light-Condensed Crystal Sand, each carrying a heart-stopping aura of destruction.
The final concept, rainbow light, embodied “Bridge of Transcendence” and “Illusion of Reality and Void.” Jie Ming had previously captured only traces of it.
After the storm cleared, a vivid double rainbow appeared.
The rainbow light concept was swiftly infused into rainwater collected during the storm, guided by true fire and divine sense.
The resulting Light-Infused Spiritual Dew radiated vibrant seven-colored light, like a miniature rainbow bridge, exuding clear “connection” and “illusion.”
In under a year, Jie Ming traversed the plane’s corners—dawn mountaintops, moonless deserts, post-rain grasslands, and raging thunderclouds—successfully collecting all five vital light concept materials.
Each condensed carrier bore unique light and conceptual aura.
Jie Ming carefully stored these precious materials.
“Next, crafting the Mirror.”
He had the treasure’s most crucial “soul.” Now, he needed to build the “bones” and “flesh” to house these concepts—condensing the treasure’s embryo and linking it to his mind.