It took three whole days to refine the first Xuan Yin Ghost-Slaying Restriction Technique.
Bai Cang was naturally dissatisfied with this level of efficiency!
The first few layers of restrictions on each magical artifact are the easiest to refine; the further you go, the more difficult it becomes.
Normally, it takes anywhere from a few years to ten years to refine a first-stage magic weapon with nine restrictions.
The difficulty of refining the Xuan Yin Ghost-Slaying Technique ranks among the highest in the entire "Heshan Classic," and it is notoriously easy to learn but difficult to master.
Simply put: the difficulty of refining the Xuan Yin Ghost-Slaying Restriction Technique is "twice" that of the previous level.
For example, it took Bai Cang three days to refine the first restriction, six days for the second, twelve days for the third, and so on.
It would take four years, two months, and twelve days to refine the First-Turn Yin Soul Banner with nine forbidden techniques.
At this rate, wouldn't it take nearly 20,000 years to refine the seventy-second restriction?
As for how long it would take to perfect the seventy-two Earthly Fiend Forbidden Techniques, Bai Cang, whose math skills were not ideal, couldn't calculate it at all.
Anyway, it's a long way off, and it's not a number that should exist in the mortal world.
Of course, as Bai Cang's cultivation level increases, the efficiency of the refining process will also improve; it is not a constant, unchanging speed.
However, it is basically impossible for someone at the Qi Refining stage, or even the Dao Foundation stage, to personally refine a perfect Earthly Fiend magic weapon.
In fact, most Dao Foundation Real Persons only possess magic weapons with forty or fifty forbidden spells as their main weapons.
Unless it is a powerful expert above the Golden Core True Monarch who takes action, most magic artifacts with perfected 72 Earthly Fiend Restrictions are ancestral magic artifacts that have been polished to a patina.
As for magic weapons, needless to say, in most cases they are the exclusive domain of Golden Core True Monarchs.
Unless you have a biological father/mother who is a Nascent Soul Dao Lord, controlling a magic weapon at the Dao Foundation True Person level or even the Qi Refining cultivator level is basically only possible in dreams.
Furthermore, most of the high-level magical artifacts with forty or fifty restrictions in the hands of Dao Foundation True Persons are "combined magical artifacts" that have no potential for advancement and can never be upgraded to magical treasures.
It can only be used for self-defense and combat; it is absolutely impossible to achieve "enlightenment" with it.
The so-called combined magical artifacts are like the "White Bone Heart-Locking Hammer" and the "Crimson Dragon Robe," which are created by forcibly piling up different forbidden spells to create higher-level exquisite magical artifacts without wasting too much time.
The advantage of this is that it is quick; often, within a few decades, one can forge a fourth- or fifth-level magical artifact, or even one of a higher level.
However, the price of taking shortcuts is that not only is the power far inferior to that of "genuine magical artifacts", but it also essentially eliminates the potential for upgrading into a magical treasure.
Even if one refines seventy-two forbidden techniques, the vast majority of combined magical artifacts will not be able to advance into magical treasures.
He couldn't even pass the first hurdle of fusing and sublimating the seventy-two Earthly Fiend Restrictions into a Heavenly Dipper Restriction.
Unless it's the kind of thing where different Earthly Fiend restrictions are separated from the same Heavenly Gang Restriction and then combined to restore the original Heavenly Gang Restriction.
However, this "shortcut" requires extremely profound knowledge and is basically a "method" used by major sects in the Xuanmen (Taoist) sects.
Besides, there are many "shortcuts" to refining magical artifacts, such as "Taoist military strategy"!
That is, by using the Daoist Soldier Array to empower a Qi Refining cultivator to the level of a Dao Foundation True Person, or even close to the level of a Golden Core True Monarch, and then refining a magical artifact.
In this way, not only can a lot of time be saved, but the magical artifacts that are personally crafted can also be perfectly matched with the owner.
They can even use the opportunity of upgrading a magic weapon to a magic treasure to forcefully break through to the Golden Core realm.
However, such extravagant behavior is extremely rare, even among the major sects of Taoism.
Neither the methods for cultivating Dao soldiers nor the techniques for refining Dao soldier formation diagrams are things that ordinary Xuanmen sects can handle.
Even in the most prestigious and profound sects, ordinary disciples would never receive such astonishing treatment.
Only someone with connections in high places, or even "higher-ups," could afford such extravagant behavior.
In fact, even combining magical artifacts is beyond the reach of ordinary rogue cultivators.
At the very least, it would have to be a major unorthodox sect like Heshan Dao to have the foundation to research and develop combined magical artifacts.
How to arrange and combine different forbidden techniques without conflict, or even produce a synergistic effect, and how to refine the corresponding artifact embryos to form a complete artifact refining blueprint—the knowledge involved is profound and extensive, in no way inferior to alchemy.
The vast majority of weapon refiners in the world spend their entire lives studying these things.
Moreover, it's not certain that they can understand it thoroughly; most likely, they'll just be "copying without understanding."
Creating a completely new combination artifact is even more difficult than creating a completely new elixir formula.
"However, others can rely on their fathers, and I can rely on my ancestors. It's not like there's no way to take a shortcut."
Bai Cang thought to himself, "The true disciples of the Xuanmen rely on bloodline or the sect's advantages, while I rely on the Heavenly Dao Talisman. We're all cheaters, so don't laugh at me, elder brother."
With this in mind, Bai Cang immediately began preparations.
The Mysterious Yin Ghost-Slaying Technique is merely the beginning of refining the Yin Soul Banner.
As the name suggests, the power of the Yin Soul Banner lies entirely in the word "Yin Soul".
Even among the same level of Yin Soul Banners, the power varies drastically depending on the "main soul" on them.
In this respect, Bai Cang has a unique advantage.
[Ghost Slayer: Commands all ghosts, refines and exorcises rampant soldiers, uses his body as an altar to slay ghosts and drive away gods, can refine and command Yellow Turban warriors, and can summon and command ghosts and gods of the underworld]
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
As the silver light shimmered, a simple altar was carved out by Bai Cang beneath the welcoming pine tree atop the mountain.
He sat upright there, the ancient Xuanming Heavenly Cold Qi swirling like a silver dragon, drawing talismans that looked like ghostly scribbles, weaving together intricate and exquisite array patterns.
Logically, this step should involve constructing an altar using various yin-attribute spiritual materials and drawing array patterns with specially made cinnabar to achieve the best results.
But who can blame "Master Bai" for being poor?
Anyway, he's cheating, so the simple altar doesn't affect the final effect.
In an instant, information about commanding all ghosts and refining rampant soldiers flashed through his mind like flowing water.
The rampant soldiers, also known as ghost soldiers, have form but no substance. Further on, they become Taoist soldiers, which have both form and substance, and their gathering and dispersal are unpredictable. They are called the Yellow Turban Warriors.
If Bai Cang's cultivation reaches the heavens, he might even be able to go a step further and refine "Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals," which would be the most superior "Heavenly Soldiers."
However, given the current limited resources, insufficient cultivation, and meager wealth, I can only temporarily use "Crazy Soldiers" as a substitute.
Moreover, the Mad Soldiers are a perfect match for the Yin Soul Banner.
Even the Yellow Turban Warriors, who are the embodiment of the five elements, are not a match for him!
[Thanks again to "Jiang Family Saint Son," please give me a free gift!]
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