Chapter 158: First Transformation and Autonomous Floating Cannon (Two Chapters in One)
Benjamin temporarily suppressed the various thoughts that popped up in his mind and turned his attention to another thing.
At the last moment of refining the Xuan Gang Red Dust Barrier, the dazzling light that broke through the boundary between reality and illusion brought him the opportunity to re-refine his natal magic weapon.
The Light of Creation is the last core material needed to re-refine the "Five Elements Transformed into Rainbow Mirror".
The materials needed to re-refine the Five Elements into Rainbow Mirror are not complicated, they are various other concepts of light.
Benjamin had already collected the other materials, but he had no idea about the most important one, the "Light of Creation".
It was not until today, when the Xuan Gang Red Dust Barrier burst into light after it was completed, that Jieming finally understood.
The so-called "light of creation" represents the moment from nothing to something. It is the original light at the moment when life sprouts. It can only be perceived and captured at the moment of extreme energy aggregation.
Although the manufacturing process of the Xuan Gang Red Dust Barrier is simple, the materials required are not "low-end", so it can burst out the light of creation when it is formed.
With a move from his body, the "Five Elements Transforming into Rainbow Mirror" that had been quietly floating deep in his dantian was immediately summoned out.
After so many years of sacrifice and refining, this magic weapon is no longer as ostentatious as when it was first refined. It looks like an ordinary, simple bronze round mirror, and is unremarkable.
"The light of creation has been obtained. It seems that today is your chance." Benjamin stared at the bronze mirror and muttered to himself.
The ancient bronze mirror emitted a faint light in response, as if expressing its own joy.
Because the Five Elements Transformation into a Rainbow Mirror is made of special materials, this magical weapon has the characteristic of blending the real and the unreal in its essence.
Its true core is an illusory aggregation of light concepts.
This unique composition allows it to be continuously re-refined through a refining method called "transformation".
Every "turn" means a significant improvement in the quality and power of the magic weapon.
Re-refining once is "one turn", and re-refining twice is "two turns". The higher the number of turns, the more powerful the magic weapon will be.
Over the years, Benjamin has never relaxed his practice of refining the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror.
He would nourish the magic weapon with his own pure true essence every day, and every once in a while he would carefully manipulate the mortal energy to repeatedly polish its spirituality.
After so many years of hard work, not only did the Five Elements Transformation into Rainbow Mirror become more compatible with his soul, but its spirituality also reached the standard to carry more advanced concepts and perform its first "transformation".
Cultivating immortals requires opportunity. Seeing that the time was right, Benjamin recovered some of his true energy and sat cross-legged again, suspending the Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror in front of him.
He took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and entered an ethereal state of refining equipment.
Mental power surged out like a tide, completely enveloping the magic weapon.
"Disperse!"
He growled, and moved his fingers in the air, outlining a complex array of sigils.
These symbols engraved directly into the void glowed with light, resonating with the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror.
Under the guidance of spiritual power and talismans, the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror began to emit a buzzing vibration, and the shape of the bronze round mirror gradually became blurred and distorted.
Finally, with a "puff" sound, the shape of the bronze mirror completely dissipated into the air, leaving only the five core pure rainbow lights floating in front of Jemin.
This is the first step, to discard the mortal form and keep only the essence.
Next, it’s reshaping.
Benjamin took out the various light concepts he had prepared in advance and threw them towards the rainbow lights.
Under the control of the weapon refining technique, the core of the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror began to split and reorganize.
Soon, the new material was absorbed by the core's rainbow light, and the entire ball of light quickly condensed into the shape of a mirror under Benjamin's manipulation.
But no matter how they condense, these rays of light can never regain their shape and quality.
The next step is the most critical one.
Jieming carefully guided the ball of creative light that he accidentally captured when refining the Xuan Gang Red Dust Barrier to the center of the mirror composed of light.
The light of creation, with its mysterious aura of creating something out of nothing, merges with the core concept of light.
However, the integration process was not smooth.
Each concept of light has its own unique properties, and they both attract and repel each other.
When the Five Elements Transformed into a Rainbow Mirror was first refined, it already contained five concepts of light. Now, with the addition of ingredients by Jemin, the number of light concepts inside has doubled, and the conflicts between them are also increasing.
When the light of creation merged, the five light concepts began to tremble violently, and the light flickered, as if it would collapse at any time.
All of Benjamin's true energy and mental strength were being consumed crazily. He kept adjusting the rune array to maintain the balance of energy, and used his own will to reverse the conflict of concepts and make them develop in the direction of fusion.
Fortunately, I had successfully refined it once before, so it wasn't too difficult.
"Melt!" Benjamin roared and pressed in the last ray of light of creation.
In an instant, the five concepts of light suddenly shrank, and then, with the light of creation in the center as the guide, an unprecedented bright light burst out!
Benjamin's eyes lit up, and he freed one hand to cast a spell towards the light.
Under the guidance of the spell, a similar ball of creative light quickly condensed in Benjamin's hand.
This is the terrifying thing about conceptual materials. They can be produced and sold by themselves, and even grow out of thin air.
With this ball of light of creation, it is much easier to collect materials for the second transformation.
The light gradually faded away, and the ancient bronze mirror slowly emerged again.
Benjamin also felt a little weak. The time spent on refining was not too long, but the energy consumed was quite exaggerated.
Looking at the Five Elements Transformation into Rainbow Mirror floating in his palm, he couldn't help but reveal a look of joy on his face.
"One turn...success!"
He recalled the Five Elements Transformation into Rainbow Mirror, and it merged into his body again, perfectly aligning with his soul.
He could clearly feel that a qualitative change had taken place inside the magic weapon.
The most significant improvement of the Five Elements Transformation into Rainbow Mirror after its first transformation is its ability to escape.
After playing with the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror for a while, Benjamin couldn't wait to go to the Sulfur Plane of Purgatory.
"Just... here..."
Benjamin looked at the survey map provided by the "construction team" for a long time and finally chose a place near a lava lake as the test site.
There is a large area here where there are no living creatures, making it very suitable for testing.
Jieming closed his eyes and communicated with the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror, and perceived more specific information.
In addition to the most basic ability enhancement, the Five Elements Transformation into Rainbow Mirror has an extremely important advantage after the first transformation compared to before.
In other words, new protection!
Through the information sent back by the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror, Benjamin learned that he could now use other methods to create a shield for himself before transforming into light.
During the process of transforming into light, these shields will also "transform into light" and merge into the light transformed by his body.
But after the transformation into light ends, when his body solidifies again, these shields will be reshaped and still remain on him!
This means that if he is ever faced with the need to transform into light to escape, he will no longer be completely exposed, but will have an extra layer of protection during the vulnerable period after escaping.
At critical moments, such a shield can buy him precious time and prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the opportunity.
This is undoubtedly a huge improvement!
Without hesitation, he took out the fourth-level magical weapon to cast a shield on himself. Benjamin condensed his true energy and activated the "light transformation" ability of the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror.
"Huaguang!"
His body instantly transformed into a ray of pure light, crossing the lava lake in an instant at a speed beyond the visibility of the naked eye.
Jieming could feel that his current state of transformation into light was more stable, which meant that with the same consumption of true energy, he could maintain the state of transformation into light longer!
boom!
In a flash, the light ended, and Benjamin fell straight into a volcano, even directly smashing the entire volcano wall and crashing into the molten magma.
Rumble...
Under such a great stimulation, the already extremely active volcano erupted as expected.
Black smoke and red-hot magma gushed out from the crack opened by Jemin, adding more dust to the already polluted air of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
After immersing himself for a moment, a hand stretched out from the lava lake and grabbed the rock wall next to it.
Benjamin slowly climbed out of the lava by holding onto the rock wall. The shield on his body was looming, and lava kept flowing down from the shield.
"Alas...it's too early to be happy."
Ignoring the waves of high temperature coming from beneath him, Jemin sat down on the crater and couldn't help sighing as he looked at the flickering energy shield on his body.
He should have thought of the function of the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror in Huaguang itself long ago, and as long as it is an ability, it must have "power".
As a life-saving magic weapon, and the life-saving magic weapon of a cultivator who has just entered the foundation-building stage, it is indeed too difficult to ask it to maintain a level 4 shield.
During the transformation process, most of the energy of the fourth-level shield on Benjamin's body dissipated. When it was re-condensed, it almost couldn't even maintain the state of the shield itself.
"It seems that at this stage, the maximum shield level that can be applied in advance during the transformation is two. If the shield level is higher, it will not only affect the stability of the shield, but also the duration of the transformation."
Jieming felt like he was being a little greedy and couldn't help but shake his head. "Forget it. Anyway, the times when I can use the Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror to escape are basically in critical moments. I can't care less. Escape further is the most important thing. This aspect is quite good."
According to Jemin's calculations, if it weren't for the energy interference from the level 4 shield just now, his light could have lasted for a moment longer.
Compared with before the re-refining, the time it takes for the first-level Five Elements Rainbow Mirror to transform into light has doubled while consuming the same amount of true essence and mental power, which means that Benjamin's escape distance has also doubled.
Originally, those in the Foundation Establishment Stage could use the Light Transformation to jump a thousand miles away in an instant. If the distance is doubled, it means that even a third-level creature would not be able to catch up.
"However, I didn't expect that there would be such an unexpected benefit from physical training. Physical training is indeed a practice method that specializes in attacking. Its adaptability to various negative states is really exaggerated."
Benjamin felt the emptiness in his body after all his true energy was used up, and the tingling in his brain from the depletion of his mental strength. He looked at his hands and clenched them, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
Suddenly, he turned his head to look at the rock wall he was holding, stretched out his hand, clenched his fist and smashed it hard.
Boom!!
The volcano, which had been slightly calm, became active again due to the stimulation. A powerful force exploded from the mountain, and a figure broke through the obstruction of lava and rock walls and rushed out.
Crash...
The figure fell, and the extremely dense lava was smashed apart like water splashes.
Without any protection, standing in the flowing lava with his bare body, Benjamin looked at his body with excitement.
Jieming really didn't expect that physical exercise would have such benefits.
His strong body meant that after he transformed into light, his hands and feet did not become weak after landing, leaving him unable to fight back, as in previous tests.
Although his mental strength and true essence were depleted, he was still able to stand firm thanks to his strong physical fitness, and could even perform some simple hand-to-hand self-defense, which was equivalent to providing himself with double insurance.
After landing, Benjamin felt his mental strength rapidly recovering, and the satisfaction in his eyes became even more pronounced. "Having a good body is indeed a good thing. Not only does it allow me to protect myself after using Transformation, but a strong body also makes my mental strength recover faster... It seems I can devote more attention to physical training in the future."
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After testing the improvement of the first-level Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror with satisfaction, Benjamin and the others activated the teleportation device and returned to the laboratory after their mental strength recovered a little.
In the next few days, he focused his attention on the ritual and refinement of the Five Elements Transformation into Rainbow Mirror.
While helping it stabilize its current state, it also further enhanced its already strong spiritual power.
Benjamin sat on the chair, and the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror appeared outside his body, flying around his body on its own, like a pet playing with its owner.
Jieming looked at the state of the Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror, stroking his chin and thinking: "The first transformation has also made the spiritual power of the magic weapon break through... Now this level of spiritual power can be called spiritual wisdom. I can try my previous idea."
After the transformation, the "Five Elements Transforming into Rainbow Mirror" exuded an unprecedented agility in Jieming's body.
It is no longer just a medium or a tool, but more like a "creature" with independent thinking.
Although this creature's "intelligence" is very low, probably only slightly stronger than lower creatures with only instincts, but as a magic weapon, it has extremely strong computing power.
After acquiring preliminary "intelligence", the Five Elements Transformation into Rainbow Mirror can make its own judgments and actions based on Jieming's intentions.
This discovery suddenly brought back an idea that Benjamin had in mind - if the "Five Elements Transforming into Rainbow Mirror" could control other talismans and magical tools on its own, then could he let it control his own talismans and magical tools, thereby freeing up some of his energy and even achieving a certain degree of auxiliary combat automation?
There are three difficulties in achieving combat automation. The first is the spiritual level of the Five Elements Transformation into Rainbow Mirror itself, which has now been achieved after one transformation.
The second is how to connect the Five Elements Transformation into Rainbow Mirror and the talismanic witchcraft weapon so that it can directly manipulate the talismanic witchcraft weapon.
This difficulty was overcome when Jeming was researching the reconnaissance-type talisman magic weapon.
As for the last difficulty, it is how to "activate" the talismanic witch weapon of the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror.
The mental power required to activate the talisman magic weapon is actually slightly higher than that of the magic weapon of the same level. Although it is not much, the problem is that mental power originates from the soul, and the current Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror itself does not have such a thing as a soul!
Fortunately, he arrived at the Elosia plane, where Jemin came into contact with the key to solving this difficulty: the divine power belief network.
Thus, the last piece of the puzzle that solves all the difficulties of the entire technology has been collected, and all that remains is to put them together.
Benjamin immediately took out an offensive talisman magic weapon from the space in his body. He suspended it in front of him, and then used his mental power to weave a "network" that extended like a probe towards the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror.
"Since the Five Elements Transformed into Rainbow Mirror has no spiritual power, then I will simulate the divine power faith network to grant it the authority to mobilize my spiritual power to control this offensive talismanic magical weapon."
Jieming used the energy transmission structure of the mental power simulation divine power belief network as a part-time mental power transmission network, so that the Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror, which was already connected with his mind, could directly mobilize his mental power when needed.
The Five Elements Transforming into a Rainbow Mirror responded immediately, and the five balls of light inside it flickered slightly. Then, an invisible wave spread out from it, connected to Jieming's spiritual sea, and extracted a trace of pure spiritual power from it.
This mobilized spiritual power did not flow directly into the talisman magic weapon, but was first transformed and guided by the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror before connecting to the crystal-shaped offensive talisman magic weapon.
"Test, attack the target." Benjamin ordered the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror.
The crystal-shaped talisman magic weapon trembled slightly, and then a dazzling elemental ray shot out from its top, accurately hitting the preset bull's eye on the laboratory wall.
"Success!" A proud look appeared in Benjamin's eyes.
This was not something he personally controlled, but rather the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror, after receiving his intention, mobilized his authorized mental power on its own, and through its unique spirituality, drove the talismanic witch weapon.
This means that the Five Elements Transformation into Rainbow Mirror has the ability to "think" and "execute". Even when he is performing other complex witchcraft, it can independently assume some combat functions.
Having proved the feasibility of his idea, he immediately plunged into the next stage of creation.
Jieming needed a bunch of metal materials. After finding relevant knowledge on the magic network, he began to refine some metal platforms that could automatically float and follow.
Jeming designed these metal platforms to be extremely sophisticated, with a slender diamond-shaped columnar shape and a streamlined design to reduce air resistance.
Complex flying arrays and gravity arrays are engraved inside them.
The flying magic circle can provide continuous lift and thrust, allowing it to flexibly float and move in the air.
The gravitational array allows them to remain absolutely stable when suspended, unaffected by external air currents.
And as long as Jemin himself carries the corresponding gravity components, the two sides can exert a weak gravity on each other, allowing them to better follow Jemin's actions.
In order to give these platforms independent energy sources, Jemin also embedded several high-quality energy crystals purchased from the Magic Network in their cores.
These artificial energy crystals are equivalent to an extremely simplified version of a small element pool, which can provide energy to the magic array inside the metal platform very smoothly, allowing the platform to operate in the air for a long time without the need for additional energy from Jemin.
Then, Jeming took out different types of offensive talismanic magic weapons from the space inside his body one by one.
These talismanic magical instruments were all made in batches while he was practicing the art of refining instruments recently.
Benjamin now understands that with the internal space as logistics support, he can "have it all" without having to choose a certain attack strategy.
Whether it is pure energy bombs, elemental rays, or traditional fireballs and lightning spells, he can make some and stockpile them.
Considering the shooting speed and ease of operation, Jemin chose several talismanic magical weapons that emitted energy rays.
Each talismanic weapon is delicately inlaid on the four faces of the front end of the diamond-shaped metal column, one on each face, so that one metal column can have four offensive talismanic weapons at the same time.
Benjamin refined a total of six such diamond-shaped metal pillars, each of which represented an independent firepower point.
When all the metal pillars were refined and inlaid with talismans and magical instruments, he used the Eye of Reconnaissance as an intermediary to establish a deep connection between these new "armed platforms" and the "Five Elements Transformation into Rainbow Mirror".
In this way, not only can the Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror directly and independently control the talisman magic weapon, but the Eye of Reconnaissance also adds "eyes" to this auxiliary combat system.
The spirituality of the Five Elements Transforming into a Rainbow Mirror flashed again.
It began to skillfully process this massive influx of information and build a three-dimensional model of its surroundings.
Relying on its higher spirituality, it began to analyze potential threats while constructing a three-dimensional map, and commanded the six diamond-shaped metal pillars to fight in coordination according to the combat logic preset by Jemin.
When Benjamin stood in the center of the laboratory and activated the system, six slender diamond-shaped metal pillars rose silently from behind him and automatically hovered behind him.
They were arranged in a stable array, like six sharp swords pointing in all directions. The front end of each sword was inlaid with four crystal-like offensive talisman magic weapons that flickered with faint light.
On the surface of the metal pillar, one can faintly see the energy light flowing inside. It is the trace of the flying array and the gravity array operating efficiently, and the energy crystal providing power.
Jieming turned around and observed this new auxiliary combat system.
He took a few tentative steps forward, and six metal pillars immediately followed silently, maintaining their relative position to his body, perfectly achieving automatic suspension and following.
"Attack everything that moves."
After giving the order, Jemin controlled the laboratory to raise several small targets made of elemental energy and ejected them from a distance.
Almost at the moment the target popped out, the six metal pillars behind Benjamin reacted.
The crystal symbol magic weapons on their front lights up at the same time, and dozens of rays shot out like laser nets, hitting the target accurately and vaporizing it instantly.
The whole process was smooth and fast without any lag.
Benjamin looked at the scene before him, a satisfied smile on his face. "This system's reaction speed is surprisingly faster than mine... Is it because the Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror's essence encompasses the concept of swiftness?"
After walking around the laboratory a few more times, looking at the metal pillar that was floating behind him as a warning, Benjamin muttered to himself.
"This system can now be called an autonomous floating cannon."
(End of this chapter)
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