"Senior Brother, look, this is a protective magic weapon that Master gave me. Doesn't it look very beautiful on me?"
After watching Liu Yu and Liu Ying leave together, Shushu was carried back to the cave by Lu Li. However, instead of going to the training room in the depths, they went directly to the main hall of the cave above.
At this moment, Shushu was sitting on the table, happily playing with the collar that Liu Yu had given her. The more she looked at it, the more she liked it. In the end, she put the collar on her neck and took out a mirror.
While looking at herself in the mirror, she asked Lu Li beside her, her tone rising several octaves, sounding adorably childlike.
"Yes, it looks great and suits you very well."
Seeing how happy she was, with her furry face almost touching the mirror, Lu Li couldn't help but smile. After silently noting that his junior sister liked pretty things, he replied gently, his tone full of obvious doting.
"Junior sister, let's bind the collar to your body first. After that, it will automatically adjust to fit your size."
Finally, Lu Li noticed the oversized collar around her neck and smiled as he reminded her.
With such a large collar hanging around her neck, she didn't feel tired at all; he was worried that the collar would hurt her little neck.
"Yes, it requires blood oath, I need to do it right away."
Reminded by him, Shushu also remembered that magical artifacts could only be used at will after being bound to the owner by blood, and immediately prepared to take action.
However, when she stretched out her furry claws and scratched her wrists several times, no blood seeped out; instead, her skin felt a little stinging.
Having no other choice, Shushu looked at Lu Li with pleading eyes and pitifully called out, "Senior Brother."
After receiving Shushu's gaze, Lu Li raised an eyebrow, then picked up Shushu and the collar together, lifted her paws and examined them closely for a while before discovering the reason.
"After you've trained your body, the hardness of your body and skin has been enhanced. However, your claws haven't grown out yet; they're just small pads. They'll grow out later and will definitely be very sharp."
The little guy is still a cub, still in the growth stage. Although his body has been strengthened by the tempering of the phoenix fire, his fingernails, which are used as weapons, are still in their infancy, soft and not fully grown, so they are not very sharp.
However, this is only in comparison to her own physical body. If it were an ordinary cultivator or human, this claw of Shushu would definitely be able to easily scratch several deep bloody marks.
Don't forget, the millet is a spirit beast, and even a divine and auspicious beast. Although it is the weakest among divine beasts, it is still very powerful for human cultivators, since spirit beasts are naturally stronger than human cultivators.
In the end, it was Lu Li who helped remove the blood droplet. He used his divine sense to condense a thin needle, pricked the glutinous rice ball's claw, and a drop of blood appeared.
The moment the blood beads appeared, Shushu quickly wiped them off the collar.
The blood droplet was absorbed by the collar in the blink of an eye, and Shushu also felt the connection with the collar in his mind.
After the collar recognized its owner, it automatically adjusted to the correct size without Shushu's conscious control, fitting perfectly around her neck without choking her.
Then Shushu discovered that after the collar recognized its owner, it turned into an ordinary collar with only a slight fluctuation of spiritual energy.
If an ordinary person saw it, they would probably think it was just a very ordinary low-grade magic weapon, and would never think of it as a spiritual artifact.
Shushu flipped through the inherited memories he had just received and learned that weapons were divided into four levels: magic weapons, spiritual weapons, sub-divine weapons, and divine weapons.
Each level is further divided into three grades: upper, middle, and lower. Magic artifacts are the lowest grade, followed by spiritual artifacts, and the highest grade is divine artifacts.
In the Rainy Continent, the most common items are magical artifacts, while spiritual artifacts are extremely rare among the four sects, three schools, and one temple. Only the most powerful figures possess one or two of them.
This demonstrates the high level of weapon crafting skills of her master and her fourth uncle, and also shows their deep affection for millet.
Moreover, the collar is also invisible; if she wants, Shushu can hide it so that outsiders can't see it.
"Junior Sister, I have a copy of the Concealing Breath Technique here. You can use it in conjunction with your collar."
Just as Shushu was overjoyed, Lu Li suddenly took out a jade slip and handed it to Shushu, gesturing for her to accept it.
"Concealing Breath Technique?" Shushu looked puzzled, took the jade slip from his hand, and tilted his head to look at Lu Li.
"The spiritual artifact your master crafted for you can conceal your true form, preventing those at the Nascent Soul stage and below from discovering it. But you also know that there are more powerful beings in this world than just Nascent Soul experts. This Concealing Breath Technique is designed to mask the senses of those people. Combined with the protective spiritual artifact your master gave you, it can better hide everything about you and prevent outsiders from discovering it."
Lu Li saw that Shushu had accepted the jade slip before he began to explain it to Shushu.
Spiritual artifacts are good, but they also have many limitations.
It's alright on the Yulin Continent, but if one day we leave the Yulin Continent, there will be many people with cultivation levels above the Nascent Soul stage. At that time, simply having a protective magic weapon won't be very useful.
However, it's different when paired with the Concealing Breath Technique. The Concealing Breath Technique that Lu Li mentioned was something he obtained in a secret realm in the Upper Realm, and it's also a divine-level technique.
As long as Shushu persists in her cultivation, once she reaches a certain level, no one will be able to see through her true form. Of course, this effect will definitely not be achieved in the early stages.
"Senior brother, I understand, thank you."
After hearing Lu Li's explanation, Shushu understood what he meant, and she suddenly thought of Wen Jianxi's spatial artifact spirit.
At this moment, she was also unsure whether the other party could see through this protective magical artifact. After all, the other party was an ancient monster whose power might be far more terrifying than she had imagined.
With this in mind, Shushu began to take it seriously and made practicing the Concealed Breath Technique his top priority.
She must study the Concealing Breath Technique diligently so that when they meet again, the spatial artifact spirit will not be able to detect that she is the treasure-hunting rat that escaped.
The anxious Shushu didn't know that even if she didn't learn the Concealing Breath Technique, Wen Jianxi and the spatial artifact spirit would definitely not be able to discover her identity when they met again.
After all, as a weapon refiner, Liu Yu had successfully protected the secrets of the entire Liuyue Sect in his previous life, and even when the sect was massacred, he did not reveal a single detail.
The protective artifact he specially crafted for Shushu was naturally a step above, and moreover, it contained something very special.
However, Lu Li meant well. He was just worried that having a protective magic weapon alone wouldn't be enough, so he gave the Concealing Breath Technique to Shushu as well.
These two factors combined to give Shushu layers of protection, so much so that when her treasure-hunting rat parents found her, they almost didn't recognize her.
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