Ten-Thousand-Li Travelling Dragon.
Refining Cabin.
An array activated, forming stripes of array patterns in mid-air. The patterns, golden and crimson, intersected and interwove, resembling the exterior of a smelting furnace.
The array was of the Nascent Soul Level, but it needed to rely on a physical entity to fully unleash its power.
When the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit initially constructed this Mechanical Dragon, the materials it gathered were insufficient. Despite using its dragon body, it failed to create a furnace within the refining cabin.
The Lava Fairy Palace, serving as the guardian of volcanoes for many years, had also accumulated numerous Nascent Soul Level materials.
However, the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit, rigidly adhering to the originals without mechanical expertise or the ability to adapt, had no choice but to stick to the blueprint without standard materials and could not utilize available materials to substitute or modify the mechanical diagram.
Therefore, the refining cabin contained only the array, with no furnace.
Similar situations existed in other cabins.
There were pros and cons.
If it were a fully equipped Ten-Thousand-Li Travelling Dragon, the consumption of Mana would have been much higher than now.
The Ten-Thousand-Li Travelling Dragon, a Nascent Soul Level mechanical artifact, was, according to standard specifications, supposed to be powered by a cultivator's Nascent Soul.
Thus, it had a Nursery Cabin. A Nascent Soul lodged in this cabin would be well-cared for. Simultaneously, it also provided the Ten-Thousand-Li Travelling Dragon with a surge of Mana.
Currently, the Nursery Cabin in the Ten-Thousand-Li Travelling Dragon was empty. It relied entirely on the massive Fire Essence stored in the Active Furnace Cabin for incineration, providing the motive power.
This consumption of Fire Essence was enormous!
Before setting off, Ning Zhuo had specifically purchased a lot of Fire Essence. Initially, when the Ten-Thousand-Li Travelling Dragon was started, the Fire Essence was full, and he also had a large quantity of Fire Essence in his Storage Waist Belt and Storage Bag.
Now, the initially full Fire Essence had been consumed by nearly sixty percent.
Like now, the activation of the refining cabin's array also fiercely consumed Fire Essence.
Cremation Prajna Spirit Liberation Sutra!
The flames burned silently, akin to a warm satin dancing lightly in the air.
The leaps of the flame tongues seemed to perform a silent, elegant song and dance, warming Ning Zhuo's heart.
A large amount of discarded items vanished into nothing in the cremation, leaving behind traces of Spiritual Nature.
The Spiritual Nature sparkled with a pink light, resembling a small cluster of fireflies.
Buddhist Physician Meng Yaoyin stood quietly beside Ning Zhuo, motionless, letting a small portion of the Spiritual Nature enter her body—this was Meng Yaoyin's Spiritual Nature.
Compared to the overall Spiritual Nature, it only accounted for a very small part.
Ning Zhuo sealed the remaining Spiritual Nature temporarily and stored it away.
The purer the Spiritual Nature, the better. For this mixed portion of Spiritual Nature, Ning Zhuo did not yet know how to utilize it, so for the time being, he had to store it.
Ning Zhuo checked the Buddhist Physician and found that his mother's Spiritual Nature had increased by less than ten percent, about seven percent.
"It's better than nothing," Ning Zhuo sighed.
A few days ago, he had performed a cremation, allowing Buddhist Physician Meng Yaoyin to obtain about twenty percent of Spiritual Nature.
That time, he had cremated worthless items obtained by the Fox God during a mountain search.
This time, it was after he had schemed and killed the Black Wind Tiger Demon, plundering the Shanxi Valley and seized many slightly valuable domestic items.
After all, the Black Wind Tiger Demon was not purely a Demon Beast but a Devil. Its subordinates were all Demon Cultivators who, growing smarter, had demands for living conditions.
Buddhist Physician Meng Yaoyin's Spiritual Nature, when previously in the Lava Fairy Palace, had reached a full ten percent due to the destruction of a throne.
According to Ning Zhuo's estimation, Meng Yaoyin's Spiritual Nature had already reached the Wisdom Spirit Stage, but she suffered from a Dao Injury that constantly eroded her Spiritual Nature.
The exhaustion and burden of the Dao Injury kept Buddhist Physician Meng Yaoyin dull, utterly incapable of communication. Unlike the Golden Blood Battle Ape Yuan Dasheng who could still exchange a few words with Ning Zhuo.
Every time Ning Zhuo collected relics, he would cremate them as quickly as possible to refine Spiritual Nature and increase that of Buddhist Physician Meng Yaoyin.
The more robust the Spiritual Nature, the more stamina there was to resist the Dao Injury.
This principle was easy to understand—the same injury, the weaker the physique, the heavier the consequences.
"Mother, I have grown up."
"This time, I will definitely cure you!"
Although Buddhist Physician Meng Yaoyin could not communicate, Ning Zhuo still stood in front of the Buddhist Physician mechanism every time and spoke a few words.
This was both a comfort to his mother and an encouragement to himself.
He put away Buddhist Physician Meng Yaoyin but did not stop the array in the refining cabin, and cast a piece of tiger bone into the "Refining Furnace" outlined by the array patterns.
This tiger bone was as black as ink, emitting a lot of Demonic Qi. The Demonic Qi reached the Golden Core Level.
It was from the skeleton of the Black Wind Tiger Demon!
In its lifetime, having cultivated the Meat Tank Blood Swallowing Demon Skill, its Demon Skill reached the Golden Core Level, making the most valuable parts of its corpse the Demon Core, blood and meat, and soul.
These were taken away by Zhu Xuanji.
Ning Zhuo had only been allotted this tiger bone.
The tiger bone floated in mid-air, enveloped by flames, silently melting until it completely dissolved.
The gathered spiritual natures drew closer together to form a tiger-head-shaped sphere.
Ning Zhuo then took out the Spirit Storage Box and opened a small crack.
The tiger-head spiritual nature leaned against the Spirit Storage Box and naturally attracted many spirits, causing them to drift out through the crack of the box.
Like fireflies, these tiny spirits entered the tiger-head spiritual nature, causing it to rapidly swell in size.
When it had first formed, it was only as big as an adult's fist, but once all the spiritual natures had gathered, it had grown to the size of a human head.
"The grade of the spiritual nature is very high," Ning Zhuo's eyes shone with joy.
Life Hanging Thread!
He immediately used his divine skills.
As the Tiger Demon Spirit was refined by him, it naturally felt close to him and could not resist the divine skills, thus allowing Ning Zhuo to gain complete control over it with ease.
"Father God," the Tiger Demon Spirit communicated proactively to Ning Zhuo through Life Hanging Thread.
Ning Zhuo immediately felt the admiration the Tiger Demon Spirit had for him.
Although the spiritual nature had no memory of its previous life, its recognition of its master was determined by its experiences and personality from its life before.
Just as Yuan Dasheng regarded Ning Zhuo as his lord, the Tiger Demon regarded Ning Zhuo as its father god. From this, it could be inferred that the Black Wind Tiger Demon had been well-cared for by its father, the True Mountain God Tiger God of Mist Hidden Mountain, and they had a good father-son relationship.
This information was obtained by Zhu Xuanji after he captured the soul of the Black Wind Tiger Demon and performed a Soul Search on it.
Unfortunately, the Tiger Demon Soul had almost dispersed after being tormented, drastically reducing its value.
At this moment, the Tiger Demon Spirit again took the initiative to say, "Please, Father God, bestow upon me a name."
With just these two sentences, Ning Zhuo could feel it was much more perceptive than Dasheng Spirit.
After thinking, Ning Zhuo said, "Our destiny began with the Meng Family, and you possess the innate Night Shadow Yin Sha, originally belonging to the tiger species... hence, you shall be called Mengye Tiger."
The Tiger Demon Spirit shuddered slightly, very satisfied with the name, and immediately said, "Mengye Tiger thanks Father God for the name!"
After a conversation with Mengye Tiger, Ning Zhuo housed it away.
Spirit Consciousness Level!
Ning Zhuo confirmed that Black Wind Tiger Demon's spiritual nature was of a higher grade than Yuan Dasheng's, and not by just one level.
At the Spirit Wisdom Stage, there are five sub-grades: Spirit Communication Level, Spirit Rhinoceros Level, Spirit Consciousness Level, Inspiration Level, and Spirit Mechanism Level.
Spirit Communication Level is Yuan Dasheng's current level, possessing certain intelligence that allows interaction with external objects.
Spirit Rhinoceros Level deepens this intelligence, making communication easier, closely understanding instructions, and almost never making mistakes. As the saying goes, "A hint of psychic connection makes communication clear," with just a slight hint, it could comprehend the meaning.
At Spirit Consciousness Level, intelligence deepened further, not only understanding meanings but also researching and learning them, continuously accumulating knowledge to develop its own scholarship.
This transformative leap was significant! Because cultivating Cultivation Techniques was itself a form of scholarship.
"At the Spirit Consciousness Level, the spiritual nature can start to learn Cultivation Techniques!" This generated a new sense of anticipation in Ning Zhuo.
Mengye Tiger, in its previous life, was misled and schemed into cultivating the Meat Tank Blood Swallowing Demon Skill, which actually didn't match its natural talents.
"I should craft a mechanical body for it, resembling its previous tiger-headed humanoid form. Then, I'll carefully select a Cultivation Technique that matches its innate Night Shadow Yin Sha."
"If done to this extent, Mengye Tiger's combat power would also be considerable."
"By then, with Yuan Dasheng on my left and Mengye Tiger on my right…"
Ning Zhuo's lips curled slightly, indulging in a vision of the future. He had a premonition that Yuan Dasheng and Mengye Tiger would become his most standard major forces afterward.
Ning Zhuo left the Refining Cabin. The Array inside had already been shut down by him.
It was a Nascent Soul Level Array, which consumed a lot of Fire Essence. Despite knowing this, Ning Zhuo still wanted to experiment.
Understanding the limits of these mechanical components and collecting relevant information was extremely valuable to him.
From this experiment, Ning Zhuo discovered: even without a Smelting Furnace, relying solely on the refining Array was sufficient for his needs for a long time.
The Tiger Demon Night Bone just refined was at the Golden Core Level. Relying solely on Ning Zhuo's Cremation Prajnaparamita Soul-Resolving Scripture, how could it be refined so swiftly?
"Later, I'll just handle Golden Core Level and Nascent Soul Level materials with it."
"For Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment Level materials, I can rely on myself!"
At the moment, with Sun Lingtong constantly watching in the Dragon Head Cabin, Ning Zhuo was not worried.
He moved into the Storage Cabin.
The Storage Cabin held a massive treasure hoard.
Spirit Stones were piled up into a man-high mound in a corner. Among them, the ten thousand Mid Grade Spirit Stones obtained from the Fox God were at the top layer of the mound.
Most of the stones in the pile were Low-Grade.
The only Top Grade Ice Attribute Crystal Stone Ning Zhuo had was always carried with him.