**Chapter 69: The Power of Wealth**
The advantages of dual cultivation systems became evident here.
The Truth Runes operated without requiring Jie Ming’s attention, ceaselessly absorbing elemental forces, converting them, and generating new true essence to replenish his expenditure.
As for precise guidance and control… Jie Ming’s first independently constructed wizardry model was the Alchemy Technique!
Even with such advantages, he had to maintain absolute focus.
A single lapse could cause the concept to spiral out of control, potentially shattering the embryo and even damaging the spiritual sea itself.
Successfully integrating the first dawn crystal sand, the embryo’s golden-red glow dimmed slightly, but its surface cracks grew more pronounced, exuding an unstable aura.
Next came the second material—the rainbow’s Light-Infused Spiritual Dew.
As the seven-colored dew entered the spiritual sea and touched the embryo, it clashed violently with the dawn concept within.
The rainbow’s illusiveness and the dawn’s sharpness were like water and fire, causing the embryo to tremble so fiercely it nearly collapsed!Jie Ming once again summoned true fire and divine sense, stabilizing both while harmonizing their concepts.
This was a battle of concepts.
He wasn’t refining materials but reconciling intent, nature, and rules.
Failure!
The embryo shuddered violently, cracks spreading instantly before it shattered in the spiritual sea with a resounding boom!
“Cough, cough!”
Jie Ming coughed violently, his face turning ashen.
His spiritual sea throbbed with pain, his soul feeling as if it had been torn apart—the backlash of a failed refinement.
He collapsed to the ground, drenched in cold sweat.
“I was too hasty. The conflict between concepts is greater than I imagined… and I haven’t fully grasped their connections.” Rising from the floor, he reflected on the failure’s cause.
Concepts stemmed from the consciousness of living beings, making their handling more idealistic.
Dealing with their conflicts was less about processing materials and more like solving a reading comprehension puzzle.
“Damn it! I’m terrible at reading comprehension!”
Sighing, Jie Ming glanced into his spiritual sea.
The spiritual sea had been severely shaken but stabilized quickly under the Truth Runes’ operation. The damage, however, would take time to heal.
The previously crafted embryo had completely shattered, and much of the harm Jie Ming suffered came from its mental impact.
The light concepts remained unscathed, bursting the embryo and reforming into radiant, multicolored orbs.
For an ordinary cultivator, the next step would be repairing the spiritual sea’s damage and spending one or two years re-condensing an embryo.
“They say late-stage Qi Refinement can craft a treasure, but this is totally just ‘theoretically possible’!”
Jie Ming now understood: a typical late-stage Qi Refinement cultivator attempting this alone would be utterly screwed.
As for Jie Ming…
“Let’s see… Level-3 Soul Restoration Potion, perfectly heals all soul damage, suitable for beings below third-rank formal wizards… only 10,000 points per vial? Buy it!”
“Just to be safe, I’ll take five!”
Less than a minute after ordering on the Magic Network, Jie Ming received his potions via the lab’s teleportation platform.
Without hesitation, he downed a vial, savoring the cool relief spreading through his soul, and closed his eyes in satisfaction.
With the aid of “wealth’s power,” Jie Ming went from injury to full recovery in one minute and twenty seconds.
As for the shattered embryo…
Jie Ming’s consciousness re-entered the spiritual sea. With a wave toward the Truth Runes, over a dozen tiny light points drifted to his side.
For him, the trickiest part of condensing an embryo was finding suitable models from the Truth Runes’ structures.
The advantage? Once he found the right “points,” it was assembly-line work.
With practiced ease, he combined the light points, and another perfect embryo materialized in his hand.
Thus, one minute and thirty seconds after his first failure, Jie Ming began his second attempt.
He wasn’t great at comprehension, but he could try multiple times to find the perfect approach.
After several days of grinding, he successfully integrated the five light concepts into the Mirror’s embryo, one by one, forging and guiding them with true fire and divine sense.
Finally, after all concepts were introduced and initially fused, the embryo underwent its final transformation.
It trembled violently in the spiritual sea, then emitted a powerful inward pull.
Not drawing external spiritual energy, but inward!
It began absorbing Jie Ming’s refined true essence and soul origin.
This was the critical step in treasure forging—linking to the cultivator’s mind, using their power as the cornerstone of growth.
As true essence and soul origin were absorbed, the embryo’s glow intensified, its size shrinking, and its form began to shift.
The phantom mental construct, having absorbed its master’s power and fused concepts, started transitioning toward tangibility!
Jie Ming felt a peculiar connection forming between him and the embryo.
Following the Great Dao Book Pavilion’s guidance, he drew the materializing embryo from his spiritual sea toward the Laogong acupoint in his palm.
The Laogong acupoint, a key point in the body’s meridians, was crucial for condensing and releasing true essence and magical power.
Many similar treasures manifested here upon initial formation.
A warm sensation bloomed in Jie Ming’s palm as the radiant, multicolored glow gradually solidified.
At first, it was a vague outline, then textures sharpened.
Finally, as the light converged, a palm-sized, thin circular mirror rested in his hand.
The mirror’s material was peculiar—neither metal nor jade, semi-transparent, and warm like jade.
Its surface was smooth as water, without edges, its frame seamlessly molded.
Within it, five distinct colors and forms of light moved like living beings, intertwining to create a vibrant, mystical scene.
This was the embryo form of the Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror, his natal treasure linked to his mind!
Formless concepts, through the embryo’s bearing and the forging of true fire and divine sense, had condensed into a tangible object!
At this stage, it lacked the ability to transform into light and move, being only a preliminary embryo.
But this marked the completion of the Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror’s most challenging foundational step!
Jie Ming gazed at the small mirror in his palm, a relieved smile spreading across his face.
Next came the routine nurturing process.