I Materialized the Cultivation Game

Chapter 61: Chapter 55: The First Magical Treasure! Yet Another Ancient Technique!

The item enveloped by the white light was a palm-sized small green cauldron, covered with runes and visible cracks. This should be the Cloud Barrier Cauldron of the Yin Mountain Sect.

Chen Han stepped forward and nonchalantly placed it into the storage, seeing the remark information:

[Cloud Barrier Cauldron: A life-saving magical treasure equipped by some disciples of the Yin Mountain Sect, possessing special functions. It can refine Cloud Barrier Pills, which can instantly produce clouds and fog spanning several miles, enveloping the surroundings to confuse enemies and buy time to escape. If the Cloud Barrier Cauldron self-destructs, it can instantly produce clouds and fog over more than ten miles as cover.

Defective: Because this cauldron was used for self-destruction by Demon Cult Demons, the inscribed runes were damaged. The refined Cloud Barrier Pills have defective attributes, with specific attributes of the pills depending on the refined product.

Limit: Daily usage 1/1 (requires replenishing Spiritual Qi after refining to use again)

Basic repair: 30,000 reputation!

Cloud Barrier Pill refining materials: Demon Beast Fat, Spirit Flowers, and Spirit Herbs that can produce smoke when burned!]

Indeed, it is this item.

This should be considered his first meaningful magical treasure.

This Cloud Barrier Cauldron has appeared multiple times in the Shushan Sword Hero series novels.

Of course, it was always used by minor villains, as it’s an item equipped by disciples. Just like the Spirit Fog Barrier of the Righteous Sect, which is a semi-art technique and formation method, it was rated as one of the most useless spells or magical treasures because it only releases fog to escape.

After all, when a big shot sweeps with his primordial spirit, even with this fog, you have nowhere to hide. When the flying sword is summoned, can you be faster than the sword?

However, this uselessness is in the Shushan Sword Hero World. In reality, it’s different.

Think about how far more than ten miles is? It takes more than 2 hours to walk on foot, even a few miles from the Cloud Barrier Pill would take more than half an hour. Such a range could envelop a not so large mountain.

This is a kind of great magic and power that modern people can’t imagine.

It’s just a pity that the Cloud Barrier Cauldron was used for self-destruction by Demon Cult Demons to escape, making it a defective product, and the attributes of refined Cloud Barrier Pills would also be affected.

The key is that the specific attributes of the Cloud Barrier Pills depend on the refined products, which is somewhat abstract.

Moreover, like the Baihua Palace Spiritual Jade, it can only be refined once, thereafter it needs Spiritual Qi replenishment.

It also relies on special spiritual acupoints.

It seems like these special spiritual acupoints will be very busy in the future, possibly needing to accommodate everything.

Fortunately, the Cloud Barrier Cauldron has the option of repair, which means it can be repaired to a perfect state. One Cloud Barrier Pill enveloping a mountain in clouds and fog isn’t a dream?

But after seeing that basic repair costs 30,000 reputation, he could only say it’s a disturbance.

Does he even have 30,000 reputation now, just to let him look at this?

Moreover, if there’s basic repair, wouldn’t there be intermediate and high-level repairs too?

If so, that would be a bit excessive.

The system must not learn the unscrupulous money-grabbing methods of modern games, treating players like easy targets.

Let it go, putting that aside for now. He quickly looked at the two materials for refining the Cloud Barrier Pills.

This made him troubled, neither is a normal material.

Demon Beast Fat can still use Dog Demon Meat; that should work.

Finding Spirit Flowers and Spirit Herbs that produce smoke when burned is hard though. Where does one find such things in modern society, they simply do not exist.

He suddenly thought of the orchids in his courtyard. Burning these flowers should produce a lot of smoke.

There are no Spirit Flowers and Spirit Herbs, but having been watered with Spirit Plant Dew Water over the past few days, the fragrance, color, texture, and layers of these orchids are not comparable to ordinary orchids, they must have some attributes, right?

Perhaps these orchids can pass off as Spirit Flowers and Spirit Herbs?

Anyway, it’s worth a try.

”Senior brother, how does the video look? I’ll edit it later and send you the final cut,” Xiaoyu came over, handing him the phone with the footage.

”It’s very well shot.” Chen Han glanced at the video. Though it was well-shot, he just kept praising the video to be safe.

Afterward, he played the Beast Taming Flute, leading the lion-headed geese back to the Spirit Beast Hall, and then hurried back to his own courtyard. At the same time, with a thought, he drew out the Cloud Barrier Cauldron from storage.

The surface indeed had faint visible cracks, breaking some of the surface runes.

Next, he took a pair of scissors from the attic and started cutting the orchids.

Not wrongfully cutting, as orchids need pruning to promote growth.

Having trimmed some, he put them into the Cloud Barrier Cauldron, and a game prompt appeared, letting him breathe a sigh of relief:

[Cloud Barrier Pill refining material 1/2, current material quality extremely low, Cloud Barrier Pill effect extremely low, consider changing material?]

Chen Han ignored the prompt.

Change materials?

That would need materials to change with.

Next, he hurried to Little Uncle’s kitchen, drawn by the rich aroma of medicinal meals, checked the stew, then took out the Dog Demon Meat, beginning to process it, cutting off the fatty parts.

Though these parts aren’t abundant, they definitely contain both oil and fat.

Having extracted some fat, Chen Han placed it in the Cloud Barrier Cauldron and received another game prompt:

[Cloud Barrier Pill refining material 2/2, the current materials meet the requirements for refining Cloud Barrier Pills!]

Unhesitatingly, like the Baihua Palace Spiritual Jade, Chen Han mentally communicated with the Cloud Barrier Cauldron, instantly activating the refining function. In an instant, the runes on the cauldron lit up and the whole cauldron became enveloped in a faint glow, and the runes seemed to move.

Initially thought the refining process would take a long time, but to his surprise, the runes completed a rotation, and the refining process was over.

The speed was unexpectedly fast.

Upon checking the Cloud Barrier Cauldron, there were about roughly ten pill-like substances inside, some bright with patterns on them, others dim with incomplete patterns, and some entirely patternless.

These should be the Cloud Barrier Pills.

Putting them into storage for inspection with the remark info, he felt a bit awkward:

[Cloud Barrier Pill (Waste): This is a failed Cloud Barrier Pill, of no use, should be discarded!]

[Cloud Barrier Pill (0.5 meters): This is a mediocre Cloud Barrier Pill. When crushed, it can instantly cover an area with a 0.5-meter diameter of fog!]

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[Cloud Barrier Pill (10 meters): This is a mediocre Cloud Barrier Pill. When crushed, it can instantly cover an area with a 10-meter diameter of fog!]

Chen Han read through each remark, seeing that the maximum coverage was only a 10-meter radius, let alone the 0.5-meter radius ones, and there were wasted pills too.

The discrepancies between the few miles and more than ten miles descriptions are indeed quite substantial.

However, considering the Cloud Barrier Cauldron is defective, and the materials he used were also subpar, it seems reasonable.

He took out a Cloud Barrier Pill (2 meters) and inspected it, suddenly recalling the previous incident with transformed apples claimed to be Ancient Techniques, isn’t this another ancient technique?

With this thing, a smoke screen covering a 2-meter radius, he could take out large items from storage and disguise them. As for how it was done, let others guess. Both ancient techniques and magicians do not disclose their methods.

Key is, this thing seems to appear in many costume dramas often showing smoke escape scenes, and can be explained. Though the smoke in film dissipates quickly, the fog from the Cloud Barrier Pill would linger longer.

Thinking about it, he decided to test it out. Crushing the Cloud Barrier Pill in his hand, a dense fog instantly enveloped a 2-meter radius around him.

”Ah?” exclaimed Xiaoyu at the doorway.

She and Sister Xiaomi came looking for their senior brother, but as they entered the kitchen, they witnessed a dense white smoke suddenly engulfing him.

This extraordinary scene left them wide-eyed.