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Chapter 5 The Art of Treasure Forging

In fact, these three methods still have some hidden flaws.

The method of body refinement requires a lot of food. In peacetime, obtaining a lot of food is a very simple thing.

Based on the current situation, Dong Qi instinctively felt that Great Xia, or even Blue Star, might become chaotic in the future. At that time, it might become difficult to obtain food in a stable and large quantity as it does now.

However, if things really get chaotic, it will be a good time to cultivate the demonic technique, Blood Coagulation Technique.

However, once things get chaotic, the method of cultivating with beast blood will most likely be cut off, but in the end, it will be easy to obtain a large amount of fresh blood.

However, if one uses a large amount of blood for cultivation, it will inevitably be discovered by others.

However, the Great Xia Dynasty on Blue Star is located in the modern world, and the Blood Coagulation Technique, which is only in its early stages of cultivation, cannot withstand the damage from firearms.

However, if one cultivates in a low-key manner, the cultivation speed will be greatly reduced, and it is difficult to maintain a balance between the two.

The unorthodox treasure-forging techniques need no further explanation. Not to mention the overlap in function with newly acquired superpowers, the resources consumed in cultivation are also a major drain on resources.

However, the cultivation environment required for the Treasure Forging Technique is exactly the opposite of that required for the Hundred Refinements Technique. In peacetime, the materials needed to cultivate the Treasure Forging Technique require a large amount of money to purchase.

But once the situation becomes chaotic, food will become extremely precious, while many materials will become readily available garbage. If things get to that point, you can obtain a large amount of materials by simply picking them up on the street.

After careful consideration and comparison of various options, Dong Qi finally chose the Treasure Forging Technique as his main cultivation method.

Although the Treasure Forging Technique overlaps with his newly acquired superpower in terms of effects, it can also conceal this to some extent, allowing him to become stronger through cultivation.

After determining your main cultivation method, the next step is to determine your destined element.

In ancient times, most practitioners who cultivated the Treasure Forging Technique would choose between offensive weapons and defensive equipment as their natal item.

The reason for choosing between these two options is not because ancient people were foolish and only knew to choose these two natal items, but rather because they were very clever.

First, it's important to understand that while ancient people may have had a vastly different perspective compared to modern people, their intelligence was not significantly different.

The reason why ancient cultivators chose offensive weapons or defensive equipment as their natal items when practicing the Treasure Forging Technique was not because they did not know that choosing certain special items as natal items would grant them special abilities after successful blood refinement.

Rather, it's because if someone kills you while practicing the Treasure Forging Technique, you might become a weapon spirit, and your intelligence would be directly erased.

Therefore, compared to acquiring some special abilities, most people would prioritize self-preservation abilities, since survival is the most important thing.

The mainstream choice is not necessarily the strongest, but it is the most stable; otherwise, it would not become the mainstream choice for the masses.

However, times have changed. What was mainstream in ancient times may not be suitable for modern times.

For example, ancient cold weapons have become works of art in the hands of collectors in modern times, and their practical use in combat has become very limited.

Although in modern times, both materials and casting technology have improved significantly compared to ancient times.

However, the advent of firearms has shifted the evaluation of a weapon's quality from its sturdiness and sharpness to its accuracy and effective killing range.

Compared to firearms of the same grade, cold weapons cannot touch people and cannot cause any damage at all.

Defensive equipment goes without saying. In this day and age, whether it's shields or various types of armor, they're not entirely useless against equally powerful firearms, but they're not particularly effective.

However, if you choose a firearm, unless it is an electromagnetic or laser weapon, neither item upgrades nor treasure-forging techniques can improve the weapon itself; they have no effect on ammunition whatsoever.

As for choosing ammunition as one's life-bound item, no one would be foolish enough to refine a disposable item into their life-bound item.

Based on Dong Qi's many years of experience writing novels, the best targets for upgrading items he acquires are movable vehicles or buildings.

Although novels are just fantasy, once you have the ability to upgrade items, much of the content in novels can become a reference.

After all, these two have the highest upgrade potential when they have the ability to upgrade infinitely.

Dong Qi didn't spend much time comparing vehicles and buildings. Compared to immovable buildings, vehicles, which could be moved, had a greater advantage.

Dong Qi initially thought of taking out a loan or leasing a motorhome long-term, so that his natal item would have a good foundation, and whether he used superpowers to upgrade or the Treasure Forging Technique to improve it, he could get a great boost in the early stages.

But when Dong Qi had already chosen the car model and was preparing to carefully understand the method of refining one's natal item before purchasing it, he suddenly discovered that the amount of blood consumed when refining the target into one's natal item varied depending on the target's size and mass.

First, let's clarify one point: unlike the Blood Coagulation Technique, where any blood can be used, the Blood Refining Method, when refining one's natal object, uses only the cultivator's own blood.

And most importantly, all blood needs to be fresh; blood cannot be drawn in advance and stored.

Having realized this, Dong Qi immediately abandoned the large RV, a heavy-duty truck type, that he had just chosen. If he wanted to refine that kind of vehicle into his natal vehicle, even if his blood volume increased tenfold, it would be difficult.

After much deliberation, Dong Qi finally turned his attention to his own Iveco van.

If you want to be relatively safe, the safest option is a "senior citizen's vehicle" (or "old man's vehicle"). Although it is small in size, it has all the basic functions of a car.

Even if you don't choose the old man's car, you can choose a small bread cart as a second choice. Compared to the old man's car, the bread cart has a much larger carrying capacity.

However, as we all know, for any upgradable item, the better its foundation, the better it will be compared to other items of the same level.

Since he couldn't afford a heavy-duty motorhome as his life's purpose, Dong Qi wanted to choose a better model, since once a choice was made, there would be no chance to change it.

After clarifying his objectives, Dong Qi first moved all the supplies stored in the car to the storage room, and then cleaned out the interior decorations and removed the rear seats.

The interiors of Iveco vans and bread vans are actually quite similar; apart from the driver's and passenger's seats, all other seats in the passenger compartment can be freely removed.

Apart from that, the Iveco is just a little higher in chassis and a little bigger in body than the van, and has a little stronger load-bearing capacity. There are no other fundamental differences. After all, the models are different, and you get what you pay for.

Since the blood consumed by the Blood Refining Method depends on the size and mass of the selected object, and since the vehicle's volume cannot be changed, Dong Qi can only reduce unnecessary items inside the vehicle to lower its mass.