148: Five Elements Glass Cup

Among the examinees, Snowy Mei sat at the very front.

She was indeed the strongest apart from Chen Cuo, only three meters from the stone stele, with Ling Bu Zi close behind her.

As Chen Cuo walked under the stele's pressure, he could clearly feel the oppressive sensation on his body from all directions.

Especially near the stele, every step he took, the pressure doubled.

From the looks of it, Ling Bu Zi and Snowy Mei had both cultivated Body Cultivator methods.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to withstand such pressure; this pressure was all-encompassing, affecting the body, mind, Soul, and Physical Body.

This was the power of this stele; if one could cultivate at the stone stele for a long time, it would be an excellent body tempering method.

“Hoo hoo…”

Chen Cuo deliberately breathed heavily, as if he was tired from carrying a huge ‘door panel’.

However, he never stopped, swaying leisurely until he reached five meters from the stone stele.

The pressure and Mental Energy emanating from the stone stele surged towards Chen Cuo like a raging storm.

Chen Cuo calmly welcomed this baptism; his originally bloated Soul unexpectedly became refined, much heavier and more transparent, though it still retained a human form.

The characteristic of the Undying Soul was its Indestructible and Eternal, unchanging nature.

Like the Immortals or Martial Immortals in legends who cultivated special Concepts such as Saber Intent, Sword Intent, Spear Intent, Fist Intent, and so on, their Divine Soul would undergo a drastic transformation, becoming the shape of a saber, or the shape of their Dao Concept.

If they wished to attack, the Divine Soul weapon would strike out, easily shattering the enemy's Soul.

However, as time passed, his Comprehension Ability of the Saber Dao deepened, and with it, his Soul grew stronger; the Undying Soul seemed… seemed to grasp a saber in its hand.

At the same time, countless Saber Qi immediately surged around him, causing Chaos among the surrounding people.

He also took another step forward.

Arriving at a position three meters from the stone stele, Chen Cuo finally stopped and began to comprehend the stone stele.

As for the lower-grade runes, he only needed to remember them; they might be useful in the future.

As his comprehension deepened, the superficial appearance of the stone stele was bypassed, and his Divine Soul power touched the contents within the stone stele: a Chaos, hazy and indistinct, nothing could be seen clearly, with countless bubbles all around.

Just a cursory glance would take a day and a night.

He asked himself that even without the System, his Comprehension Ability was not bad; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to practice the Basic Fist Technique with such vigor and gain recognition.

But there were too many records inside the stone stele, and Chen Cuo had no interest in meticulously going through each one.

He focused on the high-end route; Magical Artifacts below Medium Grade Tier 2 were only casually skimmed, and he merely recorded them in his memory database.

By the time he had recorded the Artifact Refining methods for hundreds of Magical Artifacts and thousands of Spells, half a month had already passed.

With only half a month left, he had to prepare for Artifact Refining content early.

Tier 2 Magical Artifacts were inherently difficult to refine and took a considerable amount of time.

The assessment period was set for one month, so half a month for Artifact Refining was not long at all.

After much selection, Chen Cuo finally chose a suitable Magical Artifact to focus on and research as the outcome of his comprehension.

The grade certainly couldn't be too low; he was already a Foundation Establishment cultivator, so it was impossible for him to refine Tier 1 Magical Artifacts, which would unnecessarily lower his standing, and his score would definitely not be high.

Qi Condensation had its own scoring mechanism, and Foundation Establishment had its own scoring, which were certainly not entirely the same.

So, among the suitable Magical Artifacts, there was one that caught his attention.

“Five Elements Glazed Lamp!”

This glazed lamp had a particularly powerful function: it could be used to cast various Five Elements Evasion techniques.

Due to its Tier 2 grade, his Five Elements Glazed Lamp carried the Five Elements Evasion, but it was only a minor evasion, not the Five Elements Grand Evasion.

However, its forging difficulty was renowned throughout the Resonance Artifact Stele; not only were the forging steps cumbersome, but it also required sufficient comprehension of the Five Elements power.

More crucially, the Five Elements Evasion runes were the most difficult part.

The Five Elements Evasion was difficult to learn and master, but as long as one of them was cultivated to Major Achievement, one could move unhindered in the cultivation world.

In the cultivation world, Earth Evasion and Water Evasion were more widely spread; the other Gold, Wood, and Fire Evasion techniques were rarely disseminated, and most were truncated versions, which were called minor Five Elements Evasion, merely techniques.

The true Five Elements Grand Evasion was already a great Spell, directly pointing to the Five Elements Dao.

If the true Five Elements Grand Evasion was cultivated to Major Achievement, it was said to allow one to ascend to the heavens and descend into the earth, capable of anything and going anywhere.

Chen Cuo had only studied Earth Evasion; he hadn't even looked at Water Evasion.

However, there were evasion runes in the Artifact Refining method, and once Chen Cuo thoroughly understood them, he would be able to deduce the Five Elements Evasion by analogy.

Although he didn't have much comprehension of the Five Elements Evasion, he had profound research into the power of the Five Elements.

As for the cumbersome refining steps of this treasure, it was merely a matter of practicing for a few more days, which would also earn him a higher score.