Chapter 55: The First Magic Treasure! Yet Another Ancient Technique!
The object wrapped in white light was a palm-sized cyan little cauldron, covered with runes and visible cracks. This should be the Yin Mountain Sect’s Cloud Barrier Cauldron.
Chen Han stepped forward and casually stored it in the warehouse, then saw the remark information:
【Cloud Barrier Cauldron: a life-saving magic treasure equipped by some disciples of the Yin Mountain Sect, with a special function. It can refine Cloud Barrier Pills. Releasing a Cloud Barrier Pill can instantly generate several li of cloud mist to shroud the surroundings, confuse enemies, and buy time to escape. If the Cloud Barrier Cauldron self-destructs, it can instantly generate over ten li of cloud mist as cover.
Defective: because this cauldron was self-detonated by a Demonic Cult rogue, its inscribed runes are damaged. The attributes of the refined Cloud Barrier Pills are defective. The specific attributes of the Cloud Barrier Pills depend on the finished product.
Limitation: uses per day 1/1（After refinement, spiritual energy must be replenished before it can refine again）
Beginner repair: 30,000 reputation!
Cloud Barrier Pill refinement materials: demonic beast grease, spiritual flowers and herbs that can burn to produce smoke!】
So it really was this thing.
This should count as the first magic treasure he had obtained in the true sense.
This Cloud Barrier Cauldron had also appeared many times in the Shu Shan Swordsman series of novels.
Of course, it was always used by minor villain characters. After all, it was only standard equipment for disciples. Just like the righteous path’s spirit mist barrier, that half-technique half-formation method, since it could only release mist for escape, it was rated as one of the most useless spells or magic treasures.
After all, when a big shot’s nascent soul sweeps over, you have nowhere to hide even with this mist. When a flying sword is unleashed, could you possibly be faster than the sword?
However, that uselessness was in the Shu Shan Swordsman World. In reality, it would be different.
Think about how far over ten li is. A person walking would need more than two hours. Even the few li of a Cloud Barrier Pill would take over half an hour on foot. That range could cover a not-very-large mountain.
This was a great spell and great power modern people could hardly imagine.
It was just a pity that this Cloud Barrier Cauldron had been used by a Demonic Cult rogue to self-destruct and flee. It was already a defective product, and the attributes and effects of the Cloud Barrier Pills refined by it would be damaged as well.
The key part was that the specific attributes of the Cloud Barrier Pills depended on the finished product. That was a bit abstract.
Also, just like the Hundred Flowers Palace Spirit Jade, it could only refine once and then required spiritual energy replenishment.
So it would depend on the special spiritual aperture again.
Why did it feel like the special spiritual aperture would be very overworked in the future, as if everything would have to be stuffed into it?
Fortunately, this Cloud Barrier Cauldron still had a repair option, which meant it could be restored to a perfect state. With one Cloud Barrier Pill, shrouding an entire mountain in cloud mist would not be a dream.
But when he saw that beginner repair cost 30,000 reputation, he could only say, sorry, not happening.
Did he have 30,000 reputation right now, just for them to show him this?
And if there was beginner repair, would there also be intermediate and advanced repair?
That would be a bit excessive.
System, you must not learn from those modern games that use every possible method of harvesting leeks, treating players like the Japanese.
Forget it, no point thinking about it for now. He immediately looked at the two materials needed for refining Cloud Barrier Pills.
This troubled him, as they were not normal materials.
Demonic beast grease could still be taken from dog demon meat. That should work.
But spiritual flowers and herbs that could burn to produce smoke were hard to find. In modern society, where could he find such spiritual flowers and herbs? Those simply did not exist.
He suddenly thought of the orchids in his courtyard. When burned, the flowers should at least produce a good amount of smoke.
He did not have spiritual flowers and herbs, but these orchids had been watered with Spirit Plant Dew Water for days. Whether in fragrance, color, texture, or flower layer, they were far beyond ordinary orchids and should have some attributes.
Letting these orchids pass as spiritual flowers and herbs should be fine, right?
He had to try anyway.
“Senior brother, take a look at how the video turned out. I’ll edit it for you and send you the final cut,” Xiao Yu came over at that moment and handed him the mobile phone with the recording.
“It’s shot very well.” Chen Han watched the video. Whether or not it was actually that good, he just kept praising it.
After that, he used the Beast Taming Flute to play and led those lion head geese back to the Spirit Beast Hall, then hurried back to his courtyard. With a thought, he took out the Cloud Barrier Cauldron from the warehouse.
As expected, there were clear fine cracks on the surface, which also caused some of the runes to break.
Then he went to the attic, took a pair of scissors, and began trimming those orchids.
He was not cutting at random, since orchids needed pruning anyway to promote growth.
After cutting some, he put them into the Cloud Barrier Cauldron. The game prompt that appeared made him sigh in relief:
【Cloud Barrier Pill material 1/Current material quality is extremely low. Cloud Barrier Pill effect will be extremely weak. Replace material?】
Chen Han saw this prompt and ignored it outright.
Replace material?
He would have to have other options first.
Next, he hurried to Uncle’s Kitchen. Smelling the rich medicinal cuisine aroma, he briefly checked the stewing situation, then took out dog demon meat and began processing it, cutting off the fatty parts rich in grease.
There was not much of this part, but there was definitely fat and grease.
After extracting a bit of grease, Chen Han put it into the Cloud Barrier Cauldron and received another game prompt:
【Cloud Barrier Pill material 2/Current materials meet the requirements for refining Cloud Barrier Pills!】
Chen Han did not hesitate. Just like with the Hundred Flowers Palace Spirit Jade, he used his mind to communicate with the Cloud Barrier Cauldron and instantly activated the refinement function. In the next moment, the runes on the cauldron lit up, and the entire Cloud Barrier Cauldron was wrapped in a faint light. The runes on its surface seemed to start flowing.
He had thought the refinement process would take some time, but the runes only moved around once, and the refinement was finished.
The speed was unexpectedly fast.
Looking again at the Cloud Barrier Cauldron, there were already more than ten pill-like items inside. Some were bright with patterns on the surface, some were dim with incomplete patterns, and some had no patterns at all.
These should be the Cloud Barrier Pills.
He directly stored them in the warehouse to check, and when he saw the remark information, he felt a bit awkward:
【Cloud Barrier Pill（Waste）: this is a ruined Cloud Barrier Pill. It’s useless. Just throw it away!】
【Cloud Barrier Pill（5 meters）: this is a Cloud Barrier Pill with poor effect. After being crushed, it can instantly cover a 5 meter diameter area with cloud mist!】
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【Cloud Barrier Pill（10 meters）: this is a Cloud Barrier Pill with poor effect. After being crushed, it can instantly cover a 10 meter diameter area with cloud mist!】
Chen Han checked the remarks one by one. The largest coverage was only a 10 meter radius, and on top of that, there were 5 meter radius ones and even waste pills.
This was indeed quite far from the originally described range of several li or over ten li.
However, considering that the Cloud Barrier Cauldron itself was defective and the materials he used were also substandard, it actually made sense.
He took out a Cloud Barrier Pill（2 meters） and looked at it, suddenly thinking of how he had previously claimed the apple transformation was an ancient technique. Was this not another ancient technique?
If he used this together with his act, one puff of smoke covering a 2 meter radius would be enough to conceal whatever he took out of the warehouse, no matter how big. As for how it changed, people could guess. Ancient techniques, like magicians, would never reveal their methods.
The key point was that this sort of smoke escape scene often appeared in many costume films and television dramas, so it was easy to explain. It was just that the smoke in dramas dispersed quickly, while the cloud mist from the Cloud Barrier Pill would linger a bit longer.
With that in mind, he decided to try it. He crushed the Cloud Barrier Pill in his hand, and a dense cloud mist instantly covered the 2 meter radius around him.
“Ah?” Xiao Yu’s exclamation came from the doorway.
She and Xiao Mi Jie had come to find their senior brother about something, and just as they entered the kitchen, they saw a thick white mist suddenly surge around his body and envelop him.
This extraordinary scene made their eyes widen.
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