Chapter 49: Massacre?

The people surrounding Shirong had never heard of any spirit weapon taking such a large amount of spirit qi just in order to get branded. Branding a spirit weapon was the first step in being able to use it and established the authority of the owner on the tool or the weapon.

Without a brand, a spirit tool or weapon could not be used... well it could, but that would be a very crude method and would not bring out the true potential of the weapon or the tool. Depending on the grade of a spirit tool or weapon, it needed different amounts of spirit qi to be branded.

The more strong the weapon, the more amount of spirit qi was needed as the complexity was higher. Most low tier spirit tools and weapons needed about ten wisps of spirit qi to be branded, mid tier took about fifty wisps of spirit qi, high tier took ten drops of liquid spirit qi, and peak tier took about fifty drops of liquid spirit qi.

The requirement for liquid spirit qi alone divided whether a cultivator would be able to use a spirit tool at the high grade or higher as the ones below the late stage of the qi reefing realm would not have any spirit qi that was refined into liquid form.

Even then refinement of spirit qi whips into liquid drops was a difficult process and took a long time. Fifty drops was already a large amount of liquid spirit qi which would take an average cultivator a few days to replenish. Most cultivators only utilized spirit qi wisps and did not use the drops unless it was absolutely necessary.

But this demographic changed greatly once a cultivator stepped into the core condensation realm where they could freely refine liquid spirit qi.

Though the rarity of spirit weapons and tools did not stop here as the intended cultivation realms for them were different. Even if a cultivator was able to brand a spirit weapon did not mean that they would be able to bring about the full potential of it.

Just the spirit qi needed to operate and use a spirit tool or weapon would deplete the stores of a cultivator if they did not keep a close eye on it. Thus, even if a peak stage qi refining realm cultivator was able to get his hands on a peak grade weapon, he would barely be able to use it once before depleting all his or her stores of spirit qi.

The classification of spirit tools and weapons was roughly this:

-Low grade were for qi refining realm and core condensation realm cultivators.

-Mid grade were for core condensation realm and Nascent soul realm cultivators.

-High grade were for Nascent soul realm and Dao Shell realm cultivators.

-Peak grade were for Dao Shell realm and Dao Treading realm cultivators.

This division was not absolute, but was rather a gauge of how efficiently a cultivator would be able to use the spirit tool or weapon. This meant that if a low grade spirit weapon was used by a qi refining realm cultivator, he would be able to use it normally without much strain on his spirit qi stores and dantian. The other grades followed the same pattern.

This meant that the spirit weapons or tools that were in possession of cultivators which were much higher than their capabilities became a Trump card instead, which they could only use in case of emergencies as they would end up depleting a majority of their spirit qi after that.

A peak grade spirit stone could provide a cultivator with about two hundred drops of liquid spirit qi, which was four times the amount needed for a peak grade weapon. Thus it was no wonder that the people here were absolutely shocked by this revelation.

"Young Master Shirong… then that means…" The man named Bei Wen stuttered.

Everyone was looking at him with bated breaths and were waiting for his reply.

"Yes, it may be a… pseudo immortal weapon," Shirong revealed.

~Gulp~

"Ssssss…"

The entire entourage of people gulped in unison as they reeled from the shock. They had never expected to find something so precious here. A pseudo immortal weapon was something that was only owned by the top powers in this world, and their numbers could be counted on two hands. Even the cultivation sects only had six of them in their hands.

Just this single spear was enough to spark another war between the kingdoms and the cultivation sects. The last time a new pseudo immortal weapon appeared in the world was about two hundred years ago, and since then no new pseudo immortal weapon had been created.

Ye Dai's gaze turned serious, and he sent a look to Bei Wen and Young Master Shirong. All three of them nodded in unison before suddenly moving.

"KILL! Don't let them leave!" Shirong shouted as he took out a large sword from his spatial storage treasure.

Bei Wen and Ye Dai did the same, and they took out their respective weapons. In their shock, the rest of the people had not reacted fast enough and four of them had been instantly killed. Among the group, Ye Dai and Bei Wen were among the five late stage core condensation realm cultivators, and they were the strongest after Young Master Shirong himself.

Thus it was easy for them to kill four mid stage core condensation realm cultivators on their own. Shirong meanwhile clashed with the other three late stage Core condensation realm cultivators as he was the only one here who would be able to handle them.

The battle that ensued after that was mostly one sided and could be called as a massacre. Under the strength of Young master Shirong, the three late stage core condensation realm cultivators were quickly killed.

Ye Dai and Bei Wen were also able to kill three more mid stage core condensation realm cultivators, which only left the early stage core condensation realm cultivator and a single late stage core condensation realm cultivator remaining.