If he were being chased by a Golden Core cultivator, and Li Yan simultaneously took out three or five magical treasures and detonated them, the scene would surely make that Golden Core cultivator's expression extremely interesting.
Among these magical treasures, although this great axe was only a low-grade magical treasure, given that it was refined from metal-attribute materials, its hardness was not inferior to that of mid-grade magical treasures of other attributes.
A sharp glint flashed in Li Yan's eyes. The rapidly rotating Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike in his hand suddenly transformed into two faint black lines and flew out.
The next moment, a dazzling light erupted from the golden great axe. That was the formation restriction engraved in the golden great axe automatically defending and counterattacking after being attacked.
Li Yan did not make any other moves. He just stared fixedly at the two faint black lines piercing into the dazzling golden light like a headwind, fighting against the formation restriction.
The golden great axe emitted an increasingly loud buzzing sound, and the entire ball of golden light had turned golden-white. The two black dots that were originally vaguely visible had long been submerged and could not be found.
After another seven breaths, a mournful cry suddenly came from the dazzling white light of the golden great axe, like an unwilling cry before death.
Immediately following, with two hissing sounds, the continuous white light on the golden great axe suddenly exploded, turning into specks of spiritual light.
With a thud, the golden great axe had already heavily smashed onto the ground, instantly creating a deep pit about ten yards deep.
At the same time, two black lights had swiftly passed through the specks of spiritual light, bringing out an extremely illusory afterimage as they flew forward. They then abruptly stopped in mid-air, revealing the dark black body of the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike again.
Li Yan did not immediately recall the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike. Instead, he made a grasping motion with his five fingers in the air, and the golden great axe that had fallen deep into the ground flew into his hand with an afterimage.
At this moment, the golden light on the golden great axe was dim, and two small holes, only the size of a needle's eye, appeared on its huge axe head.
"The formation patterns inside have been cut and destroyed, and the grade has also dropped!"
Looking at the golden great axe in his hand, which had dropped to the level of a high-grade magical artifact, a look of surprise appeared in Li Yan's eyes.
Although he hadn't infused Spirit Power into the golden great axe to make it display its full power, he also hadn't infused extra Spirit Power into the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike.
He had only relied on the speed of the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike rotating in his palm to crash into it. Both sides had relied on their own material and the grade after the magical treasure was refined for a head-on collision.
Li Yan looked at the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike in the air again. At this time, the shape of the two spikes had changed. They had actually stretched to nearly twenty inches long, their entire bodies like a thin, sharp needle.
Li Yan thought about the situation just now, a look of doubt in his eyes. He then threw the golden great axe aside.
With another wave of his hand, the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike silently appeared in his hand in a flash. At this time, it had returned to its original appearance, its two ends as thin as needles, and its middle the thickness of a finger.
With a flash of black Spirit Power in his hand, the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike instantly turned into two slippery and flexible swimming fish, circling and swimming in Li Yan's palm.
Then he casually threw them in a direction. The two black swimming fish disappeared at a speed that Li Yan's Divine Sense could not capture.
In the air, it was as if they had instantly crossed the distance, appearing ten yards away in just a flicker.
With a pull of Li Yan's cultivation manual, they reappeared in Li Yan's palm without any warning and continued to circle and swim.
"It really is a good treasure. It was worth all my effort and hardship."
After a brief test, Li Yan was filled with a mixture of joy and surprise. It was just that he had not yet fully refined the magical treasure, so he could not truly be one with it when controlling it.
The Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike he refined was only a low-grade magical treasure. In terms of hardness alone, it already surpassed the mid-grade magical treasures in Li Yan's hands. This was a testament to the essence of the "Infinite Wanderer" tree and the Crimson Mother Essence.
But at the same time, its main body could also change shape at will, like two boneless snakes. This was the work of the Crystal Bone Water and the Jade-Horned Serpent.
To be able to perfectly fuse these different attributes, one had to say that the artifact refining art of the Gui Water Immortal Sect was so high that it was simply unimaginable for the artifact refiners of this world.
If this art were to be taken out, Li Yan would never have a peaceful day again.
And what surprised Li Yan the most was that the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike actually had a speed akin to short-distance "Instantaneous Movement."
If this item wasn't already his Natal Magical Treasure, even with the strength of Li Yan's Divine Sense, he would not be able to track its trajectory at all. He could only rely on his spiritual sense to perceive its existence and thus control it.
"Is this the power of space? If it really is, after nurturing it for ten or a hundred years and its grade is raised again, what kind of scene would that be?"
Looking at the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike swimming swiftly like a fish in his hand, Li Yan thought to himself.
When he was looking at the refining method back then, there was no mention of this feature.
The Ice Cloud Feather came from the body of the Seven-Colored Ice Goose. Its essence was to make the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike's flight lighter and swifter.
The two Ice Cloud Feathers that Wei Zhongran gave him were said to have come from a third-rank Seven-Colored Ice Goose. Even with his formidable cultivation, he had to join forces with several people to kill this Seven-Colored Ice Goose.
After Li Yan used one of the Ice Cloud Feathers for refining, he now found that the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike, in its flight, inexplicably borrowed a kind of power that he couldn't understand, giving it an effect almost like instantaneous movement within ten yards.
"If the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike was attached with a very weak trace of spatial power, which gave it its current incredible effect, then how come there is no record of this in the True Scripture of Gui Water? At the same time, the Seven-Colored Ice Goose and the Phoenix clans have no blood relationship. So where did this spatial innate divine ability come from?"
For a moment, Li Yan couldn't help but repeatedly recall the introduction of the Seven-Colored Ice Goose in his mind. But no matter how he thought through all the classics, there was not a single word about the Seven-Colored Ice Goose having a spatial innate divine ability.
Among the bird races, only the Phoenix clans had a spatial innate divine ability in their bloodline inheritance.
"Could it be that what Master gave me wasn't an Ice Cloud Feather? But there can't be such a coincidence in the world, that the two are so similar they are indistinguishable. And it can perfectly replace the Ice Cloud Feather. Although this is possible, it absolutely wouldn't be something I would just happen to encounter."
Thinking of this, a gleam of light flashed in Li Yan's hand, and a seven-colored feather appeared in his hand.
Instantly, the room was filled with an extremely strong coldness. A layer of frost instantly formed on Li Yan's body.
Looking at the faint surge of black energy below the seven-colored light, like a raging tide in the sea, Li Yan felt a sharp pain in his nose and mouth from the cold.
Although his current strength allowed him to hold this object in his hand, he could only barely resist the coldness within it.
After a few breaths, Li Yan put away the Ice Cloud Feather, shivering, but the doubt in his eyes grew even thicker.
He had just used his Divine Sense to observe it repeatedly a few times. This feather was no different from the described Ice Cloud Feather, and he didn't find any power in it that he couldn't understand.
After a while, Li Yan simply stopped thinking about it. He guided with his hands in the air, and the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike flew in front of him, suspended in the air.
Then, with the circulation of Spirit Power in his body, in an instant, all the Spirit Power in Li Yan's body had merged into one of the five elements, all transforming into the Power of Gui Water.
In his Dantian's Purple Mansion, a large expanse of extremely pure, deep black Spirit Power was like a vast sea. In the cultivation room, Li Yan was as still as a mountain, and the surface of his body faintly emitted the roaring sound of a rushing tide.
Subsequently, Li Yan pointed a finger, and two drops of Essence Blood carrying a pure life aura were condensed. Then, with a flick of his finger, the two drops of Essence Blood flew towards the two Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spikes respectively.
Then they condensed separately under the tip of one of the spikes, as if they were topped with a crimson gemstone.
With a pinch of a cultivation manual in his other hand, the rolling black Spirit Power on his body began to gather above his head, becoming thicker and thicker. Gradually, a phantom image of the Northern Abyss Kun Peng slowly appeared in the air of the secret room.
Its huge wings covered the entire secret cultivation room, and its pair of black eyes were cold and devoid of any emotion, coldly watching the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike and Li Yan.
Seeing this, Li Yan frowned. He then pinched a cultivation manual, but the huge phantom image of the Northern Abyss Kun Peng above his head remained completely unmoved.
A chilling killing intent actually appeared in its demeanor. Although it was only formed by Li Yan's Spirit Power, it was a remnant will summoned by a cultivation manual from the True Scripture of Gui Water.
The pride inherited from its ancient lineage, sensing the tiny ant below, immediately gave rise to a killing intent towards the person controlling it.
Sensing the sudden arrival of killing intent, Li Yan snorted coldly in his heart.
'A mere phantom image condensed from my own Spirit Power actually has thoughts of devouring its master. It really is very troublesome!'
However, the Gui Water Immortal Sect had naturally taken precautions against this long ago. It was just that Li Yan had initially felt that he should be able to control his own Spirit Power, so he had not used the subsequent balancing cultivation manual.
As the Northern Abyss Kun Peng's eyes showed killing intent and its illusory giant claws were about to strike, a series of obscure and ancient incantations suddenly sounded from Li Yan's mouth.
As the incantations from his mouth sounded, a series of extremely fine black chains suddenly appeared out of thin air.
Before the Northern Abyss Kun Peng could react, these extremely fine black chains had already wrapped around the Northern Abyss Kun Peng's head like shackles.
The moment the fine black chains touched the Northern Abyss Kun Peng's phantom head, they immediately disappeared, as if they had instantly merged into its head.
As one after another of the black chains entered its head, the huge illusory figure of the Northern Abyss Kun Peng immediately began to tremble continuously.
The fierce and unwilling look in its eyes grew even stronger, and it was about to let out an angry roar to the sky, but its giant mouth was sealed by other fine black chains that followed like shadows.
And in just this short moment, at least a hundred more fine black chains had directly entered its head. Its just-raised giant claws also drooped down powerlessly.
The coldness in its eyes was also rapidly fading, and after a short while, it became a blank and dull look.
Seeing this situation, Li Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. The thing that he had manifested with his own Spirit Power actually showed signs of breaking away from his control. This made his originally relaxed mood become very tense for a moment.
"It's better to use this kind of ancient summoning incantation as little as possible in the future!"
Li Yan thought to himself. He hadn't expected that the Gui Water Immortal Sect's single technique for refining a Natal Magical Treasure would be so dangerous.
He had only performed a simple refinement in the "Shattered Star Chamber" before and had not used this technique. At that time, he felt that it was not complicated and thought that the subsequent refinement would only take longer.
Dong Fuyi had only met him briefly, and even Ping Tu, due to his own power, had overlooked this instruction. For sects like the Five Immortal Sects, when refining a Natal Magical Treasure, they basically had an elder guarding by their side.
The method of refining Natal Magical Treasures in the Five Immortal Sects was completely different from other sects, requiring them to use ancient cultivation manuals to summon their respective attribute's guardian divine beast.
Such as the Northern Abyss Kun Peng of the Gui Water Immortal Sect, the Azure Dragon of the East of the Yi Wood Immortal Sect, the Vermilion Bird of the South of the Ding Fire Immortal Sect, and so on.
Li Yan was not so lucky. He could only rely on himself to comprehend and cultivate, so it was inevitable that some discrepancies would occur.
As the Northern Abyss Kun Peng was controlled by Li Yan, Li Yan once again pointed a finger. Two streams of pitch-black Spirit Power gushed out from the Northern Abyss Kun Peng's suspended giant claws, forming a Yin-Yang Taiji diagram at its feet.
Below the left claw was the Yang river, and below the right claw was the Yin river. The Yin and Yang were distinct, and as they rotated, it was a cycle of Yin and Yang, a transformation of the five elements.