She also remembered the message from her future self telling her to form a soul relic BEFORE she breaks into the first stage, Awakening.
"Senior, I want to make my Soul Relic before I break into the Awakening realm!"
Shamaner was stunned. "You said you want to craft a soul relic before you become a cultivator? That would be a terrible waste!"
"You can only use energy jades similar to your level within the item, and there are no energy jades for a mundane."
"It's already impressive that you made it through the first two stages of our rite of passage with zero cultivation base, but you wouldn't be able to make a weapon with anything but the most fragile materials, and it would not be enchanted. This would give you the worst-performing weapons and shields that would be useless after going past a realm or two!""I know, senior, but I'm not making a weapon or a shield."She remembered the instructions her future self left her and continued. "I want to make an amulet but use specific materials to inherit specific resistances from making that Item into a soul relic. I want to take advantage of the side benefit of the relic to gain specific elemental resistances from the materials."Shamaner paused before asking, "Are you sure? The soul can only bond with three soul items. You can't get back this use…"Kimarya nodded with resolution, "Please help me, senior!""... Alright, what materials will you need? I will make them my gift to you for becoming my disciple."Kimarya quickly listed, " I will need Crystalline Fireflake Sand, Stormlight Marble, Electric Jade, Everstone Five Metals, Skyfall metal, Green River Ocean Sand, and Heavenly Coal from a spiritual tree struck by lightning. I will also need glacial essence and Dao water."Shamaner was silent for a minute as he referenced his knowledge of what could be created with these materials.He suddenly laughed, shaking his head, "You are a very interesting disciple!"
"Very well, I will get these materials for you. Seems you already have knowledge of crafting!"
She looked away while nodding, feeling uncomfortable about not being 100% honest with her teacher."
"They are things I've read and heard people discussing!" Technically, this wasn't a lie since this is how her future self studied and experimented to gain this knowledge, right?Shamaner nodded, "I gave you this special mundane cauldron. Here is a manual on how to practice with it. I forbid you to practice with it outside of this space. It can be dangerous for beginners, understand?"
Kimarya nodded her head, "Yes, senior!""Since you are going to begin cultivation after forming your Soul Relic, I will prepare special cultivation pills using the flesh, marrow, and heart of the Murder Crow, I do not advise waiting so long to start, but I will do this for you."Later that day, Shamaner led her to the village library, where she saw many books on a massive variety of subjects and helped her choose books on the ingredients she had chosen.
She decided she would need to come back there and record as much information as possible within Sunny's database.After the library, they went to the village's storage to pick up the materials she would need. "You will need to spend as much time as possible with them and get to feel the properties of these materials."
"Every day, you will practice with the cauldron before training your body and getting used to your new weapons. Behind my herbal garden is a training area. I will teach you a few basic weapon techniques, and you can practice them on your own before I test you every two days."The next day, Kimarya woke up early and returned to the herbal garden. She looked carefully at all the herbs and took in the strong aroma of these medicinal plants as she made her way to the building.She cupped her fist with a short bow to the waiting Shamaner. "Greetings, senior."
"Welcome, let us begin!""This is called the Mundane cauldron. It is a cauldron for artisans who are not yet cultivators. You can insert energy jades to operate it and put your hands on these crystals on its front to connect to it. Just visualize and command it to do what you wish. It has very limited functions. It can only burn to ash, melt minor magic metals, and shred things into powder.""Insert a jade here, place your hands on these two base crystals on its front, and burn this piece of wood. It may take a few tries for you to get the hang of it."Kimarya was extremely excited and did as Shamaner instructed her. After inserting the jade into a little compartment, she heard it begin to hum. She sat cross-legged and placed the wood into the square cauldron, made of an odd dark stone, in front of her.