The purple-skinned gourd, with flaming patterns and mysterious markings, hovered in the air, spinning around merrily.
It circled around the mountain top and then darted into Ryan's arms.
"What a precious treasure! What a precious treasure!"
Just by holding the magic gourd, Ryan felt a sense of being connected by blood welling up in his heart.
He felt that this gourd was almost an extension of his own body.
The Life-bound Magic Gourd was like his palm, eyes, and ears!
Ryan couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth, filled with joy and satisfaction in his heart, and said: "Thanks to Master's deep affection!"
"With this precious treasure, I will surely cultivate diligently in the future, live up to Master's expectations, and enhance the reputation of our Drunken Immortal Peak!"
True Person of Turbid Wine smiled charmingly: "First, get used to the power of this magic weapon!"
"It can't wait to show you its abilities."
Ryan nodded slightly and immediately calmed his mind.
Just by infusing spiritual power into it, he immediately knew the wonderful uses of his Life-bound Magic Gourd!
"I need a weapon."
Ryan thought silently in his mind: "A weapon that can help me kill enemies and defend the way, and remove all obstacles on my cultivation path!"
In an instant, his Life-bound Magic Gourd quietly changed its shape and turned into a spiritual sword.
The hilt of that sword presented a mysterious and deep purple color, as if containing endless spiritual power.
The hilt was carefully carved with intricate patterns, like ancient incantations, flickering with a faint light.
In sharp contrast, the blade was shining with a blazing red color all over, like a burning flame, emitting a heart-pounding high temperature and dazzling light.
On the spine of the sword, clusters of white auspicious clouds lingered and flowed slowly as if they had life.
Zizi zizi...
These auspicious clouds were like the manifestation of auspicious qi, adding a mysterious and unpredictable color to the whole sword.
When the sunlight shone on it, the light reflected by the blade and the auspicious clouds intertwined, dreamy and fascinating, making people unable to help but be attracted.
Just by holding this sword, Ryan faintly had a feeling that he was in luck and his fortune was gradually turning for the better.
This feeling had no evidence. It was just the wonderful sixth sense that he, as a cultivator, had at the moment when his Life-bound Magic Weapon was born!
Ryan understood in his heart: "Since I set foot on the path of cultivation, I have gained a lot."
""Mysterious Qi Nurturing Method", "Brilliant Purple Blood Technique", Blazing Flame Muscle Refinement, Dragon Soul Essence, Tea Spirit's Listening!"
"Bodhi Cushion, Friend of the Dream Enterer - Fenrir Howe, Killing the Night Demon Ape..."
"All the gains and experiences have jointly shaped the me now, and my Life-bound Magic Gourd transforming into a spiritual sword has also completely integrated and manifested these characteristics!"
Ryan grasped the purple-red spiritual sword and began to test its sharpness.
Puchi!
Just by pressing the blade against the skin on his palm and applying a little force, the skin was cut open, revealing a few drops of purple blood.
Ryan's pupils slightly contracted: "What a powerful sword!"
"It's so sharp!"
"In terms of sharpness, it's much stronger than Senior Sister Sharon's medium-grade spiritual weapon!"
This was beyond doubt.
His body surface defense could withstand the crazy bites of the Night Demon Ape's fangs and sharp claws!
Ryan was beaming with joy: "If it were to happen again..."
"Even if I only had this spiritual sword transformed by the Life-bound Magic Gourd and without my friend to hold the line, I could also kill the Night Demon Ape without getting hurt!"
This was only one of the advantages brought by the Life-bound Magic Gourd, not all of them!
True Person of Turbid Wine's tone was calm: "What it has transformed into now is only at the level of an ordinary high-grade spiritual weapon. However..."
"Its potential is limitless."
"The higher your cultivation level is and the more various rare treasures, demonic beast souls you devour, the more powerful this Life-bound Magic Gourd will become!"
"Even if you don't go out to slay demons and monsters, as your realm improves, the grade of the spiritual sword it transforms into will also gradually increase."
"Superior-grade spiritual weapons are by no means its limit."
"Magic weapons, Taoist weapons, and even immortal weapons are all possible!"
The infinite growth potential.
This was the second characteristic of the Life-bound Magic Gourd!
As the master of Drunken Immortal Peak and the current leader of the Wine Sword Lineage, True Person of Turbid Wine didn't even need to take Ryan's purple-red spiritual sword and examine it carefully.
Just by looking at it from a distance, she knew that this sword revealed one of Ryan's characteristics.
The [Auspicious Fortune] characteristic!
The auspicious cloud pattern on the sword clearly reflected that...
Although Ryan didn't reach the level of [Beloved by the Heavenly Dao], [Protagonist of the Era], or [Favored by the Immortal Path], he was also a person protected by fortune.
True Person of Turbid Wine didn't find this unexpected at all.
This was what a celestial prodigy was like.
This was what a celestial prodigy should be like!
As for Ryan himself, he knew very well in his heart that he was originally an ordinary person, neither unlucky nor particularly lucky.
It was because he was the [Friend of the Dream Enterer] and was influenced by the karma of Fenrir Howe that his fortune gradually became stronger.
This was where the auspicious cloud pattern on the sword came from.
Ryan quickly tested the third mystery of this Life-bound Magic Gourd!
That was also the point that he valued the most at this stage!
"Return to its original form."
With a slight movement of his thought, the purple-red auspicious cloud spiritual sword in his hand returned to the appearance of the Life-bound Magic Gourd.
Then, Ryan took out the heart of the Night Demon Ape from his Treasure Bag.
"Refine it!"
As his thought moved, Ryan didn't even need to open his mouth to give orders. With just a turn of his thought, the Life-bound Magic Gourd emitted a powerful spiritual aura, like a bottomless pit, slowly sucking in the huge heart of the Night Demon Ape that was still beating slowly and seemed not to be dead.
The huge, coconut-like heart was compressed to the size of a fingernail.
As the heart of the Night Demon Ape was swallowed into the magic gourd, an extremely thick smell of blood instantly filled the air, but it was immediately suppressed by the purple-red light released by the magic gourd.
In just an instant, the Life-bound Magic Gourd completed the brewing and refining!
The Life-bound Magic Gourd trembled slightly. When Ryan looked at it again, there was already a full pot of wine in it, as crystal clear as pomegranate juice and emitting an alluring luster.
The aroma of the wine was strong, full of erosiveness and aggressiveness, just like the Night Demon Ape when it was alive.
This aroma seemed to be able to penetrate people's souls, making people feel intoxicated just by smelling it.
Ryan gently shook the magic gourd in his hand: "Demon Ape Heart-refining Wine!"
He carefully took out a cleaned luminous cup from his Treasure Bag, filled it with wine, and respectfully presented it to True Person of Turbid Wine: "Master, please drink!"
True Person of Turbid Wine was first stunned, and then showed a happy and lively posture like a young girl: "You're much more sensible than I was back then!"
She saw that the wine in the cup presented a deep and charming dark red color, as strange and beautiful as a blood moon in the middle of the night.
True Person of Turbid Wine drank it all in one gulp, then turned around and disappeared into the sky: "Now that this matter is over, I'm leaving!"
"My dear disciple, the journey of immortality is long. Don't slack off!"
Ryan responded, and then saw her beautiful figure gradually fade away and disappear at the end of the sky.
He picked up the wine gourd and took a sip. Immediately, his complexion slightly changed: "This..."