Cave Refuge-Chapter 838 - 540: Consecutive Promotions

Under normal circumstances, no one would use the Three Banners as a storage space for material accumulation like Dong Tianyu.

Under normal circumstances, after refining the Hundred Ghosts Banner, one would immediately determine the fierce ghosts to be cultivated in the future, and all the collected ghost creatures would be consumable materials to enhance the fierce ghosts.

When the ghost creatures in the Hundred Ghosts Banner reached its carrying limit, one would directly consume half of the fierce ghosts as materials to upgrade the grade of the Hundred Ghosts Banner.

Although there is only one White Bone Puppet in the White Bone Banner, under normal conditions, the majority of the time when the owner of the Magical Weapon obtains White Bone Essence, half is used to enhance the puppet’s strength, and the other half to upgrade the grade of the White Bone Banner.

The Bloodthirsty Banner, unlike the White Bone and Hundred Ghosts Banners, is not so troublesome: to upgrade the artifact’s grade, one simply needs to consume the Blood Sea Tainted Blood stored in the Banner.

The Three Banners don’t need to consume any other heavenly and earthly treasures to upgrade their own grade, and they are the kind of Magical Weapons that can be infinitely upgraded. Were it not for the somewhat inhumane needed materials, it’s estimated that both righteous and evil factions would have made one for every person long ago.

The method to upgrade the grade of the Three Banners is very simple, and thanks to the abundance of materials, Dong Tianyu only took less than half a day to successfully upgrade the Three Banners from Magical Weapons to Magic Artifacts.

As Magic Artifacts, the Three Banners’ range of influence greatly increased, but at this point, they still couldn’t achieve the overwhelming ability that the Flying Swords had against the fishmen in the Mysterious Ship.

However, as Dong Tianyu hunted night and day, not only did the number of Dark Green Trick Nuclei in his hands rapidly increase, but the materials in the Three Banners also once again piled up to the brim.

As Dong Tianyu upgraded the Three Banners from Magic Artifacts to Magical Weapons, the Banners no longer served merely as post-battle cleanup tools as before. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Because there was no special control, the fierce ghosts nurtured in the Hundred Ghosts Banner bore a striking resemblance to the fishmen, except these ghosts had only a fish head. When Dong Tianyu manipulated the Hundred Ghosts Banner, hundreds of fish heads scattered out from it, continuously attacking the souls of all nearby living beings.

In reality, the Hundred Ghosts Banner could control more than just a hundred ghosts; the amount it could control was limitless, for as long as there was enough space in the Banner, the number of fierce ghosts it could manipulate was just a thought away for the owner.

The initial appearance of the White Bone Puppet that emerged automatically in the White Bone Banner resembled the fishmen considerably, but once Dong Tianyu summoned it once, he decisively began consciously altering its appearance.

Dong Tianyu didn’t design an overly fancy appearance for the White Bone Puppet. He didn’t transform it into a form suitable for an attacker.

With minor modifications, while retaining a human shape, he changed the fish head to a human head, and the left hand now held a massive bone Tower Shield, while the right hand swung a bone saber.

Due to the nature of the connecting channel, Dong Tianyu actually hoped the White Bone Puppet would have an even stronger defensive power.

Compared to the Hundred Ghosts and White Bone Banners, the changes to the Bloodthirsty Banner after its refinement were not significant, the most obvious being an increase in attack range and the tainted blood becoming more corrosive.

Perhaps because the Three Banners had already succeeded in ascending to the rank of Magical Weapons, they now covered the entire small Mysterious Ship in their absorption range. Dong Tianyu no longer had to control the Three Banners to clean up the battlefield after the Flying Swords as he did before.

Now, Dong Tianyu just needed to deploy the Three Banners at the entrance of the channel to control them to absorb all the dead fishmen within the Mysterious Ship.

As Dong Tianyu continued to cultivate, the power of the Three Banners became increasingly formidable. Along with the strengthening of the Banners, Dong Tianyu eventually no longer needed to use the Flying Swords against enemies; merely by releasing the Hundred Ghosts from the Hundred Ghosts Banner, he could cleanse the fishmen within the Mysterious Ship.

Dong Tianyu never expected that just by relying on the fishmen as consumable materials, he could actually upgrade the grade of the Three Banners to Spiritual Treasure.

When Dong Tianyu came back to his senses, he realized that he had unknowingly accumulated nearly ten thousand Dark Green Trick Nuclei.

Dong Tianyu didn’t know how long he had stayed underwater, but when he once again controlled the Companion Spiritual Treasure to surface, he felt as if he had been away for ages.

Casually tossing the nearly ten thousand Trick Nuclei into the Companion Spiritual Treasure’s storage, as these nuclei disappeared, the equipment within the Companion Spiritual Treasure quickly advanced from the United States’ original antique level, gradually toward the technological level from before the calamity of the First World War.

After the Companion Spiritual Treasure had devoured all the Trick Nuclei, it had just barely managed to upgrade all the instruments and equipment to the same level as the Power Module and Attack Module.

Seeing the equipment levels finally equal within the Companion Spiritual Treasure, Dong Tianyu, who was somewhat compulsive, finally found it more pleasing to the eye.

Checking the tablet, he found to his surprise that he had unwittingly spent over three months underwater.

They say that cultivation knows no years; indeed, as one’s Cultivation Level rises, the time spent in closed-door cultivation naturally becomes longer.

Dong Tianyu originally thought, having been away from home for over three months, it was time to return and see his parents. But considering the charge entrusted to him by his mother before he left, he decided to first visit the other two Magic Cities to check on his cousin’s news before returning to inform his mother.

Just as Dong Tianyu was about to check the locations of the other two bases on his tablet, he noticed the little red dots displayed on a row of apps below the tablet.