"Focus your mind, guard your dantian, use your mind to guide the spirit, use your techniques to control objects, merge your mind and spirit, concentrate your soul, direct your mind, and move the object." Yuan Ming closed his eyes and recited the mantra in his mind while channeling his mana towards the stone in his hand.

 

After a moment, he felt a slight warmth in his palm, and the stone he held was covered in a faint green light, with tiny streams of light flowing on its surface.

 

"Rise!" Yuan Ming suddenly opened his eyes and shouted.

 

His mana involuntarily surged out of his body and flowed into the stone in his hand. However, the stone only expanded with a burst of green light and then returned to normal without any movement.

 

Yuan Ming's gaze hardened, but he didn't feel discouraged. After all, it was impossible for any technique to succeed on the first try.

 

He closed his eyes again and tried several more times, but there was no progress.

 

"Why is this… Could it be because I didn't channel enough mana? Is it because my mind is not focused enough or my understanding is not accurate…" Yuan Ming pondered to himself.

 

With this thought in mind, he sat quietly for a moment and tried again.

 

The little fire glutton beside him didn't understand what was happening. Seeing the stone emitting a faint green light from time to time, it couldn't help but approach and touch it with its small paw. Seeing that there was no danger, it became bolder and started playing with it.

 

Yuan Ming's attempts ended in failure once again.

 

"Perhaps, as recorded in the book, it is difficult to communicate and control ordinary inanimate objects without spirituality. It seems that it is not easy to manipulate them." He sighed lightly and casually threw the stone in his hand, startling the playful fire glutton.

 

Yuan Ming pondered for a while, then wiped his waist storage bag with his hand. Immediately, a silver light flashed in front of him, and the Green Fish Sword appeared, landing in front of him.

 

He grabbed the Green Fish Sword with one hand and gently rubbed the blade with the other hand. At the same time, he channeled his mana from his dantian into the sword. The surface of the long sword flickered with a faint green light, revealing a hint of agility.

 

When the mana dissipated, the green light on the sword disappeared, making it no different from an ordinary bronze long sword.

 

"If we are talking about objects with spirituality, this is the only half-magic tool I have that can be considered qualified." Yuan Ming muttered to himself.

 

Immediately, he closed his eyes slightly, held the long sword with both hands, and focused all his attention on the sword.

 

"Use your mind to guide the spirit, use your techniques to control objects, merge your mind and spirit, concentrate your soul…" He channeled his mana towards the Green Fish Sword while reciting the mantra in his mind.

 

Soon, the Green Fish Sword lit up with a green light again, and with the continuous infusion of mana, it revealed a hint of sharpness.

 

Yuan Ming's mind moved, but this time he didn't even speak.

 

At this moment, the fire glutton cautiously approached, extending its paw and wanting to play with the Green Fish Sword.

 

But just as it approached, a strange scene occurred. The Green Fish Sword suddenly bounced up from Yuan Ming's palm and floated three inches above it, swaying left and right as if it was about to fall at any moment.

 

The fire glutton was startled and jumped onto a nearby old tree.

 

"It worked…"

 

Yuan Ming was overjoyed, but as soon as his mind relaxed, the Green Fish Sword violently shook and fell to the ground, sinking in halfway.

 

But even so, Yuan Ming was still pleasantly surprised. He immediately picked up the long sword and tried again.

 

The way to control the Green Fish Sword was completely different from controlling the stone. It was much smoother than he had imagined, but after trying a few times, he found some problems.

 

Although the Green Fish Sword could ascend as he wished, it was always slightly slower than he expected, and it felt a bit… sluggish.

 

"Go!" Yuan Ming pointed forward and shouted.

 

The Green Fish Sword immediately wobbled and flew straight ahead, but before it could fly three zhang away, the connection between their mana was interrupted.

 

The Green Fish Sword then fell to the ground with a loud thud.

 

"Although it is a bit difficult to control, this should be the way to do it. With more practice, it should perform better. It seems that using this technique on a semi-magic tool is much more convenient than on inanimate objects without spirituality. Oh, I still have this…" Yuan Ming pondered to himself and a thought emerged.

 

He stood up and looked around. Seeing no one around, he moved his mind and summoned the green incense burner from his arm.

 

Then, Yuan Ming channeled his mana into the incense burner and once again used the technique to control objects.

 

This time, before his thoughts even formed, the incense burner floated up leisurely and suspended in front of Yuan Ming.

 

Yuan Ming was delighted to see this and immediately moved his mind. With a wave of his hand, the incense burner swayed and flew away into the distance.Unlike the Green Fish Sword, which could only fly three zhang away, the incense burner flew nearly ten zhang away before the connection between it and Yuan Ming was almost completely severed.

 

Yuan Ming quickly got up and ran over, taking a step ahead of the curious Fire Ferret to pick up the incense burner.

 

The Fire Ferret was very curious about this incense burner that could fly and climbed up to compete with Yuan Ming for it.

 

"You little guy, don't move around. Go find something to do on your own. If you cause trouble again, you'll go hungry for the next meal." Yuan Ming threw the Fire Ferret out and then carefully examined the incense burner in front of him.

 

From the initial reaction of using the Drive Object Technique, he was already certain that this incense burner was at least a magical tool. This made him quite excited.

 

After thinking for a moment, Yuan Ming once again used the Drive Object Technique to make the incense burner fly and tried to increase his mana to see if he could stimulate any special abilities.

 

However, after several attempts, he still gained nothing. The incense burner remained like a stubborn stone, showing no other power.

 

"Could it be because I haven't refined it?"

 

After a brief thought, Yuan Ming made a decision to use the refining method taught by San Dongzhu to refine the incense burner.

 

On the day he learned the refining method, he had already tried to refine the Green Fish Sword, only to find that it was only a semi-magical tool and did not meet the conditions for refining, so he had to give up.

 

Without hesitation, Yuan Ming immediately held the incense burner and recited the refining method, attempting to refine the treasure.

 

In the next moment, a strong repulsive force emanated from it, and layers of golden runes and prohibitions appeared one after another. Before Yuan Ming could see clearly, he was thrown back by the golden light.

 

He flew from his original position and crashed into an old tree seven or eight zhang away before coming to a stop.

 

The Fire Ferret, lying on the tree, saw this scene and stood still, not understanding what had happened.

 

"Wow, such powerful prohibition power…" Yuan Ming rubbed his chest and sighed.

 

Although he failed to refine the incense burner, Yuan Ming was inexplicably happy.

 

From the layers of runes and prohibitions, he could easily see that this incense burner was definitely a rare magical tool, and it might even be the legendary treasure.

 

Thinking of this, he no longer tried to refine it beyond his abilities, but continued to practice the Drive Object Technique.

 

…

 

In the blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed.

 

In a certain place in the Ten Thousand Mountains, a half-human-sized fierce beast leopard cautiously moved forward in the forest, attentively watching the surroundings while searching for prey to fill its stomach.

 

In front of it, there was a rustling sound in the forest, and a small beast with a fiery red body and a fox-like shape dashed out happily.

 

The fierce beast leopard's eyes lit up, immediately pounced on it, and the forest within a few zhang range was filled with the sound of chaos and the stench of blood.

 

The fiery red little beast showed a look of surprise, opened its mouth, and spewed a red flame towards the fierce beast leopard. However, the power of the red flame was too weak. Before it could reach the fierce beast leopard, it was torn apart by the strong wind.

 

The steel-like claws of the fierce beast leopard appeared above the head of the little beast in an instant and fiercely grabbed it.

 

At this moment, a green long sword shot out from the forest in front, piercing towards the chest of the fierce beast leopard with lightning speed.

 

The fierce beast leopard roared, and its large body quickly moved sideways on the ground, narrowly avoiding the attack of the green long sword.

 

However, the green long sword suddenly changed direction and continued to stab towards the fierce beast leopard, as if an invisible hand was holding the sword.

 

With a light sound, the green long sword pierced into the heart of the fierce beast leopard, reaching the hilt.

 

The fierce beast leopard let out a mournful cry, fell to the ground at an angle, and struggled for a moment before becoming motionless.

 

In the sound of rustling in the forest ahead, Yuan Ming's figure walked out.

 

"You little guy, I've told you before, this place is very dangerous. I can't afford to take responsibility if something happens when you run around everywhere." He picked up the fiery red little beast and knocked its head.

 

The fiery red little beast lowered its head, looking apologetic.

 

"Don't do this again! If you don't listen, I'll put you in a bag!" Seeing this situation, Yuan Ming was both angry and amused. He rolled his eyes at it and put it on his shoulder.

 

As he spent more time with the Fire Ferret, he finally understood why Legong said the Fire Ferret was so mischievous. Although this little creature was not brave, it was full of curiosity about everything and couldn't stay still. It was a headache.During this period, with his continuous practice, he had become increasingly proficient in manipulating the Green Fish Sword through the Object Control Technique. Not only had he made significant progress in terms of stability and accuracy, but the distance he could control it had also increased from the previous ten meters to the current twenty to twenty-five meters. Moreover, as he delved deeper, he believed he could further improve in this aspect.

 

Unfortunately, the Green Fish Sword was, after all, only a semi-magical artifact, different from a true magical artifact. Coupled with his insufficient cultivation and magical power, he had no problem with straightforward control, but he couldn't perform any complex movements.

 

With this thought in mind, his desire to possess a true magical artifact became even more urgent.

 

(Dear fellow Daoists, it's the first month on the shelf, four more chapters for votes ^^)

 

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