Chapter 242: The Messenger
"I don't know much, except that it is a sacrificial array, which is extremely difficult to activate and extremely costly. ”
Is it really a sacrificial array, it seems that the demon spirit heard it correctly.
"Do you know when this sacrificial array began?"
"I don't know the specifics, but from the little information I've gotten, it seems like it's been decades old. ”
"Decades!"
This answer surprised Bi Lingxiao, but he understood it instead. This is a terrible thing that his teachers and teachers have kept secret, and such a powerful sacrificial array is not a long time to prepare for decades.
"The information you provided is very useful, thank you very much!" Bi Lingxiao nodded. Now that Augustus has regained his body, there is no need to stay. He smiled and bowed his head. "Meeting is fate, I wish you a great revenge and success!"
Augustus smiled the mildest smile to date.
"We'll see you again. ”
Before the words fell, his figure had disappeared in place. Bi Lingxiao felt that the barrier was pierced by an invisible force, and then returned to calm.
It seems that this soul sacrifice, if it really succeeds, it must be a ** annoyance, and he still has to be prepared to deal with it. After all, no one can say for sure whether they left quickly or the sacrificial array started quickly.
"Little one, I'm going to let you run errands again! You go back to Zhongshan and help me get something." ”
After more than a week of silence, the cave finally came to life. Daeron stood at the entrance of the cave after several days of retreat, beckoning to the people stationed below. I didn't let my disciple do it for me, and my wife jumped off the cliff in the night.
"Ninth Elder, what's the good news?"
"Driving the Sect Master's Protector, the first Heavenly Spirit Rune has been completed. ”
Daren smiled, and his eyebrows were full of exhaustion. I saw that he brought forward the item he was holding in his hand, it was a wooden box, and the white rune paper filled with aura was lying quietly in it, and the air was filled with a refreshing fragrance.
Inhaling it in one breath, my wife suddenly felt that the meridians suddenly became active. The overflowing smell alone has such an obvious effect, it is enough to imagine how much energy such a thin piece of rune paper contains!
"Congratulations to the Nine Elders, you have won the battle!"
Seeing the results, my wife smiled and carefully took the wooden box, as if the expensive gold wood was as brittle as paper ash and would shatter when touched.
"I still have to trouble the sect master to hand over this talisman to the national teacher, and I'll go make the second one now. ”
"It's going to be hard for Elder Nine these days! Don't worry, after the matter is completed, the national teacher will definitely not treat you badly!" My wife was very happy holding the wooden box all night, although she saw Darren's hidden exhaustion, she didn't say much.
"Thank you, Sect Master. ”
With a gesture, Daeron went back to the cave, and the moment he turned around, the exhaustion on his face was swept away. My wife has already descended the mountain at night, and she will personally escort this spirit rune back to the puppet sect.
The barrier opened again, and Bi Lingxiao continued his work before leaving the cave. The demon spirit had already returned that morning, bringing with him what he needed: Gu worms. The rare Gu worms of the Kun Sect had been burned by him in the sect ranking battle, and these brought by the demon spirit were two of the few survivors.
These Gu worms were still in their juvenile state at that time, and although they were close to maturity, they could not be used yet. During this time, through He Yingsheng's warmth, part of it has been fully matured and can be used. What Bi Lingxiao needed was one of the extraordinarily special Gu worms, and this Gu worm was the ultimate promoter of the battle with my wife Che Yue - the secret Gu needed to refine the puppet.
The puppet of the puppet sect must be completed through two parts: refining, and controlling.
The refining process came to Bi Lingxiao's fingertips, and it didn't take a few days to complete. This is also thanks to the Yuanyu line, which allowed him to soar to the 11th order level, otherwise how powerful the physical body of the peak master is, if he is still at the level of the 9th order peak, I am afraid it will really take a lot of effort. However, the fact that these physical bodies are from humans is also an important reason. Human beings' physical fitness is inherently weak, and even if they cultivate to the level above the peak, most of them can only be compared to the middle and upper level demons, which also greatly reduces the difficulty of cultivation. And the puppet technique of the puppet sect, refining the puppet is not the most important, being able to control the puppet that is refined is the essence of the puppet technique.
If you want to use the puppet, you need to engrave the owner's soul traces on the inside of the puppet. In this way, the lifeless puppet is equivalent to injecting a little breath of life, which is equivalent to a powerful doppelganger, and this soul emblem needs Gu worms to engrave it. If there is no final carving step, no matter how powerful the puppet is, it will only be a dead thing, which cannot be manipulated or used, which is why my wife Che Yue was so angry at that time.
The absence of Gu worms meant that the Puppet Sect could no longer refine any puppets.
Of course, although the Kun Sect has lost all its elites, it has not completely disappeared, and the refining method of Gu worms still exists. It's just that rare Gu worms are all extremely difficult to cultivate, and it is impossible to cultivate high-grade Gu worms without tens or hundreds of years. The fire burned all the mature and immature Gu worms in the worm bank, which meant that the Puppet Sect would face a vacuum period where there might be no new puppets for hundreds of years. A hundred years, for demons, may only be a stage of infancy, and for humans, it is one or even more eras.
In order to make the body, Augustus dealt with a total of three Supreme Elders of the Puppet Sect. One of them has already been used for it, so the remaining two can't be wasted! What Bi Lingxiao has to do is to complete the final part of making a puppet: the envoy.
It is not difficult to carve soul traces on inanimate foreign objects, let alone puppets that have been washed away from all soul breath, but it is one thing to be engraved, and whether they can be manipulated is another. The more powerful the puppet, the more powerful the soul is needed to dominate, and it is obviously impossible to do it with just a small soul trace, and this is the unique thing about puppetry.
The way to control the puppet is to condense on this small Gu worm.
This kind of puppet-making secret Gu is very peculiar. They don't have any resistances, they don't have any other abilities, the only thing they have is they can absorb soul breath. As long as a trace of soul breath is injected into it, and it is tempered by fire, this Gu worm will undergo an astonishing transformation - they will turn into a coat of arms!
It is impossible to complete the manipulation by drawing the coat of arms directly on the puppet, but through the coat of arms of this Gu worm, you can!
Bi Lingxiao didn't know what the principle was, but he could only say that each unique tribe had their unique and powerful abilities. After completing the soul carving, the puppet puppet opened its eyes, and under the half-closed eyelids, there were empty and dull whites. They hung their heads, drooped their hands and feet, and slowly floated up, floating in the air.
My wife Yaksha once took decades to successfully produce a high-level puppet, and in Bi Lingxiao's hands, three pieces were completed in less than half a month. And these three, each of them in color, is many times higher than my wife's Yaksha!
Looking at the puppets floating in mid-air, Bi Lingxiao tried to manipulate them simply. Manipulating a puppet is no different from manipulating a puppet in a stage play, except that the thread here becomes mental power. There's nothing wrong with manipulating two puppets to do the same thing at the same time, but it's a lot of trouble to have them do different things.
After all, the puppets are not autonomous, and their every move comes from manipulating instructions. And to want two puppets to do different things at the same time means to divide the consciousness into two halves, no, three halves - your own real body also has to be taken into account!
After such an attempt, Bi Lingxiao realized that it was not an easy task to control the puppet. It's fine to manipulate one, but if you add another one, you'll be overwhelmed. After all, you have to deal with more situations in battle, and you may be able to manipulate the puppet while maintaining your own flexibility, but if you manipulate more, it will be a little more difficult.
It's no wonder that the Puppet Sect is capable of making puppets, but each person controls one, not more. It's not that they can't control so many puppets, it's that they can't manipulate them precisely. On the battlefield, manipulating ten puppets to stand in a row and do the same action is far less effective than just manipulating one, but the effect that can be achieved with agility and freedom.
It seems that if you want to control two puppets at the same time, you still have to practice hard.
Looking at the two puppets under his control, the movements were either one after the other, or they could not complete the expected instructions, Bi Lingxiao happily set up recess activities.
The disciples stationed outside rotate in three shifts, no matter how windy or rainy, there will always be people around the cliff, and the two sect masters are also sleeping in the open air, never leaving an inch. While they were drinking the howling northwest wind and beating against the raindrops the size of beans, they had no idea that the people in the cave were manipulating two puppets and were practicing drawing circles with their left hand and drawing squares with their right hand.
Is it difficult to draw a circle with the left hand and a square with the right hand? It is not difficult, ordinary people can do it with a little practice, so what about drawing a circle with the left hand and a square with the right hand, while manipulating the puppet to carry out the same movements?
Bi Lingxiao painted on the ground, two puppets, one on the left and one on the right, back to back on the stone wall, and finally got six patterns that are not round and not square. He was not discouraged at all, and the first time he drew two hands, he would not be able to form a shape, let alone six hands now.
Such a low-level puzzle activity was done for a day as soon as it was done. In the middle of the night, a thunderbolt slashed down, and under the fleeting electric light, various figures covered with the cave were clearly reflected. I saw that the shapes were not formed at first, then slowly smoothed, and finally, the edges and corners appeared, the lines were rounded, and the complete and clear circular square pattern was scattered everywhere.
After drawing the last line, Bi Lingxiao raised his head and stretched his waist. After a long day's work, he was now able to control himself and two puppets to draw perfect circles and squares at the same time. Looking at the patterns scattered throughout the cave, he smiled slightly, waved his hand to erase the traces, and began the next stage of training: himself and a puppet with a left hand round and a right hand square, and the other left hand square and right hand round.
It's another grinding process. After a whole day of left and right, the brain's control of the movement has almost solidified, and at this time, the sudden change is another disaster scene. All kinds of strange shapes and uncoordinated movements vied to appear, but after repeated practice again and again, the initial discomfort gradually disappeared. The clean cave was again painted with dense figures, and the second stage of training was completed. This is followed by the third stage, the fourth stage...... From the simple left circle and right square, to the ability of six hands to draw six completely different figures at the same time, the stone walls of the cave are covered again and again, and wiped clean again and again, day after day. When my wife came up for the fifth time a month later to get the Celestial Spirit Rune, she blinked strangely at the cave.
"How do I feel that this hole seems to be getting a little bigger again?"