Chapter Ninety-Four: Cultivating Souls
When Xin Yan returned from the Aoki Trading House, he brought back a large number of spirit stones, as well as a large number of pills and various materials, which once again filled the entire warehouse.
If you save a little, these materials alone are enough to support the harvest season of the spirit plant, and Ruoxi and Wenxiu are greatly relieved.
"No! the spirit stones that should be distributed can't be reduced like the pills!" Xin Yan directly rejected Wenxiu's frugal plan, which made her face blush like blood.
"Wen Xiu is also a good intention! She is afraid that you will be extravagant, and she will use up all the spirit stones in three or two days!" Nangong Yunshan was very upset about Wen Xiu. In all fairness, Wenxiu's suggestion makes perfect sense. Repairing the four-grade magic weapon is indeed a skill that can make huge profits, but the problem is that the number of four-grade magic weapons in the Northland Realms is not very common, and the four-grade magic weapons that are damaged in the rune array are even less, and it is even more difficult to find them.
"The four-grade magic weapon damaged by the rune array is not easy to find, I know this. Xin Yan also felt that his words were too heavy, and he patiently explained: "The scattered cultivators are newly attached, and people's hearts are at peace, so their spirit stones cannot be reduced. The maids traveled hundreds of thousands of miles to the remote and poor place of Shuinan, which shows their loyalty, how can we chill their hearts because of a few spirit stones. As for the eldest lady, Wenxiu, and Huzi, your cultivation has reached a critical point, and you can't even reduce the treatment of the spirit stone pill!"
"Alas, I almost ruined the adult's big thing. Why are you always so stupid?" Xin Yan's words made Wen Xiu feel even more embarrassed, she was like a child who had done something wrong, she lowered her head sadly, and her heart was full of self-blame.
"There is always a way to deal with the matter of spirit stones. Don't worry about such trivial matters, just concentrate on cultivation!"
"How can this tone of speech be so similar!" Nangong Yunshan looked at the calm Xin Yan, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt that the expression he spoke was very similar to Nangong Wuji......
No matter what kind of difficulties and hardships he faced, Nangong Wuji was always so calm and calm, as if no difficulties could stop him. Only Nangong Yunshan knew that in order to maintain the operation of the Lingxiao Sect, his father's temples had turned white, and his cultivation had also come to a standstill.
But the guy in front of him gives people more of a feeling of confidence, as if there is nothing in the world that can stump him. Sometimes when she saw Xin Yan's expression of being beaten up, she couldn't help but want to beat him, but this guy can turn evil into good luck every time......
"What are you doing to us? Do you think that a person like us can meet a better boss than an adult?" Zheng Ming's eyes flashed with fanatical fire, and his words were full of incitement, which stirred up the emotions of the scattered cultivators at once, and they shouted with Zheng Ming: "Only adults can be so good to us. ”
"It is his kindness that the adults have been so kind to us. However, we also have to prove the value of our existence. Zheng Ming roared hoarsely, and he said to the crowd: "We have to show our strengths, those who know how to plant spirits, we must take care of the spirit garden, and don't let adults worry about the affairs of the spirit garden; those who can prospect for minerals must work hard to explore the ore veins; those who can tame beasts must also work hard to cultivate spirit bees and accumulate spirit flower nectar to help adults improve their cultivation; as for those who can alchemy, refining tools, and talismans, they must work hard." ”
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With the frantic efforts of Zheng Ming and other loose cultivators, Xin Yan could finally get out of all kinds of trivial affairs and free up his hands to study the way of the puppet mechanism.
All the while, he regretted not having a good mount. The Trap Bird is too low-grade, and he doesn't have any combat power, and he urgently needs a strong mount.
With Xin Yan's net worth, it is not difficult to buy a riding spirit beast. However, the best mount spirit beast is the same as the battle spirit beast, which is extremely rare and rare, and it is impossible to meet it.
Xin Yan plans to get a mount that can both ride and fight.
"Can you fight?,Can you ride at the same time?" When the Red Demon knew Xin Yan's thoughts, he said coldly, "It's just whimsical. ”
It's not that there are no spirit beasts that can both fight and ride, but these spirit beasts look like they, but in fact, they can't do anything. As a mounted spirit animal, they are not docile and docile enough, and most of their flying escape methods are mediocre; as combat spirit animals, they often lack combat talent, not to mention mediocre combat power, and are very lacking in fighting spirit and loyalty, often leaving their owners and running away by themselves.
Therefore, whether it is a cultivator, or a demon or a demon, they no longer cultivate this kind of spirit beast that looks beautiful but actually has no effect.
"If there is no such spirit beast, brother will make a puppet by himself!"
"Hmph, brother, I'll make one for you to see!" Xin Yan decided to refine a puppet. Just do it, Xin Yan began to find the [Heavenly Machine God Puppet] from Tianjizi.
The Heavenly Machine God puppet is broad and profound, and there are hundreds of puppets above the fourth grade, all of which have various styles and uses.
Xin Yan couldn't help but despise Tianjizi, and instead of learning such a good puppet technique, he went to engage in some crooked ways such as zombies.
He didn't know that when Tianjizi got these jade slips, he was a lot older, and he had cultivated to the bottle path again, so how could he have the strength to learn the way of these puppets again.
"That's it!" Xin Yan found a four-grade puppet called a machine man in the Heavenly Machine God Puppet, this kind of puppet can change shape, can be transformed into a chariot, can also be transformed into a machine man, very delicate. Count refining a puppet...... It's just that the structure of this chariot is extremely fine, and it not only requires extremely high refining skills, but also needs to have a strong ability to draw runes, and Xin Yan is not completely sure.
He decided to make the main body of the machine man with black sand crystal, which was also the best material he had in his hand, and the amount was enough. The Black Sand Crystal is a healing magic weapon, and its defensive ability is extremely amazing, and it is best to use it to create a trap.
After the Black Sand Crystal was extremely difficult to refine Xin Yan and laid down the [Yin Yang Seven Evil Flags], he took out four four-legged red copper tripods, namely the green dragon pattern red copper tripod, the white tiger pattern red copper tripod, the Vermilion Bird red copper tripod and the Xuanwu red copper tripod, which were placed in the array according to the four elephant positions, and formed a large array of four elephants from the fire to condense firepower.
He summoned Nirvana again, and whispered in its ear for a while, Nirvana's fat body turned around, and the five-colored light flashed, and the [Yin and Yang Seven Evil Flags] was activated, and seven powerful ghosts were entrenched on the array flag, spitting demonic fire into the four elephant fire arrays, and as soon as the demonic fire entered the array, the four bronze beasts on the four bronze tripods in the four hundred elephant arrays, the green dragon, the white tiger, the Vermilion Bird and the Xuanwu beasts, seemed to come to life, and they transformed the demonic fire into pure Yin and Netherworld fire.
Xin Yan grabbed a bag of black stygian sand and threw it into the flames, the flames surged suddenly, wrapping the black stygian sand in it, and after about a pillar of time, the black stygian sand was all refined, turning into a puddle of black liquid, which flowed into the mold that Xin Yan had prepared a long time ago.
Xin Yan took advantage of the fact that the components in the mold had not yet fully solidified, quickly took out the talisman pen, and drew the [Xuanyin Jiuli Array] on the component, and when his talisman array was drawn, the next component was handed over to him.
After about three days of hard work, the various components of the machine man's body were finally completed, and after another day of assembly, a tall and majestic puppet appeared in the warship.
Although the body of the puppet is made, there is still one most critical step left to complete, and that is the soul.
Puppets mostly use gold and wood tools as their bodies and hands and feet, and apply rune arrays to pull and connect, which is equivalent to human meridians, and puppets above the fourth rank also need to plant a soul with the distraction of the controller as the leader, so that they can act flexibly according to the will of the master.
The higher the level of the puppet, the higher the level of the soul that needs to be planted, and only in this way can the power of the puppet land be exerted to the limit. The strength of this puppet is equivalent to that of a fourth-grade demon beast, and it also needs the soul of a fourth-grade demon beast as a raw material, and it is condensed into a puppet soul through special means.
This is also the most critical step in refining the puppet, if the refining fails, not only the spirit of the puppet will be greatly reduced, but the refiner's soul will also be seriously injured.
Nangong Yunshan looked at Xin Yan with some worry and said, "Are you sure?"
Xin Yan nodded and said, "You help me protect the Fa." "He finally made this puppet, of course he didn't want to give up halfway, not to mention that this trip to the snowfield was extremely dangerous, and he urgently needed this puppet's help.
Seeing that Xin Yan had made up her mind, Nangong Yunshan did not stop her, she said to Xin Yan: "You can concentrate on completing the soul cultivation." Outside things have me. ”
Xin Yan opened a mechanism in the puppet's chest and abdomen, and the armor on the puppet's chest and abdomen naturally opened, and he put in seven gloomy black beads. The beads are called Yin Beads, which are condensed by the Qi of the Yin Soul in the cold land, and are an extremely rare material for nourishing the soul, Xin Yan flashed with a burst of light in his hand, and he set up a seven-star soul nourishing formation in the puppet center, and suddenly, the puppet seemed to be a little more angry.
Then he took out a piece of black wood from the storage bag, a strange wood, called gloomy wood, which could be used to lodge the soul, very precious and rare, from the distant western business world, which he had asked for from a merchant. He put the gloomy wood into the soul cultivation array, which was also magical, and the puppet composed of golden wood actually had a little more gloomy atmosphere.
The next work is not so easy, and there may be dangers, but what Xin Yan has decided has never been given up halfway.
He planted the [Yin and Yang Seven Evil Array Flag] beside him, laid out a soul dementoring array, and then took out a jade bottle, carefully opened the cap, only to see a "mini" Yin soldier rush out, wanting to escape, this is the soul bead of the Yin soldier of the fourth rank who was killed by him.
Seeing that the Yin Soldier's soul bead was about to escape, Xin Yan pointed his finger, and the seven [Yin and Yang Seven Evil Array Flags] were unfurled, and a black mist surged from the soul dementor array, and there were evil ghosts surging in the fog, making a sharp scream, and rushing towards the Yin soldier's soul bead.
Xin Yan followed the method mentioned in the "Puppet Sutra" to launch the formation, and used the soul dementoring formation to devour the soul beads of the Yin soldier and kill its self-consciousness. This link is very crucial, because if you are not careful, the soul dementor circle will devour all the souls, or damage the soul too badly, it will cause failure, and if you can't kill the soul beads of the Yin soldiers, you will endanger yourself when you condense the soul for a while.
Xin Yan controlled the soul formation with all his might, and soon fine sweat appeared on his forehead, although his mind was very strong, but after all, it was still in the foundation building period, the soul beads of the Yin soldiers were gathered by the Yin souls of the four grades, and the Yin Soul was extremely powerful and condensed, although there was a formation to help, it was not easy to kill its self-consciousness.
Finally, after half an hour of hard work, the self-consciousness of the Yin Soldier's soul bead was completely killed, and the Yin Soldier's soul bead also settled down, floating quietly in the air, motionless like a sleeping baby.
But Xin Yan's expression was more solemn, because the next link was more critical and more dangerous. As the name suggests, it is to divide a part of one's divine consciousness and plant it on the soul bead of the Yin soldier whose self-consciousness has been killed.
This step is extremely dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will put yourself in danger, at least your consciousness will be injured, and at worst your mind will be lost and become an idiot.
He took a deep breath, concentrated his mind, and went deep into his own sea of consciousness, his mind was far stronger than that of ordinary monks, in the vast sea of consciousness, there was a light cluster as bright as a star, powerful and condensed, it was his natal divine sense. Closed his eyes and meditated, silently distracted, suddenly his whole body began to tremble, his face showed a color of pain, the bean-sized beads flowed down from his forehead, in his sea of consciousness, the big star became much dimmer than before, but there was a small point of light next to it, the small point of light seemed to be dragged by something, farther and farther away from the big star, and finally was pulled out of the sea of knowledge, the small point of light was like a young bird from the nest, shrunk into a ball in fear, and the light began to dim.
Soon the small light spot found the Yin soldier's soul bead, the small light spot suddenly lit up, and rushed towards the Yin soldier's soul bead like lightning, and soon got in, the Yin soldier's soul bead began to shake violently, Xin Yan's body also trembled violently, and the clothes on his body were all soaked with water.
This small point of light is Xin Yan's divine consciousness, it drilled into the soul bead of the Yin soldier, and began to devour each other with the remnants of the soul bead of the Yin soldier's self-consciousness, after a fierce battle, the small point of light took the upper hand, and finally completely swallowed up the self-consciousness of the soul bead of the Yin soldier. The Yin Soldier's soul bead has returned to calm, but it has now changed its owner, and it should be called Xin Yan's distraction now.
Xin Yan's face was already pale, he endured the tearing pain, and as soon as his mind moved, the soul burrowed into the gloomy wood of the puppet's heart.