Chapter 3: Bone Alchemy
Over the course of a hundred years, although Locke continued to use his soul fire to refine the stone tablet, Locke's actions proved to be effective, because as time passed, Locke was able to sense that the connection between the huge stone tablet and his own soul became more and more close.
However, Locke's soul fire is only one level, which is too weak, even if Locke is the owner recognized by the stele, a hundred years have passed, and Locke is still too early to refine and master the stele. Locke, the little skeleton, can only sense the connection with the stele, but he can't control the stele and carry it down. The huge and heavy stone tablet was not something that a zero-level small skeleton could move at all.
"It seems that with my current strength, it will take even longer to completely refine the stone tablet. A hundred years later, the thought flashed through Locke's soul fire.
Although it took a long time to refine the stone stele, Locke never gave up the idea of refining the stone stele. The mysterious stele is undoubtedly a treasure, and naturally cannot be given up.
However, in the hundreds of years of refining, Locke is not without gains, at least Locke has already understood the meaning of the dense ancient seal characters engraved on the stone stele. After knowing the meaning of the ancient seal script on it, Locke was naturally very excited.
This ancient seal script is actually a cultivation technique, bone alchemy.
From the introduction of this exercise, Locke also knew that this exercise was created by a rumored skeleton ancestor in the cultivation world, which can strengthen his bone strength by refining the bone essence of a powerful existence, which is the most suitable exercise for the undead skeleton, and the skeleton ancestor itself is a powerful skeleton life in the cultivation world.
This was really just about to fall asleep when he encountered a pillow, and Locke was worried about quickly improving his strength so that he could refine the stone tablet faster, so he got a cultivation technique that was most suitable for him.
Although Locke had no concept of time at all, and he didn't care about the passage of time, but after fusing with Zhang Feng's soul, Locke didn't care about the passage of time either, but he had the concept of time.
Therefore, after he successfully advanced to become a first-level skeleton mage, and also obtained bone alchemy, Locke naturally wanted to get out of the cave and hunt other undead skeletons in the realm of the undead world, and seize the soul fire devouring of other undead creatures to improve his strength. Even if you don't hunt other outlaw beings and get the opponent's soul fire, as long as you can find a stronger bone and use bone alchemy to refine it, you can increase your strength.
Moreover, Locke also knew from the introduction of bone alchemy that as long as he practiced and used bone alchemy, he could extract other bone essences to transform his bone form, such as making himself have more bone wings or multiple skeleton limbs, but these changes were not what Locke desired, and what Locke wanted to change most was naturally his short size.
Locke believed that as long as he obtained enough bone refining to integrate into his bone frame, he would be able to get rid of his identity as a small skeleton and become a rich and handsome skeleton mage of more than 1.8 meters.
Carefully crawling out of the small hole that only allowed him to pass through, the new Locke appeared outside the cave for the first time.
Looking at this hole, which is impossible for ordinary skeletons to pass through, Locke naturally knows that for hundreds of years, there will not be a single skeleton life entering it. With the exception of dwarf beings like small skeletons, even slightly normal skeletal health will not burrow into this dwarf cavern.
There is no other color in the world of the undead, except gray and black and gray and white. Moreover, even if there is color, it is impossible for an undead life to see it, and there are still only two colors in the perception of its soul fire.
The little skeleton Locke is only a first-level skeleton, and the range that can be perceived is only within ten meters of the body. Farther away, it wasn't something Locke could perceive.
Not far from Locke, every now and then, a low-level skeleton creature walked aimlessly. Skeleton life is the lowest undead creature in the undead plane, not only because of the large number of skeleton creatures and their weak strength, but also because their intelligence is too weak.
In the life of skeletons, low-level skeletons only have the wisdom to almost no thinking, only instinct, as the strength is stronger, the stronger their instincts become, and the fire of their souls is strong enough, and when they are promoted to intermediate skeletons, that is, fourth-level skeletons, they will have the ability to think.
And when the skeleton life becomes a high-level skeleton and becomes a lord-level skeleton, it has a wisdom no less than that of a normal human. Lord-level skeletons often gather a large number of mid-level and low-level skeletons to fight with other skeleton lords in the undead plane to seize skeleton resources and soul fire.
The Mage Skeleton is the more intelligent existence among the skeleton creatures, and generally when the intermediate skeleton mage is used, its intelligence may not be weaker than that of the high-level Skeleton Lord. Of course, a skeleton mage like Locke, who only has a first-level strength, still has a very low intelligence, only slightly higher than a skeleton warrior of the same level, and it is impossible to reach the wisdom of a lord-level skeleton.
However, the Locke wisdom that fused Zhang Feng's soul was no weaker than that of normal humans, and it was no worse than lord-level skeletons.
In the undead plane, the first, second and third levels, including the zero-level skeletons, are all low-level skeletons, the fourth, fifth, and sixth-level skeletons are equivalent to the middle-level skeletons, and the seventh, eighth, and ninth level powerful skeletons are high-level skeletons, that is, lord-level skeleton life.
The tenth-level skeleton, that is, the Skeletron King or the Sanctuary Skeleton, has an extremely high status in the undead plane, and belongs to the existence of an overlord, which is different from the large number of low-level undead beings in the undead plane.
Although Locke is a special skeleton comparable to the wisdom of a lord-level skeleton powerhouse, in the dangerous undead plane, Locke is still not much different from other low-level skeletons in the Necrogenous realm. Low-level skeletons with only first-level strength are everywhere in the undead plane, while there are more zero-level skeleton creatures with lower levels than Locke.
Swaying like a skeleton ready to fall apart at any moment, Locke walked slowly through the boundless realm of the undead.
Weak undead creatures, the soul can only perceive the situation within a radius of ten meters around it. Therefore, although there were many slow-walking skeletons nearby, Locke did not perceive one.
Dozens of minutes later, a tall, skeletal warrior appeared in Locke's perception.
"Zero-level skeletons. Locke was overjoyed. By perceiving the skeleton warrior's reaction and movement speed, Locke knew that this was the weakest level zero skeleton. Because if the other party is a first-level skeleton like himself, he should have found himself rushing up at this time, and the other party is still moving slowly and aimlessly, then he knows that he is not aware of his existence.
Low-level skeleton creatures, the usual behavior pattern is dominated by instinct, if skeleton creatures encounter the same level of existence, they will generally fight each other, seize each other's soul fire to devour evolution.
As a skeleton creature, Locke was naturally able to sense that the opponent's soul fire did not have any ability to attract him, and it was obviously useless even if he devoured the opponent's soul fire. Only by devouring the soul fire of an existence of the same level or higher can he improve his strength or even advance directly.
If an ordinary first-level skeleton found a skeleton creature with lower strength, it would naturally not be much interested, but Locke was obviously not one of those low-level skeleton creatures dominated by instinct.
Locke had never fought with any skeleton creature since he was born, and when he encountered a zero-level skeleton, he naturally planned to fight it fiercely and adapt to the way skeleton creatures fight.
Locke didn't hide anything, but ran quickly towards the tall skeleton warrior. During the run, the bones at the joints of the limbs collided with each other and made a clattering sound.
In the blink of an eye, Locke was in the way of the zero-level tall skeleton warrior. It's not that Locke's speed is too fast, it's that the distance between the two skeleton creatures is too close, only ten meters away, and even at the speed of a weak skeleton creature, it only takes a few seconds.
Immediately, the little skeleton Locke raised his shorter, skeletal arm and attacked the tall skeleton warrior.
Skeleton mages who can't cast any undead magic yet, their only way to fight is naturally the same as those skeleton warriors, using their skeleton bodies to fight in close combat.