At noon on the fourth day, it was raining continuously, but because the demon whale flying ship was flying above the clouds, the sky was still clear overhead, but overlooking the feet, it was a vast sea of clouds tumbling and surging.

On the deck of the Demon Whale Flying Ship, Tan Yang, Hu Mei'er and Zhong Hongying were talking and laughing and admiring the beautiful scenery in front of them, when a dazzling light pierced the sky and shot out from the intersection of the clouds and the sky, and Zhong Tianshi returned.

After some greetings, Zhong Tianshi called Tan Yang to his cabin alone.

A palm-sized, ink-black bowl, a small banner painted with countless runes, a pile of small black bags, seven or eight colorful jade boxes, a fiery red inner armor as thin as a cicada's wings, and a golden jade pendant...... And so on, all kinds of items are placed on the green jade coffee table, shining brightly and dazzling.

Zhong Tianshi first pointed to the inner armor and jade pendant and said, "This is an inner armor made of flamingo feathers, this is a warm yang jade pendant, which should be able to offset the suffering of some shadows." ”

As he spoke, he picked up the items on the coffee table one by one and introduced them one by one.

The palm-sized bowl is called the Soul Gathering Bowl, which is not made of gold or iron, and the whole body is as black as ink, it is a Horcrux that can imprison and store the soul, and the loss of soul power is almost negligible;

There were seven small black bags in total, called Soul Bags, and they were also a Horcrux that could store souls;

The small banner is called the Soul Flag, which can be very convenient to pull the soul out of the corpse of a person or demon beast, and put it into the Soul Detention Circle in the body of the flag, of course, because of Tan Yang's cultivation. This Soul Banner is only at the level of a spiritual weapon, and its ability to conjure spirits and its storage capacity are extremely limited;

Those colorful jade boxes. There are seven or eight demon pills whose soul power has not yet been exhausted;

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Zhong Tianshi said: "In that soul gathering bowl, there are seven souls. Except for one of the soul of a monk in the Imperial Spirit Realm, the rest of the souls were all Qi Gathering and even Body Refining Realm. It's not that there aren't enough poor Dao spars, it's that the souls of the Terran monks are not sold on the market at all, and Poor Dao has even been to the Baibaolou head office under the Immortal Building, but he still found nothing. ”

It turned out that after Zhong Tianshi entered the Inner Realm of Asking Immortals in Tianlan City, he learned after many inquiries that the soul restraint technique was tantamount to depriving others of the opportunity to reincarnate in yin and yang, unless it was a mortal enemy who did not share the sky. Otherwise, the ordinary monk fighting method will rarely even let go of the opponent's soul, and this move is really detrimental to Yin Virtue, even if someone gets the soul of a Terran monk in their hands, they will never dare to openly take it out and buy it.

Later, in a shop that bought and sold Horcruxes, Zhong Tianshi simply restrained the boss directly, and forced a way out of his mouth, that is, there were some monks who specialized in refining puppets who would privately buy and sell the souls of some Terran monks. Then trap the soul in the circle inside the puppet's body, so that the puppet can have intelligence.

So, Zhong Tianshi found a shop that specialized in refining puppets, and after using some means. It took great pains to find the souls of these seven Terran monks.

Of course, as for what means were used, Zhong Tianshi did not say clearly. But Tan Yang could guess with his toes, this method was definitely not a conventional means.

After listening to Zhong Tianshi's narration. Only then did Tan Yang understand why even Gongsun Wuji regarded those three fake Japanese cultivators as treasures. Zhong Chengji, as a famous and decent celestial master, may not know much about these ghost tricks, but Gongsun Wuji must be very clear.

"Heavenly Master, a Zhenggang Realm cultivator's soul can condense more than thirty soul beads, while the soul of a Royal Spirit Realm monk can only condense five or six. Tan Yang said disappointedly, "The souls of those Qi Gathering and Body Refining Realm cultivators can't even go out of their bodies, and they are used to refine soul beads, and they may melt into the furnace, and these six souls together can only condense one soul bead." ”

Zhong Tianshi pointed at the soul conjuring banner and said, "Don't worry, this conjuring banner was bought by me from Baibaolou at a great price, and there are more than 100 demon beast souls in it, just because the strength of the banner body is not enough, except for a dozen fourth-order demon beast souls, the rest are some third-order demon beast souls below the extreme." In addition, those seven soul bags contain the souls of seven fifth-order demon beasts, plus these seven or eight demon pills with still surviving soul power, these things together should be able to refine a lot of soul beads, right?"

Tan Yang smiled bitterly: "Heavenly Master doesn't know, using the soul of a demon beast to refine a soul bead is just a forced alternative, at the beginning, I lied to Senior Sister Zhong that the Bodhi Zhuang Soul Pill was refined with a demon pill, but I just wanted to remove her psychological barrier to taking the soul bead." As the saying goes, what you eat to make up for it, to cultivate people's souls, it is naturally best to absorb the soul power of the soul of the human monks, and it is half the effort to use the soul of the demon beast, and if you absorb too much, there will be many negative effects, especially the demon energy and anger in the soul of the demon beast are difficult to get rid of, and over time, it is likely to affect the character and mind of the absorber. ”

During this time, Tan Yang and Gongsun Wuji learned a lot of soul and other knowledge, and his understanding of this aspect was even far higher than that of Zhong Tianshi.

The core practice of Linghai Pavilion is Taoist Xuangong, the patriarch of the opening sect Tianjizi once said such a sentence, "the way of yin and yang, the art of ghosts", he regarded yin and yang as the core avenue, and regarded ghosts as the art of side branches, this kind of thinking has been passed down to this day, resulting in Linghai Pavilion only advocating the way of yin and yang, and the art of ghosts has been reduced to those Taoist temples of Zhai Jiao crossing the secluded and catching ghosts, so although Zhong Tianshi has cultivated to the realm of Yuanxiang, he has not studied the art of ghosts deeply.

Even among the five peaks in charge of Linghai Pavilion today, only Wanghai Peak is in charge of Nie Zhenren, who is quite accomplished in the art of ghosts, and the others, like Zhong Tianshi, don't know much about this aspect.

However, after all, Zhong Tianshi is a great cultivator of the Yuanxiang realm, with extraordinary experience and intelligence, although he is not deeply accomplished in this area, he can understand Tan Yang's meaning quickly, and his face, which has always been unwavering, can't help but show a little disappointment and even frustration.

At this moment, Gongsun Wuji, who was in the sea of Xiao Zhihai, couldn't help but speak: "Boy, you are simply an elm head, the old man said that it is difficult to get rid of the demonic energy and anger in the soul of the demon beast, but that is just common sense, and this matter is difficult for others to ascend to the sky." It's a piece of cake for you, and don't forget that you can absorb demonic power. Wouldn't it be better for you to filter the demon soul yourself?, and then add some roots of the Bodhi Sacred Tree and other medicinal materials to the soul beads, although it will cause a lot of soul power to be lost. But there will be no hidden dangers. ”

Tan Yang suddenly realized that he could throw the filtered demonic qi and evil qi into the small black sun in the sea of knowledge, and he could also use demonic power to refine the body meridians, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?

"However, the Celestial Master should not be too disappointed, something is better than nothing. Tan Yang said, "As for these beast souls and demon pills, the disciples will try to use the roots of the Bodhi Sacred Tree and some other medicinal materials to correct and dispel evil. Let's see if I can refine them as much as possible, and after the refining is completed, I will take it myself first, and then give it to Senior Sister Zhong after confirming that there are no hidden dangers. According to the disciple's estimate, all these materials added together, refining seventy or eighty soul beads should not be a big problem, but compared to the so many spars paid by the Heavenly Master, the price is inevitably too large. ”

Zhong Tianshi breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "The spar is not a problem. For the sake of shadows, it is to sell the poor road. Seventy or eighty soul beads, the shadow can be used for more than two months, and then think of other methods! Poor Dao first teaches you how to use the art of Horcruxes. ”

After speaking, he began to teach Tan Yang how to use the Soul Gathering Bowl, Soul Bag, and Soul Conjuring Banner and other Horcruxes.

Because it was necessary to purify the soul of the demon beast first, Tan Yang's refining of the soul bead this time took about half a month's effort.

Hard work pays off. Under the guidance of Gongsun Wuji, Tan Yang successfully refined one hundred and nine soul beads. However, because the soul content of the demon beasts in the soul beads is too much, its specific effect is equivalent to sixty or seventy soul beads in the last batch.

But there are always pros and cons to everything. Due to the lack of purity of this batch of soul beads, and the fact that Zhong Hongying had already adapted to the Yin spirit power, the pain Cheng dù in the process of absorbing the soul power was greatly reduced, and even occasionally increased to three per day, she could basically bear it.

Watching Zhong Hongying's spirit flourish day by day, Zhong Tianshi was greatly relieved, and at the same time, his attitude towards Tan Yang gradually became affectionate, and his name for Tan Yang gradually evolved from "Tan Master Nephew" at the beginning, to "Tan Yang", and sometimes even called "Yang'er" directly, and Tan Yang himself felt a little uncomfortable and even numb.

In addition, after getting along day and night in the past few months, the relationship between Tan Yang and Feng Wanli has also changed greatly. Along the way, except for occasionally going to the deck to let the wind out, the rest of the time is basically held in his cabin and meditating, but Hu Meier doesn't care about this, no matter whether Feng Wanli is sleeping or meditating and practicing, he often runs to play and play nonsense, although Feng Wanli is often so angry that he blows his beard and glares, but there is no way to take her, so he can only laugh and scold.

Sometimes, Hu Meier will drag Tan Yang to Feng Wanli's cabin together, at the beginning, Feng Wanli only greeted Tan Yang with a polite greeting or two, but Tan Yang has been quite knowledgeable since he was a child, knows when to speak, when to be silent, and as long as he speaks, he can definitely arouse Feng Wanli's interest or make him laugh.

In this way, day after day, Feng Wanli seems to gradually forget that Tan Yang is a hateful human race, and his name for Tan Yang has gradually evolved from "Tan Xiaoyou" at the beginning to "Tan Yang", and sometimes even directly calls him "stinky boy" or "little monkey".

In terms of cultivation, because he had received the help of the incomparably rich Heaven and Earth Yuan Force from Gongsun Wuji when he crossed the tribulation on Luoyun Peak, coupled with the sufficient supply of Qi Gathering Pills, the third layer of Tan Yang's Qi Gathering Realm was already close to the Great Perfection, and he was only one step away from the fourth layer.

In addition, his ice bullet technique has been successfully practiced, and the third change of the Wind Shadow Thousand Variations is also close to completion, but the little Wuxiang Chiba hand has not made much progress due to the lack of actual combat, but the various small spells taught by Gongsun Wuji can be regarded as making up for the shortcomings in this regard.

Generally speaking, these days on the Demon Whale Flying Ship are the most relaxed and happy days since Tan Yang stepped into the cultivation realm, and his cultivation has not been delayed at all; he is accompanied by two beautiful women; Gongsun Wuji and Zhong Tianshi, two great monks, are always pointing out the maze; one qiē and one qiē can be regarded as immortal days.

(To be continued......)