However, it is impossible to give up the Xuanyuan Sea, because the Ye family now has more than a dozen Jindan masters, including its members, spirit beasts, and guest cultivators.
The cultivation of so many Jindan cultivators requires a huge amount of spiritual energy and various resources, which cannot be afforded by the current scale of Yueyuanhai's spiritual veins.
Not to mention, the Ye family now has large-scale spiritual fields, and relying solely on the large third-grade medium-quality spiritual vein in Yueyuan Sea is definitely not enough.
"We have to find a way to strengthen the spiritual veins of the Xuanyuan Sea."
Ye Linyuan pondered and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
The quality of the third-level inferior earth veins is limited. Even if it is a third-level super-large spiritual vein, it can only temporarily fight against the late Jindan stage after the arrangement of the complex formation. It is definitely not enough to face such a large-scale Jindan sea beast clan.
If one wants to resist such a large-scale group of Jindan sea beasts, or make the late Jindan stage helpless, one must have at least a large-scale spirit vein of middle grade of the third order.
However, if one wants to upgrade to a third-grade medium-quality spirit vein, the spirit-raising formation is secondary. The most important thing is how to obtain a third-grade low-quality spirit-gathering bead.
The price of the third-order spirit gathering beads is very expensive, and even if you can buy it, it is very uneconomical. However, Ye Linyuan's Tiangang Disha soul-gathering formation can only absorb the second-order spirit gathering beads.
"I didn't get the third-level soul-capturing formation in my previous life."
“However, there are many similar inheritances in the formation inheritance of the ancient sect in the Blood Prison Secret Realm. Perhaps I can integrate it into the Soul Capture Formation and use it as a reference to create a third-level Soul Capture Formation.”
Ye Linyuan kept thinking and had some ideas in his mind.
However, creating a third-level formation is not something that can be accomplished overnight, and the most urgent task is to deal with the losses and gains of this battle.
At this time, Ye Linyuan first simply repaired the blood spirit field a bit, and then handed the rest of the matter to the second-level spirit plant husband in the clan to deal with.
He came to the main hall and counted the spoils of the trip.
In this battle, the Seven Domain Alliance won a great victory because the Lord of the Desolate Sword called out the sword spirit for help, and the Ye family of immortals reaped extremely rich rewards.
They captured the corpses of eight sky whales in total, including seven adult sky whales in the early Jindan stage and one old sky whale in the middle Jindan stage.
With so many remains of demon kings, the treasures that can be extracted are naturally astonishing.
After a quick inventory, everyone found that they had obtained a total of eight complete Sky Whale leathers, more than a hundred pieces of ambergris, eight complete Sky Whale skeletons, and a large amount of Sky Whale flesh and blood.
Among so many treasures, the Sky Whale leather is relatively intact. If it is used to make third-level talismans, it is likely that more than sixty third-level medium and low-quality talismans can be tanned at one time.
However, Ye Linyuan planned to keep these leathers and refine them together with the leather of the giant whale that Taoist Gray Whale had used to make a set of third-tier precious nine-leaf sails in the future.
There are more than a hundred pieces of ambergris, of which about a dozen are second-grade rare ambergris, and the rest are third-grade lower-quality or above ambergris.
This kind of ambergris can enhance the spiritual cultivation of the Jindan masters, and is a top-level cultivation treasure for Jindan cultivators.
For Jindan, if the power of the soul is strong enough, the success rate of breaking through the middle and late stages of Jindan or even breaking through the false infant stage in the future can be slightly improved.
Moreover, possessing a powerful soul is of great benefit to comprehending supernatural powers, refining elixirs and weapons, and even practicing the hundred arts of cultivation, and it can also slightly enhance the power of a cultivator's supernatural powers.
After all, powerful spiritual power can enable a cultivator to achieve a more perfect control over his own magic power.
Ye Linyuan practiced the Taoist visualization method, and his spiritual power increased very quickly. Now he has reached a level comparable to the late Golden Elixir stage. The use of these ambergris is not particularly great.
But for other golden elixirs of the Ye family, these ambergris are rare treasures. Even if only a small part of them is taken out, it can increase their spiritual power to the middle stage of golden elixir.
Combined with the nourishing spirit pills and other items that the family can refine, it can at least allow them to temporarily raise their spirit and soul cultivation to a small level higher than their own before breaking through to the late Jindan period.
In addition to ambergris and leather, Ye Linyuan also planned to add various materials to the skeletons of eight sky whales to refine a set of golden elixir puppet formation.
Unfortunately, the Ye family does not have a puppeteer above the third level yet, otherwise they would be able to possess combat power comparable to that of a late Jindan with this puppet formation.
The remaining flesh and blood of the Sky Whale could probably be used to refine dozens of bottles of flesh and blood pills, which would be more than enough for Ye Linyuan and Ye Chongyun to cultivate to the middle stage of the Golden Core.
After counting all the treasures, Ye Linyuan took out a batch of rare treasures and distributed them to the Ye family's Jindan and guests who participated in the battle, and then asked.
"I am going to create a puppet formation and need to select a puppeteer."
"Who do you think is the best candidate for this position?"
When everyone heard this, they were all slightly stunned, and soon they all showed surprise.
They understood that what Ye Linyuan was going to refine this time was most likely a Jindan-level puppet formation, which was a truly top-level weapon. Once in control, it would be enough to suppress the Seven Domain Alliance.
However, the candidates for the puppet formation cannot be chosen randomly.
First of all, the demon race is not good at cultivating the various arts, so the spiritual beasts of the race such as the Golden Fighting Ape, the Frost Chi, the Cangyue Shell, and the Fushan Ao can be directly ruled out.
Secondly, manipulating puppets places a heavy mental burden on one's mind. Once one becomes a puppeteer, one must abandon one's own positive combat power and focus most of one's energy on the puppet.
In this situation, Ye Xuqiu and Shui Hanqing, who are both powerful, would definitely not be suitable.
You know, even Ye Linyuan, after mastering the Xuanyuan Zhenhai Flag and other formations, had to give up other magic weapons or methods, and could only use methods such as the Wanhua Sword Art that did not consume spiritual consciousness.
If Ye Xuqiu gave up his natal immortal sword and Shui Hanqing no longer practiced the Shui Han Sword, it would be obvious that their path of sword cultivation would become more and more difficult.
Therefore, this puppet formation is best performed by a genius who is not good at frontal combat but has a very strong foundation, especially one whose soul strength is different from that of ordinary people.
After much deliberation, they soon found a suitable candidate.
But Shui Hanqing hesitated for a moment, and then he spoke directly: "Ye Yingxu has extraordinary talent, and his soul is also very powerful."
"Moreover, he is good at the way of heavenly secrets, but lacks the means of direct combat. This puppet formation can just make up for this shortcoming."
Upon hearing this, Ye Linyuan nodded slightly.
As a Nine-Patterned Golden Elixir, Ye Yingxu is impeccable in both talent and comprehension. He is indeed an excellent candidate to also practice puppetry.
So Ye Linyuan did not hesitate and said immediately: "In this case, let him refine the puppet with me after we go back."
Ye Yingxu was not good at frontal combat, so he did not follow the war this time, but stayed in Yueyuan Palace to guard against sneak attacks from Teng Snake.
Back to the topic, after deciding on the puppeteer, Ye Linyuan repaired the formation of the Xuanyuan Islands and then left the Xuanyuan Islands.
He returned to Yueyuan Island and resumed his life of seclusion in the following days.
In the following period of time, Ye Linyuan had a lot of things to do. In addition to practicing, he needed to take care of the spiritual field on the one hand, and deal with the flesh and blood of the sky whale on the other.
After all the flesh and blood of the Sky Whale, as well as the ambergris, were refined into pills and stored, he began to refine puppets with Ye Yingxu.
With the foundation of a fourth-rank weapon refiner in his previous life and a top-grade third-rank formation master in this life, it was not difficult for Ye Linyuan to refine a third-rank puppet.
After all, puppets are essentially composed of a large number of magic weapons combined together and pieced together with formations as the framework.
However, refining puppets above the third level requires a large amount of second and third level materials.
After Ye Linyuan refined three early-stage golden elixir puppets, the family no longer had enough materials, and he had to dismantle several broken fake elixirs and golden elixir puppets to get the materials together.
"It seems that the remaining materials can only be gathered at the Five Elements Sea Barter Conference."
After refining three golden elixir puppets, Ye Linyuan had to temporarily give up on refining.
Fortunately, after years of practice, Ye Yingxu's puppetry skills have finally reached the lower third level, and controlling three puppets is barely enough.
"With these three puppets forming a military formation, my frontal combat capability should be comparable to that of a mid-stage Jindan."
Seeing the puppet army formation, Ye Yingxu couldn't help but smile.
Ye Linyuan nodded, and then said: "You should familiarize yourself with the military formation first, and in a dozen years, when the Exchange Conference opens, you can follow me to the Five Elements Sea to see the world."
Ye Yingxu nodded, smiled solemnly and said, "Don't worry, clan leader, Yingxu will not let you lose face."
"That's good." Ye Linyuan nodded and left the refining room.
Watching him leave, a voice came from Ye Yingxu's sea of consciousness: "You, the head of the Ye family, are indeed a man of extraordinary mind."
"Once such a puppet formation is completed, whoever can master it will have the strength of a late Jindan stage."
"He can completely trust you with this, which shows that he has a very far-sighted vision. What he wants is definitely not just the Golden Core Realm."
"What a pity." Can Lingbao couldn't help but sigh when he said this: "What a pity that he practiced Cang Hai Ming Yue Gong. With this foundation in Cang Ling Hai, I'm afraid he won't be able to survive the Nascent Soul Tribulation."
"Is it really impossible to get through it?"
Ye Yingxu looked worried, and asked anxiously, "Even with the clan leader's extraordinary talent, he can't take that step?"
"It's difficult, difficult, difficult. It's as difficult as a mayfly stepping on the sky."
Can Lingbao sighed, and then said with some regret: "The Cang Hai Ming Yue Gong is too heaven-defying. It is one of the supreme inheritances of the ancient human race."
"If it was an ordinary technique, there might be a glimmer of hope to change his fate, but since he is practicing such an ancient scripture, it is almost impossible for him to defeat his fellow practitioners."
At this point, Can Lingbao said indifferently: "They are all in the early stage of the Nascent Soul. Those who have reached the perfection of the early stage of the Nascent Soul have already cultivated a hundred times the magic power of the same level, while the newcomers are just getting started."
"Not to mention those fellow practitioners, who are likely to be suppressed by the middle stage of the Nascent Soul."
"With such a huge gap, how can there be a chance of a comeback?"
Can Lingbao shook his head repeatedly, and finally said with a bitter smile: "Listen to my advice, when he reaches the Golden Core Great Perfection, you should immediately prepare to run away."
Ye Yingxu was silent for a long time, and finally said: "Senior, the clan leader has been very kind to me. I wonder if I can help him find a glimmer of hope if I can."
Can Lingbao was silent for a long time. After a long moment, he said with a gloomy look, "Are you really going to do this?"
"You have to know that even with my help, the chances of success are not high, and you only have one chance in this life."
"Senior, if you care too much about gains and losses, then what is the point of your cultivation?"
"..."
Ye Linyuan left the underground fire room. He had no idea what Ye Yingxu was thinking.
At this time, he took care of the spiritual field, then came to the retreat room and began to deduce the method of the third-level soul-capturing formation.
For Ye Linyuan, future plans can be made early, but taking every step now is the most important thing.
If you worry too much about gains and losses, you will often accomplish nothing. It is better to take each step to the extreme and then plan for the future within your ability.
At this time, Ye Linyuan was studying the ancient fourth-level formation manual on the one hand, and at the same time he began to ponder the Tiangang Disha Soul-Captivating Formation in his hand, and a solemn look appeared in his eyes.
With his attainment of the third-grade superior level of formation, he constantly absorbed the essence of the ancient formation classics and continued to perfect the method of the third-grade soul-capturing formation. Before long, he finally achieved something.
"There is actually no essential difference between a second-level spiritual vein and a third-level spiritual vein. The difference in spiritual energy and Dao essence is at most hundreds of times."
"The truth is simple. If you want to absorb the third-level spirit vein, you only need higher quality true qi and more powerful spirit-absorbing Dao pattern power to absorb it completely."
"It's just a third-level soul-capturing array device, but the complexity of the Dao patterns is a hundred times more complicated than the second-level ones."
Ye Linyuan continued to deduce, and finally after several years, he completely perfected the refining drawings of the third-order soul-capturing array.
"It shouldn't be a problem."
Ye Linyuan pondered in his heart, then cut down a third-grade low-quality five-element wood and obtained more than thirty pieces of third-grade spiritual wood.
With this as the foundation, and adding the third-level spiritual silk of the water silkworm, he finally refined a third-level Tiangang Soul-Captivating Array.
Ye Linyuan tried to use this formation as a foundation to absorb a third-grade inferior spirit eye. After about three years, he finally succeeded in absorbing a third-grade inferior spirit gathering bead.
"It's done."
Seeing that the third-order Tiangang Soul-Captivating Array was successfully created, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but feel a little relieved.
Compared to the Soul Capture Array, the Soul Ascension Array is much simpler. Ye Linyuan also mastered the method of refining the fourth-order Soul Ascension Array in his previous life.
In other words, with this set of formations, not only the Xuanyuan Sea can become a large-scale third-grade medium-quality spirit vein, but even the Yueyuan Sea can become a super-large third-grade medium-quality spirit vein.
And now that he has created the third-order Tiangang Soul Capture Array, the following Disha Soul Capture Array and Tiangang Disha Soul Capture Array will not be difficult for Ye Linyuan. It is essentially just a matter of the number of flags in the array.
In other words, as time goes by, Ye Linyuan will be able to cultivate a super-large third-grade superior spiritual vein, and it is even possible to cultivate a fourth-grade spiritual vein.
By then, not only will the cultivation of the Ye family's golden elixirs not be a problem, but even the scale of the top-grade spiritual fields will expand rapidly.
"Next, a lower-grade third-level spirit-gathering bead is produced every three years, and a mid-grade spirit pool can be cultivated in nine years at most. We just need to wait for time to accumulate."
After completing the creation of the third-order Tiangang Soul-Captivating Array, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but feel a little relieved. Then he calmed down and began to refine the Nine-Leaf Sail.
This spiritual sail is one of the most important weapons in the sea and one of the most core components of a high-level treasure ship.
Depending on the specifications of the spirit sails, there are five types: single sail, three leaves, five leaves, seven leaves, and nine leaves.
Among them, the Nine-Leaf Sail is the most top-notch spirit flag of the same level, because when the nine-leaf spirit flags are added together, they can just form a super-large composite formation, which is considered the most top-notch high-level spirit sail.
The remaining seven-leaf sails can form a large complex formation, which is generally regarded as a high-end spiritual flag.
Five-leaf and three-leaf sails can only form small or medium-sized compound formations, but they can also be regarded as mid-range spirit sails, and they are very valuable in the market.
Because a leaf spirit sail requires the leather of a sea beast of the same level, and it is not easy for ordinary forces of the same level to hunt one.
Moreover, as a complex formation, Lingfan needs the leather of sea beasts of the same species as material. It is not easy to kill nine sea beasts of the same species in one breath.
As early as when Ye Linyuan was building his foundation, he had the idea of refining the second-level seven-leaf sail.
However, because building a second-order treasure ship is too time-consuming, the Ye family needs to build a star tower, resulting in a shortage of manpower and material resources.
After stepping into the Jindan forces, Ye Linyuan seized dozens of second-level treasure ships from the Canghai Sect in one breath, so these were no longer important.
Now that we have gathered nine complete giant whale skins, and with the help of other major forces in refining the third-level treasure ship, it is also the best time to refine the nine-leaf sail.
After making up his mind, Ye Linyuan went to the retreat room immediately, and refined it for 49 days with the power of earth fire and Qianyuan fire, and finally succeeded in refining this set of nine-leaf sails.
"Success."
Looking at this set of nine-leaf sails, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but smile.
This set of third-order nine-leaf sails is a top-level spiritual sail, which contains a super-large third-order compound formation with a total of three variations.
They are Sky Whale Crossing the Sea, Giant Whale Breaking the Sky, and Kunpeng Wandering Freely.
That day, Whale Crossing the Sea was a basic passive Dao pattern that only consumed a small amount of spiritual energy to maintain, but it could double the basic cruising speed of a third-order treasure ship.
The Giant Whale Breaking the Sky has the ability to supply. Once this formation is activated, it can summon nine illusory giant whales to strike across the sky, which is equivalent to seven early-stage Jindan and two middle-stage Jindan giant whales attacking at the same time.
The main effect of this giant whale breaking the sky is to clear the way, and once it is activated, the Xuhuan giant whale will also pull the treasure ship across the sky, temporarily increasing the speed of the third-level treasure ship by more than three times.
However, compared to the Sky Whale Crossing the Sea, the Giant Whale Breaking the Cang consumes a lot of energy to activate, and is generally only used when the treasure ship is besieged by a large number of golden elixirs.
Kunpeng Xiaoyaoyou is an extremely fast formation. Once it is activated, the entire treasure ship will be covered by a Xuhuan Kunpeng, and the burst speed will be increased by more than ten times in a short period of time.
With the blessing of these three major changes, this nine-leaf sail is worthy of being a third-order super-heavy weapon. Even if it is installed on a third-order low-quality treasure ship, it can escape the pursuit of the late Jindan stage.
Of course, as an instant burst formation, Kunpeng Xiaoyaoyou consumes a lot of energy, and once activated, it takes some time to recover. (End of this chapter)
