Zhang Ling nodded upon hearing Old Monster Kuiling's words, but he immediately sensed that there was still a layer of restriction on this puppet that had not been unlocked, suggesting it had other uses.
"Indeed, it can unleash attacks at the Yuan Ying level, but it doesn't seem complete."
"It seems Fellow Daoist Zhang has also discovered this." Old Monster Kuiling didn't seem surprised at all, as if he had already noticed this. He smiled slightly and explained, "According to our sect's Heavenly Puppet Art, this puppet is indeed a Yuan Ying-level puppet. But I wonder if you know the origin of this puppet; it is slightly different from other Yuan Ying-level puppets refined by our sect."
"How is it different?" Zhang Ling didn't reveal the puppet's origin directly and asked.
Old Monster Kuiling pondered for a moment and replied, "This puppet is the Five Elements Puppet refined by our sect's Wood Puppet Ancestor, which is extremely special. It is said that this puppet once fused with a piece of top-grade Five Elements Jade and Illusory Spirit Soft Jade.
Refining Yuan Ying-level puppets is extremely complex. Just the puppet core alone took me and a fellow Daoist more than a year to refine together. This doesn't even include the effort spent collecting materials.
Collecting other component materials also takes a lot of time to gather rare materials.
To enable a puppet to exert Yuan Ying-level strength, the materials used are often of a single attribute. In other words, the Yuan Ying-level puppets that are refined are generally like the Golden Armor Puppet or the Wood Armor Puppet that I controlled before. They are puppets with a single attribute.
This ensures that the puppet can better exert its strength. Of course, our sect has also refined puppets with complex attributes, but the cost of refining them is very high.
This Five Elements Puppet is a multi-attribute puppet. The fusion of top-grade Five Elements Jade allows this puppet to cast various Five Elements spells like cultivators and possibly use magical treasures at will.
Moreover, that Illusory Spirit Soft Jade is even more extraordinary, enabling this puppet to possess certain transformation abilities."
Zhang Ling naturally knew about top-grade Five Elements Jade.
He had obtained a lot of Five Elements Jade in the Spirit Spring of the Hall of Bewilderment before, but most of them were of middle and low grade. He also obtained a few top-grade ones, which he refined into containers for holding Myriad Year Spirit Liquid.
However, top-grade Five Elements Jade, in a sense, is more valuable than Geng metal and top-grade spirit stones. He was surprised to learn that this puppet had fused with a piece of top-grade Five Elements Jade.
As for Illusory Spirit Soft Jade, he seemed to have seen it in that ancient book as well, and it was also a top-notch material. It is said that once it is refined into a treasure, it can allow most treasures to change their softness and hardness at will, achieving the effect of arbitrary deformation.
After pondering for a moment, Zhang Ling looked at Old Monster Kuiling, chuckled, and asked, "In that case, I can't fully control this puppet yet. You must have a way, right?"
Hearing the question, Old Monster Kuiling chuckled dryly, "Haha, Fellow Daoist Zhang, to fully control this puppet, you may still need this secret art left by the Wood Puppet Ancestor, the Heavenly Puppet Art."
Immediately, the Yuan Ying in this fellow's hand flashed with spiritual light, and a cyan jade slip appeared. He gestured with his hand, and the cyan jade slip fell into his hand, and a wisp of divine sense invaded it to check it.
Seeing Zhang Ling check the jade slip, Old Monster Kuiling was also puzzled. This Wood Puppet Ancestor's Five Elements Puppet was indeed very special, as he said.
But the secrets inside, except for the elders of their Heavenly Extremity Sect, outsiders should not be able to see the trick.
Fellow Daoist Zhang actually saw the hidden restriction inside as soon as he controlled this puppet. It seems that this person's divine sense power is already no weaker than that of a Yuan Ying Late-stage cultivator.
Old Monster Kuiling was secretly shocked.
After a while, Zhang Ling showed a smile and put away the cyan jade slip. "Not bad, it's actually related tips for specially controlling Yuan Ying puppets. Since you are so forthright, I will accept it without ceremony. By the way, you don't have a physical body now. I wonder if these few physical bodies are suitable."
At the same time, he waved his hand, and three ice coffins appeared in front of him. Each coffin contained a physical body. With a few cracking sounds, the ice coffins opened, revealing the physical bodies inside.
Two middle-aged men and a gray-haired old man's physical bodies.
Seeing this scene, Old Monster Kuiling was stunned for a moment, and then showed great joy. He quickly flew over to check them, thanking him in his mouth. "Brother Zhang actually prepared physical bodies forLu."
"You helped me repair this puppet, which consumed a lot of vitality during this period. This small matter is not worth mentioning."
"Haha, thenLu will not be polite. These three physical bodies all have water spiritual roots and are very suitable." Old Monster Kuiling quickly checked the aptitude of these three physical bodies. With his Yuan Ying-stage divine sense power, he could roughly judge the aptitude of these three physical bodies with just a few glances.
"This physical body seems to also have a Waterlight Spirit Body. I will choose this one. With this physical body,Lu only needs to retreat for more than twenty years to recover as before." Old Monster Kuiling took a fancy to the gray-haired old man's physical body in the middle ice coffin at a glance.
He looked up and down at this physical body several times, thanked Zhang Ling again, and directly turned into a blue light and escaped into the gray-haired old man's physical body.
These three physical bodies were all collected by Zhang Ling over the past year, when he instructed the Second Primordial Spirit to control the Black Turtle and go to the Demon Dao(魔道: Devil's Path) territory to collect them in the ghost market where the two families secretly traded.
Although complete physical bodies that can still be seized like this will not appear at ordinary trade fairs, it is not difficult to buy them in the ghost market as long as you are willing to spend spirit stones.
This kind of physical body is still collected by many cultivators who are proficient in corpse refining techniques as corpse refining materials.
The gray-haired old man's physical body flashed with blue light a few times, and then opened his eyes, stiffly walking out of the ice coffin. The ice flowers on his body dissipated into wisps of heat as he walked. The pale face also regained its ruddy complexion.
"How do you feel, Fellow Daoist?"
"Very suitable. There are no hidden injuries on this physical body. As long as I use spiritual power to nourish the meridians of the whole body, I can completely control it..."
"That's good." Zhang Ling smiled strangely, suddenly tapped the ground lightly, and the entire stone room shook. A flash of yellow light above his head dropped a thick layer of yellow light, covering Old Monster Kuiling.
"Brother Zhang, what are you doing? Could it be that you want to break the agreement and killLu? Are you not afraid of the backlash from the Soul Scattering Curse?" Old Monster Kuiling showed a look of fear and shouted.
Zhang Ling stared at Old Monster Kuiling and said calmly, "Now that you have helped me repair the puppet, and you also have a physical body, I can let you leave now. But before letting you leave, I want to seal your memories of this period."
"Seal memories? Why is that?" Old Monster Kuiling questioned with an ugly face.
Zhang Ling's expression didn't change, "Although we are bound by the Soul Scattering Curse, you are an elder of the Heavenly Extremity Sect and also know my identity. If you tell other elders in the sect about this, it is hard to guarantee that it will not be detrimental to me. If disputes arise again because of this matter, I think it is not what you want to see, so it is best to erase the things you have seen related to this puppet, which is best for both of us."
Old Monster Kuiling's face stiffened, revealing an embarrassed look. "This is not good, right? If Brother Zhang is worried about revenge from this sect, I can make a heart demon oath here, and I will never tell this matter to the elders of this sect."
Before Zhang Ling could finish speaking, his face turned cold, and he said grimly, "If Fellow Daoist Kuiling is unwilling, although I will not kill you, it is easy to forcibly imprison you and forcibly use secret techniques to seal your memories. It's just that forcibly using secret techniques will inevitably cause some damage to your soul. You may become an idiot."
As Zhang Ling spoke, he cast a spiritual light from his hand, and the yellow light pressing on Old Monster Kuiling suddenly became several times thicker. It pressed him to the ground all at once.
Old Monster Kuiling groaned and his face turned pale again.
"Are you ready, Fellow Daoist? I am about to use this secret technique." Zhang Ling urged the magic formula in his hand, and incantations came out of his mouth.
"Wait, I promise you to seal this memory, but don't break your promise and let me leave afterwards."
"That's natural. After today, you and I are just acquaintances, and I will not do more to kill you." Zhang Ling's movements in his hands did not stop. He spat out a ball of essence, and with the change of hand gestures, gray spiritual lights hit Old Monster Kuiling.
These spiritual lights were all bounced off strangely as soon as they landed on Old Monster Kuiling.
"Don't relax your mind yet." Zhang Ling snorted with a gloomy face.
Old Monster Kuiling sighed secretly and stopped resisting. These gray lights were not spiritual power, but Zhang Ling's divine sense power.
He was going to use the Seal Mind Technique to seal this person's memory of this period.
Of course, if he could directly erase this person's memory of this period, it would be even safer. It's just that he can't erase the partial memory of a Yuan Ying cultivator.
Especially since Old Monster Kuiling's divine soul power is not weak, and he seems to have also cultivated secret techniques for strengthening divine sense. This person is an elder of the Heavenly Extremity Sect and is proficient in puppet techniques.
Generally, cultivators who are proficient in puppet techniques have cultivated similar secret techniques to enhance their divine sense power in order to perfectly control puppets.
Even if he has now broken through to the Yuan Ying Mid-stage, his divine sense power is no weaker than that of a Yuan Ying Late-stage cultivator. If he uses the Seal Mind Technique without this person's cooperation, there will be a lot of failure rate.
After a cup of tea, the spell was completed, and Old Monster Kuiling had fallen into a state of deep sleep.
Zhang Ling breathed a sigh of relief, and with a wave of his hand, he lifted the restriction on this person, and then muttered to himself. "Throw this person ten thousand miles away."
I saw that the Black Turtle did not know when it had appeared beside him, opened his mouth and spewed out a ball of black wind, wrapped Old Monster Kuiling, and disappeared again with a flick of his figure.
Zhang Ling's gaze returned to the puppet, and the cyan jade slip that he had just obtained appeared in his hand, and he began to study the puppet again.
Over the next month, he tested the strength of this puppet while spending some time refining pills.
With the breakthrough to the Yuan Ying Mid-stage, the effects of the pills he usually took for cultivation have weakened a lot.
Fortunately, over the years, he often collected spiritual medicine seeds and pill formulas. Although the raw materials for many pill formulas can no longer be found in the current cultivation world, there are also a few pill formulas that can still be matched with medicinal materials, but there are certain requirements for the age of the spiritual medicines.
He has mysterious beads to promote the growth of spiritual medicines, so there is no need to worry about this aspect.
With such a busy schedule, Zhang Ling refined pills suitable for his current cultivation, a fourth-grade Purple Yang Pill, the main medicine of which is the fourth-grade Purple Yang Flower, with a medicinal age of at least 800 years. Other auxiliary medicines are mostly 300-year-old spiritual medicines.
There is also a more suitable fifth-grade pill for him, the Earth Mother Pill. This is an earth-attribute pill. The main ingredient is the spiritual liquid produced by the Earth Mother Root. The age of this medicine exceeds 1,500 years.
He only refined a few bottles. Fortunately, the Earth Mother Pill is very powerful. It takes nearly two months for a Yuan Ying Mid-stage cultivator to quantify the medicinal power after taking one pill.
In addition to the original Cloudfall Pill, which is also a fifth-grade pill, and several other auxiliary pills.
It is also enough to use. I am afraid that even the great cultivators like Thunder Light Sanren do not usually cultivate and take pills as luxuriously as he does.
Of course, he also made a plan for the Black Turtle's cultivation. He also refined two suitable ice and water attribute pills.
On this day, in a spiritual medicine field on the mountainside of Sumeru Cave Mansion, Zhang Ling stared at a small sapling only two inches high with a strange expression on his face.
The small tree is gray-green all over, with three crooked branches, like three strange snakes entwined together, dotted with a few emerald green large leaves.
Close to this small tree, you can only sense a weak wood spiritual energy, and you can also sense a cold force.
But in fact, it has been promoted to about three thousand years by him with mysterious beads, but it has only grown two inches high, which is too strange.
This small tree is the one that was promoted after planting the few ghost peach pits he got. Zhang Ling planted all three ghost peach pits he got. At first, three small trees grew out, but after a while, they entangled together and only grew into such a small peach tree.
Even if it is a top-notch spiritual tree, it grows too slowly.
Compared with the huge ghost peach tree on the giant mountain, Zhang Ling suspects that they are two varieties. I don't know how long it will take to bear peaches.
Zhang Ling sighed, and could only wait for a while and observe again.
As for the tree gum obtained from the ghost peach tree, it is a good thing. He refined it into a kind of frost spiritual liquid. Taking some during the cultivation process can greatly reduce the interference of inner demons.
Moreover, Zhang Ling found that frequent swallowing can also slightly increase the strength of divine sense. This is extraordinary.
The power of divine sense basically cannot be enhanced by external force, unless you cultivate divine soul secret techniques such as refining divine art, and constantly exercise the strength of divine soul to gradually increase the power of divine sense.
In addition, the two white flesh Ganoderma lucidum picked from that space are indeed not plants. Combining with the encounters at that time, Zhang Ling confirmed that the flesh Ganoderma lucidum grew out of the huge eyeball monster.
He let Blue Finch see it before. This guy said that this is the flesh and blood essence of a certain great demon ghost. As for what it is used for, Blue Finch is not sure, only saying that it may really have the effect of increasing lifespan.
In this regard, Zhang Ling did not dare to take it rashly. He has experimented with some small animals and found that this thing is not poisonous and does not seem to have any harm.
During this period of alchemy, he regarded one of them as Blood Essence Ganoderma lucidum and refined three blood-red pills according to the elixir formula of Longevity Pill.
He studied that a huge amount of qi and blood power was condensed on the three pills. It is indeed the same as the rumored Longevity Pill.
After refining the pills, Zhang Ling did not take them rashly. He still has a lot of lifespan now, so there is no need to rush to take them.
And during these ten years, Blue Finch has not yet woken up, but is still in a deep sleep.
Half a year later, Zhang Ling left the sect again and flew all the way to the west. He passed through Yanhsia City and entered the Black Cloud Desert.
He went all the way to the territory of the Alien Demon Race. The goal of this outing was naturally to collect wind and fire demon pills to refine replenishing spiritual treasures.
Why go to the Other-Demon Clan? Just a few days ago, Zhang Ling received news that across the Black Cloud Desert, in the Other-Demon Clan's territory, at a place called Flame Demon Valley, someone had seen a powerful ancient beast, suspected to be an ancient beast with wind and fire attributes.
