This time back, I have more than a dozen magical items on me. Most of these magical items were found in several storage bags from the pool. Among them, several are of high quality, and he also selected a few of the best as his spare magical items.
In addition to the magical items, there are also several refining materials that are quite valuable.
Among them, a grayish-yellow stone is what he values most. To his surprise, he recognized it correctly. This is a piece of yellow jade crystal. This item is a very rare earth-attribute refining material, and ordinary people rarely recognize it.
He was able to recognize this item because he had consulted relevant books and searched for it before. This item can be used to refine extremely strong defensive magical items.
Zhang Ling's hand flashed with spiritual light, and a white jade slip appeared. He invaded it with his spiritual sense and checked the refining methods of three treasures recorded inside.
They are Yin Soul Blade, Purple Gold Coin, and Yellow Silk Umbrella.
This was when he first met Ding Ruozhao and searched for treasures together, obtaining the refining methods from an ancient cultivator's cave in the Kunshan Sect's base.
These three treasures are all ancient treasures. Since obtaining these refining methods, he has been searching for relevant refining materials.
But he has never collected enough materials to refine even one ancient treasure.
For high-level cultivators, ancient treasures are more precious than ordinary magical items. He currently has three ancient treasures: a purplish-black bronze bell, a black stone mirror, and a pointed cone-shaped green crystal.
These three are all attack-type ancient treasures. He has used these treasures to fight several powerful enemies.
This time, he relied on the stone mirror to kill the blood-colored monster.
Among high-level cultivators, not many possess ancient treasures. A dozen high-level cultivators may not even have one ancient treasure.
One major reason for this is that the refining methods of ancient treasures are different from those of modern magical items. The second reason is that ancient treasures are mostly refined with top-quality materials.
Collecting materials is also a problem. Even if some large forces have inherited the refining methods of some ancient treasures, not many can actually refine them.
Now, this piece of yellow jade crystal that he obtained unintentionally is the main material for the Yellow Silk Umbrella recorded in the jade slip. The Yellow Silk Umbrella is a defensive ancient treasure that can release a thick earth-attribute light罩(光罩: light cover) to protect the whole body.
Zhang Ling naturally also plans to refine this treasure. In his opinion, his treasures are not lacking in attack power, but only the defense has a shortcoming.
Usually in battles, he mostly uses the Xuan Ling Shield recorded in the cultivation method to protect himself. Or he uses sword light and Heavenly Star Sand to form another layer of protection.
These methods are enough to deal with ordinary high-level cultivators, but if he encounters a powerful opponent like the blood-colored monster, it will be somewhat insufficient.
This time, if it weren't for the entanglement of my two-tailed cat and corpse brother, dragging down the blood-colored monster. Zhang Ling asked himself that relying on these defenses alone, he might not be able to stop this monster.
The Yellow Silk Umbrella can just make up for this shortcoming. And it is also an earth-attribute defensive treasure, which is extremely compatible with him.
But this matter is not urgent, and some materials have not been collected yet, so Zhang Ling put this matter aside for now.
As for the remaining items, the most are a lot of Ice Fire Jade. There are also more than a dozen sixth and seventh-order demon cores.
Of course, he also investigated the black iron片(铁片: sheet) he obtained from the blood-colored monster, but he didn't gain anything. After looking through many ancient books, he still couldn't identify the words on it. He had to put it away again.
He has several such unrecognizable items on his body. These items are mostly passed down from ancient times, and whether they are useful to him depends on luck.
After sorting out the gains from this trip, he returned to a state of cultivation again.
In the following period, in addition to cultivation, he also arranged a set of Yin Sha formation for the corpse bear, which was filled with Yin Spirit Stones obtained earlier. The corpse bear can also quickly restore its vitality by cultivating inside.
At the same time, the corpse bear's left arm was missing, which also had a certain impact on its strength. Zhang Ling thought about it and used parasitic to extract some vine roots parasitic on his body. He implanted them into the corpse bear's body and temporarily condensed them into a left arm.
The corpse bear's body had already been implanted with vines by him, so this step only took a few days to complete.
In fact, for this kind of zombie monster, most of its strength depends on its physical body. Once the body is incomplete, it is difficult to repair.
Some human cultivators who practice body refining techniques also rely on the strength of their physical bodies. Once they are missing an arm or a leg, it will take a lot of blood and essence to restore them to their original state.
Now, using vines to transform into the corpse bear's left arm, although it is not as hard as the original bear paw, it can only be used for now.
……
Time flies, and two years have passed.
On this day, Zhang Ling walked out of the cave with a happy expression. At this moment, the spiritual power on his body was high, and he exuded an amazing aura.
It seems that the spiritual power is fluctuating greatly, because he just broke through to the late stage of the Golden Core a few hours ago. The spiritual power in his body has increased by more than half compared to before. The coverage of his spiritual sense has also exceeded thirty miles.
I saw Zhang Ling flicking his fingers, and streaks of green sword芒(剑芒: sword light) shot out directly from his hand, and with a few plops, he chopped a huge rock next to him into pieces.
With the increase in strength, he is more proficient in the use of flying swords, and he can release sword light directly without summoning flying swords.
The main reason for being able to break through so quickly was the jade phoenix spiritual power that Ding Ruozhao had previously passed. Originally, he was on the verge of breaking through two years ago, and after concentrating on cultivation during this period, he finally broke through.
At this moment, he is in a great mood.
In these two years, in addition to taking pills, he also often drank Ice Flame Wine. This kind of spiritual wine used Ice Mulberry Spiritual Fruit plus another kind of rare fire-attribute spiritual fruit, and it took a full ten years to brew successfully.
The effect is comparable to top-quality pills. During the drinking process, Zhang Ling also found that regular consumption of this spiritual wine also has a certain marrow washing effect. It also played a significant role in their rapid advancement.
In the following days, Zhang Ling was consolidating his cultivation. A month later, his cultivation was stabilized, and he became a true late-stage Golden Core expert.
The next goal is to concentrate on cultivation, and at the same time search for spiritual objects that can assist cultivators in congealing the nascent soul. But this goal is not easy, and it has stopped many strong people.
Cultivating to this realm, Zhang Ling naturally also hopes that he can congealing the nascent soul and become a true powerhouse.
After setting the goal, in the following time, in addition to cultivation, he began to refine some level puppets.
Although these external objects do not help to increase cultivation, they can become a significant help when fighting with others. It is good to get more of these things that can increase strength, and maybe they can play a key role in times of crisis.
In order to refine puppets, Zhang Ling often traveled to and from Wanxiang City to collect some materials, which cost a lot of spirit stones.
Fortunately, he not only has a mysterious bead that can expedite the growth spiritual medicine, but the refined pills can also be exchanged for a lot of spirit stones. Even the magical treasures that he can't use can be exchanged for three to four hundred thousand spirit stones each.
Under this kind of consumption, another half a year has passed. Zhang Ling is gradually becoming proficient in the refining of puppets.
On this day, he was fiddling with a five-six zhang long white snake puppet in the Earth Fire Room. This is a second-order puppet recorded in the Heavenly Ultimate Puppet Art. Its strength is equivalent to that of a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator.
The white snake puppet is jade white all over, and the scales on its body are made of a water-attribute Water Spirit Jade as the main material, which can release some water balls, ice arrows and other attacks.
The body of this puppet has now been made.
With a wave of Zhang Ling's hand, a tool for engraving array patterns appeared in his hand. Then he began to engrave array spiritual patterns on the core part of the puppet. These spiritual patterns are equivalent to the meridians on the puppet's body, which are an indispensable part for converting spiritual power.
After a full day, blue-black spiritual patterns appeared on the white snake puppet. It looked like the patterns on a snake monster.
After engraving all the array patterns, Zhang Ling immediately waved his hand, and a yellow light covered the white snake puppet. It seemed that the puppet came alive, raised half of its body and swam on the ground.
"Hehe, the joints and other parts are operating normally. All that's left is to embed the puppet core."
Zhang Ling chuckled and raised his hand again, taking out a pitch-black sphere from the storage bag.
This circle is the core part of the puppet refined with Yin Cold Jade. It is similar to the Soul Fusion Stone necessary for high-level puppets.
The role is the same.
It's just that Zhang Ling has not been able to find the Soul Fusion Stone, and this Yin Cold Jade is also a rare material for refining top-quality magic weapons, but it can be bought from the market with some spirit stones.
Of course, the Yin Cold Jade needed for second-order puppets is also top-quality Yin Cold Jade. The Yin Cold Jade in his hand costs seven to eight thousand spirit stones.
But Yin Cold Jade cannot replace the Soul Fusion Stone, and can only be used as the core of low-level puppets.
Zhang Ling rubbed the Yin Cold Jade with both hands, and some gray-white spiritual patterns lit up on it. This Yin Cold Jade has long been refined by him, and only the last step is left to install it on the puppet for use as a core.
With a wave of his hand, the Yin Cold Jade floated in mid-air. Then he shook his sleeves, and a black-green banner appeared in his hand. A few strands of yellow spiritual power hit the Yin Soul Banner.
Suddenly, a layer of gray misty mist appeared on the surface of the banner, and shadows of ghosts appeared in the mist.
At the same time, the Yin Soul Banner shook slightly, and gusts of Yin wind floated around, and bursts of ghost cries could be heard in the ear.
Zhang Ling did not react to these, but the magic formula changed again, and several strange magic formulas hit it, and suddenly a gray giant snake phantom floated out of the mist.
As soon as this snake shadow appeared, he directly grabbed it with one hand, grabbed the snake shadow in his hand, and turned it into a cloud of gray light. A few magic formulas hit it, and the gray light flashed and disappeared into the Yin Cold Jade.
Then I saw that the Yin Cold Jade was spinning around, and more than a dozen gray-green patterns appeared on it, and these patterns were entangled into a giant snake phantom.
This Yin Soul Banner was obtained by killing Old Man Shen. This method is powerful, and there are many spirits in it.
The refining of puppets requires these spirits to fuse the puppet core, so that the puppet has a certain spirituality, so that the cultivator can easily control the puppet.
Just now he extracted a second-order giant snake demon soul and integrated it into the Yin Cold Jade for use as a puppet core.
Zhang Ling then took the Yin Cold Jade and knocked it on the head of the white snake puppet. The snake head suddenly raised, and two palm-sized scales on it separated left and right, opening a small hole. The hole was engraved with densely packed spiritual patterns, which looked quite complicated.
This is the most difficult core part of the puppet to refine. With a flash of spiritual light, the Yin Cold Jade was put into it. Then he took out a water-attribute spirit stone and put it under another scale of the white snake puppet.
Zhang Ling then moved his mind, and a strand of divine thought instantly hit the white snake puppet.
The white jade-like body of the white snake puppet immediately rose with a layer of blue-black spiritual light. The spiritual patterns on it lit up one by one, and for a time, this white snake looked like a black snake monster.
Then Zhang Ling controlled the white snake puppet with his divine sense. As the puppet swam, it emitted a layer of icy mist. Even the ground was covered with a layer of thick frost.
Suddenly, the white snake puppet opened its mouth and spouted out more than a dozen inch-long ice刺(冰刺: thorns). After a few hissing sounds, these ice刺(冰刺: thorns) directly hit the rocks next to it. The rocks were directly frozen into a block of ice.
"Hehe, another second-order puppet has been refined."
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling chuckled. With a move of his mind, the white snake instantly swam to his side. With a pat of the storage bag, it was put away by him, and at the same time, with a wave of his hand, there were more white jade-like scales, as well as some black spheres, iron片(铁片: sheets), squares and other parts of various sizes.
Then he sat cross-legged on the ground again and began to fiddle with it. These things are the parts needed for the puppet.
He has refined seven or eight of the white snake puppets like just now. In addition to the white snake puppets, he also selected several other second-order puppets for refining.
Of course, he has also refined a lot of first-order puppets during this time. Zhang Ling used all the first-order puppets as practice.
Although refining puppets is troublesome, he has studied refining techniques and some formation knowledge before. So it can be regarded as having some foundation.
As long as you understand the structure and other knowledge of this puppet, the success rate of refining several simple puppets is very high, at most it will take more time.
In a blink of an eye, another two months have passed. Zhang Ling has also refined three or forty second-order puppets successfully.
A lot of materials have also been refined in this process, but the parts of the same puppet can be replaced. So the damage is still within a controllable range.
At the same time, he also refined one hundred first-order puppets. Although these first-order puppets are not very useful, they are enough to manage the cave or take care of the medicine garden.
Then Zhang Ling stopped refining puppets, and at the same time slowed down his cultivation, and began to refine the most favorite ancient treasure Yellow Silk Umbrella.
The refining technique of ancient treasures is quite special, so he prepared for several days before starting to refine it. The most important material for the Yellow Silk Umbrella is the Yellow Jade Crystal in his hand.
At this moment, this piece of Yellow Jade Crystal is being placed in a jade box, and the box is also filled with black liquid, which is a special spiritual liquid. It is used to soak the Yellow Jade Crystal to soften it.
Now the Yellow Jade Crystal inside has turned grayish-yellow and is soft piled up at the bottom of the jade box. This is the state of complete softening after soaking for more than a year.
