Chapter 106: Soul Refining

Three days later, Yuan Ming went to Toad Valley on time. In the first stone house in the valley, he found Zhao Tong, who was lying down and reading a book with great interest.

"Brother Zhao, how is it? Did you get the Yin Marrow Fluid?" Yuan Ming asked as soon as they met.

Zhao Tong glanced at Yuan Ming with a sidelong glance, and reluctantly closed the book in his hand. He stretched his waist and then slowly took out a transparent glass bottle from his arms and shook it. There was some sticky black liquid in it, which slid left and right along the bottle wall.

"Don't worry about me. Yes, I got the things, but it costs 200 contribution points. The money and goods are both paid, and there is no deception." Zhao Tong said with a shake of his head.

"Swindler!"

Yuan Ming frowned when he heard this, and after secretly complaining in his heart, he asked tentatively: "I think this is too much... How about you lend me 200 first, and I will pay you back when I have it?"

As expected, he received a cold eye from Zhao Tong.

"Borrow two hundred? Can you really ask for it? It's better to just rob it! My shop is small, and I don't sell on credit! Think about it again, do you have anything valuable? You can use it as collateral." Zhao Tong said unhappily.

Yuan Ming frowned and pondered. Apart from the incense burner, he had some valuable things on him, such as the spiritual herbs he got from the island in the fog recently. Even if they were converted into contribution points, they were still far from two hundred points.

In addition, there were the treasures left by Master Heimu.

"I think your storage bag is good. Why don't you use it as collateral first, and then redeem it when you have contribution points?" Zhao Tong raised his eyebrows and said.

"You must have paid the bill to get the Yin marrow fluid from Elder Wumeng. I'm afraid you have been eyeing my storage bag for a long time, right?" Yuan Ming said with his eyes wide open.

"If you have other valuable things on you, just exchange them. What's the point of saying so much?" Zhao Tong said nonchalantly.

"The storage bag was temporarily lent to me by the Third Cave Master, and it cannot be used as collateral." Yuan Ming shook his head.

He naturally hid Master Heimu's storage bag and did not dare to show it in front of others.

"What else can I say? Wait until you save up some more. It's my bad luck that this thing might rot in my hands." Zhao Tong spread his hands and said helplessly.

"Take a look at this thing." Yuan Ming said, raising his hand to touch the storage bag on his waist.

A piece of fire chalcedony immediately appeared in his hand.

"Oh, fire chalcedony! This is a good thing. Where did you get it from?" Zhao Tong's eyes lit up and he said immediately.

"I was lucky. I picked it up when I went out on a mission." Yuan Ming said lightly.

"Picked it up? What kind of shit luck can pick up this big treasure? Pick me another one and see?" Zhao Tong shouted loudly.

"Just say whether you want to exchange it or not?" Seeing the greed in Zhao Tong's eyes, Yuan Ming was confident.

"Exchange, why not?" Zhao Tong immediately smiled.

"Why do you look like a profiteer?" Yuan Ming pretended to frown.

Zhao Tong restrained his smile and put the Yin Marrow Fluid in Yuan Ming's hand seriously: "Uncle Yuan, you are going to make the body quenching fluid, don't delay your precious time, I can't afford it!"

"Give me the ghost face grass and purple core pollen too." Yuan Ming said.

"It's ready." Zhao Tong immediately leaned over, picked up a cloth bag from his feet, and handed it to Yuan Ming.

After Yuan Ming took it, he handed him the fire jadeite, turned around and left without saying a word.

"Hey, did you forget that there are still two contribution points for me?" Zhao Tong hurriedly reminded.

"What did you say? The wind is too strong to hear..." Yuan Ming's voice floated, and his figure had already run quickly to the valley entrance.

...

At night.

Yuan Ming looked at the ghost face grass, purple core pollen, black scale fruit, and Yin marrow fluid on the table, and asked: "Can you tell me now what you want these things for?"

On the table in front of him, a silver cat squatted elegantly, looking down.

"How does it feel to have your soul leave your body?" The silver cat's cold and ethereal voice sounded in Yuan Ming's mind, but he didn't mean to answer.

"I tried it last time, and it felt pretty good. I had the illusion of being a fairy, but I couldn't leave my body too far. I felt it was of no use." Yuan Ming said honestly.

"If you leave your body too far, your soul would have been scattered long ago." Although the silver cat transmitted the sound, the tone of ridicule was full.

"I wanted to ask last time, why is this?" Yuan Ming asked.

"The soul in the Qi Refining Stage is invisible and intangible, extremely fragile, and cannot resist the external strong wind, especially in autumn." The silver cat said.

"Why is this?" Yuan Ming was puzzled.

Regarding these contents, none of the materials about soul cultivation that I had read before mentioned them.

"Autumn is associated with the element of gold, think about the rest yourself." Silver Cat's tone seemed a little impatient.

"Oh, I understand, wind is associated with water, and gold produces water. No wonder there are often executions in the Central Plains countries after autumn. Perhaps the strong winds are the strongest after autumn, which can quickly dissipate the souls of the dead and prevent the remaining souls from remaining in the world and harming the living. Why then..." Yuan Ming said thoughtfully.

"Shut up, I'm not here to explain this to you." Yuan Ming was interrupted impatiently by Silver Cat before he could finish his question.

"Isn't this the soul leaving the body that you mentioned first? Once it leaves the body, it feels that the connection with the main body becomes weaker, and it is also restricted by the strong wind. What's the use of this out-of-body?" Yuan Ming said so.

"If you want to travel outside the body, you must have something to rely on. Use secret techniques to help the soul refine the body. Let you find those spiritual materials and use them to refine the most basic body refining liquid." Silver Cat said.

"Now, everything is here. Tell me, what should we do next?" Yuan Ming's heart skipped a beat when he heard the term "Soul Refining Form".

The silver cat did not speak, but raised one of its front paws and gently scratched the table with its claws. A silver light flashed, and a small white porcelain bottle in the shape of a water drop appeared on the table.

"What is this?" Yuan Ming frowned.

"The blood of the white-feathered raven." The silver cat said.

Yuan Ming was puzzled when he heard this.

He knew that the white-feathered raven, although its name contained the word "white", was not white. It had black feathers all over its body, with only a tuft of white feathers at the center of its eyebrows. It was one of the most common birds in the Hundred Thousand Mountains. It lived on carrion and had almost no attack power, but there were a lot of them.

"My soul refining form is related to this thing? Could it be that the thing that refines the form is this bird? This is too ordinary!" Yuan Ming had a bad guess in his heart.

The silver cat did not speak, but looked at Yuan Ming with a pair of heterochromatic pupils without blinking.

"It must be this thing?" Yuan Ming asked unwillingly.

"Any beast's blood can be used. It determines the form of the soul. Even if it is strengthened in the future, the basic form cannot be changed." Silver Cat said.

"Do you mean that my soul will change permanently? Or will it only manifest the form-refining objects when the soul is manifested, and it should return to human form after returning to the body?" Yuan Ming was a little alert.

"The latter." Silver Cat said.

Seeing that Silver Cat had shown an impatient look, Yuan Ming hurriedly said:

"The last question, there is no shortage of beasts in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, why don't you choose the blood of a more powerful beast, but choose this extremely ordinary white-feathered raven?"

"Powerful? The truly powerful beasts, or demon beasts, in the Hundred Thousand Mountains are not what you can hunt. As for the beasts you can hunt, in my opinion, they are no different from white-feathered ravens, or even worse than them." Silver Cat's tone did not hide the sarcasm at all, and he rarely said a long string of words.

"Sorry, this is related to my future practice. Please tell me clearly why you choose the white-feathered raven, otherwise I can't accept such an arrangement." Yuan Ming thought for a moment and said firmly.

Silver Cat stared at Yuan Ming for a long time. Seeing that Yuan Ming was unmoved, he patiently sent a voice to Yuan Ming's sea of ​​consciousness again.

"Although your soul is stronger than those of the same level, your practice aptitude is too poor. For a long time in the future, you must first consider self-protection. Strong reconnaissance ability is the first choice." Silver Cat did not hide the purpose of training Yuan Ming at all.

"So, smaller birds are more suitable for reconnaissance and have advantages over beasts such as jackals, tigers and leopards. I think there should be more than this reason, right?" Yuan Ming heard this, pondered for a moment, nodded, and asked again.

"Although the white-feathered raven is weak, it is sharp enough. Unlike other birds, it has a natural intuition about death. As for what kind of changes can be produced and what kind of abilities can be obtained after the fusion and refinement, it depends on your luck." Silver Cat said again.

"Do you mean that there are many uncontrollable factors after the soul refines the body?" Yuan Ming's heart skipped a beat and asked.

"The result will depend on the characteristics of your soul and the characteristics of the body of the refinement object. The two are integrated. Generally speaking, it is a kind of enhanced perception and crisis warning. As for what it will be in the end, you will know after it is completed. That's all. You decide how to choose." The silver cat said so much today for the first time, and the last bit of patience was obviously exhausted.

After hesitating for a long time, Yuan Ming nodded and said, "In this case, let's start!"

"Take your things and follow me." The silver cat's voice sounded.

After that, it turned and jumped out of the window and went outside the courtyard wall.

Yuan Ming quickly packed up his things and followed it.

Along the way, the silver cat was walking through the mountains and trees, and its figure was often hidden between the leaves and gaps in the forest.

At first, Yuan Ming didn't think there was anything wrong, but after walking for a while, he found something strange.

Before leaving the Fire Refining Hall, Yuan Ming met many fellow disciples and servants on the mountain. Most of them noticed him and greeted him, but no one seemed to notice the existence of the silver cat.

Even though the silver cat was just above his head, on a tree branch only a few feet away, they did not notice it at all.

If Yuan Ming had not followed the silver cat from the beginning and was clearly aware of its existence, he would not have noticed its trace at all.