Chapter 92: Substitute Puppet

Corpse Demon Mountain.

A cave somewhere on the mountainside on the shady side.

Du Qiu was kneeling on the ground, saying respectfully.

"Elder Shi, Ji Yin is back alive, it seems that he must have found some kind of elixir to clear his mind."

Shi Shou was surrounded by corpse qi, and the dark and thick corpse evil qi was breathing in and out between his mouth and nose.

His face was ashen, revealing fangs more than two inches long, and he said in a hoarse voice.

"He is back alive, very good! It seems that he is still a capable person. He can solve the problem by himself even if his mind is polluted by the turbid air of the Corpse Cave."

After a pause, Shi Shou continued.

"How is his cultivation?"

"The fourth level of Qi training."

"Is it still only the fourth level of Qi training?"

Shi Shou murmured in a low voice.

"That's right. He has only been practicing for two and a half years. He can practice to the fourth level of Qi training, which is not slow."

"You go down and keep a close eye on Ji Yin. When he breaks through to the sixth level of Qi training, you must inform me in time."

"Yes, Elder Shi." Du Qiu said.

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Song Wen returned to the cave and began to count the things he got from this trip.

First of all, the purpose of his risking his life to enter the cave, the Kongchan wood.

This Kongchan wood should be about 350 years old, enough for Song Wen to reconcile the corpse qi in his body.

In addition, he got a total of four storage bags, from Lao Chun, Zi Yi, Jie Xiu's second sister and youngest sister.

And three corpse bags, two from Zi Yi and one from Lao Chun.

There are a total of three corpses in the corpse bags, two from the sixth level of Qi training and one from the ninth level of Qi training.

The items in the storage bags are more messy, including spirit stones, talismans, pills, magic tools, etc.

There are quite a few spiritual stones in the four storage bags, adding up to nearly 4,000 spiritual stones.

When in the cave, Lao Chun, Zi Yi and Xuan Ye divided Yan Gu's storage bag, and I think they got a lot of spiritual stones from it.

As for the two female robbers, they may have killed other cultivators, and there are also quite a few spiritual stones in their storage bags.

However, Yan Gu's set of evil Buddha instruments was not among them, and I think it should have been obtained by Xuan Ye.

Finally, Niu Ding risked his life to get the blood stone.

Song Wen originally thought that this blood stone was a magic weapon or a treasure to enhance cultivation. As a result, after he used his mental power to check, he found out that this blood stone was actually a heritage item, which recorded a secret technique.

Substitute technique!

This is a secret technique that uses the refining of a substitute puppet to activate the secret technique in a critical moment, so that the substitute puppet can replace the cultivator and bear fatal damage. At the same time, the cultivator will be transferred to another location, which is temporarily determined by the caster, but can only be within the range of the caster's mental power.

This is simply a magical escape secret technique.

No wonder Niu Ding wanted to get it even at the risk of life and death.

Song Wen immediately carefully checked the content of the substitute technique.

Refining a substitute puppet can be roughly divided into three steps.

First, refine a puppet. This puppet can be of any form and any material, but it must be able to carry the soul of the cultivator.

The second step is the most important step and the most dangerous step.

Soul-cutting! That is, stripping the soul from the soul of the cultivator. This requires the cultivator's mental power or soul to be strong enough, otherwise forced soul-cutting will cause damage to the soul. In the mild case, the soul is incomplete and becomes demented, and in the severe case, the soul is scattered and there is no place to bury the body.

The third step is to transplant the soul to the substitute puppet and refine the soul and the substitute puppet into one.

In this way, the substitute puppet carries the soul breath of the cultivator and can die for the cultivator in times of crisis.

This substitute technique is good, but it is not without shortcomings.

After refining substitute puppets many times, the soul of the cultivator will gradually become weak, and the cultivator's consciousness and future cultivation may be affected.

But this is not a problem for Song Wen.

He can devour the souls of others and strengthen his own soul and mental power. Just cutting off a soul attraction does not pose any danger to him.

However, Song Wen is in the first step, refining the substitute puppet.

This puppet must be able to withstand the soul attraction of the cultivator, and the soul attraction cannot dissipate, which makes Song Wen a little blind.

First of all, most of the treasures that can withstand the soul attraction are not cheap.

Second, he does not know any refining methods. If he wants to learn the refining method of this substitute puppet from scratch, it will take him a lot of time.

What he lacks most now is time. After all, he still has the threat of Shi Shou.

"Oh, puppets are difficult to make, but corpse puppets are easy to make. I can try with corpse puppets. Corpse puppets are made from intact corpses, so it shouldn't be a problem to carry soul attraction without dissipating."

Try it when you think of it. He has three corpse puppets in his hand now.

The corpse puppet with the ninth level of Qi training will definitely not work. It would be a pity to use it to make a substitute puppet.

Song Wen took out a corpse puppet with the sixth level of Qi training. This is a male corpse. The body is very complete and as solid as a rock, enough to carry soul attraction.

The next step is the most important step, stripping the soul attraction.

Song Wen began to try according to the method of stripping soul attraction recorded in "Substitute Technique".

The process of stripping soul attraction is more painful and difficult than Song Wen expected.

Every time Song Wen forcibly stripped the soul attraction from the soul, there would be a voice in his subconscious mind that the soul is the most important part of the human body and cannot be moved rashly. This made Song Wen a little timid about stripping the soul attraction.

Moreover, the process of stripping the soul guide is extremely painful, just like someone cutting deep into the sea of ​​consciousness with a knife. When the pain reaches its extreme, people will involuntarily stop casting spells.

After trying dozens of times, Song Wen finally made up his mind, put aside all distractions and reluctance in his heart, and cast a spell forcefully, finally successfully peeling off the soul guide.

At this time, his clothes were completely soaked, and the place where he sat cross-legged was also a water stain, and the whole person looked like he had just been pulled out of the water.

Then, Song Wen endured the severe pain from his sea of ​​consciousness and transplanted the soul guide to the corpse puppet.

This process was not complicated, but it was extremely time-consuming.

Two days later, Song Wen slowly opened his eyes.

The substitute puppet was finally successfully refined!

The severe pain in his sea of ​​consciousness has gradually eased, and he can clearly feel that his soul has gradually begun to recover.

If he can devour the souls of several cultivators, his soul will recover soon.

It may be difficult to find the souls of cultivators in other places, but in the magic world, you can buy them in the market.

There are a large number of freshly baked cultivator souls there, waiting to be sold.

Among them, the souls of righteous cultivators are the majority. Who can blame the righteous cultivation techniques for being so profound and mysterious? This makes the souls of cultivators more gentle and pure, unlike the souls of evil cultivators, whose souls have been polluted by turbid air and become filthy.

Coincidentally, Song Wen also needs to go to the market to deal with a batch of unused things, in exchange for some cultivation resources, in preparation for refining and absorbing the empty cicada wood and reconciling the corpse evil spirit in his body.

Song Wen first went to different shops to sell the unused magic tools, elixirs, talismans, spiritual herbs and other items in batches, earning a total of 1,800 spirit stones.

Then he spent hundreds of spirit stones to buy a batch of cultivation resources and three cultivator souls.