Chapter 33: Rapid Advancement of Cultivation
The top-grade flesh slaves have complete memories and the same intelligence as when they were alive. The most powerful thing is that they can use a small amount of magic. In the pure soul state, they can use one or two innate minor magical powers, and they can improve their cultivation by absorbing yang energy. They are simply a weakened version of the soul out of the body state, like the butler and the five maid ghosts. However, they also have some shortcomings as ghosts, and the thunder method and the golden light soul-breaking spell just restrain them.
Under normal circumstances, ghosts are afraid of the blood of living people when they are in the flesh state. These flesh slaves completely overcome this shortcoming when they have a flesh body. When they are only ghosts, they can also have a certain resistance to the blood of living people according to their cultivation level. If there is also a white bone soul flag, they are not afraid at all.
Shi Xuan couldn't help but marvel at it. This two-headed tiger is actually a genius who can create new refining methods on his own. If he hadn't met me, he might have done something great in the future.
The following is still a mixed record of cultivation experience and personal matters. The two-headed tiger even created a new dual cultivation method for his top-grade flesh slaves based on a dual cultivation method in "The Great Method of Subjugating Ghosts", which can greatly improve their efficiency in absorbing yang energy, but it requires the other party to cooperate willingly.
After the two-headed tiger reached the realm of nourishing qi and strengthening soul, it can be transformed into a human body to a limited extent. At the same time, it also began to try to master the white bone soul-serving banner. Shi Xuan didn't expect that this white bone soul-serving banner was actually a perfect magic weapon of the seventh heaven, that is, it has sixty-three layers of earthly evil restrictions, which is a very advanced existence among magic weapons. Even masters of the spirit and soul stage would be jealous. After all, it is impossible to reach this level without eighty or ninety years of sacrifice and refining. (The first heaven of the magic weapon stage refers to the perfection of the nine layers of restrictions)
Shi Xuan felt so painful in his heart. This precious magic weapon was destroyed by himself. I don’t know if it can be repaired. But looking at that miserable appearance, there is really little hope. The Taiyi Thunder Talisman was probably drawn by a master of the Golden Core Realm.
The two-headed tiger's mastery of the white bone soul flag is far from enough. The notes mentioned that the two-headed tiger only mastered the first level of the prohibition and stopped, busy with the ritual that required the blood sacrifice of forty-nine living people. In the end, he successfully broke through the realm through this blood sacrifice and achieved the cultivation of the soul out of the body.
After breaking through the realm, the two-headed tiger began to retreat and practice in order to stabilize his cultivation, and the notes ended here. It seems that the two-headed tiger fought with himself before he completely stabilized his cultivation and only sacrificed the first level of the magic weapon. However, Shi Xuan did not feel scared. After all, with the power of the Taiyi Thunder Talisman, the two-headed tiger would die even if he was twice as strong.
Shi Xuan put down the notes and picked up the book of the white bone soul flag. He was a little excited and calmed down before starting to read it.
This is the detailed process of refining and offering sacrifices for a specific magic weapon. The very detailed introduction to refining magic weapons made Shi Xuan very excited, which greatly made up for the gap in his knowledge in this area. If there was no refining method for the white bone soul flag, Shi Xuan would be even happier.
Regarding the refining of magic weapons, the first thing is to prepare the materials, and then mainly use various different flames to fuse the materials according to specific steps and methods. Some flames are recorded, such as wood fire, earth fire, Samadhi true fire, Dan fire, sun true fire, glass true fire, star true fire, sky thunder dazzling fire, purple extreme sky fire, etc.
However, in the initial stage, wood fire and earth fire are generally used. Samadhi true fire is only available to masters who have achieved unity of spirit and soul. Dan fire is known to be only possessed by Jindan masters by the name, and sun true fire, glass true fire, star true fire, sky thunder dazzling fire, purple extreme sky fire, etc. can only be collected by Jindan or above, or they can only be encountered but not sought.
Earth fire is easy to understand, and it is also the best choice for Shi Xuan to refine magic tools at this stage. Wood fire, as the name suggests, is the fire of burning wood, and even ordinary wood is fine, but the temperature is not high enough and it is not stable. It is often necessary to arrange a formation to increase the temperature and stability of the fire. When refining, you have to pay attention to how the wood is burning, so it is often twice as hard and half as effective, and it can only be used to refine some low-grade magic tools.
However, if you can find very special wood, such as frost wood, burning spirit wood, Dutian wood, etc., it will be very effective to refine special magic tools, but no one will waste it so much, because these special woods are the materials of some high-grade magic tools.
In the process of fusing materials, special techniques and spells are also used to guide. The techniques and spells of magic tools with different functions are different. After the formation, you can sacrifice and refine the prohibitions according to the function and materials, and warm the magic tools. In addition, the prohibitions of some magic tools need to be injected during the refining process.
The meanings of the high-grade, medium-grade, and low-grade magic tools and the restrictions of several layers of heaven mentioned above are different. They refer to the magic tools that have not yet been sacrificed when they are refined. They are mainly related to the refining materials, techniques, spells, refining flames, and environment.
Low-grade magic tools can only withstand at least one layer of restrictions, and can be sacrificed to perfection in the third layer of heaven at most. If they are sacrificed again, they will not be able to withstand it; medium-grade magic tools can be sacrificed to the sixth layer of heaven; high-grade magic tools can be sacrificed to perfection of the earthly evil, and can withstand the transformation of the earthly evil restrictions into the heavenly restrictions.
Refining magic tools is a process that becomes more and more difficult as time goes by. Generally speaking, the first layer of restrictions can be sacrificed in about an hour, the second layer takes half a day, the third layer takes more than a day, and the fourth layer takes two to three days. It takes about half a year to complete the first layer of heaven, more than a year for the second layer, more than two years for the third layer, about five years for the fourth layer, about ten years for the fifth layer, nearly twenty-two years for the sixth layer, forty-five years for the seventh layer, and a terrifying one and a half years for the eighth layer.
Of course, as one's own realm is improved and one's grasp of the essence of Taoism deepens, the speed of refining magic tools will increase to different degrees, especially when reaching the Jindan and Yuanshen realms, the speed of refining magic tools will be greatly improved.
In short, for cultivators below the Jindan stage, depending on the different magic tools and restrictions, it takes 150 to 300 years to refine a magic tool to the 72nd level of the eighth level of the Earthly Evil Restriction. This is not something that cultivators in the Qi-Inducing and Soul-Spirit stages, who have a lifespan of only 200 and 300 years, can afford. Except for those with rich wealth or who have had a chance encounter, many cultivators even reach the Jindan stage before refining their own life tools to the perfection of the Earthly Evil.
This white bone ghost flag was continuously passed down and refined by several generations of cultivators of the Ghost Sect to reach the perfection of the seventh level.
And mastering magic tools is much faster. As long as the original owner's mark can be removed, the time to master each level of restriction is only one-tenth of the time of refining, or even less. If the elders give or encounter a perfect Earthly Evil magic tool, it only takes a dozen or twenty years to fully master it.
After Shi Xuan looked through the refining techniques, spells and restrictions at the back, he took out the white bone soul-serving banner from the package, held the remaining two ends of the flagpole on the banner with both hands, gathered his mind, entered the state of visualization, and then mobilized the internal qi to flow to his hands. Through the touch of the internal qi, the soul felt the deep things of the white bone soul-serving banner.
The white bone soul-serving banner was indeed seriously damaged. Not only was the banner surface broken, the flagpole was broken, and the restrictions inside were completely shattered by the Taiyi Thunder. In other words, this was a newly refined and severely damaged magic weapon. Fortunately, the banner surface was large enough and the hole in the middle was relatively high. Shi Xuan could completely use the lower part to refine a smaller banner surface, and the same was true for the flagpole.
Because it was not a completely new magic weapon to be refined from scratch, Shi Xuan estimated that using wood fire would be enough to meet the requirements. He was eager to try it, especially since he had just mastered the basics of magic weapon refining and was willing to give it a try. However, Shi Xuan was a calm and cautious person after all. After some consideration, he decided to postpone the time of refining the magic weapon and planned to focus on improving his cultivation first.
After all, cultivation is Shi Xuan's foundation. Now, through the "Ghost Controlling Method", he has a deeper understanding of the "Baolu", and it is time to make great progress. Moreover, with every increase in cultivation, Shi Xuan's grasp of refining magic weapons will increase, both in terms of control ability and sustainability.
After considering the arrangements for the next few months, Shi Xuan flipped through the "Ghost Controlling Method" again, because the two-headed tiger notes mentioned the prescription, Shi Xuan wanted to see what the prescription was. Who knew that the last few pages of the "Ghost Controlling Method" were missing. The previous page still had the commonly used prescriptions and pills, but the latter was gone. There were obvious signs of tearing. After carefully looking for it but couldn't find it, Shi Xuan didn't mind. He put away the three books, got up contentedly and walked out of the cave, ready to enjoy the tiger meat feast.
Shi Xuan was very satisfied with the delicious roasted tiger meat and tiger bone soup. He was even more satisfied to find the last few missing pages of the book "The Great Method of Subduing Ghosts" with prescriptions and pills written on them. They were actually in the kitchen! It seems that when the two-headed tiger asked the servants to make the medicine soup, he simply tore off the pages of the prescription and gave them to them. As for why he didn't write it down, the only explanation is that the two-headed tiger is essentially a rough guy! The name of the village also fully reflects this style!
Among the prescriptions and pills, in addition to the several special ones for the Guiling Gate that are not suitable for Shi Xuan, there are two prescriptions for body training, one for replenishing soul consumption, and one for healing and blood. Unfortunately, Shi Xuan can't make pills. The herbs in the cave were planted with rare herbal seeds that the two-headed tiger accidentally obtained, but there were no corresponding prescriptions and pills, so the two-headed tiger moved them into the cave and prepared to eat them at any time.
In the next three months, Shi Xuan put his mind on cultivation, and his cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds. The food and medicine soup he usually ate were prepared by Yan Jujian and Ding Mingde. Of course, Shi Xuan would not treat them badly. In the prescription left by the two-headed tiger, the medicine soup for body building and training was no longer needed by Shi Xuan now, but Yan Jujian and Ding Mingde were very satisfied with the effect. At the same time, Ding Mingde learned the most basic martial arts under Yan Jujian's guidance.
After Shi Xuan drank the medicine soup to replenish the consumption of the soul, he sat cross-legged on the bed, feeling warm. The power of the medicine made his mind more clear, and at the same time, he circulated the internal energy to help the power of the medicine. When the power of the medicine reached its peak, Shi Xuan calmed down and began to visualize. He became more and more proficient in the method of Qingfeng Mingyue Zhaoshen. The soul became more and more crystal clear and clear under the breeze blowing, removing impurities, and the bright moon shining and nourishing.
During this visualization, Shi Xuan found that his soul had grown to a limit. No matter how Mingyue converted the internal energy to nourish the soul, it could not go any further. I quickly exited the visualization, and after calming down from boxing, I did visualization again. I found that this was a good thing, because I began to touch the threshold of the out-of-body experience state. My entire soul strongly pulled at the Baihui point on the top of my head, causing it to loosen slightly.