Chapter 510: Corpse Puppet Secret Technique, Wen Tianyang (Combined Chapter)
"This ghost king's inner elixir is condensed from the pure yin energy between heaven and earth. Using it as the main material and the secret method of making corpse puppets, you can refine a corpse puppet in the Jindan period. It is a rare good thing in the world of immortal cultivation. Junior Brother Song has only been back for a few days and he can get such a precious thing. He is really lucky."
Song Qingming smiled and nodded and said, "Haha! Senior Brother Chen is right. I didn't expect to encounter such a thing as soon as I came back. This time it was a bit dangerous. I didn't expect that there was such a big hidden danger near the family. It almost caused a big mess.
Fortunately, the ghost king had just broken through the Jindan period not long ago, and his strength was still average, so I successfully took it down He, otherwise I'm afraid it would be difficult for me to sit here and chat with my senior brother.
Senior brother mentioned this thing to me this time, is it for this ghost pill? "
Chen Xuanxin paused for a moment before speaking: "Junior brother Song is right, I did come here because of the ghost pill in your hand, but junior brother, don't get me wrong, I have no interest in this ghost pill, I just want to use something in my hand that has a great origin with this ghost pill to exchange a spiritual object with junior brother. "
"Oh! I don't know what it is related to this ghost pill, please tell me in detail first!" Hearing Chen Xuanxin say that he has something useful for the ghost pill in his hand, Song Qingming also became interested immediately.
"Junior brother Song also knows that ghost pills can be refined into golden pill corpse puppets. Many years ago, when I was traveling outside, I happened to get a scroll of the secret technique of refining this kind of golden pill corpse puppet. This time I came here to use this thing to exchange a spiritual object with junior brother Song. "After Chen Xuanxin finished speaking, he took out a green scroll and threw it directly to Song Qingming.
Song Qingming took the scroll calmly, opened it, and found that it was just as Chen Xuanxin said, this was a secret technique for refining corpse puppets. Song Qingming glanced at it and found that except for the main material, the ghost pill, which was difficult to find, the other materials were not difficult for Song Qingming to gather.
Since getting this ghost pill, Song Qingming has not thought about how to use it. Unexpectedly, after only a few days, Chen Xuanxin took the initiative to come to him and give him such a big gift, which really surprised Song Qingming.
"Brother Chen, give me this secret method of refining corpse puppets. I wonder what you want to exchange for it?" After Song Qingming glanced at the green scroll, he immediately returned it to Chen Xuanxin.
Chen Xuanxin put away the scroll and said directly: "I want to use this item to exchange some thousand-year spiritual milk with Junior Brother Song. I don't need a lot, just four or five drops will be enough. I hope Junior Brother can help me with one or two."
Hearing Chen Xuanxin mention "thousand-year spiritual milk", Song Qingming's originally calm face also changed slightly. Not many people knew that he had the "thousand-year spiritual milk" in his hand. Song Qingming didn't understand how Chen Xuanxin knew it for a while.
"Junior Brother Song, don't think too much. You may not know that I have always had a good relationship with Taoist Xianyun. I also learned from him that Junior Brother exchanged spiritual objects with him back then. Don't worry, no one in the sect should know about this except me.
To be honest, this item is extremely important to me now. If Junior Brother Song really has some, please exchange some for me. Chen will definitely remember this favor." After Chen Xuanxin finished speaking, he stood up and arched his hands, looking at Song Qingming with expectation.
"It was Li Xianyun who really told this." Song Qingming couldn't help but sigh inwardly. When fighting against monsters in Zixingfang, Song Qingming used a few drops of "Millennium Spirit Milk" to exchange with Li Xianyun for a monster king's spirit, which he used to break through the "Soul Devouring Technique" he practiced.
Although Song Qingming did not tell Li Xianyun that he still had "Millennium Spirit Milk" after completing the transaction, Li Xianyun, a Jindan casual cultivator who traveled abroad for many years, must have a strong ability to observe words and expressions. It should be that Li Xianyun had guessed that Song Qingming still had this thing.
When he heard Chen Xuanxin talking about "Millennium Spirit Milk", Song Qingming immediately thought of Li Xianyun in his heart, but he didn't expect that Li Xianyun and Chen Xuanxin would have such a good relationship, and even told the other party about Song Qingming's secret transaction with him.
"Brother Chen, you are too kind. I got this item by accident in the Yunwu Mountains. I have been able to practice for many years, and most of it is due to this opportunity. Brother Chen came to me specially for this item today, and I can't refuse your face. Please keep this item."
After hesitating for a moment, Song Qingming agreed to Chen Xuanxin and took out a small porcelain bottle with a few drops of "Millennium Spirit Milk" from his body and handed it to him.
"Brother Song is really a straightforward person. Chen thanks you here!" After Chen Xuanxin took the porcelain bottle, opened it and took a look, his face immediately brightened and bowed directly, and then handed the "Corpse Puppet Secret Art" that he had just put away to Song Qingming.
"Except for what you have, I don't have many drops of the thousand-year-old spiritual milk left. Please don't mention this to anyone else, or I'll be embarrassed again if other brothers come to me in the future." After completing the deal, Song Qingming said to Chen Xuanxin with a difficult expression.
Facing Song Qingming's instructions, Chen Xuanxin smiled knowingly and said, "Don't worry, Brother Song. I'm not a talkative person. Even if the head brother asks me, I won't tell you casually."
Although Song Qingming still had half a bottle of "Millennium Spiritual Milk" on him, he really didn't want too many people to know that he had this spiritual object, so as not to bring too much unnecessary trouble to himself in the future.
When making a deal with Li Xianyun that day, Song Qingming was a little too anxious at the time, thinking that Li Xianyun was a dull person who didn't like to communicate with others on weekdays and was not a talkative person. That's why he was careless and let Chen Xuanxin come to his door today.
Although the spiritual object "Millennium Spiritual Milk" has only a few drops and is not worth too much, it is a rare spiritual object that is useful to Jindan cultivators. Chen Xuanxin came to exchange this object with Song Qingming today, probably for the purpose of breaking through the realm.
Song Qingming now only has half a bottle of "Millennium Spiritual Milk" in his hand. He may have to save it in the future, so he naturally doesn't want to exchange it with others casually. If Chen Xuanxin hadn't really moved him with the "Corpse Puppet Secret Technique" he took out today, Song Qingming would not have taken out the "Millennium Spiritual Milk" so easily.
If he could really refine a Jindan corpse puppet with the ghost pill in his hand as recorded in this scroll of secret techniques, then Song Qingming's deal today would not only be cost-effective, but also be considered to have made a great bargain.
The corpse puppet refined using the secret method is not comparable to ordinary puppet beasts of the same level. Not only is the combat power strong, but the Jindan corpse puppet can also use a magic weapon to fight like an ordinary Jindan cultivator. This item can almost be equivalent to a combat power of the same level if used properly. It is a spiritual item that can be of great help to Song Qingming now.
If he can successfully obtain a Jindan corpse puppet, Song Qingming's strength will surely be difficult to meet opponents among Jindan early stage cultivators. Even if he encounters a Jindan middle stage cultivator with weak strength in the future, he may not be without the ability to fight.
"Junior Brother Song, since both official and private matters have been settled, I will take my leave and go back. When you arrive at Guyang Mountain someday, please remember to come to my cave."
"Senior Brother Chen, take care!"
After the two of them walked out of the meeting room, Chen Xuanxin and Song Qingming, who were both very happy, bowed and said goodbye, and soon turned into a golden light and left Funiu Mountain.
Half a month later, the General Affairs Hall of Xiaoyao Sect directly sent a large flying boat, carrying hundreds of cultivators and a large amount of supplies to Qinghefang. These people were all cultivators sent by the General Affairs Hall of the sect to participate in the planning of mining the "Yin Fire Stone" vein.
Under the arrangement of the Song family, the next day, a team of nearly 200 cultivators took advantage of the large flying boat of Xiaoyao Sect to directly kill Yunwu Mountain, and soon occupied the mountain where the ghost cultivator's cave was located, and renamed this originally nameless mountain "Yinfeng Ridge".
This time, the Song family also summoned a lot of cultivators to come together. Under the command of Song Qingming, they quickly swept away the monsters entrenched around "Yinfeng Ridge" and began to cultivate spiritual veins on the mountain.
Although there are many monsters on the side of Yunwu Mountain close to Weiguo, no demon king above level three has appeared. Although "Yinfeng Ridge" is already deep in Yunwu Mountain, as long as there are four or five foundation-building cultivators here, there will be no major danger.
After the spiritual veins are cultivated in a few months, and then a mountain protection formation above level two is arranged on "Yinfeng Ridge", with the cooperation of several foundation-building cultivators guarding here all year round, there will basically be no major problems, and the Yinhuo Stone vein below can be mined boldly and safely.
This time, the General Affairs Hall of Xiaoyao Sect went to Qinghefang and sent two foundation-building cultivators and more than one hundred Qi-refining cultivators. These people are all prepared to stay here for a long time to guard the "Yinfeng Ridge" vein.
On the Song family side, Song Qingming arranged for Song Yuanli to bring dozens of cultivators to help. Because the Song family needed to provide a lot of cultivators to mine the ore in the future, Song Qingming directly arranged for the family to recruit independent cultivators in Qinghefang. After the spiritual veins on the "Yinfeng Ridge" side were improved, they would be sent directly to help with mining.
After being busy for nearly a few months, the spiritual energy of the secondary spiritual veins cultivated on the "Yinfeng Ridge" side finally stabilized, and finally slowly got on the right track, and began to mine ore, and Song Qingming finally had some free time.
One day, Song Qingming sat in his cave, carefully arranged a formation ban on the spot, took out a "Soul Gathering Bowl", and released the green light that was imprisoned in it and was already a little weak.
"Daoyou. I beg... beg." Before the ghost cultivator finished his intermittent words, Song Qingming cast a spell to cover his soul with a golden talisman, and then Song Qingming closed his eyes and began to control his consciousness , directly enter the ghost cultivator's soul.
After Song Qingming formed a pill, he learned many advanced spells that can be practiced by Jindan cultivators from the Good Merit Pavilion of Xiaoyao Sect, including this "Soul Search Secret Technique". After casting the spell, the caster can directly enter the opponent's soul and quickly obtain the memory information hidden in the opponent's sea of consciousness.
This kind of soul search secret method is very common in the world of immortal cultivation. Almost every cultivator who has cultivated to the Jindan stage can do it. However, when this technique is performed, it must be faced with a cultivator with a lower cultivation level than oneself to have a higher success rate. If it is used on a cultivator of the same level, once the opponent's soul is too powerful, it will be difficult to succeed. Not to mention, the caster may also suffer a backlash and hurt his own consciousness immediately.
When Song Qingming caught the ghost cultivator's soul that attacked him, he learned from the ghost cultivator that the other party was once a Jindan-stage cultivator, and his soul might not be weaker than Song Qingming's now.
Because of this, after leaving the ghost cultivator's cave that day, Song Qingming did not rush to search his soul immediately, but put him in the "Soul Gathering Bowl" to refine him for several months. When his soul was weak today, he began to use the soul-searching secret technique on him.
Regardless of success or failure, once the "Soul-searching Secret Technique" is used, it will cause the other party's soul and memory to be confused, and the caster has only one chance to get the other party's complete memory. For this reason, Song Qingming was very cautious when casting the spell.
After the consciousness entered the ghost cultivator's soul, it didn't take long for Song Qingming to successfully find the ghost cultivator's memory hidden in his sea of consciousness, and began to patiently look through it.
As expected by Song Qingming, Song Changze was sucked into the ancient formation that day because of the ghost cultivator's active trick, and the restrictions on him were also placed by the ghost cultivator.
The other party did this because they wanted to use the secret method to take over Song Changze's body and be reborn. Unfortunately, the requirements for taking over the body are very complicated and cannot be prepared in a day or two. Before the ghost cultivator had time to perform, Song Qingming and his friends came to the door.
After reading the previous memories related to Song Changze, Song Qingming's consciousness rested for a while, and then explored the deep memories of the ghost cultivator again, and slowly learned some of the true origins of the ghost cultivator.
The memory seen in the previous is actually similar to the description of the ghost cultivator himself. The name of this ghost cultivator is "Wen Tianyang", and he was indeed a Jindan cultivator before his death.
In the previous life, his body was injured for some unknown reason, so he had no choice but to escape to the cave for refuge. As a result, he was too seriously injured and died in the cave. Before his soul dissipated, Wen Tianyang finally used the secret method to actively transform into a ghost cultivator and stayed in the world, and began to practice the ghost way.
After entering the ghost path, Wen Tianyang preserved most of his intelligence and memory because he transformed into a ghost cultivator on his own initiative, which was different from the ghost cultivators in the Yinling Land.
After that, Wen Tianyang hid in the Yinling Land and cultivated with the ghost cultivators. There was also competition among ghost cultivators. Wen Tianyang, who had just switched to the ghost path, had a hard time at first.
Later, after his cultivation level was higher, Wen Tianyang also recovered some memories. He used a set of ancient cultivation arrays in his storage bag to hide the cave where his body fell. Once he encountered threats from other ghost cultivators, he hid in that cave.
After about a thousand years, Wen Tianyang slowly cultivated to the peak of the foundation building realm again, and was only one step away from condensing the ghost pill.
Just as Song Qingming continued to search forward, he suddenly saw something familiar to him from a fragment of Wen Tianyang's previous life memory, which made Song Qingming so surprised that he almost shouted out!
"It can't be such a coincidence!"
What Song Qingming saw was a small jade box with a very beautiful green appearance. This thing was seen by Wen Tianyang shortly before his death in his previous life. Although he only glanced at it lightly, Song Qingming still recognized this jade box at a glance. It was very similar to the jade box he found after being attacked in Yunwu Mountain more than a hundred years ago.
It was because he accidentally got the jade box that year that Song Qingming found the "incomplete map" treasure that he had carried with him for many years in the jade box.
But unfortunately, when Song Qingming went back to look for Wen Tianyang's memory, he could no longer find any pictures related to the jade box or the "incomplete map", which made it impossible for him to completely confirm whether the jade box he saw in Wen Tianyang's memory now was the same as the one he got in Yunwu Mountain.
Because after transforming into a ghost cultivator, Wen Tianyang's memories of his previous life were suddenly lost. Song Qingming couldn't know why he died in trouble and what his detailed identity was in his previous life.
Only from some scattered memory fragments, some scenes of Wen Tianyang's cultivation in his previous life were seen. It can be barely seen that this person is not a cultivator from the Floating Cloud Mountains. He came to Yunwu Mountain to find something, but for some reason, he died here again.
It was not until two hours later that Song Qingming ended the soul search with a solemn face and cast a spell to put away his consciousness.
After searching for so long in Wen Tianyang's memory, Song Qingming also saw most of the useful memories. In addition to knowing a lot of expected things, it also brought him a lot of doubts.
After seeing this jade box from Wen Tianyang's memory, Song Qingming was also a little excited and couldn't calm down for a long time. The two jade boxes looked almost the same and both appeared in Yunwu Mountain. Although there was a thousand years between them, it was indeed very likely that they were the same thing.
"Could it be that the thing this guy came to Yunwu Mountain to find was this jade box?"
Although he felt that the two things were closely related, Song Qingming still had too little information. Even if the jade box that Wen Tianyang saw was the "fragmented map" that fell into his hands a thousand years later, Song Qingming still knew nothing about the origin of this "fragmented map" and the purpose of Wen Tianyang's search for it.
Just a moment after Song Qingming finished casting the spell, Wen Tianyang's soul, which was imprisoned by the talisman, suddenly became agitated. As the effect of the talisman slowly dissipated, the memory damage after the soul search gradually made him scream in pain.
Seeing this, Song Qingming did not hesitate too much and directly cast a spell to release a golden light, which dispersed Wen Tianyang's soul and ended his pain.
For people like him who took the initiative to cultivate the ghost way, the soul was not tolerated by reincarnation and could not be reincarnated. It soon dissipated directly between heaven and earth.
After dealing with Wen Tianyang's soul, Song Qingming took out the storage bag he left behind and found a black jade token from a pile of messy things.
Because thousands of years have passed, the spiritual objects in Wen Tianyang's storage bag have basically been corroded and corrupted by the yin energy in the cave because they are in the Yin Spirit Land. The remaining useful ones are, in addition to the ancient cultivation formation he arranged at the door, dozens of medium-grade spirit stones and the black jade token in Song Qingming's hand.
This item has no other functions except that it is made of special materials and is not afraid of corrosion by Yin Qi. The name of Wen Tianyang is engraved on the front, and some ancient patterns and a black dragon are carved on the back. It looks like an identity token of a large sect.
After opening Wen Tianyang's storage bag and finding this item, Song Qingming has been looking at the black token for many days, but he has not seen any clues from it. He doesn't know where Wen Tianyang came from.
Just as Song Qingming was pondering the black token in his hand in the cave, a sound transmission talisman suddenly flew in from outside the cave and landed beside him.
Seeing that his thoughts were suddenly interrupted, Song Qingming's face also showed a slight displeasure. Since he advanced to the Jindan stage, when Song Qingming was in seclusion, few people dared to come to him at this time.
After Song Qingming opened the sound transmission talisman and saw the contents inside, he found that it was sent by Song Yuanfang. However, what was written inside was something that Song Qingming did not expect. His face also changed from the initial displeasure to a hint of surprise. Then he quickly packed up, got up and walked out of his cave.
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On the top of Tuoyun Mountain, Feng Yangde was practicing with his eyes closed in a cave.
This cave is very rich in spiritual energy. It was the place where Chen Jinliang practiced in the past. Before the monster beast turmoil began more than ten years ago, Chen Jinliang, the first casual cultivator of Weiguo, had actually passed away in this cave.
At that time, in order to stabilize the situation on the mountain and deal with the upcoming monster beast turmoil, Feng Yangde and his companions on Tuoyun Mountain chose to hastily bury Chen Jinliang's bones and blocked the news of Chen Laozu's passing away from the outside world. They only informed Xiaoyao Sect of this matter.
It was not until the monster beast turmoil ended that Feng Yangde and his companions held a grand funeral for their master on Tuoyun Mountain again.
Although he had only formed a fake pill, his cultivation speed was very slow, but Feng Yangde still did not neglect his daily cultivation. When he had nothing to do, he basically practiced in seclusion in his cave.
Feng Yangde, who was meditating and practicing, suddenly felt a wave of movement coming from the restriction at the entrance of the cave. He put away his skills and stood up to go outside the cave, only to find that the person who came was his senior brother Liang Wenxu.
After seeing Feng Yangde, Liang Wenxu, who was already a little old and weak, hurriedly handed him a letter in his hand.
"Fourth Junior Brother, the Ma family sent another letter, inviting you to discuss the matter of Luoyun Mountain. This time it was written by Ma Hongshan himself, and he specifically asked you to go with him."
Because both of them were formally accepted disciples by Patriarch Chen, and Liang Wenxu entered the sect earlier, Feng Yangde still had to call Liang Wenxu his senior brother even though he had formed a pill now.