"Miss Qin, I had no other choice at the time. I apologize for offending you."

Jiang Li symbolically performed a gentleman's salute to the other party, then waved his hand to separate the clay statues again.

After coming out of the cracked clay statue, the injuries on her body that were burned by the Demon-Destroying Golden Skin had basically recovered, and she returned to her cold and charming appearance.

Qin Shuman no longer had the firmness she had when she rejected Jiang Li. She bowed to Jiang Liying, with a complex expression of melancholy and compromise on her face.

She was originally a girl from a wealthy family, and grew up in seclusion in a large courtyard. Unfortunately, she loved reading love picture books since she was a child, and was completely poisoned by the "great love" fabricated by poor scholars.

Eventually, he was deceived by a fake scholar. After eloping with great expectations, he was sold to Qitu Town and became the poor and unlucky god of fortune.

She believed everything except what a man said. So when Qin Shuman asked her to join the team, she refused without hesitation.

And now, she had been planted with a host seed by Jiang Li, and had been in the burial coffin for such a long time. Everything she saw made her unable to imagine any possibility of escape.

From the time she was murdered until she was captured by Jiang Li, she had never left Qitu Town, nor had she met many cultivators, and had little understanding of the situation in the world of immortal cultivation.

At first, she claimed to be the king of this area and thought she was very powerful. But who would have thought that disaster would suddenly strike and she would encounter Jiang Li.

Such overwhelming strength, such overwhelming power, and this space with such rich spiritual energy and yin qi that it made her intoxicated.

After two weeks in here, she didn't know how to continue being a ghost after she got out. All this really made her unable to think of resisting.

Now Qin Shuman is thinking that as long as she is not allowed to continue to be the god of fortune, she thinks she can accept anything else.

"Now that things have come to this, I have nothing else to ask for. I just hope you don't let me down in the future."

Jiang Li didn't detect any obvious hostility from the other person's body, which surprised him a little. He had prepared several excuses, but now none of them came in handy.

"Don't worry, I don't have a habit of lying. Everything I said before counts. These guys above are all under your control."

"Really?"

After Jiang Li finished speaking, Qin Shuman covered her mouth excitedly. Her heart, which had stopped beating for nearly a hundred years, seemed to tremble at this moment.

Looking up at the sky, there were countless ghosts crowded together. This happiness came rather suddenly.

She used to have only a little over 3,000 subordinates.

This is equivalent to being promoted directly from a village chief to a county chief. It’s incredible to think about it.

"Come with me and I'll introduce you."

"You have a group of craftsmen among your ghost market people, right? These are the basic materials of Yin attributes. I need you to expand your manpower and turn them into Yin weapons first."

Among the three thousand ghost soldiers in this ghost market, more than half are equipped with standard weapons. Although they are far inferior to magic weapons, they are definitely several times stronger than mortal weapons.

"Then you will select these Yin creatures and arm an elite ghost army, the number of which can be around 50,000 to 100,000."

Pointing to a large pile of mineral materials, which Jiang Li had purchased from the Foreign Affairs Hall before.

"The other ghosts must also be armed as soon as possible. Here are the methods for making two ghost soldier talismans and ghost armor talismans. You can also use these two molds to make rubbings before you learn them."

He handed over two booklets and two long wooden boxes.

The two booklets were copied from the black talisman atlas of the Foundation Establishment cultivator. Their levels were not high, but they were still practical and easy to use.

The two long wooden boxes were the talisman paper rubbing molds carved and made by Jiang Li himself.

This is also the reason why talisman paper is so cheap in the world of immortal cultivation. By using this kind of mold to make rubbings, as long as there is enough spiritual energy, it can be produced on an assembly line.

Jiang Li cast a soul-surge technique on both molds. Now the user no longer needs to infuse spiritual energy himself. It can be used with a fool-proof operation, and even a mortal can do it.

The talisman paper printed out with a mold is certainly not as good as the one he drew by hand.

But with Jiang Li's carving level, the patterns on these two sets of molds are all natural and continuous, and the talisman paper printed from them is also better than the works of ordinary novice.

"The yellow millet paper and black corpse ink are ready. You can use the Yin Qi and spiritual energy in this space at will. This is just a basic black talisman. After you make the rubbing, you can use the ghost soldiers to nourish it. It is very easy to get started. Let's temporarily set the quantity at one million."

Jiang Li casually set a small goal.

"One million..."

Qin Shuman, the Lord of the Ghost Market, couldn't help but be speechless. In the mortal world where education is not yet universal, few people can have a complete concept of the number one million.

Although Qin Shuman was a lady from a prominent family of scholars when she was alive, she had been dead for so many years that much of her knowledge had been returned to her own teacher.

Hmm... How many zeros are there?

She only knew that it was a very, very large number.

"Also, I have brought back all the ghosts from your ghost market. You have to start reorganizing and expanding it, and you can't just do small things like you did before. You have to train them carefully."

"Follow this list I'm giving you to reacquaint them with the prices. I'll need them later."

Jiang Li naturally thinks the more free labor like this the better.

You know, if you have 100,000 death warriors and send them to work in an electronics factory for a month, that would be at least 400 million.

The things on Jiang Li's head are already worth more than 400,000, and are still increasing. How could he easily give up their surplus value? "If you need anything else in the future, you can tell me and I will try my best to meet your needs. In addition, this is a gift for you."

Jiang Li handed her another jade slip, which was a Taoist spell "Record of Illusionary Life" that the sword cultivator's clone had secretly learned from the many inheritances of the Five Elements Peak of Shushan.

Qin Shuman's talent for illusion is amazing. He can single-handedly create a prosperous town that is so realistic that it is hard to tell the difference between a real town and a real one, without the help of any formations or magic weapons.

Later, Jiang Li specifically learned that this level of sleight of hand was quite extraordinary.

This female ghost, as a wild person, has accomplished something that most foundation-building cultivators cannot do.

Since the other party is already his subordinate, Jiang Li is naturally willing to train and support him.

Qin Shuman obviously didn't know what a jade slip was. Only under Jiang Li's guidance did she read the contents of the jade slip with a look of curiosity.

After comprehending the mysterious spell that flooded into her mind, the ghost girl's face was gradually filled with shock again.

The things passed down by the Shushan Immortal Sect were not simple stuff at all.

Although Qin Shuman did not have the ability to identify the level of martial arts, she could not resist the long annotations Jiang Li added in the jade slip, praising this secret book of illusion as the most powerful in the world.

In addition, the world of immortal cultivation is very conservative and she had not received even a little inheritance in all these years. Naturally, she was deeply moved that Jiang Li gave her a treasure book of this level all of a sudden.

Jiang Li looked at the Lord of the Ghost Market who bowed down again, but he was thinking in his heart, if she knew that he not only put a parasite in her soul body, but also took away a trace of her original soul while she lost consciousness, would she still be grateful?

They walked in the space inside the burial coffin, and Jiang Li introduced her to the different functional areas and the uses of some things.

He exchanged an eight-hour token for so many things. Others might not understand and think it was a waste.

But for Jiang Li, he can already use such cheap materials to build the prototype of a small force.

"Huh? What's in these big barrels over here?"

Walking to a corner, Qin Shuman pointed at the hundreds of large wooden barrels piled in the corner and said curiously.

Next to the pile of wooden barrels, there was a small pool surrounded by pebbles.

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"This is also what I want to tell you."

Jiang Li walked to the side and picked up a wooden barrel from the pile. It seemed that he could still hear the sound of liquid shaking inside.

Jiang Li took off the lid of the wooden barrel, turned it over, and poured out streams of red liquid.

This is blood, monster blood.

Part of it was Jiang Li’s collection after hunting monsters, part of it was purchased from the sect’s Foreign Affairs Hall, and part of it was free kitchen waste after slaughtering monsters in the sect’s kitchen.

The monster's blood poured into the pebble pool. The bottom of the pool was not covered with mud and moss, and the blood directly came into contact with the wooden floor of the coffin space.

You know, the main material of this burial coffin is the vampire wood, which is even more evil and strange than the locust tree.

When Jiang Li was refining the Yin Burial Coffin, he was almost drained of blood by this thing, so he naturally remembers it clearly.

If one wants to upgrade a magic weapon, the basic materials of the magic weapon are naturally a link that cannot be avoided.

If the main material of the burial coffin was other materials, Jiang Li might have given up the idea long ago.

But if it is a vampire tree, it may not be a problem.

Because the vampire wood is extremely evil and has an incredibly strong vitality, even if it is made into a magic weapon, Jiang Li can still be sure that these wooden boards are still alive.

Because as long as it touches blood, the Burial Yin Coffin will suck it up without hesitation. And it is precisely because of this characteristic that it gives the Burial Yin Coffin the possibility to go further.

As long as it absorbs enough strong enough blood, this magical wood will continue to grow.

Jiang Li was temporarily unable to supply the coffin with too high-grade blood. The few drops of dragon blood in his body were not enough for him, and he was reluctant to share them with the coffin. So he planned to win by quantity.

"From now on, once the blood in this pool dries up, you can open a new bucket to replenish it. I will continue to supply the blood of the beasts. You don't have to worry."

Jiang Li gave this somewhat hard work to Qin Shuman, because she was the only one who could do it in the coffin.

You know, even the evil spirit of ordinary black dog blood can scare away ordinary ghosts.

All of this beast blood came from the bodies of powerful or weak monsters, and the evil spirit was incredibly strong. Just the smell of blood from a distance was enough to knock those ghosts and zombies over, not to mention close range operations.

Even some of the blood of the Foundation Establishment Stage monsters had to be handled with great care by Qin Shuman.

After doing all this, Jiang Li gave the spiritual root branch a sword-heart slash as usual, and then his real body left the coffin.

. . .

Jiang Li walked out of the room. The flying boat had accelerated to a very fast speed, but there were still many people standing on the deck outside.

For cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Stage and above, this amount of wind pressure is nothing.

"Junior Brother Jiang Li, are you okay?"

Naturally, Jiang Li's previous abnormality was noticed by many people. As the ace of the Qi Refining Stage in this competition, he absolutely could not have any problems.

However, Jiang Li was full of thoughts when he entered the room, but was smiling when he came out, and many people breathed a sigh of relief.

"Junior Brother Jiang Li, don't slack off. After we come back from this competition, let's compete again. This time, I will let you see the power of my Earth Dust Sutra."

The person who spoke was Shen Ruoshi. It was said that after the sect martial arts competition ended, she devoted herself to training under the guidance of the Valley Master, and now it seems that she has made a great breakthrough.

Jiang Li also had some credit for this.

The saying "there is no construction without destruction, and only after destruction can one build" really makes sense.

In the past, Shen Ruoshi, when practicing the Earth Dust Sutra, always pursued the amount of turbid space and heavy earth, so that the practice of the Earth Dust Sutra gradually became bloated and excessive.

In the previous battle with Jiang Li, she suddenly exploded and lost most of her Turbid Sky and Heavy Earth. However, this allowed her to calm down and properly comprehend the control of the Earth Dust Sutra. Now she has made good progress.

For example, at this moment, if she condensed that kind of earth cone again, after her control power was greatly improved, Jiang Li would definitely not be able to dodge it as easily as before.

"Thank you, Senior Sister and all the Senior Brothers, for your concern. I was just troubled by a bottleneck before, but now I have broken through, so I am fine now."

In just a few moments, Guimu Jue had already reached the seventh level, the limit of his cultivation, and was now at the eighth level.

Shen Ruoshi's ostentatious expression suddenly froze on her face, and she couldn't continue.

As expected, people’s joys cannot be shared. She suddenly felt that it was meaningless to talk to this junior brother.

Another breakthrough? It seemed that when Jiang Li first participated in the sect martial arts competition, he was still in the middle stage of Qi training. Later, as he fought, he became the late stage of Qi training. How long has it been since then?

What about the annoying bottleneck? Are you sure you understand what a "bottleneck" is? Jiang Li scratched his head and felt a little embarrassed.

And he was worried about another thing. If this competition lasted longer, and he succeeded in building a foundation, which arena should he go to to fight? (End of this chapter)