Shen Lian, who wanted to make money, began to further improve his spirit puppets and puppet talismans after the Black Fish spirit ship landed in Cape Fairy City.
The Cape Fairy City was built on an extremely huge reef, rising hundreds of feet above the sea level, with stairs carved out all around.
The sea water hits the cliff, and the water vapor is hazy. From a distance it looks like a giant beast floating on the water.
Inside the cave in the city called the Paradise on the Sea, Shen Lian was deep in thought.
Within half a month after he arrived, he had a clear understanding of the entire situation of Cape Fairy City.
As a transit station of the Wanxing Sea, it is the place for the import and export of spiritual objects in the South China Sea.
Hundreds of specialties in the Wanxing Sea, such as the white-striped clams, deep-sea coral polyps, and the scale between the eyebrows of sea cultivators that represents their talent for cultivation, are very popular in the South China Sea and even in the inland world of Tiannan cultivation.
In other words, as long as they have spirit stones, cultivators dare to do anything.
There really is a group of monks who secretly hunt down sea creatures, remove the scales from their brows and sell them.
Those who sell sea specialties in an honest way and those who sell spiritual objects that cannot be seen in public in secret can almost all be found in Cape Fairy City.
Any family with a little bit of strength in the Wanxing Sea would come here to buy spiritual objects and sell some of the Wanxing Sea's local specialties.
It's bustling and chaotic here.
Of course, safety in the Immortal City can be guaranteed. With the Yunshang Sect's outer sect Jindan elder in charge, no one would be so blind as to cause trouble.
After figuring out the situation in Cape Fairy City, Shen Lian became more determined to create spirit puppets and talisman people to earn spirit stones for himself.
The talisman can be destroyed, but spirit stones must be earned.
Inside the cave, Shen Lian held a piece of mysterious jade in his hand. His spiritual thoughts were immersed in it. A hazy human figure was imprinted on the jade piece.
This is the magic of the puppet talisman. It can imprint the image of the puppet and even possess all the combat power of the puppet.
But the puppet talisman also has a disadvantage, that is, it can only act passively according to the ability of the imprinted puppet, and its movements are stiff. Once activated, it can only consume energy mechanically.
After using the puppet talisman for the first time, Shen Lian also thought of this problem, so he used Xuanling Jade Marrow slices instead of talisman paper, but it still had major flaws.
At this moment, he was separating a strand of his divine consciousness and immersing it into the puppet jade talisman in an attempt to control it.
But this process is a bit difficult, because the puppet jade talisman is far inferior to the spirit puppet in terms of energy level and quality.
"To place my divine thoughts on others, I still have to rely on the secret method of the Myriad Spirits Immortal Puppet Technique..."
After repeatedly trying to control his divine consciousness and enter the puppet jade talisman man without success, Shen Lian stopped temporarily. In his opinion, although the puppet talisman man was a type of talisman, it could not be separated from the category of puppets.
"Talisman, puppet..."
With hope in his heart, he plunged headfirst into the mind of the magic-modified talisman man.
Fortunately, he currently has no shortage of resources. He takes pills and practices normally every day, and uses the rest of his time to think about magic changes.
In this state of practice, even the points of insight and divine enlightenment can be generated without delay.
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[Keep calm, insight points +1]
[Keep calm, insight points +1]
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[God has no external things, God's enlightenment point +1]
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[Keep calm, insight points +1]
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Xuanhai Sect’s sea area, Mingdeng Island.
This island is located in the middle of the Xuanhai Sect's sea area.
In the narrow cave, a gurgling sound was heard, and Bian Qingyun, who was wearing a yellow Taoist robe, was muttering something.
“Out, out, out!”
The blood vessels between the eyebrows are bulging, as if there are small insects crawling in the blood vessels.
Bian Qingyun was muttering faster and faster, and in front of him were three jars filled with the smell of blood.
Various kinds of insects were floating in these jars, some of which were still struggling in the blood.
When the Soul-Borrowing Guworm is not in use, it needs to use its own essence and blood as nutrients, and then use itself as a carrier to hide it in the body.
Fortunately, once the small poisonous insect is refined, it is not very dangerous and will not absorb too much spiritual energy.
It’s just that every time I try to wake up the sleeping queen insect, it’s somewhat difficult.
“Out, out, out!”
The swollen blood vessels quickly spread to the right arm, and a bean-sized bulge began to move towards the right arm.
However, when the bean-sized female insect reached the wrist, it burrowed back into the body with a buzzing sound.
Bian Qingyun's eyes widened in anger, and he wanted to smash the three jars of blood food prepared in front of him.
But thinking that he had collected these three jars of blood food with great difficulty, and had secretly sneaked into some foundation-building families many times to borrow some things, he suppressed his anger.
He had summoned the sleeping queen insect several times in a row, but perhaps it had slept for too long, and it went back every time when it was about to come out.
"Do we need to summon both male and female insects together?"
This pair of soul-borrowing insects was obtained by chance in a Jindan cave when he was on a mission to a secret place under the orders of his master.
At that time, in the cave, apart from a golden elixir corpse, there were only the pair of poisonous insects that had not yet hatched, and a broken book on the method of controlling poisons.
After he examined Jin Dan's corpse, he had already sold it.
All other junk was thrown away.
Then he used the method of controlling Gu to sacrifice and refine the pair of soul-borrowing Gu worms.
After resting for a few days, Bian Qingyun started summoning again.
“Out, out, out!”
This time, the blood vessels on his left and right arms bulged, and blood shone at his wrists. Two insects with fangs crawled out from his left and right hands, making a faint buzzing sound.
Looking at the two poisonous insects crawling in his palm, Bian Qingyun finally smiled.
"I wonder if you have made the five-colored stone into a magic weapon."
"Come, eat, eat. It's better to work after you are full."
Putting the two poisonous insects into the jar full of blood, Bian Qingyun murmured softly.
"Master, Master, to be honest, I haven't received much benefit from following you. Instead, I've been hunted down by people every day. If you really are dead in the afterlife... even if you're not dead, please don't come looking for me, okay?"
“Sizzle.”
The two soul-borrowing insects in the jar chirped and soon devoured all the blood in the three jars. Two semi-transparent blood-red wings formed on each of their bodies.
"Go, find the person, and then you can have enough blood and food to satisfy your hunger."
Bian Qingyun picked up the two poisonous insects again, his cheeks bulging.
He was fed up with being hunted every day. If he continued like this, even if he was not beaten to death, his golden elixir would collapse and he would die sooner or later.
He is less than four hundred years old, and if he works hard, he still has hope of reaching the Nascent Soul stage.
"Master, we are a master and disciple. The five-colored stone is a reward for my many years of service."
However, the smile on Bian Qingyun's face soon froze.
"Master, you won't leave any tricks on the five-colored stone, will you?"
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Yushui Island, Tianmu Island, Yongguang Island... Aoshi Fairy City, Haiyi Fairy City, Jieshi Fairy City...
Xuanhai Sect...Hai Family...Xuanzhi Sect...Hailing Sect...
Bian Qingyun's footprints can be found on the vast ocean and on the islands everywhere.
Rumble! Huge waves surged on the sea, magic power splashed, various magic weapons kept colliding, and nearly two hundred cultivators, led by several foundation-building cultivators, were fighting.
The formations on the treasure ships of both sides had collapsed, and raging flames were burning.
On a treasure ship, the battle flag of Xuanhai Sect was burning in flames.
On the other treasure ship, only a bare piece of the war flag remained.
"Destroy the demons and defend the way, kill these demon cultivators."
"Kill these hypocritical people and use corpse oil to light sky lanterns for them."
High in the sky, Bian Qingyun, with two fat poisonous insects on his head, flew by with a dark face.
“So annoying!”
Just as he was about to fly away, a ferocious look appeared in his eyes.
As soon as he opened his mouth, a ray of golden light fell towards the monks fighting below.
The golden light made an explosive sound and expanded several times in size as it fell. All the spiritual energy floating in the surrounding void was sucked away by the beads that emerged from the golden light.
The golden light suddenly enveloped the area where the fight was taking place below, and the dense golden light seemed to contain endless fine needles.
"ah……"
The monks on both sides who were fighting were terrified.
Jindan Zhenren took action.
"Senior, we are Xuan Hai..."
“Puff, puff, puff…”
But facing a mid-stage third-order spiritual treasure, no one could even resist, and they were pierced from foot to toe by countless needle rains, turning into balls of blood mist that exploded in golden light.
"Ant-like thing, fighting all day long!"
During this period of time, he traveled through most of the Wanxing Sea, but he still couldn't find any trace of the soul-borrowing insect.
Where is Pei Huoyu? Where is his five-colored stone?
This made Emperor Bian Qingyun feel annoyed, not to mention that wherever he went, there would be a group of ants fighting each other.
What's the point of fighting against a group of forces in a small fish pond?
So annoying.
The soul-borrowing mother insect could not sense the scent of the released poisonous insect.
Or Pei Huoyu ran far enough.
Either the soul-borrowing insect that was released died.
However, since the volume of Gu Shu that he practiced was incomplete and his knowledge of the method of refining Gu insects was only half-baked, Bian Qingyun could not guarantee what the exact reason was.
He was more inclined to believe that Pei Huoyu had run far enough away to block the detection of the soul-borrowing mother insect.
This kid is able to stand out from so many stone farmers under the master, so he has some ability.
After killing a group of ants, Bian Qingyun felt that the resentment in his chest had dissipated a lot.
Where on earth did Pei Huoyu go?
"If I had known earlier, I would have left a wisp of soul thought to make a soul lamp."
He murmured with some regret.
But he didn't dare to do it under the circumstances back then. The old ghost Ziyang was still alive and well. If he knew that he was playing tricks on Pei Huoyu, he would be the one to light the soul lamp.
"Get the five-colored stone and make it into a magic weapon. Leave the Tiannan cultivation world and flee far away. Find the place where the Five Elements Immortal City appears again. If you can cultivate to the Yuan... Golden Elixir Great Perfection, it will be fine. As long as you enter the Immortal Palace to condense the Infant, there will be hope..."
What a wonderful idea, but it’s stuck at the first step.
Lao Pei, where are you?
I can’t find it. I can’t find it.
"Master, what are you planning?"
Master Zi Yang was a well-known troublemaker in the surrounding area. He had been repeatedly challenging the various Nascent Soul ancestors and had been beaten countless times.
But no one knew the origin of Master Zi Yang. He was already in the Nascent Soul stage when he appeared.
He had followed him for more than three hundred years, but he had no idea where he came from.
I know that every time I am either snatching spiritual objects or on the way to snatch spiritual objects.
In this case, taking in disciples is more like a burden.
Bian Qingyun once thought that he, like the previous brothers who passed away, was responsible for helping his master attract hatred.
But that’s actually how it developed.
The master was surrounded and attacked, and they were also surrounded and attacked.
It was as if there were no other damned people in the several major areas near the South China Sea.
In short, this old man is very spooky.
"This is a remote place, there is no spiritual medicine to nourish the golden elixir, and we are fighting all day long."
He landed on the water and salvaged some remaining spiritual stones and other things. Then Bian Qingyun turned into a stream of light and disappeared into the distance.
It was just a fight between two Jindan forces in the pond, he didn't care.
They are just a few foundation-building ants. Could it be possible that these two sects could really send out Jindan cultivators to encircle and suppress them?
joke.
Is he afraid of encirclement and suppression?
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Outside the Cape Fairy City.
The night gradually darkened.
Suddenly, there were more black-sailed boats on the sea, gathering from all directions under the cliffs outside the city.
Some of the small boats had dim lights on them.
This is the ghost market on the sea in Cape Fairy City.
A small black-sailed boat costs five hundred spirit stones and is made of a special kind of wood that can be soaked in water for about a year, after which the hull will rot and merge into the water.
With a small boat, you can come to the ghost market to trade.
Here, it doesn't matter whether you are building the foundation and cultivating Qi, or you are a Jindan Zhenren, and it doesn't matter what kind of black goods you have, as long as you dare to sell it, there will be people who dare to buy it.
Don't ask where a corpse comes from, and don't ask where a spiritual stone comes from.
A black-sailed boat paddled on the water and swayed among the other black-sailed boats.
On the boat, an old man wearing a black robe and with a pale face was sitting cross-legged. He took down the small lamp hanging on the black sail and lit it.
The dim light shone through the thin paper, illuminating an ancient Chinese character for "Dan".
If you want to buy something, just look at the lights on the wupeng boats.
This 'Dan' lamp was still normal. Looking at the lights on the bow, there were too many strange things reflected, corpses, blood, sunflower water, poisonous water, magic tools, yin-yang marriages, spiritual roots, divination, breaking evil spirits, seeking children, selling one's body...
In short, you can see all kinds of lights here.
Among the densely packed black-sailed boats, you can see a few that are swaying particularly violently, and the sounds of "hmm" and "ahh" can be heard echoing on the water.
The pink lights on the bow swayed along with the boat.
At the beginning, they were restrained, but later they started to compete with each other.
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"Old Qin, where are today's pills? I want them all."
Outside the black-sailed boat of the old man with a black robe and a sallow face, another black-sailed boat came over. A figure on the boat was sitting cross-legged, covered by a wide robe.
The sallow-faced old man calmly took out a storage bag from his waist and threw it over.
After checking, the person on the other side said, "If you mix so many useless pills in again, I won't accept yours."
"Sincerely, five hundred spirit stones..."
The sallow old man grinned and said, "Next time I will only add 20%."
"The fellow Daoists in the southern sea area are fighting desperately, and you give them this kind of medicine. Do you still have a conscience?"
"Remember your words. If you do this badly again next month, I will kill you."
"Hehe...if you can't kill me, you'll be my grandson."
The sallow-faced old man didn't care about the threat at all, and even took it a bit too seriously.
"grandfather……"
"You can't call me grandpa for nothing. I'll give you 20 spirit stones, a total of 480."
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After collecting the pills, the monk rowed his black-sailed boat in another direction to continue his mission of collecting pills.
His task is to buy medicinal pills at low prices in the ghost market every day.
On the other side, after collecting the spiritual stones, the sallow old man rowed his black-sailed boat outward. After reaching the outer circle of the ghost market, he plunged into the surging water with a splash, and the black-sailed boat disappeared along with it.
The monks around were already accustomed to this situation.
If you don't want to dissolve in water, you can also fly into the sky.
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Inside the Cape Fairy City.
On the second floor of an "Anxin" grocery store on a remote street near the cliff, Shen Lian was sitting cross-legged and practicing.
Puppet figure number three has returned.
It was just that my grandson took advantage of twenty spirit stones.
Four hundred and eighty spirit stones are just the first harvest of tonight.
In order not to attract attention, the puppet talisman man will use different disguises at different times and locations to conduct small batches and multiple transactions.
After hanging around in the ghost market for a few months, I got in touch with a group of people who were secretly purchasing medicinal pills. No matter what kind of medicinal pill it was, they would buy it.
Every time his talisman man would change his appearance and sell the pills in his hand.
It lasted until the second half of the night, when the ghost market dispersed and all the puppet figures returned to their positions.
Shen Lian's aura became calmer.
[Keep calm, insight points +1]
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[God has no external things, God's enlightenment point +1]
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In the darkness, a ripple appeared in the sea of divine consciousness.
Shen Lian woke up from his practice, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.
[Five Elements Spiritual Roots: Fire 100 Earth 69 Metal 31 Wood 31 Water 31]
【Divine Enlightenment Point: 31】
(End of this chapter)