“Pululu.”

A burst of light exploded in the calm lake. Shen Lian let out a hissing sound, and then his mouth was filled with lake water.

The robe became strips on his body, and tiny cracks appeared on the surface of his skin, with bits of crystal blood seeping out.

After a few breaths of confusion, he finally reacted.

Shen Lian quickly collected the blood beads, but there were still thin threads of blood melting into the lake water.

How far had he escaped?

Looking inward into the Dantian, the spiritual light on the Five Elements Golden Elixir dimmed, and the Dan Qi lingering on the surface of the Golden Elixir was completely exhausted, as if it had been hollowed out all at once.

“No wonder it takes a while to cultivate the golden elixir’s magical power after it is released instantly.”

He carefully checked the cracks on his body again. Normally, even if he used his magical powers of escape, he shouldn't have such cracks on his body.

There was only one reason for this problem, and that was that the distance he fled exceeded his expectations.

"Five hundred miles? Or one thousand miles?"

"roar!"

When Shen Lian was pondering, a roar came from the depths of the lake. A black-skinned demon crocodile with a body of two meters in size and covered with flesh thorns came running over after hearing the noise.

It is the overlord of this lake.

Then.

Shen Lian put it into the storage ring. This mid-stage second-order monster could be used as a treat for the three little ones.

The moment he escaped from the lake, dense swarms of water monsters rushed out from all directions of the lake, rushed towards the place just now, and swallowed the lake water in this area in big gulps.

Puff!

However, these small monsters in the water only took two bites before they began to explode and die one by one. The blood quickly dyed the area red, which in turn attracted more monsters.

…

After getting away from the lake, Shen Lian opened up a cave to settle down temporarily and began to heal the injuries on his body.

His physical body was originally at the third level, but he was still injured when the Five Elements Escape was activated. It can be seen that a good physique is needed no matter what you do.

There's no way back like this.

But if Shen Lian wants to recover from the injuries on his body, he currently has no suitable herbs.

Physical cultivation and Dharma cultivation belong to two different paths. The decline of physical cultivation was actually doomed when this path was opened up.

The terrifying thing about physical cultivation is that as long as there are enough resources, they can quickly reach the third level, or even the fourth level.

A practitioner of Dharma can build a foundation at the age of sixty, while a practitioner of Physical Medicine may be able to be tempered to the second level at the age of twenty, reaching the level of fist-collapse foundation building.

A Dharma cultivator only builds his foundation at the age of sixty, but a physical cultivator might have already been promoted to the third level at the age of sixty due to the accumulation of natural resources and treasures.

The high efficiency of cultivation results in an unimaginable consumption of the spiritual essence of heaven and earth.

So, the body cultivation was gone.

Up to now, looking at the entire world of immortal cultivation, the number of physical cultivators is extremely rare.

At this moment, Shen Lian didn't even have special elixirs to repair his body, so he could only use conventional spiritual medicines.

He planned to practice for a few days, then start refining some pills for healing, cultivation, and improving spiritual power before going back.

…

In the blink of an eye, half a year passed.

Shen Lian sensed the location of the magic weapon Five Elements Ship and found his way back to his cave.

It was no wonder that his body collapsed. He calculated that the place where he arrived after using the Five Elements Escape Technique was a full 1,300 miles away from the cave.

At this distance, most of the Nascent Soul cultivators in the early stage do not have such a powerful divine sense.

This was far beyond his expectations.

"I thought you would never come back."

Inside the cave, Zi Yang came out from the cave, looked at Shen Lian and spoke softly.

"My friend is really cautious. The first Jindan magical power is actually an escape technique, which is more than 500 miles."

"Five hundred and ninety miles."

Hearing this, Zi Yang nodded, but remained silent in his heart. He didn't believe that Shen Lian would tell the truth, and he would definitely keep something from him.

Add 30% of the distance Shen Lian mentioned, and it will be eight hundred miles.

Escape eight hundred miles in an instant. This kind of escape technique is nothing for a Nascent Soul cultivator, but for a Golden Core cultivator, it is equivalent to saving one's life in a critical moment.

Shen Lian had been away for more than half a year. I guess he must have done something outside that he didn't want him to know.

In response to this, Zi Yang pretended not to know. It didn't matter as long as the person was caught, everything else was a small matter.

Seeing Shen Lian sitting cross-legged in the cave to regulate his breathing after coming back, Zi Yang didn't want to waste his time and went back into the cave.

"It's not going to work if you stay in the cave. How about I make a puppet for you to enjoy?"

At this time, Shen Lian suddenly spoke.

Since he can't get rid of this guy for the time being, Shen Lian can't keep failing to get back his own magic weapon.

"I feel that the cave is quite nice and quiet."

However, Ziyang was unwilling to leave.

The natal magic weapon is very important to the cultivator. Once the natal magic weapon is severely damaged, it will also affect the cultivator himself.

He had to get something important from Shen Lian, otherwise, how could they continue the cooperation?

Shen Lian simply ignored Zi Yang's objection and began to prepare to refine a living puppet for Zi Yang.

One month later.

“Crack!”

A voice was heard in the cave, and Shen Lian embedded a red round crystal stone into the forehead of the little man in front of him. Suddenly, a red light shone from the little man's body.

This is a combination puppet made of third-level three-crystal flint as the main body, and embedded with more than a dozen various third-level mineral materials as auxiliary materials.

That's the appearance, only a little over three feet tall, like a little boy.

Afterwards, Shen Lian took out animal skins and silk threads and began to sew on the puppet. Soon, a child wearing a furry animal skin and an animal skin hat was born.

"Senior, you will be rejuvenated once you enter."

Zi Yang said no, but when Shen Lian was refining the puppet, he flew out from the cave and stood aside watching Shen Lian make it.

"How can I, a seven-foot tall old man, get into the body of a naughty boy?"

"Senior, are you sure you want to take a look? I have embedded a third-order spirit formation in the chest of this puppet.

He also imitated the human cultivator in his body, opened up the meridians and dantian, embedded a fake pill, and simulated the human cultivation system.

This will allow you to further nourish your injured Nascent Soul within the puppet."

"Tsk, being in a puppet is not as safe as hiding in a cave."

Zi Yang still shook his head.

"Senior, you are a Yuanying, are you afraid that a junior will spy on your aura? "You have offended too many people, and you are scared to death."

“…”

…

"Let me be frank. I need to store the magic weapon in my dantian to nourish it. How can I let you stay here for a long time?"

"I know, but I can't do that. Unless you take out something important for me to hold, I will feel uneasy."

Shen Lian had seen how shameless he was when he ran into a Nascent Soul cultivator for the first time.

"Senior, even if Qingluan Immortal City has a fourth-level Houtu Talisman, do you think I can buy it?"

Shen Lian spoke in a deep voice. For a Jindan cultivator like him to buy a fourth-level talisman was like a child carrying gold in a busy market.

"You and I both have secrets in each other's hands, and it's useless to use external objects as bargaining chips."

"It's useful. I have been staying in the cave, so you dare not do anything to me."

Seeing that the old guy was adamant, Shen Lian lost his temper.

Either the old man who is still alive is a thief, or the old thing is so mean and evil. You should have said earlier that you would not go in, little puppet.

But he was busy for more than a month, and the old man was still watching him for a month, looking very interested.

Now that it’s come, hehe, I’m just playing around.

This is so shameless.

Throwing the little puppet aside the cave, Shen Lian sat down cross-legged again.

It's wishful thinking for the old guy to think he can control him in this way.

The importance of a natal magic weapon to a cultivator is self-evident, especially this kind of magic weapon that has faced thunder tribulations together. The degree of compatibility is incomparable to that of ordinary magic weapons.

But for Shen Lian, not using magic weapons for ten or twenty years is not a big problem.

Write this down first.

After sitting down again, Shen Lian calmed down for two days and made a note of the old monster Zi Yang in his heart.

Then, he took out a third-level five-element spiritual object.

At the Golden Elixir level, the Five Qis Returning to the Origin skill requires the condensation of the Yin and Yang energies.

The yin and yang energies are not unfamiliar things to cultivators. Generally speaking, there are male and female cultivators who practice the method of collecting and replenishing energy.

Men picking women and women picking men are common.

These belong to the low-level yin and yang complementation.

The high-end yin and yang energies transform the five elements and nourish yin and yang.

Of course, Shen Lian took out the five elements spiritual objects at this moment not to condense the yin and yang energies. The condensation of yin and yang is a long process of practice.

His main focus now is to improve his own natal spirit puppet.

Now, he is already a Jindan cultivator, but his natal spirit puppet is still at the second level, and his strength cannot keep up.

Looking inward at his five internal organs, the five spirit puppets transformed into a ball of hazy light and shadow, lingering over the five internal organs.

According to the description of the Wanling Immortal Puppet Technique, the spirit puppet can eventually transform into a magical power similar to an incarnation.

Refine the five elements spiritual objects bit by bit and integrate them into your body.

Shen Lian was not on guard against Zi Yang on this point. It was normal for a cultivator with five spiritual roots to refine five elements spiritual objects, which was complementary to the elixirs used for cultivation.

Strands of pure spiritual energy penetrated into the body, slowly entered the five internal organs, and were absorbed bit by bit by the spirit puppet.

Spirit puppets are just like the physical cultivators of the past. They do not show bottlenecks when they are at a low level. They only need enough energy to continuously improve their strength.

While upgrading the Five Elements Spirit Puppet, Shen Lian's sea of ​​consciousness was not idle either.

He practiced the Soul-Forging and Silk-Condensing Method that came with the Wanling Immortal Puppet Technique. The first level of this method could help cultivators condense soul silk and increase the range of control over spirit puppets.

This was the second time that Shen Lian had read through the inheritance of the Wanling Immortal Puppet Technique after he was promoted to the Golden Core stage.

I didn't expect there would be such a surprise.

In the second level of the Soul-Forging and Silk-Condensing Method, there is a secret method called the Immortal Puppet Soul-Dividing Technique.

After practicing this method, one can separate a secondary soul into the main immortal puppet.

However, there is a detailed description behind this secret method, which states that there is a probability that the separated secondary soul will develop into an independent consciousness, which may lead to the risk of backlash.

The disadvantages are quite terrifying, but they are not unavoidable. That is, do not let the secondary soul puppet be independent of the body for a long time to reduce the risk of accidents.

Generally speaking, split souls are vassals of the main soul. If they want to develop independent consciousness, they can only be bewitched from the outside, or be influenced by some kind of magnetic field of the heaven and earth, or have their thoughts enlightened by the outside world.

As for the benefits, there are many.

Once the secondary soul is separated and enters the main spirit puppet, the external soul thread required before will no longer be needed, reducing the risk of being detected.

In addition, the split secondary soul will be synchronized with the main soul. As long as it is adjusted, the combat power of the secondary soul puppet can reach 90% of the original soul.

After thinking it over again and again, Shen Lian felt that he still had to practice the art of splitting the soul. If for no other reason, having this split soul would be equivalent to having an independent clone of himself.

"My natal magic weapon, my natal spirit puppet, my natal talisman, my natal formation..."

Shen Lian's thoughts continued to extend. There was an old monster in the Nascent Soul stage staring at him closely. He had to improve his skills as soon as possible to get rid of this guy.

Otherwise, I will have trouble sleeping and eating.

With this thought, he calmed down and began to refine the five elements spiritual objects with peace of mind.

First upgrade the puppet to the third level and separate the secondary soul.

…

South China Sea.

Cloud Sect.

Under the misty fog, a sword-like peak stands among the mountains.

The void around this sword peak was distorted, and occasionally a dazzling ban flashed by, causing the monks patrolling in the sect to not dare to approach this area.

On the tip of the sword, there are also ochre-colored runes engraved.

In a corner at the foot of the peak, there was an old figure sitting cross-legged on a stone platform carved with cloud patterns. His aura was completely restrained and no trace of air could be detected.

Inside the sword peak, there is a cave that exudes a faint chill.

There was nothing arranged inside the cave, but it was filled with clouds. These clouds originated from the surrounding rock walls and surged out in ripples like waves.

At the place where the clouds converged, Yunlong sat cross-legged, allowing the mist to pass through his body without any intention of blocking it.

The seemingly soft mist turned into transparent sharp swords as it passed through the body, shuttling back and forth in the body, causing Yunlong's brows to bulge with veins, and his hands on his knees to clench.

"Yunlong, why do you have to do this?"

Seeing Yunlong in this state, the old man stationed outside Jianfeng spoke.

"Many elders and disciples died in the Vast Sea Secret Realm, even Elder Yunlan died outside. This is the punishment I should bear."

Yunlong responded without opening his eyes.

"The sect has already found out that Elder Yunlan was closely related to the sudden opening of the Vast Sea Secret Realm, and the sect has already made a fair judgment on this matter.

In addition, the matter of the secret realm spiritual herbs, after the judgment of the ancestor, has nothing to do with Yun Lan's forced opening of the secret realm, it is most likely a coincidence. "

"No matter what, as the responsible elder, I need to give the sect an explanation for the death of the elders and disciples."

Yunlong opened his eyes and shook his head slightly.

"Besides, there are rumors out there that I might be possessed by that magical tree root, but I can't prove it at the moment."

"Yunlong, you are crazy."

The elder outside Jianfeng sighed, "Ancestor Molong and Ancestor Yueyin of Xuanyin Sect have searched your soul, and you have also passed the test of the sect's heart-searching formation, which has proven your innocence."

"I need to give the sect an explanation for the death of the sect's elders and disciples."

Master Yunlong said in a deep voice, "After I punish you, I will definitely avenge you."

"Hey, Xuanyin Sect's Yuhuan Zhenren has been here for more than ten years. You should at least come out and take a look."

(End of this chapter)