Beginning to practice immortality as a refugee

Chapter 505: External Puppet

After everyone drank for a while, Venerable Black Mountain complained that a ship carrying goods he had sent to other sea areas was robbed halfway.

No one knows where the ship and the people are. It's really worrying.

She Feng laughed and asked what was the matter.

There are only a few well-known robbers in the nearby waters. He will inform them and they will probably be able to send the ship back in a few days.

Venerable Heishan was overjoyed and raised his glass to toast She Feng.

The banquet lasted until night, when everyone took their leave and left Bilang Island.

Lord Bilang and Lady Hongxiu politely escorted the cultivators out of the island for dozens of nautical miles before returning.

Lu Ye took Lan Wutong with him and rode on the flying sword towards Zhongxiang Island.

"Master, I heard a rumor that She Feng is the nephew of a great thief among the Thirty-Six Thieves."

"Some people say it is the root of the Black Water King Snake. My uncle is the two-winged snake that was skinned by Futu Island. That's why he has such a high status among the robbery cultivators."

Lu Ye smiled when he heard this.

It turns out that he is my second brother’s nephew, so rounding it off makes him my own nephew.

Lu Ye murmured.

"I think I have to take good care of him in the future."

Lan Wutong didn't hear clearly and was about to ask something.

Suddenly, a sharp black light came from the air and hit the two of them. In the light was a snake-head spear, emitting a strong resentment.

The Demon King She Feng, who was at the table before, suddenly appeared, full of murderous intent.

Lu Ye didn't seem surprised. He gently pushed Lan Wutong away and raised his sword to block.

"Fellow Daoist, why are you trying to stop me?"

Demon King Shefeng sneered.

"Then I have to wait several decades before I can become the master of Bilang Island. I can't wait."

"It's not bad to be the master of Zhongxiang Island first. I heard that although the scenery on your island is poor, it has a lot of wealth."

"It's a good place, too."

Lu Ye laughed when he heard this, and retreated while calmly dealing with his attack with the Killing Slash.

"Monster King Shefeng, what is your relationship with the two-winged snake among the thirty-six thieves that was skinned and refined into a tree baby by Futu Island?"

When Demon King She Feng heard this, he became angry and transformed into his true form, a giant snake more than ten feet long. He opened his mouth and sprayed out the brilliant demon pill on his head.

"How dare you call my uncle by his name!"

"Others may be afraid of you, but I am powerful and I am not afraid of you!"

Lu Ye laughed even more happily.

"My dear nephew, I am your fourth uncle!"

"We are a family and we don't fight with each other."

"Stop it now!"

Upon hearing this, Demon King She Feng became furious. He opened his snake mouth wide and launched a series of water and thunder attacks, combined with his spear to harass the enemy in a mysterious way.

Lan Wutong flew to a low altitude and looked up anxiously.

A fierce battle between two Jindan masters in the sky stirred up the wind and clouds for several miles.

Who knew that after a few moves.

A rain of blood fell, and all movement disappeared.

I saw the master had already descended into the distance, holding a large snake head in his hand. The snake's eyes were filled with shock, and the divine light was still there, so it was obvious that it was not completely dead yet.

"Hurry up and go..." Lu Ye took Lan Wu with him and flew towards Zhongxiang Island.

"Master, are you afraid that his helpers will hunt you down?"

"No," Lu Ye simply shook his head, "My fifth brother said so."

"After killing the Black Water King Snake, it is best to cook it in a pot over low heat to make soup."

"We must hurry back and boil the pot."

Lan Wutong: “…”

Was I hallucinating?

After killing such a huge demon king, the master only thought about the delicious food?
Also, when did Gui Daozhu become a foodie? Didn't he always like to eat raw food?

However, the snake head in Lu Ye's hand, after hearing about its final fate, became so angry that its eyes widened and two lines of blood and tears shed. It was unwilling to lose its magic power and blood, and died with its head tilted.

Lu Ye and Lan Wu fled back to the island together, and then called Gui Baozhu, Pan Furong, Wang Hu, Zhang Cunyi, Shu Chitu and others.

He also ordered Zhang Biao to go and call Fan Buju and Hong Jie, and also to invite Elder Tie Gong from the other courtyard.

In fact, Elder Tie Gong was dragged down by Pan Wang, Zhang Shu and the other three men. He was ambushed by Mo Ruyan, and his qi sea was ruptured, cutting off his path of cultivation. When Lu Ye and others moved out of Gushan Sect and went to the East China Sea, they took the old man in to take care of him in his old age.

Elder Tie Gong now serves as Lan Wutong's deputy. Although he has lost his cultivation, his vision and knowledge are still there. He has also been in a Jindan sect like Gushan Sect, so he is very adept at managing disciples.

On weekdays, Sister Hong, Fan Buju and Elder Tiegong do not stay in the tower.

Because the spiritual energy in the tower is too abundant, mortals who do not have the qualifications to cultivate immortality cannot live there for a long time.

Staying too long can cause hidden damage to your body. This is what is meant by "too much is as bad as too little".

Lu Ye called all these people, and when they all gathered, he threw out a black water king snake that was more than ten meters long from his storage ring.

"Hurry up, deal with this thing."

"It's very nutritious and good for your practice."

"Even if you two, Fan Buju and Sister Hong, eat it, it will extend your lifespan. Don't eat too much of the Golden Core Demon King's meat. Three or two pieces are enough."

Everyone was shocked and looked at Lan Wutong, thinking, didn’t you go to Bilang Island for a banquet?
Why did you bring back packed things?
And they even packed up such a fierce golden elixir black water king snake? This clan can be considered the strongest among the sea monsters.

Gui Baozhu walked around and studied the corpse of the snake demon king for a long time. He clicked his tongue. This demon had abundant blood and energy, abundant demonic power, and thick scales. If they really fought, it would be much more powerful than him.

He pulled Lan Wu over and asked him a few questions in a low voice. He found out the whole story. He heard that Lu Ye had fought with the snake king and cut off the snake's head with just a few moves.

He also said that his "Fifth Brother" once said that the Black Water King Cobra tastes best when it is killed and stewed right after.

Gui Baozhu let out a long sigh, thinking that his elder brother had become more and more abnormal after practicing for more than a year. When did I say this? Most likely, my elder brother was just greedy.

You must practice hard in the future and don’t let Big Brother notice you. Stewed turtle soup is also very nutritious.

So several people took action together.

Gui Baozhu held a golden elixir sword to peel off the skin and remove the tendons, Wang Hu held a big knife to cut the flesh, Zhang Cunyi opened the ground fire to boil the pot, and Zhang Biao held a jade bottle and cast a spell to collect his essence and blood.

Pan Furong and Sister Hong were busy coordinating the preparation of the seasonings for the marinated meat and were having a lot of fun.

Lan Wutong was assigned to be a fire-fanning boy, and he had to stew the food in one go.

Lu Ye had some free time, so he sat aside and chatted with Elder Tie Gong.

"Fellow Daoist Lu..." After arriving on the island, Elder Tie Gong insisted on treating Lu Ye as an equal. He did not take credit for himself just because he had been the master of Pan Wang, Zhang Shu and the other two.

"I see that your cultivation has improved greatly. I'm afraid you have reached the Golden Core Great Perfection?"

“Perhaps, after accumulating for a few more decades, I can try to reach the Nascent Soul stage.”

Lu Ye smiled but did not answer. If he told him that eight years would be enough, it might irritate the old man.

"Brother Dao..." Lu Ye asked, "How is your health lately?"

Elder Tie Gong smiled carefreely.

"It's still the same. Thank you, fellow Daoist, for giving me many precious elixirs, which can keep my body's qi and blood lively and my consciousness agile, just like when I first established my foundation."

"However, after all, I have no source of mana. Now that I have taken too many pills, they are of no use."

"I'm afraid that in a few decades, my energy and blood will decline, my consciousness will dissolve, my spirit will die, and I will return to being a mortal."

The problem Elder Tie Gong is facing now is that his Qi Sea is broken. He uses his spiritual consciousness to draw the spiritual energy from heaven and earth, but in the end he is unable to accumulate any magic power.

Without magic power circulating throughout the body, the abundant energy and blood that the cultivator has stimulated will eventually become ordinary.

Alone yang cannot produce, alone yin cannot grow, and without magic power, the spirit body will gradually collapse.

Elder Tiegong relies on medicine to maintain his physical condition. Now his body has developed resistance to the medicine, and in the long run he will eventually become a mortal.

Lu Ye's heart moved, and he asked Elder Tie Gong with a smile, "Elder, I know you have read through various miscellaneous notes to solve the problem of your broken qi sea. Do you have a solution?"
At this time, the Demon King She Feng had been put into the pot. Except for Lan Wutong who was still fanning himself vigorously, Zhang Biao was the substitute, and Sister Hong was standing by and tasting the food from time to time.

The rest of the people gathered together.

Elder Tie Gong just smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying that he had not found a suitable method.

Wang Hu said.

"I found a method that says that in ancient times there was a divine object called Immortal Mud, which was between the real and the virtual, and could seal the gaps between all things."

Elder Tie Gong gave a bitter smile.

"Unfortunately, that was a treasure from tens of thousands of years ago. Later, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth declined, and this thing should have become extinct."

"Even if it's not extinct, how can I use it on a person who has just established his foundation? This is called squandering natural resources."

"Don't even think about it, it's hopeless!"

Zhang Cunyi mentioned again.

"What I saw was an evil method, the blood bag method that was popular thousands of years ago."

"After years of practice using secret methods and drugs, I turned my body into a skin bag, and my internal organs, sea of ​​qi, and sea of ​​consciousness all turned into blood and water. Every part of my body is vulnerable and every part is not."

"It can transform into a bloody shadow, which is most effective when fighting or escaping." "But this method is easy to go astray, and practitioners eventually become vicious demons who only know how to devour and kill."

Everyone shook their heads.

Elder Tie Gong laughed and said, “I will not practice such a cruel and fatal method.”

Shu Chitu said again.

"I read in an ancient book that one can use the method of taking over another's body to reincarnate and cultivate again. All one needs to do is to transfer to a body with spiritual roots."

Elder Tie Gong shook his head - if I were to take over another body, my current level of cultivation would only allow me to take over that of a newborn baby, which would actually mean I would be killing a life in vain. This method wouldn't work.

Zhang Biao, who was helping Lan Wu fan himself, suddenly came over.

"My dear uncles, I have actually read a secret method called the Body Puppetry Method."

"Use precious materials to build a puppet, and place a golden elixir-level demon pill inside it as the puppet's heart. The cultivator with a broken sea of ​​qi will live in the puppet and use his spiritual consciousness to call upon the demon power. Normally, he can use the demon power to feed back into his body, and mobilize the puppet to fight during a fight."

"As for the disadvantages, after all, it is relying on external objects, so there will be no further progress in cultivation. The strength of the cultivator's consciousness is determined by the strength of this external puppet, but it can't be stronger than the initial stage of the Golden Core. It's good enough to reach the great perfection of the Foundation Establishment."

The Puppet's Heart uses demon pills. The demon power in the demon pills is wild and harmful to the human body. It needs to be transformed into peaceful magic power suitable for human use by formations, which will cause losses.

This is also the reason why the strength of a cultivator who has achieved great perfection in the foundation-building stage can only reach the initial stage of the golden elixir stage when practicing the fake elixir method.

This external puppet technique is used by cultivators who have reached the Golden Core stage and whose Qi Sea is broken, but they must all use a Golden Core-level demon pill as the puppet's heart to drive it.

For Elder Tie Gong, who was once a foundation-building cultivator, according to the general sect standards, it was not worthwhile to lose a golden elixir-level demon pill.

After hearing this, Elder Tie Gong hurriedly shook his head.

"Golden Core Demon Pills are so precious that they can be used to create spiritual tools and weapons. Giving them to foundation-building cultivators is a waste of resources."

Lu Ye became interested when he heard it. He thought about it and felt that this idea was feasible. After all, he had no shortage of demon pills or puppet materials.

The body puppet technique is actually a variant of the fake alchemy technique.

The difference is that when a cultivator uses the fake elixir technique, the fake elixir is integrated into the qi sea and becomes one with himself, while in the external puppet technique, the demon elixir remains outside the body and is implanted into the puppet's body.

The strength of Nakago Island needs to be strengthened.

How can it be enough with only Gui Baozhu's golden elixir?
According to the concentration of spiritual energy in the tower, Pan Furong and Lan Wutong are the candidates with the greatest hope of breaking through to the Golden Core stage within a few decades.

However, Lan Wutong was busy with trivial matters most of the time, which delayed his practice, and most of his disciples were from the Lan clan.

Even if Lan Wutong is impartial, it will be beneficial to the long-term development of Zhongxiang Island in the long run.

If Elder Tie Gong can use the puppet technique to revive his body, let the old Taoist manage the disciples on the island, and Lan Wu can enter the tower to practice wholeheartedly and break through the golden elixir as soon as possible, that would be the right way.

He thought about it for a moment and smiled.

"Biao'er, go get this secret jade slip tomorrow and I'll take a look at it."

"Fellow Daoist Tie Gong, you and I have a deep friendship, you don't have to consider whether a golden elixir-level demon pill is worth it."

"For you, I'm willing to try."

"I'm just worried that my method of refining puppets is not up to standard."

"Wait a minute, maybe a few months at most, but no longer than a year, I will make a puppet body for you."

Lu Ye had Tian Ji Zi's puppetry, and Xue Xian Yan Shi also once gave him a fourth-level incomplete puppetry book in exchange.

His golden elixir-level demon pills were not rare at all, and he had no shortage of puppet materials, he could just rub them out with his hands.

Elder Tie Gong was very grateful, with tears in his eyes, and he bowed to the ground.

Lu Ye turned around and looked at Fan Buju and Sister Hong and smiled.

"Sister Hong, I can't get an erection."

"I also have a happy story to tell you."

"In fact, if mortals want to cultivate immortality, they only lack a spiritual root that can attract the spiritual energy of heaven and earth."

"In the world of immortal cultivation, many great cultivators have created methods to set up fake spiritual roots for younger disciples who have no spiritual roots, so that they can enter the door of cultivation."

"Back then, when we brothers were blocked by the National Master Zheng Tiancheng, he used the Fu Bing technique, but that technique was too crude, and the recipient could only live for a dozen years at most."

"I have recently found a relatively safe method. I will perform the bone-changing operation for you two someday."

Sister Hong and Fan Buju were overjoyed when they heard this, and tears welled up in their eyes.

Spiritual roots cannot be forced, and the two of them cannot cultivate immortality without them.

Sister Hong wants to accompany Wang Hu for a long time, while Fan Buju wants to keep up with her childhood friend Zhang Biao.

Now, they heard that Lu Ye had a way to change their bones, of course they were very excited.

Wang Hu was overjoyed and grabbed Lu Ye's arm, saying, "Brother, we won't go home until we are drunk tonight. All my gratitude is in the wine."

So everyone drank to their heart's content that night and was very happy.

A few days later.

After Zhang Biao found the secret book jade slip and gave it to Lu Ye, Lu Ye went into seclusion in the cave to practice, ignoring all the trivial matters outside.

However, on the Bilangjiao Island, the disappearance of the Demon King Shefeng caused a lot of controversy.

Reverend Black Mountain was still waiting for the Demon King to make peace with Jie Xiu and release his disciples and cargo, but he ended up waiting in vain.

At first, he, Bilangjun and a few of their friends thought that Demon King Shefeng was stuck with something.

But after a few months, there was still no sign of the demon king. Some people speculated that he must have run away because his boasting could not cover up his lies.

The Ironclad Shrimp King of Prawn Island was so angry that he started cursing. He was the one who recommended the person, but he actually ran away. He patted his chest and promised Bilang Jun that he would find another suitable candidate from among the casual cultivators to inherit his mantle and the foundation of the island.

No one expected that Demon King She Feng had already turned into a huge stew and entered someone else's stomach.

At this time, inside the tower.

Lu Ye sat upright on the cushion, the huge spiritual power in the spiritual vein in front of him was transformed through the fire-starting formation and turned into the Three Yang Fire.

This fire is of yang nature and is the most intense, making it suitable for refining equipment.

He spent a year practicing the art of killing and slashing, all relying on this fire.

It has been several months since he began his retreat.

Lu Ye spends 90% of his time practicing the Void Sword Escape and the Convulsive Hunyuan Stab.

He practiced Dunkong Sword three times a day, each time for an hour, and never dared to slack off.

As for the Jingjue Hunyuan Thorn, he needs to collect all the nine lightning thorns in it, which is one of his trump cards in battle.

Then I saw four strange-looking mechanical puppets placed in the corner of the cave.

Some are short and strong like a ball, some are thin and long like bamboo poles, and some are even in the shape of birds and animals.

These puppets exude a metallic glow and their eyes glow red. They are obviously finished products, but there are many sword puncture marks on their bodies.

They are all in tatters and I don’t think they will last long.

"Void Instant Kill Sword!"

Lu Ye let out a low shout, and the purple jade sword he had snatched from Du Wan flew out in an instant and disappeared before his eyes.

In an instant, it shuttled out from the void again, and moved around the cave as agilely as a fish swimming in the deep sea, shuttling through the void several times in one breath.

When the four puppets in the corners saw the flying swords coming, light burst out from their bodies. At the same time, they dodged and moved their feet, and held up their weapons to block the attacks.

However, everything was in vain. The flying sword was elusive and left no trace except for the thunderbolt that appeared in the air.

clang clang clang!

The four sounds of the flying swords and puppets colliding sounded almost at the same time, and together they sounded like one stretched sound.

Lu Ye looked delighted.

"it is good!"

"The more I practice the Sky-Escape Sword Technique, the more proficient I become."

"This is the first time I have managed to defeat four people at once."

In the past few months, he has not been able to match Du Wan's decades of hard training, and his failure rate is very high. Nearly half of the flying swords he sent out failed to attack the correct direction.

However, Lu Ye was not discouraged. He chose to increase the number of puppets and continue to train his spiritual control ability.

At this time, he succeeded in his attack, put away his flying sword, and then waved.

Then he saw that the mechanical puppets in the four corners of the cave were all pulled over by him involuntarily.

"Yeah, it almost pierced through the armor. It's really sharp."

"It seems that the armor prepared for Elder Tiegong needs to be thicker."

"The puppet's heart is functioning well, and there is no pill explosion."

"In actual tests, human forms are not as resistant to damage as beast forms."

"Hey...how about I make a Transformer puppet?"

"It sounds very exciting to be in human form at ordinary times and then transform into a beast when fighting."

It turns out that all the puppets that Lu Ye used to test his sword were made by him.

I tried making several batches, using the cheap metal for puppet components and the demon king's golden elixir to practice.

Fortunately, the third-level weapon refining technique and puppet making have many similarities.

After several months, he finally trained himself to become a qualified third-level puppet maker.

There was a gleam in Lu Ye's eyes.

"The time has come. Let's refine an external puppet for Elder Tiegong now!"

(End of this chapter)