Lord of Time: From a Five Elements Cultivator to a Master of All Daos

Chapter 149 Barrier
Wei Zhong spent half a month to transform the silver-white puppet. He streamlined the high-level spiritual materials in it, which slightly improved the puppet's performance.

Looking at the puppet in front of him with satisfaction, Wei Zhong used the "Soul-Splitting Technique" to split another spirit into it.

"At most one year apart, the clones must be synchronized back to avoid accidents such as the clones betraying us."

Watching the puppet gradually moving under the control of his clone, Wei Zhong couldn't help but think that the current strength of this puppet clone was one level higher than his own.

Wei Zhong has just entered the middle stage of Jindan. Without using the [Taoism of Time], he can only reach the edge of the late stage of Jindan at most.

I'm not sure I can win against this puppet head-on.

In terms of physique, the puppet's body is undoubtedly stronger than Wei Zhong's body that has been tempered by the "Forging Gang Method".

As for spiritual power, the spiritual power reserves in Wei Zhong's body are much higher than that of the puppet, but he is inferior in terms of spiritual power burst.

In layman's terms, the puppet's output frequency is faster. As long as it follows the magic talismans engraved in its body, it can quickly consume spiritual power to cast magic.

However, Wei Zhong had to consider the safety of his body and could not circulate his spiritual power at an excessive speed, otherwise it would damage the meridians in his body.

"But I have many more tricks than the puppet."

Wei Zhong has been practicing for a long time and has already accumulated countless methods, including various techniques and magic weapons.

There are only four runes of peerless magic on the puppet, and these are the only four spells that can be cast.

As for other magic techniques, the puppet's body is not as clever as the human body. If one wants to cast spells, he cannot rely on the help of the cultivator's body. Wei Zhong can only distract himself and concentrate on controlling his spiritual power to cast spells.

However, Wei Zhong's current spiritual power is not enough to reach this level, and the spells he casts are very incomplete. If he wants to complete the casting process completely, it will probably be possible only after he reaches the Nascent Soul stage.

Therefore, the silver-white puppet was just a humanoid weapon with some magic runes engraved on it and capable of controlling magic tools. It was still quite different from a true incarnation.

'Without the exquisite structure of the human body, I naturally cannot practice the techniques, nor can I use the [Time Dao Fa]. Otherwise, with the puppet technique, I would have a chance to dominate Yunzhou.

But this is also a good thing, as it prevents one from being unable to suppress the puppet body due to insufficient strength.

It's not bad if it's just used as a magic weapon.'

Wei Zhong touched his chin, already thinking about where to send this puppet to explore the way on behalf of the main body next time.

After thinking for a moment, Wei Zhong turned the silver puppet into a silver ring and wore it on his finger, then turned around to look at the other five elements puppets.

These five puppets are used to construct a formation. To control them, you only need to use the formation token, and you can control them indirectly like controlling a formation. Theoretically, there is no need to inject a distraction to use them.

However, in order to practice the "God-Splitting Technique", Wei Zhong was still prepared to invest five of his spirits into it.

"Anyway, it is used to protect the Spirit Island and will not be easily used for attacking and killing. The safety is guaranteed and there is no worry of distraction and damage."

Thinking of this, Wei Zhong sat down cross-legged and began to practice the "Spirit Splitting Technique". Like the silver-white puppet, he separated out five Jindan-level spiritual consciousnesses and injected them into it one by one.

Suddenly, multiple perspectives appeared in Wei Zhong's mind at the same time. Wei Zhong blocked them all and immediately made the five distractions fall into a deep sleep.

Feeling his consciousness somewhat sluggish, Wei Zhong took out several soul-nourishing pills and swallowed them to refine them.

Being able to separate six spirits with independent consciousness in a short period of time was all thanks to Wei Zhong's powerful consciousness, which was far superior to that of his peers. An ordinary cultivator in the middle stage of Jindan could not achieve such a level.

This time, Wei Zhong had to refine four top-grade soul-nourishing pills before he recovered from his weakened state of consciousness.

"In the future, you have to be more careful when performing the God-Splitting Technique. You must not be as reckless as you were today."

He stood up and cast a spell, and the five puppets stood up together and moved towards Wei Zhong.

Wei Zhong took out five magical weapons and stuffed them into the hands of the Five Elements Puppet one by one.

The latter took the magic weapon into his body, and then five-colored light flashed together and gathered in Wei Zhong's palm.

When the spiritual light went out, the puppet had disappeared, leaving only five rings of different colors in Wei Zhong's palm.

It is covered with runes and is extremely mysterious.

After leaving the cave with the five-colored ring, Wei Zhong called Ling Ziwei, who had already prepared to build a five-element killing formation.

He handed five rings to him, and he immediately took off into the air and headed towards the various formation nodes on Spirit Island.

Wei Zhong watched from afar, and saw the other party pinching his fingers to cast various arrays all over the Spirit Island, and occasionally integrating the ring into them...

The Five Elements Killing Array was added on top of the original protective array, which caused quite a stir. Rays of five-colored spiritual lights frequently appeared in the sky above the Spirit Island.

When the monks in the spiritual field saw this scene, they thought that an external enemy was attacking Qingbo Island.

When Zou Ruiyuan saw Ling Ziwei flying around, he immediately realized that she was adjusting the formation. He stepped forward and comforted the people in the spiritual field.

Upon seeing this, Wei Zhong sent a message to the entire island:
"Today we are remodeling the protective formation of the Spirit Island, don't panic..."

After hearing Wei Zhong's voice, many people calmed down, feeling the great power coming from the formation waves above their heads, and couldn't help but exclaimed:
"Our Qingbo Island is becoming more and more stable."

"Yes, this is all thanks to the island master's ability to marry Fairy Ling from the Ling family. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to enjoy this kind of peace..."

Wei Zhong paid no attention to the servants' idle chatter and watched quietly as Ling Ziwei completed the upgrade of the formation.

Then he sensed the locations of his five spiritual divisions, and a strange look appeared in his eyes.

Ling Ziwei finished modifying the formation and moved closer to Wei Zhong.

Took out a formation token:
"This is the control token after the formation is upgraded, husband..."

"I think it's not necessary."

Wei Zhong slightly stretched out his hand, and the calm formation around him immediately began to fluctuate, and a murderous intent rose from the Spirit Island.

Five human-shaped shadows that were hundreds of feet tall appeared above everyone's heads, each holding a sword, a knife, a whip, a hammer, and a stick.

There is a long aura on their bodies, and each of them has reached the late stage of Jindan. This is the strength of the puppet after being blessed by the formation and magic tools.

Everyone on Qingbo Island felt the pressure of the humanoid shadow above their heads at close range and expressed surprise. Only Zou Ruiyuan had a solemn brow. As the only Foundation Establishment cultivator present, he obviously realized that the power of this humanoid shadow far exceeded that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Ling Ziwei also had a strange look in her eyes:
"This puppet formation is so powerful, no wonder the Zhigang Palace lost several Jindan elders in that secret realm."

Wei Zhong nodded. The third-stage mid-stage puppet matched with the third-stage mid-stage magic weapon, with the blessing of the Five Elements Killing Formation, both had the power of the third-stage late-stage.

This is the power of the puppet formation.

Not to mention the secret realm, even if the former Zhigang Palace came to the current Qingbo Island, it would be annihilated. If the silver-white puppet didn't come out, these five five-element puppets would be enough to give the other party a hard time.

Of course, if it was Song Linfang, who might have already reached the Nascent Soul stage, she would still be unstoppable.

'Perhaps in the future, we can fill this formation with dozens of second-order and one late-stage third-order silver-white puppets. In this way, with the blessing of the formation, we can launch a main formation puppet with pseudo-fourth-order strength.

You can fight with Yuanying once or twice.'

Wei Zhong tested his ability to control the formation and found that he could not only activate the Five Elements Killing Formation for attack, but also activate the matching defensive formation, which was the effect of the formation linkage.

Ling Ziwei, as the one who set up the formation, could also activate the two with the token in his hand, but his control over the Five Elements Killing Formation was not as flexible as Wei Zhong's who had been injected with a distraction.

However, there shouldn't be much problem in dealing with ordinary cultivators in the late Jindan stage.

At this point Wei Zhong finally felt relieved.

In the past, I sometimes worried that my nest would be raided by some enemy when I went out.

Now there is finally no such worry. As long as the Nascent Soul cultivators do not come out, Qingbo Island will be the most solid barrier.

After calming down the formation, Wei Zhong and Ling Ziwei returned to Yunqing Courtyard hand in hand and began to discuss the future upgrades of the formation.

"I didn't expect that my Qingbo Island has become so powerful," Ling Ziwei heard what Wei Zhong said with a complicated look in her eyes.

Wei Zhong had only formed his Nascent Soul form a few decades ago, but he was already thinking about the combat power of his Nascent Soul, which made Ling Ziwei feel a little unreal.

The current Five Elements Killing Formation is already a remarkable means in his eyes. With the cultivation base of the early stage of Jindan, controlling the killing formation of the late stage of Jindan, what a dream scene it is for a formation mage.

"Haha, as your husband's strength increases, our place of practice will become more and more stable. What does this small Five Elements Killing Formation mean to you?"

Wei Zhong knew very well that this was far from the end, but just a beginning.

As they chatted, Wei Zhong turned the topic to cultivation.

"Has Ziwei made any progress towards the middle stage of Jindan recently?"

The latter nodded:
"It's almost there. I can already sense the obvious barrier between the early and middle stages. It will take a few more years to break through."

Wei Zhong was not surprised to hear this. Ling Ziwei had already reached the Jindan stage seventy years ago. With her superior spiritual roots and sufficient third-level resources, it was time for her to break through.

All in all, the other party stayed in the early stage of Jindan for thirty years longer than Wei Zhong.

Wei Zhong was obviously several decades behind the other party in forming the Dan, but he managed to break through to the middle stage before the other party.

This is certainly due to the support of resources, but more importantly, the support of Wei Zhong's panel for his skills makes Wei Zhong's practice more efficient.

"My husband will be here soon, right?"

Ling Ziwei didn't know that Wei Zhong had already made a breakthrough, so she asked:
"I can't compare to you, Ziwei. I will probably need another 10 to 20 years."

The early stage of forming a pill takes sixty to seventy years, so the progress of Wei Zhong and Ling Ziwei is already very fast among those at the same level.

Many Jindan cultivators often need to stay in this realm for ninety or even a hundred years due to resource constraints. The early stage of Jindan takes so much time, not to mention the middle and even late stages.

The time required increases step by step, which is why many people, when they practice till the end of their lives, are only at the middle or late stage of Jindan.

"It will probably take me another hundred years to reach the state of perfect Dan formation and start thinking about the matter of infant formation. As for Ling Ziwei, it will take about two hundred years.

But this is not a big problem for him. When he formed the elixir, he only lived for more than 200 years. Now he still has a lot of life left, which is enough for him to form the elixir and practice.'

"How is Ling'er's practice lately?" Wei Zhong asked.

"After improving her aptitude, Sister Ling'er put aside her chores on Spirit Island and focused on cultivation. She has now made remarkable progress in the middle stage of foundation building. It will take about another twenty years for her to break through to the late stage of foundation building."

Wei Zhong nodded when he heard this.

"This progress has already met my expectations. It seems that the effect of improving my qualifications is quite good."

It took him about sixty years to move from the middle stage of foundation building to the late stage. It seems to be much slower than Wei Zhong, but in fact he has surpassed countless foundation building practitioners.

Wei Zhong took out a magic pill and handed it to Ling Ziwei:

"This is a second-grade, superior realm-breaking pill. If he is stuck at the bottleneck of the late stage, he should use it boldly and enter the late stage of foundation building as soon as possible."

The higher the level of cultivation, the higher the grade of the natal cloud will be, and thus it will be easier to cultivate, and the effect of practicing the "Spirit Planting Method" on improving the spiritual roots will be more obvious.

Wei Zhong's hope is that Xie Linghua will not only reach the peak of foundation building before the deadline, but also improve her own spiritual roots to the upper level in order to be fully prepared for pill formation.

As for the side effects of the realm-breaking pill, they can be easily eliminated by refining one dust-reducing pill after another.

Ling Ziwei took the pill.

The two of them returned to their retreat rooms.

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In a place in Luohe Prefecture, a white-bearded old man and a woman in palace dress were walking slowly along the bank of Luo River.

Wang Lihua looked at the woman in front of him with a complicated expression. She was Song Linfang who had returned after giving birth to a baby.

He had just successfully condensed his infant, but did not return to Gang Palace immediately. Instead, he strolled along the side of the Luo River with Wang Lihua. It was obvious that he had his own plans in mind.

"Friend Wang, I wonder if the false news that I failed to condense my Infant Soul has been spread?"

"Senior," Wang Lihua swallowed his saliva and continued nervously, "According to your request, I have spread the news among the people in Luohe Prefecture. It won't take long for everyone in Luohe Prefecture to know about it."

Song Linfang's success in condensing her infant has brought about a significant change in her status. Now, Wang Lihua, a third-rank formation master of the Wang family, has to respectfully call her "senior".

"I didn't expect that the other party really succeeded in condensing the infant! This is the Nascent Soul, even in my Wang family, he is a top figure."

Wang Lihua thought of himself again, and a bitter taste suddenly rose in his heart:
'I am only in the middle stage of Jindan now, and it is a long way to go before I can complete the Jindan. The remaining life span is not enough to support me to continue practicing. It is hopeless for me to achieve Nascent Soul Condensation in this lifetime!'

Wang Lihua was sighing in his heart, and suddenly saw Song Linfang walking in one direction, and suddenly reminded her:

"Senior, this direction is not where the Zhigang Palace is."

Song Linfang smiled slightly:
"Of course I know. Let's wait for the bugs in the palace to make some noise. I'm going to go meet a good friend first to kill some time."

(End of this chapter)