After 100 years of leatherworking, I have become a giant in the magic sect.

Chapter 35: Bai Xiang Shen Yu, the first pot of gold
The sky is blue and clear, and among the floating clouds, the sound of birds flapping their wings gradually fades away.

Song Yan held the letter tightly.

At first he was surprised and astonished, and then an indescribable complex emotion arose from the bottom of his heart.

In his mind, the scenes of his interactions with Shi Zuo Weng flashed through his mind like a kaleidoscope.

"Nan Zhufeng, you were born as a handyman, right? It's not easy, it's really not easy. You should learn more this time and become a leather master soon."

"Everyone is discussing, but you are the only one who is staring blankly with your head down. You deserve to be beaten! Stretch out your hands!!"

"I want to ask you something that has not changed. Has the Nine-Eyed Qin-Anacon's divine appearance changed?"

'Nothing.'

Song Yan smiled, looked in the direction of the Puppet Sect, and whispered in his heart, 'The divine image did not move, but the heart moved. If the heart moved, how could I draw a static divine image? This is the disciple's answer. I hope you will be satisfied.'

After saying this silently, he recalled the day when he made up an answer and the crow left in shock and anger.

After a little more thought, he roughly understood his weakness: the two-headed wolf shadow puppet.

His "Painted Skin" has been completely perfected. Even if he did the dots randomly when painting the eyes, once time is extended, there will always be slight flaws in extremely subtle places.

The flaw was very small, and it would never be discovered unless someone had strong willpower and kept observing it.

Master Shi cared about him very much, but also considered his situation, so he gave him the robe and bowl at the best time.

'I know your heart, you know my mind'

Although it was not said directly, everything was implied.

An indescribable feeling of emotion arose from the bottom of Song Yan's heart.

into the night.

The carriage stopped in a deserted forest, a bonfire was burning, and two women were sleeping in the carriage wrapped in blankets.

Song Yan stood by the campfire, looked in the direction of the Puppet Sect, knelt down, kowtowed three times respectfully, and then opened the package.

In addition to the letter at the top, there were four other items in the package:
Another letter;

Four jade bottles, one black, one green, one white, and one red;
A brocade box;
A palm-sized silk bag that seemed to contain something heavy.

He opened the silk ribbon, revealing two duck egg-sized crystal jades emitting mysterious energy.

He had touched this crystal jade before in the arms of a casual cultivator carrying a gourd-shaped mysterious weapon, but those crystal jades were only the size of soybeans, far inferior to these two pieces.

He glanced at the brocade box and jade bottle, but did not open them rashly. Instead, he took the letter at the bottom, opened it, and read it silently.

The letter read: The Xuan Qi in the mortal world is thin, and can only be practiced through the method of dual cultivation. These two large pieces of Xuan jade can help you practice, which is equivalent to providing you with Xuan Qi for four years of practice in the cave of Nanzhu Peak, allowing you to break into the Xuan realm as soon as possible.

There is a storage ring in the brocade box, and my skills are inside it.

The only restriction on the ring is your aura, which I used to apply when I took a strand of your hair in the cave of Nanzhu Peak. Once you have entered the practice of Xuan, you can use your Xuan Qi to break into the ring and obtain the skills. Before that, you must keep it carefully!

The black jade bottle contains the antidote. The leader may not be able to solve the problem within five years. If he dies before then, then all that awaits you is death.

Of course, even if you take the antidote, if the master is not dead, you must come back within five years. The pill the master gave you not only contains poison, but also a trace of his breath. If you don't come back, he will kill you. Revenge is the style of our sect.

However, if the sect master is really dead, you don’t need to return, but can choose another place to practice carefully.

My shadow puppetry series' "Qi Control Technique" requires at least the fourth level of Xuan practice before it can be performed.

The green jade bottle contains twenty-four Great Mysterious Spirit Pills. If you swallow one every two months, it will be enough for you to practice for four years.

The white jade bottle contains the "skin peeling paste" needed for the third level of Xuan training. After the second level is completed, apply it all over the body and continue to practice to help break through;
The red jade bottle contains the "Flame Marrow Pill" required for the fourth level of practicing Xuan. Take it when you encounter a bottleneck to digest the medicinal power and help you break through.

Read the letter thoroughly.

Song Yan sent it into the bonfire, and then quickly took out the "storage ring".

This thing really excited him, because even Zhang Yin didn't have this ring. It was obviously extremely precious. Its function was naturally to "store and take items at will."

Master Shi thought that he would need some time to practice before he could break into the Lianxuan realm, but in fact he had already reached the second level of Lianxuan.

He held the ring, and a wisp of mysterious energy flowed into it through his fingertips, as if he had come to an "automatic sensing door with breath recognition". The restriction sensed his breath and opened directly, revealing a space about the size of a drawer inside.

Although the space is small, it contains a lot of things.

First, there were five booklets. These were obviously copied or compiled by Master Shi, after all, if one jade slip was missing, it would be easy to notice.

Song Yan glanced around, then took out the books one by one and flipped through them carefully.

The first book: The Stone Master’s Leatherworking Experience.

The second book: "Skin Controlling Technique", the secret technique of the Puppet Sect's Shadow Puppet Peak, although it is not a unique secret technique, it is still a bit "confidential" compared to the common spells in the low-level market. The entry threshold for cultivation is: the fourth level of Xuan Lian.

And this may be the reason why the Puppet Sect's leader "dismissed those below the fourth level of Lian Xuan", because "the fourth level of Lian Xuan" is the minimum threshold for a disciple to be able to fight.

The third book: "The Small Five Elements Silk-Wrapping Hands", a special spell of Master Pi.

The fourth book: "The Painted Skin Spiritual Spell", a unique spell of the Painted Skin Master.

The fifth book: "Bai Xiang Shen Yu", the skills inherited from Master Shi.

After reading the previous book "The Art of Taming Skin", Song Yan roughly understood that to tame skin, one needs to tame the "shadow puppet" first. The "shadow puppet" at the low-level monster level is the first to third level of practicing Xuan, so you have to at least "practice Xuan level four" to successfully tame it.

After being tamed, the "Xuan Qi" is used as the thread to manipulate the "shadow puppet" and strengthen the "shadow puppet", and the normal limit number of manipulations is "two".

There is a shadow puppet in the left hand and a shadow puppet in the right hand.

This is also consistent with the situations in several battles Song Yan had seen before.

Most of the official disciples of Shadow Play Peak control a "mount" shadow puppet and a "combat" shadow puppet.

These shadow puppets cannot move too far away from the puppeteer.

It is simply impossible to fly hundreds or even thousands of miles away with a bodyless phantom crow like Master Shi did.

And this is the mystery of "Bai Xiang Shen Yu".

"Bai Xiang Shen Yu" not only controls shadow puppets with "Xuan Qi", but also fuses shadow puppets with "spirit". However, the records therein are extremely complicated: different shadow puppets have different fusion methods.

"Hundreds of phases" is even exaggerated, because "Hundreds of Phases of God" only records the fusion methods of low-level monsters such as "two-headed wolf, white-thorn deer, knife-billed sparrow, iron-feathered sparrow".

The only intermediate-level monster is the “Bodyless Phantom Crow”.

This book of inheritance was the result of Master Shi's lifelong research, but his life span was limited, so he only studied this much and then passed it all to Song Yan.

But this is already good.
Ordinary skin-controlling techniques can only control two shadow puppets, and can only be used around the body.

"Bai Xiang Shen Yu" can control multiple shadow puppets. As long as your spirit is strong enough, the number can increase, and the scope of application can be expanded from "all around" to hundreds of miles, thousands of miles, or even more.
This spell is worthy of the title of secret technique.

As if worried about the trouble of Song Yan making leather, there were nine kinds of "finished shadow puppets of low-level monsters" and a finished shadow puppet of "bodyless phantom crow" stored in the storage ring, but next to them were written in blood "can only be taken out after entering the fourth level of practicing Xuan" and "can only be taken out after entering the seventh level of practicing Xuan".

Obviously, these shadow puppets were passed down to Song Yan by Master Shi as heirlooms. Although he held out a glimmer of hope, he did not necessarily think that Song Yan could successfully take them out and use them.

After all, everything was still up in the air, the mysterious energy in the mortal world was thin, and it was a nightmare for Song Yan, who hadn't even reached the "first level of practicing Xuan", to break through to the "fourth level of practicing Xuan".

Song Yan raised his hand and touched the white bottle and the two large pieces of black jade.

The white bottle contains "peeling ointment".

Although the name sounds poisonous, Song Yan is not afraid at all, as he will use it in his deduction anyway.

He took a quick look at his surroundings.

There is no evil spirit here, and the mysterious energy is also quite thin, but perhaps because it is still close to the Puppet Palace, it is not so thin that it does not exist.

The speed of cultivation is completely different in different environments.

In the "Lifespan Deduction", the "cultivation environment" and "own items" will greatly affect the deduction progress.

It is obvious that the progress Song Yan made here after spending a year on deduction must be far lower than that at Nanzhu Peak.

But that's okay.

He had been planning to go to the market outside to look for an opportunity to break through to the third level of Lianxuan, but he didn't expect that Master Shi would bring it to him directly.

He quickly focused his attention on the [Kung Fu].

'Spend six years to comprehend the realm.'

The upper limit of life span, "17956", also began to decline.

(End of this chapter)