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Chapter 19: Soul Master
Lu Yan has mastered the Soul Banner for some time. Judging from the performance of the Soul Banner, it is indeed quite good among the lower-grade magic weapons, but it is far from reaching the level of the legendary No. 1 magic weapon in the magic world.

If the Soul Banner could only control resentful souls, even if tens of thousands of them were gathered together, they could be destroyed in the blink of an eye by those powerful beings at the Jindan and Yuanying stages.

Lu Yan knew that the most important reason was that there was no main soul in the soul flag.

The main soul can only be refined by the souls of powerful cultivators. For example, the souls of the first-level Qi training fellows born in Lingfufang Village are only slightly stronger than those of ordinary people, which is not enough to refine the main soul.

If the resentful souls in the soul flag are regarded as soldiers, then the main soul is the general who commands these soldiers. The strength of a soul flag depends to a large extent on the main soul.

The main soul can improve the realm of the resentful soul. If the main soul masters ghost magic, it can also use the ghost energy of the resentful soul to perform it.

Only when the main soul is strong enough can it better command the resentful souls.

When the main soul reaches a certain level, it can even evolve into a den of ghosts. When the soul flag is activated, monsters and ghosts will descend. This is the real power of the magic soul flag.

However, to reach that level, which would at least be comparable to the magic weapon Thousand Soul Banner, the low-grade magic weapon Soul Banner in Lu Yan's hand is still a long way off.

It is comparable to a soul in the middle stage of Qi training. For Lu Yan at this stage, it is enough to sacrifice and refine a main soul.

After taking a look at the wandering souls and the giant zombies, Lu Yan gave the order to the five resentful souls:
"Go and guard the gate to prevent any zombies from breaking in and causing trouble."

Upon hearing this, the five resentful spirits guarded the door of the apartment building, while Lu Yan began to prepare for the sacrifice of the main soul.

He first took out the "Secret Records of Magical Instruments" and turned to the page about the formation for refining the main soul. Then he took out a spirit stone, crushed it, and began to draw the formation with the spirit stone powder.

In fact, the best material for refining the main soul formation is the blood of the main soul's corpse, but the giant zombie's soul turned into bones after leaving the body and there was no blood at all, so Lu Yan could only use spirit stone powder instead.

The main soul refining formation is not complicated. After all, it is just a formation to assist in refining the soul flags. It is not even a first-level formation.

If it was a first-level formation, Lu Yan’s knowledge and materials would not be enough to build it.

After completing the formation, Lu Yan placed the soul of the giant zombie in the center of the formation, and then placed dozens of ordinary zombie wandering souls on other nodes of the formation.

The giant zombie's soul was missing the two souls of heaven and earth, and its soul power was greatly damaged by the attack of five resentful souls. Lu Yan used ordinary zombie wandering souls as materials to make up for its missing soul power.

After setting up the formation, Lu Yan used the soul flag to activate the formation.

The next moment, a dazzling spiritual light rose from the spirit stone powder, and many ordinary zombie souls turned into a ball of soul fire and quickly gathered towards the center of the formation.

The giant zombie, who was originally in a daze, suddenly woke up after receiving the replenishment of soul power, and let out a roar that went straight to the soul.

The giant zombie's soul tried to break out of the formation, but under the restriction of the formation's spiritual light, the giant zombie, with only his soul left, was unable to shake the formation at all and could only allow himself to be covered by the formation's spiritual light.

The ghost fog on the soul flag spread again, engulfing the entire soul sacrificial formation. A few simple lines on the soul flag outlined a huge and ferocious evil ghost.

The light of the formation dissipated, and the main soul sacrifice has been completely completed.

After doing all this, Lu Yan waved the soul flag in his hand, and a huge ghost that was three meters tall appeared in front of Lu Yan.

This giant monster has a green face and fangs, and a strong body like the guardian deity in the temple. It has a completely different style from the resentful spirit.

The ghost looked down at Lu Yan in front of him, with a fierce light flashing in his eyes, and stretched out his right hand towards Lu Yan.

Lu Yan looked indifferent and did not make any movements. The soul flag in his hand suddenly moved without wind, and a large amount of ghost mist turned into dark flames that spread to the ghost's soul.

The ghost's arm was instantly swallowed by the dark flames, and a painful howl came from the mouth of this giant ghost.

"Ow!!!"

However, the dark flames did not stop at this moment, but continued to spread towards the ghost's soul, quickly engulfing his body and legs. As the soul was mostly burned by the dark flames, the intense pain caused by the burning soul made the ghost unable to hold on any longer.

He struggled to lie on the ground with his broken body, and kowtowed to Lu Yan with his only intact head, begging for Lu Yan's forgiveness.

When the flames completely devoured the body, leaving only a hideous head, the dark flames finally went out.

Lu Yan held the soul flag in his hand and stood in front of the ghost with only a head left. The ghost immediately showed a humble smile on his hideous face and took the initiative to release the defense of his soul to Lu Yan.

Lu Yan raised his right hand slightly, and a bit of ghost mist turned into a flame that was imprinted on the ghost's head, like a flame mark.

"You won't have another chance."

Lu Yan made the final judgment in an indifferent tone.

Then the ghost fog gathered under the ghost's head and condensed into the ghost's body.

However, compared to the soul that had just completed the ritual, the ghost's soul was now much shorter, barely breaking through two meters. Even the solid soul body had become much more illusory, and the aura around it was no longer stable.

It was obvious that the ghost, having lost most of its soul, suffered heavy damage.

The ghost was not at all dissatisfied with the result. Instead, he followed Lu Yan with a fawning look on his face, like a lackey.

Glancing at the ghost's muscular appearance, Lu Yan said coldly:

"From today on, you will be called Lux!"

With the bestowing of the name, it also meant that Lu Yan had successfully tamed this main soul in the middle stage of Qi training.

Normally, the Soul Banner has extremely high control over the ghosts that are sacrificed, but the only exception is the sacrifice of the main soul.

The main souls of all soul flags are refined from the souls of powerful cultivators. In order to ensure the growth of the main soul, the master of the soul flag will retain a little bit of the main soul's intelligence during the ritual.

This means that if the main soul is too powerful, it is very likely to counterattack the master of the soul flag.

In history, it was not uncommon for demon monks to be killed by the main soul of the soul banner and then sacrificed and refined into the main soul.

Lu Yan is only at the first level of Qi training. It would be risky for him to sacrifice the soul of a giant zombie in the middle stage of Qi training. He can only rely on the Soul Banner to suppress it.

For this reason, Lu Yan did not hesitate to let the ghost fog devour the strongman's soul, making him completely terrified before subduing him.

After this lesson, the damage to the Li Shi's soul and body will inevitably decline, falling from about the fifth level of Qi training to just reaching the fourth level of Qi training.

But Lu Yan did not regret it. Compared with a powerful unstable factor, a slightly weaker but fully controllable main soul was obviously more valuable.

In the process of taming the strongman, Lu Yan also discovered a very interesting point.

That is, although the extraordinary zombies have powerful souls, their intelligence is obviously far lower than that of human monks.

If a human cultivator is sacrificed to become the main soul, the opponent will most likely pretend to be submissive and wait until the right time to launch a counterattack, especially for the demon cultivator.

Although the extraordinary zombies look unruly, whether they are hostile or respectful, they are all shown on the surface, so there is no need to worry about them being stabbed in the back.

Moreover, the extraordinary zombies have never seen the world, and have no knowledge related to cultivators. Just using the soul flag to devour their souls is enough to deter them, and it is not difficult to subdue them completely.

This brainless characteristic is actually suitable for being refined into the main soul of the Soul Banner.

(End of this chapter)