Battle Through the Heavens: Xiao Yan, I am your second master

Chapter 112 Heavenly Demon Puppet

As the group plundered the Earth Demon Old Ghost's treasures, they unknowingly reached the end of the warehouse. On the bookshelf to the side, instead of the numerous scrolls piled up as before, there were only four simple wooden boxes.

"Earthly Rank."

Upon seeing the bookshelf, everyone couldn't help but feel a little curious, as the four items on it were enveloped in a faint light shield.

Xiao Li touched the four light shields with his palm: "This should be a spatial barrier set up by the old demon of the earth. It contains some spatial power. Although it is not strong, if it is forcibly destroyed, it may damage the things inside."

"What a pity, this spatial barrier is far too crude in the face of my spiritual soul!"

Xiao Li released his soul power, directly breaking through the spatial barrier of the Earth Demon Old Ghost, and then four wooden boxes appeared in front of everyone.

Xiao Li opened the first wooden box, inside which was a bright red, fist-sized, perfectly round sphere.

"A seventh-tier fire-attribute magic core? What a treasure!" Xiao Li hadn't expected to find such a treasure. A seventh-tier fire-attribute magic core could be used to refine pills suitable for fire-attribute Dou Zong cultivation.

Then Xiao Li opened the second wooden box, inside which lay two earthen-yellow scrolls.

"The Thick Earth Dragon Technique? No way, teacher, you still remember this? It's come full circle." Xiao Li handed the wooden box to Wang Ming.

Wang Ming was also stunned after reading it: "What a coincidence! Did the Earth Demon Old Ghost get his hands on this technique back then?"

"What is this?" The crowd came running at the sound and found a scroll of earth-attribute mid-level earth-rank cultivation technique and its accompanying combat skills.

"Earth attribute? Isn't Jia Xingtian the old ghost who cultivates earth attribute battle qi? This thing can't fall into that old guy's hands." Hai Bodong didn't want this thing to fall into Jia Xingtian's hands.

Although the royal family of the Jia Ma Empire certainly possesses Earth-rank cultivation techniques and combat skills, they probably couldn't produce something this good, given that the Jia Ma Empire is merely a poor and weak nation in the Northwest Continent.

Xiao Li shrugged and then looked at the next wooden box. Inside the box was a crimson scroll.

"The Flame-Making Technique?"

"What's wrong with your eyes? This is clearly the 'True Flame-Making Technique'! Wait, what kind of name is this? And you're even distinguishing between the real and fake versions?"

Xiao Li opened the scroll of "True Flame Manipulation Technique" to read the information on it, and Wang Ming also came over to take a look, wondering what was so special about this Flame Manipulation Technique.

[This Flame Manipulation Technique is the culmination of many years of painstaking improvement by me. While the previous Flame Manipulation Technique was powerful, it required at least three people to cultivate it in order to condense a "pseudo-different flame," and each condensation required a considerable price. However, this technique is far superior. One can successfully condense a "pseudo-different flame" even when cultivating it alone, and its power far surpasses the former. The side effects are also greatly reduced. Although the condensation method has become more complicated, these are minor flaws compared to the gains.]

After reading it, Wang Ming said speechlessly, "Isn't this old demon of the earth cultivating ice-attribute battle qi? Why does he like to study fire attribute so much? And he just realized that the flame in my hand is a strange fire."

Isn't this putting the cart before the horse? While it's true that the naturally occurring strange flames on the Dou Qi Continent are very powerful, there are also ice-attribute spiritual creatures, some of which are no weaker than strange flames!

"Oh? There are such spiritual objects? Tell me about them!" Hai Bodong immediately became interested. He himself cultivated ice-attribute battle qi, so he had naturally heard of ice-attribute spiritual objects, but he didn't know what they were.

He was just lucky back then, obtaining some Ice Spirit Cold Spring for cultivation, which allowed his cultivation level to improve rapidly.

"There are some, but I doubt they're found in the Northwest Continent. You'll have to search the icy plains of the Dou Qi Continent, or the Land of Extreme Fire, since yin arises from yang," Wang Ming said, waving his hand.

Xiao Li looked at the Flame-Making Technique and then said with delight, "Although it is quite complicated to make, if it is successful, it will be a remarkable flame. Even if it is weaker than a strange flame, it will be stronger than most beast flames."

Teacher, are you familiar with the Blood Demon Flame of the Cao family, one of the five great families of the Pill Tower?

Wang Ming pondered for a long time: "Blood Demon Flame? Blood Demon Flame! Is that man-made fire created by fusing the blood of nearly a thousand fire-attribute magical beasts?"

Xiao Li nodded: "We can use that as a template to optimize this Flame-Making Technique again. We all possess different flames and understand their properties best."

Then we can create artificial strange fire. Although it won't be of much use to us, if it works well, we'll definitely make a fortune selling it in Zhongzhou!

There are so many alchemists in Zhongzhou. Even if we can't get our hands on naturally occurring exotic fire, it's still worthwhile to get an artificial one.

Wang Ming nodded after hearing Xiao Li's plan: "It's promising. I'll study it more carefully after I break through to the Dou Zun level."

Xiao Li then opened the last wooden box, inside which lay a very ordinary bamboo scroll. The scroll was grayish-brown and the material seemed quite ordinary, but the large, bloody characters on it delighted Xiao Li.

"Heavenly Demon Puppet! Found you!"

Xiao Li couldn't wait to open the Heavenly Demon Puppet Making Manual; this was the real purpose of Xiao Li's trip!

[The Celestial Demon Puppet is neither a cultivation technique nor an ordinary fighting skill, but a puppetry technique passed down from ancient times. To forge a Celestial Demon Puppet, three things are needed: a body, a soul, and a demonic core. The body serves as the tool, the soul as the catalyst, and the demonic core as the heart. Combined with various other materials, a demonic puppet is ultimately created. Demonic puppets are divided into three grades: Heaven, Earth, and Human. The difference in grade depends on the materials used in the forging process and the fire used. They possess boundless power and are devoid of joy, sorrow, pain, or injury; they are truly a weapon of slaughter.]

"Heavenly Demon Puppet? Ancient puppetry techniques, and the crafting manual even survives! The crafting method is quite unique." Wang Ming looked at the Heavenly Demon Puppet crafting manual in Xiao Li's hand and felt a sense of novelty.

"Hehe, teacher has a treasure for you. Come out, Heavenly Demon Puppet!"

Xiao Li summoned his Heavenly Demon Puppet, and an incomparably powerful pressure emanated from it. A golden figure appeared beside Xiao Li.

"This is the Heavenly Demon Puppet? This puppet must have reached the Dou Zun level, right?" Wang Ming exclaimed in amazement as he looked at the Heavenly Demon Puppet.

"A Dou Zun-level puppet?" Everyone gathered around when they heard about the Dou Zun-level puppet.

Wang Ming looked at the Heavenly Demon Puppet, summoned volcanic stone flames with his right hand, which covered his right hand. Then, Wang Ming suddenly threw a punch, smashing it into the Heavenly Demon Puppet's chest.

Boom—

This attack tore apart the surrounding space, but the Heavenly Demon Puppet remained completely still.

Wang Ming withdrew his fist and found that there were only a few black spots on the chest of the Heavenly Demon Puppet. Wang Ming wiped the black spots away, and the black spots were wiped off. The chest of the Heavenly Demon Puppet was completely unharmed.

"Such strong defense? Even a one-star Dou Zun would be badly hurt by that punch I just delivered, yet it's completely unharmed!" Wang Ming exclaimed in surprise.

"That's not all. The greatest use of this Heavenly Demon Puppet is that it can resist the Pill Lightning and absorb the power of lightning to advance. It was originally just an Earthly Demon Puppet, but it continued to absorb the power of lightning to advance into a Heavenly Demon Puppet."

Teacher, this thing is crucial for us alchemists. When we alchemists refine pills of grade seven or higher, the most troublesome thing is pill lightning, but this Heavenly Demon Puppet has perfectly solved this problem.

"It was precisely because of this that I was able to resist the Dan Lightning and refine an eighth-grade, four-colored pill at the Pill Gathering."

Xiao Li told Wang Ming about the wonderful uses of the Heavenly Demon Puppet, since with Wang Ming's talent, once he broke through to the Dou Zun level, he would most likely be able to refine eighth-grade pills.

The colored pill lightning produced by an eighth-grade pill is not easy to catch. Xiao Li noticed that even the Dou Zun powerhouse Chi Xiao Zi had great difficulty catching the pill lightning at the pill gathering.

(End of this chapter)