Demonic Demoness Training Project

"Old Mo?"

"Although I would like to participate, I am about to break through to the Void Refinement Realm and simply cannot spare the time."

Ren Yuanzi took a deep breath and then called out the names of several more people. The elders all made excuses to decline until finally, his gaze fell on a blue-haired girl.

"Elder Mu, what do you think?"

"Uh, huh? What?"

"You declined my request to refine the Counter-Strike Seal, and you also declined my request to refine the Earth-Building Array. I really don't know what you're busy with all day long."

"Me too, I'm also preparing to break through to the Void Refinement Realm."

The vast hall fell silent.

Everyone thought to themselves, "You've only been in the Heavenly Craftsmanship Realm for a few years, how come you're already preparing for the Void Refinement Realm? You can't even come up with a decent excuse."

For more than a decade, people have watched Mu Qingque rise to power and rise to her current position, but many are not truly convinced.

Despite this, these guys kept praising Mu Qingque and pushing her up the list.

"Elder Mu is very energetic and his skill in the art of puppetry is quite remarkable. He is much better than us old folks and is definitely the best choice to participate in the Earth Group Competition."

"Yes, yes, as long as Elder Mu makes a move, winning the championship will be a piece of cake!"

Before Mu Qingque could speak, Ren Yuanzi made the final decision.

"It's settled then. Finally, the number of participants for the Human Group needs to be finalized as soon as possible. You all keep making excuses for the Earth Group's spots, but everyone's scrambling for the Human Group's. You old fogies..."

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The Divination Cave Heaven is located on the desolate border.

Led by Qingkui, Luli entered the land of inheritance, intending to break the outer restrictions. This might be troublesome for the people of Lingxi Sect, but as Qingling's younger sister, Qingkui broke through these formations effortlessly.

After all, this tradition was originally intended for their lineage.

After entering the inheritance space, Lu Li rubbed her hands together, somewhat excited.

"After some effort, we finally got in."

"Where are your hands and feet? You only used four Returning Void Seals, and you wiped out everyone from the Lingxi Sect?"

The battle just now was a great victory, and Lu Li harvested more than three thousand Dao Thoughts in one go, which was quite a harvest. However, compared with these Thoughts, Lu Li was still more interested in the inheritance of Qingling Yanhuang.

In this vast white space, a huge snow mountain stands tall. As the Yanhuang who specializes in ice cultivation, Qingling's inheritance space is extremely cold.

At this moment, the Green Puppet suddenly said in a low voice:

"Hmm... Sister should wake up!"

Sister!? She's really still alive? If Qingling's soul is here, what am I doing here? Could it be that they want to possess me?

Lu Li's heart tightened, and she immediately took half a step back, took out the Guixu Seal, and was about to make a move.

Turning her head, she saw the dark muzzle of a gun. The once-mighty Yanhuang was terrified, her face turning pale. She knew better than anyone how powerful that thing was, so she quickly explained:

"Don't get excited, this isn't my sister's true form. You, you, you put that down first."

Chapter 315 The Art of Steaming Souls

Before Lu Li could make a move, a clear, cold female voice echoed from the depths of the snow-capped mountains.

Are you the Blue Puppet?

The woman's voice was very peculiar. Lu Li could not sense any divine thoughts or life force in it. It felt as if she were listening to a voice recorded in a jade slip.

Not to mention a soul, even a weapon spirit possesses a certain level of intelligence and retains a sense of life within its mechanical form. However, Lu Li could not sense any of that life in this voice.

"Is this a remnant soul, a consciousness, or something else?"

"It's not exactly a remnant soul; there's a [Soul Steaming Machine] in this mountain."

"So it was a soul-steaming device..."

Lu Li had been exposed to several soul path inheritances and had a certain level of soul path attainment. She had heard of the term "steaming soul" before, but this was the first time she had truly witnessed it.

"Zhenghun" means to distill or steam, and "hun" means soul or spirit.

Using a cultivator's words, deeds, and cultivation achievements as raw materials, and employing soul-path techniques, a wisp of consciousness is created. This wisp of consciousness is also known as soul steaming, hence the names Soul Steaming Technique and Soul Steaming Machine.

Soul steaming is not a true soul in the real sense. It does not have the ability to deduce things. Soul steaming will imitate the personality and way of speaking of the cultivator in his previous life. The degree to which it can imitate is determined by the technique of soul steaming and the speed of the soul steaming machine.

The creation of the Soul Steaming Technique, to some extent, can be considered as granting cultivators a form of immortality.

At least for the living relatives of cultivators, it is a kind of comfort. Some cultivators do not want their lineage to be cut off, so they integrate their life's learning into the steamed soul to teach future generations.

Compared to directly inscribing supernatural powers into jade slips, steaming souls not only provides information but also acts as a mentor to assist in cultivation, guiding future generations in the voice of the living.

In addition, Lu Li occasionally browsed the Xuan Shu Tian and heard some interesting stories about cultivating immortality.

For example, a disciple of a certain sect secretly admires a fellow disciple but is too afraid to confess. He secretly gathers information about her, creates a "steamed soul" of her, and then practices confessing his feelings to her every night...

As things stand, Lu Li knows that she is hard to beat in the Divination Cave Heaven, but things are not peaceful outside the cave heaven. The Lingxi Sect, the Tongxian Sect, and the forces behind Ying Wange are all searching for her whereabouts. These two forces are so powerful that even if she holds the Guixu Seal, she would not dare to confront them head-on.

To be precise, this thing in front of us should be called [Qingling Yanhuang - Steamed Soul].

If one day she were to be captured by both sides and suffer defeat and death, she would probably leave her entire soul to Lu Ling to refine the so-called [Deer Pear Soul].

This is also why she has always wanted to refine a body for Lu Ling and separate it from her own body.

Both of them have younger sisters, and Lu Li could easily understand things by putting herself in Lu Li's shoes. She slowly put down the Guixu Gun and dispelled her doubts.

"So it was a soul-steaming device. I thought..."

"You thought I was going to possess your body, didn't you?"

Qingkui wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, feeling both amused and exasperated.

When Lu Li first heard Qing Kui call her "sister," she thought Qing Ling was still alive and had been tricked into coming here to possess her.

Although her body is not perfect and is far from the peak of Qingling Yanhuang's power, it possesses some advantages that Qingling Yanhuang does not have.

If you were to ask which body in the world would be suitable for Qingling Yanhuang to possess, without a doubt, Lu Li's body would be second to none.

"How many revolutions does this Soul Steaming Machine have?"

"At the fourth level, she originally intended to leave this wisp of her soul to me. Before she died, she left behind many methods that allowed my Azure Vein to barely survive without the Yanhuang, until I broke through to the Yanhuang level."

At this point, Qingkui paused, her silvery-white eyelashes trembled slightly, and her eyelids drooped.

"It is quite shameful to say that I have only returned to this place after five hundred years. Well, let's not talk about that. You should find what you are looking for here."

After Qingkui finished speaking, he cleared his throat and addressed the snow mountain:

"Sister, I'm back. I want to take your complete pyrography map."

Lu Li's lips twitched.

You want it right away? Are you that direct?

She was still carefully considering her words, thinking about how she, as an imposter, should begin. She had originally thought that Qingkui would reminisce with this Steamed Soul, at least about the current development of the Qingmai.

But then she thought again that the Soul Steaming Machine was just a kind of artifact that imitated the living, not the real soul of a cultivator, so there seemed to be no need to waste her breath on it.

"it is good."

The Qingling Soul Steamer was also very decisive, only uttering a single word. It was unclear whether this was the Qingling Yanhuang's personality in life, or whether the Soul Steamer's skill was not high, resulting in a somewhat rigid response.

The next moment, a light blue halo flew out from the snow mountain, and Qingkui took out a jade slip, silently accepting the halo and inscribing the Yan Tu into it.

After doing all this, Qingkui made another copy and handed one of the jade slips to Luli. Luli took the jade slip and looked at it, and found that this erotic diagram was indeed different.

Especially the Xuan Shu and organ parts, which are quite different from one's own body, with this puppet diagram as a foundation, Lu Li can not only modify her puppet body, but also greatly increase the success rate and compatibility when she uses the Cat Immortal to deduce the Heavenly Craftsmanship Body.

This puppet diagram is extraordinary. Duan Xuanyuan used to boast that after he completed the puppet diagram of Qingling, he cleverly used various techniques to make the puppets in his body work in harmony and become a complete unit.

However, compared to this original painting, Duan Xuanyuan's proud achievement still appears somewhat immature and inadequate.

Lu Li put away the jade slip and said:

"That's it?"

"Don't worry, there are a few other mechanical artifacts that I will give you as well."

"Uh, that's not what I meant. I meant it seems easier than I thought. I thought that something like inheritance would at least involve a test."

"If it were the Lingxi Sect people who came in this time, the Soul Steaming Machine would self-destruct; it was because it recognized me that it entrusted its inheritance to me with peace of mind."

"This soul-steaming machine can even recognize people."

"There's a code."

Lu Li didn't delve into this matter. Although she didn't hear Qing Kui give the signal, she guessed that he probably secretly communicated with her using his divine sense when he came in.

There are many copies of Qingling Yanhuang's map. One was destroyed in the war, another was obtained by Duan Xuanyuan by chance, but it was only a fragment, and the last one is the one in Lu Li's possession.

If Lu Li hadn't come, and Ling Xizong had gotten there first, this plan would have been destroyed.

"Thank goodness, if we had arrived any later, it would have been gone."

As Lu Li sighed, Qing Kui continued:

"Please give me the crafting method for the [Fifth-Rank Taiyin Spirit Core - Ghostly Glow]."

"it is good."

Qingkui accepted the information using the jade slip as usual, then made a copy and gave it to Luli.

"Here you go, this is what I promised you."

Chapter 316 Duan Xuanyuan, your good days are coming to an end.

Spirit cores are the main material for many magical artifacts, and their sale is strictly controlled by various sects in the middle reaches of the empire. The craft of crafting spirit cores is blocked by these sects.

Lu Li's spirit core configuration is considered high among those in the same realm, but most of them are either bought ready-made or stolen from others. She rarely refines them herself because she really has no connections.

Among them, the Taiyin Spirit Core belongs to the Dark Path and is a relatively rare type of spirit core. Lu Li had previously obtained a copy of the Yan Tu by chance, but it was only at the second level. This is one of the few spirit cores that she refined herself.

However, the Taiyin Spirit Core Diagram that Lu Li obtained had a total of five revolutions. Moreover, the diagram of this spirit core also proposed a concept diagram of a six-revolution Taiyin Spirit Core. Although Qingling Yanhuang never refined it during her lifetime, it provided Lu Li with a direction and a possibility.

Lu Li pondered to herself:

“I have much better conditions than she did back then. With the power of mystical deduction, I might be able to perfect this maze.”

Old Duan also clapped and cheered.

"Great! A sixth-level Taiyin Spirit Core. Once we possess this, the power of a single drop of the ocean will surely reach new heights."

Lu Li's current use of the "One Drop of the Vast Ocean" technique relies on the fifth-level Taiyin Spirit Core that she snatched from Ying Wange.

The power of a single drop of the ocean lies between that of the Fourth and Fifth Revolutions of the Return to the Void Seal. Its only advantage is that it causes less environmental damage after the battle and does not affect the production of spiritual materials at resource points afterward.

If she encounters a truly formidable enemy, Lu Li will disregard everything else and directly use the Return to Nothingness Seal.

In the recent battle, Lu Li was victorious, but she was not happy at all.

The improvement of the Fifth Revolution Returning to the Void Seal has temporarily hit a bottleneck. Too many of the characteristics of the Returning to the Void Seal have been exposed. The Lingxi Sect has learned from this lesson and will definitely come up with a more targeted artifact next time.

Blindly improving the Guixu Seal is like putting all your eggs in one basket. If Lingxizong were to develop some kind of magical artifact that could completely destroy the Guixu Seal, her situation would be extremely dangerous.

Therefore, it is necessary to improve other killer moves.

Lu Li solemnly accepted the erhu. Next, Qing Kui obtained more than a dozen erhu from Qing Ling's steamed soul. These erhu were of various types, mainly of the Ice Dao and Slave Dao, including many fifth-level erhu, and most of them were ones that Lu Li had never heard of before.

However, Qingkui did not intend to give these puppet diagrams to Luli; instead, he simply put them away.

"Oh, so it wasn't all for me after all?"

"Of course I can give them to you, but not now. When the Azure Vein unifies the world, I will give them all to you. Or if you agree to the oath I made last time, I can give you these mazes without reservation."

Under such circumstances, Lu Li couldn't force the issue. The other party was afraid that she would turn her back on them after taking the things. Even a cat teaching a tiger has to keep a trick up its sleeve, let alone the fact that they were just allies now.

Lu Li remained silent, her expression unchanged. Taking advantage of Elder Duan's inattention, she suddenly transmitted a message through divine thought:

"Are there any slave-related magical artifacts in here?"

"Ok?"

Qingkui was somewhat surprised. They had just been talking when they suddenly started communicating with their divine senses, which startled him, making him think that Luli had discovered that there was someone else there.

"Shh—just communicate with your mind."

"Why are you being so mysterious? There's no one else here. What kind of slave cultivation device do you want?"