Chapter 104 Disposable Puppet
The teleportation array is expensive and has many limitations. It can only teleport a few hundred kilometers at a time. If she wants to go from Nanzhou to Zhongzhou, she will have to transfer at least three or four times.
The sect leader sent her to the location of the first teleportation array, which was in the town closest to the Xuanbing Sect. When she saw several Xuanbing Sect disciples guarding the teleportation array, Ruan Xing realized belatedly that this was still the property of her own sect.
The ticket is two medium-grade spirit stones, which is equivalent to two hundred low-grade spirit stones. However, since she is one of us, the ticket for the first stop can be waived. When she arrives at the next stop, which is a teleportation array set up by other sects, she will have to pay the fee.
Unfortunately, while Ruan Xing was staring eagerly, the sect leader did not prepare any spirit stones for her.
After giving her a jade token as a proof of proof, he waved to her with a smile.
Well, maybe in the eyes of the big boss, two medium-grade spirit stones are as ordinary as two cents, and he didn’t even consider whether Ruan Xing would feel sorry for it.
She was in tears. She only had more than 2,000 low-grade spirit stones in her storage bag, which was only enough for five trips on the teleportation array.
In other words, after she went to Zhongzhou, she didn't even have money to come back.
This is too tragic.
With a slight sigh and after saying goodbye to the sect leader, Ruan Xing turned and walked into the teleportation array.
After a brief dizziness, when she opened her eyes again, she was in a strange place.
A foundation-building cultivator in front of her skillfully opened the protective shield of the teleportation array to let her out. The words "Jinxia" were faintly embroidered on his light golden disciple uniform.
Jinxia Sect.
She repeated the name silently between her teeth. It turned out to be a sect she had never heard of.
"My fellow Taoist, please don't block the road." The disciple frowned slightly and said to Ruan Xing politely but distantly.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Ruan Xing hurriedly walked out of the teleportation array. A white light flashed behind him, and two more monks appeared in the teleportation array. They walked past Ruan Xing in a few steps and hurried away.
It seems that the closer to Zhongzhou a place is, the more prosperous it is. While she was talking to the leader of the Xuanbing Sect, no one had used the teleportation array for a quarter of an hour.
Besides being expensive, the area they live in is not a good place.
Seeing that Ruan Xing didn't leave for a long time, the disciple of Jinxia Sect stepped forward and asked, "Daoyou, are you going to transfer to another place? Go to the next room."
"Thank you, but not for now." Ruan Xing rejected the disciple of Jinxia Sect, memorized the location of this place in his mind, and turned to leave.
She would have to delay for a few days before she could continue her journey to Zhongzhou.
First, she summoned Jianlai. She had asked Jianlai to wait for her outside the Xuanbing Sect, but she didn't expect that she would never find a chance to pick him up. Jianlai had to run part of the hundreds of miles by himself.
Secondly, she still had 10,000 points in the simulator that had not been used. While waiting for the sword to arrive, she had to improve her cultivation.
Ruan Xing found an intermediary in the city and spent thirty spirit stones to rent a quiet room for two days. The quiet room is soundproofed, closed, and has good protection, making it suitable for cultivators to avoid being disturbed. If he added some more spirit stones, he could activate a small spirit gathering formation. However, Ruan Xing did not rent the quiet room for cultivation, so he did not spend any more money.
To be on the safe side, Ruan Xing also activated the protective array disk she got from Xie Huai. This array can also block spiritual consciousness to prevent her from being disturbed by any idle and curious monks.
After opening the simulator and taking a look at his character panel, Ruan Xing started the text simulation.
[Simulating]
At the age of seven, you left Nanzhou and went to Zhongzhou Xuanbing Sect. After entering the sect, you stayed indoors and devoted yourself to cultivation, relying solely on the sect's monthly salary.
……
At the age of twenty-two, your cultivation had improved and you were only one step away from the late stage of foundation building. You proposed the idea of traveling to the sect and left Xuanbing Sect.
At the age of 23, demon cultivators invaded Nanzhou. All major sects were on high alert and recruited disciples to provide support. However, you turned a deaf ear to the sect’s call and went to Dongzhou instead.
At the age of twenty-four, the atmosphere in Dongzhou was not as tense as in other places. You found a comfortable place in Dongzhou, where you made and sold elixirs and talismans while purchasing resources for your own practice.
At the age of twenty-five, you broke through to the late stage of foundation building and continued to practice with concentration.
At the age of twenty-six, you had not responded to the sect's call for three consecutive years. The Xuanbing Sect had regarded you as a traitor and expelled you. No righteous sect in the Xianyuan Continent would accept you, so you used magic tools to hide your cultivation, used the illusion technique to change your appearance, and moved to a new residence, where you rarely went out.
……
At the age of thirty-seven, you have reached the realm of perfect foundation building. Although you have a realm-breaking pill, you dare not break through rashly without the Jindan stage practice of the Tongxuan Sutra, so you turn to seek a breakthrough in alchemy.
At the age of forty-one, after several years of accumulation, you used most of your savings to buy the recipes of third-grade and fourth-grade elixirs at a small auction, and began to painstakingly study and refine them.
At the age of forty-five, after years of experience in alchemy, your alchemy skills have improved.
At the age of fifty-seven, your alchemy skills have been improved to the third level.
At the age of ninety-one, your alchemy skills have been upgraded to the fourth level.
At the age of one hundred and four, your alchemy skills cannot be improved, and you have never encountered a fifth-grade pill recipe that you can obtain. It is a pity.
Your cultivation level has remained at the perfect foundation building stage without any change. You have a hunch that your identity as a fourth-level alchemist has made it impossible for you to hide it with the second-level illusion technique, so you choose to use the Boundary Breaking Pill to try to force the pill to form.
If you fail to form the elixir, you will die.
[End of simulation]
Ruan Xing was a little surprised. One hundred and four years old, this was an age she could not even imagine!
Surprisingly lived this long.
It turns out that Dongzhou is the true pure land of the immortal world, and it has always been safe and secure.
The result of this simulation was pretty good. Not only did my cultivation level improve, but my alchemy skills also increased. It was a pity that I couldn't choose all of them at once.
She first chose the realm of cultivation, and all of a sudden the spiritual power in her body surged, reaching the perfection of foundation building. She immediately sat cross-legged on the cushion, with her five hearts facing the sky, and circulated the Qi in her body to adapt.
After half an hour, the spiritual power that suddenly appeared in her body calmed down, and she also adapted to the new level of cultivation.
Afterwards, Ruan Xing simulated again according to the previous route, selected random skills, and his alchemy skills broke through twice in succession to reach the fourth level.
In the third simulation, Ruan Xing chose memory, and this time she got the two pill recipes that were auctioned in the simulation.
With a slight raise of delicate eyebrows, Ruan Xing quickly flipped through two pill recipes in his mind. The pill recipes that can be put up for auction are generally not popular pill recipes. Pills that assist in cultivation, pills that heal injuries, and pills that assist in breaking through realms are the foundation of alchemists. They are kept tightly under wraps. Even if their own disciples want to learn, they have to go through some tests. Alchemists trained by some large sects will not leak the pill recipes.
Therefore, in most cases, only unpopular and useless pill recipes are released, but even so, many second-level wild alchemists flock to them.
A third-grade pill recipe is called Qingshui Pill, which is for consumption by captive monsters. It can suppress the monsters' bloodthirsty and brutal nature, and also has the effect of purifying their blood. Some small sects will raise monsters in the Jindan period as guard beasts, which are also the face of the sect. Therefore, although Qingshui Pill is not very useful, it still has some distribution channels.
The fourth-grade recipe is called the Muscle-Growing Pill, which can regenerate severed limbs. It is considered a high-level medicine for healing injuries, but it is expensive. I am afraid that only those above the Golden Core Stage can afford it. However, the body can be reshaped in the Nascent Soul Stage. At that time, any defects in the body can be reshaped. As long as there is no major impact, can't you just endure it and practice for a few more decades to reshape the body? So the Muscle-Growing Pill looks great, but in fact, the sales volume is not large, and it is mostly used by disciples of some immortal families.
It seems that neither of these two kinds of elixirs can bring her a large amount of funds in the short term.
Putting those aside with some regret, Ruan Xing simulated it more than a dozen times. After slightly adjusting the details, she chose random items for all of them.
It feels as addictive as a lottery. When playing certain pay-to-win games, the flashing lights representing gold and orange cards always make people's heart beat faster.
Although there were no such rare prizes in her prize pool.
She looked through the records in her mind, counting the pile of items that suddenly appeared in front of her.
[Congratulations on obtaining five hundred low-grade spirit stones.]
[Congratulations on obtaining a mid-grade talisman pen. ]
[Congratulations on obtaining a bunch of spiritual fruits with a faint spiritual energy. ]
[Congratulations on obtaining a muscle-growing pill. ]
[Congratulations on obtaining three hundred lower-grade spirit stones. ]
……
There were not many valuable things. Ruan Xing roughly counted them and found that she had obtained more than 500 spirit stones, which was not bad. She spent almost 2,000 points on today's simulation, but she could get more than 5,000 points by recharging more than 500 spirit stones. So she made a profit.
I can't control myself and want to keep drawing cards.
However, Ruan Xing still restrained herself. She did not have the skills for the Jindan period. Even if she spent more time in the future, what she would get would only be what she could get after the completion of the foundation building. If she wanted to draw cards, it would not be too late to get the skills for the Jindan period. She could spend a lot of money in the simulator before forming the Jindan. After all, the price would definitely go up again after the Jindan period.
After stuffing the other things into the storage bag, her storage bag was about to be full again. Apart from the spoils she had obtained, she was not brave enough to sell them in exchange for spirit stones. Also, there were several corpses in the storage bag.
Not to mention Cai Jiao and Fu Qinghong, the two of them were lying quietly in the storage bag surrounding two soul-nourishing trees. Also there were the bodies of the four people led by Elder Xu.
She took out the mid-grade talisman pen she had won in the lottery, which was of higher grade than her original one. After testing the feel of it briefly, Ruan Xing took out the bodies of the four people.
After cleaning and suturing the wound and mouth as usual, she hesitated for a moment with the talisman pen in her hand.
The words of the Demon Lord actually had a certain impact on her. She had wanted Jian Lai, Cai Jiao, Fu Qinghong and others to regain their sanity before because these people were not killed by her. If they could regain their sanity, she would not have to be distracted to command them every time they fought.
For example, last time when Jian came, after he regained some consciousness, he actually took the initiative to save her when she was in danger.
He would do things she had not commanded.
But Fu Qinghong was different at that time. She ordered him to hold back the two people in the early stage of foundation building. Not only could Fu Qinghong not exert his full strength, he was also injured by those two people.
But what about these people? These people who had grudges against her in life and were turned into puppets by her after death, wouldn’t it be a waste of effort to restore their sanity?
Maybe the memories of her previous life would make her hate her, which would become her biggest flaw between life and death.
So…the soul-summoning methods used by those predecessors who practiced the ghost way when refining puppets, are they really problematic and do they erase the mind?
She could now understand those seniors, but she still had to continue restoring Jian Lai and the others' sanity. She planned to use the puppets made by others as consumables. As for how to change them, she still had to study it further.
She had discovered before that the talisman part and the puppet part in the Netherworld Ghost Record were somewhat similar.
So can she modify the talismans painted on the puppets to give them new functions?
For example... one of the ultimate killer moves of the Jindan stage is the self-destruction of the Jindan. If you are not careful and deal with it directly, it can even kill a Yuanying stage.
However, very few Jindan have the courage to burn their boats. After all, the cultivation they have gained after nearly a hundred years of hard practice is not for the purpose of hearing that sound in the end.
No one wants to die until the last moment.
Ruan Xing's eyes turned to Elder Xu's body.
Elder Xu, you also have a golden elixir...
Can she possess a self-destructing puppet that is comparable to a nuclear weapon?
She exhaled a breath and started the real-life simulation.
Then try it again and again.
At first, she tried to use the [Break] character spell to achieve the effect of self-destructing the puppet. After countless attempts to modify the plan, she was successful.
The puppets have the ability to self-destruct, and even the two new puppets in the early stages of foundation building can be made into disposable self-destructive items.
However, what made her dissatisfied was that the power of the self-detonation was not as strong as the legendary golden elixir self-detonation.
Isn't it said that it can kill Yuanying stage? Why does it seem that it is difficult to kill Jindan?
After pondering for a long time, Ruan Xing felt that it was because the principle of her modification was to use the puppet itself as a carrier and draw talismans. This principle was correct, because the original method of making puppets in the first version of the Netherworld Ghost Record was to create a mind link through the essence of the puppet to issue commands and suppression, and then achieve the control effect through the runes all over the puppet's body.
But the golden elixir explodes...the main body is the golden elixir.
Do I have to draw talismans on the golden elixir?
But it seemed that she had no idea where to start. Her talisman brush would not be able to draw such a large rune pattern on a golden elixir the size of a thumb. How about using her spiritual consciousness? Her spiritual consciousness at the foundation-building stage could not leave any traces on the golden elixir.
And even if it can be drawn, when the time comes, is it the golden elixir or the puppet that establishes the mind connection with the puppet?
Can the golden elixir that has left the puppet's body still be called a self-explosion? Isn't it just a hidden weapon? Who wouldn't be on guard when seeing it?
Think about it, if an enemy sees a puppet flying towards him, his reaction might be to take out his magic weapon to fight it out, but if an enemy sees a golden elixir flying towards him, wouldn’t he have to hide for his life?
There was no unexpected effect at all.
Ruan Xing bit her lip and lowered her head in deep thought, when suddenly an idea flashed in her mind.
Isn't the golden elixir also considered a material? Is it feasible to use Elder Xu's golden elixir as the essence of his puppet?
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