Immortality begins with becoming a master weapon refiner

Chapter 185 First Experience with the Demon Soul
Occasionally, the corpse beetle stewards would come down to investigate, but they would all be killed by Gu Qing within three breaths. After this happened three times, the people above the tomb realized that something was wrong.

They could only pray that their Bloodbone King would survive this calamity.

Aside from the out-of-control army of Yin Corpses taking Gu Qing three days, all these pure Yin spirits were fed to the Ghost-Slaying Sword, causing the sword to fall into a deep slumber and undergo transformation.

Once it awakens, it will be upgraded to a high-grade spiritual weapon.

The remaining debris was used by Gu Qing to repair the Demon Puppet Fan, and was reforged with the Ten Thousand Serpents Poison Flame, which by a great stroke of luck caused it to undergo a qualitative change.

It was still a low-grade spiritual artifact, but among the twelve demon puppets, the first bone puppet comparable to a low-grade seventh-rank cultivator was finally born. This thing was known for its physical prowess but was not good at magic.

Due to its inherent limitations, the Demon Puppet Fan can only be upgraded to the mid-grade at most, while the twelve demon puppets can be gradually improved, since their essence is a white bone demon corpse obtained through the Extreme Yin Corpse Refining Technique.

A period of gain, with a slight improvement.

The Bloodbone King's Void Ring contained approximately 3000 spirit stones and over fifty kinds of seventh-grade spiritual materials, which was quite abundant.

Most importantly, the blood-red rib containing the [Blood Bone Manipulation Technique] is of such high quality that it rivals a top-grade spiritual weapon, making it an excellent piece of equipment. The unique blood bone Dao patterns inside are also worth studying.

This material can generally be used to refine magical artifacts.

This demonstrates its scarcity.

After dealing with the underground issues, we still need to deal with the issues above ground.

The City of Corpses.

Gu Qing sensed and notified Bao Chong to bring his men to take over the demon market. Gu Qing, carrying the demon-slaying sword, traversed the entire demon market alone.

Blood Bone King still has several powerful demons at the lower seventh rank under his command.

Almost all of them were creatures from the tombs that had come to life, which added three more ghost faces to Gu Qing's dragon robe, making a total of seven. The raw materials were all made from at least seventh-grade cultivators.

I feel like if I collect ten of them, I can refine them into a real spiritual weapon.

The entire dragon robe was filled with a strong sense of resentment, as if there were vengeful spirits clashing and roaring inside. It felt cool to the touch, which was quite comfortable for someone with a fiery temper like him.

The Yin Corpse Demon Market has eight streets and a total of 1,080 shops. Apart from branches opened by other demon markets such as the Soul Chaser Tower, more than 900 shops are completely under his control.

The annual rent alone yields nearly 10,000 spirit stones each year, hovering around 9,000. This is a huge amount of resources, much more than what he earns from completing tasks.

Indeed, you still have to do business to make big money.

With a demon market as its foundation, its ability to collect spirit stones and rare resources is several times greater than what he could find on his own.

Leopard Chong excitedly led the caravan over.

Gu Qing entrusted him with the task of managing the demon market and hired a large number of demon cultivators from the Silver Winged Mantis clan to act as the law enforcement team of the demon market. Several rules were also updated.

For example: It is forbidden to sell human pills in the demon market.

Several rules like these have been added, but their impact is minimal.

After temporarily gaining control of the Yin Corpse Demon Market, there are still follow-up troubles to deal with, such as the owners of the Demon Soul Pit, who, in addition to the Blood Bone King, include two other seventh-rank extreme level Demon Market Lords.

Dealing with them isn't difficult.

The main problem is that the demon race supporting Bloodbone King clearly has a grudge against Golden-backed Eagle. If trouble comes knocking, we'll have to find a way to deal with it.

Therefore, Gu Qing only temporarily obtained ownership of the Demon Market.

We didn't wait idly.

After settling things off, he instructed Leopard Chong to notify him via the spiritual sphere if any trouble arose, and that the second smuggling caravan could now be established.

They would go to even more remote places in the demon realm to earn resources by taking advantage of price differences between different regions. Often, the deeper they went, the more remote the unique spiritual materials in those areas would fetch a better price among the human race.

In addition, the two-headed lion clan also accepted Gu Qing's employment and signed a long-term agreement, the price of which was not expensive.

Day five of occupying the Yin Corpse Demon Market. The Demon Soul Pit.

Gu Qing finally had time to experience what it meant to refine evil spirits!
Sitting cross-legged, calming his mind and guarding his spirit, Gu Qing raised his spiritual perspective, and the phantom of his life soul that enveloped his Niwan Palace reappeared. Gu Qing circulated his cultivation technique, drawing in a wisp of demonic soul energy and merging it into his life soul.

In an instant, it felt as if I had been thrown into a frying pan and cooked in oil during my mortal days!

The excruciating pain was the most intense suffering he had ever experienced in his life; it was a pure, unadulterated pain.

Even when I received the Nine Nether Winds back then, I never experienced what I feel today.

His life soul was like butter being cooked at high temperature, melting rapidly. The demonic soul made Gu Qing's eyes turn bloodshot, and his mind seemed to be filled only with the concept of "kill, kill, kill!"

Phew! ! !
As the golden crow cried out, a Qianyang Pearl flew out of the Niwan Palace and landed above the soul's head. The golden light it cast quickly stabilized the tottering soul and awakened Gu Qing's reason.

Taking this opportunity, the tenth level of the Nine Revolutions Fiery Dragon Scripture began to operate, involving all aspects of refining evil spirits, and the cultivation method has complete records.

It's not difficult to handle things step by step, especially given Gu Qing's background.

Aside from being caught off guard at the beginning.

There's also the reason that Demonic Soul Fiend is a type of Soul Fiend. Some cultivators who have never cultivated their divine sense would probably die immediately if they tried to refine this level of Soul Fiend from the start.

Recognizing one's own position is also an extremely important part of spiritual practice.

"Fortunately, nothing went wrong."

In terms of quality alone, whether it's life essence or divine consciousness, Gu Qing is inferior to the Demon Soul Fiend; only his magical power can rival it.

The key to refining the demonic soul actually lies in magical power.

Consciousness is solidified, and life force is stabilized.

The magical power reversed, surging from the middle dantian along the marrow path, reaching the Chonglou, passing through the spiritual root, and then entering the ancestral aperture through the Dao patterns. With the assistance of divine light, it carefully enveloped the life soul.

It's like a giant steamer, used in the way of alchemy furnaces to refine evil spirits.

The actual manifestation of the Nine Revolutions Fiery Dragon Scripture is a method of refining evil spirits called "Fiery Dragon Spitting Pearls".

The Fiery Dragon, formed from condensed magical power, will hold the soul in its mouth, transforming it into a fiery pearl, which it will then slowly refine.

Four days later.

The first round of demonic refinement has ended, and the results are acceptable.

First, the life soul became much more solid. The colorless and transparent life soul was stained with a black light, which was the manifestation of the power of the demonic soul. Once it was fully focused, it would disappear into the Niwan Palace.

Based on the power of divine consciousness, one absorbs the souls of Heaven and Earth. When the three are united, the true spirit is not obscured, and this is called the Nascent Soul.

This is a part of the transformation of essence, qi, and spirit required to break through to the middle three ranks, belonging to the spiritual transformation, also known as the return of the primordial spirit.

At this stage, even if a cultivator's physical body dies, their nascent soul can reclaim the physical body and resume the path of cultivation.

Once the earth spirit returns to one's body, the concept of becoming a ghost after death no longer exists, unless one voluntarily chooses to walk the path of the ghost.

I briefly imagined what the future would look like.

Gu Qing's spiritual power also became stronger, and the process of refining evil spirits could improve the [Fire Star Crimson Crow Diagram].

At the same time, the Yanlong magic power in the middle dantian showed signs of crystallization.

Undoubtedly, the quality of magical power has improved again.

In the future, it will completely transform into crystalline magic.

(End of this chapter)