Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 361: Infant Shell! Is this what you sent me to be an undercover agent for?

"I was wondering why the messenger agreed so immediately when I asked for more time..."

After completing another refining task, Li Ye touched his chin and muttered something with a slightly strange expression.

"So the time span for the Yaohua Sect to plan and refine that secret treasure has actually reached this length?"

Unknowingly, more than ten years had passed, and he was only twenty years away from completing the solidification of the entries. During these years, he had only received two or three refining tasks.

Although according to its requirements, it would take at least several years for someone with only third-level skills to refine it once, but for Li Ye it was easy and could be completed in less than a year. However, he still went to deliver it a little earlier than the usual time.

But it has been almost twenty or thirty years, and he has not seen the screening and competition that the envoy mentioned. This makes him feel that the envoy's solemn appearance in coming here specially is really humorous.

"Is this the concept of time for a Nascent Soul cultivator?"

He shook his head. Although he was happy to see it happen, he was thinking about more things.

The refining tasks he received over the years were mainly about refining equipment, and occasionally required some alchemy techniques to be processed.

He didn't take it seriously at first, until he received more and more refining tasks. He saw the processing methods required for those materials, and the final styles he obtained, and the more he looked at them, the more he felt a sense of familiarity.

"The required techniques do involve both elixirs and instruments. Despite numerous modifications, they still haven't deviated from the original foundation. Could it be that the Yaohua Sect is truly trying to refine the 'Infant Shell'?"

The infant shell is similar to the external elixir, but different from it.

External elixirs are special magic weapons. After refining them, cultivators who have established their foundation can immediately possess the magical powers of the golden elixir. If they have corresponding additional magical powers, they are much stronger than many fake elixirs.

In addition to possessing combat power, their lifespan will not be shorter than that of a regular breakthrough cultivator like a fake elixir cultivator, and they will retain the hope of further breakthroughs.

It can be said to be a standard treasure for the geniuses of major sects when they are building their foundation!
Although the method of refining this item has been lost in southern Xinjiang, there are still many left, and each sect has a certain collection of it.

He was the culprit who had come to the Southern Border cultivation world as a Golden Elixir, but ended up not being able to defeat even the Foundation Establishment cultivators!

The infant shell was the core item used by the Tiangong Temple to refine the natal puppet. It could make the natal puppet have some changes of the Nascent Soul, so that it could breathe in and out spiritual energy, absorb it into the body, and change in many ways.

Li Ye has been planning to exchange the spiritual object he wants to refine, and this is it, but his goal is only to refine a usable base and then improve it later.

However, when the Tiangong Temple was researching the Shenhua Puppet, it was discovered that after a slight modification, the infant shell could have another miraculous effect.

The things that the Yaohua Sect asked him to refine were more suitable for this kind of application.

If combined with the demon core and demon soul of a fourth-level demon beast or a real cultivator's Nascent Soul, and then imprisoned and refined, this infant shell can directly elevate the cultivator's cultivation to the Nascent Soul level!
However, a fake infant cultivator who is forced to grow like a fake elixir cultivator is naturally much weaker than a real Yuanying cultivator.

Moreover, in order to refine it, one needs to cultivate oneself to the late stage and completely merge the golden elixir with it. In this way, although one can avoid the heavenly tribulation, one will also lose the opportunity to break through again, and the life span will not increase at all!
In this way, this infant shell seems more like a product that combines the advantages and disadvantages of fake elixir and external elixir.

At first glance, it seems quite powerful.

But it's important to understand that since they've already refined their Infant Shells, even if Tiangong Temple disciples have low cultivation, they can still elevate their puppets to at least a quasi-fourth-tier level, possessing the power of a Nascent Soul. So why bother sacrificing a fourth-tier demon soul or a cultivator's Nascent Soul, ruining their own cultivation prospects in exchange for a short period of Nascent Soul combat power?

Li Ye learned about these things only after he obtained the Tiangong Sutra inheritance that had been preserved to this day through the Tiangong Core in the lava underground palace.

Such a method is naturally equivalent to a funny thing for the Tiangong Temple.

Although it was specially collected and classified as one of the research materials for the Spirit Transformation Puppet, Li Ye knew from the annotations in it that the Tiangong Palace did not attach much importance to this method.

Li Ye was skeptical about the fact that it could appear in the inheritance of the Tiangong Core. Perhaps the Tiangong Palace had already planned to use this method to produce some Nascent Soul cultivators in a short period of time to keep the situation under control once the Mu Shen Sect failed!

Li Ye also had limited interest in this usage.

Not to mention that even if he is now at the fourth level of body refining, he cannot kill a fourth level monster beast or a Nascent Soul cultivator, so there is no way for him to use the infant shell in this way.

What's more, this method, which abandons all the treatment that a Nascent Soul should have and only retains part of the combat power, can be said to be drinking poison to quench thirst. How can he, who has a bright future in cultivation, use such a method?
In his opinion, the method of using the infant shell as a medium to refine the demon pill and demon soul to upgrade to a fake infant is just like the fake pill, which can only be regarded as a helpless choice.

However, although he put it aside after reading it, he never expected that when he came to Yaohua Sect this time, he would find related clues!
He was shocked at first, thinking of the lava palace under his nest, but he quickly came to his senses.

"Back when the Tiangong Palace was besieged, it was normal for a large amount of sect inheritance to be lost and spread throughout Southern Xinjiang... The Yaohua Sect is, after all, a Nascent Soul Sect, so it's normal for some ancient inheritance to remain..."

Li Ye touched his chin.

"But many cultivators have entered the lava underground palace, and many images have circulated in the Four Kingdoms' cultivation circles... Why do those Jindan cultivators who came to the Four Kingdoms earlier seem to be not very interested in that place, but are more interested in the Demon Cave Secret Realm..."

"And like the situation with the Yanshen Sect, they should have collected many secrets of the Southern Border cultivation world. But the envoy came to our Pingyang Mountain and didn't show any interest in the lava underground palace..."

"If he wanted me to lurk in the Yaohua Sect and participate in the secret treasure refining just for the infant shell, why didn't he just go down and investigate right away? Wouldn't that be more efficient?"

"Could it be that they never recognized the origin and rarity of the lava underground palace from the beginning to the end?"

Thinking of this, Li Ye felt a little bit of crisis and doubt in his heart. Later he went to check the records of Tiangong Temple and found very little.

It was a bit ridiculous for a moment.

If it is really what he guessed.

There may be many more things he doesn't know about the various changes that happened in the Tiangong Palace ten thousand years ago, so many of its traces have been erased in the southern border cultivation world, and only some secret methods remain, which has led to the current situation.

Speaking of which, not only the Tiangong Palace, but also the Mu Shen Sect’s Li Ye didn’t find much in his search, and no one knew what happened there.

However, the envoy from Yanshen Sect chose to go to great lengths instead of taking the direct route, ignoring the genuine inheritance of Tiangong Temple that was lying underground. Instead, he forced Li Ye to come all the way to Yaohua Sect to hide, all for the sake of an item that came with it.

This is really humorous!

(End of this chapter)