Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 419 Qing Luo
As the core of the Tiangong Sutra practice, the natal puppet has many magical aspects and provided great help to Li Ye when he was in the golden elixir stage.

Even if Li Ye did not take the Tiangong Sutra as his main method of cultivation and was unable to practice many magical powers, this puppet that he had gradually cultivated to this day was worth all the previous investments.

Compared with the second Nascent Soul, this one started from the first level and gradually improved to the fourth level. The depth of the imprint on the mind is completely incomparable.

Moreover, even if it is refined to the fourth level and can function as an independent clone that can operate on its own, it is still a puppet in essence.

The core mind of the natal puppet has been strengthened bit by bit through the Tiangong Puppet Control Technique over the years. Although it has the ability to think independently, it is completely a puppet mind transformed by the technique. It lacks emotions and desires and is just a simple copy of Li Ye's mind.

From this point of view, the second Yuanying cultivated from the split soul is very different from the second Yuanying that has its own soul body as its support, and is bound to have seven emotions and six desires, which may lead to different thoughts due to various situations and thus rebel against the original body.

In this way, the credibility of its independent action will be much higher.

"Hmm... but if I encounter a cultivator who has a deeper understanding of the puppet's mind and whose puppetry skills surpass mine, there might be problems. For example, the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart Seal that old ghost used was essentially a means of directly blocking the connection between the puppet's mind and the puppet's body..."

Li Ye thought so and smiled, "But now that I have achieved the fourth level, the Void Wood Skeleton and the Five Elements Transformation Foundation have been refined to perfection. My own aura is enough to simulate more than 90% of it. How can it be so easy to see through the true nature of my own puppet?"

"Furthermore, he possesses the Void Divine Power brought by the Void Realm Tree. Even though his fighting style lacks some variety, he is a top-notch runner... Unless the opponent also possesses the ability to disrupt the Void, how many Nascent Souls can stop his puppet clone from escaping into the mortal world?"

If I really encounter such a powerful person, my natal puppet will sacrifice itself bravely and destroy itself directly.

Although it would bring backlash to Li Ye's martial arts and perhaps even damage his soul, all the energy and spiritual materials invested in it would be wasted.

But compared to provoking a powerful enemy, Li Ye himself will not be implicated in any way, which is much safer.

Even if it doesn't work, I will come out again when I have achieved success in cultivation, and then find the person who did it and avenge all the grudges!
As soon as the thought came to his mind, Li Ye made a decision after a brief consideration, realizing that this natal puppet was indeed suitable for doing this.

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Li Ye watched his natal puppet, which had hidden itself and transformed into Han Fei's appearance, leave, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"My previous work as Han Fei was not in vain. Although fourth-tier spiritual medicines are rare, if I only need some seedlings, I should be able to get them without spending too much effort, considering Han Fei's friendship with Xiang Tao and Feng Lingchuan of Jubao Pavilion..."

"However, as the instigators of exposing the Yanshen Sect, although they can be considered to have made meritorious contributions at the Jubao Pavilion, they have also deeply offended the Yanshen Sect. I'm afraid that their situation in recent years has either improved significantly and reached a higher level, or has taken a sharp turn for the worse, facing internal and external difficulties..."

"Let's not talk about how the Jubao Pavilion will deal with them. At least the Yanshen Sect is likely to kill them as soon as possible. Well, maybe even me, 'Han Fei' who saved their lives, will not be spared..."

This is the additional risk of this identity. If you travel around southern Xinjiang with this identity, you may be hunted down by the envoy of Yanshen Sect.

The puppet clone doesn't even have a soul, and its own mechanical mental core cannot be affected by the Thousand Thoughts Divine Art. As for the method of beating up the upper clone... if you can't beat him, can't you run away?

This is also a good opportunity to collect some information about Yanshen Sect!

However, this is just an assumption when considering the risks. The jade plate given by Li Ye has not moved so far. If Xiang Tao and Feng Lingchuan really fell into a dangerous situation, they should have contacted Han Fei for help in the past few turbulent decades!

The fact that there had been no movement thus far suggested that they were likely in a good situation and that contacting them wasn't a high risk. Having already handed the matter over to his puppet clone, Li Ye put it aside for the time being.

He turned around and paced in the mountains, heading towards the Sky World Tree step by step.

Along the way, one could occasionally see spirit plants of various shapes suddenly flying out, coming close to Li Ye and trying to please him in various ways.

Although the main bodies of these spiritual plant essences serve as the center of the formation and are nourished by pure spiritual energy, the essences that are transformed from their spiritual forms have a certain amount of space for free movement.

On weekdays, most of them play around the Sky Tree, and absorb the radiation of the tree's vitality and wood energy. Over time, even the spiritual essence of the spiritual plant of a low rank will improve quite quickly, and will not be much inferior to others in terms of spiritual intelligence.

In this way, even if Li Ye did not make any special divisions, they gradually united around several spirits of higher ranks and stronger according to their respective affiliations and characteristics, and formed groups on their own.

Li Ye did not interfere much in this situation.

Originally, he believed that these spiritual plant essences would be the most trusted spiritual force under his command in the future, and the loyalty of any cultivator could never compare to theirs.

Although he has not shown any ability yet, he mostly takes care of the spiritual plants on behalf of Li Ye, saving him a lot of effort.

But after a few hundred years, when Li Ye's own cultivation has reached a high level, these many spiritual plant spirits will also grow into useful plant spirits...

After so many years of accumulation, Li Ye is able to raise an army of monsters just by farming!

"Son!"

Swah——

A slender, green snake with glittering gold and blue stripes on its body suddenly flew towards Li Ye. It hovered in the air, quickly shrank, and landed in Li Ye's palm, transforming into the appearance of a pretty girl, rubbing his fingers affectionately.

"Qingluo, can you transform?"

Li Ye was slightly surprised.

Qingluo is Qingluo Silver Grass, the first plant spirit that inspired [Tongtian] and [Muling]!

As one of the earliest Green Spirits, he has practiced for many years and has basically benefited from every promotion of the Spiritual Veins and the Sky Realm Tree. Now he has reached the third level... which is the Golden Core Stage of a cultivator!

Although her body is weak and does not give her any powerful magical powers, she is the first plant spirit to be promoted to the third level. She has an extraordinary status. Now she serves as the general manager on Pingyang Mountain and manages the growing number of plant spirits on behalf of Li Ye.

This kind of transformation into a human form was indeed the first time Li Ye had seen it.

Even the plant spirits, except for some special races, have to survive the fourth level of transformation thunder tribulation before they can transform into human form. Such a situation was naturally completely beyond Li Ye's expectations.

(End of this chapter)