Gou Dao Changsheng: Starting from the Reincarnation of a Demon Cultivator

Chapter 95 Who can resist the brilliant conspiracy?

In Xuanbao Garden, bamboo shadows sway and lotus flowers bloom.

Xu Qingshe sat on the ground beside the lotus pond, absentmindedly teasing the colorful koi in the water.

He caressed the silver-white little beast in his arms fiercely, and bribed Qijie with a bunch of spiritual bananas before he turned against him.

"When do you think your master will be able to come out?"

Qijie swallowed the banana with two grunts, then turned around and faced the strange monk with his plump round buttocks.

Seeing this, Xu Qingshe was not angry. She took out a handful of spiritual rice and started teasing the koi in the lotus pond.

After Fang Yi walked out of the quiet room, he saw Qijie leaning against a green bamboo from afar, holding a spiritual banana in his hand, burping, looking like he wanted to eat but was too full.

He took a few steps forward and saw that the koi in the lotus pond were lying on their stomachs, their eyes were white, and it was unclear whether they were alive or dead.

Fang Yi swept his spiritual sense over and looked at Xu Qingshe with a smile on his face.

Xu Qingshe smiled awkwardly.

"Friend Fang, I accidentally fed your koi to death."

The smile in Fang Yi's eyes became more obvious, but he did not laugh out loud in the end. He never thought that fellow Daoist Xu Qingshe would have such a side to him.

Fang Yi waved his hand, indicating that he didn't care, and then spoke.

"Fellow Daoist Xu, your Fire-Repelling Puppet has been completely refined. You can take a look at it. If there is anything that does not suit your taste, please feel free to raise it."

In an open space in Xuanbao Garden, the breeze was blowing, the shadows of bamboos were swaying, and Qijie was snoring.

Xu Qingshe stood under the shadow of the bamboo, looking at the ten puppets in front of her with shining eyes.

This puppet is in the shape of an adult, and its entire body is red. Its wooden and stone-carved shell is engraved with fire-repelling spiritual characters.

As Xu Qingshe's magic power poured in, the spiritual power around the puppet gathered to form a thin layer of fire-proof spiritual membrane.

Seeing this, Xu Qingshe gathered his magic power on his index finger, and the red spiritual light flowed continuously. In just half a breath, it turned into a fire lotus the size of a fist.

Then the fire lotus swayed and smashed towards the puppet.

"boom!"

An explosion sounded, and after a few breaths, the smoke slowly dissipated. Looking at the unharmed Fire-Proof Puppet in front of them, Xu Qingshe and Old Chen in the bronze ring were very satisfied.

This Fire Lotus Technique is Xu Qingshe's signature skill. It incorporates the power of several spiritual fires. Although its power has been restrained now, it is still the top level among the first-grade mid-grade spells.

"I am very satisfied with Fellow Daoist Fang's Fire-Repelling Puppet. To be honest, I have previously sought out several puppeteers to refine puppets, but none of them matched the quality of yours. I would like to thank you for your help this time."

"It's indeed something you should do, so you don't need to thank me."

Although Fang Yi was born into a demonic family, he was still free from emotions and desires.

Xu Qingshe had helped him several times, and he remembered this friendship. Although he would not reveal his own trump card, it would not be difficult for him to improve the quality of the Fire-Proofing Puppet to a first-grade, mid-level, top-quality one.

Xu Qingshe pondered for a moment and then spoke.

"Has Fellow Daoist Fang already achieved minor success in the Yuan Chen Spiritual Technique?"

Fang Yi saw his eyes sweep across the bronze ring, and then nodded slightly. With this remnant soul of the Nascent Soul, he never thought of hiding the progress of his own spiritual secrets.

"I got some opportunities and barely broke through to the minor success stage."

"Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Fang."

As Xu Qingshe spoke, he took out a red jade box from his storage bag and placed it on the stone table.

"The treasures here are valuable. I'd like to trouble Brother Fang to cover them up."

Fang Yi felt Xu Qingshe's serious expression, and with a slight probe of his spiritual sense, he discovered that although the jade box had a rather sophisticated soul-sealing spell that sealed the inside and outside, he could still feel a pure fire aura surrounding him.

Fang Yi's heart skipped a beat when he roughly estimated the grade of the spiritual object in the jade box with such pure fire-attributed spiritual energy.

Thinking of his own guess, Fang Yi clapped his hands and clapped his hands.

Qijie opened his mouth and exhaled gently, sending out several formation flags. Thoroughly imbued with demonic energy, the flags automatically floated in the air without any wind.

Soon, fog rolled in Xuanbao Garden and the small maze formation was completely activated.

Then Fang Yi waved his sleeves, the cloud smoke pot glowed, and red smoke gushed out, strengthening the blocking effect of the small maze formation.

After meeting Fang Yi, Xu Qingshe became more cautious. He slapped his storage bag and a square formation plate was raised.

The spiritual characters on the array plate danced, and a green spiritual light blocked Xuanbao Garden.

Fang Yi's talent in formations was average, but he was also familiar with formation books, so he knew what the formation was after just one glance.

"A first-grade, top-grade Small Soul-Locking Formation? Fellow Daoist Xu is quite wealthy. I wonder what kind of treasure is in this jade box that makes you so cautious."

Xu Qingshe smiled innocently without answering, then took out a magic contract emitting strands of golden light from his storage bag.

"I'd like to ask Fellow Daoist Fang to keep this a secret."

Looking at the legal contract filled with spiritual words in front of him, Fang Yi's mouth twitched. He felt that this scene was familiar. There were more than ten legal contracts with similar clauses in his storage bag.

"This fellow Daoist Xu is quite good at recognizing good things and is a very quick learner."

After Fang Yi carefully read it, he saw that there was no problem with the deed and signed it.

Seeing the magic contract activated, Xu Qingshe did not hesitate and gently pushed with his index finger to unlock the soul-sealing jade box.

Although he had been prepared, Fang Yi was still a little surprised when he saw the piece of spiritual bone lying quietly in the jade box.

"Second-level fire attribute spirit bone?"

Fang Yi sensed the jade-like spiritual bone in his hand, and his spiritual sense swept over it inch by inch.

Time passes bit by bit.

A quarter of an hour later, Fang Yi set the spirit bone aside and let out a long breath. "A low-grade, second-rank spirit bone, and the most crucial part of the spirit bone, the spine. This bone is of exceptional quality, just a hair's breadth shy of a mid-grade, second-rank spirit bone. If it weren't for the slight weight difference, it would be enough to refine a high-grade magical instrument. What a great opportunity, Brother Daoist Xu!"

A hint of envy flashed in Fang Yi's eyes. Top-grade magic weapons are rare, and he only has one Xuanyin Soul-Slaying Sword.

"Fellow Daoist Fang, can this spirit bone be refined into a second-level puppet?"

Fang Yi nodded and then shook his head. Seeing Xu Qingshe's confused face, he began to explain.

"Although the quality of this spiritual bone is high, it requires a lot of spiritual materials to sacrifice to a second-level puppet. At least three second-level spiritual materials of the same weight are needed to make it possible."

"And it also requires a highly skilled second-level puppeteer. I haven't heard of any puppeteer with such skills in Xuanyang Mountain."

"Brother Fang, can't I do that too?"

"Fellow Daoist Xu, you're joking. How can a mere Qi-cultivating cultivator like me possibly be able to create a second-order puppet?"

Fang Yi shook his head. This second-level puppet had already exceeded the upper limit of his skills.

Even if his cultivation level breaks through to the high level of Qi training, as long as his soul has not completely transformed, he will not be able to sacrifice and refine a second-level puppet.

Seeing this, Xu Qingshe sighed, his face also showing a bitter look. Then his spiritual consciousness surged and he communicated with Old Chen. Soon, his dejected look was gone.

"Fellow Daoist, you have achieved minor success in the Yuanchen Spiritual Technique. Your spiritual awareness is comparable to that of a ninth-level Qi training cultivator. After breaking through Qi training, you should be able to refine a top-grade puppet. I wonder if you can use this as material and use the secret method of downgrading to refine a quasi-second-level puppet?"

Fang Yi pondered for a moment. After breaking through the high level of Qi training, it was in his plan to continue to demonstrate his puppetry talent, so it was fine to agree to it.

Moreover, this spiritual bone is a second-level spiritual bone. Even if it is refined into a quasi-second-level spiritual puppet using the secret method of downgrading, it will be of great benefit to his puppetry skills.

After all, Fang Yi started to delve into puppetry skills only after he advanced to the Jindan stage in his previous life. With the cultivation level of a Jindan Zhenren, second-level puppetry skills were naturally not a problem for him.

But now, Fang Yi is just a Qi-cultivating cultivator, and this second-level puppet cultivator has many problems that have not been solved.

Seeing Fang Yi agree, Xu Qingshe's face flashed with joy, and then he took out a magic contract.

"Thank you so much, Fellow Daoist Fang. This is the remaining fragment of the Yuanchen Spiritual Technique. Please accept it."

"Friend Xu, you are too kind. We are just seeking mutual benefit."

After Fang Yi signed the contract, he took the remaining fragments of the "Yuan Chen Spiritual Technique" jade slip and poured his spiritual consciousness into it.

Although he was well prepared, he sighed in his heart after a while.

"Ginger is still experienced, it is indeed such a conspiracy."

Two years later.

All the formation restrictions in Xuanbao Garden are activated.

In the quiet room, a monk in a white robe sat cross-legged. A wisp of spiritual smoke rose from the lotus furnace beside him, and the monk inhaled and exhaled, rapidly refining this spiritual smoke.

As the "Life and Death Scroll" was running, the withering and flourishing magic power changed, and a green spiritual light gathered behind Fang Yi. The spiritual light flowed and collided, and finally turned into the shadow of a vast and ancient large cypress tree.

The four seasons rotated one after another, and the energy of growth and decline descended from the big cypress tree to Fang Yi's whole body.

Seven days later.

A strong wave of magical power came from Xuanbao Garden.

Fang Yi did not hide the news of his breakthrough in cultivation.

Breaking through the late stage of Qi training at the age of thirty-seven is just an ordinary speed for a cultivator with medium-grade spiritual roots.

Therefore, showing this high-level Qi training skill is not surprising, but rather beneficial to the improvement of Fang Yi's status.

In the quiet room, Fang Yi felt the changes in his own magical power, and he did not hide his joy at all.

After two lifetimes of practice, he finally reached the stage of building his foundation.

With Fang Yi's advanced Qi training, the means and secret techniques he can use have increased several times.

Now, even if I encounter a foundation-building seed at the ninth level of Qi training, I don’t need to use the spirit puppet and the Xuanyin Soul-Slaying Sword. I can fight it with just my own accumulated cultivation.

Moreover, Fang Yi is now a high-level Qi training cultivator and a top-grade puppeteer. His status is already among the top ones below the foundation-building stage.

Fang Yi exerted a little bit of his magic power and sucked a jade slip into his hand.

The jade slip was left by Xu Qingshe two years ago, recording the second-level inheritance of "Yuanchen Spiritual Art".

This "Yuan Chen Spiritual Art" is indeed an extremely rare inheritance of the soul in the world of immortal cultivation.

Once this secret method is cultivated to the first level, it can replenish the divine one of the three treasures of the cultivator: essence, energy and spirit.

Only when the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit are perfected can one glimpse the top-grade foundation of Taoism. Now that there is an opportunity to achieve the perfect foundation known as the foundation of the Heavenly Dao in ancient times, Fang Yi will naturally not let it go.

However, combined with the first-level "Yuan Chen Spiritual Art" inheritance he had obtained before, Fang Yi already understood the conditions required for the perfection of "Yuan Chen Spiritual Art".

"Second-level spiritual objects must be several kinds of spiritual objects that can nourish the soul."

"And the Xuanxin Fruit is among them!"

"But it will take more than three hundred years to produce a Xuanxin Fruit that reaches the level of a second-grade spiritual material."

Fang Yi sighed, this was an open conspiracy.

"Fellow Daoist Xu has made no secret of his purpose, but when it comes to a high-grade Dao foundation, which Qi cultivator can refuse?"

"Now that I have achieved a breakthrough to the high level of Qi training, I have not concealed it. I am quietly waiting for Fellow Daoist Xu to come and visit me."

Three days later.

There was a knock on the door outside Xuanbao Garden.

Xu Qingshe spoke.

"Is Brother Fang here?"

(End of this chapter)