Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 399 Three Techniques. (Third Update!)

The translucent steed galloped joyfully through the void, quickly rushing into the clouds. After a whistling sound of wind, the carriage gently trembled and landed on solid ground.

Immediately afterwards, the carriage and the horse transformed back into the shape of a jade pendant amidst the flowing light, and spontaneously fell into Zheng Que's palm.

He has already returned to the floating island where the Spirit Sea Cave is located.

After looking around, Zheng Que stepped into the cave.

A surge of spiritual energy washed over him, invigorating him.

The door to the casting room was tightly closed at the moment, indicating that Shu Yunying had not yet finished casting.

Zheng Que went directly to the head seat and sat down. He first released Qing Li, Nian Nu, and Ku Lan, having the three ghost servants protect him. Then he prepared to refine the Soul-Summoning Banner.

The Soul-Summoning Banner is a magical artifact. When his cultivation level was only at the Qi Refining stage, he could only control it through his main soul, Qing Li.

Now that his cultivation has reached the Foundation Establishment stage, he naturally wants to refine this magic artifact completely as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Zheng Que gripped the soul-summoning banner tightly with both hands, and slowly circulated his true energy into the banner.

As his true essence entered, he clearly felt a pure yin energy emerge from the soul-summoning banner, beginning to resist his true essence.

Zheng Que understood that these yin energies came from the ghosts enslaved by the Soul-Summoning Banner. He could ask Qing Li to help him suppress these ghosts, but in that case, these ghosts enslaved by the Soul-Summoning Banner would only fear Qing Li, not him.

In the future, his control over the ghosts in the summoning banner will be weaker than Qingli's.

In a flash, Zheng Que did not ask Qing Li for help, but continued to refine his true essence into the banner.

At this moment, the ghosts in this soul-summoning banner, apart from Qing Li, are all ghosts from the [Tongue-Pulling Hell]. Under the impact of Zheng Que's true essence, the yin energy in the soul-summoning banner that resisted Zheng Que was gradually suppressed.

His true essence began to slowly occupy the entire soul-summoning banner.

Time passed slowly, and several hours went by in the blink of an eye. Suddenly, dense runes appeared on the dark and soft surface of the banner.

These runes, dark in color, covered the surface of the banner and were rapidly spreading towards the pole. In the blink of an eye, they had covered the entire banner, their intricate patterns resembling a fine net covering it.

Seeing this scene, Zheng Que suddenly felt a sense of urgency. He immediately cut his finger, forced out a drop of spiritual blood, and dripped it into the runes.

The next moment, the spiritual blood entered the rune, and the rune quickly turned bright red.

Zheng Que immediately felt that there was an extremely close connection between him and the Soul-Summoning Banner, as if their hearts and minds were intertwined, as if they were inseparable.

At the same time, all the runes on the summoning banner quietly disappeared, and the entire banner exuded an aura exactly like Zheng Que's.

The Soul-Summoning Banner has been successfully refined!
Once Zheng Que made up his mind, he immediately stood up, took the soul-summoning banner in his hand, and waved it gently a few times.

At this moment, the banner felt exceptionally docile to him, and all his control was effortless. He could easily control the five types of soul winds, and even wielding it required minimal effort.

Feeling the submissive and respectful aura emanating from the summoning banner, Zheng Que nodded in satisfaction.

He remembered that the Ghost Bride had said that the magical artifacts of the Heavenly Artifact Sect only recognized one master, and once the artifact was refined by someone else, it would be difficult for other cultivators to control it.

Just now, at the last moment when he refined this soul-summoning banner, the runes that appeared on the banner were the contract for it to recognize its master.

Now that he has refined the Soul-Summoning Banner, no one else can take this magical artifact from him.

Thinking of this, Zheng Que put away the Soul-Summoning Banner and then took out three jade slips. These three jade slips contained the three Foundation Establishment stage techniques that Crane Cry Tower was auctioning this time: [Flowing Cloud Guide], [Yin-Trapping Curse], and [Life-Burning Technique].

Zheng Que picked up one of the jade slips and examined it between his eyebrows.

This is the technique he photographed himself, called "Flowing Cloud Guidance".

This technique is an auxiliary method that can leave a mark or trigger on other cultivators or ghosts.

This mark allows the caster to lock onto the target, and as long as the mark is not erased, the target will have a hard time avoiding the caster's subsequent spells.

Its effect is very similar to the divine sense of a Core Formation stage cultivator.

Of course, this is only a technique for the Foundation Establishment stage, and it is vastly different from true divine sense in all aspects.

In addition, this technique can also be used to track fleeing targets. Basically, as long as the mark does not disappear, this technique can accurately track the target's location.

After reviewing the contents of [Flowing Cloud Guide], Zheng Li immediately began cultivating.

This technique seemed to be much simpler to cultivate than refining the Soul-Summoning Banner; Zheng Que learned it in just half an hour.

Immediately afterwards, he picked up the second jade slip and began to examine it.

The spell recorded in this jade slip is called the "Yin-Trapping Spell".

This technique requires a large number of ghost servants to perform. Its general effect is to draw upon the yin energy of the ghost servants to form a yin array, trapping the target within it.

He has now refined the Soul-Summoning Banner, and can use all the ghosts within it to his advantage, thus fully unleashing the power of this technique.

After Zheng Que memorized all the spells, he picked up the Soul-Summoning Banner and walked towards the spell testing room.

The hall was filled with spiritual energy, and time passed quietly. About half an hour later, Zheng Que came out of the spell testing room. He had successfully mastered the [Yin-Tracing Spell].

Then came the last jade slip, which contained the [Life-Burning Technique].

This technique, as its name suggests, is similar to Chen Zhentao's [Sacrifice to the Origin of Life and Death Technique]. It is a technique that requires paying a price to temporarily increase one's cultivation strength. The effect is not as strong as the [Sacrifice to the Origin of Life and Death Technique], but its advantage lies in the fact that the side effect is only a temporary period of weakness, unlike the more drastic [Sacrifice to the Origin of Life and Death Technique].

Each time it is used, it will deplete one's lifespan of sixty years.

A typical Qi Refining stage cultivator has a lifespan of about two hundred years, while a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator typically has a lifespan of between three and four hundred years.

Therefore, this [Life-Burning Technique], as long as it is not used frequently, will not pose any fatal danger to Foundation Establishment cultivators.

After Zheng Que memorized the key points of this technique, he did not practice it. Practicing this technique would also consume a 60-year lifespan, and although he had enough lifespan now, he did not want to waste it in vain.

More importantly, he has a foundation in the [Sacrifice to the Origin of Life and Death Technique], a similar but simpler technique that he can learn after just one viewing.

"Another prize from this auction was a [Rouge Demon], which is with Mu Xiangu."

"The Demon-Suppressing Bronze Bell should already be in the hands of the Ghost Bride."

"And that ancient coin containing sword energy is also with Mu Xian Gu."

"Let's go find Mu Xiangu first, and while we're at it, let's see if Gao Yinxia has come out of seclusion..."

(End of this chapter)