Immortality and cultivation begin with full comprehension.

Chapter 245 Inventory

Shenxiao Pass was also a military fortress.

Here, apart from demonic cultivators, there are no mortals.

According to the "Shenxiao Daozong" philosophy of slaying demons and eliminating evil, these demons should naturally be killed without mercy and executed immediately.

Especially those members of the "Netherworld Ghost Sect" cultivate using human souls. The more tragically they die, the more likely the ghost they create will become a vengeful spirit.

The vengeful spirits are the ghosts that the "Netherworld Ghost Sect" often uses in battle.

The tenets of this sect are inherently opposed to those of the "Shenxiao Dao Sect".

Outside the "Crossing Mountains" area, the "Shenxiao Dao Sect" had three choices. In the end, Ming Lingchuan chose the "Youming Ghost Sect" as his target because this sect was too evil!
Completely inconsistent with the worldview of the "Shenxiao Dao Sect", almost the entire sect, regardless of whether they are good or bad, is inherently disgusted with the "Youming Ghost Sect".

Li Yunjing and his group, who had entered the city, slaughtered the members of the "Netherworld Ghost Sect" without any psychological burden.

As for some demonic sects, they still follow some rules and can communicate normally.

The "Shenxiao Dao Sect" did not commit indiscriminate killing.

The Shenxiao Dao Sect does not have the kind of religious idea of ​​irreconcilable conflict with other sects.

In its interactions with other religious sects, the "Shenxiao Daozong" did not dare to kill anyone it saw!

In that case, other sects would have been forced to unite and form an alliance to attack and kill the "Shenxiao Daozong".

The "Shenxiao Dao Sect" is powerful, but it is not the number one overlord of the Southern Heaven Continent.

If they really angered both heaven and man, and were ganged up on by various alliances, no matter how strong they were, they would all be wiped out.

This was a targeted attack. Once Li Yunjing and his men entered the city, they began a massacre.

No demonic cultivators will be spared.

This is both a concept of subduing demons and eliminating evil, and also a way to eliminate the remaining forces of the "Netherworld Ghost Sect" to prevent them from having the ability to retaliate against the "Divine Firmament Dao Sect".

The search lasted for three whole days. During those three days of slaughter, the demonic cultivators either died or fled, and the city was now empty.

Outside, troops are repairing the walls of "Shenxiao Pass" and setting up new formations, making it the most important front-line town of "Shenxiao Dao Sect" in the north.

Inside Shenxiao Pass, Li Yunjing and his team were constantly scattered throughout the city, searching everywhere to see if they could find any hidden demonic cultivators.

Rooms, courtyards, wells, cellars, dark rooms... all these places, including some of the "Netherworld Ghost Sect's" storage warehouses, were thoroughly inspected.

Like everyone else, Li Yunjing was full of interest in these things and wanted to see if he could find what he was looking for here.

Since joining the main force to attack the "Netherworld Ghost Sect," Li Yunjing has gained quite a few benefits, and naturally, he wanted to find even more when searching the city.

The main force continued to penetrate deeper into the "Youyue Kingdom," while the remaining troops guarded the "Shenxiao Pass" every day, patrolling the city and conducting tense searches. A full month passed.

During this period, Li Yunjing and his team actually found several deeply hidden demonic cultivators. After killing these people, Li Yunjing had collected forty heads, which was considered to have completed two-fifths of the punishment mission.

According to the rules, Li Yunjing and his team patrolled for a month, and then they were entitled to a month's rest.

Upon returning to the designated residence, Li Yunjing set up restrictions on the assigned room and sealed off the entire courtyard.

Only then did I have time to take stock of my recent gains.

[Seven Star Palace: Li Yunjing]

[Cultivation Level: Peak of the First Level of Foundation Establishment]

[Spiritual Roots: Top-grade Five Elements Spiritual Root, Top-grade Peak Lightning Spiritual Root]

[Sect Contribution Points: 42000]

[Spirit Stones: 900 High-grade Spirit Stones, 276000 Mid-grade Spirit Stones, 4600000 Low-grade Spirit Stones]

[Medicinal Pills: 19 Breakthrough Pills, 2400 Tier 2 True Essence Pills, 70 Tier 2 Crimson Sun Pills, 2 Foundation Building Pills, 5 Five Elements Combat Pills, 3 Realm Breakthrough Pills, 2 Spirit Nourishing Pills, 800 Tier 2 Healing Pills, 500 Ghost Spirit Pills, and a number of other Tier 1 pills]

[Talismans: 4 Tier 2 Blood Fiend Talismans, 50 Ghost Spirit Talismans, 8 Long-Distance Communication Talismans, several Tier 1 Talismans of various kinds, 9 Tier 2 Heavenly Thunder Talismans, 38 Five Elements Talismans, 800 Tier 2 Talisman Papers, and a Tier 2 Low-Grade Talisman Brush "Golden Silk Purple Bamboo Brush"]

[Formation: First-tier top-grade Lesser Five Elements Array, one copy of "Formation Diagrams", Seven Star Jade Slip, 5 "Spirit Gathering Array" array plates, first-tier mid-grade "Mysterious Ice Limitless Array", "Ghost Path Array Diagram"]

[Magic Items: Top-grade spiritual weapon 'Azure Sea Listening to the Waves Sword', Low-grade spiritual weapon 'Heavenly Gang Cold Sword', Low-grade spiritual weapon 'Azure Moon Daoist Robe', Low-grade spiritual weapon 'Mysterious Jade Inner Armor', Low-grade spiritual weapon 'Swift Wind Boots', Low-grade spiritual weapon embryo 'Five Dragon Wheel', Low-grade spiritual weapon 'Heavenly Thunder Emperor Seal', Mysterious Ancestral Root of Thunder Origin, Several magical artifacts of various grades, Fifty low-grade spiritual artifacts, Three storage rings, Eight storage bracelets, Several treasure pouches]

[Cultivation Techniques: *Shenxiao Dao Qi Refining Technique*, *Five Elements Withering and Flourishing Technique*, *Mysterious Awakening Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Technique*, the first two levels of *Reversing the Innate Five Elements Technique*; the first two levels of *Detailed Explanation of Puppet Techniques*; the first two levels of *Complete Basic Alchemy*; the first two levels of *Complete Explanation of Weapon Refining Knowledge*; the first two levels of *Five Thunder Orthodox Method*; third-tier cultivation techniques *Heavenly Fire Divine Flame Seal*, third-tier cultivation technique *Fire Dragon Divine Light Transformation*; 150 first-tier cultivation techniques; 10 second-tier cultivation techniques; third-tier *Moonlight Spiritual Method*]

[Spells: Heavenly Gang Stone Armor Technique, Palm Thunder, Five Elements Divine Thunder, Five Elements Techniques, Five Elements Sealing, Hundreds of spells, More than a dozen minor supernatural powers, Nine Yang Fire, Three Heads and Six Arms Great Supernatural Power]

[Physique: Heavenly Thunder Body, Mutated Five Elements Body]

[Materials: One Tier 3 material "Crimson Gold Glazed Stone", ten "Sun Black Stones", one "Lunar White Stone", sixty-four "Heavenly Thunder Stones", and some other Tier 2 and Tier 1 materials]

[Puppets: One Tier 1 Advanced Puppet Mechanical Beast, Ten Tier 1 Basic Puppet Mechanical Beasts]

[Forbidden Items: One Tier 3 Samadhi True Fire Talisman, Jade Pendant]

[Tokens: Shenxiao Dao Sect Inner Disciple Token, Seven Star Palace Jade Slip, Jubao Tower Silver Member Token, and several other seized identity tokens]

[Secondary Professions: Tier 1 Advanced Talisman Maker, Tier 1 Advanced Array Master, Tier 1 Advanced Weapon Refiner, Tier 1 Advanced Puppet Master, Tier 2 Junior Alchemist]

[Industries: Qiwu Mountain Villa, Xingyue Trading Company (Chiri Market Store, Wanjian City Store)]

[Spirit Beast: 1 Monster Egg]

Looking at all the treasures he had, Li Yunjing couldn't help but sigh.

The day of the "Treasure Pavilion" auction is not far away. When the day comes, Li Yunjing plans to go to the "City of Glory" to broaden his horizons.

Li Yunjing plans to sell some of his resources to raise some mid-grade spirit stones, intending to make a big splash at the "Treasure Pavilion" auction.

Choose a few decent items and properly improve your skills once again.

"Huh? This monster egg seems to be moving?"

Lost in thought, Li Yunjing tossed the monster egg up and down, when he suddenly sensed it move slightly.

This made Li Yunjing instantly realize that something was unusual.

Li Yunjing was extremely curious about this demon beast egg. He had nurtured it for a year, and with the help of its previous owner, it still hadn't hatched. There must be something special about it. In the cultivation world, the more powerful the creature, the harder it was to hatch and produce offspring.

Despite Li Yunjing's long-term efforts to cultivate the monster egg, whether by using the "Spirit Gathering Array" to accelerate its growth or by nurturing it with magical power, he has been unable to hatch it.

It is clear that this monster egg is extraordinary and is very likely to produce offspring of a special kind of monster.

This greatly piqued Li Yunjing's interest!

Li Yunjing was determined to get his hands on this monster egg and wanted to see what good things were inside.

Of course, it's not something we have to get today. This monster egg has shown signs of activity, but it will still take some time before it can truly hatch.

"While we have plenty of materials now, we should refine some puppets and raise our puppetry skills to the second tier!"

After taking out the monster egg and placing it in the "Spirit Gathering Array" to cultivate it, Li Yunjing pondered many secondary professions and decided that he still needed to upgrade his second secondary profession.

He currently has too many materials, and it would be somewhat wasteful to trade or sell them.

Li Yunjing selected many first- and second-tier materials suitable for crafting puppets and categorized them into categories.

These were the materials Li Yunjing was preparing to use for practice.

Li Yunjing already has a wealth of experience in crafting puppets.

Li Yunjing was extremely familiar with every aspect, from crafting the bodies of puppet beasts to designing the central control system that made the puppets move.

Puppetry is also an extremely complex secondary profession, involving many aspects.

Just like crafting weapons, crafting puppet mechanical beasts is only the first type.

Examples like "Scattering beans to create soldiers" and "Yellow Turban Warriors" are renowned examples of mechanical beasts with powerful supernatural abilities, belonging to the puppet category within the Xuanmen (Taoist) sect.

Besides this method, there is a second method: creating puppets from living creatures.

This method involves the ultimate application of spiritual power. This refining method is extremely domineering. All things in heaven and earth, as long as they have spirituality and intelligence, can be refined into puppets through spiritual enslavement.

Cultivators and living people can naturally be refined into puppets.

There are many methods involved here. Various sects have their own spiritual supernatural abilities, such as conversion and faith. These are all remarkable divine arts of the major sects, which can be used to enslave cultivators.

This method may seem gentle, spreading faith subtly and gradually, but in reality, it is extremely cruel, truly erasing a living being's self-awareness.

There are several such divine arts within the "Shenxiao Dao Sect".

Basically, many important figures have practiced it.

However, this kind of divine technique is too troublesome and cannot significantly improve combat power, so very few people from the "Shenxiao Dao Sect" use this method on living beings.

Li Yunjing is one of them.

He looked down on this special method, which was time-consuming and laborious, and the cultivators he could enslave were not as mentally strong or as powerful as him.

What use is such a puppet?
Moreover, in Li Yunjing's mind, the idea of ​​using living people to create puppets was too evil.

Of course, there is another reason: there was no one he hated so much that Li Yunjing could kill him and truly turn him into a puppet.

Since he didn't choose to refine living people, Li Yunjing started refining puppet mechanical beasts.

Crafting such puppet mechanical beasts is also extremely beneficial for weapon crafting.

The two complement each other.

Those who can refine puppet mechanical beasts well must possess extremely outstanding weapon-refining skills.

Li Yunjing began by slowly melting pieces of first-tier materials with the "Nine Yang Fire" to form a solid composite material. Then, using refining techniques, he began to craft various kinds of puppet mechanical beasts.

Lions, polar bears, tigers, eagles... he crafted all sorts of puppet mechanical beasts.

Li Yunjing incorporated activation mechanisms, power systems, attack methods, and even a central hub for containing the mind into these puppet mechanical beasts.

If Li Yunjing were willing, he could integrate a wisp of spiritual imprint and use spirit stones as an energy source to activate these puppet mechanical beasts...

Practicing puppetry is also the best time to refine weapons and train one's spiritual sense. When Li Yunjing was able to refine a second-tier puppet mechanical beast, his weapon refining skills also advanced to the level of a second-tier beginner weapon refiner.

Li Yunjing's ability to activate these second-tier puppet mechanical beasts means he can be considered a beginner second-tier puppeteer.

After doing all this, it was time for Li Yunjing's vacation to end.

However, this time, Li Yunjing didn't need to go out to patrol the streets.

A new batch of reinforcements from the "Shenxiao Daozong" and other factions from the Ming Dynasty also sent reinforcements.

The allied forces numbered a full 20,000, most of whom were Qi Refining Realm cultivators.

These new recruits can serve as patrol teams, responsible for daily patrols and city defense duties.

The army of the "Shenxiao Dao Sect" continued its unstoppable advance, conquering three major states of the "Youyue Kingdom".

Having reached this point, the Shenxiao Dao Sect finally halted its advance. Apart from Heishan Prefecture, which was closest to Shenxiao Pass and was completely occupied by the Shenxiao Dao Sect, the other two prefectures, Heilong Prefecture and Moyun Prefecture, became the battlefields between the two sides.

The Shenxiao Dao Sect deliberately allowed the Netherworld Ghost Sect to enter Black Dragon Prefecture and Ink Rhyme Prefecture to engage in battle with them, thus keeping the main force of the Netherworld Ghost Sect tied up there.

This will give the Shenxiao Dao Sect enough time to digest the two places, Heishan Prefecture and Shenxiao Pass.

This is the bottom line of the "Shenxiao Dao Sect". After digesting the two territories of the "Youming Gui Sect", the "Hengyue Mountain Range" will be completely incorporated into the Ming Dynasty.

This is already a tremendous victory!

It should be noted that the entire "Youyue Kingdom" only has ten provinces.

In less than half a year, they conquered three states. The victory of the "Shenxiao Dao Sect" had already caused a sensation throughout the entire Southern Continent.

Numerous countries, sects, and families have sent envoys to communicate with the important figures of the "Shenxiao Dao Sect" about this matter.

When Ming Lingchuan clearly stated that the scale of the war would be limited to this, the other sects were relieved and stopped participating in the matter.

(End of this chapter)