Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 124 Plunder and the Book of Souls

Just as Su You was pondering, the howls of countless vengeful souls echoed from the immortal city ahead.

Second-tier and third-tier vengeful spirits, countless vengeful souls, broke through the city gates and surged towards him.

These are all attracted by his vital energy and blood.

Although the blood and qi of a body-refining cultivator can suppress Yin spirits, they are also a great tonic for Yin spirits.

Therefore, when encountering powerful vengeful spirits or groups of vengeful spirits, body-refining cultivators can also become their prey.

Su You remained calm, concealing his aura, and a mysterious light enveloped his body.

In the next instant, he vanished without a trace.

All the vengeful spirits came up empty-handed.

After a thorough search that yielded no results, they could only slowly retreat back into the immortal city.

This time, Su You naturally didn't teleport back to the Dream Butterfly Mirror.

Instead, he used the power of the sect leader's star ring to conceal his aura and hide his form.

In his current stealth state, not only would these low-level vengeful spirits be unable to detect him, but even a fifth-level vengeful spirit king would be unable to find his trace.

As for why they didn't use this method to escape back in the immortal city where the Xu family lived.

The main point is that invisibility is not true disappearance; you will still be blocked by formations.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have come out to search for treasure. With his invisibility ability, it would have been much easier for him to infiltrate the treasure vaults of various families and forces to steal treasures.

Stepping through the void, Su You strolled through this immortal city that had been lost to history.

This celestial city has decayed considerably over hundreds of thousands of years.

The various formations within the Immortal City ceased to function after the spiritual energy dissipated, and are now completely destroyed.

In the immortal city, the various vengeful spirits stayed at different nodes of the Yin Meridians according to their cultivation levels, greedily absorbing the Yin energy within.

The lower-level vengeful spirits are listless, still resembling vengeful ghosts, possessing only the most basic instincts: absorbing yin energy and greedily craving flesh and blood.

However, high-level spirits, including those of the third rank and above, possess normal intelligence and are no different from ordinary cultivators. The only difference is that they do not have physical bodies.

“Although high-level Yin spirits are effective in the Mirage Realm, they are too difficult to capture. If it is just a matter of killing them, it is much simpler.” Su You looked at a third-level Yin spirit next to him, sitting upright on the Yin Vein, absorbing Yin energy like a human.

Clenching his fist, Su You temporarily suppressed his desire to fight.

A third-tier Yin spirit still has some use for him.

Whether you capture it and send it into the Mirage Realm as nourishment, or kill it to see if you can obtain a Soul Bead, both are good options.

Soul beads are also treasures of the soul type. Although their quality may not be high, a large quantity of them can be used to refine the Book of Souls.

However, since the purpose is to search for treasure, hunting down evil spirits is naturally the last resort.

They continued deeper into the immortal city.

In the vast Blood Soul Continent, I seek to find precious soul-related treasures.

The simplest way is to break into the places of those high-level ghosts, see if they have any collections, and then seize the opportunity to steal the treasures.

Because spirits cannot use storage items, they usually keep their treasures close to them.

This method, while quick, is also the most dangerous.

But for Su You, it was the simplest and safest method.

The very center of the Immortal City, once the last cultivation cave within the city, remains the place with the densest Yin energy.

"A fourth-tier Yin spirit." Su You looked at the Yin spirit that was focused on its cultivation.

After circling around, they finally found the storage room, which was filled with a large number of Yin-attribute treasures, obviously all collected by this fourth-tier Yin spirit.

There were so many that Su You didn't bother searching carefully. He simply waved his hand and put all the treasures into his Star Ring.

The sect leader's star ring contains hundreds of billions of cubic meters of space, and its length, width, and height are all tens of thousands of meters. It could even hold a mountain range.

The moment he took the treasures from the storage room, the fourth-tier Yin spirit cultivating nearby sensed it.

Suddenly, it let out a sharp howl.

hum-

A ripple appeared on the transparent shield.

The ghostly screams that pierced the soul were directly blocked by the protective shield generated by the Star Ring.

The Star Ring's protective function is not only to block magical attacks, but also to block attacks that affect the soul.

Teleport!
This time, Su You did not draw upon the power of the Dream Butterfly Mirror to teleport himself back into it.

Instead, they left using the Star Ring's teleportation ability.

The Star Ring's teleportation ability can only randomly teleport you to a location within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, so it wasn't used last time for safety reasons. This time, however, there's no need to worry about that.

In the blink of an eye, Su You arrived at a ruin thousands of miles away from Blood Soul State.

This place happened to be a gathering place for wandering spirits, and countless spirits rushed towards it after sensing Su You's aura.

Su You scanned the area with his spiritual power and, after confirming that there were no powerful Yin spirits around, he unleashed his full power, his blood and qi surging forth.

He transformed into a bolt of lightning, swiftly weaving through the vengeful spirits.

With each punch, a vengeful spirit fell to the ground in his hands.

Thunder!

Bolts of lightning rolled down from the sky, and the low-level vengeful spirits below let out painful howls, instantly turning to ashes under the lightning strikes.

Breath of the Soul!

A violent burst of spiritual energy erupted, forming a vortex in the air that continuously annihilated the raging vengeful spirits.

In a short moment, all the thousands of vengeful spirits gathered on the ruins perished at his hands.

Comfortable!

After a fierce battle, Su You felt much refreshed, as it had been a long time since he had engaged in such an intense and immersive fight.

Looking around, several sparkling beads shimmered on the ground.

Crystallized vengeful spirit?

This was the second time Su You had seen the crystallized vengeful spirit.

The last time, the Wraith Crystal helped him quickly advance to the first tier of wizardry; it was a treasure that could enhance mental power. However, the generation of Wraith Crystals was random; even after killing thousands of Wraiths, he only obtained a few.

Moreover, the quality of this crystal is only first-tier, which is worse than the ones he obtained before, so it is of no use to him.

It's better to kill a third-tier Yin Spirit. Although you can't absorb it, you can still use it to refine treasures.

After storing the few vengeful spirit crystals into his star ring, Su Youcai began to tally up his spoils.

First, there are a large number of Yin Spirit Stones, Yin Ore, and some Yin-attribute spiritual herbs, as well as dozens of third-tier Soul Beads and other treasures.

“There really are soul-type treasures…” Su You stretched out his hand, and a pale white ore appeared in his palm.

He could sense that the ore contained soul power; it should be a mineral with soul attributes, but its quality was somewhat low, probably at the second-tier level.

"It looks like there's a soul-type mineral vein near that immortal city," Su You pondered.

These ores were scattered and unpolished, clearly indicating that they hadn't been touched after being dug out.

I don't know where this vein is. Although the quality is a bit low, if there is enough of it, it will still be of some use.

As for treasures that directly enhance the soul, there are obviously none. If there were, they would have already used that fourth-tier Yin Soul; how could they possibly leave it behind?

After all, treasures that enhance the soul have the greatest attraction and effect on wandering spirits.

Although we didn't get what we wanted, it's still a good start. We've already gained something from exploring just one fourth-tier Yin Spirit. I believe we'll gain even more as we delve deeper.

After concealing himself, Su You flew into the sky, roughly determined his direction, and after flying around for a while, he finally found a landmark building and confirmed his location.

Once he had determined his location, he could continue to follow the map's directions to those dangerous places.

For the next six months, Su You constantly traveled between the lairs of various evil spirits.

Each theft of treasure directly incited the madness of most of the Yin spirits in the entire Blood Soul State.

"It's about time we went." Su You shook his head as he watched the third-tier Yin spirits pass by.

The past six months have been both crazy and exciting.

In half a year, he traveled to most of the dangerous areas of Blood Soul State, even the core areas that were not marked on the map, and brought back the collection from the fifth-tier Yin Soul.

This led to a riot of spirits throughout the Blood Soul State, with countless spirits searching for him in a frenzy, swarming at any human they encountered.

The Blood Soul State is now a hundred times more dangerous than before.

Although this matter was not dangerous for him, it was inconvenient to carry out.

Moreover, some of the spirits, knowing that a great thief had appeared in Blood Soul State, moved their treasures, causing him to miss his target several times. This was the main reason he left.

"We'll have to take our time to fleece them, anyway, we'll definitely do it again next time." With a thought, Su You's star ring flashed, and he disappeared into the Blood Soul Continent.

Meanwhile, in the Soul-Suppressing Immortal City, Xu Lingzhou was still waiting anxiously.

After all, apart from the Nascent Soul Venerable, only he could see through Su You's illusion. And naturally, the Nascent Soul Venerable couldn't guard the teleportation array; he could only painstakingly squat by the side.

……

The Dream Butterfly Mirror: A Small World.

This return was different from the previous escapes; it was a triumphant return.

The treasures of those wandering spirits were very rich, but because they could not be used, they could only be piled up there, and in the end, they all benefited him.

After a preliminary screening, Su You sent all the low-grade spirit ores into the Spirit Gathering Pool to repair the Dream Butterfly Mirror.

The third, fourth, and fifth-tier spirit ores are to be collected and stored away to see if they can be used in the future before deciding whether to put them into the Spirit Extraction Pool.

Most of these spirit ores are of the Yin attribute, so you really need to think carefully before you want to use them.

In addition, he had found soul-type treasures a long time ago, and there were quite a few of them, with the highest quality even reaching the fifth rank.

However, he is not capable of refining fifth-tier soul ore at present, so it is better to choose fourth-tier spirit ore.

Anyway, the Book of Souls also has methods for advancement, which can be utilized in the future.

Unfortunately, treasures that can enhance the soul are almost impossible to find, and those ghosts who obtain them usually use them immediately.

If you want to find it, you'll have to search for it yourself in Blood Soul State.

After roughly organizing the treasures and putting them into the jade box in the treasure vault, Su You had an idea and went to the weapon refining peak of the Dream Butterfly Sect.

This is one of the best-preserved buildings in the Dream Butterfly Sect. It contains many high-level refining furnaces, including quite a few fourth-order refining furnaces, which are perfect for him to smelt fourth-order spirit ore.

Otherwise, the third-tier alchemy cauldron given to him by his master wouldn't be able to fuse with a fourth-tier spirit ore.

Although the method for crafting the Book of Souls uses the crafting methods of the Wizarding World, it still requires smelting ores.

If the ore cannot be smelted, it is impossible to successfully refine it.

The materials needed to craft the Book of Souls are very simple; only soul-type treasures are required. Therefore, there is no need to purchase other materials from outside the sect, and the crafting can be carried out directly within the sect.

Inside the weapon-refining room, Su You first took out a relatively large soul-type ore, polished its surface to remove impurities, then pricked his fingertip, letting a drop of blood fall onto the ore. Without hesitation, he used his mental power to draw magical patterns on the ore with the blood.

As drops of essence blood fell, Su You's face began to turn pale. Although he was a body-refining cultivator, he still couldn't withstand such a large loss of essence blood.

Fortunately, after using thirty drops of essence blood, the magic runes on the spirit ore were finally inscribed.

This was just the first step. Su You continued to take out different soul ores and put them into the fourth-order cauldron. The raging earth fire quickly melted the ores, forming drops of jade-colored liquid.

He poured all the mineral liquid onto the ore engraved with magic patterns. After filling the ore with the liquid, he took out twelve fourth-tier soul beads and arranged them in a certain order on the spirit ore.

After completing these steps, Su You began to chant a mysterious, complex, and difficult-to-pronounce incantation. As each syllable fell, the surrounding space seemed to resonate with it.

In an instant, the originally rough ore, under the effect of the incantation, quickly absorbed the melted molten mineral liquid, and the neatly arranged soul beads dissolved one by one in order, eventually merging into the ore.

boom!
A blinding light flashed, and the rough ore on the ground transformed into a book with a jade-like, ancient, and noble appearance.

As Su You's incantation was about to end, his mental energy rapidly poured into the book.

As the last syllable disappeared, the four large characters "Book of the Soul" slowly appeared on the page.

These four large characters are ancient and mysterious; anyone who glances at them will likely be drawn into their mind.

After being successfully crafted, the Book of Souls instantly entered the sea of ​​consciousness and began to revolve around the World Tree.

"Finally, I succeeded!" Su You slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

He used quite a few treasures to refine the Book of Souls this time, especially the fourth-tier Soul Beads, which were extremely rare. If he failed, all that would be left was enough for him to try again.

Fortunately, it has been successful now, so the remaining Soul Beads can be used to upgrade the Book of Souls in the future.

(End of this chapter)