Immortality begins with upgrading buildings

Chapter 37 Battle Flags

The first thing Ji Yuan saw in the storage bag was the stack of jade boxes.

Its style is exactly the same as the jade box that Wei Caishan used to hold the rotten bone flower.

Ji Yuan hurriedly took out two, opened them, and found that they were indeed the Bone-Rotting Flower!

And these jade boxes... plus those obtained from Wei Caishan, totaled 18.

With 18 rotten bone flowers, the pigpen can finally be upgraded, and I can finally live a life of collecting spirit stones every day.

Ji Yuan's tense heart calmed down considerably in an instant.

After looking at the Bone-Rotting Flower, he looked at another jade box without a lid next to it, which was filled with neatly arranged... spirit stones!

Ji Yuan glanced over the jade box and saw that it contained a hundred spirit stones arranged neatly, plus another twenty or thirty scattered around it...

The cost of purchasing high-grade talismans has all been recovered!

Indeed, if you want to get rich, kill someone first!

As for the pills, besides the common Rejuvenation Pill and Herb Pill, there was also a bottle of pitch-black pills, the bottle itself being black as well. Ji Yuan didn't know what they were for.

The high-grade talismans are all gone, but there are six mid-grade talismans and several low-grade talismans remaining.

These were not of much use to Ji Yuan. He roughly estimated that if he exchanged these talismans and pills for spirit stones, he could probably sell them for seventy or eighty.

After looking at these, his gaze was drawn to another jade box in the corner.

Compared to the previous jade box that contained spirit stones, this jade box was obviously more exquisite. It was hollowed out with two layers, and was also carved with beautiful flowers and plants. It even had a small gold lock attached to it.

Ji Yuan took it out with a thought.

The gold lock was just for decoration; he casually flicked it open and the jade box was unlocked.

There was no danger. Inside the jade box lay a jade slip, which Ji Yuan was already familiar with.

I used this inheritance jade slip for the previous few times I learned magic techniques.

"I wonder what kind of magic it is..." Ji Yuan muttered to himself. "If the Ghost Island Master treats it with such seriousness, the effect must be quite good."

Ji Yuan reached out and pressed his hand on the jade slip, injecting a little spiritual energy into it. In an instant, a flood of unfamiliar memories rushed into his mind.

Ji Yuan subconsciously felt a stinging pain.

What the hell is this? It's just learning a spell, yet there's so much stuff... Ji Yuan was stunned for a moment, and only after checking it for a while did he realize what was going on.

"Holy crap, I've really struck gold!"

Ji Yuan was overjoyed.

This jade slip doesn't contain a single technique; what it records is the sect the Ghost Island Master mentioned...

The sect is called "Yin Gui Sect" and its greatest expertise lies in refining Yin Gui.

For example, the array flag of the Ghost Island Lord, which is comparable to a mid-grade magic weapon, is called the Yin Ghost Flag, and the array is also called the Yin Ghost Array.

The two black mist ghost heads that he released at the beginning, which could entangle the flying sword, were the Yin ghosts he had created.

Judging from the information in the inherited jade slip, the methods to refine Yin Ghosts are... very dirty and very demanding.

First, one must select a cultivator born at an inauspicious time and cruelly torture and kill them, so that the ghost born from this method will be ruthless enough.

Besides that, there's the method for cultivating this bone-rotting flower.

The text describes a ritual involving the use of a violently deceased person's shinbone, the insertion of three seeds of a decaying bone flower, burying the remains in a place where yin energy gathers, and laying a layer of spirit stones underneath.

As for its effectiveness... Ji Yuan flipped through the memories in his mind, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

"Pounding the bone-rotting flower to extract its juice and applying it to the Yongquan and Mingmen acupoints can temporarily increase the speed of spiritual energy absorption?"

Seeing the effect, Ji Yuan was initially delighted, but then he became suspicious... He couldn't believe that the Bone-Rotting Flower was inherently evil, and that it had to be applied to the Mingmen and Yongquan acupoints. Ji Yuan dared not try it.

But then I thought, if there really wasn't some basis for it, why would it be recorded in this jade slip?

After reading through the contents of the jade slip, Ji Yuan pondered for a moment and guessed one possibility.

The contents of this jade slip are incomplete, and the information is fragmented.

Because what's recorded inside, besides the construction method of the Yin Ghost Array and the cultivation method of the Bone-Rotting Flower, is just some miscellaneous content, such as saying that the Yin Ghost Sect is just a subordinate sect of a major sect.

When members of the Yin Gui Sect go out, they must never admit that they are members of the Yin Gui Sect.

You can have a maximum of five Yin ghosts at the same time; if you have more than that, they will devour their master, and so on.

Not even a proper spell was recorded.

After reading it, Ji Yuan understood why the Ghost Island Master had been so excited when he mentioned that he had a secret manual left behind by his sect.

It's likely that he also knew the contents of the jade slip were incomplete.

If that's the case, then the idea of ​​using the Bone-Rotting Flower to increase cultivation efficiency is even more out of the question.

After reading the contents of the jade slip, Ji Yuan didn't rush to refine the magic weapon array flags. Instead, he took out something else from the storage bag... a ring.

It was completely black, and no one knew what material it was made of. It looked like a bone ring, with a skull carved on it.

Ji Yuan hesitated for a moment, then lifted it up and poured a wisp of spiritual energy into it.

As spiritual energy was injected, a wisp of black mist instantly rose from the ring. The black mist evolved and finally transformed into the character "Yin". The sign lasted for two breaths before the black mist dissipated.

The ring returned to its ordinary appearance.

"This seems to be a keepsake."

Ji Yuan guessed.

Not knowing what use it was, he put it away. Only then did he look at the magical artifacts he had acquired... especially the black banner, the Yin Ghost Flag, and the mid-grade magic ship.

Good things should be saved for last, so Ji Yuan first picked up the skull token used for protection.

It's a low-grade magic weapon. It withstood several hits from the White Water Flying Sword, so it's slightly worn, but it's still in good condition. Its quality is better than Ji Yuan's previous Dragon Armor Shield, but it's about the same after being damaged.

Ji Yuan planned to sell it after returning to Zengtou City.

The remaining garment was the black robe, also a low-grade robe, but it was in much worse condition. It had been hit by a high-grade demon-suppressing talisman and had been stabbed several times by Ji Yuan's mid-grade flying sword.

It's already a testament to its good quality that it didn't shatter on the spot.

Wei Caishan's magic boat was just an ordinary low-grade magic boat, even worse than Ji Yuan's white boat, and could only be used to sell spirit stones.

After reading all this, Ji Yuan picked up the palm-sized black magic boat.

Spiritual energy is infused and refined slightly.

Unlike low-grade magic artifacts, this mid-grade magic artifact sends a message as soon as it is refined.

The French ship was named "Black Wind Boat." It sped across the water like a black wind, and when propelled at full speed, it could even briefly ride the wind, making it incredibly fast.

Even underwater, it is faster than a regular mid-grade magic ship.

This is a fine ritual implement.

Ji Yuan glanced at the white boat in his storage bag. It was the one that Old Wu had "lent" him back then, and now it was time to upgrade from a slingshot to a cannon.

After refining it, Ji Yuan took out the array flag that was emitting wisps of black smoke... the Yin Ghost Flag.

As far as Ji Yuan is concerned, although he has gained a lot today, the most practical and valuable thing is still this battle flag.

(End of this chapter)