Who taught him to practice swordsmanship like this?

Chapter 166 The Secret of Soul Gold

A figure radiating golden light, like the sun, appeared beside Su Baichen.

This is precisely the Yang spirit of the Mysterious Yin True Man.

"Master, look what I've discovered!!"

He immediately raised the handful of soul gold in his hand and presented it to Xuan Yin Zhenren.

Master Xuan Yin said irritably, "Stop pretending. Do you think I don't know what you're doing?"

"I came to you because those two children were very worried about you since they hadn't seen you all day, so I wanted you to create a clone of yourself to put their minds at ease."

"Don't think of me as an old fogey who won't let you access this knowledge all the time."

"I'm just afraid that if you get distracted, you'll regret it when you really need cultivation and combat power because of your own powerlessness."

Su Baichen felt ashamed; he had just tried to understand his master's thoughts with such petty thinking.

He hurriedly said to Master Xuan Yin, "Master, I have discovered the Soul Gold that Grandmaster Kun Yu mentioned in his notes!"

Master Xuanyin glanced at it and then said, "The use of this thing—"

"My grandmaster used it to create the core of the puppet, but I think it could actually be used to catalyze the spirit within the artifact!"

Why do I say that?

Because he felt he couldn't possibly make a puppet.

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yin Zhenren became genuinely curious. After all, a suitable magic weapon could greatly enhance a cultivator's strength, and a magic weapon with a spirit could be called a magic treasure!

Magical artifacts aren't something just anyone can possess.

Xuan Yin Zhenren asked curiously, "You can conjure up magical treasures?"

Su Baichen quickly shook his head: "That won't work. I can only try to see if I can create a spirit."

Xuan Yin Zhenren was somewhat puzzled. There was no magic weapon, only a spirit. What use was this thing?

But he didn't say anything. His past experience told him that he had to let Su Baichen grow wild and unruly on his own—he might suddenly grow into someone who would surprise everyone.

"Fine, figure it out yourself, just don't neglect your own cultivation."

Su Baichen quickly agreed.

Master Xuanyin shook his head and left the cave.

His spirit returned to his physical body, and he then met the Water Princess who was waiting in his room.

"How's it going? How's that kid planning to fool you this time?"

Shuiyin Ji knew Su Baichen all too well, and teased him at this moment.

Master Xuanyin said tolerantly, "He is doing what he believes is right, so we don't need to disturb him."

Mizukage pouted, "Are you going to let it grow wildly on its own again?"

"There's nothing wrong with letting him grow freely; at least he's never disappointed us."

Master Xuanyin expressed his complete trust in Su Baichen.

Su Baichen simply stayed in the cave deep inside the Yinfeng Gorge.

He sat on the gatekeeper's watchtower, lit the azure phantom fire, and while continuing to peruse the notes, he sent out a phantom clone.

This illusory clone will be tasked with teaching the junior disciples for a long time, and there are no plans to disband it for the time being.

Su Baichen flipped through the pages one by one, and then his expression gradually became strange.

Because that Grandmaster Kunyu seemed to have taken the puppet that had developed sentience as his companion—as recorded in the text.

Something started to go wrong.

The following contents of the journal read like a love story of a lonely man—and the puppet was surprisingly able to respond to his feelings!

Looking at the strange entries in the notebook, Su Baichen thought to himself: The old seniors of the Yin Sect are indeed all strange.

The subsequent content became somewhat repetitive, recording only the little things between him and Miss Puppet, even omitting the matter of crafting the artifacts.

Seeing this, Su Baichen felt a pang of regret, thinking that his grandmaster uncle had been ruined by his love.

But then came the turning point.

That was during the great war against demons three hundred years ago; even Grandmaster Kunyu, who was usually not very noticeable, had to participate in the battle.

However, the outcome of that battle caused Grandmaster Kunyu immense pain.

Because his beloved puppet girl sacrificed herself to protect him, perishing together with the demonic cultivator.

[Soul Metal, it will explode!]

This passage was left in the journal.

Su Baichen was startled; he was still fiddling with the soul gold in his hand.

This Soul Gold looks completely black with a faint metallic sheen, but how could it explode?

He continued reading the journal and saw that from then on, the journal's contents changed to the experimental diary of a master craftsman.

However, at this moment, Grandmaster Kunyu had clearly gone mad.

He began experimenting with the Soul Gold using various methods, trying to find the key to why the Soul Gold would self-destruct that day.

However, he seemed to have no clue whatsoever. Finally, on the last page of his journal, he guessed: "[Life and death may be the key.]"

That's it.

Su Baichen knew the fate of his grandmaster Kunyu and felt a deep sense of sorrow.

He also knew that his grandmaster Kunyu must have eventually found a way to detonate the soul metal.

After all, according to Master Xuan Yin, this grandmaster uncle had taken a Yuanmo elder at the Yangshen level down with him!

For Grandmaster Kunyu, whose cultivation was unassuming at the time, the only one capable of achieving this was through Soul Gold.

Su Baichen pondered, especially the last sentence in the note, "Life and death, or perhaps the key."

It doesn't seem like a definitive statement, but Su Baichen felt that his grandmaster Kunyu must have sensed something when he left those words.

He examined the soul metal, pondering its specific uses.

To be honest, this kind of thinking doesn't need to last long, because almost all the wrong methods have already been eliminated in the notes.

He was startled, and then walked outside with the Soul Gold.

He did not return to the Yin Sect's territory, but instead headed directly into the depths of the sea.

Judging from the notes, this thing is very powerful, and Su Baichen dares not try it himself at close range.

So he used the illusion clone technique to create an illusion clone that carried a small piece of soul gold to a more distant place.

Half a day later, the illusory clone returned to Su Baichen with the soul gold and then disbanded on its own.

Su Baichen received the memories and then understood what was going on.

External consciousness cannot activate this Soul Gold!

He thought for a moment and suddenly had an idea.

That is to use this Soul Gold as the core and inject it with Profound Yin Spiritual Energy, and then inject it with True Qi along with a wisp of one's own divine sense.

Then he used the illusion clone technique—

The next moment, the illusionary clone appeared, and at the same time he suddenly realized that he was able to communicate with this illusionary clone in real time!

This is incredible, all because his illusionary clones are created using Soul Gold as a base!

Su Baichen suddenly realized that the value of this soul metal was probably far more than just being used as the core of a puppet or for self-destruction.

Having realized this, the illusory clone understood his thoughts, a smirk playing on its lips as it moved away again—

The next moment, he could clearly feel a trace of deathly silence appear in the consciousness of the soul-gold clone—and then, a column of water shot into the sky in the distance.

Moments later, another surging wave rolled in—

He succeeded.

But more importantly, at the very moment of the explosion, he vaguely sensed another world appearing before him!

The explosion was caused by a devastating collision between the power of another world and the spiritual energy of the present world.

He glanced instinctively at the little fox in his arms and couldn't help but ask, "Could that be Youming?!"

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