Seeking immortality begins with daily intelligence reports.

It will snow tomorrow.

Intelligence is being displayed as usual.

Seeing that it was a weather forecast, Li Shen had an idea. He took out the grayish-black stone, examined it from all sides, and muttered to himself:

"How should we use this Soul Stone? Should we place it under the Soul Banner and let it absorb the energy itself?"

Having made a preliminary guess, Li Shen took out the Yin Soul Banner, which was emitting black mist.

I just fed the Crimson Python three fresh souls, and the black energy is now unusually stable.

Li Shen gently placed the banner on the stone, and wisps of grayish-black energy visibly seeped into the banner, accompanied by faint, mosquito-like murmurs.

Before long, white spots gradually appeared on the stone surface.

About fifteen minutes later, the originally black stone had turned completely white.

Li Shen suddenly remembered that the Yin Soul Pearl was still inside, so he quickly removed the Yin Soul Banner.

You can't let this suction dry out the beads too!

Li Shen's heart tightened, and he immediately used his divine sense to probe, but he couldn't detect anything.

He had no choice but to summon about twenty spirit-devouring ants that he had fed with nearly three hundred spirit stones and a few drops of essence blood.

The spirit-devouring ants split into two rows, slowly devouring the whitish Yin Soul Stones from both ends.

After each small portion was consumed, Li Shen would order them to stop and then carefully observe whether any Yin Soul Pearls would appear.

After repeating this process several times, before long, a Yin Soul Pearl with a slightly shimmering surface came into view.

He immediately began a more precise operation, and the Soul-Eating Ants followed his orders to bypass the area of ​​the Yin Soul Pearl and quickly devour the stone.

"As expected of a precious pearl formed from long-term immersion in yin energy."

Li Shen examined the bead for a while, and as soon as he probed it with his spiritual power, he could feel the powerful energy contained within.

Following the method for placing the Yin Soul Bead in the "Mysterious Soul Refining Scripture," he recited the incantation, mobilized spiritual power, and took out the damaged old bead from the top of the banner, replacing it with a new Yin Soul Bead.

As soon as it was pressed, the black energy emanating from the Yin Soul Banner was completely absorbed by it.

The entire banner now looks no different from an ordinary banner.

If the banner is packaged in a way that is full of truth, goodness, and beauty, no one would doubt that it is a righteous religious implement.

Finally, we can refine soul slaves.

Li Shen composed himself, took out all the spirit stones, and placed them aside in case his spiritual energy was insufficient.

According to the "Mysterious Soul Refining Scripture", to refine a soul slave, one must combine the original soul of the selected soul with a trace of one's own divine consciousness and essence, and under the control and harmonization of the Yin Soul Pearl, refine it into a kind of absolutely obedient spiritual servant.

Because the nature of a spirit is yin, it instinctively rejects the vital essence and blood that are full of yang energy.

In order for them to merge together, one must either cultivate the profound soul and evil energy or use a large number of spirit stones to assist in ensuring the success of the whole process.

In short, the spirits will initially resist, but only by continuously infusing them with spiritual power can they be forced to gradually adapt and eventually become obedient.

With all preparations complete, Li Shen sat cross-legged, placed the Yin Soul Banner flat in front of him, pressed his hands lightly on it, took a deep breath, and slowly closed his eyes.

The techniques for crafting soul slaves flowed through his heart.

He carefully sent a wisp of his divine consciousness into the banner.

In an instant, a chill, resentment, and a chaotic, dark spiritual perception washed over me.

Following the instructions of the incantation, he used his own divine consciousness as a rope to draw out the origin of his soul.

This step was extremely mentally and spiritually taxing. Li Shen gradually broke out in a sweat as his spiritual energy was rapidly depleted.

He dared not pause, and with a swift grab of his left hand, the spirit stone in his hand instantly turned to dust.

Continuously replenish the spiritual energy consumed within the body.

When the wisp of gray-black soul essence was successfully drawn out, condensed and slowly swirling, Li Shen bit his tongue, forcing out a drop of crimson essence blood. He then wrapped it with spiritual power and accurately shot the drop of essence blood into the wisp of essence.

"laugh..."

It sounded like cold water dripping into hot oil.

The very essence of the soul surged violently and rapidly, with a faint, piercing cry of resistance.

Li Shen's face turned pale, but his eyes remained sharp as ever.

He changed the hand seals, and his spiritual power surged forth, pouring into the area.

At the same time, he muttered incantations and recited the Soul-Binding Incantation from the "Mysterious Soul Refining Scripture".

The Yin Soul Pearl, which has the effect of suppressing the soul, shone brightly, and a powerful suppressive force enveloped the soul.

"With my blood, I forge your form; with my spirit, I bestow upon you your soul. Yin Sha as your body, the Black Banner as your home, heed my command, forever unmoved... Condense!"

As the last incantation was uttered, the swollen mass gradually calmed down, then began to elongate and change shape, vaguely revealing a snake-like outline, identical to the red-striped python seen before.

It was only smaller in size, but it exuded a pure and restrained Yin energy.

"Lower your head."

Li Shen looked at the somewhat dazed soul slave and tried to give him commands.

The serpentine soul slave immediately lowered its head.

"Turn around once."

Li Shen then gave the order.

The serpentine soul slave obediently spun around in place, then opened its round eyes, awaiting the next command.

Li Shen let out a long sigh of relief, his face showing exhaustion, but his eyes were full of satisfaction.

Soul slaves can gather yin energy to launch physical attacks, and can also invade the soul, and have great resistance to physical damage.

Most importantly, it can also continue to nurture and enhance itself by devouring and absorbing the Yin Souls in the Yin Soul Banner and combining them with the Yin Soul Pearl.

Thinking it over, Li Shen casually picked up a spirit stone and a stack of talismans and started doing a few simple intelligence tests.

"Spirit stones?"

"Spirit stones?"

"Great!"

...

Winter ends and spring arrives; time flies by.

Before I knew it, another three months of arduous training had passed.

Li Shen sat cross-legged, slightly opening his eyes, a glint of blue light flashing from the depths of his eyes.

Since taking the first-grade Qi Gathering Pill given to him by Shi Yong, his cultivation level has successfully broken through to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

I want to break through to the sixth level of Qi Refining, but I haven't been able to find any information about high-grade Qi Gathering Pills.

Even the intelligence system hasn't provided any relevant information in the past three months.

Therefore, to this day, Li Shen is still unable to reach the bottleneck of the sixth level of Qi Refining.

He also began to consider collecting materials and trying to refine them himself.

Among the alchemy insights left by Shi Yong are many pill formulas and alchemy techniques suitable for beginners, including how to refine high-grade Qi-gathering pills.

However, after that meal, Shi Yong disappeared without a trace.

During these three months, Li Niu helped Li Shen find an empty house in the market.

Li Niu patted his chest and said that this was definitely a house with a top-notch price-performance ratio.

Seeing his certainty, Li Shen was somewhat skeptical. However, after following him to the destination, he discovered that what Li Niu said was true.

This place is closest to the inner city of the town, and is located in the area with the most abundant spiritual energy in the outer city.

The rent is only five spirit stones a month, which is completely affordable for Li Shen now.

The only downside is that this is a large courtyard house that is shared.

There were three tenants renting the place at the same time as Li Shen.

Compared to the previous rental apartments on the outskirts of the market, there is less freedom.

Li Niu, however, felt that sharing an apartment was actually a plus.

Since Li Niu gave birth to a child with three spiritual roots for the Zhao family, he has felt much less pressure about having children.

Whenever he has free time, he worries about his good brother's marriage.

So they specially found a good place for Li Shen where all the tenants were single female cultivators.