It has been almost five months since Su Ming and Gong Xiaocai moved to this island. According to the Lu brothers, in a few days, the Yaoyuan Taoist Temple will come to Xingluo Island to recruit people.
To the east of Xingluo Island, caves are opened among the mountains.
These caves are specially rented to monks who come to Xingluo Island to settle down, so the flow of people here is very large and very complex.
The cave that Su Ming and Gong Xiaocai rented was a Grade A cave, the highest grade on Xingluo Island.
It would cost 50 spirit stones to rent this kind of A-grade cave for just one year, which is shockingly expensive.
You must know that the annual rent for Su Ming's shop at No. 19 in Qingshui Fang City is only 10 spirit stones. Compared with the two, the cave on Xingluo Island is five times more expensive.
But unfortunately, Xingluo Island is the only island that Yaojiang City must pass through to get to Tianshu Island. It is better to settle here than to settle directly on Tianshu Island.
Tianshu Island is the largest and most prosperous fairy island in Yaoyuan Water Realm, so the price of renting a cave will only be more expensive.
But fortunately, the cave that Su Ming rented was a first-class cave.
There is only one cave in the entire mountain, Su Ming's. It doesn't have to be crowded with other monks on the same mountain like the B and C caves.
Back in Qingshui Fang City, Su Ming was envious of Yuzhu Peak where Mu Qingyan lived. Now he finally has a cave of his own, even though it is rented.
Inside the cave.
Su Ming sat cross-legged on the futon, with a paper bird hovering in the palm of his hand.
This paper bird looked only slightly larger than the palm of his hand, but it was extremely flexible and flew extremely fast.
Su Ming simply controlled it and discovered that it made a "chichi" sound as it tore through the air when flying.
This paper bird puppet is a new type of paper puppet that Su Ming has made over the past five months. In other words, it is an experimental paper puppet.
Compared with the sword and shield paper man and the bow and arrow paper man, this paper bird puppet is a consumable paper puppet.
Two blood curses were carved into it by Su Ming, namely the Spirit Puppet Blood Curse and the Exploding Blood Curse.
Compared with the paper arrows shot by the paper bow and arrow manikin, this paper bird puppet is faster and more flexible. In addition, Su Ming poured three strong points into it, strengthening it to the extreme.
The power of the explosion of this paper bird puppet is even stronger than the paper arrows shot by the paper bow and arrow puppet, reaching a level comparable to a blow from a foundation-building monk.
Moreover, the paper bird puppet has another advantage, perhaps because of its small size.
Su Ming used the Hall of Immortals to control the paper bird puppet, which felt much easier than controlling the sword and shield paper man.
He estimated that if all the puppets controlled by the Hall of Immortals were changed to paper bird puppets, they would be able to control at least dozens of times more than paper puppets.
This is a quite exaggerated number, which means that Su Ming can control thousands of paper bird puppets regardless of the cost.
But whenever Su Ming thought about the strengthening points spent on making so many paper bird puppets, he couldn't help but retreat in his heart.
It takes 3 strengthening points to strengthen one paper bird puppet, and more than 10,000 strengthening points to strengthen thousands of paper bird puppets.
Where did Su Ming get so many strengthening points?
From this point of view, the paper bird puppet is undoubtedly a failed work. It is too expensive to use, and even Su Ming cannot afford to play with it.
However, it is still feasible to make a small number of paper bird puppets to use as trump cards.
Su Ming glanced at the information in his mind again.
"Strengthening points: 472 points."
These are all the strengthening points accumulated by Su Ming over more than five months.
The magical weapons he purchased from Qingshuifang City and seized by the Zhang family were basically digested.
Think for a moment.
Su Ming patted the storage bag, and a mini fairy palace quickly flew out.
As soon as the thought occurred, paper puppets jumped out from the fairy palace. After careful counting, there were forty paper puppets in total.
These forty paper puppets are all the most primitive paper puppets that have not been enhanced, with half of them being sword and shield puppets and half of them being bow and arrow puppets.
Su Ming's heart changed and he immediately strengthened them all to the extreme.
At this point, his enhancement point reserve dropped to 72 points.
The number of paper puppets that have been enhanced to the extreme has reached an unprecedented one hundred.
This is also the maximum number of paper puppets that the Hall of Immortals can temporarily control.
After thinking about it, Su Ming took out 23 more paper bird puppets from the storage bag. Including the one in his hand, there were 24 in total.
Strengthen again.
Smash all 69 strengthening points.
All 24 paper bird puppets were enhanced to the extreme by him, leaving Su Ming with only 3 points of enhancement points.
100 paper puppets and 24 paper bird puppets.
This is the current reserve force in the Hall of Immortals.
Of course, Su Ming can only control a maximum of 100 paper puppets at a time, and the remaining 24 paper bird puppets can only serve as backup and trump cards.
In the final analysis, it is still restricted by the Hall of Immortals itself and Su Ming's cultivation level.
Five months.
In addition to developing new paper puppets, Su Ming did not give up on the most critical training.
Since he has practiced the "Raging Sea Giant Whale Technique" to the extreme, there is no way he can make any progress.
Su Ming spent the past five months practicing the "Shenting Rizhao Sutra" and "Thick Earth Technique".
Hard work pays off, with the help of a steady stream of elixirs.
In five months, Su Ming finally broke through to the eighth level of Qi training.
At this rate, Su Ming is definitely expected to break through to the ninth level of Qi training before he turns twenty.
In addition to his own cultivation, it was the enhancement of his spiritual consciousness brought about by practicing the "Shenting Rizhao Sutra" that surprised him the most.
Now, the detection range of Su Ming's spiritual consciousness is close to 120 feet in radius.
Compared with Zhang Jingyu's divine consciousness, which covers a radius of one mile, there is only a difference of more than forty feet.
And reaching a one mile radius covered by spiritual consciousness is the limit of the first level of "Shenting Rizhao Sutra".
If you want to continue to enhance your spiritual consciousness, you need to break through the foundation building period and practice the second level of the "Shenting Rizhao Sutra".
It is no exaggeration to say that with Su Ming's current strength, even if he did not use formations, he would still dare to have a head-on confrontation with the Ghost Mother Bodhisattva.
"It's a pity that the paper puppet still failed to break through the limit and break through to the second level."
Su Ming shook his head, "Master Lingpuppet is indeed right. The basis of the blood curse is spells, and the basis of spells is spells. My understanding of spells is too shallow after all."
It has only been more than four years since Su Ming came to this world.
In the first two years, he put all his energy into refining weapons. Then, after he got the golden finger of decomposing and strengthening magic weapons, he spent his energy on paper puppetry and practicing exercises.
As for spells, Su Ming has only really learned two spells so far, one is the object-repelling technique to use magic weapons, and the other is the fire bomb technique to destroy corpses and eliminate traces after killing people.
Even the light body technique and the spiritual shield technique that are compulsory for monks in the Qi training stage, Su Ming used spiritual talismans to replace them.
Moreover, when he used the object-repelling and fire-bombing techniques, he was more like copying the gourd, completely knowing what was happening but not knowing why.
Many casual practitioners are like this, and no one thinks there is anything wrong.
If the Lu brothers hadn't mentioned that Yaoyuan Taoist Academy attached great importance to spells, Su Ming would not have known that there was so much emphasis on learning spells.
From this we can also see how difficult it is for casual cultivators without inheritance to practice.