Taking advantage of the time when Qingxuanzong was collecting materials for refining the puppet master, Zhang Zhixuan took the Huozhi Pill and prepared to stay in seclusion for a while to see if he could improve his cultivation further.
Thirteen years have passed since he broke through the fourth level of the Golden Core.
In the Golden Elixir stage, the accumulation of thirteen years is far from enough to achieve a breakthrough.
However, Zhang Zhixuan is not an ordinary monk. A monk like him who created his own martial arts can practice much faster than ordinary monks as long as he clearly understands the path.
The types of elixirs that can increase the mana of monks in the golden elixir stage are extremely rare. Even Tianyuan Sect, the Nascent Soul Sect, only has two types of elixirs in its collection.
Huozhi Dan can increase mana for twelve years, and its performance is already very impressive.
However, this kind of elixir has relatively large limitations and is suitable for monks who practice fire-attribute skills. The effect of taking it by monks who practice wood-attribute skills is halved. If it is taken by water-attribute monks, it will not only fail to enhance the mana, but will burn the veins and cause mana conflicts in the body.
There were only two elixirs made last time. Huozhi Dan has relatively strong side effects, so you can only take one pill in a short period of time, otherwise the meridians and Dantian will not be able to bear it.
The only golden elixir monks who practice fire attribute skills in Qingxuan Sect are Zhang Zhixuan and Luo Ziyan. Luo Ziyan is far away in Qingli Sea, and it is impossible for Zhang Zhixuan to teleport back and forth to deliver the elixir to her.
If you can't find the sixth-level Xuan Kong Stone and can't refine the cross-continental teleportation token, it will be difficult to reduce the cost of teleportation. Tens of thousands of spiritual stones will be needed for each trip.
The price of a Huozhi Pill is only tens of thousands of spirit stones, so it's really not worth traveling so far and wasting a lot of effort.
So for this elixir, Zhang Zhixuan and Chen Yunfeng exchanged a fifth-level elixir and left it to Huanshui Sect Xia Youqing.
Xia Youqing, the Three Golden Pills of Huanshui Sect, is a Huolinggen monk. He was seriously injured by Lu Shaoling more than a hundred years ago. He has just recovered from his injury and is not very familiar with Zhang Zhixuan and others.
During the civil war in Wu more than three hundred years ago, she succeeded in forming elixirs when she was just two hundred years old. Her path was far smoother than that of Chen Yunfeng and Lin Ruohua.
I thought that I could make rapid progress on the road, and even be able to refine the Nascent Soul and take the Huanshui Sect to a higher level.
Unfortunately, the next three hundred years were full of twists and turns. First, he took the wrong side in the Xuan Suzong civil war, and after being defeated, he recovered from his injuries for many years.
After finally advancing to the middle stage of the Golden Elixir, he encountered Lu Shaoling making trouble again, and was seriously injured, which delayed his efforts for more than a hundred years.
You must know that her spiritual root is even better than that of Han Yan. There are more than a dozen golden elixirs from Qingxuan Sect, Huanshui Sect, and Tianchan Cave. Only she and Qing Chan are Tianlinggen monks.
When she first entered Taoism, she was almost accepted as a closed disciple by Liu Xuanyan.
It's a pity that Chen Yunfeng's master, Yan Hongyao, refused to let her go and insisted that she support the family.
Yan Hongyao was Liu Xuanyan's best friend back then. If Xia Youqing had followed Liu Xuanyan back then, her future would have been limitless. Even if she couldn't become a Nascent Soul today, she could still reach the level of Liu Guyan.
Xia Youqing's age is not much different from Liu Guyan's, and his spiritual root qualifications are also superior. Tianlinggen monks are suitable for practicing Ziyang Tianhuo Jue.
Unfortunately, fate played a trick on people, and Xia Youqing failed to become Liu Xuanyan's disciple.
Despite this, Xia Youqing could not blame her master.
She came from an ordinary background and lost her father when she was young. It was her master, Yan Hongyao, who raised her up, taught her martial arts, and led her on the path of spiritual cultivation.
Yan Hongyao valued her more than his eldest disciple Chen Yunfeng.
This is often the case when monks seek enlightenment. After reaching the golden elixir, spiritual roots can no longer be the decisive factor.
Opportunity and environment have come to the forefront.
At the stage of the golden elixir stage monks, there are very few external objects that they can rely on. Even sects such as the Shenmu Sect that are good at refining elixirs and cultivating medicines only refine a handful of fifth-level elixirs every year, which are not enough for high-level sects.
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The elixirs sold by the Shenmu Sect are often healing, life-saving, and magic-refining items. elixirs that can truly enhance magic power and assist in breaking through bottlenecks are very rare on the market.
Xia Youqing had bad luck. She had just formed a pill, and Liu Xuanyan disappeared. She lost her biggest supporter.
She is Chen Yunfeng's junior sister, and her master Yan Hongyao is Liu Xuanyan's best friend. Although Yan Hongyao's cultivation level is not high, he has never been able to form an elixir in his life and is just a monk from the Zifu.
It is impossible for Xia Youqing to join Yang Xuanzhen's disciples and abandon her own sect. Even if she had this idea, she would not be able to win Yang Xuanzhen's trust.
After three hundred years of bad luck, Xia Youqing finally got her chance.
After taking the Huozhi Pill, I broke through to the fifth level of the Golden Pill in one go, and my cultivation level went further.
On the contrary, Zhang Zhixuan's accumulation was slightly insufficient. Although he increased some mana and cultivated to the peak of the fourth level of Jindan, he ultimately fell short and failed to break through.
After coming out of seclusion, Qingxuan Sect also collected a lot of materials for refining puppets, and Zhang Zhixuan also began to learn the spells for refining puppets.
He has already cultivated the golden elixir, his understanding ability is far beyond that of low-level monks, he can skillfully control the temperature of flames, and it is easy to master refining low-level magic weapons.
The puppet is made up of magical weapons. It requires the background of a weapon refiner and knowledge of some formations. In addition, it is necessary to learn some spells such as soul possession and soul seduction to stimulate the power of the ghost in the Heavenly Soul Crystal.
The puppet is spiritual and can be manipulated freely.
Zhang Zhixuan is a master of controlling flames. He has read many formation books over the years, and can also arrange some basic formations during the Qi training period. He can even skillfully use such spells as soul refining, soul possession, and soul attracting.
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After only two or three months of learning, he began to refine low-level puppets.
It is very easy to refine a first-level puppet. He successfully refined a first-level puppet beast just after using it for the first time.
Unfortunately, the price-performance ratio of the first-level puppets is very low. It consumes more than dozens of spiritual stones in materials. It cannot use a spell at all and can only rely on its strong body to attack the enemy.
A mature monk in the middle stage of Qi training has a way to destroy such low-level puppets, which are of little use in a monk's fight.
After refining the first-level puppet, Zhang Zhixuan immediately prepared to refine the second-level puppet beast.
The difficulty of refining the second-level puppet beast has increased tenfold. Even Zhang Zhixuan, a golden elixir stage monk, failed four times before refining the first second-level puppet beast.
The materials consumed to refine the second-level low-grade puppet beast are about two hundred spirit stones. If an ordinary low-level monk wants to get started, he will have to fail at least forty or fifty times, and the resources consumed will be about ten thousand spirit stones.
Most low-level monks cannot afford such a high threshold.
Therefore, mature puppet masters on the market are often masters above the Zifu stage.
After making the first second-level low-grade puppet beast, Zhang Zhixuan immediately put it on the exchange list of the Qingxuan Sect's General Affairs Hall.
As time went by, three months later, Zhang Zhixuan refined himself into a second-order mid-grade puppet beast. Half a year later, a second-order high-grade puppet beast appeared on the exchange list.
A normal monk, because his spiritual consciousness is not strong enough, can only command two puppet beasts of the same level.
With the help of two puppet beasts of the same level, low-level monks can easily defeat their opponents.
The key factor why the Wanfa Sect became the dominant hegemon in the Qi Kingdom is that the monks of this sect have practiced unique skills, their spiritual consciousness is superior to that of ordinary monks, and they can command more puppet beasts.
It's a pity that Qingxuan Sect doesn't have a single collection of this kind of technique to enhance spiritual consciousness.