As spring passes and autumn comes, flowers bloom and fall.
In the blink of an eye, Zhang Zhixuan has been in retreat at the Evil Ghost Cave for three years.
In the past three years, the quality of Zhang Zhixuan's puppet beasts has been getting better and better. In July last year, he had successfully refined a third-level high-grade puppet beast.
With the inheritance of the Puppet Master, Qingxuan Sect and Huanshui Sect have occupied the treasure land of Evil Ghost Cave, and their foundation has become more and more abundant in recent years.
Both Qingxuan and Huanshui sects have increased their investment in the Evil Ghost Cave in the past year or two. In addition to Zhang Zhixuan and his wife, there are already six Zifu cultivators here, and more than a hundred monks in the foundation-building period have been stationed for a long time.
The permanent population also exceeds about 10,000 people.
A large number of spiritual fields have been opened on the mountain, and fifth-level high-grade formation protection has been deployed.
With such a strong defense, even if Nascent Soul stage monks come to attack, they will not be able to break through the formation's protection without backup.
Since last year, Zhang Zhixuan has begun to refine the fourth-order puppet beast. Unfortunately, the refining failed three times in a row, wasting three fourth-order Heavenly Soul Crystals.
Such a serious loss has already made Zhang Zhixuan somewhat unbearable.
In the Evil Ghost Cave, many low-level ghosts are generated every year.
However, for a ghost cultivator equivalent to the Zifu stage, there are only seven evil ghosts in the entire cave.
In the past few years, because Zhang Zhixuan wanted to refine the fourth-level puppet beast, he had already issued an order to hunt down three of them.
In order to avoid depleting the lake, Zhang Zhixuan could only issue another edict to stop hunting ghosts above the foundation stage within thirty years.
In just three years, Zhang Zhixuan has refined more than a hundred third-level puppets, which greatly enhanced the combat power of Qingxuan Sect's foundation-building monks.
Even Huanshui Sect Xia Youqing has secretly learned the magic of refining puppets.
To refine a puppet, you need to learn to refine weapons first. For Zhang Zhixuan, Xia Youqing and other Jindan monks, refining low-level magic weapons is not too difficult.
Refining magical weapons of level four or above is a challenge for them.
Whether refining weapons or making talismans, you need to be proficient in formation runes.
Zhang Zhixuan's weapon refining skills improved rapidly due to Qing Chan's constant guidance.
Qingchan's formation level has returned to the fifth-level high-level, and his talisman-making skills have returned to the sixth-level low-level. Although it is far from being compared with his previous life, it has already become the highest level among the high-level monks in Qingxuan Sect, Huanshui Sect, and Tianchan Cave.
Second to none.
Among the hundreds of countries in the Southern Wilderness, he can be regarded as one of the best.
It's a pity that she is a water spirit root monk. Apart from using the spirit water pregnancy elixir technique to refine several special elixirs, she is not suitable for long-term elixir refining or weapon refining.
Dealing with the extremely hot earth fire all day long is not conducive to the path of Qingchan.
The situation of the three sects is still unclear now, and it is a time of race against time. Qingchan will naturally not be distracted and spend a lot of energy to learn the art of alchemy and weapon refining.
On the contrary, Wu Xianlong and Lin Wanqiu, two members of the Zifu who were stationed at the Evil Ghost Cave, learned how to refine puppets under the water tower.
Lin Wanqiu is a relative of Lin Ruohua, and has the same status as Zhang Sihong of Qingxuan Sect. He is already considered the core Zifu of Huanshui Sect.
However, the time the two of them have practiced is still relatively short, and now they can only refine second-level high-grade puppets.
If you want to make progress in this area, you still need a lot of materials to practice.
It's a pity that Zhang Zhixuan has issued an edict to let the ghosts in the Evil Ghost Cave recuperate for thirty years, and cannot hunt high-level ghosts for the time being.
If the two of them want to refine a third-level puppet, they may have to wait for many years.
Although puppets are of great help to monks, unfortunately, refining puppets also suffers from many restrictions.
First of all, limited by the strength of divine consciousness, each monk has a limited number of puppets to sacrifice.
Even if the monks of Wanfa Sect and Tianpuppet Sect practice techniques to enhance their spiritual consciousness, they can only sacrifice up to four puppet beasts of the same level, and it is impossible to sacrifice a massive army of puppets to defeat their opponents.
Secondly, there is a distance limit for manipulating a puppet beast. For example, Zhang Zhixuan, his consciousness can travel fifty miles, but the puppet beast he controls can only move within ten miles nearby.
After more than ten miles, the machine puppet beast he sacrificed is useless. Whether it is the fifth-level giant wolf puppet or the third-level iron bull puppet, they are all the same. Only by continuing to strengthen your spiritual consciousness can you make progress.
Thirdly, when the puppet accepts the order, there will be a reaction time, which cannot communicate with the monk's mind. During this reaction time, if you meet an experienced master, you may be caught by him and destroy the puppet beast in advance.
Finally, the puppet beast is more afraid of spells that attack spiritual consciousness, especially the purple energy divine light practiced by Qing Chan and Zhang Zhixuan, which is the nemesis of the puppet master.
After the divine light falls, it can disperse and dissolve the consciousness.
The key to the puppet master's battle is actually to rely on the divine consciousness differentiation spell. Several strands of divine consciousness need to be differentiated and attached to the puppet to control it freely.
Zhang Zhixuan sent out a transmission note to recruit Wu Xianlong into the cave.
He pointed to the empty seat and said: "Don't stand, sit down first! The reason why I asked you to come is that I have something to ask you to do. Master has fifteen third-level puppet beasts in his hands. These
I plan to leave the puppet beasts to the Lushan County family. Since Sihong is not in the Evil Ghost Cave, I would like to trouble you to go to Tiantai Peak, exchange these thirteen puppet beasts for the family's good deeds, and hand them over to Sijin personally.
In addition, the spiritual stones in my master’s hand are slightly chipped, so you can use my identity token to exchange for 100,000 spiritual stones from the sect’s treasury and send them to the Evil Ghost Cave.”
After explaining the matter, Zhang Zhixuan pointed out some of Wu Xianlong's problems in the exercises, and then personally sent him out of the cave.
Just as Wu Xianlong was rushing to Lushan County after a long journey, Yang Xuanzhen on the Goddess Peak looked at a letter solemnly, and then handed the letter into the hands of his eldest disciple Yu Hanxiang.
During the civil strife more than three hundred years ago, although Yang Xuanzhen defeated Liu Lingjun, she was unpopular among the sect, especially among the low-level monks. Her reputation was very bad.
However, Yang Xuanzhen and Yu Hanxiang were very good at cultivating disciples. When Xuan Su Sect was at its peak, they had already trained seven Jindan disciples.
It was precisely because of the large number of people in his sect and the many reinforcements sent by Yanghuo Palace that Yang Xuanzhen drove away Liu Lingjun and firmly controlled the power of the sect.
Yu Hanxiang's longevity is several years older than Chen Yunfeng's. Unless she gets a great chance, she will have no hope of becoming a Yuanying in this life. She is very loyal to her master and is Yang Xuanzhen's best helper.
After seeing this letter, Yu Hanxiang frowned and said: "I didn't expect that in just a few decades, the Yu State has turned upside down. It seems that Liu Lingjun must be hiding inside the Yu State, otherwise this small country would have absolutely no resources.
One after another, we have cultivated golden elixir masters."
Yang Xuanzhen nodded and said: "Liu Lingjun was hiding in the Yu Kingdom more than two hundred years ago, and she even had a fight with me. It can be seen that she has spent hundreds of years laying out her plans in the Yu Kingdom. The three golden elixirs of the Huanshui Sect came from Yan
The Hongyao sect will naturally follow Liu Lingjun wholeheartedly. Now that she has taken control of the Yu Kingdom, her layout is probably in the Qingxuan Sect. Can the chess pieces she left behind be found now? "