The sky is still gray, with leaden clouds and low pressure, and the wind is as fierce as a knife.
Looking up through the clouds, there is still endless gray, giving people an extremely depressing feeling.
Near a deserted hill, a humanoid skeleton with only one arm and a tattered body was walking slowly forward.
Many bones on the skeleton were missing, and there were several serious cracks, especially on the ribs, which almost cut its body into two pieces.
Every time the skeleton takes a step, its body will make a "creak" sound, as if it is about to fall apart.
But even so, this one-armed skeleton insisted on walking forward, but every time it walked a certain distance, it would stop for a moment, look up at the twelve blood moons in the sky, and see two dots in the black eye sockets.
The green flame flickers slowly.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, the skeleton finally stepped onto a black soil slope, looked around for a while, and was about to continue moving in a certain direction.
At this moment, the soil at its feet suddenly cracked, and a white shadow sprang out. It was a strange white insect as thick as an arm. Like a snake, it opened its mouth full of fangs and bit into the ankle of the one-armed skeleton.
The green fire in the eye sockets of the one-armed skeleton flickered slightly, but he stopped and the strange insect bit his ankle.
The fat white body of the strange insect twisted wildly and bit hard, making a tooth-piercing crunching sound, as if it wanted to bite off the bones of the skeleton and devour it.
But at the next moment, the one-armed skeleton's body suddenly bent, and with a wave of its arm, a shadow passed through, and at an unimaginable speed, it grabbed the back half of the white monster's body.
There was a soft "hiss" sound!
The one-armed skeleton suddenly pulled, and before the white monster could let go, its body was torn into two pieces, and the other end was still hanging on the skeleton's ankle.
This series of movements is as fast as lightning, and it is hard to imagine that it was made by a skeleton that is about to fall apart!
And the previous unavoidable behavior seemed more like a deliberately set trap!
The one-armed skeleton opened its mouth and sucked gently.
A ball of green light the size of a bean flew out from the corpse of the white monster, and the skeleton opened its mouth and swallowed it.
The green flames in the eye sockets of the one-armed skeleton flashed slightly, becoming slightly more intense, and a layer of faint black mist appeared on the body.
Wherever the black mist touched, some cracks on one of its ribs began to shrink.
The black fog also became lighter and lighter until it disappeared.
After the green flames in the skeleton's eyes flashed for a few times, it continued to walk forward at the same slow speed as before, as if the previous scene had never happened.
…
Shi Mu left Master Ju's residence and quickly returned to his stone house.
After closing the door, Shi Mu sat down, with a hint of excitement in his eyes.
The experiment he conducted with Master Ju this time allowed him to appreciate the wonders of the world of soul masters, and judging from this experiment, the possibility of him becoming a soul master is not small.
It's just that the cost of a soul master seems to be more staggering than that of other types of warlocks, and even at the rate at which he is making money now, it seems to be a bit too much.
Shi Mu was silent for a moment, then took out the thin book from his arms and read it carefully from cover to cover.
Then he found a pen and paper and calculated carefully.
The roughly calculated figures shocked him!
To set up this summoning circle, at least 400,000 taels of silver are needed, and that's not counting any mistakes in the arrangement.
Shi Mu smiled bitterly and put the book away.
The batch of talismans from Zunling Pavilion has been handed over a few days ago, and another sum of money has been credited to the account. He now only has about 300,000 taels of silver, and there is still a shortfall of at least 100,000 taels.
In addition, his current art training and Prajna Celestial Elephant Skills all require money to support, and there is no way he will stop practicing just for the sake of summoning.
Shi Mu sighed, it seems that he has stopped trying to summon that skeleton in recent times.
After pondering for a moment, he took out the bottle of golden lizard venom.
Since the skeleton cannot be summoned at the moment, it is better to deal with the matter of the meteorite black sword first.
With the venom of the golden lizard, it has become possible to upgrade this black knife into a magical weapon. However, he cannot do it alone and needs Zhao Ping's help.
With his current status as a Talisman Master, I believe Zhao Ping will not refuse, but he still needs to consider what kind of Talisman Array he wants to engrave on the black sword.
With this thought in mind, Shi Mu took out the jade slips of the Spiritual Talisman Scripture and carefully read through the various talisman arrays on it.
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Three days later, Zhao's blacksmith shop.
"Haha, Junior Brother Shi is really powerful. In just a few days, he has obtained so much venom from the golden lizard. That golden lizard is Uncle Ju's treasure. We Lihuohui spent a lot of effort to get it.
A little venom. You managed to get such a big bottle easily, I admire you, I admire you!" In a living room inside the blacksmith shop, Zhao Ping looked at the porcelain bottle in his hand carefully and said in admiration.
"I just happened to do a small favor for Master Ju a few days ago, and I got these. With this bottle of venom, I can try to promote this sword to a talisman. I also need to ask Senior Brother Zhao to do this.
I helped you a little." Shi Mu picked up a tea cup, took a sip of tea, and said with a smile.
"Of course there's no problem with that. Since this meteorite sword came from me, I naturally want to refine it into a magical weapon myself." Zhao Ping nodded in agreement without hesitation.
When Shi Mu came this time, he had brought over a large sum of talismans that he had requested before.
Such a large number of talismans might not be completed by other talisman masters in a month, but Shi Mu only spent a few days.
This made Zhao Ping's intention to win over Shi Mu even more intense.
"It's better to choose a day than to hit it. Let's start immediately. Junior brother, follow me." Zhao Ping stood up and walked inside.
The two soon came to a stone house. This was the fire room of the blacksmith shop. It was quite large, about twenty feet long. There were more than a dozen stoves placed in sequence. Each stove was burning with blazing fire, and the whole stone house emitted
Out of the scorching heat.
At this moment, several big men with upper body Chi Jing were forging weapons in the stone house, and the sound of "ping ping ping ping ping" could not be heard.
When these big men saw Zhao Ping and Shi Mu coming in, they nodded and said hello.
Zhao Ping ignored these people and took Shi Mu to the innermost part of the stone house, a sealed stone room.
"This is my own private fire room, which is better than the ones outside." Zhao Ping said, pushing the door open and entering.
Shi Mu followed in and suddenly felt a wave of hot air blowing towards his face. The door of the fire room behind him was closed again by Zhao Ping.
This stone chamber is not large in area and is made entirely of an invisible black stone. There is also a stove in it, but it is much smaller than the one outside.
However, the flames coming out of the stove showed a slightly pure white color, and the temperature it emitted was much higher than outside. Even the air above the stove had faint ripples.
Apart from the stove and a casting platform, there was nothing else in the stone chamber.