Chapter 629: Refining Puppet Beast

Taking advantage of the time when Qingxuan Sect was collecting materials for refining puppeteers, Zhang Zhixuan took Huozhi Pill and prepared to retreat for a period of time to see if his cultivation could be further improved.

Thirteen years have passed since he broke through the fourth level of Jindan.

At the Jindan stage, thirteen years of accumulation is far from enough to break through.

However, Zhang Zhixuan is not an ordinary cultivator. As long as he understands the way, cultivators like him who create their own skills can practice much faster than ordinary cultivators.

The types of elixirs that can increase the mana of Jindan cultivators are extremely rare. Even Tianyuan Sect, a Yuanying sect, only has two kinds of elixir recipes.

Huozhi Pill can increase mana for twelve years, which is already very good.

However, this kind of elixir has a large limitation. It is suitable for cultivators who practice fire-attribute skills. The effect is halved for cultivators who practice wood-attribute skills. If taken by water-attribute cultivators, it will not only fail to enhance mana, but will burn veins and cause mana conflicts in the body.

The last time, only two elixirs were refined. The Fire Ganoderma Pill has a relatively strong side effect. Only one pill can be taken in a short period of time, otherwise the meridians and dantian cannot bear it.

There are only two Jindan cultivators in Qingxuan Sect who practice fire-attributed exercises, Zhang Zhixuan and Luo Ziyan. Luo Ziyan is far away in Qingli Sea, and Zhang Zhixuan cannot teleport back and forth to send the elixir to her.

If you can't find the sixth-level Xuankong Stone and refine the inter-continental teleportation token, it will be difficult to reduce the cost of teleportation. It will cost tens of thousands of spirit stones to go back and forth.

The price of a Fire Ganoderma Pill is only tens of thousands of spirit stones. It is really not worth running so far and wasting a lot of effort.

So Zhang Zhixuan and Chen Yunfeng exchanged this elixir for a fifth-level spirit medicine and left it to Xia Youqing of Huanshui Sect.

There are three Jindans in Huanshui Sect. Xia Youqing is a cultivator with fire spirit roots. He was severely injured by Lu Shaoling more than a hundred years ago. He has just recovered from his injuries and is not very familiar with Zhang Zhixuan and others.

More than three hundred years ago, when the Wu state was in civil strife, she succeeded in forming a golden elixir at the age of just two hundred, and her path was much smoother than that of Chen Yunfeng and Lin Ruohua.

She thought she could make rapid progress in her path, and even become a Nascent Soul, which would take Huanshui Sect to a higher level.

Unfortunately, the next three hundred years were full of twists and turns. First, she chose the wrong side in the civil war of Xuansu Sect, and recuperated for many years after the defeat.

After finally advancing to the middle stage of the golden elixir, she encountered Lu Shaoling's disturbance, and was seriously injured, delaying her practice for more than a hundred years.

You should know that her spiritual roots are even better than Han Yan's. Among the dozens of golden elixirs in Qingxuan Sect, Huanshui Sect, and Tianchan Cave, only she and Qingchan are cultivators with heavenly spiritual roots.

When she first entered the Dao, she was almost accepted as a closed disciple by Liu Xuanyan.

Unfortunately, Chen Yunfeng's master Yan Hongyao refused to let her go, and insisted on letting her support the sect.

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 cultivate into a Nascent Soul today, she could have cultivated to the level of Liu Guyan.

Xia Youqing's age is not much different from Liu Guyan, and her spiritual root aptitude is also better. A cultivator with a natural spiritual root is also suitable for cultivating the Purple Sun Heavenly Fire Art.

Unfortunately, fate played tricks on her, and Xia Youqing was ultimately unable to become a disciple of Liu Xuanyan.

Despite this, Xia Youqing couldn't blame her master.

She was born in an ordinary family and lost her father when she was young. It was her master Yan Hongyao who had a keen eye for talent, raised her up, taught her the skills, and led her on the path of cultivation.

Yan Hongyao's regard for her was even higher than that of his eldest disciple Chen Yunfeng.

This is often the case when cultivators seek the Tao. After reaching the Golden Core stage, spiritual roots can no longer be a decisive factor.

Chance and environment have already come to the forefront.

At the stage of Jindan cultivators, there are very few external objects that can be relied on. Even for the Shenmu Sect, which is good at refining pills and growing medicines, the number of fifth-level elixirs refined each year is very small, and it is not enough for the high-level cultivators of the sect to digest.

The elixirs sold by Shenmu Sect are often used for healing, saving lives, and refining magic. The elixirs that can truly enhance mana and assist in breaking through bottlenecks are very rare on the market.

Xia Youqing had bad luck. As soon as she formed the elixir, Liu Xuanyan disappeared without a trace, and she lost her biggest backer.

She is Chen Yunfeng's junior sister, and her master Yan Hongyao is Liu Xuanyan's best friend.

Xia Youqing could not join Yang Xuanzhen and betray her master. Even if she had this idea, she could not trust Yang Xuanzhen.

After three hundred years of bad luck, Xia Youqing finally waited for her opportunity.

After taking Huozhi Pill, she broke through to the fifth level of Jindan in one go, and her cultivation level was further improved.

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 failed to break through the realm.

After coming out of seclusion, Qingxuan Sect also collected a lot of materials for refining puppets, and Zhang Zhixuan also began to learn the magic of refining puppets.

He has cultivated to the Jindan level, and his comprehension ability is far beyond that of low-level cultivators. He can skillfully control the temperature of flames and it is easy to refine low-level magic tools.

Puppets are composed of magic tools. They need the foundation of a refiner and some formations. In addition, they need to learn some spells such as soul attachment and soul summoning to stimulate the power of the Yin soul in the Tianhun Crystal, so that the puppets can be spiritual and can be manipulated freely.

Zhang Zhixuan is a master of controlling flames. In recent years, he has also read a lot of formation books and can arrange some basic Qi training period formations. He can even skillfully use spells such as soul refining, soul attachment, and soul summoning.

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 at his first try.

Unfortunately, the first-level puppet has a low cost-effectiveness, and the materials consumed are worth more than dozens of spirit stones. It can't use a spell at all, and can only rely on its strong body to attack the enemy.

A mature mid-stage Qi training cultivator has a way to destroy this low-level puppet, which is not very useful in the battle of cultivators.

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 increased tenfold. Even Zhang Zhixuan, a Jindan-stage cultivator, failed four times before refining the first second-level puppet beast.

The materials consumed in refining the second-level low-grade puppet beast are about 200 spirit stones. If an ordinary low-level cultivator wants to get started, he will fail at least 40 to 50 times, and the resources consumed are about 10,000 spirit stones.

Such a high threshold is simply beyond the reach of most low-level cultivators.

Therefore, mature puppeteers on the market are often masters above the Purple Mansion stage.

After refining 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 on, three months later, Zhang Zhixuan refined a second-level medium-grade puppet beast. After half a year, a second-level high-grade puppet beast appeared on the exchange list.

A normal cultivator can only command two puppet beasts of the same level because of insufficient spiritual power.

With the help of two puppet beasts of the same level, a low-level cultivator can easily defeat the opponent.

The key reason why Wanfa Sect became the hegemon of Qi State is that the cultivators of this sect practiced a unique technique, and their spiritual power exceeded that of ordinary cultivators, and they can command more puppet beasts.

Unfortunately, Qingxuan Sect did not have any collection of this kind of technique to enhance spiritual power.