Chapter 681 Soul Stone
”Oh, I do have some interest in these puppets, it’s not a bad thing to give to a young disciple to save his life… I don’t know what the Heavenly Crystal Realist intends to exchange for?” Another cultivator who seemed to be not too young, said with his hand twisting his long beard under his chin.
”Hehe, what the poor Taoist is exchanging for is relatively rare, it is something called ‘Soul Stone’ from the ancient times, a piece of Soul Stone in exchange for one of my puppet beasts. These puppets can all be made by the hands of ancient cultivators, it is estimated that there are no more puppets of this high level in this realm.” The Heavenly Crystal Realist said calmly.
”Soul Stone?” Upon hearing this unfamiliar name, the seated cultivators all looked puzzled, this was something they had never heard of before, it was really unfamiliar.
Heavenly crystal real person see this, seems to have expected, one hand to storage bag a mold, palm more a thumb-sized turquoise crystals out. Fierce look at this crystal, some similar to the wood attribute of the spirit stone, in the people sitting under the sweep of the divine sense found that the crystal emitted is not familiar with the wood attribute of the cultivator’s aura, but a kind of cold and inexplicable fluctuations.
”Perhaps some of the same hand has this thing, but did not recognize, poor Taoist here happens to have a piece, all the Taoist friends can first identify it.” The old Taoist held the crystal in his hand and slowly added.
”Huh! It’s a bit odd, somewhat like the power of the Yin Soul, but much purer than the power of the Yin Soul.” A Devil Dao cultivator with a black aura wrapped around his body asked in surprise.
”The poor Taoist doesn’t know what is contained in this crystal, but it is never ordinary soul energy. Otherwise, how could my subordinate be willing to exchange these puppets for such a stone over.” The Heavenly Crystal Realist was straightforward and replied directly.
”Oh! That’s true.” The Devil Dao cultivator had the good sense not to pursue the matter further.
However, as soon as Han Li took a good look at this crystal, his face under the mask changed drastically and his gaze flickered at the same time.
If he is not mistaken, this “soul stone” is clearly his collection from the netherworld “netherworld beast crystal”, of course, “beast crystal” this kind of title is only the netherworld natives called, in the ancient times, the real name of the cultivator, it seems that the “soul stone” is the “soul stone”. In the ancient times, the real name of the cultivator seems to be this so-called “soul stone”.
”This heavenly crystal real person not only take out this so many puppets out, but also at the same time to collect this many ‘soul stone’, associating the many puppets seen in the Void Sky Hall at the beginning of this soul stone implicitly contained, it seems that this person …… “Han Li began to ponder thoughtfully.
However, this soul stone, apparently very few people found, after a while, only a cultivator hesitantly took out a piece out, went up to change away a beast puppet.
After the Heavenly Crystal Realist asked a few more times, he saw that no one came up again, and although he had expected this, he couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed in his heart.
He was about to put the remaining puppet beasts away when another person suddenly stood up and walked over. This made the old Taoist’s spirit revitalized and looked at the visitor with some surprise, “This Taoist friend, do you also have a soul stone?”
The person who came forward was Han Li who finally planned in his heart, he did not make a sound with a flip of his palm, a turquoise crystal stone appeared in his hand.
However, this piece of crystal stone head is the size of an egg, a cloud of almost naked eye visible cold gas from the crystal stone emanated, far from the old road to take out the crystal stone can be compared.
Tianjing real person was first shocked, his heart was then ecstatic, but his face couldn’t help but blossom with a smile and said: ”Fellow Daoist this soul stone is so big, it’s really rare. This way, these puppets in the friend of the road despite pick two take it, poor road will not let friend of the road to suffer.”
”Two?” Han Li shook his head with a light smile when he heard this.
”What, fellow Daoist is too little! I wonder how many you intend to exchange for?” The Heavenly Crystal Realist wasn’t angry either. Harmoniously, he asked.
”This soul stone, let’s exchange it for all the remaining puppets of fellow Daoist?” Han Li said calmly.
”In exchange for six! Don’t you think that you’re too greedy, fellow Daoist?” The old daoist said with a frown under a daze, and said with some dissatisfaction.
”Heh heh! Greedy or not, the real person should be very clear, this soul stone is not just about size. Moreover, such a large soul stone, for a real person is ……” Han Li stared at the Heavenly Crystal real person, words not yet finished suddenly stopped speaking.
When Tian Jing real person heard this, his face changed slightly, and he deeply surveyed Han Li for a few eyes before saying after a moment of silence, “Well, such a large soul stone is indeed rare, and I’m in dire need of this item, so I’ll exchange it according to what Dao You said.”
Hearing the old Taoist say so, the other cultivators in the pavilion were taken aback for a moment and couldn’t help but stare at the egg-sized crystal in Han Li’s hand for a few more moments. Something that could be exchanged for several rare puppets at once, it was important to pay more attention to it anyways.
Han Li looked unperturbed, directly handed over the crystal stone, and then slightly lowered his head, sleeve robe to the table a brush, six puppet beasts all disappeared into thin air.
However, the other cultivators did not notice that Han Li’s lips moved a few times during the moment he lowered his head, and the Heavenly Crystal Realist’s eyes flashed with a flash of light, a hint of surprise flashing across his face. At this time, Han Li, however, had already walked back to his seat with the puppet.
Below, the Heavenly Crystal Realist announced the end of the exchange session, and as many cultivators descended the stairs to leave, Han Li and the other three also mingled amongst them and left the Crystal Dragon Pavilion.
When the three left the pavilion, no one said anything, but when they had passed through two streets and were a bit farther away from the pavilion, the Fire Dragon Child spoke in an old-fashioned manner, “Two fellow Daoists, I have another appointment, so I won’t be joining the two of you.”
”If Brother Lan has something on his mind, just go ahead and get busy. Our residences are not far away, there will be plenty of opportunities to get together again.” Lu Luo said with a smile.
”Well, then, Mister Lan will take his leave!” The Fire Dragon Child was not polite, and after greeting Han Li as well, the person walked towards another street.
”This Fellow Fire Dragon Daoist is truly a wonderful person!” Han Li looked at the child’s distant back and suddenly said with a smile.
”Because Fellow Daoist Blue mistakenly ate a foreign herb when he was young, his appearance and figure have always remained childlike, but he is a bold and straightforward person, and is considered to be one of the few fellow foreigners that can be befriended, as well as the only Elder in the Ancient Sword Sect that is friendly to our Falling Cloud Sect.”
Hearing this, Han Li raised an eyebrow, but in his heart, he thought, “Hearing this, the rest of the Ancient Sword Sect’s elders don’t mean well to the Falling Cloud Sect.”
”Right, does Senior Brother Han have any plans below? Going back to the residence now to rest for a moment or two, or going to wander around other places again.” At this moment, Lu Luo asked after looking around.
”I need to buy some special materials, and I intend to go alone to a few nearby markets to take a look, so maybe there will be unexpected gains.” Han Li didn’t have the intention of hiding anything and said directly.
”It just so happens that I also plan to go to an auction house to consign an item, so Senior Brother Han and I will part ways here as well for the time being.” Lu Luo heard Han Li’s intention to act alone below and agreed without the slightest objection.
Thus, Han Li and Lu Luo immediately parted ways here and acted separately.
The several marketplaces in Tepid Sky City were very large, at the very least many times larger than the marketplaces of the three sects of Cloud Dream Mountain. Han Li walked on one of the streets in the western part of Tepidian City’s workshop market, constantly surveying the stores on both sides.
Han Li and Lu Luo’s words about purchasing materials were not false, and he did intend to purchase some of the rarer talisman-making materials in preparation for refining some high-grade talismans.
Although he possessed numerous Spirit Beast skins and Spirit Beast blood that he had retained back then, refining high-grade talisman paper and high-grade dan sand naturally required the assistance of some other raw materials to be able to do so. This is also for his future refining early intentional spirit descending talisman, so as to do some early preparations, and strive to improve their own talisman making art another realm before.
Although the descending spirit talisman has not been carefully studied, but the power of the descending spirit talisman as stated on the bone fragments, is really extraordinary, enough to save his life at a critical time, Han Li naturally refused to let go easily.
However, the difficulty of refining this talisman was also not generally complex and difficult, far exceeding that of an ordinary Five Elements Talisman. In this case, in order to increase the success rate, in addition to improving his talisman making skills, he would have to replace his talisman making pen, the original talisman making pen should have been eliminated a long time ago.
Unfortunately, talisman making materials were easy to buy, but a satisfactory talisman making pen was not so easy to find. In the previous two market stores, there were also a few selling talisman making pens, and even among them, there were rare top-ranking talisman making pens, but after looking at them, they just shook their heads and left. These talisman making brushes might be enough to make ordinary high-grade talismans, but for drawing secret talismans such as the Spirit Surrender Talisman, they were obviously still slightly insufficient.
As a kind of spiritual weapon that only a talisman maker would use, talisman making pens were not common, and most of them were of low to medium grade. Because for a talisman maker, if the mana is insufficient, forcing the use of high-grade talisman making pen, instead of improving the rate of talisman making, but will increase the chance of failure.
As for the talisman makers, because they were distracted from practicing talisman making, most of them did not have a high cultivation level, and nine times out of ten, their cultivation level was still below the Foundation Establishment Stage. There were only a handful of dedicated talisman makers in the entire Tiannan Immortal Cultivation Realm who were able to reach the dan stage.
As for YuanYing stage talisman makers, as far as Han Li knew, there didn’t seem to be any such perverted fellows. Mostly after reaching the YuanYing stage of cultivation, some of the old monsters themselves practiced talisman making on the side, and were not specialized talisman makers.
And these YuanYing stage cultivators’ talisman making techniques also varied greatly, basically they all specialized in practicing one or two high-grade talismans that were useful to them, but because high-grade spirit beast skins and high-grade beast blood were scarce, naturally, they couldn’t practice more, so the success rate was predictable.
This also caused the strange scene that high-grade talismans, in the Immortal Cultivation World, were sometimes three times more expensive than top-ranked magic weapons.