Chapter 264 – Machine Puppet and Great Diffusion Technique
On the wasteland, a several feet long lizard crawled out from under a weathered rock, ready to start the day’s hunting.
But it just climbed away from the nest, away from the rock only a few feet away, suddenly from the side of the sandy soil, suddenly leaped out of a ten feet long yellow monster, its two front claws and mouth and use, ruthlessly pounced on the lizard and easily bit off its neck, and then picked up the body quickly to a certain direction wildly ran away.
The same four claws and long tail of this monster has a sharp mouth, also seems to be a huge lizard, but its body is hard, running up also issued a creaking sound, is actually a machine doll like things.
This beast ran out more than a mile, came to a sit on the flat stone meditating on the side of the man in yellow, and then threw the body on the side of the man, ran away again.
The yellow-clothed man’s face was colorless, not surprised at all.
He unhurriedly beckoned his hand, and the lizard’s corpse flew flatly in front of the man’s body. It floated several feet above the ground without moving.
Then the yellow-robed man stretched out an index finger to point vaguely at the lizard’s head, reciting words in his mouth.
Not long after, the finger stretched out slowly lit up, emitting a faint white light.
In the sound of the incantation, the white light became brighter and brighter, and gradually became somewhat blinding.
”Blast!” The yellow-robed man saw that the fire was not close enough and let out a low roar.
The white light on his finger suddenly shot out a white thread, from the fingertip at once penetrated into the depths of the lizard’s head, and then the yellow-robed man was somewhat strained to tear back slowly, his expression was tense and cautious to the extreme.
Finally, under the careful watch of the man in yellow, the white thread hooked out a green ball of light from the dead lizard’s body, which was light and only the size of a thumb.
When the man in yellow saw this, it was like a huge treasure.
With a flash of his other hand, a small yellowish jade bottle appeared in the palm of his hand. Then poof, from the jade bottle shot out several channels of light, the green ball of light a volume, was sucked into it.
At this time, the yellow talent as a relief long breath, and the forehead hidden fine sweat. Wiped a wipe. Visible just now this move, really consumed a lot of his energy.
”This Soul Retrieval Technique, it really isn’t something that a cultivator at the early stage of Foundation Establishment can easily perform, the probability of being able to succeed is also too low, every three or four casts of the spell can only succeed one. It seems that today the whole day is going to soak in this place.” The yellow-robed man took a look at the small jade bottle in his hand and muttered, a helpless expression appearing on his face.
This person was none other than Han Li, who was practicing the “Great Diffusion Technique”.
The reason he had appeared in this desert land nearly a hundred miles away from the Spirit Stone Mine was exactly like what he had done earlier, collecting the souls of some animals. This kind of thing was usually only done by people of the Devil’s Path. Will appear in Han Li’s body, is entirely because he studied the “puppet true scripture” reason.
It turns out that after the initial study of the puppet refining technique, Han Li found that refining puppets, not only need some refining magic weapon usually used materials, but also need some souls and materials together with the melting refining, which can really be accomplished. Otherwise, the puppets produced would not have any spirituality. There was no difference between it and an ordinary doll.
The higher the grade of the puppet, the more powerful the soul that was condensed in it, the better. This would allow the puppet’s efficacy to be utilized to its limit. For this reason, at the back of the True Scripture of Puppetry. There were also three spells that were commonly used by people in the Devil’s Path, such as the “Soul Pulling Technique”, “Soul Condensation Technique”, and “Soul Refining Technique”.
Among them, “Soul Pulling Technique” was a spell that Han Li had just performed to draw the soul out of a corpse.
This spell not only has a small power and low success rate, but it can only be used on corpses that have just died. Compared with those magic secret spells that specialize in attacking souls, the power difference can be said to be a hundred thousand miles!
However, the only advantage of this spell. The only advantage of this spell, however, is that it requires a very low level of mana, and can be used normally at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment. Of course, Han Li such early Foundation Establishment cultivators can barely use, but the success rate is not very high.
On the other hand, the “Soul Condensation Technique” was a spell that condensed the soul. After all, a powerful soul was not something that was easy to find. Usually, higher level puppets used several, dozens, or even dozens of artificially powerful souls that were condensed together. Although this kind of soul was not as good as a naturally powerful soul, it was much stronger than using a low-grade soul. Therefore, this kind of spell was also a must for learning the puppet art.
The last “Soul Refining Technique”, as the name suggests, is a kind of refining technique to transform the soul. After all, in order to be integrated with the puppet, ordinary souls will definitely not work, or after a special technique to give a certain refining can be.
As for the lizard-like organ beast just now, it was the first organ puppet that Han Li succeeded in refining with his own hands after he cultivated the Great Diffusion Technique and separated the first independent divine idea. The souls it melted were just a few yellow rats that he had grabbed with his hands.
But before that, Han Li had already failed to refine it seven or eight times, and the success rate couldn’t be said to be much higher.
When Han Li attached his distraction to this puppet and ordered it to act, the feeling was truly marvelous! It was neither like the feeling of uncertainty when manipulating a magic weapon, nor was it as real as manipulating a hand or foot.
In fact, his distraction and this puppet beast seemed to be the relationship between a superior and a subordinate. He had a thought in the past, and the puppet acted according to its own orders, and exactly how the other party acted, it still depended on the puppet itself to accomplish. However, everything that the puppet beast could see and hear, Han Li could still clearly sense. This made him overjoyed.
Han Li, who was manipulating a puppet beast for the first time, was somewhat childishly playful. In addition to this primary puppet beast that he had refined himself, he played with and manipulated all of the slightly more advanced organ puppets on his body. It allowed him to live out the addiction of puppet theater that he had dreamed of as a child.
While maneuvering these puppets, Han Li gradually experienced some of the limitations of the organ puppets.
Firstly, these puppets could only move within three miles of himself, and beyond that distance, these organ puppets would be unable to move, and the distraction would fly back. Han Li guessed that this should have something to do with the limit of how far his detachment could vanish from the main body. When the realms of cultivation and Yuan Shen were mentioned, this could still be improved.
But the next flaw was the inadequacy of the puppet art itself, which could not be remedied. It was the fact that these puppets had a delay between receiving orders and acting on them, and were unable to move as they wished, which would likely be exploited by their opponents in a real battle.
Even with these two flaws, this puppet art was still extraordinary. As long as a few more divine thoughts were separated and the first layer of the Great Diffusion Technique was practiced, it would be enough to compete with powerful characters of the Foundation Establishment Stage. After all, if he had about ten more helpers around him, even if they were only at the level of the Qi Refining Stage, they would be enough for him to protect himself.
At the very least, when he was trapped by that Ghost Spirit Sect’s young master again, he would not be afraid of the other party’s constant army of blood ghosts. This was because the actions of low-level organ puppets consumed nothing more than low-grade spirit stones.
Only a giant tiger puppet like the one under the seat of that Thousand Bamboo Sect’s Yellow Dragon consumed mid-rank spirit stones because it was too powerful. However, Han Li estimated that it should definitely be a third level or higher puppet beast, and even the shields released by several Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators who joined forces didn’t dare to connect with its two attacks, so it was evident that its power was terrifying.
It was a pity that this puppet was turned into ashes by his own master Lei with his magic treasure. Otherwise, if you get it, it must be a sharp and incomparable killer weapon.
Just thinking about the benefits of that giant tiger puppet made Han Li’s heart itch to stop. The refining of this organ puppet became even more focused.
Finally, after refining dozens of primary organ puppets, Han Li decided to try refining the next secondary puppet. This was also the main battle golem that he had seen before, used by the Thousand Bamboo Sect and the others. As long as he was able to refine even this level of puppet, then in the future, he would no longer have to fear the consumption of puppets.
But refining a second grade puppet, this was not something that could be used as raw material from the original scrap metal. All of its materials were almost at the same level as an upper ranked magic weapon, especially since a large number of hundreds of years of iron and wood had become the main raw material for making it, which could cost a lot of money.
In fact, if Han Li were in his own cave, cultivating a few ironwoods with vintage years would not be a big deal at all. But now that his duties were at hand, Han Li had to endure the pain of letting others far from the marketplace to collect many of them over.
Now that the materials were there, but suitable souls still needed to be collected. After all, the most common and numerous yellow rat souls within the original canyon were just too weak, and even if they were combined into one piece, there wouldn’t be too significant of an improvement.
So Han Li targeted the natural enemy of the yellow rats, the Wasteland Lizard.
By this time, Han Li had already successively separated several divine thoughts after three or four months of hard practice. He then used these distractions to maneuver several low-grade puppet beasts to sweep the lizards’ nests all over the wasteland, which led to the scene at the beginning.
After Han Li put away the vial containing the lizard’s soul, he closed his eyes again and continued to cultivate the “Great Diffusion Technique” to slowly grow his Yuan Shen.
This “Great Diffusion Technique” was the key to utilizing the Puppet Art, so Han Li didn’t dare to slack off!
But speaking of which, the “Great Diffusion Technique” was truly worthy of being the Thousand Bamboo Sect’s Town Teaching Technique. Compared to the “Great Diffusion Technique”, ordinary mystic spells were simply not worth mentioning!
Generally speaking, the division of mystical techniques is only a hard division of the original divine idea into a small portion. How much of the divine idea can be split depends on the strength of each person’s spirit, and cannot be changed later.
The Great Diffusion Technique precisely makes up for this aspect of the regret. After practicing, it can make the original Yuan Shen gradually grow up, enough to be comparable to those Yuan Shen talent exceptionally strong cultivators. And the method it used to split the Divine Mind was far safer and more delicate than ordinary methods. It can make the divine idea split out more tiny and more, without hindering the normal of the Yuan Shen.
With such a comparison, it was no wonder that the people of the Thousand Bamboo Sect regarded the “Great Diffusion Technique” as the foundation of the sect, and that Senior Brother Lin couldn’t forget the last three levels of the recipe.