On the wasteland, a lizard several feet long crawled out from under a mostly weathered rock, ready to start a day of hunting.
But just when it crawled away from the nest and was only a few feet away from the rock, a yellow monster with a length of several feet suddenly jumped out from the sand on one side. He grabbed the lizard and easily bit off its neck, then picked up the corpse and rushed towards a certain direction.
This monster has the same four-clawed long tail and a sharp beak. It looks like a huge lizard, but its whole body is hard, and it makes a creaking sound when it runs. It is actually a mechanism doll-like thing.
When the monster ran for more than a mile, it came to the side of a man in yellow who was sitting on a flat stone and meditating, then threw the body beside the man, and ran away again.
The face of the man in yellow was the same, and he was not surprised at all.
He unhurriedly moved his hand, and the lizard's body flew flat in front of the man. Floating motionless a few feet above the ground.
Then the man in yellow stretched out an index finger and tapped on the lizard's head, muttering something.
After a while, the extended finger slowly lit up, emitting a faint white light.
In the sound of chanting the mantra, the white light became brighter and brighter, and gradually became a little dazzling.
"Quick!" The man in yellow growled when he saw that the fire was almost too late.
A white line of white light suddenly shot out from the fingertips, piercing into the depths of the lizard's head from the fingertips, and then the man in yellow struggled back and slowly tore it back, his expression extremely nervous and cautious.
Finally, under the careful gaze of the man in yellow, the white line drew a green ball of light from the dead lizard's body, which was as light as a thumb.
Seeing this, the man in yellow feels like he has won a huge treasure.
The other hand lit up, and a small light yellow jade bottle appeared in the palm of the hand. Then with a puff, several streaks of rays of light shot out from the jade bottle, rolled up the green ball of light, and sucked it into it.
At this moment, the person in yellow let out a sigh of relief, and wiped away the fine sweat that loomed on his forehead. Wipe it off. It can be seen that the actions just now had really consumed a lot of his energy.
"This soul pulling technique is really not something that monks in the early stage of foundation establishment can easily perform. The probability of success is too low. It can only be successful once every three or four times. It seems that I will spend all day here today. "The man in yellow looked at the small jade bottle in his hand and muttered to himself, with some helpless expressions on his face.
This person is exactly Han Li in the "Da Yan Jue".
The reason why he appeared in this desert, which is nearly a hundred miles away from the spirit stone mine, was just like what he had done before, collecting the souls of these animals. This kind of thing is usually only done by magicians. It will appear on Han Li's body, but it is entirely because he has studied the "Puppet Mantra".
It turned out that after the preliminary study of puppet refining, Han Li discovered that refining puppet not only needed some materials usually used in refining magic weapons, but also needed the souls of some living beings to be fused together with the materials. Otherwise, the puppet produced will not have any spirituality. It is no different from ordinary dolls.
The higher the level of the puppet, the stronger the soul condensed in it, the better. Only in this way can the effectiveness of the puppet be brought into full play. For this, in the back of the "Puppet Scripture". There are also three spells commonly used by people in the magic way, such as "spirit pulling", "spirit concentrating" and "spirit refining".
Among them, the "spirit-drawing technique" was a spell that Han Li had just cast to draw the soul out of the corpse.
This spell not only has low power and low success rate, but it can only be used on corpses that have just died. Compared with those magical secret methods that specialize in souls, their power is far inferior!
But the only benefit of this spell. That is, the required mana level is extremely low, and it can be used normally in the middle stage of foundation establishment. Of course, a monk like Han Li in the early stage of foundation establishment can barely use it, but the success rate is not very high.
The "Soul Condensation Technique" is a spell that condenses the soul. After all, a powerful soul is not easy to find. Usually, more advanced puppets use a few, a dozen, or even dozens of artificial powerful souls condensed together. Although this kind of soul is not as easy to use as a natural powerful soul, it is still much stronger than using a low-level soul. Therefore, this kind of spell is also a must for learning puppetry.
The last "Soul Refining Technique", as the name suggests, is a spell to refine and transform the soul. After all, to be fused with the puppet, the ordinary living soul is definitely not enough, and it still needs to be refined through special techniques.
As for the lizard-like mechanism beast just now, it was the first mechanism puppet that Han Li successfully refined after he practiced the Dayan Jue and separated his first independent divine sense. The souls he smelted were only those of a few ground squirrels he caught casually.
But before that, Han Li had failed to refine it seven or eight times, and the success rate couldn't be said to be that high.
When Han Li attached his distraction to this puppet and ordered it to move, that feeling was really amazing! It is neither like the erratic feeling when manipulating a magic weapon, nor is it as real as manipulating hands and feet.
In fact, his distraction and this puppet beast seem to be the relationship between a superior and a subordinate. When he thought about it, the puppet would act according to his own orders. How the other party would act depended on the puppet itself. However, Han Li could clearly sense everything that the puppet beast could see and hear. This made him overjoyed.
Han Li, who was manipulating the puppet beast for the first time, was a little childishly playful. Except for this low-level puppet beast that he refined, he played and manipulated all the puppets that were more advanced on his body. It made him quite addicted to the puppet show he had dreamed of as a child.
When manipulating the activities of these puppets, Han Li gradually experienced some limitations of the puppets.
First of all, these puppets can only move within three miles of him. If this distance is exceeded, these mechanism puppets will be unable to move, and distracted will fly back. Han Li guessed that this should be related to his ability to escape the limit distance from the main body due to his distraction. This can still be improved when the realm of cultivation and primordial spirit is mentioned.
But the next defect is the inadequacy of the puppet art itself, which cannot be made up for. It is because these puppets have a delay time between receiving orders and taking actions, they cannot move as they wish, which is likely to be exploited by the opponent in actual combat.
Even with these two flaws, this puppetry is still no small matter. As long as a few more divine senses are allocated and the first level of the Great Evolution Jue is practiced, it will be enough to compete with the powerful characters in the foundation establishment period. After all, if there were a dozen or so helpers around him, even if it was only at the level of the Qi refining stage, it would be enough for him to protect himself.
At the very least, when he was trapped by the young master of the Ghost Spirit Sect, he wouldn't be afraid of the endless army of vampires. Because the actions of puppets of low-level institutions only consume low-level spirit stones.
Only the giant tiger puppet under the Yellow Dragon Seat of the Thousand Bamboo Cult, because it is too powerful, consumes middle-level spirit stones. However, Han Li reckoned that it must be a puppet beast of level three or above. Even the shield released by several foundation-building monks would not dare to attack it twice, which shows its terrifying power.
It's a pity that this puppet was reduced to ashes by his Master Lei's magic weapon. Otherwise, if you get it, it must be an incomparably sharp killer.
Thinking of the benefits of that kind of giant tiger puppet, Han Li felt itchy. The refinement of this organ puppet is even more attentive.
Finally, after refining dozens of puppets of the primary mechanism, Han Li decided to try to refine the puppets of the next level. This is also the main battle puppet that he has seen before, used by Qian Zhujiao and others. As long as he can even refine puppets of this level, he will no longer have to worry about the consumption of puppets.
But refining the second-level puppet, this is not the original scrap copper and rotten iron that can be used as raw materials. All of its materials are almost at the same level as a high-level magic weapon, especially a large amount of iron wood that has been used for hundreds of years as the main raw material for making it, which will cost a lot of money.
In fact, if Han Li was in his own cave, it would not be a big deal to cultivate a few old iron trees. But now that he was on duty, Han Li had no choice but to let others collect many of them from the city.
Now the materials are available, but suitable souls still need to be collected. After all, the most common and most frequent ground squirrel souls in the canyon are too weak, even if they are condensed together, there will be no significant improvement.
So Han Li set his target on the natural enemy of the chinchillas, the wilderness lizard.
At this time, after three or four months of hard training, Han Li had already developed several divine senses. So he used these distractions to manipulate several low-level puppet beasts, sweeping up the lizard's nests all over the wasteland, and this was the beginning of the scene.
After Han Li put away the vial containing the lizard's soul, he closed his eyes again and continued to practice the "Da Yan Jue" to slowly strengthen his primordial spirit.
This "Da Yan Jue" is the key to using the puppet technique, Han Li dare not relax a bit!
But speaking of it, the "Da Yan Jue" is really the Qianzhu Sect's suppressing teaching method. Compared with the "Da Yan Jue", the ordinary method of dividing the mystery is nothing!
The general mystic division technique is just to forcibly split a small part of the original divine sense. The number of spiritual thoughts that can be split depends on the strength of each person's primordial spirit, and it cannot be changed after tomorrow.
The Dayan Jue just made up for this regret. After training, it can make the original soul gradually grow stronger, enough to be comparable to those monks with extremely powerful talent. And the method of splitting the mind used by it is much safer and more delicate than the ordinary method. It can make the divine thoughts separate more finely and more, without hindering the normality of the primordial spirit.
With such a comparison, it's no wonder that the people of Qianzhu Sect regard the "Da Yan Jue" as the foundation of their teaching, and Senior Brother Lin can't forget the formulas of the last three levels.