After trying out sixty-four variations of the formation, Jiang Yuebai found that they all worked normally. He recorded all the disadvantages and advantages, and also listed the parts that needed improvement.
Jiang Yuebai marveled at the resilience of the two mice, especially the skinny one, who was a talisman cultivator with many instant runes on his body. With a wave of his hand, it was like she was unleashing three runes at once. He was quite difficult to deal with.
After Jiang Yuebai had made full use of everything, he drew on the power of the Four Symbols and Black Tortoise to give them a quick death.
When they were trying to collect souls, the boat almost capsized. Jiang Yuebai then discovered that the souls of Jindan cultivators were so powerful that they could survive without their bodies, and they could escape at lightning speed, making them extremely difficult to intercept.
Fortunately, he was in her camp. If he was outside, he would definitely run away.
Jiang Yuebai secretly remembered this, collected the bodies and souls of the two men separately, asked the Heyu clone to continue patrolling, and the Jianxiao puppet took the two men's belongings back to the cold pond in the mountains.
The Jianxiao puppet is different from the Heyu clone. It cannot speak and needs to wear a faceless mask to simulate the breath of a normal person.
After the transformation, its physical strength is comparable to that of an early Jindan cultivator, but the remaining parts are still at the late foundation-building stage. It will have to wait until it forms its own elixir before it can improve each part of the talisman array.
Two storage belts, a spirit beast bag, and a storage ring with invisibility properties were found on the two men, and Jiang Yuebai did not miss any of them.
She was someone who would even strip a dead body's boots, and she was not in a hurry, so she searched carefully. She found an invisible ring on the thin man's hand, and after she took it off, the ring emitted a faint glow like water in the light. It must be a good thing.
The storage belts contain commonly used elixirs, talismans, and several magical instruments. The two of them mainly use their own magical instruments in battle, which become waste upon death.
However, their golden elixirs are still in their corpses, and perhaps they can be used to refine their essence.
It’s a bit cruel if you think about it carefully, but life without money is even more cruel!
"It seems that all the important things are in this ring."
Jiang Yuebai used a strand of her spiritual power to break the mark of the soul on the ring. Although the person was dead, it was still the mark of the soul of a Jindan cultivator, and it would take her some time to break it.
Jiang Yuebai picked up the spirit beast bag again, hung it upside down and shook it, and a white fur ball rolled out.
Hei Dou's small eyes glanced at Jiang Yuebai, and immediately fell over stiffly, as if he was dead.
This reminded Jiang Yuebai of the clever rat that Yun Shang had lent her before, which was good at exploring the way and would also pretend to be dead when encountering danger.
Jiang Yuebai picked up the spirit rat by its tail and observed it carefully, and found that the spirit rat had the characteristics of three kinds of rat demons.
Overall, it looks like a treasure-hunting rat. Its small red nose is very sensitive to the strength of spiritual energy. Its big round ears are like those of a wide-eared rat, and it can hear sounds that ordinary monks cannot hear, such as the flow of spiritual energy.
The golden lines on the back, the golden claws and the golden fangs are the characteristics of the gold-eating rat. Each golden line on the back has a different level. At the current level, it is more than enough to tear open the formations and magic weapons of the Jindan stage.
Moreover, the gold-eating rat has a characteristic: it is naturally good at stealing. It likes to dig holes under the caves of monks and often sneaks into the caves to look for things with rich spiritual energy and steal things with rich gold attributes.
Especially magic weapons, one of which is destroyed by one bite. Their saliva is naturally toxic and can suppress spiritual energy. Therefore, gold-eating rats are often captured or artificially bred to extract this kind of toxin.
Jiang Yuebai remembered that Yun Shang had told her before that there were also spirit masters who specialized in training spirit beasts and would train spirit-eating rats to break formations.
However, the Soul-Eating Rat's brain is not as flexible as that of the Treasure-Hunting Rat, and it is even less courageous than the Treasure-Hunting Rat. It can only break simple and less dangerous formations.
The one in Jiang Yuebai's hand was obviously different. It had the blood bonus of treasure-hunting rat and wide-eared rat, and had been trained. It had easily broken the obvious formations on her island before.
"You like the aura of metal, right?"
Jiang Yuebai thought about it and stretched out his finger in front of the spirit rat.
As the golden spiritual energy containing the scent of Green Flying Money came out, the spirit rat rolled over. With Jiang Yuebai holding its tail, it tried to arch its body and put its mouth close to Jiang Yuebai's fingers, waving its claws and moving its nose, wanting that ray of golden spiritual energy.
Jiang Yuebai moved his fingers away, "I know you can understand me. I don't like raising spirit pets because I don't have enough time to take care of your food, drink, entertainment, and cultivation. If you weren't useful, I would roast you and eat you right now."
"So, if you want to follow me, be conscious. When I can remember you, I will naturally feed you a few bites. If I can't remember you, you can find a way yourself. I will try not to put you in the spirit beast bag. I will only keep you if you are useful to me. If you want to cheat me or harm me, then I will send you on your way with cumin and pepper. Do you understand?"
The clever rat Hei Dou blinked his little eyes, suddenly held his head with his two paws, squeaked, and then pretended to be dead.
The rat nodded hurriedly.
"That's easy. It's a piece of cake."
squeak!
The spirit rat stretched out a claw, and Jiang Yuebai poked it with his finger. The two reached a temporary agreement, and Jiang Yuebai also generously fed it a trace of golden spiritual energy.
"I don't know what your name was before, so from now on, just follow my name... Wangcai? Jinbao? Jixiang? Just call me Jixiang."
Jixiang absorbed a trace of golden spiritual energy and felt like he was drunk. The three golden lines on his back became brighter and brighter. He staggered to the ground and fell asleep with his four legs facing up. It seemed that he would be drunk for a while.
Jiang Yuebai shook her head. As her spiritual pet, the pet must learn to take care of itself. Look at Xiaolu, who is fine without eating or drinking. Look at the Ice Beetle King, who is now soaking in the cold pond, absorbing spiritual energy to practice and advance himself, and never needs her to worry about him.
I'll ask the Ice Beetle King to bring good luck to you later. This little guy's abilities will definitely come in handy when we're hunting for treasures in secret realms in the future.
After wiping off the mark on the ring, Jiang Yuebai rubbed his nose, and immersed his spiritual consciousness into it to take a look, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
Get rich!
The colorful high-quality spirit stones inside were so dazzling that she could hardly open her eyes. After a rough count, she found that there were more than ten thousand of them.
There are more than 10,000 medium-grade spirit stones, and the least number of low-grade spirit stones is only about 3,000.
Jiang Yuebai, who was extremely poor, breathed a sigh of relief. With these spirit stones, she could buy a hundred demon pills, swallow half of them herself, and use the rest to refine essence and continue to earn spirit stones.
With such a large amount of start-up capital, she no longer needs to accept sporadic alchemy and talisman drawing commissions from disciples of Tiangang Peak, and can focus all her energy on improving her cultivation.
"Since Li Huli saved me before, I will give this business to him. From now on, I will just spend one day every month to help him make pills and draw talismans."
Jiang Yuebai made up his mind and put all the spirit stones into the bracelet.
In addition to spirit stones, there are also eight fresh demon pills, a dozen bewitching smoke pills, three bottles of golden elixir for golden elixir cultivators to improve their cultivation, many refining materials, and books and jade slips related to refining in the ring.
That skinny Jindan cultivator must be a weapon refiner, but his level is not particularly good. The magic weapons in those two storage belts are very ordinary, only seventh-grade magic weapons, and have not reached the level of magic treasures.
Jiang Yuebai flipped through it and found that there was no meteorite iron mentioned by Master Fuyi, but some of the materials could be used on the Jianxiao puppet.
After organizing the materials, Jiang Yuebai rummaged through them and took out an old-style dagger, a palm-sized tortoise shell, a roll of animal skin and a yellowish jade slip.
"So you were able to break my formation so easily because of this dagger. I have also seen the 'God Hiding Talisman' written on the animal skin and the 'Turtle Breathing Talisman' written on the turtle shell."
At the last battle of Fengyunhui on the Xuanming battlefield, she used the invisibility talisman given to her by Tang Weiman to sneak under the ice pillar and fight alongside Lu Nanzhi.
Speaking of which, this dagger is very similar to the disposable formation-breaking dagger that Tang Weiman gave her at that time, but this one is a magic weapon.
The first time she saw the Turtle Breathing Talisman was at Ge Yuchan's place. In the Cang Yan land, Ge Yuchan gave her three Turtle Breathing Talismans, which could conceal most of the aura and not be detected by others.
The last yellowish jade slip contained the escape technique that the two men used to escape from her.
"As expected of a thief, all these skills are trained for stealing."
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