The Longevity Family: Starting From The Branches And Leaves

Chapter 48: Puppetry Technique (Seeking to Continue Reading and Collect)

"Whether it's spiritual roots or skills, the further you go, the more incense points you need to consume to improve!" Chen Ling's gaze flickered, feeling that 39 incense points were just a drop in the bucket.

But being impatient won't solve anything, it's better to take it slow!

Chen Ling's divine sense focused on the + behind the spiritual roots.

Boom!

A huge cool airflow suddenly emerged out of nowhere and poured into his body.

It rushed into every acupoint in his body and then gathered in the sea of qi.

As the airflow circulated through his meridians, Chen Ling felt an unprecedented comfort throughout his body. Both his acupoints and meridians had noticeably expanded.

At the same time, a trace of spiritual power was generated within the acupoints.

When this cool airflow completely merged into the sea of qi, he took a deep breath and could clearly feel the surrounding strands of spiritual energy being absorbed into his body.

His cultivation speed had significantly improved compared to before.

Chen Ling opened his eyes and glanced at the panel.

Incense Points: 19

Spiritual Roots: Low-grade spiritual roots in four elements (metal, wood, fire, earth, 7/100) (+)

"Ah, only 5 points of improvement in spiritual roots with 20 incense points!" Chen Ling sighed softly.

Although spiritual roots are the foundation of cultivators, the amount of incense points required to improve them is just too much.

Currently, the market only has a first-grade top-quality spiritual vein.

And the area where Yangchun Street is located is already on the edge of the spiritual vein, with average spiritual energy density.

Compared to that, the speed of cultivation through absorbing spiritual energy is far inferior to the speed of improvement through refining the Dual Danwen and merging Qi Dan.

That's why he didn't use all his incense points to improve his spiritual roots.

After all, at present, improving skills, earning enough spirit stones, and purchasing elixirs for cultivation would yield better results.

"No rush, let's first have enough means of self-defense, and then slowly improve the spiritual roots!"

Chen Ling thought to himself.

Then his gaze fell on the Puppetry Technique on the panel.

"Basic Puppetry Technique, improve!"

As the incense points on the panel rapidly decreased, a familiar figure appeared in his sea of consciousness.

Chen Ling felt waves of enlightenment entering his sea of consciousness, and the content of the Basic Puppetry Technique flashed through, making him suddenly enlightened.

After about ten breaths, he finally snapped out of this state of enlightenment.

A gleam of brilliance flashed in Chen Ling's eyes. "Puppetry Technique and Artificing Technique have similarities!"

Puppets can be divided into demonic puppets, corpse puppets, and artifact puppets, among others.

The techniques for making puppets include assembly, disassembly, and soul-binding methods.

The process of refining puppets generally consists of three steps.

First, material selection, including the main body of the puppet and auxiliary items.

Second, assembly and refining. This step involves sewing the materials together and refining them with spiritual fire.

Third, constructing the control puppet seal. The completed puppet needs to establish a connection with the controller in order to be controlled.

Similarly, artificing also consists of three steps.

First, material selection.

Second, constructing the embryo of the artifact.

Third, engraving and activating the forbidden techniques.

Chen Ling had been cooperating with Duobao Pavilion all along, mainly responsible for the third step of artificing, engraving and activating the forbidden techniques.

Although he earned less, it was the best choice given his previous situation.

On one hand, it was safer, and on the other hand, it saved on material costs.

Moreover, most of the materials needed to be processed using geothermal fire and refined with spiritual flames, which would be a waste of spiritual power.

However, with the relocation of Duobao Pavilion, this situation would definitely change in the future.

He looked at the panel again, and the incense points had already been cleared. At the same time, in the skills column of the panel, "Basic Puppetry Technique" had become "A Glimpse into the Path" 60/100.

He nodded with satisfaction and then closed the panel.

It was unexpected that with only 19 incense values, the Puppetry Technique could be elevated to this level.

But thinking about it, the key to Puppetry Technique lies in the handling of materials, and Ling Yan highlights its importance.

And he himself already had a certain foundation in the Nine Transformations Spirit Flame Art.

So it's not difficult to understand why the upgrade was fast.

However, to refine a second-order puppet, the Puppetry Technique must reach a proficient level.

With Chen Ling's current level, he definitely wouldn't dare to try.

After all, refining puppets, just like refining tools and pills, has the possibility of failure.

And there is only one set of materials, so he naturally wants to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

If he forcefully refines it, not only would the risk of failure increase, even if he succeeded by chance, it would be difficult for the second-order Ink Armor Poison Spider to maintain its second-order combat power.

So, he can only wait for the next upgrade.

The materials for the second-order Ink Armor Poison Spider on his body are relatively intact, with a few fatal sword marks that can be repaired with Golden Silkworm Silk.

As soon as he thought of this, a flash of inspiration appeared in his mind, and various ideas for refining the Ink Armor Poison Spider puppet emerged one after another.

Like using the Ink Armor Poison Spider's skeleton as the main body and modifying its eight legs, paired with various high-quality artifacts of different attributes.

Or sewing flame-jet type artifacts into its poison sac.

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Various ideas were running wild.

This may be the advantage of being both a refiner and a puppeteer.

"Hmm?"

Chen Ling, who was deep in thought, suddenly opened his eyes, and the sound transmission symbol on his body vibrated a few times.

He took out the sound transmission symbol and read its contents.

The sound transmission was sent by Shopkeeper Shen, "Tomorrow, the Qin family will move to Wangjiafang Market, and Duobao Pavilion will also move there, but I will stay behind for now! If you need anything in the future, you can still contact me!"

"Also, I want to remind you that other aristocratic families will enter Jingshanfang Market during this period, and the situation in the market will definitely change. Be careful and cautious!"

"Prepare the necessary materials as soon as possible!"

Chen Ling rubbed his forehead, "It's really not letting people live in peace!"

He didn't have any objections to who manages the market, he just hoped to live a peaceful and stable life.

What's the point of fighting and killing?

Marrying a few more wives and having a few more children, isn't that great?

As for materials, with his cautious and careful personality, how could he not be prepared?

Half a month ago, as soon as he heard any movement, he had already prepared nearly half a year's worth of food.

Afraid that the food would spoil, he specially modified two hexagonal storage bags and added a level five ice pattern prohibition to them.

He forcefully transformed the storage bags into movable refrigerators!

After that, he sent another sound transmission to Shopkeeper Shen, "Thank you, Uncle Shen, for the reminder!"

"Nephew has one more thing to ask, will it affect the matter of embryo vessels in the future?"

This is also something he is currently concerned about.

Soon, the sound transmission symbol rang again.

Shen Zhen's voice came through, "There may not be any progress in the matter of embryo vessels for the time being. After the Qin family moves to the market, they need to settle down first and introduce the earth fire before they can refine the embryo vessels. This may take a few months."

"A few months?"

Chen Ling couldn't help but be stunned. His whole family needs to be supported, how could they wait for a few months for no reason?

He was counting on using the Qi Refining Late Stage breakthrough as soon as possible with the help of the Qi Gathering Pill.

Only then could he cultivate the Spirit Restriction.

Shaking his head, "Let's see what the situation is after participating in the second-order Refining Art Assessment at Wanbao Tower the day after tomorrow?"

He definitely wouldn't wait for several months. At that time, he could only see if he could take some tasks from Wanbao Tower first and earn some spirit stones.

Brothers, whether we can reach the top three rounds depends on all of you!

(End of this chapter)