Chapter 297: Fifth-Tier Dou Qi Puppet!
The pale yellow warm jade on Jiang Lin's chest had always been with him, providing soul-nourishing and calming effects. During his early training with the Fire Refining Art, Jiang Lin owed much of his rapid progress to this warm jade. It allowed him to enter the training faster and recover more quickly. Without it, it might have taken him much longer to make the initial breakthrough.
This warm jade was undoubtedly a rare treasure, but Jiang Lin still hadn't fully figured out what it contained. He could faintly sense that it emitted a special ripple within, which seemed to vanish into the space between heaven and earth.
'To uncover the secret of this warm jade, I might need the letter from Mr. Yao... Defeating the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King? That's a slightly difficult condition. Given my current state, I could probably defeat it within three years. If I'm a bit more aggressive, I could start using the Exotic Fire Heavy Cannon once it's done...' Jiang Lin shook his head and suppressed the thoughts in his mind. The situation with the Spirit Clan was something he absolutely couldn't go back to.
Jiang Lin had only a vague memory of his time with the Spirit Clan. If not for his naturally powerful soul, he probably wouldn't have had any memory of that period at all. Initially, he should have had no memories of that time, but now, as his soul cultivation was advancing toward the spirit realm, some of those chaotic and disordered memories were coming back to him. This allowed Jiang Lin to start sensing fragments of his early life.
His subconscious told him that the Spirit Clan was a blood-red, dangerous abyss.
'If my memory isn't wrong... someone had extracted my spiritual blood,' Jiang Lin released the warm jade from his chest and, under Xiao Yan's curious gaze, silently examined his palm.
'And they took all my spiritual blood... But for some reason, I hold no resentment toward this. It's strange.'
'As for the Fire Refining Art, my mother's original intent was for me to refine the spiritual blood with it, but she didn't anticipate that I would actually find the correct way to unlock the Fire Refining Art.'
'Forget it, forget it. Thinking about it just gives me a headache. If my mother wasn't a cryptic person, Mr. Yao should have a letter about everything related to the Spirit Clan.' Jiang Lin slowly shook his head, then looked over at Xiao Yan, who seemed ready to leave, and asked, "So, are you going to the Nalan Clan?"
"Yes, Brother Lin, my body has fully recovered to its peak, and my control over the Qinglian Earth Heart Fire has strengthened. In fact, by a stroke of luck, my Dou Qi cultivation has reached eight-star Dou Shi! It feels like in less than a month, I'll reach the Da Dou Shi realm!" Xiao Yan said excitedly, nodding to Jiang Lin. His cultivation speed was undoubtedly rapid now; he didn't even need to take pills to quickly advance to Da Dou Shi.
"Mm, go ahead. Hai Bo Dong just got back, so you two can head there together." Jiang Lin nodded to Xiao Yan, then shared another good piece of news.
Xiao Yan was a bit surprised. He looked outside and saw an apprentice from the Refining Master Guild bringing a chilling middle-aged man to the door of their refining room.
"Here, the thing you wanted." Hai Bo Dong tossed a storage ring at Jiang Lin as soon as he saw him. With a small movement of his spiritual sense, Jiang Lin's powerful soul force turned into a tendril and caught the ring, which then floated in front of him.
"Thanks for the hard work. Just as your main employer had to go out, Hai Lao can carry out your duties for you now."
"Ah, life is so hard," Hai Bo Dong shrugged with resignation, then nodded at Jiang Lin before leaving with Xiao Yan.
Once the others had left, Jiang Lin looked at the ordinary storage ring in his hand. He let his soul power enter it and discovered a space full of a pool soaked with various mineral and medicinal liquids. In the middle of the pool floated an elderly man in a position that resembled "a dead man's pose," floating in the alchemical liquid.
"Although it might not fully unleash Mo Cheng's power as a five-star Dou Ling, his body has been modified. One of his arms is actually from a fifth-tier magical beast. This is quite interesting. If we continue to use Mo Family's mechanisms—ugh, no, Mo Family's secret techniques to upgrade it, this five-star Dou Ling's foundation could be made into a puppet on the level of a Dou Wang using the refining standards for mysterious weapons."
Jiang Lin was no longer the naive refining master who had no foundation in refining and relied on trial and error. Now, he had mastered the Soul Forging Secret Technique, held various rare materials, and had even studied the Mo Family's mechanisms—ugh, no, the Mo Family's soul fusion secret techniques. He applied these techniques to improve the body of a Dou Qi puppet.
Now, Jiang Lin could apply these techniques to Mo Cheng's body and have him control a Dou Qi puppet body of Dou Wang level with a five-star Dou Ling's cultivation.
"The upper limit of fourth-tier Xuanjia Puppet Technique doesn't allow the use of bodies above Dou Ling to be crafted... Mo Cheng just happens to be the limit of the Xuanjia Puppet Technique," Jiang Lin's eyes flickered slightly. Though a Dou Wang puppet wasn't very useful to him, he still wanted to craft one, if only to satisfy a hunch in his mind.
Whoosh!
With a thought, the Qingxuan Qiankun Cauldron snapped shut, and the massive Earth Fire energy started burning fiercely. The flames spiraled around the cauldron, then were quickly absorbed by the copper thunder markings on its surface, causing the cauldron's temperature to rise rapidly.
In an instant, the entire refining room seemed to heat up, as though it were being baked by the scorching sun.
Once Jiang Lin was sure the energy in the cauldron had reached his desired level, he tossed the storage ring into the cauldron. His right hand glowed with numerous complex silver patterns, which connected with the silver markings on the cauldron's surface. Then, a terrifying spatial fluctuation erupted from the cauldron. However, when this distorted spatial energy hit the copper wall inside the cauldron, numerous orderly silver patterns appeared on the wall, absorbing the energy like a sound-absorbing sponge, dissipating the energy completely.
"Master Hu Lei really has a big heart. This Qingxuan Cauldron is clearly not a simple transcendent-tier mysterious weapon, but he just gave it away."
"Well, from a certain perspective, Master Hu Lei didn't make a mistake. At least, even if he uses this Qingxuan Cauldron for himself, he probably won't figure it out for another ten or twenty years."
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