Chapter 135: The Black Market is Robbed, the Power of Corpse Puppet
"Five Elements Jade, Fire Sand, Citrine Marrow..."

After returning to Baishuixian City, Ji Chang counted the storage bags of Zixuan Sanren and Cheng Yaolong, his heart filled with joy.

One of these two is a family cultivator, and the other is a second-level formation master. Their wealth is much richer than that of ordinary foundation-building cultivators.

Just the spirit stones themselves, there are hundreds of mid-grade spirit stones.

In addition, there are a large number of second-level talismans.

Even after Ji Chang consumed a lot of it, there were still quite a few second-level talismans left.

Moreover, Cheng Yaolong also has a second-level talisman inheritance on his body, but for some reason the inheritance grade is only mid-level second-level.

Ji Changke remembered that the Cheng family had a second-grade top-grade talisman master.

Perhaps it was because Cheng Yaolong was only a second-rank, lower-grade talisman master, and this second-rank, middle-grade talisman inheritance was enough for him to carry with him and study.

This is also the experience Ji Chang has gained from spying on the family monks over the years.

Generally speaking, unless one is a casual cultivator who has established a foundation, he or she will rarely carry all of his or her inheritance with him or her when going out.

It is almost impossible to obtain the complete inheritance of a family from the storage bag of a monk from that family.

Ji Chang relied on the peeping Dao seeds to peek, but it took a lot of time before he had a chance to collect them all.

Sometimes it is necessary to rely on the spiritual consciousness in the peeping state to observe the target's state of cultivation.

In the storage bag on Zixuan Sanren's body, there is almost all of his inheritance.

However, the inheritance he possessed was something that Ji Chang had already learned almost all of when he first spied on him.

The spiritual objects, magical tools and other resources on him are more important to Ji Chang.

"These second-level talisman pens, talisman ink, talisman paper, and formation flags, find a chance to sell them."

"After all, my attainments in the art of formations are only at the lower level of the first rank, and I know nothing about the art of talismans."

Ji Chang is not a gifted all-rounder, nor does he have enough energy, so it is impossible for him to master all the skills of cultivating immortals.

For most cultivators, it is already good enough to be able to master a skill of cultivating immortals in addition to practicing.

Ji Chang had never seen a cultivator who was proficient in all kinds of immortal cultivation skills. It was almost impossible for him to exist.

However, many cultivation skills are interconnected.

For example, Ji Chang, because his alchemy skills have reached the second-level lower grade, by analogy, he can reach the first-level middle grade with a little bit of instrument skills.

But even if they are connected to each other, the effect is not that strong.

And it still requires learning, but it's just more efficient.

After counting the spoils in his hands, Ji Chang took out the bodies of Cheng Yaolong and Zixuan Sanren.

For Ji Chang, this is the highlight.

He is going to start trying to refine corpses.

Originally, because he didn't have a suitable corpse, he couldn't make use of it after he obtained the "Huangquan Corpse Refining Art".

They even worry that after changing their cultivation, their own strength will decline because they don’t have corpses to refine.

However, now I can finally try to refine corpses.

There are many types of corpse refining, involving various schools, and many of them are recorded in "Huangquan Corpse Refining Art".

Different corpse refining methods and requirements.

Special refined corpses such as evil corpses, poisonous corpses, blood corpses, etc., each have their own abilities and powerful combat power, not inferior to the cultivators of the same level, but the refining methods are complicated and demanding.

For example, to raise a corpse, one not only needs a lot of precious spiritual objects, but also has certain requirements for the way the corpse died and its physique. One also needs to choose a dark and evil place and raise the corpse for hundreds of years before one can succeed.

But after it is refined, the murderous aura surges into the sky, and the combat power far exceeds that of cultivators of the same level, and it even has good growth potential.

However, what Ji Chang was going to try to refine was a corpse puppet.

Corpse puppets are a basic type of refined corpse, possessing basic characteristics of refined corpses such as agility, immense strength, and invulnerability to swords and guns.

The refining method is also much easier and there is basically no chance of failure.

Moreover, as a basic corpse refinement, it can be upgraded into several other special corpse refinements in the future.

Whether it is the Huangquan Sect or the Zhuji Si Family, most of the refined corpses they use are these corpse puppets.

However, the strength of the corpse puppet is much inferior to that of the cultivators of the same level.

An ordinary cultivator can easily deal with two or three corpse puppets of the same level.

However, if Ji Chang used the Phantom Scale Gu to interfere, he could use two corpse puppets to fight the enemy.

It shouldn't be difficult for a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building to solve it.

Ji Chang planned to first refine the bodies of Cheng Yaolong and Zixuan Sanren into corpse puppets, and then collect enough materials to upgrade them into special refined corpses.

In addition to refining corpses, Ji Chang also plans to spend some time studying alchemy.

Some time ago, Ji Chang listened to the teachings at Xiaodan Mountain and gained some insights into the Dao of Alchemy, which would take him a few years to digest.

Thinking of this, Ji Chang began to retreat.

……

Spring goes and autumn comes, the years pass.

Three years passed in the blink of an eye.

As night fell, in a hidden valley outside Baishuixian City, the lights were bright and the voices were bustling, but there was no formation.

This is a black market where all kinds of elixirs, magical instruments, talismans and other resources of unknown origin are traded.

Ji Chang dressed in a purple robe, changed his appearance, concealed the fluctuations of his soul, and appeared silently at the entrance of the black market.

For a foundation-building cultivator who has cultivated spiritual consciousness, simply changing one's appearance is meaningless as long as one does not disguise the fluctuations of his soul.

It is very difficult to disguise the fluctuations of the soul. Even the "Five Poison Fragments" practiced by Ji Chang, which is considered a soul-oriented technique, does not have such a method.

However, it is not difficult to hide the fluctuations of the soul.

As long as other foundation-building cultivators do not actively rely on their spiritual sense to investigate, their identities will not be exposed.

Ji Chang looked around and observed the situation around him.

After confirming that there was no danger, he slowly walked into the black market and sold all the spoils he had obtained.

A year ago, the family war between the Hu family and the Cheng family ended.

In the end, one Cheng family monk died, one escaped, and one disappeared.

The Hu family occupied Jiangzhou owned by the Cheng family and their strength increased greatly, becoming the second-tier foundation-building family in Zheng State, second only to those foundation-building families with fake elixir cultivators.

There was almost no suspense in this war between the foundation-building families, especially after Ji Chang killed Cheng Yaolong and Zixuan Sanren, the two foundation-building cultivators from the Cheng family.

After discovering that the two of them were missing, the Cheng family was no longer thinking about how to win, but how to save their lives and family business.

But even so, the Cheng family cultivators were unable to preserve the family foundation, and only one foundation-building cultivator escaped.

Because of this, Ji Chang was not worried that he would be tracked down by the Cheng family after selling these spoils.

After selling the spoils, Ji Chang took a stroll around the black market.

Suddenly, Ji Chang stopped and looked at a stall.

"The corpse of the second-order golden snake."

Ji Chang had an idea and walked to the stall and started doing business with the stall owner.

The stall owner was a black-robed monk wearing a bamboo hat that covered most of his face and concealed his aura.

Generally speaking, materials such as monster corpses will not appear on the black market.

After all, such materials are not difficult to sell, and there is no need to worry about their unknown origins.

Ji Chang noticed that the body of this second-level golden snake belonged to a golden-armored python. Golden-armored pythons were not uncommon.

However, Ji Chang remembered that the spiritual beast of a certain foundation-building family was this golden-armored python.

Seems to have disappeared half a year ago.

The cultivator from the foundation-building family had also offered a reward in Baishuixian City for any clues leading to their own spirit beast.

It was because of this that Ji Chang had some impression.

Could it be that the corpse of the golden-armored python in front of me is the golden-armored python that was put on the bounty list?
However, Ji Chang didn't care about the origin of the body.

Anyway, I use it to refine the Golden Scale Gu.

Once the poisonous insect is refined, will we be able to track it down?
If there really is such a method, why would it take so long to search for it?
After buying the corpse of the golden-armored python at a discount, Ji Chang did not stay in the black market for long and quietly left the black market.

This was because there had once been an unlucky monk who had purchased something of unknown origin on the black market. Before he could even leave the black market, he was visited by the owner of the item.

He became a scapegoat for the owner to vent his anger.

In the darkness of the night, Ji Chang's figure disappeared quickly among the mountains and forests like a ghost.

Not long after, a black-robed monk suddenly appeared here. He looked around, his spiritual awareness spreading in the night like a tentacle, and a strange look appeared on his face.

This person was none other than the foundation-building cultivator who had just sold the golden-armored python's corpse to Ji Chang.

However, before the strange look on his face faded, a burly corpse suddenly rushed out from the dense forest and crashed towards him with the force of thunder.

The black-robed monk was caught off guard. He let out a muffled groan, and the protective spiritual light around his body trembled. Blood spurted out of his mouth, and his whole body was knocked away like a kite with a broken string.

At this moment when he was still in shock, another corpse puppet quietly appeared behind him, and its iron fist was as strong as the wind, aiming straight at the vital point of his spine.

However, the strength of this corpse puppet was obviously not as good as the previous one, and the black-robed monk was already on guard.

The protective aura burst out instantly, dazzling and brilliant. Seven purple flying knives surrounded his body, whistling and spinning, and actually forced the attacking corpse puppet back several steps.

The black-robed monk took the opportunity to fly into the air and hover in mid-air.

He glanced around vigilantly and quickly swallowed a pill to heal his wounds.

"I am blind and did not recognize your true identity."

"If I had known that you were from the Si family in the northwest, I would not have dared to offend you in the slightest."

The black-robed monk spoke in an extremely respectful tone, trying to resolve the crisis with words.

However, there was silence all around, and there was no sign of any monks showing up.

The black-robed monk felt a sinking feeling in his heart, thinking that this was not good.

Sure enough, the next moment, two more corpse puppets suddenly appeared and pounced on him together with the previous two corpse puppets.

The black-robed monk was so frightened upon seeing this that he dared not even think of staying.

He turned around and ran away, so fast that he almost turned into a black afterimage.

However, the four corpse puppets kept chasing him like a thorn in his flesh, leaving him no time to breathe.

The black-robed monk was forced to fight with him.

But after a few moves, a look of astonishment appeared on the face of the black-robed monk.

"This is?"

"phantom!"

The black-robed monk discovered that two of the four corpse puppets in front of him were actually fake, just illusions.

However, it is difficult to distinguish whether this illusion is real or false, even with the help of spiritual consciousness.

In addition, the black-robed monk also found that the corpse puppet in front of him sometimes disappeared directly in front of his eyes, and then suddenly appeared behind him out of thin air.

"Yu Dao's method?"

"Space magic?"

The black-robed monk thought in disbelief.

Can a cultivator who has established his foundation master this kind of method?
"No, I got caught!"

The black-robed monk suddenly noticed that something was wrong with his surroundings.

But just as this thought came to his mind, he felt his throat being tightly gripped by a large hand like an iron clamp.

As the illusion slowly dissipated, he saw clearly that the one strangling his throat was none other than the burly and powerful corpse puppet.

The black-robed monk smiled bitterly. He spent all day hunting geese and finally got pecked by them. This must be the fate of a cultivator with calamity.

His eyes gradually lost their luster, and his life was completely strangled at this moment.

The corpse puppet let go of its hand, and the body of the black-robed monk fell weakly from the air, landing heavily on the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.

In the darkness of the night, Ji Chang's figure slowly walked out from the darkness and came to the body of the black-robed monk.

He looked at the corpse on the ground with a cold gaze, without a single ripple in his heart.

Ji Chang urged the corpse puppet to check the storage bag of the black-robed monk.

In this way, even if the black-robed monk set up some means, he would not have to worry about being caught.

After a while, Ji Chang collected the black-robed monk's storage bag and body, changed his face, and returned to the black market.

"It's a good time to process the spoils, replenish the materials, and refine another corpse puppet."

This black-robed monk is a monk in the middle stage of foundation building.

Ji Chang had already noticed his cultivation level.

If it was a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building, it would not be so difficult for Ji Chang to rely on the Illusion Scale Gu to make him fall into an illusion.

In the black market, if one is only at the initial stage of foundation building, he would not have the courage to rob and kill others.

Not long after, Ji Chang returned to Baishuixian City.

"Tsk, just one robbery cultivator?"

Ji Chang was a little disappointed.

After refining two corpse puppets, with the help of the Phantom Scale Gu, it would not be difficult to deal with even a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.

He doesn't even need to show up, he can defeat the enemy simply by relying on the corpse puppets.

If the current Ji Chang faced Zixuan Sanren and Cheng Yaolong again.

Still have to run for a while.

Zixuan Sanren is a formation cultivator after all. A formation cultivator with the blessing of formations is completely different from a formation cultivator without the blessing of formations.

And to be honest, the cooperation between Cheng Yaolong and Zixuan Sanren is indeed quite tricky.

One person activated the formation for defense, while the other poured out talismans to kill.

It’s a pity that they underestimated themselves at the beginning.

Moreover, they were trying to hunt him down and would not be able to make use of the advantages of the formation.

Shaking his head, Ji Chang took out seven flying knives from his storage bag.

This magic weapon is a mid-grade second-level gold-level magic weapon with a faint purple glow on the surface. It is the best magic weapon that the black-robed monk has.

Ji Chang liked it very much and did not sell it on the black market.

"From now on, I will call you Zi Li Blade."

"It's just right to poison the blade and increase its power to a higher level."

(End of this chapter)