Chapter 136: Fiery Eyes, Golden Scales, Iron Corpse

On this day, Ji Chang sat in a quiet room with a successfully refined corpse puppet placed in front of him.

This corpse puppet was not made from the corpse of the black-robed monk that Ji Chang obtained two years ago.

Instead, it was a second-grade, low-grade corpse puppet made from Cheng Yaolong's corpse.

There are many golden spiritual objects placed around the corpse puppet.

Two years ago, when Ji Chang went to the black market to sell the spoils, he bought the corpse of a golden-armored python. After refining the golden-scale Gu, some of it was still left.

In addition, there were some other golden spiritual objects left that Ji Chang asked Liu Xuexuan to collect to refine the golden scale Gu.

After gathering some information, Ji Chang finally managed to come up with a spiritual item for refining an iron corpse.

The Iron Corpse is a special kind of Golden Corpse. Although it is not as powerful as the Evil Corpse, it is more powerful than ordinary corpse puppets.

The Iron Corpse not only possesses the basic abilities of corpse refining, such as agility, immense strength, and invulnerability to swords and guns, but it can also attack by releasing extremely sharp golden light.

Compared with special refined corpses such as poisonous corpses and bloody corpses, special refined corpses such as iron corpses are more like an enhanced version of corpse puppets.

This is because the most powerful aspect of the Iron Corpse is its physical strength which is far superior to that of most refined corpses and is comparable to that of physical cultivators of the same level.

Among all the refined corpses, only a few such as the evil corpse can compare with the iron corpse in terms of physical strength.

After checking the spiritual objects, Ji Chang began to refine the iron corpse. He picked up a piece of spiritual ore that contained a rich aura of Gengjin.

He activated the corpse refining technique, slowly extracting the Gengjin Energy from the ore and injecting it into the body of the corpse puppet.

The golden spiritual light flowed on the surface of the corpse puppet, gradually penetrating into every inch of skin and bones, making it harder and tougher.

Then, Ji Chang took out another bottle of golden liquid, which was a second-level spiritual object called Golden Marrow Liquid.

He carefully smeared the golden marrow liquid on the surface of the corpse puppet. Suddenly, a faint golden light appeared on the skin of the corpse puppet, as if it was wearing a layer of golden armor.

Afterwards, Ji Chang used several kinds of golden spiritual objects in succession, and relying on the corpse refining technique, he integrated them into the bodies of the corpse puppets one by one.

Finally, when the last golden spiritual object was completely absorbed, the corpse puppet also underwent earth-shaking changes.

"It's finished."

Ji Chang looked at the iron corpse in front of him with satisfaction, his heart filled with a sense of accomplishment.

Ji Chang activated the Iron Corpse to test its combat power.

Then he took out the Five Fire Fan and the Purple Li Blade and tested the Iron Corpse's defense.

After some tests, Ji Chang discovered that even a second-grade mid-level magic weapon would not be easy to break through the defense of this second-grade low-level iron corpse.

From this point of view, the power of this iron corpse is even stronger than the two second-grade medium-quality corpse puppets in his hands.

If Ji Chang could refine the other two corpse puppets into second-grade intermediate-grade iron corpses, then wouldn’t their power be even greater?

However, the golden spiritual item in Ji Chang's hands was not of sufficient quality and quantity. Even if he used a second-level, medium-grade corpse puppet to refine an iron corpse, he could only produce a second-level, low-grade iron corpse at best.

This is really too much of a waste for Ji Chang.

This is also the reason why Ji Chang used this second-grade inferior corpse puppet to refine the iron corpse, instead of directly refining the two second-grade medium-grade corpse puppets into iron corpses.

It’s not because I’m worried about the failure of refining.

After all, it is not difficult to refine the Iron Corpse, and it is not so easy to fail.

If you want to refine a second-level medium-grade iron corpse, even if you have a corpse puppet as the main material, you will need several second-level medium-grade gold spiritual objects.

Ji Chang also had a second-grade top-quality golden snake fruit in his hand. If it was used to refine an iron corpse, it would be equivalent to two or three mid-grade golden spiritual objects.

Ji Chang planned to attend another Danshan gathering another day to see if there were any suitable golden spiritual objects.

Even if it doesn't work, if you can get some mid-grade spiritual objects from other schools in sufficient quantities, you can also refine several other special corpses.

If you have more types of refined corpses, you will have more ways to deal with the enemies.

"This year's Danshan gathering has ended. Let's go and participate next year."

Five years have passed since Ji Chang last attended the Danshan rally.

Over the years, Ji Chang has digested a lot of what he learned from his last lecture, and his alchemy skills have also improved a lot.

However, he is still far from reaching the level of a second-grade intermediate-level alchemist.

The art of alchemy is profound and it is not easy to master it.

Over the past five years, Ji Chang's cultivation has improved a lot.

According to his estimation, in ten years at most, he would be able to break through to the middle stage of foundation building.

Over the years, Ji Chang has almost collected several auxiliary materials needed to refine the elixir to break through the middle stage of foundation building.

At the last Danshan gathering, Ji Chang obtained the main ingredient, Hundred-Leaf Ganoderma Lucidum.

Just wait until his alchemy skills reach the second-level mid-grade level, or ask a second-level mid-grade or above alchemist to take action.

Then you can try to refine the elixir that can help you break through the realm.

This is not a difficult thing for Ji Chang.

Although his alchemy skills did not improve quickly, Ji Chang did make many friends with alchemists of the second-level mid-grade or above through the Danshan Association.

In addition to his cultivation, Ji Chang's progress in magic skills is also quite good.

Ji Chang has mastered the second-level escape technique, the Poisonous Mist Escape, to a minor level of success.

Ji Chang's current escape speed is comparable to that of a cultivator in the late foundation building stage.

And the second-level breath-concealing spell that he accidentally obtained from a Qi-refining cultivator was also successfully mastered by Ji Chang last year.

Although practicing this spell does not require the assistance of spiritual objects, it is quite difficult.

However, this spell is quite powerful and can block the spiritual detection of cultivators of the same level.

Ji Chang is just at the entry level now, and his cultivation is only at the initial stage of foundation building. He can only block the spiritual sense detection of most cultivators at the initial stage of foundation building.

As for why he didn't tell all of it, it was because some foundation-building monks had practiced special spells that allowed them to see through this breath-concealing spell.

For example, the Zhou family, who are at the Jindan stage, have a second-level spiritual eye spell called the Golden Eye Technique, which can see through illusions and detect flaws.

Moreover, this spiritual eye spell originated from a Danwen magical power, and can be regarded as a simplified version of that magical power.

I heard that the Danwen magical power is called [Fire Eyes and Golden Pupils], which is a magical power of both gold and fire.

If one wants to condense this elixir pattern magical power, one must cultivate the golden elixir of both gold and fire.

The golden elixir of the Qi Dao school, which is a panacea school, can also be condensed, but its power is not as strong as the first two.

Ji Chang was unable to obtain the method to cultivate the Danwen magical power [Fire Eyes and Golden Pupils].

However, Ji Chang successfully glimpsed the method of practicing the Golden Eye Technique.

However, the requirements for practicing this kind of spiritual magic are quite demanding, and it requires the assistance of many rare spiritual objects.

In addition to the Golden Eye Technique, these people often obtained a lot of other information and inheritance from the Zhou family by spying on Zhou Jiyuan, a cultivator from the Zhou family.

This Zhou Jiyuan, who was able to gain such flattery from Master Badan, must be of high status. He is actually the direct descendant of the Zhou family's Jindan cultivator who is in charge of Baishuixian City.

He is considered the most loyal of the loyal families in the Zhou family.

Moreover, he has good spiritual roots and possesses top-grade spiritual roots.

Among the foundation-building cultivators, the qualifications of top-grade spiritual roots are already considered good.

After all, if one is born in a foundation-building family, then one with a mid-grade spiritual root will have a chance to break through the foundation-building stage. Zhou Jiyuan was born in the Jindan Zhou family, and as a direct descendant of the Zhou family, he also possessed a high-grade spiritual root.

There is a good chance of being able to cultivate a fake elixir.

If the opportunity is sufficient, one can even break through to the Jindan stage.

Ji Chang inherited a lot of the Zhou family's heritage from Zhou Jiyuan.

However, the Zhou family, as a Jindan family, is different from the foundation-building family with a third-level inheritance.

Except for the fake elixir cultivators, it is basically difficult for ordinary foundation-building cultivators to obtain a complete third-level inheritance.

Therefore, Ji Chang only obtained the foundation-building and Qi-refining parts of the Zhou family's third-level inheritance, "Broken Jade Golden Throne Technique".

At most, he can only cultivate to the false elixir realm. Not only does he not have the method of forming the elixir of this technique, he does not even have the method of cultivating the several elixir pattern magical powers inherited by the Zhou family.

As a Jindan family, the Zhou family has mastered many Danwen magical powers, and even the Jindao magical powers constitute a fairly complete system.

It has offensive magical powers, defensive magical powers, escaping magical powers, and auxiliary magical powers.

If he could obtain the complete Zhou family inheritance, Ji Chang would be more willing to switch to practicing the Zhou family's "Broken Jade and Golden Throne Technique".

He shook his head, just when Ji Chang was about to put away the iron corpse in front of him.

Suddenly Ji Chang's heart moved and he thought of something.

Immediately afterwards, a golden poisonous insect flew out from his sleeve and quickly merged into the iron corpse.

In an instant, a layer of golden scales appeared on the surface of the iron corpse, and on top of this golden scales, a layer of dazzling golden spiritual light condensed.

The spiritual light flowed continuously, like a solid protective shield, tightly wrapping the iron corpse.

“It can actually be put together.”

Ji Chang was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, it was normal.

Monks can use poisonous insects to bless themselves, and they can also be used to bless corpses.

"In this case, the defensive ability alone is probably comparable to that of an ordinary second-level mid-grade iron corpse."

"In addition, I can also put defensive magic weapons on the body of the corpse."

"With each layer stacked up, I wonder to what level the defense capability can be stacked."

Ji Chang thought with interest.

……

Half a year later, Ji Chang received a jade slip of communication.

The jade slip was sent from the Hu family.

According to the contents of the jade slip, Fairy Hong Ling was successfully promoted to a second-rank lower-grade weapon refiner some time ago.

After she came out of seclusion, the Hu family held a celebration party for her and sent invitations to all her familiar foundation-building colleagues, inviting them to come and congratulate her.

Ji Chang was naturally among those invited.

For the Hu family, receiving a gift is secondary. The most important thing is to demonstrate the strength of the Hu family through the celebration and to intimidate other foundation-building families.

Because the Hu family had just annexed the Cheng family, the scale of this celebration was much grander than in previous years when Hu Qingsong, Hu Qingyun and others were promoted to second-level weapon refiners.

Speaking of Hu Qingsong, this Hu family cultivator who has been stationed in Baishuixian City for many years has not stayed in Baishuixian City.

According to Ji Chang's observation, he frequently traveled between Yuzhou and Jizhou, asking Sun Yihai to make elixirs for him to regenerate his limbs.

Finally, he successfully healed his broken arm not long ago.

Hu Rending, the ancestor of the Hu family, has begun to delve into refining equipment again in recent years.

However, Hu Rending did not practice in seclusion like he did before.

This is because the Hu family had just destroyed the Cheng family three years ago and had not yet successfully transformed these gains into foundation.

The family still needs Hu Rending, an old ancestor in the late foundation building stage, to take charge of the family.

After the Cheng family was destroyed, the Hu family took exclusive possession of the cave ruins left behind by the fake alchemist monk and stopped delaying.

A year ago, the exploration of the cave ruins began again.

In just one year, they successfully explored the core of the cave ruins and are not far from completely exploring the cave ruins.

Ji Chang was quite concerned about this. After all, this cave ruins belonged to a fake Dan cultivator and might have a third-level inheritance.

By mastering one more third-level inheritance, Ji Chang will have one more option when he breaks through to the Jindan stage in the future.

As for what kind of golden elixir he wants to cultivate in the future, Ji Chang currently hopes to cultivate the Qidao Golden Elixir.

If one could cultivate the Qi Dao Golden Elixir, he could inherit the magical powers from other Jindan cultivators by peeping into the Dao Seed, and he would not be unable to cultivate due to conflicts between sects.

……

A few days later, a female cultivator in a black dress came to Ji Chang's mansion.

But the female cultivator had a beautiful face, eyes like autumn waves, and skin like white cream.

Her black hair was like clouds and waterfalls, gently tied up, revealing a jade-like neck.

"Friend Han, I'm not late, am I?" The woman asked Ji Chang softly when she saw him.

At this time, Ji Chang was talking to a middle-aged monk with a simple and honest face. When he saw this woman coming, he was slightly moved. He took a few steps forward, bowed and smiled.

"Friend Huo, you've arrived just in time."

This female cultivator in black was an alchemist whom Ji Chang met at the last Danshan gathering. Her name was Huo Youyi.

Like him, they were all casual foundation-building cultivators who often lived in Baishuixian City. They had come and gone quite frequently in the past, so they were naturally quite familiar with each other.

Huo Youyi's alchemy skills are comparable to Ji Chang's, reaching the lower second level.

However, she is not only a second-level alchemist, but also a second-level spirit wine maker, and her skill in brewing spirit wine has reached the second-level mid-grade level.

Brewing spiritual wine is also one of the hundred arts of cultivating immortals. It is said to be a branch of alchemy and has many similarities with alchemy.

There are some alchemists in Danshan Association who love wine, and most of them have mastered the skills of brewing spiritual wine.

However, it is rare to find a cultivator like Huo Youyi who has mastered the complete inheritance of a spiritual wine master.

"This is Master Badan's disciple, Ba Huawu, who is going with us to the Hu family in Yuzhou to celebrate."

Ji Chang introduced the honest monk beside him to Huo Youyi.

Ba Huawu immediately bowed and said respectfully, "Junior Ba Huawu, nice to meet Senior Huo."

Huo Youyi realized that he was just a Qi-refining cultivator, so she just nodded slightly as a greeting.

Seeing this, Ji Chang said with a smile: "Since everyone is here, let's set off."

Afterwards, the three of them headed towards the Hu family in Yuzhou.

Along the way, Ji Chang and Huo Youyi chatted and laughed happily, but Ba Hua's martial arts skills were relatively low, and he was afraid of offending the two foundation-building predecessors, so he rarely spoke.

A few days later, they arrived at the Hu family in Yuzhou.

The Hu family's house was decorated with lights and was bustling with activity. Fairy Hong Ling went out in person to greet the three people.

(End of this chapter)