Chapter 963: Soul Splitting

Han Li had already bought the map of this sea area in advance. 【Web】 After flying in the direction where few cultivators appeared for half a month, he finally landed on an unnamed small island.

This island was not big, only about forty square miles, but there was an unremarkable low-tier spirit vein on the island, about seven or eight miles long.

If it were in the inland, it would have been occupied by some unknown small family long ago. In this sea area full of demonic beasts, no family without some strength would dare to migrate here. But small and medium-sized families with high-tier cultivators wouldn't look at such an unremarkable spirit vein.

Moreover, this island was not on the sea route and the location was very remote, so it had been abandoned until now.

Han Li was very satisfied with this place. He immediately released a large open space in the belly of a small mountain on the island with a group of flying swords, and then released the Heaven Mystery Mansion.

Suddenly, an exquisite small cave dwelling appeared before his eyes.

For the sake of caution, Han Li not only activated the barrier attached to the cave dwelling but also set up a hidden formation outside the small mountain, summoning a large area of white mist to cover the ten-mile area including the mountain peak, making it difficult for others to easily discover the location of the cave dwelling.

After making these preparations, Han Li moved the spirit insects and spirit herbs he carried with him to the insect room and medicine garden in the cave dwelling. The Earth Armor Dragon was also subjected to a barrier and thrown into a beast room, and then he entered a secret room with a large batch of materials.

"These materials are only enough for one refining. If any key part is refined incorrectly, there is no time to find a replacement. I really don't have much confidence in the success rate. After all, it is me refining it for Senior. If I misunderstand any point, it may cause the refining to fail." As soon as he walked into the secret room, Han Li turned his hand and pulled down the bamboo tube on his back, standing it in front of his eyes, and said calmly.

"I naturally know this matter. Before refining, I will explain the refining method to you in detail, and I will repeatedly question you about your understanding until you truly master it without error, only then will I let you take action. Before I explain, you should look at this jade slip first; it contains the general information about my puppet refining, you should comprehend it as a whole first."

Senior Elder Dayan's voice came from the bamboo tube. He seemed to have considered this matter long ago, and with a soft "bang" of the bamboo tube lid, a white jade slip shot out from it and was grabbed by Han Li.

"Since Senior has a plan in mind, I will be at ease." Han Li nodded and didn't say much, immediately sitting down cross-legged and immersing his spiritual sense into the jade slip.

Time passed bit by bit, and the expression on Han Li's face began to change endlessly—surprise, excitement, and finally, it turned into a look of horror.

I don't know how long it took, but he let out a long breath and finally withdrew his spiritual sense from the jade slip, but he didn't speak immediately, instead closing his eyes and quietly thinking about what he was pondering on the ground.

A full quarter of an hour later, Han Li opened his eyes, and his expression returned to calm.

"Not bad, if this puppet is refined successfully, its power will indeed be unparalleled. As long as there are enough spirit stones, it should not fall behind a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator in a hard fight. But there is one point I still don't quite understand, and I hope Senior can solve it for me first." After pondering for a moment, Han Li finally opened his mouth.

"Since I intend to pass this puppet technique to you completely, I naturally won't keep anything back. Just ask whatever you want." Senior Elder Dayan said without hesitation.

"Since Senior said so, I won't be polite. According to the puppet technique I learned before, the higher the puppet refined, the higher the fused essence soul required. For this puppet of Senior's, I really can't think of what demonic beast essence soul should be fused to fully exert the puppet's power. Even the Level 8 Red Fire Flood Dragon soul I just captured is probably not applicable. And before this, Senior has never mentioned the essence soul matter, which makes me somewhat puzzled. Could it be that Senior has other arrangements?" Han Li frowned and asked solemnly.

"I was wondering what the problem was; it turns out to be this matter. Regarding the essence soul matter, I already had a way when I researched the refining method. Originally, if you didn't ask, I intended to explain it to you clearly first. Otherwise, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to refine it with peace of mind." Senior Elder Dayan gave a chuckle and said.

"Senior is joking. However, if one truly wants to fully exert the puppet's power, at least a Level 9 demonic beast essence soul is required. I am really puzzled how Senior will solve this matter." Han Li gave a dry laugh and said indifferently.

Before giving him a reasonable explanation, out of his consistent caution, he did indeed feel a trace of vigilance in his heart. Although he had been like half-teacher and half-friend with Senior Elder Dayan for these years, Han Li would never casually throw away the necessary vigilance.

"No demonic beast essence soul is needed. When the time comes, I will directly fuse my own essence soul with the puppet." Senior Elder Dayan's voice sank, and he said calmly, as if he were talking about a trivial matter.

"Use Senior's essence soul?" Han Li's expression suddenly changed, full of shock.

"Why, do you think my essence soul strength is not as good as a Level 9 demonic beast?" Senior Elder Dayan said calmly.

"That is naturally not the case. Senior was originally a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and the strength of your spiritual sense and essence soul after cultivating the Great Elder Dayan Technique is probably not much different from a Spirit Transformation stage cultivator. But Senior doesn't intend to reincarnate? Once the essence soul is fused into the puppet, it will immediately lose its self." Han Li said hesitantly.

"Of course I intend to step into the path of reincarnation. After reincarnation, this god-monarch might be able to step onto the path of cultivation again!" After a chuckle, Senior Elder Dayan said this without hesitation.

"What does this mean? If I didn't hear wrong, Senior intends to fuse your essence soul into the puppet, but you don't want to lose the opportunity of reincarnation. Could it be that Senior has some other secret technique that can achieve this?" Han Li was stunned when he heard this, but after all, he was not an ordinary cultivator, and after his thoughts turned rapidly, he guessed.

"Han boy, you are indeed clever. That is exactly what I mean. Because I was trapped in the puppet due to the Spirit Parasite Technique back then, I naturally wouldn't do nothing. I spent thousands of years researching a method to transfer the essence soul out of the puppet without using magic power. As a result, this method was too difficult and didn't succeed, but I discovered a secret technique to split the essence soul. This Soul Splitting Technique is completely different from ordinary spiritual intent splitting; it is a true splitting method of our cultivator's soul. When the time comes, I will split my essence soul into two. One part will carry most of the essence soul power and fuse into the puppet, while the other part will carry emotions, memories, etc., and dissipate, returning to the path of reincarnation." Senior Elder Dayan didn't intend to hide it and explained it frankly.

"But is this method really possible? Splitting the soul is probably not such an easy thing." Han Li was shocked and said in astonishment when he heard there was such a secret technique.

"Rest assured, what I split out is only the essence soul power, which will not cause much hindrance to my reincarnation. These essence soul powers will also dissipate in vain after I pass away," Senior Elder Dayan said indifferently.

"So that's how it is. Then I will be at ease." Han Li thought about it, didn't find any big problems, and nodded, relaxing his heart.

"Good, since there is no problem, I will start explaining the refining method of each part and the places that need more attention. Let's start with the puppet's body. The entire body is composed of more than ten core parts, and the materials required are..." Senior Elder Dayan didn't stand on ceremony and started explaining.

Han Li's spirit was lifted, and he naturally listened with full attention.

Time passed day by day, and Han Li rarely came out of the secret room, most of the time just using his spiritual sense to manipulate a few giant ape puppets to move in the cave dwelling to ripen some spirit herbs and cultivate those spirit insects.

But those twelve Six-Winged Frost Centipedes, besides using Neon Clothes Grass to ripen them, on a whim, he fed each of them a Snow Soul Pill to see the effect after they refined it. After all, these pills were very useful for his Purple Luo Extreme Fire, and they should also be useful for the extremely yin and cold Six-Winged Frost Centipedes.

As a result, Han Li discovered that even he needed three or four months to refine one Snow Soul Pill, but these centipedes could refine it clean in one month, and the cold air they sprayed was obviously much more powerful.

In this way, Han Li was pleasantly surprised and left only the Snow Soul Pills he needed, handing over the rest to the giant apes to feed these spirit insects.

As for those Gold-Devouring Insects, although the Neon Clothes Grass was eaten continuously, it couldn't be said that there was no change at all, but the distance to advancing to the mature stage was unknown. Han Li could only be patient and do it bit by bit.

Half a year passed in a flash. On this day, Han Li had just finished refining a puppet part in the secret room. Hearing Senior Elder Dayan's words, he took out a few materials and placed them in front of him, his face full of strangeness.

"You say these things can be added to the puppet?" Han Li asked with a frown.

"Not bad, the uses of these things are all things I thought of recently, and they can definitely make this puppet's power go a step further." Senior Elder Dayan said calmly.

"This last piece of Demon Marrow Diamond is fine; perhaps Senior has other ways to refine it into a sharp weapon for the puppet, but I still haven't understood the uses of these other things, and I haven't seen what they are used for." Han Li pointed to the two materials on the ground with a slight wave of his hand, somewhat puzzled.

The things he pointed to were the long, thin silver chain that had once locked the Corpse Demon, and the few pieces of broken stele materials he had discovered in the Demonic Qi Abyss that day, gray and unremarkable.

"The Demon Marrow Diamond is just as you said. When you obtained it that day, I was thinking about what to refine it into. Although this is the only material for refining the Demon Dragon Blade, if you use this object to refine other Demonic Dao treasures, the power is also not small. I have already thought of refining it into a treasure, so it can be used as a trump card for the puppet. This chain, when I heard you say that this object could block the slashing of the Geng Metal flying sword, I immediately had an idea. Although I don't know what kind of material this object is made of, it can be mixed with some Geng Silver to refine a protective shield for the puppet. As for these broken steles, I just remembered what they were a few days ago." Senior Elder Dayan paused here, and a solemn look appeared on his face.

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