Chapter 360: Fire God Knight Phantom!

After entering the Small Thousand World and occupying the Biyuan World, Su Ping learned from the memories of Mu Cangtian that the Five Elements World possessed this Grafting Spirit Body Technique.

He thought of his relatives and disciples on Water Blue Star.

Su Ping then began to pay attention to the inheritance in this regard.

After obtaining the inherited knowledge from the Mu Family's ancestral grounds, Su Ping understood the principles and various methods involved.

And after obtaining the Primordial Spirits of several Old Ancestors, including the Mu Family Ancestor.

After returning to the Biyuan World, Su Ping placed all these Old Ancestor Primordial Spirits into the Bronze Pagoda to suppress them.

With the help of the Nightmare Giant Snake, he used the Dream Entry Technique to continuously read their memory fragments, obtaining more detailed grafting techniques from them.

Although he had not yet practiced it.

But with the collection of the foundations of so many families, in terms of theoretical knowledge alone.

Su Ping was already the number one person in the Five Elements World.

The technique was ready, and the materials were also on hand.

The descendants of those great families collected in the Five Elements World this time.

Strictly speaking, they were all Su Ping's captives.

The Old Ancestor is punished, and the bloodline descendants are implicated; this is considered normal in the Cultivation World.

After all, as long as those bloodline descendants have enjoyed the benefits of family resources, no matter how much, they are considered to have accepted the family's grace.

Naturally, they should also bear the family's disaster.

For these family descendants who were once high and mighty in the Five Elements World.

Among them, there was no shortage of people who had grafted Spirit Roots from the Lower Realm.

This made the absolute number of those with mid-to-superior grade Spirit Roots among them quite high.

In addition, those with Spirit Bodies, although indeed very rare, were still present in every family in groups of several.

Su Ping was not surprised by this.

When these great families encountered Cultivators with Spirit Bodies who had poor backgrounds, besides using them for grafting, they would sometimes consider the cost-effectiveness and recruit them as live-in sons-in-law.

Afterward, they would provide large amounts of special Spirit Herbs and special cultivation arts.

At the cost of depleting the quality of their Spirit Bodies and Spirit Roots, they would drain the pond to catch the fish, making the Cultivator toil day and night to produce offspring for the family.

Those Cultivators who could have lived for several hundred years, or even a thousand years if their cultivation was successful.

Under such extraction, most would exhaust their lifespan and die in two or three hundred years.

Their Spirit Bodies and Spirit Roots would also be depleted to less than inferior grade.

And under such methods, they could mostly provide the family with one or two bloodline descendants who possessed Spirit Bodies similar to theirs.

In the Mu Family's records, in the last one hundred years, they even gave birth to four Mu Family prodigies possessing Spirit Bodies.

This made the Mu Family Ancestor at the time laugh heartily for a long time, which was rare.

Su Ping also kept a smile on his face regarding this.

After all, those Mu Family prodigies had now become materials in his hands.

Of course, compared to the more cruel traditions of dealing with enemies in the Cultivation World.

Su Ping was still relatively merciful.

Taking away these prodigies who were currently only at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage to Golden Core Initial Stage.

He had promised to spare their lives, allowing them to work in the artifact factory and toil in the refining room along with other descendants.

As long as they accept their fate, there is a high probability they can live until the end of their natural lifespan, and then be reincarnated into the Netherworld to continue working...

"According to the introduction, this act of defying heaven and changing fate will cause celestial phenomena, and even cause the Small World consciousness to instinctively drop thunder."

"However, I am doing this in the Pot Heaven."

"It seems it is not considered a problem."

Su Ping activated the Grafting Great Array and looked at the still clean and pure sky.

Relieved, Su Ping stripped the Spirit Body and Spirit Root from a Mu Family prodigy.

Then, as if performing a surgery that required absolute precision, he grafted it onto Zhou Xuan's Divine Soul.

The entire process involved more than nine thousand steps and ten thousand pieces of spell knowledge.

It is no wonder that it requires a Cultivator with at least a Primordial Spirit to operate this Secret Technique.

It looks troublesome.

But after Su Ping's Primordial Spirit displayed the Thousand Arm Ten Thousand Hand Divine Ability.

Nearly ten thousand floating arms moved in unison.

It was as if thousands of Su Ping's Primordial Spirits were acting at the same time.

In the time it takes for a stick of incense to burn.

The Mu Family prodigy's Spirit Body and Spirit Root were grafted into Zhou Xuan's body.

"This Mu Family prodigy has a Fire Imperial Spirit Body and a Superior Grade Spiritual Root."

"He is the Cultivator with the best talent among the survivors of the Mu Family."

"After being stripped by me, he has now become an inferior Spirit Root Cultivator, and his cultivation has also fallen from the Golden Core Initial Stage to the Foundation Establishment Mid-Stage."

"With an inferior Spirit Root, he doesn't need to think about cultivation breakthroughs in this life, and his speed of accumulating Dharma Power is not even enough to cast Foundation Establishment spells."

"Fortunately, his physical strength has not decreased much, so he should still be able to be a good hand for manual labor."

Although he thought this way, for the best among these enemy captives, Su Ping still habitually implanted the now-strengthened version of the Netherworld Blood God Seal into their bodies.

It is just in case, so that if he encounters any Child of Destiny, he can know early and eliminate them in advance.

The execution of this grafting technique on Zhou Xuan can also be considered a great success.

The Fire Imperial Spirit Body retained seventy percent of its original ability, and the Spirit Root is of a quality slightly above superior grade.

Compared to the many cases in the records where one fell by one or two major realms, it can be said to be very good.

It is just that this is also after some actual operation.

Su Ping discovered that this grafting technique, strictly speaking, did not truly cause the subject's own body to undergo a qualitative change as he had envisioned.

It is more like turning someone else's Spirit Body and Spirit Root into a piece of equipment, and then equipping it onto the subject themselves.

The Spirit Body or Spirit Root grafted in this way both lose their growth potential.

From then on, the upper limit is fixed; no matter how many heavenly treasures are used, it can only reduce wear and tear and slow down the decline in quality.

Naturally, it does not count as a Spirit Body recognized by the Star Spirit Fish.

The kind of flashy operation Su Ping thought of—grafting a bunch of Spirit Bodies onto a disciple and then feeding them fish—was effectively declared stillborn.

However, the grafting technique still holds great significance for a loyal disciple like Zhou Xuan.

For him, at least until he cultivates to the Yuan Ying stage, it will be a process akin to being reborn.

The blessing of a Spirit Body and a Superior Grade Spiritual Root can allow Zhou Xuan's cultivation to improve faster, and perhaps even catch up to that Zhang Qiudao in terms of cultivation accumulation.

Combined with his inherent talent for alchemy.

Su Ping feels that it won't be long before he can have an extra Second-tier Alchemist on his side.

And after another period of time, it is not impossible for him to become a third-tier alchemist.

And this is just the beginning.

Grafting the Spirit Bodies and Spirit Roots of captives he doesn't trust into pieces of auxiliary cultivation equipment, and then giving them to those he does trust to use—no matter how you look at it, it is a good thing.

Additionally, Su Ping has a vague feeling that he, having grasped the true mysteries of this grafting Secret Technique,

might be able to improve it after obtaining another Spirit Light Misty Fish next time, beyond just making the quality decline slower.

The key is to make it so that it is not just a one-time use like it is now.

In Su Ping's view, if they could be turned into reusable special equipment that can be unequipped and re-equipped on different individuals at any time or under certain conditions,

then theoretically, anyone—even a mortal without a single Spirit Root—could cultivate, and a golden age for mid-to-high-tier Cultivators would arrive.

Zhou Xuan woke up in a daze.

He felt as if he had had a very, very long dream.

In the dream, he transmigrated to a cultivation world and became the descendant of a certain great family in that cultivation world.

It seemed that his high birth destined him to enjoy a life of luxury.

Yet, from the time he was old enough to understand, he began bitter cultivation.

By day, he tempered his physical body; by night, he meditated on his spirit.

This dull life only changed after he achieved good results in the family competition upon reaching adulthood.

However, most of his time was still spent in bitter cultivation, using different methods to cultivate different divine abilities and Secret Techniques.

Zhou Xuan wanted to remember the divine abilities and Secret Techniques from the dream, but he quickly found that he could not recall them at all.

It seems it really was just a dream.

Only.

Zhou Xuan soon discovered his own difference.

He felt an unprecedented affinity with the surrounding Spirit Qi.

Recalling Su Ping's previous inquiry, a look of joy appeared on Zhou Xuan's face:

"I... did I really succeed?"

"Am I now also a Cultivator with talent?"

Zhou Xuan looked around joyfully, but he did not find any trace of his master.

After a few breaths, he calmed down slightly from his ecstasy.

Then, not daring to waste time in this Spirit Qi-rich Dongtian,

Zhou Xuan sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes, and began to breathe.

Soon, Zhou Xuan felt that cultivating in the same environment, his cultivation speed was at least five times faster!

And this five-fold increase was only because he was limited by his cultivation realm and could only run ordinary breathing techniques.

Once his cultivation level is higher and he switches to better techniques, the gap in cultivation speed can be widened even further!

When Zhou Xuan succeeded in changing his fate against the heavens and began to settle his heart to cultivate,

Su Ping also returned to the Moon Surface to begin his own lessons.

Until another two weeks passed.

After Su Ping finished the refreshed Fishing attempts, and in a rare moment of interest, drew cards one hundred times, obtaining a pile of Teleportation Talismans and special construction and main building items,

Su Ping sighed; he was not surprised by this. The more one draws cards, the lower the drop rate becomes, and the pity limit also increases.

It must be said that the Fishing System understands card drawing.

It's just that, having already drawn, how could he be content without getting a good item?

Without a second word, Su Ping performed another one-hundred-draw.

Finally, in this series of draws, the Golden Light that should be the pity appeared.

Su Ping took a look and discovered it was actually a "double egg yolk," and he couldn't help but reveal a smile.

Luck is indeed conserved; look, hasn't good luck come now?

"Hiss!"

"Two Fire Knight Alwin came?"

"Hmm... I suppose I've been locked into this card."

Seeing the icon that appeared after the Golden Light vanished, Su Ping couldn't help but think of things he often encountered when playing card-drawing games in the past.

What you have will keep appearing, and what you don't have really won't come unless it's the corresponding pity.

However, such a card-drawing result is not bad either.

Fire Knight Alwin had already broken through once to become an official Fire Knight.

This time, two were obtained, and the grade broke through twice directly.

He was promoted from a Senior Fire Knight to a Fire Great Knight!

Just like the Fox-Mask Shrine Maiden and Qumo Zhenren Yunkong.

After becoming a Great Knight, besides the improvement in his own comprehensive strength, Su Ping also received the architectural blueprint obtained after Fire Great Knight Alwin leveled up.

That was a special building named Fire Sanctuary.

Su Ping looked at the conditions, and after discovering he could meet them, he specifically chose a new mountain peak and placed this Fire Sanctuary there!

Soon, accompanied by a buzzing sound, it began.

In the distant mountain peak, a towering, extremely magnificent crimson fortress appeared.

The fortress was constructed from blocks of enormous, incredibly smooth crimson boulders.

The style looked a bit like the Western Ouluoba style.

At the top of the fortress stood a statue of a fire-red knight on a rearing horse.

And on both sides of the incredibly tall gate passage, there stood rows of thousand-meter-high stone statues, confronting each other while holding giant shields and Long Swords or dual-wielding long weapons.

Su Ping landed on the mountain peak's ground.

He felt those sixteen pairs of confronting stone statues on both sides.

Every one of them was a stone statue as spiritually sentient as a Stone Lion.

Moreover, their aura was distant, ancient, and great.

They seemed to have an extraordinary origin.

Su Ping looked carefully at the one closest to him holding a giant shield.

A brief introduction to him surfaced in his mind.

Legendary Holy Knight, Dragon Slayer, Nation Destroyer, the one who tore apart the Demon Grand Duke, Deken...

He looked at one after another.

Hmm, they all were Legendary Holy Knights, and the majority also possessed the title of Dragon Slayer.

As for the remaining differences, it was just whether they had crusaded against a Demon Grand Duke, an Undead Monarch, or some natural disaster, and so on.

Su Ping followed the passage and entered the gate of the Fire Sanctuary.

He entered the hall inside, which looked quite low-key and simple.

There, he saw a divine statue quite similar to the knight on a rearing horse atop the fortress.

It was just that this knight statue in the hall was sitting on an iron throne.

And leaning there diagonally, its eyes looked coldly at the hall entrance through a mask.

Su Ping looked over.

Information about this knight statue surfaced in his mind:

One of the Avatars of the God of Knights, a phantom of the Fire God Knight.

His true form is the exception among exceptions of mortals becoming gods!

He once pulled the gods down from their altars with his own strength!

He is the mortal enemy of the Lord of Flesh and the Lord of Shadows!

Cave Heaven Master, as a reward for summoning Fire Knight Alwin, you have gained his recognition.

You can obtain one Flame Mark every month.

By consuming a Flame Mark, you can briefly summon his phantom to fight for you.

The stronger the enemy, the more he can obtain power surpassing his rank by consuming the duration.

At the same time, you can also extend the phantom's duration by consuming multiple Flame Marks, allowing him to burn and release even greater strength.

However!

As one of the Avatars of the God of Knights, he will be selective about his combat targets.

He will not strike at the weak, nor will he harm the kind and innocent.

Note: When encountering an Abyss Creature, the strength of the Fire God Knight's phantom will be greatly increased.

"The God of Knights... to be regarded as a mortal enemy by two of the Abyss Seven Lords, no matter how I think about it, his strength shouldn't be lower than an Abyss Monarch."

"A phantom of such an existence's avatar."

"Is this the special building reward for a rare partner?"

"No, it's more than that."

"This sanctuary fortress is also a terrifying war fortress capable of crossing planes to wage war!"

"It's just a pity that I have no way to take this kind of special building out to use it for now."

Su Ping sighed with some dissatisfaction.

Then he continued to observe this sanctuary fortress.

Finally, after having the already-promoted Fire Great Knight Alwin summoned over.

He discovered that this special building, when guarded by a Fire Great Knight,

the summoning Dharma Array inside the sanctuary would be activated.

The sanctuary summoning Dharma Array can be used thirty times a month by consuming Fishing Coins.

It can summon four types of phantoms—archers, spearmen, swordsmen, and knights—to appear in the sanctuary for duty.

These summoned phantoms, when Su Ping uses a Flame Mark to summon the Fire God Knight's phantom, will also appear as followers beside the Fire God Knight's phantom and slightly increase his strength.

It counts as providing another channel to consume Fishing Coins to increase the strength of summoned entities, in addition to improving the本体 strength of Fire Great Knight Alwin.

If it were anyone else, they might hesitate a little.

They would need to consider the cost-effectiveness of it.

But for Su Ping now, the ability to immediately increase the strength of his trump cards by consuming Fishing Coins is something else.

To hesitate even for a tiny moment would be a sign of disrespect toward his own stockpile of Fishing Coins!