Chapter 125: Puppet

A complete minor divine ability requires comprehending the corresponding profound rule.

The minor divine ability, Suppressing the Realm, is no different, yet it is not limited to a single type of profound rule.

Besides its most fundamental spatial profound rule, other profound rules can be integrated into the minor divine ability, Suppressing the Realm.

The more profound rules integrated, the stronger the suppression effect produced.

However, Ye Qingxuan currently only needs to condense the divine ability seed; he does not need to comprehend the profound rules.

He only needs to comprehend the corresponding profound rule Dao patterns and carve them into his spiritual sea.

In fact, with Ye Qingxuan's current comprehension, combined with the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land allowing him to contemplate without reservation, comprehending the profound rules is not difficult for Ye Qingxuan.

It is just that Ye Qingxuan's cultivation base is currently too low, passively restricting his comprehension of profound rule power.

Although the power he comprehends is under his own control.

Once he comprehends the profound rules, the power of those rules will evolve within Ye Qingxuan's body, mixing into his spiritual power, physical body, and spiritual sense.

By then, Ye Qingxuan's body and cultivation base would be unable to support the power of the profound rules, requiring him to constantly suppress the power of the attribute profound rules.

Comprehending the power of the profound rules now would not only fail to enhance Ye Qingxuan's strength but would also consume a large amount of his mental energy, delaying the improvement of his cultivation base.

Ye Qingxuan's body mechanism, acting out of self-preservation, is what suppresses his comprehension of the power of the profound rules.

However, having a cultivation base that is too low merely prevents Ye Qingxuan from comprehending the power of the profound rules at present.

It does not affect Ye Qingxuan's contemplation of the profound rule Dao patterns, which is why Ye Qingxuan can quickly comprehend and condense the divine ability seed Dao patterns.

During this process, Ye Qingxuan does not even need the assistance of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land; he can comprehend it without difficulty simply by entering seclusion on his own.

The profound rule Dao patterns are, in fact, a small portion of rules extracted from the complete profound rules.

By utilizing this small portion of rules, Ye Qingxuan can unleash a fraction of the power of the profound rules in advance, which is the so-called divine ability seed.

Less than a year passed.

Relying solely on his own comprehension, Ye Qingxuan successfully condensed the divine ability seed for the minor divine ability, Suppressing the Realm, once again.

After condensing the divine ability seed for Suppressing the Realm, Ye Qingxuan sent Ye Zhaoheng to the Tianfu Shop to retrieve the Realm-Setting Stone and refine three nine-story, glazed-blue Suppressing Realm Towers.

Each Suppressing Realm Tower is currently at the low-grade spiritual artifact level.

After the Suppressing Realm Towers were refined, Ye Qingxuan refined one for himself and gave one to his external incarnation, Gui Xuanzi, who is far away in the Endless Sea.

However, since his external incarnation is currently inside the sky ship of the Tianyuan Merchant Guild, Ye Qingxuan does not know if any surveillance methods have been left in the ship's private cabin.

To avoid being discovered by the cultivators of the Tianyuan Merchant Guild, Ye Qingxuan did not transmit the Suppressing Realm Tower over immediately.

He plans to wait until his external incarnation reaches the Dongji Region and leaves the Tianyuan Merchant Guild's sky ship before transmitting the Suppressing Realm Tower over.

The remaining Suppressing Realm Tower is reserved by Ye Qingxuan for his explorer incarnation, which he has not yet condensed.

As for whether his explorer incarnation can take this Suppressing Realm Tower away, that will depend on whether the source feedback from the third-grade Cave Heaven and Blessed Land is sufficient at that time.

After finishing these tasks, Ye Qingxuan did not idle.

The promotion of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land is imminent; at that time, the area of the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land will inevitably increase greatly.

If he relies solely on himself to manage the spiritual plants within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, the matter would be too tedious.

However, there are too many secrets within the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, and they concern his future Great Dao.

Before possessing the strength for self-defense, Ye Qingxuan does not intend to let others enter the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.

This is the reason why, although Ye Qingxuan took the two brothers, Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu, as attendants, he has never allowed them to enter the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land to help him plant spiritual plants.

Previously, with the second-grade Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan relied on his cultivation base; whether planting spiritual plants or their subsequent cultivation, he handled everything with ease.

The Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land complement each other; the survival rate of the low-grade spiritual plants planted is very high. Ye Qingxuan only needed to occasionally cast the Spring Breeze and Rain Technique a few times, which was sufficient.

But once the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land promotes to the third grade and its area expands tenfold, if Ye Qingxuan continues to handle everything personally, it will hinder his cultivation.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan plans to cultivate another spell to solve this problem.

This spell is the Puppet Technique from the Earth Immortal inheritance.

Although the Puppet Technique is classified under spells in the Earth Immortal inheritance, the content of the inheritance is actually mostly related to artifact refinement.

The ultimate power of the Puppet Technique is also closely related to the realm of artifact refinement. Besides the methods of controlling puppets, the Puppet Technique inheritance contains the most information on various puppet refinement techniques.

The aspect of the Puppet Technique in the Earth Immortal inheritance that satisfied Ye Qingxuan the most is that it does not require dividing his spiritual sense to control these puppets.

After all, dividing too much spiritual sense would have a significant negative impact on Ye Qingxuan himself.

If spiritual sense control were required, and a puppet were destroyed, the spiritual sense would inevitably suffer damage.

Not being able to use spiritual sense for control also has a minor drawback.

That is, although the puppets can be controlled by the Puppet Technique and Ye Qingxuan can share the puppets' vision within his perception range, he cannot operate the puppets as if they were an extension of his own limbs.

However, compared to the advantage of controlling puppets without using spiritual sense, Ye Qingxuan can completely ignore this drawback.

What he cares about most is whether it will affect his own original body.

The puppets of the Puppet Technique can be divided into auxiliary puppets and combat puppets.

Among the auxiliary puppets, the main type is the wooden puppet.

By instilling the inheritance related to spiritual plants into the wooden puppet, carving the corresponding spells, and setting the activity area.

The wooden puppet can operate on its own, responsible for planting and subsequent care of spiritual plants within the planned area.

The main material for refining wooden puppets is the Spirit Puppet Tree.

Among the many spiritual plants within Ye Qingxuan's Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, the Spirit Puppet Tree exists, so there is no need to purchase any extra.

As for combat puppets, the types are countless.

Puppets are ultimately not human and cannot contain all elements like the human body while maintaining an absolutely stable balance.

The human body and spiritual power contain all attributes of the world they reside in, and both can exist in an absolutely balanced state.

This is also the reason why cultivators can cast spells of all attributes by relying on spiritual power.

It is also the main reason why cultivators abandon extreme attribute cultivation methods.

Because cultivating attribute methods, in the later stages, easily breaks the absolute balance within the body, ultimately leading to qi deviation and death by exploding body.

But puppets are different; during their creation, the maker can decide the single primary elemental attribute within the puppet's body.

Yet one cannot easily grant a puppet all attributes while maintaining absolute balance.

The materials used for crafting combat puppets vary in attribute, leading to different focal points.

Using materials of different attributes allows for the forging of puppets with different attributes, and the inscribed elemental spells also differ.

For instance, a metal puppet, crafted mainly from metal materials, can only be inscribed with metal spells to serve as its means of combat.

To craft a multi-attribute puppet depends on the puppeteer's mastery of artifact forging: whether they can integrate multiple attributes into the puppet simultaneously while maintaining absolute stability.

The difficulty of crafting a multi-attribute puppet is absolutely more than a hundred times greater than that of a single-attribute puppet.

The greatest challenge lies in maintaining the absolute stability of the puppet's attributes.

Absolute stability means that when wielding powers of different attributes, the various elemental forces within the puppet's body can transform and supplement one another.

Failing to achieve this, a multi-attribute puppet will easily break its balance and destroy itself.

Even Ye Qingxuan, without the corresponding foundation, would need to spend a vast amount of time comprehending this before it might be possible to craft a multi-attribute combat puppet.

After Ye Qingxuan finished reviewing all the inherited information on puppet arts, he quickly formed a decision in his heart.

Within the Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven, only auxiliary puppets are needed to help him manage the spiritual plants; combat puppets are unnecessary.

However, his avatar traveling abroad could craft a few fifth-rank puppets to carry for self-defense.

Recalling the introduction to multi-attribute combat puppets, Ye Qingxuan said uncertainly, "The seed of my minor divine ability, the Minor Five Elements Shield, utilizes the power of Five Elements circulation; crafting a Five Elements puppet should not be difficult, right?"

Saying this, Ye Qingxuan shook his head again, "Never mind, no need to waste time. A single-attribute fifth-rank puppet is sufficient; at worst, I can craft several puppets with different attributes."

Regarding the crafting of multi-attribute puppets, the current Ye Qingxuan lacks much confidence.

Multi-attribute puppets clearly involve the balance and transformation between the profound meanings of different attributes.

(End of Chapter)