Chapter 367: Eternal Life: My Steady Farming Cultivation Chapter 367 Puppetry!

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

As Broken Moon Flowing Frost lightly touched down, Xu Zhangqing returned home once more.

In his mind, the scene of Li Lingbi's breakthrough remained vivid.

At this moment, his heart was both excited and somewhat worried.

From the Golden Core Stage, he was only one small realm away; once he reached perfection, he would inevitably have to seek a way and method to break through.

Li Lingbi, with Three Spirit Roots, faced three bolts of Turbid Thunder during his breakthrough.

By this logic, Five Spirit Roots would face at least five bolts.

Moreover, this was not even the critical point.

The critical point lay in the fact that Dual Spirit Roots doubled the thunder's might, Three Spirit Roots doubled it twice, Four Spirit Roots quadrupled it, while Five Spirit Roots multiplied it by at least eight.

That is to say, if Xu Zhangqing wanted to break through to the Golden Core Stage, the difficulty and risk in every aspect would be immeasurable; therefore, he had to make thorough preparations.

The only fortunate thing was that the time left for him was extremely ample.

He did not have to be like other Foundation Establishment cultivators, worrying all day that their lives would reach their end.

Xu Zhangqing pondered: "From now on, I will only do two things.

One is to enrich myself and raise my comprehensive strength.

The other is to inquire from Li Lingbi's side about information on Five Spirit Roots breaking through to the Golden Core Stage."

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In the following time, Xu Zhangqing's life became very regular.

Occasionally he would go to the Spirit Field Periphery to patrol and review.

Most of his time was spent at home planting, cultivating, and researching cultivation methods and spells.

Through his unremitting efforts, he finally preliminarily learned the "Puppetry" runes.

How complex is this thing?

The basic runes alone numbered nine kinds, named the "Puppet Nine Chapters Runes".

Divided into: Control, Power, Sense, Change, Fusion, Ban, Life, Destruction, Escape

Not to mention there are also multiple combination runes, as well as more profound rune arrays.

To thoroughly master it, without ten-odd years it absolutely cannot be done.

Moreover, the Puppetry runes are only one part.

The key is still the complete Puppetry.

Immediately, Xu Zhangqing's heart stirred, and he looked at the Attribute Panel.

Puppet Technique Rune: Entry

Effect 1: Single rune success rate 30%

Whether to consume 20 years of lifespan to repair the Puppetry to completeness?

"Yes."

Xu Zhangqing naturally would not refuse, decisively choosing to agree.

Instantly, the whole person entered a profound and mysterious enlightenment state; the duration this time was even comparable to the previous Ten Thousand Insects Secret Record.

Puppetry is not a cultivation method, nor is it a spell.

It is a technique, a technique that requires time accumulation.

One can imagine just how complex and profound the content is.

Fortunately, the heaven-defying aspect of the system lies in that once learned, it can utilize Xu Zhangqing's current knowledge, experience, skills, insights, and other aspects to perform deduction and repair.

Unknown how long passed, he finally detached from the enlightenment state and came out.

Puppetry Technique: Entry

Effect 1: Produce basic single puppet

Effect 2: Single rune success rate 30%

Whether to consume 1 year of lifespan to raise Puppetry to Proficient?

Xu Zhangqing curled his lip: "Is this the first day you've known me?"

Whether to consume 5 years of lifespan to raise Puppetry to Marvelous Hand?

"Yes."

This time the lifespan consumed was little, therefore the enlightenment state's duration was also very short.

Merely a few breaths, and everything fell into place naturally.

Remaining Lifespan: 738 years

Puppetry Technique: Marvelous Hand

Effect 1: Produce basic single puppet

Effect 2: Produce multi-functional combination puppet

Effect 3: Produce spiritual material, remnant soul puppets

Effect 4: Produce puppet legion, pseudo-spiritual intelligence puppets

Effect 5: All things as puppets, produce Spiritual Connection Symbiosis puppets

Special Effect 1: The puppet shares perception with its creator

Special Effect 2: The puppet will possess Regular-level abilities

Special Effect 3: The puppet can cultivate and comprehend the Dao in place of its Master

Special Effect 4: The creator and the puppet share energy and split damage

Special Effect 5: When Puppet Technique Runes are engraved, they invoke a response from the laws of heaven and earth

Xu Zhangqing nodded slightly: "I count as a top figure in the Puppetry path as well."

With this skill to rely on, from now on whatever puppet I want to make, I can make.

Naturally, the first thing to make is definitely the Fortress.

With it, I won't have to do small matters like weeding every day.

Moreover, it can also make the Fortress feed Wangwang, Gege, the pearl chickens, the turtle, and the fish at fixed times and places, so that I won't forget or miss a day.

Immediately after, Xu Zhangqing rose and headed for the Basement Second Floor.

The Basement First Layer is mainly used for brewing Wine.

The Second Layer has much richer uses.

There are alchemy, Artifact Refining, and a Cultivation room.

However, most of the time Xu Zhangqing stays in the place filled with flowers, grasses, and trees, rarely entering the Cultivation room, so it hasn't seen much use.

It's alchemy and Artifact Refining that occur mostly; basically whenever there's time he works on them.

After all, only two days remain until the Gui Xu Secret Realm opens.

But this time, Xu Zhangqing did neither alchemy nor Artifact Refining.

To avoid being Disturbed, he entered the Cultivation room this time, then took out the Fortress Core.

Before thoroughly mastering Puppetry, he couldn't understand it at all, let alone imitate it.

But now, regarding everything about Puppetry, Xu Zhangqing can distinguish true from false at a glance, or make accurate judgments.

From the current situation, the Fortress is indeed a Spirit Plant Puppet among puppets.

More Common puppets include Earth Puppets, Paper Man Puppets; with just any random thing, plus engraved Puppet Technique Runes, they can be activated and controlled, belonging to Entry-level puppets.

A step higher are Yanshi Puppets.

Besides material requirements, there are also certain demands on the runes.

Difficulty — not high to say it's high, not low to say it's low.

A step more Profound are Blood-Bone Puppets.

They are based on Yanshi Puppets, combined with bones bearing essence blood and refined.

Because the runes need to resonate with the bone essence blood, the conditions are relatively strict.

Further Back, it's actually not the Spirit Plant Puppet yet, but the Tool Spirit Puppet.

This thing belongs to the ceiling tier of puppets; the material must be a Spirit Tool or Magic Tool that possesses a Tool Spirit, and an equal Contract must be established with the Tool Spirit.

Last is the taboo-like Spirit Plant Puppet.

Not only does it require a rare Spirit Plant Core, it also needs a Fusion Soul Rune Array, a Control Soul Rune Array, and a Life Rune Array — three types of rune arrays Stacked Together — placing quite high demands on the puppet master.

And it must fuse the complete Divine Soul of a Living Person or monster.

Put simply, the Puppetry path has always adhered to a construction of runes as bones, driving force as soul, Carrier as body for refining.

At this moment, Xu Zhangqing, aided by his Divine Sense, carefully sensed the Fortress Core.

By rights, the Fortress's Divine Soul should be full of resentment, but he discovered it was not.

Overall, it looked very Clean and pure.

Seeing this, Xu Zhangqing was Thoughtful: "Perhaps it originally contained resentment, but because of the Yang Shu essence, a change occurred.

Since it's like this, then return to my side anew."

Having decided, he began re-engraving runes for the Fortress.

The previous puppet master, though able to engrave extremely complex Puppet Technique Runes.

In the eyes of the current Xu Zhangqing, there are quite a few Loopholes inside.

Naturally, some are undiscovered Loopholes, and some are deliberately left Loopholes.

For Example, as long as the other party is Willing, they can drive the Fortress to launch the most frenzied attack on everything Beside it.

This Danger must be prevented before it happens.

As Xu Zhangqing continuously engraved runes, sure enough it stirred a response from the laws of heaven and earth; the Wood Law bestowed a gift, causing the Fortress to gain an effect similar to a Wood Spirit Root's closeness to nature even before Reviving.

And At the Same Time, the Attribute Panel changed again, surprisingly gaining another skill!