Chapter 386: Longevity: My Farming-Style Cultivation Is Too Steady Chapter 386 Bone Rune Puppet!

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

The Zhuan Gu Tomb Secret Realm, which opens once every five hundred years, now appeared before Xu Zhangqing; he needed only to step forward to walk in easily.

But secret realms inevitably come with danger.

Mo Sha and Lan Tian made that clear.

Therefore, facing such a great temptation, Xu Zhangqing remained unmoved, merely standing at the entrance to carefully observe inside, nothing more.

"So many bones—I wonder how many people died!"

"Could they all be burial companions?"

"If I go in, I'll definitely have to send in a spirit pet or puppet."

Xu Zhangqing narrowed his eyes slightly, pondering silently.

He tried to use his spiritual sense to penetrate inside, but couldn't.

Essentially, this is an entrance crossing space and distance, with many restrictions.

Unless he breaks through to Golden Core Stage, evolving his spiritual sense into divine sense, it might be possible.

After much thought, Xu Zhangqing's figure flashed, returning outside, then at extreme speed found the Fortress spacing out under the Yang Tree.

Seeing Master arrive, the Fortress immediately greeted: "Master."

Xu Zhangqing smiled slightly: "Help me with something."

The Fortress naturally wouldn't refuse: "Yes, Master."

Xu Zhangqing glanced at the Yang Tree Spirit, then cautiously led the Fortress into the Stone House, and as soon as he closed the door, he impatiently transferred into his Personal Space.

In a different place, the Fortress looked around and found it similar to the previous Spirit Field.

Similar environment, similar atmosphere.

Only, there was one less Yang Tree Spirit.

Xu Zhangqing pointed to the entrance at the outer perimeter of the Zhuan Gu Tomb and ordered: "There are still nine minutes left. You go inside to explore, record everything you see, take whatever can be carried, and finally bring out a set of remains."

Hearing this, the Fortress immediately looked at the entrance, then nodded vigorously: "Yes, Master!"

It hesitated not at all, immediately walking over.

Seeing it getting closer and closer, Xu Zhangqing added from behind: "If you encounter danger or anything uncertain, come back; don't force it."

The Fortress didn't even have time to respond before stepping inside.

With the gray vortex flowing, it soon crossed into another secret realm space.

Xu Zhangqing stood at the entrance, watching the Fortress's every move.

At first, like most cultivators entering a secret realm for the first time, it felt unfamiliar and curious about everything around, unable to help looking around.

Fortunately, it remembered Master's instructions and tried hard to record everything around.

Knowing time was short, it didn't linger too long, quickly beginning its exploration.

Unexpectedly, as soon as it moved, a change occurred.

The outer perimeter's ground was covered with a layer of golden quicksand; if observed carefully, one would find micro repulsion runes engraved on the surface of these quicksands.

Just as the Fortress took a step forward, its originally heavy body suddenly floated up.

Immediately after, countless sands rapidly gathered toward it, attempting to erode it from outside to inside, inch by inch, into dregs.

Xu Zhangqing raised an eyebrow, decisively stepped forward, extended a hand inside, activated the wood spirit power in his Qi Sea, and sucked at the Fortress from afar.

Whoosh—

It flew back at extreme speed.

As the distance to the exit grew closer, the Fortress did not forget Master's warning; at the moment of almost breaking free, it dragged out a set of remains.

With a "thud," both the Fortress and the remains came back through, heavily smashing onto the ground.

Those golden quicksands, after losing their target, did not continue to pursue; they seemed to simply be protecting the secret realm.

Xu Zhangqing frowned: "Entering through this entrance still reduced 50% of the damage; if entering normally, the result is easy to imagine."

From this, it can be seen that properly exploring the Zhuan Gu Tomb is difficult.

Fortunately, there are still two chances to enter, with more ample time to prepare.

Secondly, the Bone Rune Lock has not yet been enhanced using the system's abilities.

Perhaps upon reaching Miao Shou Level, the side effects will disappear, and one might even be able to enter and exit freely.

Thinking this, Xu Zhangqing turned his gaze to the remains the Fortress brought back.

It looks like a human.

From head to toe, not even hair, skin, flesh, or tendons remain.

But strangely, a peculiar rune is engraved on it.

Xu Zhangqing himself is a top-tier existence in the path of puppets, so he recognized it at a glance: it is some kind of puppetry rune.

Different puppets have different runes.

Moreover, different Yanshi have their own unique paths and symbols.

Put plainly, these remains can be activated, and even controlled.

Xu Zhangqing stroked his chin: "Perhaps I can use these remains as consumables, so the Fortress won't have to keep risking itself."

Afterward, he shifted his gaze to the Fortress.

Fortunately, he reacted in time just now and sucked it back.

Otherwise, the physical body would be eroded clean by the golden quicksand.

Looking at it now, there is merely some slight damage on the surface.

Seeing this, Xu Zhangqing brought it along and teleported outside, then instructed: "Go back and rest."

The Fortress's eyes flickered: "Yes, Master."

Immediately, it walked toward the Yang Shu Spirit.

Xu Zhangqing then focused his attention on the Attribute Panel.

Whether to consume 10 years of lifespan to upgrade the Bone Rune Lock to Marvelous Hand?

"Yes."

A mere ten years, Xu Zhangqing did not care at all.

In an instant, the whole person entered a mysterious and profound enlightenment state.

Not long after, the Attribute Panel changed.

Remaining Lifespan: 687 years

Bone Rune Lock: Marvelous Hand

Effect 1: Open a fixed entrance with no time limit through a special medium

Effect 2: Damage from Outer Perimeter repulsion runes -50%

Effect 3: Speed of spiritual power extraction by parasitic runes inside the Zhong reduced by -50%

Effect 4: Consume spiritual power to briefly control Wen Bone Puppet for 10 minutes

Effect 5: Spirit Flower automatically Bond Mastery, absorbing can awaken Power of Inscriptions

Effect 6: Activate Three-Rune Barrier, absorb 50% damage, and convert to spiritual energy

Special Effect 1: Randomly obtain prompts from the Zhuan Gu Zhong District

Special Effect 2: Master Power of Inscriptions, can choose Ten Thousand Runes Immortal Path

Negative Effect 1: The longer the time spent inside, the more one will gradually fuse with the Zhuan Gu Zhong

After reading all effects, Xu Zhangqing couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Currently, this so-called Bone Rune Lock is more like a key.

A key that opens the Zhuan Gu Zhong.

As long as one can master it, one can obtain the opportunities and spiritual treasures inside.

But there is a drawback: the longer one stays, the easier it is to assimilate.

The good thing is, Xu Zhangqing is "exceptionally gifted" in the Puppet Dao, therefore he does not need to enter himself and can still explore.

Immediately, he entered his Personal Space again, casually mobilized any spiritual power in his Qi Sea, and then poured it into the skeleton before him.

Instantly, it made a "creaking and rattling" sound, then climbed up from the ground.

However, this Wen Bone Puppet feels different from the Fortress and the Spirit Pet.

There is no such feeling of hearts connected, like using one's own limbs.

It seems it can only complete simple commands, nothing more!