Chapter 342: Leopard Formed

In the Golden Snake Gu technique of the Nanshui Yao, soul, vessel, and nature are all required. Xia Wu's weak point is collecting Gu souls. By supplementing this, the Golden Snake Gu technique reached a higher level, so she wanted to exchange with Liu Xiao no matter what.

The snake Gu secret method that Liu Xiao lacked was Gu nature. After supplementing this side, the snake Gu secret method was perfected, also reaching a higher level.

The Gu soul he refined was the soul of a spirit leopard, the Gu vessel was the bone flute, and the final Gu nature needed to be slowly cultivated. What kind of Gu nature to cultivate depended entirely on what kind of miasma the owner used.

So Liu Xiao had been pondering what kind of miasma to use all the way back.

There is miasma in Wulong Mountain, such as the green grass miasma of Tiankeng Gu and the yellow plum miasma of Shihua Cave, but the power of these two kinds of miasma is not great. It is no problem to confuse rats and insects, but it won't work for larger cats and dogs.

Recently, there is a lot of miasma in Wuling Mountain, such as the boa miasma, yellow wasp miasma, sand miasma, and wet water miasma, which are relatively fierce. Ordinary snakes, tigers, wolves, and leopards cannot withstand them, but the scale of these miasmas is very small and they do not appear fixedly, making them difficult to collect and impossible to obtain stably. They are not good refining materials.

So he decided to use the night peach miasma in Dehang Dashan to cultivate the Gu nature of the leopard Gu. The killing nature of this kind of miasma is only slightly lower than those poisonous miasmas in Wuling Mountain, but it can be obtained in large quantities. It is absolutely the most suitable material at present.

After nine consecutive days of thunder fire tempering, the amount of night peach miasma in the gourd was reduced by about half. These purer miasmas settled in the gourd, thick like pink water mist, shaking back and forth.

Next, Liu Xiao took out the bone flute. In the sound of the flute, the leopard shadow appeared from the bone flute. Roughly looking at it, it was no different from a normal leopard. Looking carefully, it felt very thin and lacked that kind of true spiritual movement.

What Liu Xiao had to do was to let it "change vessels," move to the thunder fire essence to accept refining and roasting, and then move it back after it was refined.

Under the urging of the flute sound, the leopard shadow jumped onto the stone crevice and lay on the stone crevice. As soon as the thing to be refined was placed on it, Liu Xiao discovered that this stone crevice was like a natural refining furnace, with spiritual power rising endlessly, helping the fire to become more and more fierce. Under the refining and roasting of the fire essence, the leopard shadow kept absorbing spiritual power, producing a strange reaction.

At the same time, under the catalysis of Liu Xiao's true qi, the night peach miasma evaporated, dissipated from the mouth of the gourd, filled the entire stone crevice, and slowly penetrated into the leopard shadow under the urging of the fire power.

Liu Xiao sat cross-legged beside the stone crevice, his arms stretched out, folding out strange shapes from his wrists, elbows, shoulders, etc., up and down, changing from time to time. It looked as if he was dancing a strange hand dance, but in fact, this was a kind of witch Gu hand formula of the Nanshui Yao.

At the same time, he was also whispering in his mouth, making incantations that outsiders could not distinguish. This was also an ancient Gu incantation passed down:

Six-inch green grass leaves, nine directions of imperial heaven, do not see the soil below, know the unknown direction. Evil spirit Lou ghost general, chase and catch the soul heart, cut its two liver souls, raw into the flow sore needle. Unknown Pan King cut, where to hide the shape. Press back to the ghost spring road, send to the hell injury. Death must not violate the time, collect the corpse and listen to the dispatch, order the dark to show the sun, quickly order to capture and hide!

By the middle of the night, Liu Xiao was completely immersed in it. The shadow he cast on the bamboo shed gradually became out of sync with the rhythm of his body's dancing. There was a time difference as long as a blink of an eye. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't notice it, but if you looked carefully, it would be creepy.

After refining like this for seven days, at a certain moment, the leopard shadow curled up on the stone crevice suddenly moved—Liu Xiao swore it was definitely not his handiwork.

Like a dog falling into the water, it shook its body. The leopard shadow suddenly shrank by one or two inches as a whole. Just these one or two inches made the leopard more solid and immediately fuller and richer.

The leopard shadow slowly left the stone crevice and came to Liu Xiao's side, circling Liu Xiao twice. Liu Xiao saw it clearly this time. The lifelike fur of the leopard shadow was actually countless tiny flames burning.

Between Liu Xiao and the leopard shadow, there seemed to be an indescribable connection, a wonderful connection that could not be described in words, but could feel each other's emotions and communicate simply.

The spirit leopard suddenly stood up and made a gesture to pounce on Liu Xiao.

Liu Xiao immediately recalled the situation of being chased wildly by this beast in the Ten Thousand Mountains years ago, and immediately understood what it wanted to do.

"Roll!"

The spirit leopard was stunned, and then according to Liu Xiao's instructions, it rolled on the ground on the spot, which made Liu Xiao feel very novel—it really rolled!

After testing the spirit leopard for about half an hour, Liu Xiao was very satisfied. This thing was not only full of spirituality, but its power had also increased a lot, especially the fur on its body was all flames, and it was also flames smoked by the thunder fire essence. From a few feet away, the hair had a tendency to be scorched. If it really touched it, could it be good?

From then on, this spirit leopard became a Heavenly Thunder Fire Leopard. Not to mention the power, just the appearance was excellent!

With a blow of the bone flute, the fire leopard obediently shrank back into the bone flute, which was considered a return to its old home.

At this point, the leopard soul of this bone flute was refined, but it was only the beginning. If it wanted to grow strong, it must be frequently refined with thunder fire essence and night peach miasma. This was a slow process and could not be rushed.

The bone flute that took back the fire leopard was inserted horizontally in the stone crevice, about six feet away from the thunder fire essence. This distance was just right, allowing the fire essence to continue refining the bone flute without damaging it.

Coming down from the peak and returning to the small courtyard, this place had been renovated by the big goose and Xiao Hei and could be lived in. These days, the two beasts were driven down the peak by Liu Xiao and were not allowed to go up, so they were very stuffy and were catching insects in the courtyard in boredom. Suddenly seeing Liu Xiao appear, they rushed over without exception.

"You have been wronged. I will make fish soup for you tonight to satisfy your cravings!" Liu Xiao was in a good mood and comforted the two beasts with a smile.

"I've wronged you two; tonight I'll make fish soup to satisfy your cravings!" Liu Xiaolou felt relaxed and smiled to soothe the two beasts.

Entering his own house, looking at the familiar inside and outside, he thought of some people and some things for a while, sighed softly, drove this faint sadness out of his heart, and took out the Profound Stone Array of the Deep Abyss again, carefully considering the improvement plan.

One thing to change was the swimming fish in the pond, adding the way to deal with those who catch fish.

The second thing to change was the problem of group attack consumption. How to deal with the consumption of dozens or hundreds of people at the same time?

Days passed slowly like this. Liu Xiao pondered the plan to improve the array plate while transplanting the seven-month fragrance orchids obtained from Dafeng Mountain into the flower garden. Seven-month fragrance orchid is a good spirit flower, not only for flavor in cooking, but also if some are added when refining the Illusory Fragrance Tendon in the future, the fragrance will be more illusory and the quality will be on a higher level. After planting, looking at the other three spirit flowers, Liu Xiao was increasingly satisfied.

His small flower garden was becoming more and more decent.

Just about to return to the peak to try using the thunder fire essence to refine the array plate, his heart suddenly moved.

The spiritual sense and the two ghost banyan seedlings were connected. At this moment, from the perspective of the front mountain path, someone was going up the mountain, looking around while going up.

This ghost banyan had only been sprouting and growing for four years. The main trunk was only seven feet high, and several branches were only five or six feet long, still belonging to seedlings. As the saying goes, a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger, and this ghost banyan was the same. Several branches were quietly prepared to wrap around.

Liu Xiao hurriedly interrupted the ghost banyan's boldness and walked down the mountain quickly to greet him.

If this ghost banyan really wrapped around, it would definitely die very ugly.

You know, the visitor was in the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

A late-stage Foundation Establishment sword cultivator.

"Senior Sister Lin, why did you come to visit? Oh my, please come in quickly!" ===== CHAPTER 343 =====

A Late Foundation Establishment sword cultivator.

"Senior Sister Lin, why have you graced us with your presence? Oh my, please, come in quickly!"