[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-immortal-path-among-the-stars":3,"chapter-the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-115":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Immortal Path Among the Stars",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2320047,4537,"Chapter 115: White Bone Yin Demon Banner","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-115",115,"\u003Cp>This book was actually a cultivation manual written by a demonic artificer, detailing the crafting methods for two common Black Soul Sect puppets and artifacts: the Bone Man Demon and the Yin Soul Banner, as well as the technique for forging the \"White Bone Yin Demon Banner.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first two were nothing special—nearly every Black Soul Sect disciple could craft them—but the final one, the White Bone Yin Demon Banner, could only be forged by merging the Bone Man Demon and the Yin Soul Banner together, making it a high-grade artifact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the manual, the stronger the Bone Man Demon cultivated in the early stages, and the greater the power of the Yin Soul Banner, the higher the tier of the resulting White Bone Yin Demon Banner could become; it was even possible to directly forge a second- or third-grade artifact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A third-grade artifact was already a high-grade tool only possessed by Golden Core elders; only when an artifact reached the third grade could it change size at will, transform from solid to ethereal, and be nurtured within the cultivator’s spiritual sea, thereby gaining sentience and evolving into the legendary artifact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to a regular artifact of the same grade, the power of a true artifact was entirely different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If an artifact merely relied on its material and engraved spiritual runes to unleash magical power, then an artifact’s power transcended ordinary spells entirely—it was said to be capable of overturning rivers and seas, collapsing mountains and splitting earth, drawing perilously close to the legendary divine arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu suppressed his excitement, carefully reading the entire demonic manual from start to finish, then closed his eyes and pondered deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to this manual, both the Bone Man Demon and the Yin Soul Banner were, in fact, growable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When first forged, the former might be utterly worthless, even unable to defeat a strong mortal martial artist—but with enough bones to absorb essence and nourish itself, it could gradually grow stronger, even reaching the point of spontaneous advancement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this process was extremely slow, so the artificer had devised a unique secret technique called \"White Bone Nine Refinements,\" which allowed special spiritual bones to be fused into the Bone Man Demon’s body to strengthen it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yin Soul Banner was the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most banners forged were ungraded artifacts, but with sufficient yin souls to absorb, their power could surge rapidly, potentially evolving into graded artifacts, even second-grade ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was precisely why Black Soul Sect disciples all carried one—after all, who wouldn’t prefer an artifact that could grow on its own?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the Yin Soul Banner was weaker than other artifacts of the same grade, its upper limit was high enough, and its forging was simple; any demonic disciple with basic artifice knowledge could craft one, making it wildly popular within the Black Soul Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu forced himself to calm down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The White Bone Yin Demon Banner was indeed a valuable item, and its forging was not difficult; even if he couldn’t forge a third-grade one, a second-grade version would still be formidable—it was, after all, a Foundation Establishment artifact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the manual, the minimum requirement for forging the White Bone Yin Demon Banner was a Qi Condensation mid-stage Bone Man Demon and a graded Yin Soul Banner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With sufficient bones and yin souls, achieving this did not seem impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the \"White Bone Nine Refinements\" technique reminded Wang Yu of the thirteen unusual Bone Man Demons in his storage bag—could they have been strengthened by this technique?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But their aura was only around Qi Condensation early stage, still far short of the mid-stage required.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu finally calmed down, slipped the book back into his storage bag, and decided to ponder this matter further once conditions were right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out the shattered white bone statue again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half of its body had been utterly destroyed, and one of its two curved horns was missing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After examining it thoroughly with his spiritual sense, Wang Yu’s expression turned surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The internal structure of the white bone statue was largely identical to that of a Bone Man Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it have originally been a Bone Man Demon, then forcibly refined by the cold youth into a tool for casting the \"White Bone Demon Body\"?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Confused, Wang Yu put away the broken statue, then rummaged through his storage bag again, retrieving the black iron sword and examining it closely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sword was about three feet long, entirely black, radiating chilling cold; a faint bloodstain ran along its blade, and the hilt bore the characters \"Hengjiang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merely brushing his finger along the blade, Wang Yu knew it was primarily forged from iron essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But strangely, an iron essence artifact could never be this resilient—it had withstood the full force of his second-level Breathing Technique—and its flight speed was also unnaturally fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, when he had tried to destroy this \"Hengjiang\" sword earlier, the middle-aged Daoist had instantly suffered severe injury, as if his soul had been bound to the blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Wang Yu instinctively tapped the blade with his finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hum.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black iron sword trembled, emitting a low hum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu was startled—the faint bloodstain on the blade seemed to grow even fainter during the vibration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He changed his mind, took a deep breath, and his arms instantly thickened; one hand gripped the hilt, the other repeatedly struck the blade with force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hengjiang sword shuddered violently, its hum never ceasing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, in a tree hollow miles away from the mechanical flying bird, the middle-aged Daoist, who had been meditating to heal, suddenly spat blood repeatedly, then cried out, \"The sword cultivator has betrayed me!\" and died instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side, Wang Yu watched as the bloodstain on the sword vanished completely, sighed in relief, and stored the sword back in his bag, preparing to study it later, then resumed meditation to restore his spiritual energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One day later, above a dense forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A snow-white giant crane, drenched in blood, flapped its wings desperately forward; atop its back stood a plain-faced, yellow-haired woman from the Four Symbols Sect, activating a circular disc that emitted a white light shield, enveloping both herself and the crane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten zhang behind the crane, two rolling clouds of black qi pursued relentlessly, spitting out bone arrows wrapped in black mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of these attacks were blocked by the crane’s light shield, but some arrows pierced through, striking the crane’s body and instantly exploding into countless sharp bone shards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the crane’s feathers were exceptionally tough, they were now sliced open by the shards, leaving long, thin wounds that bled profusely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the yellow-haired woman’s face turned deathly pale; her talismans and array discs were exhausted, her internal spiritual energy nearly depleted. She could only form a hand seal and barely summon a simple Healing Spell to slow the bleeding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where do you think you’re running, girl? Surrender now, and I’ll give you a quick death. Otherwise, when we catch you, you’ll learn what it means to beg for death but be denied it.\" A gruff male voice echoed from the black qi behind, followed by another volley of seven or eight bone arrows, adding fresh wounds to the crane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the crane’s speed slow further, the woman felt despair rising. She touched something in her bosom, glanced down at the dense forest below, then suddenly urged her spiritual bird downward, plunging headlong into the trees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two black qi clouds behind followed without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Today’s Tomato Annual Meeting kept me too busy to write—don’t wait for Chapter Two.)\u003C\u002Fp>",1271,"2026-06-20T15:44:30.991Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","4cf572f37e729d0ce8389a88265d7efda3839b47dbe90ddaa872f6d1ba16312a","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-116","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-114",530,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-immortal-path-among-the-stars-cover.jpg"]