Chapter 352: Auxiliary Technique

This White Bone Yin Demon Flag could not be logged into the Taiyuan Lobby and was directly "copied" out.

Yet the two-stage Wind-Fire Bone Blade, also forged from spirit bone, had no issues at all.

Wang Yu flipped his hand once, and the newly formed Wind-Fire Bone Blade vanished; with his other hand, he pointed at the empty air before him, and a white bone skeleton slowly coalesced from the feet upward.

But when the skeleton only formed up to the waist, it similarly blurred and dissolved away.

Wang Yu tapped his forehead with his hand, a pensive expression on his face.

In fact, several years ago he had already discovered that not only the fused White Bone Yin Demon Flag, but even the White Bone Demon and Yin Soul Flag he had forged himself could not be copied in the Lobby.

This completely overturned the absolute rule he had long believed in—that any artifact forged by one's own hands could be replicated in this space.

If it were due to the main material, then the Wind-Fire Bone Blade, also made from spirit bone, could still be easily "manufactured"; if there was any difference between them, it must be "yin energy."

Whether the White Bone Demon, the Yin Soul Flag, or later the White Bone Yin Demon Flag, all had been infused with vast amounts of yin energy during their forging, and with sufficient yin energy to nurture them, they even possessed the potential to advance on their own.

Could this be why they cannot be copied in the Lobby?

Judging from records and descriptions in various texts, yin energy was indeed quite extraordinary.

It was not merely an anomaly of heavenly and earthly qi; places saturated with yin energy would give rise to yin spirits—the malevolent entities sealed long ago at Baiyun Temple, capable of transforming into yin spirit energy.

Though yin spirits had no intellect, only instinctual reactions, and could only enter human bodies, even a beginner Qi Condensation cultivator could easily destroy them, they were still a type of unranked ghostly entity.

Whether the Yin Soul Flag or the White Bone Yin Demon Flag, after absorbing vast amounts of yin energy, would give birth to an astonishing number of yin spirits within the flag—hence the ghostly shadows often seen in the black mist when activating either.

The White Bone Yin Demon Flag's ability to advance through yin energy nurturing stemmed from the fact that the yin spirits within would devour each other, occasionally giving rise to a formal ranked ghostly entity—the "Yin Ghost"—and the Yin Ghost, possessing a sliver of intellect, could, upon fusing with the White Bone Demon within the flag, have a certain chance of advancing into the higher-ranked ghostly entity, the "Yin Bone Demon."

The "Yin Bone Demon" was already a true second-rank entity!

Imagine, during battle, shaking the White Bone Yin Demon Flag and dozens of second-rank ghostly entities leaping out—except for Jin Dan cultivators, no Foundation Establishment cultivator could possibly stand against them.

When the White Bone Yin Demon Flag was nurtured to the third-rank level, the "Yin Bone Demons" within might break through into the third-rank ghostly entity, the "Yin General."

But as far as he knew, even across the entire Yu Kingdom, there were no more than a few White Bone Yin Demon Flags capable of summoning a "Yin General," for the yin energy required to nurture such a flag was immense, the time needed excruciatingly long, and the flag itself extremely fragile, easily shattered by powerful enemies in battle.

As for whether a fourth-rank White Bone Yin Demon Flag existed, opinions varied widely with no consensus, but at least none had ever appeared among the demonic sects of the Yu Kingdom.

Otherwise, if one could summon dozens of Nascent Soul-ranked ghostly entities at once, the demonic sects of the Yu Kingdom would have long since unified the three nations' cultivation realms.

This was precisely why Wang Yu, though already capable of forging second-rank artifacts himself, still insisted on nurturing a White Bone Yin Demon Flag.

After all, the upper potential of this artifact was simply too high!

His cultivation goal, his pursuit of longevity, would never be satisfied with the mere two hundred years of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Moreover, with this White Bone Yin Demon Flag being nurtured in the Lobby, he could avoid countless detours when cultivating it in the real world.

As Wang Yu pondered this, he formed a hand seal with one hand, stepped out of the white light barrier, and headed straight for the metal chair in the silver hall.

Once seated, after a single call, the familiar virtual keyboard and massive screen simultaneously appeared.

Wang Yu skillfully input the newly acquired "Guiyuan Technique" into the system via meditation; after memorizing the final character of the incantation, his gaze settled on a small line of flickering text in the lower-right corner of the screen.

"Taiyuan Simulation Function Preparing, Temporary Permission Count: 1."

Wang Yu stared at the line for a long time, finally making up his mind, and gave an order:

"Taiyuan, activate simulation function."

The next instant, the hall echoed with the system's mechanical voice:

"Citizen Ding Yu of Blue Star China, Special Reserve of Blue Star Alliance, Interstellar Tactical Mech Squad Member, ID GLX, Special Authorization Level: None, Temporary Simulation Permission Granted, Count: 1, Simulation Authorization Approved…"

As the mechanical voice echoed, a massive golden mechanical funnel pattern appeared on the front screen.

"Taiyuan, simulate new cultivation incantations for the Chiyang Dafa, with direction: reduce difficulty of breakthrough bottlenecks, increase spell power, reduce cultivation resource consumption," Wang Yu said.

"Insufficient simulation reserve data, unable to simulate."

The mechanical voice coldly replied in the hall, while the screen flooded with dense cultivation incantations—both the Chiyang Dafa's Huoling Gong that he had practiced and other fire-attribute techniques he had collected over the years—all pouring en masse into the golden funnel and vanishing.

The golden mechanical funnel then flipped, and a 16% icon appeared within the pattern.

"So much data is missing? If this ratio holds, wouldn't I need four or five more fire-attribute techniques of the same level for a perfect simulation?" Wang Yu muttered, frowning at the screen.

The only fire-attribute Foundation Establishment technique he knew that could rival the Chiyang Dafa was the Four Symbols Sect's "Zhuque Jue."

After a moment's thought, Wang Yu spoke again:

"Simulate new cultivation incantations for the Chiyang Dafa, with direction: reduce difficulty of breakthrough bottlenecks, increase spell power."

"Insufficient simulation reserve data, unable to simulate."

"Simulate new cultivation incantations for the Chiyang Dafa, with direction: reduce difficulty of breakthrough bottlenecks."

"Insufficient simulation reserve data, unable to simulate."

Wang Yu stared at the 36% icon in the golden mechanical funnel on the screen, his expression darkening; after long deliberation, he spoke again:

"Simulate auxiliary technique for the Chiyang Dafa, with direction: reduce difficulty of breakthrough bottlenecks, increase cultivation speed."

"Insufficient simulation reserve data, unable to simulate."

The mechanical voice replied coldly as before.

But when Wang Yu saw the 36% symbol in the golden funnel flicker and rise to 45%, his spirits lifted; he quickly spoke again:

"Simulate auxiliary technique for the Chiyang Dafa, with direction: reduce difficulty of breakthrough bottlenecks."

"Simulation reserve data exceeds 50%, simulation of Chiyang Dafa auxiliary technique possible. Direction: reduce difficulty of breakthrough bottlenecks. Perfect simulation probability: 54%, failure probability: 25%, inferior simulation probability: 21%."

The mechanical voice in the hall finally changed tone, and the symbol in the mechanical funnel on the screen instantly shifted from 45% to 54%.