Chapter 409: Yin Spirits and Living Souls

Wang Yu had originally obtained the refining method for the White Bone Human Demon Banner, and later, under the inspection of the Tianchan Laozu, discovered over ten "Living Soul Banner" embryos, so he was naturally very interested in information about the three soul banners.

He later specifically consulted a large number of relevant classics and materials, gaining a certain understanding of these demonic artifacts.

The Yin Soul Banner uses spirit bones as the main material to refine into an embryo, then uses Yin Qi to nourish a large number of Yin spirits, relying on mutual devouring to evolve into mid-to-high-rank ghost objects, which are then driven to fight the enemy.

The Living Soul Banner uses the skin, fur, and hair of living cultivators as the main material, soaked in human blood for forty-nine days to become an embryo, and then uses the artifact to slaughter living beings, refining a large number of living souls into filthy objects. When fighting the enemy, they are released to defile and destroy the opponent's spells and artifacts, with very astonishing power.

As for the most mysterious Blood Soul Banner, there is very little information that can be collected; it is only known to be an auxiliary artifact for practicing the famous Blood Sea Dafa of the Demonic Path, capable of cultivating formless and shadowless blood spirits within the banner, which is also extremely terrifying.

The Yin souls used by the Yin Soul Banner are fierce spirits born from Yin Qi, a type of lowest-rank ghost object.

The living souls that the Living Soul Banner needs to refine and defile are the essence souls of living beings. Whether they are birds, beasts, humans, or demon clans, they all count as living beings, naturally containing three souls and seven spirits, and under certain conditions, they can also directly transform into ghost objects.

Therefore, there is a fundamental difference between Yin souls and living souls, but the two also have commonalities, which is that like other ghost objects, they can all strengthen themselves by devouring their own kind and others, and compared to devouring their own kind, both have an even greater craving for devouring different kinds.

That is why the numerous Yin spirits in the Yin Soul Banner in his hand were almost unable to control themselves and wanted to rush out of the talisman directly to devour the pig living souls in the two stun gun sections while at the slaughterhouse assembly line.

In the Cultivation World, Living Soul Iron is divided into hundred-soul, thousand-soul, and ten-thousand-soul levels according to the number of living souls fused.

Hundred-soul Living Soul Iron is only a first-rank material, thousand-soul is a second-rank material, and ten-thousand-soul is a third-rank material that only Golden Core cultivators can come into contact with; it cannot be seen on the market at all.

Among these, except for the demonic region where the Yu State is located, under normal circumstances, other cultivation sects would not dare to collect and manufacture this kind of third-rank material that is overflowing with evil Qi.

Because although Living Soul Iron can obtain a large number of living souls at once through the mass slaughter of mortals, only a very small portion of the living souls can be fused into the Living Soul Iron. It is said that often only one out of more than a dozen living souls can be absorbed by the Living Soul Iron.

This means that to get a piece of ten-thousand-soul level Living Soul Iron, if using mortal living souls, at least over one hundred thousand mortal commoners would have to be slaughtered.

And in the Wu State, a place with over one hundred thousand residents already counts as a small city, where quite a few disciples with spirit roots can be born. How could the nearby cultivation sects allow demonic cultivators to do such a thing?

Even the demonic sects in the Yu State would not easily go on a killing spree against the mortals in their own region, killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

As for wild beasts and demon clans, the latter are not to mention that they naturally have magic power, and their individual strength is even above that of cultivators of the same rank. As for the former, wanting to find herds of hundreds or thousands of beasts, unless it is a place where beast kings and great demons run rampant, it is not so easy to find them, and even if they exist, they are often owned by someone.

On the contrary, Yin souls, as long as one finds a place with sufficient Yin Qi, Yin spirits can be born continuously on their own, which is a thousand times easier to obtain than living souls.

This has led to the fact that even demonic sects mostly refine Yin Soul Banners, and Living Soul Banners are very rare. This is also the reason why the Tianchan Laozu was somewhat surprised when he first saw the over ten Living Soul Banner embryos in Wang Yu's storage bag.

As for why the stun guns became Living Soul Iron, besides the fact that these two stun gun sections had killed countless pigs, he could not think of any other reason.

It seems that even in an environment without spiritual Qi, essence souls will remain after living beings die. The reason he did not discover this last time was because he had no magic power himself, so he could not perceive it.

But Wang Yu still had some doubts in his heart.

You must know that this time he only discovered this at the slaughterhouse. For so many days before, having passed through places where so many people gathered, he did not know how many people died every day, but he had never discovered any signs of living souls existing. There must be some contradiction in this?

Is it that the existence time of living souls on the Blue Star is too short, so they cannot be discovered, or can living souls only exist under special conditions?

Wang Yu pondered this way, and for a moment, he had no answer. He could not help but weigh the black rod in his hand; it was heavy, seemingly a few fractions heavier than ordinary metal.

The original material of this stun gun should have been some kind of copper material, but the surface seemed to be wrapped in another layer of metal. It was originally silver-white, but now that he had activated the numerous living souls that had merged with the rod using magic power, it had turned pitch-black.

And the other piece of Living Soul Iron was still in the Yin Soul Banner.

Thinking of this, Wang Yu pointed at his forehead with one hand, and a wisp of divine sense flew out, disappearing in a flash, quietly submerging into the fluttering banner surface of the bone banner in front of him.

Inside, Yin Qi was rolling, forming another space, and dense black shadows transformed by groups of Yin spirits were tearing at hundreds of blood-colored pig phantoms of various sizes.

In the middle of these blood-colored pig phantoms, another pitch-black rod was floating there.

Whenever a pig blood shadow was devoured clean by a Yin spirit, another pig blood shadow would rush out from within, roaring toward the nearby Yin spirits, as if there was a limit to the number of living souls this thing could release at one time.

And compared to those Yin spirit black shadows, these pig blood shadows were clearly more brutal. One of the largest pig phantoms was already more than three or four times larger than its peers, and with one opening of its mouth, it could directly suck nearby Yin spirits into its mouth.

Among the surrounding Yin spirit groups, there were also seven or eight existences whose volume far exceeded their peers, and more Yin spirits were also continuously emerging from the nearby Yin Qi.

After Wang Yu watched quietly for a moment, he withdrew his divine sense from the banner surface.

The place where banner artifacts differ from other ordinary artifacts is that some space-type materials are mixed in during refining. Once refining is successful, most of them also come with independent spaces of varying sizes, so sometimes it is very normal for cultivators to treat banner artifacts as special storage bags.

Some cultivators even, if they want the banner to have a larger space, besides letting the banner advance to a higher-rank artifact, can also spend a high price to fuse in some special space materials to expand the space themselves.

The space that the Yin Soul Banner comes with is mainly used for storing Yin Qi and nourishing Yin spirits. Now that this piece of ten-thousand-soul level Living Soul Iron has been thrown in, it has directly triggered a great war between the Yin spirits and the living souls.

Although he does not know when this battle will end, the devouring between ghost objects, which should have been triggered only after synthesizing the Yin Soul Banner into the White Bone Human Demon Banner, has undoubtedly been detonated in advance.

Whether this situation is good or bad, Wang Yu himself cannot quite say, but the current Yin Soul Banner is after all only an entry-rank artifact. He believes that as long as he still has magic power, suppressing these low-rank ghost objects in the banner should not be a problem.

On the contrary, if he wants to understand the true reason why the stun guns formed Living Soul Iron, he is afraid he will have to run to the slaughterhouse a few more times and observe the situation when pigs are slaughtered more, only then might he have an answer.

If this mode of Living Soul Iron can really be replicated, then he will not be short of low-rank ghost objects to devour. In the future, the speed of cultivating the Yin Soul Banner and even the future White Bone Human Demon Banner will likely far exceed what the demonic cultivators of the Cultivation World imagine.

After all, where in the Cultivation World are there slaughterhouses and assembly lines, and where can one concentrate hundreds or even thousands of livestock in one place for slaughter at will?

Just in Peng Jie City, there are probably more than twenty other slaughterhouses larger than his.

If the stun guns in their slaughterhouses are also the same ten-thousand-soul level Living Soul Iron, what would he have to worry about regarding ghost objects for mutual devouring? ===== CHAPTER 410 =====