Chapter 67: Getting What One Wishes

Originally, the matter of finding Feng Laogui's descendants was the responsibility of Xu Cheng Ziyan, the captain of the eleven guards. It was just that Xu Cheng Ziyan sent out several Flying Cloud Guards who painstakingly searched for several months in Guiyunfang but could not find Feng Laogui's descendants. Song Qingming, Jia Sixing, and others who were familiar with Feng Laogui in the eleven guards were familiar with this old guy himself, but no one knew the specific situation of his relatives and descendants. Xu Cheng Ziyan finally had no choice but to report this matter truthfully. She also only learned not long ago that Feng Laogui's storage bag had already arrived in the Guiyunfang Merit Pavilion.

"Indeed. As long as Captain Xu is willing to help me exchange for this item, it will be considered that I owe you a favor. No matter how many merits you spent, I can pay you spirit stones directly after adding a ten percent premium. I hope Captain Xu can fulfill my wish. Qingming will be deeply grateful."

Xu Cheng Ziyan nodded gently and then said softly, "We can be considered to have a few years of friendship. I naturally will not refuse to help a fellow daoist with something I can do easily. It's just that you also know that spirit items in the Merit Pavilion need to be exchanged with their respective merits and good deeds. Although I have saved a little merit these past few years, I don't know if it's enough to exchange for this spirit item. Now I can only say I will do my best."

"This is natural. If I cannot successfully exchange for this puppet beast this time, it can only be said that I have no fate with this item. If I have the opportunity, I will go to the Mount Bai Long marketplace to see." Song Qingming said with a calm expression.

Seeing that Xu Cheng Ziyan agreed to help very readily, Song Qingming also set down a trace of worry in his heart. With her taking action to help, the chance of this matter succeeding would also greatly increase.

Ever since seeing the power of Feng Laogui's Lei Hu puppet beast, Song Qingming had been coveting it. Now that he happened to have an opportunity to obtain this item, he was naturally very concerned about this matter and did not hesitate to lower his face to beg Xu Cheng Ziyan here.

The market value of this Lei Hu puppet beast was equivalent to a top-grade magic treasure. However, this kind of rare spirit item was generally relatively popular as long as it appeared. This time, in order to obtain it, Song Qingming did not hesitate to ask Xu Cheng Ziyan for help, not only spending more than ten spirit stones but also owing her a favor.

Even so, Song Qingming did not hesitate at all. As soon as he heard the news of the Lei Hu puppet beast, he did not think much in his mind and immediately rushed to Xu Cheng Ziyan here.

Sure enough, as Song Qingming thought, the Lei Hu puppet beast had just appeared in the Merit Pavilion and soon attracted the attention of quite a few people. Some relatively wealthy mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators, after learning this news, began to run around asking people to help them go to the Merit Pavilion to exchange for this item.

Mid-grade puppet beasts were not of much help to late-stage Qi Refining cultivators. Generally, late-stage Qi Refining cultivators would certainly not specifically spend spirit stones to purchase this item. As for those mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators, it was not easy for them to obtain merits, and it was very difficult for them to take out so many merits to exchange for this item at once. They could only be like Song Qingming, spending more spirit stones to entrust those late-stage Qi Refining cultivators who had enough merits to help.

It was just that what they did not expect was that after finally finding someone willing to help, they arrived at the Merit Pavilion only to find that the Lei Hu puppet beast had already been exchanged by someone else, so they could only shake their heads and sigh.

Half a day later, in the Flying Cloud Guard station, looking at the three-inch-sized white tiger puppet in his hand, Song Qingming happily handed a bag of spirit stones to Xu Cheng Ziyan.

"Thank you, Captain Xu, for your help. In the future, if there is anything you need from me, as long as it is within my power, I will certainly do my best to help."

Xu Cheng Ziyan nodded and smiled, took the spirit stones, put them into her storage bag, and soon took her leave.

After Xu Cheng Ziyan left, Song Qingming returned to the room where he lived, took out the Lei Hu puppet beast, and began to study it.

Obtaining this puppet beast this time was also a coincidence. If the old man who looked after the Merit Pavilion hadn't mentioned it to him, Song Qingming would naturally have found it very difficult to learn the news of the Lei Hu puppet beast in advance, and thus would not have been able to ask Xu Cheng Ziyan to help him exchange for this item.

When Xu Cheng Ziyan arrived at the Merit Pavilion, this item had only been placed on the third floor of the Merit Pavilion for less than a day, and not many people knew about the existence of this puppet beast. Seeing this Lei Hu puppet beast, it only needed one hundred and eleven merits. Xu Cheng Ziyan decisively took action to help Song Qingming exchange for this item. Afterwards, Song Qingming also gave Xu Cheng Ziyan ten spirit stones as her hard work fee according to the agreement.

After obtaining this Lei Hu puppet beast, Song Qingming began to hide in the room to study and refine this item. It was not until three days later that he walked out of his room with a face full of smiles.

Spending three consecutive days, Song Qingming finally successfully refined this Lei Hu puppet beast. In order to test how much power he could exert after refining it himself, and in order not to attract the attention of others, Song Qingming specifically walked out of Guiyunfang and found a quiet place around the marketplace.

After installing spirit stones for the puppet beast, Song Qingming released a spiritual light and released the Lei Hu puppet beast in his hand. After the puppet beast reached the air, it instantly turned into a white fierce tiger one zhang in size.

Spiritual light flashed in the eyes of the white tiger puppet, and it opened its big mouth toward a big tree more than ten zhang away, spraying out a thunder light. The thunder light flashed quickly and instantly hit the big tree.

Only hearing a loud bang, a big tree that was difficult for two people to embrace together fell to one side after a creak. With a loud bang, it shook up a burst of dust on the ground.

Looking at the power of the thunder method emitted by this Lei Hu puppet beast, it was almost the same as when he saw Feng Laogui operating it that day. Song Qingming satisfiedly put away the puppet beast on the ground.

If a cultivator operated this Lei Hu puppet beast properly, it would be equivalent to having an extra ordinary fifth-layer Qi Refining helper. With the help of this puppet beast, his fighting ability was now almost the same as Feng Laogui's back then.

Now Song Qingming basically did not have to worry about not being able to fight against demonic cultivators or demonic beasts of the same tier. Even when facing those high-tier demonic beasts in the late stage of Qi Refining, even if he still could not beat them, he did not have to worry too much about the problem of escaping. With the help of this item, his fighting ability now also instantly improved by a large margin.

Of course, puppet beasts also had some innate defects. The core of the puppet beast had to be driven by spirit stones. Although his Lei Hu puppet beast was not of a high grade, using it for an hour also required consuming one spirit stone. It was best not to take this thing out for use on weekdays, otherwise, it would be easy to make the cultivator himself poor if used too much.

Secondly, continuously using puppet beasts also consumed one's own spiritual sense. Like Song Qingming, who had not practiced special spiritual sense cultivation techniques, once he used the puppet beast for a long time, it was easy to excessively consume his spiritual sense and energy.

Once the spiritual sense was excessively consumed, the cultivator would slowly fall into a coma, which was very easy to make himself become a cultivator who died unjustly when fighting the enemy on the battlefield.

It was a pity that cultivation techniques that could enhance a cultivator's spiritual sense were very rare in the cultivation world. The Song family's two hundred years of accumulation had not collected such cultivation techniques. Even in the Guiyunfang Merit Pavilion, which had many cultivation classics, Song Qingming had not been able to find similar items.

However, Song Qingming did not have to worry too much about this matter now. As long as he paid attention not to excessively use the puppet beast in future battles, he could avoid this matter.

Spending more than one hundred spirit stones to obtain this Lei Hu puppet beast could be considered Song Qingming's biggest gain in Guiyunfang over the past two years.

For the next half a month or so, Song Qingming had been in the room at the station, familiarizing himself with using the puppet beast, and basically did not go out much.

Just the day before their eleven guards were about to set off to perform missions again, Captain Xu Cheng Ziyan unexpectedly came to Song Qingming's place.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 68 =====