Chapter 641: Seeing Mo Sang Again

"Go back and practice well!"

He Pingsheng exhorted Hao Cang: "I've given you the items, and I've given you the cultivation resources. I believe you should be able to break through to the ninth layer very soon!"

"Yes!" Hao Cang said: "It won't be long. This old man has actually already broken through one layer of the Dao barrier; entering the ninth layer is just a matter of time!"

"If you give me twenty or thirty years, perhaps I can even enter the tenth layer!"

He Pingsheng nodded, then waved his hand to signal for Hao Cang to leave.

After Hao Cang left, He Pingsheng took out the materials for refining the 【Life-Substitution Puppet】.

Two pieces of the main material, Dragon Scale Immortal Wood!

A quantity of the main material, Fire-Radiance Tiger Blood Stone!

Besides the main materials, there were more than a dozen types of auxiliary materials, which He Pingsheng also took out one by one.

These materials were now enough for He Pingsheng to refine two 【Life-Substitution Puppets】.

But if the materials were strengthened, it was hard to say; perhaps he could successfully refine four.

"Strengthen them!"

Over the next few days, He Pingsheng strengthened the puppet materials while taking out the Dao-Refining Heavenly Stele to hone his own Dao techniques and supernatural powers.

Several days later, the materials for the Life-Substitution Puppet had been strengthened by He Pingsheng.

He had obtained four portions in total.

And they were all top-tier materials.

Next was the production.

Making puppets is a type of artifact refining.

Besides needing puppet materials, there were also pill fires and cauldrons.

As it happened, He Pingsheng still had an Ancient Profound Cauldron.

After continuously studying the refining method for several days, He Pingsheng finally let out a deep breath and began to refine the puppet.

The first step in refining a puppet is to melt the main materials.

After the main materials are melted, he began to melt the auxiliary materials.

Once all the materials were melted, they were mixed together, and he used his supreme spiritual sense to engrave Void Dao techniques and arrays onto them.

Thus, the puppet was formed!

For his first time refining a puppet, He Pingsheng spent a full seven or eight days before barely managing to refine the puppet.

As a result, before it had even taken shape, the puppet turned into a violent burst of energy, and with a 'Boom—', it exploded.

The massive energy fluctuation not only blew up the cauldron but even shattered the windows on the second floor.

If He Pingsheng hadn't used defensive measures at the critical moment, this entire great hall would have been destroyed.

Fortunately, the great hall was not destroyed!

He Pingsheng gave a bitter smile: It failed!

Not only did it fail, but it also exploded directly!

He Pingsheng was not one to admit defeat.

Continue!

Do it again!

He took out the puppet refining method again to study it, while recalling the problems that had appeared during his refining.

All the problems were extracted by him one by one, and then solved one by one.

A month later, He Pingsheng began refining for the second time!

The result!

Boom...

The second explosion.

Seeing this result, He Pingsheng almost vomited blood.

I worked so hard to study for such a long time, and it exploded again?

But thinking about it carefully, it was normal for this result to occur.

For example, for someone who has never refined pills, if you give him a hundred years to comprehend the method of pill refining, and then he tries to refine a fifth-tier or even sixth-tier pill on his first attempt.

Can he refine it?

Certainly not!

A cauldron explosion is nothing to be surprised about.

Then the same logic applies to artifact refining.

Although He Pingsheng had a powerful spiritual sense and the artifact refining method he comprehended was advanced enough, he had no foundation in artifact refining after all.

After losing two portions of materials, He Pingsheng couldn't help but shiver when he looked at the remaining two portions.

Forget it!

I won't refine it anymore!

I'd better find someone else to do it!

Then the question arose: who should he find?

He Pingsheng now regretted it very much; he regretted why he had slaughtered all five of those people, including Brother Gu Song, in one go back then!

If he had kept that fellow Brother Gu Song at the time and made him his slave, he wouldn't be in such a sorry state regarding artifact refining now, would he?

Sigh!

Enough, enough!

He Pingsheng stood up and tidied up the messy dojo, then took the remaining materials, went straight out the door, and came toward the Sacred Fire Chamber of Commerce.

The Second Elder of that Chamber of Commerce, Daoist Mo Sang, had also participated in the artifact refining material trade fair back then.

This fellow should know about artifact refining, right?

If he didn't know, it would be good to have him recommend someone.

With a teleportation, He Pingsheng arrived directly at the entrance of the Sacred Fire Chamber of Commerce.

Stepping into the Sacred Fire Chamber of Commerce, a beautiful-looking woman walked over, and she bowed respectfully to He Pingsheng: "Senior!"

He Pingsheng said: "I am looking for Elder Mo Sang!"

"Help me make an appointment!"

"Yes... please wait a moment!"

After a dozen breaths, Elder Mo Sang walked down from upstairs. Seeing that it was He Pingsheng, he feigned shock and said: "So it is Fellow Daoist Long Zhe... Hahaha... Long time no see!"

"Quick, quick, quick..."

"This old man has been looking for you for a while!"

"Please come with me!"

He didn't ask what He Pingsheng had come to the Chamber of Commerce for, and hurriedly invited He Pingsheng into a massive private room in the Chamber of Commerce.

This private room was one He Pingsheng had not seen before.

It was huge!

The two sat down in order of host and guest, and someone came over to serve spirit tea.

"Sigh..." Mo Sang took a deep breath and said: "Fellow Daoist Long, you truly make me look at you with new eyes!"

Back then, Brother Gu Song and the other four pursued He Pingsheng, and he knew about this matter.

Later, He Pingsheng and these five people disappeared at the same time.

And what could be confirmed was that Brother Gu Song and the other four were already dead.

Now that He Pingsheng appeared alive and well in front of him, the result of the battle back then was self-evident.

He Pingsheng had slaughtered everyone else.

Thinking of this, Mo Sang couldn't help but gasp: A guy at the sixth layer of the Soul Transformation Stage, what virtue and ability did he have to be able to slaughter five people in one go?

You have to know, this was slaughter!

Were the five people all made of wood?

Couldn't they have run away?

Or was it that after facing this fellow in front of him, they didn't even have a chance to run away?

The more one thought carefully about this fight, the more terrifying it felt.

Even Mo Sang couldn't help but feel that the Long Zhe in front of him was a reincarnator, or a powerful expert who was pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger by deliberately lowering his cultivation base.

"What does Fellow Daoist Long need?" Mo Sang opened his mouth: "As long as it is something I can do, I will definitely not refuse!"

He Pingsheng smiled and didn't answer Mo Sang's question, but instead asked back: "Fellow Daoist Mo Sang, have you eaten that 【Sacred Gu Gu Yuan Dan】?"

"I ate it!" Mo Sang nodded, but no joy could be seen.

Because, he had lost his wisdom.

Losing wisdom at the Soul Transformation Stage meant that he would only have two thousand years of lifespan in the end.

But after swallowing the Sacred Gu Gu Yuan Dan, his lifespan had increased by another two thousand years.

It was a cause for celebration!

However, with his wisdom root severed, he was henceforth cut off from the immortal path of the Great Dao, and there would always be a day when he would turn into dust, so thinking of this, Mo Sang naturally couldn't be happy.

But his gratitude toward He Pingsheng was real.

The Sacred Gu Gu Yuan Dan that He Pingsheng gave him back then, although called a trade, he had actually taken a huge advantage, and he knew this clearly in his heart.

"Thank you again, Fellow Daoist... If it weren't for Fellow Daoist Long's favor, I'm afraid this old man would never have obtained that top-tier Sacred Gu Gu Yuan Dan in this lifetime!"