Chapter 410

Measuring 'material properties' is an important prerequisite for 'refining tools with the body'.

Only by clearly knowing the 'material properties' corresponding to all the tissues of one's body can one begin to consider refining tools.

Just like a chef, before putting dishes into the pot, must at least figure out what these dishes are and how to handle them to make them delicious.

In this regard, Bai Bai Zihao wrote a very detailed comparison table.

On this table, Li Fei can find the refining materials corresponding to various 'material properties' of the human body.

Which refining materials combined together can be refined into what kind of magic tool, then theoretically, using the human body combined with some auxiliary materials, one can also refine a similar magic tool.

Li Fei guesses that the Dao principles mastered by Bai Bai Zihao, this Martial Saint, are probably very closely related to the human body, otherwise it would be impossible to write such a comparison table.

But he now encounters a problem:

The 'material properties' of various components of the body can be found on the comparison table, but the 'material properties' of the blood soul cannot be found.

Blood soul is a kind of vitality given to Li Fei by the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl, or in other words, a quantification of vitality.

It is not something that can be seen or touched.

Human vitality certainly also possesses 'material properties', and it is one of the most important 'materials' for human body tool refining.

For normal humans, or normal martial artists, the 'material properties' of vitality are not much different; the difference is only in strength.

But Li Fei's vitality is different from ordinary people.

His thick vitality mainly comes from the blood soul given by the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl, not from the physical enhancement brought by practicing martial arts.

This makes his vitality 'material properties' contain something that does not exist on the comparison table, which is the 'material properties' of the blood soul.

It is highly probable that there is no second thing in this world with 'material properties' similar to the blood soul, which leaves Li Fei with no reference materials.

Li Fei possessed the possibility of walking the path of 'cultivating martial arts with magic, refining the body into a tool' because of the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl.

But now, also because of the special nature of the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl, he is stuck at a critical step.

This makes Li Fei truly experience the taste of fortune depending on misfortune, and a bumpy fate.

"But at least I have found a feasible plan to solve the problem."

Li Fei quickly adjusted his mindset.

Now what he needs to consider is how to accurately calculate the 'material properties' of the blood soul and find materials that can correspond to it.

So he handed over another 2 million to the imperial court. Besides those materials already recorded on the comparison table, he bought a sample of almost all the refining materials that could be bought at the moment.

Then he tested them one by one according to the method written in the secret manual, trying to find materials with 'material properties' similar to the blood soul.

This process also could not be separated from the guidance of True Person Master Qingding. Li Fei spent more than half a month testing all the materials he got.

But none of the materials had 'material properties' similar to the blood soul, and he couldn't even find one that was slightly close.

Unable to determine the 'material properties' of the blood soul, Li Fei could not determine the plan for 'refining tools with the body'.

It's like adding a completely unknown seasoning to a pot of soup; what kind of taste this pot of soup will eventually boil into is completely unknown.

If it were real tool refining, it would be fine; at worst, just re-refine it.

But refining tools with the body, there is only one chance.

Even if Li Fei has the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl to transfer damage, he doesn't need to worry about refining himself to death.

But his body is only this one, flesh and blood, bones, including magic arts-type implants, once refined, they cannot be changed again.

He cannot use his own body to gamble on an unknown result.

If refined wrongly, 'refining tools with the body' would not succeed, and it might even damage the Dao foundation, and the body would be completely refined to waste!

"Hoo—"

Inside the room, Li Fei exhaled a long breath and rubbed his forehead.

He found that he still thought the difficulty of this secret manual too simply.

When Bai Bai Zihao created such a secret manual, Li Fei guessed that the other party's idea might be like this:

With the body of a Martial Saint, start refining from the most basic magic tool, then enhance it bit by bit, and finally walk the path of dual cultivation of magic and martial arts.

In this way, the problem of insufficient physical strength can be solved, and with the powerful vitality of a Martial Saint, there is no need to worry about the impact of the conflict between magic and martial arts.

That is, first walk through one path, and then go to walk another path with a huge advantage.

The idea is indeed beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

With the strength of a Martial Saint, even if he successfully refines himself into a complete Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend magic tool, the improvement in combat power is not great, but the risks he has to bear are very large.

Because the matter of refining oneself into a magic tool, no matter how perfect the theory is, there may be problems in practice. And once a problem occurs, even one's own martial arts realm will be affected, and there is even a danger to life!

This is like saying to a billionaire, there is a button in front of you now, if you choose to press it, you have a 50% chance that your net worth will double, or even more.

But there is also a 50% chance that your net worth will return to zero, and you might even die!

The higher a person's net worth, the less likely they are to choose to press this button.

And those with low net worth are simply not qualified to press this button.

This is the reason why Bai Bai Zihao's secret manual is considered to have low value.

Even Bai Bai Zihao himself, who created this secret manual, did not practice this secret manual in the end.

Now Li Fei is the person with low net worth, and he is qualified to press this button.

He might be the only exception in this world.

But the probability of his success now, let alone 50%, is not even 10%...

July 24th.

Li Fei left the Royal Library.

The three-month period he promised the Emperor has arrived, and he can no longer stay in the library.

In the last half month, he also finished reading the few secret manuals of dual cultivation of magic and martial arts on the eleventh floor, trying to find inspiration from them.

Unfortunately, he gained nothing.

No matter what, Li Fei has to give the Emperor an explanation.

Feng Cheng takes him to the Imperial Study again.

"Your Majesty."

Li Fei salutes the Emperor.

"No need for formalities, sit."

The Emperor is reviewing memorials, looks up at Li Fei, and signals him to sit down first.

After Li Fei sits down, the Emperor puts down the memorial in his hand:

"I heard Feng Cheng say that you bought a lot of refining materials. How is it, has the problem been solved?"

Li Fei says truthfully: "I have now found a feasible path, but the risk is too great, and I am thinking about how to reduce the risk."

He previously set a deadline for the Emperor, and also for himself, that if he could not find a method within three months, he would decisively restart cultivation.

But now he has not only found a method, but it might also be the path most suitable for himself, and even more perfect than Lin Lin Tianyi's dual cultivation of magic and martial arts!

Li Fei really doesn't want to give up easily.

"Are you talking about the secret manual left by the Martial Saint Bai Bai Zihao of the previous dynasty?"

The Emperor asks.

He naturally knows which secret manual Li Fei has been studying recently.

"Yes."

Li Fei nods.

The Emperor frowns: "Refining tools with the body, there is only theory, and there has never been any successful example. If you choose this path, it is not even as good as restarting cultivation."

Li Fei stands up and salutes: "Your Majesty, I have seen the Great Dao I pursue on this path, and I want to try it!"

The Imperial Study falls silent. The Emperor does not speak, and Li Fei has been maintaining the posture of saluting.

After a moment, the Emperor picks up the memorial on the desk again and says lightly:

"I see."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, I withdraw."

Li Fei exits the Imperial Study.

This time it is still Feng Cheng who sends him away.

Just as the two are about to part ways, Feng Cheng suddenly says:

"Marquis of Jing'an."

Li Fei turns to look at this imperial eunuch.

Feng Cheng has a smile on his face and says softly:

"Allow me to say one more word."

"Please speak."

"I have been by His Majesty's side for decades, and this is the first time I have seen him care so much about a subject."

Li Fei falls silent upon hearing this.

Feng Cheng finally says: "I hope the Marquis of Jing'an will think thrice before acting, and do not fail the Emperor's grace."

Li Fei salutes the other party: "Thank you, Eunuch Feng."

Feng Cheng returns the salute earnestly.

The two part ways here.

After leaving the Imperial City, Li Fei first goes to the Supervision Pavilion headquarters.

He has no solution for the time being, so he intends to go to He Situ Jian first to ask about Ye Zhao's situation.

Has the other party's oath magic arts been lifted?

Has he confessed to the Altar of Heaven assassination case?

Most importantly, has he implicated Xu Jing?

"Seen Marquis of Jing'an."

After Li Fei arrives at the Supervision Pavilion headquarters, he is quickly recognized.

"Is He Situ Jian here?"

Li Fei asks.

"Official He? He should be out on business."

"Then is Pavilion Master Lou here?"

"Pavilion Master Lou is here."

Under the night sky, this separate courtyard was brightly lit all night.

After Li Fei thanks him, he walks directly toward Lou Lou Hongtao's office building.

Along the way, he meets many people, and he finds that when these people greet him, their eyes are all strange.

Soon, Li Fei ascends Lou Lou Hongtao's office building:

"Seen Pavilion Master Lou."

Lou Lou Hongtao, who is reviewing memorials, looks up and sees Li Fei, showing a look of surprise:

"Marquis of Jing'an? You... are you okay?"

Li Fei smiles: "What could be wrong with me?"

Lou Lou Hongtao reacts and nods:

"It's good that you're okay."

Li Fei: "Pavilion Master Lou, I want to ask, what is the result of Ye Zhao's interrogation?"

Lou Lou Hongtao purses his lips: "Ye Zhao is dead."

"Dead?!"

Li Fei frowns, anger rising in his heart.

Lou Lou Hongtao looks at Li Fei and tells the story of what happened in the Zhengfa Pavilion dungeon more than two months ago.

After listening, Li Fei is expressionless:

"And then? What is the final result found?"

Lou Lou Hongtao: "Ye Zhao died of a curse. The oath magic arts he made were planted with a curse from the beginning, and finally, he was cursed to death by the person behind the scenes casting spells remotely."

"Ha?"

Li Fei laughs, asking very unceremoniously:

"Then why wasn't he cursed earlier or later, but had to wait until Ye Zhao was sent into the Zhengfa Pavilion dungeon to cast the curse? If I remember correctly, the protective formation of that dungeon was set up by the State Preceptor, right? What kind of curse can break through the formation set up by a True Person?"

Lou Lou Hongtao does not care about Li Fei's tone.

Ye Zhao is an important witness that Li Fei brought out from the Tomb of Tian Shui after experiencing life and death, but the Supervision Pavilion failed to guard the person well.

Li Fei indeed has the qualification to lose his temper.

"The people of the Anshen Sect worked from inside and outside, first taking action against Ye Zhao in the dungeon, plus the sorcerer outside casting spells remotely, which finally allowed Ye Zhao to be cursed to death."

Lou explains patiently: "Although the curse can be cast remotely, there is a distance limit. Not taking action at first, one possibility is that it was beyond the casting distance, and another possibility is that the Anshen Sect had not determined whether Ye Zhao had defected, perhaps still harboring the thought of rescuing him."

"But as Ye Zhao was escorted back to the capital and cooperated with the people of the Zhengfa Pavilion to lift the oath magic arts on his body, the Anshen Sect finally had the heart to kill, and their sorcerer also entered the casting distance."

Li Fei looks at Lou Lou Hongtao: "Working from inside and outside, who is the insider?"

"An Attachment Period Grand Sorcerer of the Zhengfa Pavilion responsible for handling exotic beast body tissues. He made moves in advance in the room separated by only one wall from the cell where Ye Zhao was locked, and arranged materials for casting spells."

"None of the True Persons in the Zhengfa Pavilion noticed?"

"These materials were mixed in the exotic beast body tissues that had not yet been processed, and the aura was covered up."

"This can curse a peak Dao foundation stage martial artist across a formation set up by a True Person?"

Li Fei still feels something is wrong.

Although Ye Zhao was seriously injured by him, he was not abolished, his mental power is still at the peak of the Dao foundation stage, and he has 'Dragon Might', a core-level extraordinary ability that can resist magic arts.

With the protection of the formation, what kind of magic arts can directly curse him to death?

"The seeds of the curse were buried in the mind in advance, and materials that could trigger the curse were arranged by his side, and the formation set up by the State Preceptor did not mainly defend against magic arts."

"Of course, the most critical point is that the sorcerer who took action in secret should be a top-tier True Person whose life-bound magic tool possesses curse-type divine abilities!"

Lou Lou Hongtao says in a deep voice.

"Top-tier True Person?"

Li Fei's pupils contract.

He immediately thinks of the Anshen Sect's plot in the Tomb of Tian Shui.

Besides killing him, there is also obtaining the soul core of the eighth-grade Tian Shui Cang Soul Beast.

He thought at the time that the Anshen Sect obtaining this thing was most likely to refine top-tier magic tools.

And only top-tier True Persons can possibly control such magic tools.

Sorcerers can possess many magic tools, but there can only be one or two life-bound magic tools, and very few sorcerers with extraordinary talent can possess four or five life-bound magic tools.

Only life-bound magic tools can breed divine abilities.

If one simply uses high-grade implants plus top-grade materials to refine magic tools, no matter how powerful they are, they cannot be counted as top-tier magic tools.

So the Anshen Sect plotting the soul core of the eighth-grade exotic beast, Li Fei felt that there might be a top-tier True Person behind it who wanted to refine new life-bound magic tools, or enhance their own life-bound magic tools.

Now, this guess is confirmed.

"According to the judgment of the Zhengfa Pavilion, this top-tier True Person's attainments in curse arts are extremely high, already very close to the level of Dao principles, and it is probably only half a step away from the True One Realm."

Lou Lou Hongtao says with some heaviness.

"True One Realm..."

Li Fei's gaze becomes stern.

True Spirit Realm corresponds to True Persons and top-tier True Persons, while True One Realm corresponds to True Persons!

"Only half a step away from the True One Realm, plotting the soul core of an eighth-grade exotic beast... Could it be that the top-tier True Person of the Anshen Sect wants to use the soul core to seek a breakthrough?"

This thought suddenly pops up in Li Fei's mind.

The eighth-grade Tian Shui Cang Soul Beast, its most core divine ability involves the soul, or spiritual consciousness.

And the curse art also involves spiritual consciousness, and the two must have some similarities.

So Li Fei guessed that the top-tier True Person might want to use the soul core possessing Dao principle fragments to seek an opportunity for a breakthrough.

If this is really the case, then the Anshen Sect must hate him to death?

If the Anshen Sect really appears with a True Person, then the pattern of this world might really be changed by it.

A True Person proficient in curse arts, the deterrent power is too great!

"After more than two months, is there any new progress?"

Li Fei's anger subsided, and he asked calmly.

The person is already dead, so there is no point in venting anger on anyone else, it is better to ask something practical.

You Ming, this martial arts master, was found out after one action. A top-tier True Person who is only half a step away from a True Person cannot just pop out of thin air, right?

"Currently there are three suspects: first is Bei Wan, a True Person of the Zhengfa Pavilion who defected from the imperial court thirteen years ago; second is the Jianghu evil sorcerer Han Han Jinpeng; third is the Sect Master of the Curse Spirit Sect who has been missing for more than twenty years. The life-bound magic tools of these three people all have curse-type divine abilities, and all have the possibility of being promoted to top-tier True Persons."

Lou Lou Hongtao says, "Currently He Situ Jian is leading people to investigate. Although the Anshen Sect killed Ye Zhao, it also exposed more clues. He Situ Jian has already achieved some results. During this period, he has caught eleven dark lines buried by the Anshen Sect in the six pavilions! Give him some time, I believe he will not disappoint people."

Li Fei's mind conjures up the image of the white-haired old man with eagle-like eyes, and he nods:

"Since the Anshen Sect possesses such a curse-path True Person, is it possible for the other party to take action directly against Official He? Does the Supervision Pavilion have any precautions?"

Ye Zhao was cursed to death even with a formation guarding him. He Situ Jian's cultivation is lower, so Li Fei has to worry for him.

"Things to resist curses have already been prepared for He Situ Jian. Unless the other party takes action directly in person, if it is just remote cursing through some personal items, it is certainly impossible to kill He Situ Jian."

Lou Lou Hongtao says.

After all, He Situ Jian has not been planted with the seeds of a curse.

"The Marquis of Jing'an can also go to the Zhengfa Pavilion to receive a protective talisman. This is a standard talisman just refined by the Zhengfa Pavilion recently, and officials of the six pavilions have all received it."

Lou Lou Hongtao says to Li Fei.

This is the terror of a curse-path True Person, killing invisibly, making people have to guard against it.

"Good, thank you for the reminder."

Li Fei nods and stands up to say goodbye.

Since the case is being investigated in an orderly manner, he does not intend to intervene too much, leaving professional matters to professional people.

What he needs to consider next is still 'refining tools with the body'.

Walking out of the Supervision Pavilion headquarters, Li Fei does not go to the Zhengfa Pavilion to receive the talisman, but returns directly to his mansion.

This mansion was rewarded to him by the Emperor when he was enfeoffed as a Marquis.

Since the mansion was obtained, Li Fei has not lived in it for many days.

Previously, he arrived in Lanling City with Qin Zhen, and let Qin Zhen live in this mansion of his for a period of time.

Later, he entered the Royal Library and sent a letter to Qin Zhen, letting the other party return to Datong Prefecture first.

After all, a martial arts master, and also the vice principal of the Martial Arts University, cannot guard him all the time.

Now Li Fei's mansion is empty.

He did not hire servants and stewards to manage this mansion for him, because he was worried that when he was not in Lanling City, the people in the mansion would cause trouble in his name.

There are too many such precedents in Lanling City.

Arriving outside his mansion, Li Fei looks up and sees four large characters written on the door plaque—Marquis of Jing'an Mansion.

Walking up the steps, taking out the key to open the door, Li Fei walks in.

"Wait for Lu Lu Wenxing and others to be transferred from the Zhige Pavilion to the Supervision Pavilion, and let them arrange trusted people to manage the mansion for me, and by the way, act as my eyes and ears in Lanling City."

Looking at the empty mansion, Li Fei thinks so.

He needs to establish his own news channels in Lanling City.

Closing the door, Li Fei passes through the front courtyard and the middle courtyard, enters the backyard, and walks into a room.

There are several tables in this room, with many bottles and jars on the tables, as well as some medicinal materials.

This is the 'laboratory' Li Fei prepared for himself, where he once studied the 'Youquan' poison he took.

"If only I could do experiments to test the 'material properties' of the blood soul again and again, even if I don't know the 'material properties' of the blood soul, I could test it out bit by bit."

Looking at this 'laboratory' in front of him, Li Fei has such an idea.

It's a pity that there is only one human body, and there is no way to use it for multiple experiments.

As for using other living people for experiments, not to mention that Li Fei cannot break through this moral bottom line, there is no blood soul in other living people's bodies.

"If only I could restore the body after the experiment."

Li Fei mutters.

The refining of the body is a fundamental change in body tissues, not an injury, so the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl cannot restore it.

Once refining starts, there is no turning back.

"If it were Master, would he choose to restart cultivation?"

Li Fei suddenly thinks of Hao Yi.

Because Hao Yi also faced the problem of restarting cultivation back then.

"Wait!"

Li Fei's body trembles, and he suddenly remembers one thing:

"Master restarted his martial arts cultivation back then, not by destroying the Dao foundation and starting over, but by restoring all implants to their initial state. Since implants can be restored to their initial state, can other body tissues do it?"

Hao Yi sought a unique skill from Baoyun Temple back then to restart his martial arts cultivation—Five Phases Reversal Wheel Method.

This unique skill was originally used for error correction. If implants appeared some errors during the growth process, they could be restored to the state of a few days ago using the Five Phases Reversal Wheel Method.

But Hao Yi, relying on his own talent and intelligence, made great changes and innovations to this unique skill, making this unique skill able to restore implants to their initial state all the time.

After Hao Yi died, Master Master Yunshen, as the abbot of Baoyun Temple, passed this unique skill to Li Fei again.

Li Fei didn't think about using the Five Phases Reversal Wheel Method to solve his Dao foundation problem at first, because his Dao foundation was different from Hao Yi's situation back then. It didn't suffer serious damage, but integrated the Tian Shui Soul Bone, and the balance was broken.

In this situation, the Five Phases Reversal Wheel Method was also useless.

But now, Li Fei suddenly has a flash of inspiration and thinks of one point:

What if he doesn't use the Five Phases Reversal Wheel Method to restore his implants, but to restore his body tissues?

First use body tissues to refine tools. If refined wrongly, use the Five Phases Reversal Wheel Method to restore it to the initial state, and repeat this.

This way, he can do experiments repeatedly!

The more Li Fei thinks, the more he feels this plan is feasible.

Although he has not practiced the Five Phases Reversal Wheel Method modified by Hao Yi, since this unique skill can reverse implants integrated with the body, in principle, it must also be able to reverse other tissues of the human body.

"Master, is it your spirit in heaven protecting me?"

Li Fei walks out of the room and looks up at the sky.

At this moment, he suddenly misses Hao Yi very much.

PS: The foreshadowing buried in the second volume is finally used now~

Seeking a monthly ticket

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