Chapter 242

"Finally finished carving!"

Inside the gravedigger's wooden hut, Lin Feng looked at the completed black jade statue in front of him, unable to help but reveal a smile on his face.

After this round of carving and polishing, the entire black jade statue had completely taken shape; it only lacked the final step of sealing a Guiyi inside the statue to be ready for use.

"I don't know what level of Guiyi can be sealed using black jade as the statue's vessel. If it can't even withstand a Fierce Gui, I'm afraid I'll have to go find other stone materials."

Yet this final step was exceptionally critical, as it related to what the final effect would actually be.

Black jade as a material was not the best stone for making statues according to the Ghost Mason legacy, and Lin Feng also had the memory of a talisman fusion failure caused by injecting excessive Guiyi power previously, so he didn't dare to think of the result too optimistically.

"Forget it, overthinking is useless; whether it succeeds or fails, a single try will tell!"

After struggling with the thought for a moment, Lin Feng directly put away the black jade statue in front of him, then pushed open the door and walked out of the wooden hut.

"Woo-woo~"

Wangcai, who was guarding outside the door, saw Lin Feng come out and immediately came before him, swaying about. This fellow had actually become more obedient after fusing with Guiyi power.

"Alright, alright, stay at home properly and don't run around!"

Lin Feng patted its head and then walked toward the outside of the small courtyard; it was better not to bring Wangcai along for the next step of sealing the Guiyi into the statue.

"Swish~"

Behind the wooden hut, Lao Quezi was still busy in the vegetable garden. After his labor these past few days, quite a few things had already been planted in the vegetable garden.

Radishes, greens, small scallions, garlic sprouts, and so on—crops that could survive in winter, though the growth wasn't great due to the low temperature.

"Kid, are you going into town again today?"

Seeing Lin Feng heading out, Lao Quezi immediately stopped his watering and asked him.

"That's not it; I'm going into the mountains today to pick some herbs."

Lin Feng said this casually to him and then lifted his legs to head toward the back mountain. Lao Quezi didn't find this strange, as Lin Feng often went into the mountains before.

"Sigh, he's not young anymore, yet he still doesn't settle down all day. I heard Old Liang's niece is also getting married soon; when should I go talk about it..."

Watching Lin Feng's figure disappear into the mountain forest, Lao Quezi began thinking about Lin Feng's major life events again.

When Lin Feng appeared again, he had already arrived deep within Xinglong Ling. Compared to other places, this was the one that made him feel the most at ease.

After taking out the finished black jade statue, Lin Feng directly summoned a Fierce Gui transformed from the corpse of a Corpse King Sect elder.

"The first step to sealing a Guiyi into a statue is to completely force the Guiyi into a state of dormancy; this is not a problem for me."

"However, the second step of setting up the sealing ritual is a bit troublesome. I wonder how those original Ghost Masons thought of this method?"

Although Lin Feng said this, the relevant preparations had long been made. He placed the black jade statue and the Fierce Gui directly in the middle of a stone slab inscribed with a special array, then began to inject a large amount of Gui blood into the array.

After completing this, he placed several special talismans as triggers, and finally lit incense candles. As the blue smoke slowly rose, the Gui blood in the array on the stone slab gradually began to flow.

This Gui blood was not the blood of any powerful Guiyi, just the blood of ordinary Great Gui, but now these Gui bloods seemed to have come alive, beginning to spread continuously along the black jade statue and the Fierce Gui.

As the Gui blood completely wrapped around the black jade statue and the Fierce Gui, a strange power began to erupt, and immediately after, the black jade statue and the Fierce Gui began to approach and fuse with each other under the connection of the Gui blood.

Throughout the process, the Fierce Gui was under Lin Feng's control and would not struggle in the slightest, but as the two continuously overlapped and fused, the black jade statue eventually began to be unable to bear it and appeared with numerous cracks.

Seeing that the sealing was about to fail, Lin Feng made a prompt decision and directly used the power of the Tou Gui to forcibly stitch the nearly shattering black jade statue together!

Just like that, the first Guiyi sealing was completed with no danger, though Lin Feng felt dissatisfied looking at the final product.

"Black jade material is indeed not the first choice for making statues. It couldn't even withstand sealing just one Fierce Gui. A statue array composed of this could only strengthen two or three thousand soldiers at most."

Although the statue did not fail to fuse due to the power of the Tou Gui, it was ultimately inferior to a perfectly sealed statue.

It could only be said to be barely usable, but one shouldn't expect much effect from such a statue.

"Forget it, the Soul-Walkers have already found Black Steel Stone. That material is much sturdier; using that stone to make statues next will be a better choice!"

"Now, let's test the effect of the array first!"

Shaking his head, Lin Feng directly summoned the Zhiren army patrolling and defending in the graveyard, then distributed a large number of talisman plaques that came with the statue to every heavy-armored Zhiren.

These talisman plaques and the large number of talismans carved on the black jade statue were part of the same system; only heavy-armored Zhiren possessing the talisman plaques could receive the array's blessing.

Soon, more than two thousand heavy-armored Zhiren formed a battle array according to Lin Feng's requirements, and at the same time, the black jade statue began to take effect. The power of the Fierce Gui within the statue began to link all the heavy-armored Zhiren together through every talisman plaque.

"Boom!"

The completely connected heavy-armored Zhiren seemed to be in some kind of special Gui domain; their strength, speed, and Guiyi abilities were all clearly amplified.

Even more exaggerated was that all the power of these heavy-armored Zhiren seemed to be able to condense onto one of the Zhiren Xiaowei in an instant.

As Lin Feng's mind moved, the leading Zhiren Xiaowei directly struck forward fiercely, and instantly, the power of more than two thousand heavy-armored Zhiren and the statue array was all released by it.

The terrifying power instantly poured out in front of this Zhiren Xiaowei, and the originally bare mountain peak in front collapsed directly under this casual strike from the Zhiren Xiaowei!

The sudden, terrifying destruction startled Lin Feng, who hadn't had much mental preparation. Looking at the mountain peak that had been pierced through from front to back, he was stunned and couldn't recover.

"Th-this, this is so terrifying?"

This time he was truly a bit surprised. One must know that there were no Zhiren generals in this Zhiren army; the strongest was only that Zhiren Xiaowei, and the rest were more than two thousand ordinary heavy-armored Zhiren.

But never did he expect that even so, after the blessing and transformation of this array, it could actually raise the Zhiren Xiaowei to such a level!

A single casual strike had the effect of a Zhiren general's full-strength attack; if it were a full-strength attack, wouldn't it be able to defeat even a Zhiren general?

And this was only gathering the power of more than two thousand heavy-armored Zhiren. If the number were larger and the strength stronger, what would that be like?

Thinking of this, Lin Feng's heart couldn't help but become heated. If he could make statues that could seal Disaster Gui or even Calamity Gui in the future, it would undoubtedly bring a huge improvement to his strength!