Chapter 472: 150 Nascent Souls fall, Puppet Soul advances to Nascent Soul (10K requests for monthly tickets)_2
At this moment, Su Yu was sitting cross-legged on the jade bed, but the world around him seemed to have formed a gravitational field.
This gravitational field originated from the weighty physical strength of the Immortal Body Refinement Technique.
It was like the spiritual pressure from the mana of cultivating the immortal path.
However, reaching the latter stages of Core Formation, each new imprint Su Yu creates is not easy now. The top-grade third rank spiritual liquid he had been accumulating before is now almost depleted.
The consumption of spiritual liquid by the Immortal Body Refinement technique is indeed not ordinary.
Pausing his cultivation of the Body Refinement Technique, Su Yu began practicing the Five Elements Method for the day.
Following the Five Elements Method, he practiced the Upper Pure Primordial Dao Law and the Golden Cicada Method.
Six hours later.
“Exhale.”
Having dispelled the Golden Cicada Method, Su Yu slowly took a breath, opened his eyes, with his looks restrained and inconspicuous, but when he stepped off the jade bed and his foot touched the ground, the earth seemed to tremor.
Like an enormous elephant stepping on the ground, his hefty strength made the entire cave mansion shake.
A few top-tier third rank formations appeared as barriers, absorbing, transforming and neutralizing this force, preventing the rock cave mansion from collapsing, the ground remained intact.
It took Su Yu several attempts to adjust his strength, becoming lighter until he returned to normal. He then smoothly descended from the jade bed, standing within the cave mansion.
He looked at his proficiency panel in his mind.
[Cultivation Techniques: Immortal Body Refinement (Three layers, proficiency 74.16%), Five Elements Method (Core Formation Realm five layers, proficiency 94.87%)….Golden Cicada Method 98.11%]
“The third layer of the Body Refinement Technique, with seventy-four percent proficiency, has already broken beyond the previous realm of the Demon Gator. It matches up to the seventh layer of the Core Formation Realm.” Su Yu was delighted, his skill of Body Refinement had improved again, his strength had once again considerably risen.
Also close to breakthroughs were the Five Elements Method and the Golden Cicada Method.
“The Five Elements Method will likely breakthrough to the sixth layer of the Core Formation Realm within this year, the Golden Cicada Method—requires a few more years.”
Collecting his thoughts, Su Yu left his meditation room to go to the Affairs Hall to receive his third daily task.
Unknowingly, fifteen years had passed since he joined the Earth Immortal Mansion.
A month after Su Yu left his meditation room, the Sky Thunder Rat Demon King progressed into the superior tier of third rank.
Half a year later.
Luo Qianyu’s cultivation broke through to the seventh layer of the Core Formation Realm. Finally deciding to leave the sect, she headed to a marketplace under the control of Black Prison Immortal City, following the arrangement made by the Affairs Hall.
Su Yu saw her off. Before Luo Qianyu stepped onto the transmission array, he gave her a Qiankun bag which contained thirty superior third rank talismans and some superior third rank elixirs.
And also a premium quality magic artifact Token that could transmit messages.
As Su Yu watched, Luo Qianyu, accompanied by a dazzling glow from the transmission array, looked at him smiling. Her lips seemed to be gently uttering something, but her figure disappeared instantly.
“What did she want to say?” Su Yu took out the token, but after considering it, decided to put it away again.
Forget it.
It shouldn’t be anything urgent.
After Luo Qianyu left the sect, Su Yu continued to return to Da Yu Peak for closed-door cultivation.
A few months later.
Accompanied by a strange movement of nature’s spiritual energy, inside the cave mansion, Su Yu using the spiritual energy of a superior third rank spiritual liquid, the Five Elements Method successfully broke through to the sixth layer of the Core Formation Realm.
…
Within one of the eighteen peaks, the Ghost Sword Peak.
Inside a cave mansion.
A man in his thirties, clad in a light yellow Daoist robe, with a stern face was frowning as he collected his divine sense. After pondering for a moment, he put away the bronze-colored token carved with an image of a mysterious palace back in his ring.
After a long while, a glint flashed in his eyes. He muttered to himself, “What is fated to come, will always come.”
“Exhale!”
Taking a deep breath, he left his cavern for the Punishments Hall, where he took on several bounty tasks from the wanted list.
He then left the Earth Immortal Mansion immediately, using the transmission array in Earth Ridge Immortal City to transport himself to another immortal city not far from Black Prison Immortal City.
The moment he stepped out of the immortal city, he had transformed into an old Taoist in a green robe with a white mask and white hair.
He checked the map and quietly slipped away in the direction of Black Prison Immortal City.
…
Sangmu Mansion, Gongyue Immortal City.
Deep inside the Gao Family’s Immortal Mansion.
In a cavern located beneath the ground.
The Taoist Puppet, sitting cross-legged, in front of him a third-rank Spirit Mine, about half person size, crumbles to ashes after his absorption, which took less than two hours.
The essence of the Spirit Mine that looked like purple-gold was being absorbed into his body, being refined part by part.
After consuming this third-rank Spirit Mine, the Taoist Puppet slowly opened his eyes, with his aura retracted.
Perceiving the state of his own body, he silently said to himself, “The strength of the Puppet Soul has now reached the pinnacle of Core Formation Realm, and this Red Puppet body of mine has also been restored to the limit of a top-tier third-rank Puppet.”
Once the Puppet Soul transforms into a real Puppet Treasure, breaking into the fourth rank, he will be able to devour the fourth-rank Spirit Mine, and continue to restore this Puppet body.
By then, he might truly possess the strength comparable to a Nascent Soul True Monarch!
But—
When the Puppet Soul can break through, he was unable to predict.
“From the information I’ve gathered about Puppet Souls over the years, I know there are several ways for a third-rank Puppet Soul to break through to the fourth rank. The first is to slowly devour Spirit Mines for evolution, the second is to devour powerful souls, and the third is to utilize fourth-rank treasures such as the fourth-rank Spirit Jade Marrow and fourth-rank Soul Refining Pills,”
The Taoist Puppet secretly pondered, none of these methods were ideal.
The first is too slow.
The second is too risky.