Refining corpse puppets, corpse puppet training, old man Duan comes to the door

These two corpses were preserved extremely well due to the timely application of the rare medicinal materials recorded in the Corpse Refining Technique.

Even in this scorching, furnace-like environment, there was not the slightest sign of decay.

Shen Fan locked the door tightly with a backhand, his gaze falling on Brother Biao's corpse, and began to refine the Corpse Puppet.

Shen Fan circulated his Spiritual Qi, activating the Nine Netherworld Corpse Refining Art. The Spiritual Qi, like agile threads, slowly seeped into the corpse's acupoints.

In a unique and profound way, it connected the blocked Spiritual Veins one by one. Afterward, the Spiritual Qi, like a gurgling stream, poured into the lifeless Dantian, re-injecting a trace of vitality.

Finally, Shen Fan bit his fingertip, dripping in essence blood. Using the essence blood as a guide, he completely controlled this corpse.

Thus, a Corpse Puppet was refined.

Brother Biao's corpse was perfectly intact, and his Dantian and Spiritual Root within his body were as good as new.

Shen Fan immediately activated the Nine Netherworld Corpse Refining Art and began to Cultivate with Brother Biao.

In an instant, the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth seemed to have received some kind of summons and began to slowly gather towards Brother Biao.

Brother Biao possessed the talent of a second-grade Four Spiritual Root, which was indeed much stronger than Shen Fan's talent.

Even after being transformed into a Corpse Puppet, his talent was not affected in the slightest.

When Cultivating, the speed of Spiritual Qi absorption was significantly faster than Shen Fan's.

Immediately after, Shen Fan used his essence blood as a guide to control Brother Biao and feed the absorbed Spiritual Qi back to himself.

The Spiritual Qi, like a surging tide, poured into Shen Fan's body, starting from the acupoints, rushing along the Spiritual Veins, and finally converging into the Dantian. After being absorbed by the Earth Spiritual Root, it was then divided into the other four Spiritual Roots.

To Shen Fan's great surprise, the Spiritual Qi fed back by Brother Biao, still like a Yao Beast, opened up a unique channel on one side of Shen Fan's Spiritual Root, allowing Shen Fan to absorb it easily.

“It really works!”

Shen Fan was overjoyed, his face full of pleasant surprise.

Afterward, Shen Fan followed suit and refined Jack-of-all-trades's corpse into a Corpse Puppet as well.

Unlike Brother Biao, Jack-of-all-trades's talent actually reached the level of a fifth-grade Four Spiritual Root. When Cultivating, the Spiritual Qi he fed back to Shen Fan far exceeded that of Brother Biao.

At this moment…

In the storage room of the Waste Pill Room, the furnace lid below was scorching hot, emitting oppressive heat.

Shen Fan sat cross-legged in the center, with Brother Biao and Jack-of-all-trades, the two Corpse Puppets, hanging in front and back.

From their bodies, streams of scorching Spiritual Qi could be clearly seen, like threads, entering Shen Fan's body.

And within Shen Fan's body, in addition to the Spiritual Veins belonging to his own Spiritual Root, three spiraling Spiritual Qi, like three agile Flood Dragons, converged into the Dantian, circulating through the body and being absorbed by Shen Fan bit by bit.

The difference was that Shen Fan's own Spiritual Veins were as thin as a thread, while the Spiritual Qi from Brother Biao was like a cotton rope, and Jack-of-all-trades's Spiritual Qi was as thick as a root.

The reason for this difference was that Shen Fan was a first-grade Five Elements Spiritual Root, Brother Biao was a second-grade Four Spiritual Root, and Jack-of-all-trades was a fifth-grade Four Spiritual Root.

Different Spiritual Root thicknesses naturally resulted in vastly different absorption speeds.

At this moment, Shen Fan was equivalent to Brother Biao and Jack-of-all-trades Cultivating for him together.

The Cultivation speed was visibly increasing.

After five consecutive hours of Cultivation, Shen Fan clearly felt that the Spiritual Qi in his body was becoming more solid, and he had completely consolidated his Foundation at the Qi Refining Stage Three.

In due time, once his Foundation was stable, he would be able to break through to the Qi Refining Stage Fourth Layer.

More importantly, after Shen Fan finished Cultivating, the fire poison absorbed during the Cultivation here, apart from what he absorbed himself, all the fire poison from Brother Biao and Jack-of-all-trades was absorbed by themselves.

Therefore, the Spiritual Qi they fed back was pure and flawless Spiritual Qi.

These two were not only like tireless Cultivation machines, but also like efficient filters, filtering out everything that was toxic and harmful.

“What a treasure!”

Shen Fan secretly sighed, “With such a Heaven-Defying Cultivation method, no wonder the Four Immortal Sects of Great Li would not tolerate the existence of the Nine Nether Corpse Puppet Sect!”

Shen Fan was located in the Great Li Kingdom, one of the four Spirit Continents of this Mysterious Firmament Realm, the East Flower Spirit Province.

The East Flower Spirit Province had many kingdoms such as the Great Li Kingdom, Jiang Country, Great Xia Ancient Kingdom, Yun Chi Dynasty, and Fusang Ancient Kingdom.

Within the Great Li Kingdom, there were four Immortal Sects that shook all directions: Tianxuan Sect, Lingjian Sect, Ice Fire Sect, and Chun Nong Valley.

In addition to these, there was also the Nine Nether Corpse Puppet Sect, which everyone hated deeply.

The Nine Netherworld Corpse Refining Art that Shen Fan Cultivated came from this Nine Nether Corpse Puppet Sect, which was regarded as a thorn in the side by the Four Immortal Sects.

Such a Heaven-Defying Cultivation method, no wonder it was jointly attacked by the Four Immortal Sects and had not appeared for three hundred years.

...

The sky gradually darkened, and night quietly fell.

After Shen Fan finished dinner, he prepared to continue Cultivating.

Having embarked on the path of longevity, he dared not relax for a single day. The humiliation brought by Lu Qingzhu was like a raging fire, the motivation Shen Fan pursued day and night.

What's more, with the help of the Corpse Puppets, Shen Fan wished he could spend all twelve hours of the day Cultivating.

“Dong dong dong—!”

Just then, the door of the Waste Pill Room was gently knocked.

Shen Fan's expression immediately tightened. He immediately put the supreme grade qiankun bag into the storage room, while also preparing to burn it at any time.

“Who is it?!” With everything ready, Shen Fan pretended to be sleepy and called out.

But outside the door, there was silence, no one responded.

Shen Fan cautiously came to the door and, through the crack in the door, saw Old Duan standing outside.

“Why are you here?” Shen Fan opened the door and immediately let Old Duan in.

Seeing Shen Fan safe and sound, Old Duan also breathed a sigh of relief.

“Seeing that you're okay, I'm relieved!”

“Right, where did you hide the bodies of those four people?”

When Old Duan said this, he narrowed his eyes and asked with a hint of playful expression.

“I burned them!” Shen Fan said without thinking.

“Is that so?” Old Duan's lips curled slightly, and his eyes scanned the surroundings, as if searching for something.

“Gulp!”

Shen Fan nervously swallowed his saliva.

He naturally knew what Old Duan was looking for. This old fellow had given him the Nine Netherworld Corpse Refining Art, and now he was probably suspecting that he had brought those two corpses back to refine them into Corpse Puppets.

But seeing no discovery, Old Duan turned around and instructed:

“You brat, do you know who those people you killed were?”

“Who?” Shen Fan asked, pretending not to know.

“The leader was called Jack-of-all-trades. Although he was a Loose Cultivator, he was the Elder brother of a Personal Disciple of the Tianxuan Sect who accumulated wealth in the market.”

Old Duan explained, “Jack-of-all-trades's disappearance caused an uproar in the market. The law enforcement team is searching everywhere. If you're discovered, even a god won't be able to save you!”

Shen Fan secretly rejoiced and said, “Don't worry, I burned them cleanly, they won't be discovered!”

“What about the qiankun bag on him?” Old Duan stared intently at Shen Fan and asked.

“qiankun bag? What qiankun bag?” Shen Fan asked, feigning a bewildered expression.

“You don't know?” Old Duan frowned, his eyes seemingly wanting to peel open Shen Fan's heart to see clearly.

“It's the cloth bag on his waist!”

“What kind of cloth bag? You said the law enforcement team came, I burned the bodies, buried them on the spot, and then ran!”

Shen Fan insisted that he didn't take it.

Now that this qiankun bag had been strengthened by him into a supreme grade qiankun bag, how could he take it out?

This supreme grade qiankun bag, even the Elders of the Tianxuan Sect might not have one. If he gave it to Old Duan, Shen Fan dared not imagine the consequences.

“Brat, I saved you! You can't forget my kindness because of a small qiankun bag!”

Old Duan still didn't quite believe Shen Fan.

“Why would I lie to you? Besides, I gave you so much supreme grade spiritual rice, what do I need this qiankun bag for?”

Hearing this, Old Duan's gaze towards Shen Fan relaxed a bit.

Indeed, one supreme grade spiritual rice was worth one Low-Grade Spirit Stone.

So much supreme grade spiritual rice, perhaps everything in Jack-of-all-trades's qiankun bag combined wasn't worth it.

Old Duan said, “It's best if you didn't take it. I was just worried that it might have his younger brother, that Personal Disciple's Divine Sense imprint on it. If they track it down and find you, it'll be troublesome!”

Shen Fan's heart tightened, but he pretended to be calm and said, “Is that so? Then luckily I didn't take it! If I really did, wouldn't I be done for?”

On this point, Shen Fan firmly believed there was none.

If there really was that Personal Disciple's imprint, he would have been found long ago.

“Oh, right!” Old Duan suddenly said, “Two people came to the Spirit Field today!”

“Who?”

Shen Fan's expression stiffened, and an ominous premonition surged in his heart.