On the high roof of the underground palace, a trace of moonlight shone vaguely, illuminating the space vaguely.
One after another, the puppets are stacked on the ground. The huge body is inlaid with iron armor. The fists are clenched with five fingers. They are the size of an ordinary carriage. The lines made of clay on them are still clearly visible, but inside they are Made from unknown materials and connected with silk threads.
Ji Ning's eyes swept over the giant puppets one by one. Those giant monsters built in ancient times had accompanied Shen Yu in many battles. The terrifying hammer could easily smash a hill, and one arm could easily smash it. There is the length of a winding creek.
The tall head sits on top of the body, with empty eyes. There are no spider webs inside, because his eye sockets are so big that even spiders living underground cannot pull out so many spider webs. .
This is a puppet made by thaumaturgy.
Ji Ning was shocked for a while, and then sighed.
If these puppets were still alive, I don't know what kind of turmoil they would cause in the practice world.
There are hundreds of giant puppets here, and each of them is probably not weaker than the sword ghost puppet, and they have all been given life by thaumaturgy. They can absorb the spiritual energy of the world and practice on their own, and slowly survive.
——It would be great if that was really the case.
Ji Ning fell into silence.
He remembered that in the notes left by Master Shen Yu, he once said that he had found a group of puppets handed down from ancient times, all of which were refined using thaumaturgy and fell into dormancy.
When he was learning thaumaturgy, he practiced according to those dormant puppets, but he did not expect that due to the passage of time, those dormant puppets had already undergone indescribable changes, resulting in him not being able to refine real wealth. The puppet of vitality is just a facade.
Just like the puppet sword ghost.
Although he has some independent consciousness, he is obviously not as good as human beings, and is far from a real puppet made by thaumaturgy. He must accept the control of this formation in order to be like a fish in water.
The puppets placed in front of Ji Ning were also the same back then. They all required a large amount of spiritual energy to activate.
As for Master Shen Yu, he couldn't produce so many spirit stones at the moment, so he could only keep these semi-finished products and use thaumaturgy to refine the core of the puppets, hoping that one day they would be able to awaken on their own.
As for what happened next, Master Shen Yu himself also expected it.
He had already speculated in his notes that these half-finished puppets would most likely not awaken their consciousness and would only obey his orders and die alone in the underground palace.
And those puppet cores that can automatically and slowly absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth will slowly decay over time and condense into extremely yin things, which are the Sui Yin beads he needs.
Ji Ning took a deep breath, crawled along his arms to the chest of a tall puppet, made some gestures on its chest, and suddenly he took out a bead that exuded the aura of extreme coldness.
Xue Zhongjing and others below were still standing at the entrance of the passage, looking at these behemoths with shocked and wary expressions.
It was hard for them to imagine what they would do if these things suddenly woke up. After all, it can be seen from their size that these puppets must be more powerful than the white bone puppets. They must be characters at the same level as the puppet sword ghosts. .
"That's... Sui Yin Pearl?!"
Xue Zhongjing looked at Ji Ning's busy movements. At this time, the latter had arrived at the head of another puppet. The core of each puppet was in a different position, and it took careful sensing to find it.
At this time, Ji Ning had already taken away three of them.
"Sui Yin Pearl? What use does he want to play with?"
After hearing Xue Zhongjing's words, Qi Lan also looked at Ji Ning in surprise.
It turned out that the thing that made Ji Ning willing to give up the other treasures in the underground palace was the Sui Yin beads condensed from the bodies of these puppets after they died.
No wonder Ji Ning said these things were useless to them.
"What is Sui Yin Pearl?"
Zhen Xixi asked curiously. She had never heard of this name.
"The so-called Sui Yin Pearl refers to any powerful life, including humans, monsters, puppets, yin objects, etc. After death, because there is still a large amount of death energy remaining in the body, there is a chance that it will slowly grow when it comes into contact with the spiritual energy. A most sinister thing."
"During Emperor Gaozu's time, ghost cultivators were rampant in Great Xia, and the techniques they practiced were extremely evil. The Sui Yin Pearl is equivalent to their exclusive elemental spirit stone, and it is a hundred times rarer than normal traditional spirit stones."
"It's just a hundred-year-old Sui Yin Pearl. It is said that at that time, those ghost cultivators sold it for a sky-high price of a thousand taels of high-grade spiritual stones!"
"so much!"
When Zhen Xixi heard this, his eyes immediately became hot and he turned to look at the puppets in the field.
If things are really as Xue Zhongjing said, with so many Sui Yin beads here, wouldn't they all get rich?
"Don't think about it, this thing is worthless now."
Qi Lan said lightly from the side.
"Why!"
Zhen Xixi was startled and asked in confusion.
Xue Zhongjing just said clearly that a century-old Sui Yin Pearl can be sold for a thousand high-grade spiritual stones, and even if she is stupid, she knows that this underground palace has a long history, at least several thousand years of history.
If calculated this way, each of the Sui Yin beads here must be at least five hundred years old.
You must know that one plus one is always greater than two for such items. Take Ganoderma lucidum for example. Compared with Ganoderma lucidum aged 500 years, it will definitely not be only five times more expensive than Ganoderma lucidum aged 100 years. It is possible to be fifty times more expensive. of!
Xue Zhongjing looked at Ji Ning's back with a complicated expression.
Of course he knew why.
At that time, ghost cultivators were rampant in Daxia and the world was in chaos. The demand for Sui Yin Pearl was naturally high and expensive, so many people started digging and robbing graves.
Different from today's adventure groups, at that time, almost every household was digging graves in order to find a Sui Yin Pearl. Even the most common kind, after selling it, could provide enough food and clothing for a family for half a year. Worried.
The government of Great Xia has expressly banned digging into people's graves and cracked down on ghost cultivators. However, the world is so big that even the most powerful imperial power cannot make everyone obey. What's more, the Great Xia had just been founded and everything was still in ruins. In the middle of the excitement, the confrontation with external forces and the remnants of the previous dynasty is enough to keep him busy, and there is no time to take care of the ghost cultivators and the people inside.
But later, Daxia repelled foreign enemies, suppressed internal strife, and increasingly prospered.
When the great Emperor Xia Gaozu freed up his hands to set up the Heaven Patrol Division and promulgated laws one after another to punish the ghost cultivators in the world, all the ghost cultivators who once brought trouble to the world disappeared in an instant.
At that time, the rivers and lakes were bloody, and the water in wells all over the world was dyed red, even in the Forbidden City.
In the siege after siege, the ghost cultivator lineage that once brought trouble to the world was almost completely extinct. The few remaining ones completely retreated into the barren mountains of 100,000 miles in southern Xinjiang and disappeared.
After that, Emperor Xia Gaozu, in order to prevent ghosts from cultivating the world, issued an order to prohibit the sale and purchase of ghost cultivating items, including but not limited to magic weapons, Taoist methods, cultivation resources, etc.
One of the most important things that is prohibited from trading is Sui Yin Pearl.
Anyone who dares to sell will be implicated in the nine clans if caught.
And even if you don't sell it, you can't keep it in your hands. All common monks should destroy it immediately after accidentally obtaining the Sui Yin Pearl. Otherwise, if they are found to have kept the Sui Yin Pearl privately, the Nine Clans will still be implicated.
As soon as these laws were promulgated, coupled with the strict inspections of the Tianxian Division in various places, selling Sui Yin beads, which was once a popular way to get rich, was completely extinct.
You can't hide it, and you can't sell it, because there are almost no ghost cultivators in the world, so things like Sui Yin Pearl turn into worthless rags in an instant.
Even though it is very helpful for the cultivation of ghost cultivators, this thing is only useful for ghost cultivators. If they cannot sell it for money, it will be useless for any of them to take it.
But why did Ji Ning have such a soft spot for Sui Yin Pearl that he even gave up the magical weapon in the underground palace?
Xue Zhongjing and Qi Lan both fell into deep thought at the same time.
Zhen Xixi on the side was confused and still didn't understand why the Sui Yin Pearl was useless to her. But since Qi Lan and Xue Zhongjing didn't speak, she had just gained enough benefits, so she naturally let Ji Ning go.
"Is he a ghost who can't cultivate?"/"Brother Ji, does he know that ghosts can't cultivate?"
In the silence, Xue Zhongjing and Qi Lan had ideas in their heads.
Xue Zhongjing believed that Ji Ning might be a ghost cultivator himself.
Because before, he already knew that Ji Ning was the "mortal" wanted by the governor of Xantian Mansion. Now that his strength has soared, he must have got some unspeakable opportunity.
And if that opportunity was that of a ghost cultivator, then everything would make sense. This could explain why Ji Ning, who was only in the Liugu realm, did not fall behind at all when facing the ordinary Qi Condensation realm.
The body is as powerful as a demon, which is one of the characteristics of ghost cultivators.
And now, he is collecting Sui Yin Pearls, so the credibility of this guess is even greater.
For a moment, Xue Zhongjing's face showed a trace of hesitation.
He originally wanted to steal Ji Ning's opportunity, but if that opportunity was the inheritance of a ghost cultivator, it would be useless for him to take it.
There is no way, the Great Xia Dynasty has always had zero tolerance for the existence of such things as ghost cultivators.
Even if he takes this inheritance, runs rampant in Beijun, and becomes famous in Xuanyu or even a bigger stage, what's the use? Back then, so many ghost cultivators in Daxia were defeated and all were wiped out by the Xantian Mansion.
Even if he cultivates the body of a saint, once he is exposed as a ghost cultivator, he will be destroyed immediately.
This road is a dead end.
For a moment, Xue Zhongjing fell into deep thought.
Qi Lan didn't think much about it. He simply thought that Ji Ning might have a channel to sell Sui Yin Pearl, so he couldn't help but look at the latter's back with a little worry.
The reason why the ghost cultivators are so hated by people all over the world is because they are moody and have lost the sanity of normal people due to their practice of martial arts, and have become cold-blooded and murderous.
Ji Ning is doing business with ghost cultivators, and with such a huge amount of Sui Yin Pearl, he is afraid that he will make money but not spend his life!
