Chapter 53 53. Abnormal Soul
Shashasha.
The carving knife was chiseling and pushing, pulling out strands of "snowflakes" on the fox demon's skin.
The toughness of this skin is very strong. If Song Yan hadn't penetrated the carving knife with profound energy, he might not even be able to carve it.
At this time, the "rustling" sound turned into a heart-wrenching "clicking" sound from time to time, as if the blade was about to break at any time.
Obviously, this fox demon is by no means comparable to low-level monsters like the "Two-Headed Wolf", but it is a bit inferior to the powerful mid-level monsters like the "Bodyless Phantom Crow".
However.
Song Yan paused and stroked the demon's skin.
He could feel that the skin had not yet grown.
This is a fox cub that is not yet fully developed.
If it were healthy, it would probably be better than the "bodyless phantom crow".
It has only been four or five years at most since Grandma Fox came to the North. If she can give birth to cubs every few days, then over the years, she has formed a family of one or two thousand. "Fox Cubs Army".
The fox demon in his hand is just one of them, and it is one of the ones that has not grown.
Song Yan closed his eyes slightly, recalling what he had learned from his previous soul search.
The memory of this man-eating fox demon is very simple: he was born, dominated by "hungry", and a gentle and charming voice echoed in his mind forever, "Eat, eat, eat, grow up quickly, become strong, and then Come back to mother”.
And the owner of that voice no longer cares about them, whether they are alive or dead.
It relies on some knowledge born in the blood to deceive, cannibalize, grow, and quickly acquire wisdom.
Then one day, he and a large number of "brothers and sisters" broke into the Puppet Sect, swarmed up from the dark corners of the mountains and forests, and went to remote places to eat people.
They have keen senses, flexible movements, and are very good at changing their self-image and illusions. Without special spells, few people in the same realm can detect them.
This makes them have no natural enemies in low-level areas.
Song Yan couldn't help but think of a description - the invasion of alien species and the outbreak of ecological disaster.
In the world before time travel, humans stood aloof, standing at the top of the ecological chain, and did not participate in the natural selection of species. This was also true for things like "crayfish flooding" and "rabbit flooding" I felt like I was watching a joke, but in this different world, it didn't seem to be the case.
If there are no monks, or the monks cannot stop them, the "high-niche foxes" will eat up all the "aboriginal humans", and then turn this place into a demon country full of fox demons.
In this vast and unknown world, human beings are just one of many species, neither inferior nor superior, and have no arrogant privileges.
That’s all.
Brush~
Song Yan raised his hand, shook the made shadow puppet, then made a gesture of offering incense with both hands, and slowly bowed to the shadow puppet, then pressed the shadow puppet with one hand, and raised the other hand to face the dark void. He raised his hand gently.
The shadow puppet, which had obviously cooled down for a long time, suddenly gained warmth, and the hard skin even had a warm and soft touch to the living person.
But the hand that summoned souls became extremely cold.
Straws of unspeakable biting ink flowed from Song Yan's fingertips, then stopped on the surface of the shadow puppet, and slowly solidified.
This is the "spiritualism" in "Painted Skin Spiritualism".
Taken together with the stone master's "leather-making experience", there are three "soul sources" for "Calling Souls".
The first place is also the most common place: the remnant soul of the original owner.
The original owner died, but there was still a broken soul scattered in the skin. In addition, the soul of the newly deceased will stay in the world for several days, during which it will quickly break into pieces, which will imply the cause and effect of this life. Only when the soul is shattered and thrown away will he leave this world.
The so-called "the body dies, the Tao disappears, and the cause and effect disappear" is such a truth, which also implies "Tou Qi", "Meng Po Tang" and other sayings, which Song Yan understands very well.
And these fragments are the best source of "soul calling".
To put it in layman's terms, it means "you have to make leather while it's hot, and pay attention to the original one."
The second place is: a lonely soul in the wild.
The soul fragments containing cause and effect will not be taken to reincarnation, so they are scattered here, or combined with Xuan Qi to form evil spirits, or form some invisible and intangible things, but if you accidentally hit them, you will get seriously ill. The "lonely ghost" in the field.
There are such lonely ghosts scattered everywhere in this world. When they feel the power of flesh and blood from the "shadow puppets", they will instinctively come closer and be sucked into it, and then become confused and interact with " The remaining souls on the "shadow puppet" are combined, and they think that they are the existence engraved on the "shadow puppet".
This is the most common.
But because it is "not original", the shadow puppets produced will naturally be a little different.
The third place is Master Shi’s guess: the powerful remnant soul.
Master Shi believes that since the death of the body will leave fragments of the soul, if a great power in the world dies, will such fragments be left behind? If you recruit the remnants of powerful souls into shadow puppets, the power they can exert will be even more powerful.
As the soul slowly gathers and solidifies.
Song Yan's gentle soul-calling hand suddenly became violent, tightly grasping the solid soul and pressing it into the skin.
This step is the "Painted Skin Slave Soul Technique" after a mutation of "Painted Skin Soul Slave Technique".
Spiritualism is to let the soul enter the skin by itself. There is danger during this process. For the sake of safety, the skin masters are likely to fail at this step. As a result, the shadow puppets were destroyed and the souls they summoned flew away.
But the slave soul is completely fine, because Song Yan will directly press it in regardless of whether the soul wants it or not.
As the remnant soul of the original owner entered the body, Song Yan shot out a ray of mysterious energy from the fingertips of his left hand to connect it, holding the fox demon shadow puppet like the "strings" on a "puppet". The fox demon shadow puppet suddenly stood up on the table as if it had been inflated, and then started moving with its legs swinging.
However, Song Yan's right hand did not stop.
The hand continued to wave in the darkness.
If any leather master saw this scene, he would be so frightened that he would shout, "Stop, stop, stop quickly, are you dying?" Because this is a taboo for "recruiting spirits".
"One skin and one soul" is quite dangerous, but "one skin and multiple souls" simply forces the shadow puppets to riot, devour their masters, and kill people.
Sure enough, another solid ghost appeared on top of the shadow puppet.
But the ghost seemed to feel that there was a soul in the shadow puppet, so it became angry.
However, before it could become irritable, the dark hand gripped it in an even more irritable manner and pressed it forcefully into the fox demon shadow puppet.
Two souls, the same shadow puppet.
After a while, the shadow puppet began to make a sound "similar to boiling water rolling, water pouring into boiling oil", and the fox demon shadow puppet, which was originally light and delicate, began to become deformed.
Although it is deformed, it can still be seen that it is a fox.
Ran.
The soul-calling hand has not stopped yet, and continues to attract lonely ghosts in the air, and then continues to stuff the condensed ghosts into the shadow puppets.
This is Song Yan's first real attempt to use the second perfect mutation of the "Painted Skin Abnormal Soul Technique". This is second only to the "Hundred-Phase Demonic Body" magic. It took him more than 3,000 years to understand it. out of the spell.
As the ghosts in the shadow puppets mutate and become deformed, Song Yan feels that the shadow puppets are also getting stronger. They have transcended their previous lives and climbed to a higher realm step by step.
If the fox demon was just an intermediate monster that could not compare with the "Bodyless Phantom Crow" before, now it has surpassed the "Bodyless Phantom Crow" and is even close to the high-level monster.
The remnants of the mighty souls have entered the shadow puppets, and I’m afraid this is nothing more than that.
"Ha"
"Hahaha"
In the darkness, Song Yan let out a deep laugh.
Outside the crystal skylight on the dome of the cave, a night of spring rain had stopped, and golden light fell from the sky, shining from top to bottom on the man's jet-black hair, but instead made his face completely immersed in darkness.
He put away the "Shadow Puppet of a Fox Demon with a Deformed Soul and One Tail" that was infinitely close to a high-level monster, and then heaved a sigh of relief.
Feeling tired, he took off his clothes, got into the cave on the side, hugged the two girls of the Fu family, and fell asleep.
A few hours later.
Song Yan opened his eyes. He slept soundly and was recovering well. But as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the queen's beautiful eyes burning with anger.
"Can you stop doing this?!"
Song Yan smiled and said: "How?"
If he didn't have any special hobbies, he couldn't explain why he gave such a large dose to the two women. of hypnotic powder.
In the previous few stays, he came back in the middle of the night and did not increase the dosage, so it can be explained that Xuanqi Cave is a good place to "aid sleep" and can make people sleep through it. Daybreak.
Last night, in order to make shadow puppets, he added a lot more.
Fu Shirong is different from Qiu Lianyue. She is a very smart and perceptive woman. She will definitely guess that she has been drugged, and then she will definitely guess that Song Yan is going to do something secretly.
So, Song Yan might as well let her guess that what she wanted to do secretly was just to steal good fortune and jade.
After all, what else could he do?
On the other side, Fu Hongmian was lying weakly because of Ji Yuan.
Song Yan stood up, put the Strengthening Shendan on the table, turned around and left. After walking a few steps, he suddenly remembered the Queen's fierceness, so he took out a martial arts booklet and put it on the table. On the stone table, he said: "It's really boring, let's practice."
The cover of this martial arts booklet was made up of some old books, but the content was compiled by himself.
His martial arts skills are so good that he can defeat the capital city of Jiangnan with one blow. He regards him as a god and is already invincible in the world. What he teaches in this booklet is even better than the essence of the "Four Sparrows".
Fu Shirong looked disgusted and didn't want to touch the booklet, but Fu Hongmian flipped through it out of curiosity. After flipping through it, the little guard was stunned.
Her stunned look made the queen also curious.
Master Fu couldn't help but move over and take a look.
Once I saw it, I couldn't look away anymore.
Song Yan left the cave, and the bright afternoon sun shone on him, but it could not make him feel any warmth, because he already knew through soul searching that many fox demons had broken into the Puppet Sect.
And among them, there are also "mature bodies", that is, fox monsters at the advanced monster level.
He felt that the top leaders of the Puppet Sect should know.
But why didn’t the top management take any countermeasures?
A strange emotion suddenly emerged from Song Yan's heart.
Or maybe he doesn’t know because he has a lower status?
Just as I was thinking about it, a disciple suddenly ran up not far away. He stood in front of him, bowed respectfully, and said: "Senior Brother Song, the peak master teaches skills at the top of the peak, so that all those who have reached the first level of practicing xuanxuan can All the disciples are going.”
“What kind of skills are you teaching?”
“It seems to be some magic skills after entering the Xuan Dynasty, and some common sense of cultivation. The other junior disciples don’t know. ”
Song Yan nodded, said "come soon", and then headed to the top of the mountain.
This is what a sect looks like
He also happens to be supplementing his common sense.
(End of this chapter)