Wei Yiming Prepares for Corpse Refining

Chapter 178 Wei Yiming Prepares for Corpse Refining

Looking at the jade bottle on the table, Nan Heyun's smile froze, and then he gave a bitter laugh and said.

"Fellow Daoist, you certainly know how to do business! These three bottles of demonic beast blood are worth nine thousand six hundred spirit stones. Even after deducting the cost of materials, you can still make one hundred and fifty spirit stones from this establishment!"

Li Yunfan smiled slightly, without saying much.

Seeing this, Nan Heyun could only shake his head helplessly. He flicked his sleeve across the table, and the three bottles of demonic beast blood disappeared, replaced by a small pile of low-grade spirit stones.

Upon seeing this, Li Yunfan simply took the spirit stones without even counting their quantity.

"By the way, fellow Daoist, would you be willing to sell me some of your Pure Spirit Tea?" Li Yunfan asked suddenly after accepting the spirit stones.

"Fellow Daoist Li is too kind. Although this Pure Spirit Tea is rare, this is your first time trading at our establishment, so I will simply give you some!"

After Nan Heyun finished speaking, he waved his hand and threw a wooden box at Li Yunfan.

"Thank you very much, fellow Daoist. I will remember this kindness and will certainly visit your Treasure Pavilion again if I ever need anything in the future!"

Li Yunfan raised his hand and put the wooden box into his storage bag, then smiled and cupped his hands in a gesture of respect, saying something.

Upon hearing this, a smile returned to Nan Heyun's face.

After leaving the Treasure Pavilion, Li Yunfan did not continue to explore. Instead, he took Li Yunshu away from Duanfeng Mountain and flew towards another market town that was relatively far away.

After entering the market, Li Yunfan also bought some materials and spiritual herbs, and then returned to Luoyun Sect.

After sending his younger sister back to her cave on White Phoenix Peak, he instructed her to cultivate diligently this time and at least raise her cultivation level to the Foundation Establishment realm.

Li Yunshu pouted and nodded somewhat reluctantly.

Seeing his sister's expression, Li Yunfan could only shake his head helplessly before leaving Bai Feng Peak.

However, he did not return directly to Fire Cloud Peak, but instead went to the main hall of the main peak first.

At this moment, Wu Qingming and another middle-aged cultivator in blue robes, who was in the early stages of Foundation Establishment, were standing respectfully in front of Li Yunfan.

"Nephew Wu, this is my nephew—" Li Yunfan glanced at the middle-aged man in blue robes and asked directly.

"Uncle-Master Li, this is Junior Brother Wei Yiming, the next sect leader candidate promoted by Uncle-Master Feng!" Wu Qingming replied respectfully.

"Wei Yiming!" A look of surprise flashed across Li Yunfan's face, and he couldn't help but take a second look at the other person.

Seeing the expression on Li Shishu's face, the two of them became somewhat puzzled.

"Has Uncle-Master met Junior Brother Wei before?" Wu Qingming asked with some curiosity.

Standing behind him, Wei Yiming also looked at Li Yunfan with a puzzled expression.

He was certain that he had never met this Uncle Li before, but the other party seemed to have heard of him.

"No, it's just that Junior Nephew Wei's name is the same as an old friend of mine, so I was a little surprised." Li Yunfan's expression instantly returned to calm, and he explained lightly.

Upon hearing this, the two nodded in understanding.

After all, Tiannan has a large population, so it's not surprising that people with the same name and surname can appear.

"It seems that Junior Nephew Wu is not yet nearing the end of his lifespan, so why is Senior Brother Feng in such a hurry to promote the next sect leader?"

Upon hearing this, Wu Qingming immediately gave a wry smile.

"Reporting to my master, although I still have several decades of lifespan left, given my aptitude, I have no hope of breaking through to the Core Formation stage."

He paused for a moment after speaking, and then continued.

"Although Junior Brother Wei is only at the initial stage of cultivation, he is already at the peak of the initial stage and will probably advance to the middle stage soon. Moreover, during his time as a steward, Junior Brother Wei has some unique insights into sect management, which is why Uncle Feng arranged for Junior Brother Wei to follow me in advance so that he can quickly become familiar with the affairs of the sect leader."

Li Yunfan nodded, thinking to himself, "I see."

"I wonder what important matter brings you here today, Uncle Li?" Wu Qingming finally asked.

"I will be going into seclusion for a period of time, and I won't be able to collect some of the spiritual herbs I need myself, so I would like to ask my junior disciple to keep an eye out for them!"

As Li Yunfan spoke, he took out a jade slip from his storage bag and handed it over.

"As for the spirit stones needed to purchase the elixirs, I'll replenish them for the sect after I emerge from seclusion!"

Wu Qingming took the jade slip and examined it, finding that it recorded the names and appearances of dozens of spiritual herbs, as well as the required years.

"Although most of the spiritual herbs in the jade slip are quite rare, fortunately the required years are not too high. With a little more time, we should be able to find them. Moreover, there are some in the sect's inventory. If you need them, Uncle-Master, I will have someone fetch them now," Wu Qingming said after withdrawing his divine sense from the jade slip.

Upon hearing this, Li Yunfan was overjoyed and nodded, saying, "Then I'll have to trouble you, junior disciple!"

"You're too kind, Uncle-Master!" Wu Qingming replied with a smile, then turned to Wei Yiming beside him.

"It just so happens that you haven't been to the sect's treasury yet, junior brother. Why don't you go and find the spiritual herbs that your senior uncle needs?"

Wei Yiming nodded, without the slightest complaint.

So Wu Qingming handed over the jade slip and his sect leader token to the other party.

During this time, Li Yunfan casually asked some questions, all about the Luoyun Sect.

Wu Qingming answered all of them.

This gave him a better understanding of the situation at Luoyun Sect.

Half an hour later, Wei Yiming returned to the main hall with a storage bag.

Li Yunfan took the storage bag and checked it. To his surprise, he found that he had already collected one-third of the spiritual herbs he needed!

So he smiled and put away the storage bag, and then took out another storage bag containing spirit stones.

Although he was a Core Formation Elder in the sect, he did not have the right to use the sect's treasury of spiritual herbs without permission.

You can only buy it with spirit stones, but the price is cheaper than in the market shops and auction houses.

He then took out two bottles of pills to improve Foundation Establishment cultivation and gave them to Wu Qingming and Wei Yiming as a small reward for helping him.

Seeing this, the two naturally tried to refuse, but under Li Yunfan's insistence, they eventually accepted.

"Oh, right, there's one more thing I need to trouble you with, Junior Nephew Wu—"

After leaving the main hall, Li Yunfan returned to his cave dwelling on Fire Cloud Peak.

As soon as he entered the cultivation room, Li Yunfan released Bing'er before sitting down cross-legged and beginning preparations for refining the corpse.

He first took out a cyan jade slip, and then used his divine sense to examine it.

The contents of this jade slip were copied from the jade slip that he had found on the Yue Emperor, the one that emitted a grayish-white aura.

It records the "Demon Fiend Technique" and "Blood Refining Divine Light" cultivated by the Black Fiend Sect and others, as well as various techniques derived from...

The secret technique of "Xuan Yin Jue".

What he was looking at was the content about creating "external avatars".

He withdrew his divine sense in less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

He lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then flipped his hand and took out another jade slip.

What is recorded here is his copy of the Puppet Manual.

He immersed his consciousness in the text and carefully read through the instructions on crafting puppets once more.

He doesn't currently possess any genuine corpse-refining techniques; he can only deduce a method based on the techniques for creating puppets and external avatars.

Fortunately, he is now at the Core Formation stage, and what he is refining is only a Foundation Establishment stage corpse.

With a little more time and the ability to devise a method for refining corpses, it's not too difficult.