Mortals cultivate immortality, and their IQ is playing with their heartbeats

Loulan knew he could no longer play tricks. The slightest slip-up or flaw in his cultivation technique would invite Li Chengfeng's thunderous strike.

Now, he was like a lamb fallen into the other's hands, powerless to resist.

Weighing the situation, he decided to impart the original version of the Nine Nether Soul Refining Art to Li Chengfeng without reservation.

Li Chengfeng's sensitivity to techniques and his ability to deduce their secrets far surpassed Loulan's.

He quickly grasped the essence of this Celestial God Thorn, the Soul Refining Art.

This art could indeed allow for endless possession, but during the cultivation process, although the divine soul grew stronger day by day, the body became increasingly weak, because it needed to absorb its own blood and energy as nourishment.

The stronger the divine consciousness, the more insufficient the blood and energy became. However, Loulan had another clever method: he used the Blood Refining Art within his bloodline to replenish it, which was also why he could enter the early stage of Core Formation.

But this method would slow down the soul refining speed, so he took a different approach, modifying the basic version of the Nine Nether Soul Refining Art into the Celestial God Thorn, teaching it to his disciples, and then absorbing their souls and divine consciousness, both achieving the same origin and purpose.

If the Blood Demon Sect Master hadn't captured Liang Lianmeng, the Blood Clan Elder, Lou Xueyun would not have been willing to expose this pawn so easily.

Moreover, the other party had long coveted his Soul Refining Art.

He didn't stay in each sect for long, precisely because he was worried that the unexplained deaths of his disciples would attract the attention of the higher-ups, putting himself in a passive position.

Therefore, he had set foot in all five sects, understanding the details within under different identities.

Li Chengfeng conducted an in-depth deduction of the technique and finally found its key—blood and energy feedback.

He wondered, why must he use his own blood and energy, and not that of others?

He had a sudden inspiration: could he condense blood shadows to make up for this deficiency? In theory, he could only control nine blood shadows, but extra blood shadows, although difficult to control,

could be used to nourish himself. Therefore, he decided to condense a blood shadow, and when cultivating the Nine Nether Soul Refining Art, use it as an aid to counterattack.

In this way, his divine consciousness would be even stronger, making up for the shortcomings in the technique.

After cultivating the Soul Refining Nine Nether Art, Li Chengfeng had a new breakthrough in controlling puppets. He realized that the bottleneck for puppets to advance was not the technique, but resources.

The resources consumed to refine a puppet were almost equal to the resources required for an ordinary person to cultivate from the first layer of Qi Refining to the ninth or tenth layer. This resource limitation greatly restricted the development of the Puppet Sect.

Faced with this problem, Li Chengfeng decided to take an unconventional path.

He didn't pursue quantity, but quality, planning to refine a few powerful puppets and improve his Substitute Death Technique.

While deducing the technique, he flew towards the Puppet Sect. The current Puppet Sect, after the last incident, was heavily guarded, with even Puppet Sect disciples patrolling the markets to prevent the Blood Clan from retaliating.

Li Chengfeng keenly seized this opportunity. He noticed that the Puppet Sect was recruiting disciples, and the review standards were more relaxed than before, so he decided to join as a rogue demonic cultivator talisman master.

After flying for a month, he arrived at the Puppet Sect's market.

He went by the name "Tianku" and came to the Treasure Pavilion, selling dozens of self-made middle-grade talismans and earning a lot of spirit stones.

This not only provided him with a source of income, but also allowed him to gather information.

Back at the inn, he continued to study the Nine Nether Soul Refining Art and collected some damaged magical artifacts and spiritual artifacts.

He threw these scraps into the blood pool for sorting, then reorganized the resulting materials and sold some of them, using the remaining spirit stones to buy materials needed to refine puppets.

He planned to create a Soul Devouring Banner to enhance his strength.

Loulan was speechless about this. He dared not not say everything he knew, because once he concealed anything, he would face Li Chengfeng's severe punishment.

The techniques of the five major Demonic Sects, including the Blood Clan, were all intercepted by Li Chengfeng, and he became a master of these Demonic Sect techniques.

Li Chengfeng, with his extraordinary talent and perseverance, quickly mastered all the techniques and surpassed his predecessors.

His performance shocked Loulan, almost making him suspect that he was a reclusive hermit, the closed-door disciple or direct bloodline of an old ancestor.

A rogue cultivator actually had such a high level of understanding of techniques, which was indeed unbelievable.

Loulan's eyes suddenly flickered, and a bold guess emerged in his mind—could Li Chengfeng be the reincarnation of a Red Dust Immortal?

This kind of legend was extremely rare in the human realm, but the potential shown by Li Chengfeng made him couldn't help but have such an association.

Of course, Li Chengfeng didn't explain these things to him, he just silently cultivated, studied, and constantly improved his strength.

During the cultivation process, Li Chengfeng refined talismans, studied puppet techniques, and also purchased some materials for building the Soul Refining and Soul Devouring Banner.

He looked down on the Soul Devouring Banner built by Loulan. After his improvement, the Soul Devouring Banner became more powerful, and the ghost creatures it brewed were more in line with his needs.

He verified the Soul Devouring Banner and his own blood pool, and obtained a special formation.

As long as this formation was engraved on the Blood Soul Banner, and combined with the Joyful Union Sect's techniques, it would have miraculous effects.

Soul Devouring Banners usually needed to be controlled by someone, but Li Chengfeng was different. He had nine blood shadows, which could completely control the Soul Devouring Banner and control this magic weapon for him.

This ability made Li Chengfeng more comfortable in battle and filled him with confidence in his strength.

The longer Li Chengfeng stayed, the more alarmed Loulan felt.

He found that his chances of escaping were getting smaller and smaller, almost hopeless.

Li Chengfeng's strength and mystery made him feel fear and unease. He didn't know what kind of fate he would face next.

Li Chengfeng cultivated diligently, occasionally showing his extraordinary talent for refining talismans.

Finally, one day, a visitor of about fifty years old stepped through the door.

He had fair skin, smiling eyes, and showed a state of being well-rounded.

Although he was a demonic cultivator, his words were gentle and elegant, without the slightest hint of exaggeration.

This person's name was Du Hai, a senior rogue cultivator who had reached the ninth layer of Qi Refining, one layer higher than Li Chengfeng.

Li Chengfeng warmly led him into the inn and said with a smile, "Brother, why do you have the leisure to come here today?"

Du Hai laughed and said, "Since the last transaction, brother, you have made me a lot of money. I feel that you and I have a deep connection, and perhaps you are my long-lost brother."

Li Chengfeng also laughed loudly and replied, "That makes sense. So how many talismans do you need this time, brother? Still at the same price as last time?"

Du Hai shook his head and said mysteriously, "This time I'm not here for talismans, but to share a great thing with you.

If it weren't for the deep friendship between you and me, I would never have mentioned it."

Li Chengfeng was immediately interested and asked curiously, "Oh? What kind of good thing is it?"

Seeing that the atmosphere had been built up, Du Hai slowly said, "I have a close friend who has now entered the Puppet Sect and become an outer disciple.

His immediate superior wants to recruit a few disciples into the sect, and there are three places in total. If you and I can find one more person, we can join together. I have already found Fairy Bai Zhen, just waiting for the three of us to join forces."

Li Chengfeng heard this, clapped his hands and laughed, "Wonderful! I never thought I would have such an opportunity to change my fate. After it's done, I will definitely reward you handsomely, brother!"

Du Hai waved his hand and said with a smile, "Don't mention the reward, you and I have a deep friendship, we should seek a future together. However, this matter of entering the sect is not easy, and requires our joint efforts."