Demon Taming: Start by synthesizing a Lantern Ghost with Divine and Demonic Talents

Chapter 88: From Slingshot to Cannon, Exorbitantly Priced Soul Crystals

Three days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Over the course of three days, Li Chunfeng ventured deep into the canyon several times. Outnumbered, he replaced all his undead minions, Nightmare Knights, with Death Knights and Black Knights, leaving only ten empty slots.

The Death Knight is an advanced class of the Nightmare Knight, and its attributes are similar to those of the Nightmare Knight.

The Black Knight is an advanced form of the Bone Spirit Warrior.

They often fight side by side and can be extremely effective on the battlefield.

[Death Knight]: Silver Rank 9 (Tier 3)
[Talents]: Bone Spirit Qi (High-Grade Yellow), Shadow Control (High-Grade Yellow), Undead Creature (High-Grade Yellow)

[Skills]: Shadow Shield, Death Coil, Summon Bone Horse, Phantom Charge, Dragon Fang Strike, Death Grip, Control Corpses...

[Black Knight]: Silver Level 9 (Tier 3)
[Talents]: Bone Spirit Qi (High-grade Yellow Rank), Instant Shadow Escape (High-grade Yellow Rank), Undead Creature (High-grade Yellow Rank)

[Skills]: Frost Mastery, Shield Breaker, Shadow Slash, Chain Slash, Netherworld Claw...

The Black Knight's defense is slightly weaker, but his mobility surpasses that of the Bone Spirit Warrior, and he possesses top-tier combat skills, enough to compensate for his other shortcomings. He also possesses mysterious frost abilities, making him extremely powerful.

This replacement of undead minions is like going from slingshot to cannon.

From now on, Ran Deng can control the airspace, while the land will be protected by the Death Knights and the Black Knights army. Li Chunfeng can simply sit back and wait for the benefits.

Both the Death Knight and the Dark Knight were once kings in their respective fields, but alas, they encountered Li Chunfeng, a man devoid of martial ethics. Forced to the ground to complete the contract, their souls cried out in despair at their last moment, "The Bone Spirit Clan will never be slaves!"

But shouting doesn't affect their contract.

In a world where the strong prey on the weak, those who lack strength can only resign themselves to becoming undead servants.

However, becoming a necromancer's servant is not necessarily all bad.

With a third-tier necromancer servant, Li Chunfeng could finally implement his soul bone cultivation plan.

The soul power inside the Heavenly Rank Inheritance Soul Crystal had long been exhausted, but it contained a sixth-order spirit-gathering array. After being placed in a place with abundant spiritual energy for a period of time, it could naturally recover some of its energy.

Li Chunfeng often cultivates in blessed lands, and now the inheritance soul crystal has stored up a considerable amount of energy, enough for these bone spirits to receive the inheritance.

He was eager to see what changes would occur to the Bone Spirits after they received the Heavenly Rank inheritance.

To ensure the plan's successful implementation, Li Chunfeng specifically chose to conduct it in the ruins of the Blessed Land Dark Abyss.

The plan was wonderful, but reality was cruel.

While the Heavenly Rank 'Star Soul Bone' inheritance is indeed powerful, it's not something any Silver Bone Spirit can successfully accept. Just like humans, there are geniuses and mediocre ones; when facing high-level cultivation techniques, factors such as comprehension and physique must be considered.

Of the ninety bone spirits, only one Death Knight and one Black Knight received the inheritance of different positions.

They are 'Star Soul Bone - Torso' and 'Star Soul Bone - Skull', respectively.

Having been passed on by ninety bone spirits in succession, the energy within the inherited soul crystal is almost depleted.

It needs to be recharged for a while before it can be used again.

Li Chunfeng carefully observed the two bone spirits, but could not see any major changes. Apart from their soul fire being slightly stronger, one of them seemed to have harder bones in its torso, while the other's skull was larger.

They clearly need more practice.

……

Yuancheng.

The Xuan-rank 'Whirlwind Slash' Soul Martial Dao Seed Soul Core, listed for auction in the trading center, ultimately sold for 16,000 coins. This price is quite good for a Xuan-rank seed, indicating that there are quite a few discerning individuals in Yuan City.

Li Chunfeng achieved three godlike ratings and gained special privileges in Yuancheng.

The auction originally deducted 10% tax, but now it saves 50%, which is equivalent to saving 800 Heavenly Dao Coins, and finally getting 15200 Heavenly Dao Coins.

This transaction, worth tens of thousands, did not cause a stir in the trading center. People's attention was more drawn to the fierce competition for the Earth-rank Soul Crystal at the top.

Stimulated by the Earth-Rank Nightmare Knight Soul Crystal, the price of Heavenly Dao Coins in Yuan City has risen slightly, reaching 108 Dao Power per coin.

This price is nowhere near as crazy as before.

Perhaps due to the precedent of 'devouring' the Dharma Seed, some people were prepared and did not lack Heavenly Coins.

The exchange rate of 108 has not yet peaked and there is still room for it to rise.

Li Chunfeng was not greedy and took the opportunity to sell all of his 115,000 Heavenly Coins.

With this inflow and outflow, his assets returned to the ranks of those worth tens of millions.

At this moment, the price of Nightmare Knight Soul Crystals has suddenly soared to 630,000, far exceeding the price of the 'Devouring' magic seed.

The reason it can fetch such a high price is because this soul crystal contains numerous magic seeds.

This includes innate spells such as 'Bone Spirit Aura', 'Dark Guardian', and 'Undead', as well as other spells such as 'Summon Warhorse', 'Death Charge', 'Ghost Fang Strike', 'Death Fury', and 'Wildfire'.

A single Earth-rank Soul Crystal contains eight Earth-rank Dharma Seeds.

What you buy is what you earn.

For such a lucrative deal, 630,000 is clearly not the final price.

Li Chunfeng's auction was scheduled for five days, with two days remaining until the end.

But the war in Canyon City had already ended ahead of schedule.

On this day, the Yuan Shen warship returned victorious and received a warm welcome.

On the internet of Ghost City, there were celebratory messages everywhere.

In this battle, humanity not only successfully destroyed the altars of the gods and spirits in the underground world and smashed the teleportation arrays connecting the outside world to the heart of human territory, but also slew countless demons and ghosts.

In accordance with the consistent operating principles of the Earthly Realm, the next step will inevitably be to vigorously exploit the underground world and plunder its resources.

Perhaps the Star Iron Crystal will soon find a home.

The proprietress, An Ruoxi, also returned safely, bringing back more than a dozen corpses of flying yakshas to Li Chunfeng as promised. Even though these fourth-tier flying yakshas were dead, their corpses still retained the heavy pressure of fourth-tier Yin spirits.

An Ruoxi also sealed the body with a corpse-suppressing talisman to prevent the corpse's energy from erupting. Therefore, the corpse remains fresh, just as it looked when it died.

Li Chunfeng decided to strike while the iron was hot and complete the necromancer summoning: "Arise, fight for me!"

With the advancement of his supernatural power rank, the success rate of necromancy summoning also increased significantly. This summoning was completed in one go, and he ultimately gained ten more evil demon yaksha necromancy servants.

The demon yaksha's strength has been reduced to the third tier, but it still retains its enormous bat wings. Its speed in flight is certainly not comparable to that of the flying yaksha, but it still possesses an advantage in aerial combat.

Thus, his 100 undead servants were now fully staffed.

The Canyon City is currently conducting a post-battle reward ceremony, and Li Chunfeng's previous spirit array mission has finally been rewarded.

"A magical artifact embryo, 100,000 battle merits, and third-tier spiritual materials."

With these 100,000 battle merits, Li Chunfeng still lacked enough to exchange for Emperor's Elixir. So he simply gave up the third-tier spiritual material and exchanged it for battle merits, finally succeeding in exchanging for a batch of Emperor's Elixir.

There's not much to consider when choosing a magical artifact embryo.

Li Chunfeng then consulted Xu Changliu, a top student at the Imperial Academy, who advised him to directly choose the original sword embryo.

"Believe me, a flying sword is enough to satisfy most of your needs for magical artifacts."

The immortal sword system of cultivators in the Earthly Realm is very complex. The three major academies each have their own signature sword techniques, among which the Biyou Palace Academy has the most prevalent sword learning culture!
Therefore, there are many types of sword embryos.

Xuanyuan Sword Embryo, Luofu Sword Embryo, Zhihuang Sword Embryo, Honglian Sword Embryo, Atu Sword Embryo, Bodhi Sword Embryo, Chun Jun Sword Embryo, Wuxing Sword Embryo, Zhuxian Sword Embryo, Wandu Sword Embryo, Tianmo Sword Embryo, Ziqing Sword Embryo, Tiandu Sword Embryo, Minghe Sword Embryo, etc.

Each corresponds to a different sword technique.

But that's a matter for the future.

The original sword embryo has no attribute bias, only the most basic Earthly Fiend Treasure Restriction.

Because it has no attribute bias, it can easily make choices and cultivate any kind of magic weapon it wants in the future.

Of course, if someone were as wealthy as Xu Changliu, becoming a "Taoist of Many Treasures," and could bring out a specific magic weapon at the right time in any situation, then that would be a different story.

Li Chunfeng accepted Xu Changliu's suggestion and chose a primitive sword embryo as the embryo for his magic weapon.

[Primal Sword Embryo: The embryo of a magical artifact; nurtured with divine soul, it can accelerate the evolution of earthly restrictions!]

A cultivator's magical artifact has nine layers of magical restrictions.

The nine layers combined can form a spiritual barrier.

Spiritual artifacts also have nine layers of spiritual restrictions, which, when combined, can form a treasure restriction, also known as the Earthly Fiend Restriction.

The Earthly Fiends have seventy-two layers of restrictions, with each layer consisting of nine levels, totaling eight levels, which is equivalent to an eight-tiered magical artifact.

When the seventy-two layers of Earthly Fiend Restrictions are combined, they become a Heavenly Gang Restriction, generating the primordial spirit of a magic weapon, which is equivalent to the primordial spirit of a cultivator.

The Thirty-Six Heavenly Barriers are divided into four levels, with each level consisting of nine layers.

They are respectively the Transformation Magic Treasure, the Earth Magic Treasure, the Star Magic Treasure, and the Pure Yang Magic Treasure.

The more restrictions a magical artifact has, the harder it is to refine.

Those powerful magical treasures, if you want to completely refine them for your own use, often require years of secluded cultivation to refine them.

Fortunately, this original sword embryo only had one layer of Earthly Fiend Restriction, so Li Chunfeng could take his time to refine it.

The next day.

The trading center in Yuancheng was quite bustling.

Li Chunfeng mingled among the crowd, listening to people discussing the Earth-rank Soul Crystal that had set a new transaction record in Yuancheng.

The price had now reached 760,000, and the Ghost Clan was ranked number one.

Impermanence.

It is also very famous in Yuancheng.

The demons and monsters who made the first bid ultimately fell behind, clearly not having enough wealth.

These demons, who usually keep a low profile, are actually very wealthy.

How do they manage to save money without spending it?

With the competition reaching this point, only a few members of the Ghost Clan and one member of the Demon Clan with a special zodiac sign remained, secretly vying for supremacy, none wanting to fall behind the others.

"Human friend, do you still have any Heavenly Dao Coins? I'll be going to the graveyard soon, and I can sell you all the future Tomb Spirit Shadow Soul Crystals at 80% off. If you have any, I hope you can lend them to me first, and we can sign an agreement." It was actually a demon or monster that sent him this message at this moment.

Li Chunfeng's lips twitched. "Sorry, there really aren't any left this time."

The demons and monsters have lost their information; they must be very unwilling to accept it.

As the auction time drew to a close, the final bids remained relatively small, but kept increasing by hundreds of dollars. Clearly, this Earth-grade Soul Crystal had emptied everyone's wallets.

The final transaction price was 81.8 Tiandao coins.

Taxes are 0.5%.

Li Chunfeng obtained 777,100 Tiandao coins.

The man's back straightened instantly.

Now that we have money, what should we do?

Li Chunfeng was a kind-hearted and charitable man. When he had money, the first person he thought of was his ghost clan friend.

"Friend, do you still need Heavenly Dao Coins?"

Demons and monsters: "..."

(End of this chapter)