Yuantian Pidao

Chapter 67 Demon Skin

On Muyu Island, as Wang Yuan brought in a shipload of supplies from outside, order began to recover rapidly under the command of Cao Banshan.

In the small courtyard, Jiang Chen ignored all this and continued with his own practice.

"The Iron Corpse is dead. Even with a storage bag, it can't be kept for long. The longer it's kept, the more its power will be lost."

With his thoughts turning, Jiang Chen activated the skinning technique to peel off An Yuxuan's skin. The iron corpse was precious, so before taking action on the iron corpse, Jiang Chen chose to practice on An Yuxuan's corpse.

After successfully skinning the body, Jiang Chen activated the Blood Evil True Flame to cover An Yuxuan's corpse. It didn't take him long to comprehend this spell, but fortunately, he had a deep understanding of the Blood Flame Spell and a solid foundation, so he successfully mastered this spell in a short period of time.

Whoosh, the flames rose, and as time passed, under the burning of the Blood Evil True Flame, An Yuxuan's flesh, blood, and bones continued to melt, turning into streams of blood and energy that merged into his skin. After absorbing these blood and energy, An Yuxuan's originally dry skin filled up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing that the time had come, Jiang Chen transformed his energy into threads and prepared to take the final step, but at this moment, something strange happened, the bloody fire ran wild, and An Yuxuan's skin was instantly burned to ashes.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Chen frowned slightly, but he was not angry because of the failure. He just recalled the details and looked for his own problems.

After a while, Jiang Chen took out the corpse of the Taoist priest as if he had gained something.

Skinning, burning blood, and stitching, after a series of operations, Jiang Chen finally got a complete skin.

Looking at the lifelike skin that exudes a faint spiritual charm, Jiang Chen showed a smile on his face. Although this is not a real monster skin, it is the basis for refining monster skin.

"Compared to the spiritual realm cultivators, the Qi training cultivators' bodies have been nourished by more spiritual energy, so refining them is actually easier."

Recalling the difference between the two refining processes, Jiang Chen was thoughtful.

"You can't make monster skin out of human skin, but you can keep this skin for now. You might find it useful later."

After admiring it for a moment, Jiang Chen collected the skin bag left by the corpse Taoist.

Cultivators are different from monsters. Most of the monsters' power is deposited in their blood. It is precisely because of this that cultivators who practice the art of skin-wearing can use secret methods to use their skins as a carrier to retain some of the monsters' power, thereby refining the so-called monster skin.

But it is different for human cultivators. Once they die, all their strength will dissipate, at least this is the case for Qi-cultivating cultivators. In addition, the Small Wuxiang Sutra has repeatedly stated that using human cultivators to refine demon skins would violate taboos and should not be done.

Although he was not clear about the reason for the time being, Jiang Chen had no intention of trying it. Not to mention the possible dangers he might encounter, he simply couldn't do it now.

"Although the Iron Corpse was once a human, after transforming into a zombie, it has become a true monster. It can be used to refine monster skins."

Shaking his head, Jiang Chen took out the iron corpse's body.

Compared with before, this time he was much more serious and took out a variety of gold, iron and spiritual sand from his storage bag. These gold and iron objects were obtained from the Dangjiang bandits' warehouse, and the spiritual sand was provided by the Corpse Taoist.

As a Qi-cultivating cultivator, the Corpse Taoist had accumulated some wealth. There were two hu of spiritual sand in his storage bag, which was about ten jin. According to the exchange rules of the cultivation world in Nanjing Country, one qian of spiritual sand was equivalent to one spiritual stone, one liang was equal to ten qian, and one jin was equal to ten liang. One jin of spiritual sand was equal to one hundred spiritual stones, and ten jin was equal to about one thousand spiritual stones.

Because he didn't know the wealth of other Qi-cultivating cultivators, Jiang Chen didn't know how much the Corpse Taoist had accumulated. On the contrary, as far as he was concerned, he had quite a lot of spiritual sand. After all, he himself had none. Most of the time he had been practicing until now, he had been down-to-earth, slowly breathing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

"I hope I can succeed at once." The true energy flowed, and according to the records, Jiang Chen began to use these gold, iron objects and spiritual sand to make a simple sacrificial formation.

This formation has been continuously improved and simplified by the Wuchang Sect and has become extremely simple. As long as there is a secret method, basically all Qigong cultivators can easily set it up, and there is no requirement for any experience in formation.

Of course, its function is also very simple. It mainly reduces the consumption of the cultivator and maintains the operation of the Blood Evil True Flame. In fact, if the cultivation level is sufficient and there is enough understanding of the Blood Evil True Flame spell, the cultivator does not need to set up a formation to refine the monster skin.

Buzz, as the sacrificial formation took shape, Jiang Chen immediately began to try to refine the iron corpse into demon skin. Compared with before, his movements this time were undoubtedly much slower.

As time passed, when the sun was setting, the bloody flames rose, like a huge bonfire that completely enveloped the iron corpse.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Chen felt relieved.

"This skin-covering technique is both a technique and a tool. The more powerful the demon skin, the longer it takes to refine. Although this iron corpse is at the Qi training level, it's not very strong. Probably seven days of refinement will be enough."

After a rough estimate, Jiang Chen had an expectation.

In this way, seven days passed quietly.

"It's time to take the final, most crucial step."

Blood and fire rose. Seeing that the flesh and blood had completely melted away, leaving only a piece of skin, Jiang Chen's expression turned solemn.

"The blood energy extracted through the Blood Flame Technique contains the remnants of living beings. This has been verified before. The Blood Evil True Flame also has this characteristic. The difference is that the Blood Evil True Flame itself has the ability to destroy these remnants. This is even a way to improve the Blood Evil True Flame Technique."

As his perception spread, Jiang Chen clearly felt the remnant of the iron corpses; they were roaring and wailing.

As his soul power continued to recover, his perception became stronger and stronger, and things that he could only vaguely sense before now became clear.

"Under normal circumstances, to prevent backlash and facilitate control, cultivators who practice the Skin-Wearing Technique will use the Blood Evil True Flame Technique to eliminate some of the remaining thoughts. However, this will in turn reduce the power and potential of the demon skin."

As his thoughts turned, Jiang Chen did not immediately activate the Blood Evil True Flame to eliminate the remaining thoughts of the Iron Corpse.

"I actually have a better way than just eliminating it."

A thought came to his mind, and Jiang Chen activated his special abilities.

The next moment, a powerful soul force burst out and turned into a big hand under Jiang Chen's control. It forcibly suppressed the remaining soul of the iron corpse in an extremely rough manner, sealing it and the blood into the skin bag.

At this moment, the iron corpse skin, which was originally just a dead object, suddenly showed some kind of activity, as if it had come alive. From a distance, it looked like an iron corpse standing in blood and fire.

Looking at this scene, Jiang Chen knew that the monster skin had been refined.

Just as Jiang Chen was immersed in his own cultivation and digesting his own gains, a bow was quietly drawn in the outside world and locked onto the Dangjiang bandits.

(End of this chapter)