After sealing the cave tightly, Muchen followed the proper steps to refine it step by step.
Finally, after completing each step, a palm-sized puppet appeared in Muchen's hands.
Muchen dropped a drop of blood essence on the puppet, and immediately the entire puppet glowed red and became as crystal clear as jade. Muchen immediately felt a sense of spiritual unity with the puppet.
"It's finally done!"
Muchen was overjoyed. After reaching this point, the surrogate puppet was finished refining. From now on, he would have an extra life. Even when facing the golden elixir monks, he would have an extra layer of life-saving means.
Looking at the puppet in his hand, Muchen liked it as much as he liked it. Finally, with a thought, the puppet merged into his body.
"The consumption of natal essence and blood cannot be underestimated. I have to take a good rest."
Muchen meditated and adjusted his breath, recovering the consumption of essence and blood.
It's okay to say that he only consumed a drop of essence and blood. If it is a secret technique that consumes essence and blood excessively, it will even cause a person's vitality to be severely damaged, and it will not be able to recover for a long time. In serious cases, it will destroy the foundation.
Even if he only consumed a drop, Muchen did not dare to be careless. He stayed in seclusion for more than ten days before he felt that his whole body was back to normal.
"You have to find time to practice some secret techniques of increasing energy, otherwise your body will be overwhelmed by refining a few more death puppets."
Muchen thought in his mind, even though refining a scapegoat only consumes one drop of blood essence, the scapegoat must also be kept in the body to warm and nourish. This will also consume the essence and blood, but not all at once.
The water does not consume as much as one drop, but the water flows slowly.
One or two is okay, but if there are too many, Mu Chen feels that he still has to find a secret technique to increase his energy, otherwise his body will really be unable to bear it!
After Muchen traveled around the Fengyang Empire, the Inner Sect Competition is not far away when he returns.
Muchen planned to use the remaining time to practice the Earth Escape Technique. He had already inquired about it. The Inner Sect Competition was not just a simple competition in the ring, so the Earth Escape Technique could still be used.
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The Dragon Kingdom has already had experience in practicing the art of earth escape.
Muchen found a deserted place on the Cuizhu Peak and started practicing directly.
There are not many shortcuts to this earth escape method, it still requires practice.
Of course, there are also some cultivation "wizards" from the Dragon Kingdom who have come up with all kinds of cultivation methods.
For example, eating soil to feel the earth element, burying oneself in the soil, and other weird things.
It just so happens that some of these guys are practicing very quickly.
After Muchen read these methods, he thought he should practice well!
Even without using these weird methods, the Immortal Cultivation Data Department has explained this earth escape method thoroughly, and Muchen believes that he will be able to learn it in a short time.
Several days passed, Muchen was able to successfully get into the ground, but the speed was not very fast.
Next, you only need to increase the speed so that you can escape to the ground as you wish without going slower than on the ground, and you're done.
He continued to practice like this until less than ten days before the inner sect competition, Muchen got good news again.
It turned out that it was the secret book of Master Ziyang that he had obtained earlier that contributed to it. After studying the secret book, the old Taoist priest and others got a lot of inspiration, and finally made the formation that they had always wanted to tailor for Muchen.
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For this formation, the old Taoist priest and others named it the Nine Mysterious Spirit Formation.
The reason for such a name is because this formation is flexible and has various magical effects.
"Mu Chen, hurry up and collect the materials to refine the formation flags required for this formation. Believe me, they will be of great use during your inner sect competition!"
The old Taoist priest said firmly.
Mu Chen did not have any doubts about the old Taoist priest's words. He immediately ran to the place where items were exchanged inside the door according to the required materials, and exchanged contribution points for the materials.
In the last mission to clean up the monsters in Wanluo Kingdom, Muchen got a lot of contribution points, which came in handy at this time.
Muchen used all his contribution points in exchange for most of the materials, but only a small part of the materials were not in the door.
After offending two Jindan monks, Muchen did not dare to travel far, so he had to go to a city near Tianlan Sect to try his luck.
"I think there are a lot of items in Treasure Jue Pavilion, so I should be able to get what I want."
Muchen ran to the Jubao Pavilion and listed the required materials one by one. He quickly bought most of them, except for one material called the Void Spirit Stone.
After that, he visited the branches of the other two major chambers of commerce, but still couldn't find the ethereal stone.
"It seems that there is no way to refine this Jiuxuan Formation for the time being."
Muchen couldn't help but feel a little regretful. Although he still had time to run further, his previous narrow escape from Xuanji made him frightened and he did not dare to take risks again.
If he ran out and was stared at by Xuanji or Zhou Lang, he would be in big trouble.
"Hey, Muchen, I haven't seen you for a long time."
"It's been a long time indeed."
Muchen heard a clear and sweet voice, turned around and saw that it was Feng Xiaoxiao.
"I see you just came out of the Chamber of Commerce with a depressed look on your face. Did you want to buy something but didn't get it?"
Feng Xiaoxiao asked curiously.
"Yes, I want to buy a ethereal stone, but who knew that none of the branches of the three major chambers of commerce has one!"
Muchen said helplessly.
"The ethereal stone has few uses and is not always available in ordinary shops. This is also normal."
Feng Xiaoxiao's voice changed as she spoke: "But I know where there is a void spirit stone."
"where?"
Muchen's eyes lit up, he thought there was no chance, but he didn't expect that things were going dark.
"What good will it do to tell you?"
Feng Xiaoxiao smiled and pretended to be secretive.
"This is for you."
Muchen took out several bottles of elixir and gave them to the other party.
These things were all obtained by killing Xuan Ye. They were all trophies anyway, so he didn't feel bad about them.
Feng Xiaoxiao was a little dumbfounded when she saw this. She originally just wanted to tease Muchen, but the other party seemed to be in urgent need of the ethereal stone. Without saying a word, he gave her a lot of various pills that were worth a lot of money at a glance.
medicine.
Now Feng Xiaoxiao didn't show off any more. She took the elixir and said happily: "Senior Sister Xia has it there. I'll go first if I need the ethereal stone. I got it from her."
"Xia Qingcheng..."
When Muchen heard this, his face looked a little strange.
"What's wrong?"
When Feng Xiaoxiao saw Muchen's expression was strange, she thought he had a conflict with Senior Sister Xia.
"It's nothing, I'll go and ask."
Muchen shook his head, and then left the city and returned to Tianlan Sect.
Muchen had been to Xia Qingcheng's residence once, so he didn't need to ask anyone else. He went straight to Xia Qingcheng's residence. Unexpectedly, Xia Qingcheng was no longer there, which made him a little distressed.