Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists-Chapter 119 - 118 The Ninth Level (Congratulations in

Chapter 119 -118: The Ninth Level (Congratulations in Silver!)_1

Chapter 119 -118: The Ninth Level (Congratulations in Silver!)_1

Underground cavern.

Splashing!

As a mature Monster Tree, upon discovering the cavern was getting narrow, it had learned to continuously dig downwards with its roots while tossing the displaced soil into the lake.

Fang Xi didn’t bother with teaching the Monster Tree construction techniques, but simply pointed out a few places for it to ensure support and reinforcement so it wouldn’t collapse Jadeite Cliff, then left it to its own devices.

At this moment, he was inspecting the ‘human puppets’ in front of him!

The humanoid puppet looked exactly like Mu Wen, with a greyish complexion, and its skin surface even had some wood-like textures.

From time to time, tree roots could be seen burrowing in and out of the seven orifices of this person.

“Stand up!”

“Move forward!”

“Jump!”

Fang Xi was not proficient in puppet skills but managed to exert secondary control using the abilities of the Monster Tree to control Demon Servants.

This felt somewhat delayed and unresponsive, akin to a queen insect controlling its minions.

“Circulate magic power!”

At that moment, Fang Xi’s eyes moved and he issued the command.

Mu Wen formed a magic spell with his hands, a layer of spiritual light appeared on his body, and he emitted Qi Refining Stage five-level fluctuations of magic power!

“Originally, his cultivation was at the sixth level of Qi Refining, but after being turned into a puppet, his realm dropped to the fifth level!”

After thinking for a while, Fang Xi issued new commands.

Whoosh!

Mu Wen formed a magic spell, and the black dagger magic weapon roared, transforming into a streak of black light that shot out and deeply embedded in the rock wall!

“He actually retained his cultivation and still has the ability to control magical weapons?”

Fang Xi was very surprised by this.

Doesn’t this mean that he could command a dense ‘human puppet’ army?

If many cultivators in the later stages of Qi Refining formed an array, even those at the Foundation Establishment could fight it!

However, the next moment, Fang Xi found something amiss.

Mu Wen’s manipulation of the magical weapon was very stiff, lacking agility and change, which was a fatal issue in combat.

‘This feeling… even if he has the power of the fifth level of Qi Refining, he might not be able to defeat Hai Dagui… and I need to control and command him all the time, which is quite troublesome.’

‘His attack power might match the fifth level of Qi Refining, but his defense is too weak, after all, he’s in a human body, and he doesn’t even know how to dodge, I need to pay attention all the time… but I’m controlling through the Monster Tree indirectly, this delay is fatal…’

At this point, Fang Xi realized the difference between his use of Wood Puppet Skills and orthodox puppet skills.

The inheritance of orthodox puppet skills not only includes methods for creating puppets but also techniques for using puppets against enemies!

The methods for controlling puppets are even more crucial!

After all, the Divine Consciousness or Spirit Sense of cultivators is limited, and non-puppet masters can only control one or two puppets at most.

But a Puppet Master can divide their thoughts and control an entire Puppet Army!

Even more so, they can infuse ‘puppet spirits’ into advanced puppets, granting them a certain level of intelligence!

“Actually, having a strong Divine Consciousness greatly enhances puppet skill, too bad I haven’t acquired a puppet skill inheritance…”

It may be available in Ling Kong market, but Fang Xi simply couldn’t get there at the moment!

After experimenting for a while, Fang Xi confirmed the detailed data of the human puppet Mu Wen, shook his head, and felt quite regretful.

The attacks were too rigid, and the commands were delayed…

It was completely different from using orthodox puppetry to control puppets.

Moreover, once turned into a ‘human puppet,’ there was no way to continue cultivation for improvement.

“After all, I control through the Monster Tree indirectly, I can’t achieve the many precise manipulations of a Puppet Master. It’s understandable, understandable… In the future, by acquiring and practicing a puppet skill, it might compensate for this…”

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“But this ‘Wood Puppet Skill’ also has its benefits, the first being the vast numbers – as long as I have enough Monster Tree seeds, I can control as many as I want!”

“The second is the simple materials required, just a complete corpse… forming an army of cultivators in the future is not a dream.”

Fang Xi stroked his chin, feeling that if he continued down this path, he would inevitably stray further from the cultivation path and eventually become a target for everyone in the Cultivation World.

“Actually, I could take a different approach. The quality of human puppets made by cultivators is not good, but ‘beast puppets’ made from monster beasts are quite impressive!”

Because most monster beasts have tough hides and high defense, these features could be retained after being turned into puppets!

In that case, the commands transmitted could be as simple as possible!

Moreover, monster materials are resilient and not easily damaged, which grants a higher tolerance for errors!

“A Puppet Beast Army, huh? That’s a direction…”

Fang Xi stroked his chin, “I’ll also have to consider the issue of Monster Tree seeds getting out. I could use puppet skill to install mechanisms inside the puppets that would destroy the Monster Tree seed if a puppet is damaged.”

“This plan is quite good; I just lack an inheritance in puppet skill…”

Although the Monster Tree seeds were demoted, Fang Xi still did not want the seeds to leak out.

After thinking it over, he suddenly felt there was great potential and prepared to include this plan in his reserves.

After all, he was currently unable to go out and collect large amounts of fresh monster beast corpses.

“As for you?”

Fang Xi looked at Mu Wen and instructed the roots within him to poke out and intertwine on his face, forming a vine wooden mask.

“From today onward, you shall be named ‘Jia Yi,’ specifically in charge of guarding the underground cavern,”

Jia Yi immediately stood by the cavern wall, resembling a statue…

…

As for the news about the Mu Family head, it soon became of no interest to anyone on Peach Blossom Island.

The Cultivation World is quite pragmatic, a loser who has gone away to a distant place is only remembered by everyone gradually if he returns as a king one day, otherwise, he is gradually forgotten.

Some members of the Mu Family left Peach Blossom Island, while some continued to struggle on it, returning to a state akin to rootless duckweed…

More notorious than Mu Wen was undoubtedly the ‘Silver Armored Demon’!

His reputation grew larger as he escaped repeatedly from the hands of Foundation Establishment Cultivators, even forming a cultivation-robber force, continuously clashing with the Thirty Six Island Alliance’s joint enforcement team, with significant bloodshed!

Recently, his notoriety was almost enough to stop children from crying at night!

But to a cultivator who was wholly absorbed in seclusion and never visited the markets, even the highest notoriety was just that.

On the contrary, Hai Dagui was still concerned day and night about his friend Lu Guo, hoping he wouldn’t come face to face with the Silver Armored Demon…

…

Five years later.

Inside the cultivation room.

Fang Xi silently practiced the ‘Eternal Spring Skills’ cultivation method, feeling the magic power inside his Dantian Qi Ocean surging, automatically overflowing to carve out new pathways.

This breakthrough was natural and exceptionally smooth.

“Twenty years of planting trees, and now at forty-three, I have broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refining!”

Fang Xi was quite satisfied with his progress.

A breakthrough of one level every five years, mainly due to being held back by the spiritual energy environment of Jadeite Cliff.

The Spiritual Vein of Jadeite Cliff was subpar, and through the ‘Gathering Spirit’ effect of the Little Cloud Rain Array, it barely managed to raise the cultivation room’s spiritual energy environment to the lower-grade of the first rank.

For a late-stage Qi Refining Cultivator, at least a high-grade first rank Spiritual Vein was needed as a suitable cultivation environment.

Moreover, Fang Xi had not consumed many magic power-enhancing elixirs.

After all, consuming too many elixirs could easily destabilize one’s foundation, impacting future breakthroughs to greater realms.

“Besides that, my Alchemy Skill has steadily advanced to a high-grade first rank, but my Array remains stuck at mid-grade, blocked by a barrier,”

Fang Xi felt rather helpless about this.

When it came to studying Arrays, if he encountered a problem, he could only contemplate it deeply.

On the other hand, Alchemy Skill only required sufficient materials, and with his current level of Divine Consciousness, he could push through with ease, at least concerning Qi Refining stage elixirs…

Thus, in the past few years, Fang Xi had been focusing primarily on Alchemy Skill, placing Array second.

As for the Taoist of Talisman? It had unknowingly advanced to a mid-grade first rank. It was also unclear if it was due to the effects of pondering on the silver incomplete talismans condensed by the Wood Body, but Fang Xi felt he had a particular talent for crafting Wooden Element Talismans, enjoying a higher success rate compared to other talismans.

The last, Talisman forging skill, remained subpar… and had been completely abandoned.

Fang Xi stepped out of the cultivation room and looked at the Cyan Flower Golden Beetles. Now, in the bug chamber, there were jade-green beetles with cyan flowers on their backs everywhere, with no trace left of the Black Patterned Golden Beetles.

Even the bug king, having consumed the ‘Beast Food Pill’ for a long time, had advanced to a mid-grade first rank!

The cellar was also filled with various types of Spirit Wine, aged from one to several years. The oldest batch had matured for twenty years!

This kind of Spirit Wine, with an amber color resembling syrup, was the favorite of some Immortal Cultivators who lusted after liquor. Even with a low grade, it could win out due to its taste and sell for a large number of Spirit Stones.

On Jadeite Cliff, a total of twenty acres of various Spiritual Fields and five acres of herb fields had been cultivated.

The oldest batch of ‘Blood Replenishing Grass’ and ‘Snake Orchid Fruit’ had reached a medicinal age of ten years. They could be sold for Spirit Stones or used as auxiliary materials for some mid to high-grade first rank elixirs.

“So, as long as Immortal Cultivators have Spirit Land and don’t engage in combat, focusing solely on farming, they can actually accumulate resources quite quickly…”

After inspecting each place, Fang Xi approached the edge of the pond, his eyes revealing a ferocious glint.

Daqing the fish still remained a mid-grade first rank even now!

“The ten-year period has come; if you cannot seize this last chance, you will have only yourself to blame!”

He drew the Gold Dragon Knife, ready to end Daqing’s journey with a single slice.

Suddenly!

Daqing leapt out of the water, emitting Demon Qi all over, drawing in the surrounding spiritual energy, forming a little vortex!

“Is this… advancing in rank?”

Fang Xi’s eyes twitched slightly, “He actually breaks through at the final moment? Is this fish even more tenacious than I am?”

As he contemplated, Daqing swallowed a massive amount of spiritual energy, its size ballooning to over two meters in length, and it seemed to undergo a change in species, leaning more towards the sleek shapes of the catfish and eels, with its two cyan whiskers growing even longer…

“A high-grade first rank Green Jade Carp king, nicknamed ‘Little Green Dragon’…”

Looking at Daqing, which now more closely resembled a green water snake, Fang Xi revealed a grin, “Finally advanced… I’ve wanted to taste ‘Azure Dragon Soup’ for a long time now!”

Splash!

Daqing, proud in midair, was taken aback, plunging into the pond, causing a great splash.

Wasn’t it agreed that advancing in rank meant escaping death?

Why was it now bound to be stewed in soup?

Could this be fate?!

Compared to the sly human race, it was still too naive!