Out of the five spiritual fires in the space, only the Dust Returning Flame was still of upper-grade Level Four.
The Gui Water Death Flame and the Taiyi Golden Flame had been nourished by the upper-grade Level Five Elements Essence and had advanced.
The Earth Element Essence was still the original one and could not help the Dust Returning Flame to advance.
Even if it lacked that special energy, the surrounding environment was filled with Level Five Spirit Qi. It would still be of some use.
Now that the Dust Returning Flame had shown signs of advancing, it should not be a problem for it to become a Level Five spiritual fire.
In the past ten years, the amount of water in the spirit spring near the water spirit vein had increased tremendously.
Even though the clone had dug many canals to irrigate more than twenty acres of spirit fields, it was still unable to use up all the spring water.
He had already thought of a method. He would let the clone dig a large puddle on the newly added spirit field at the north end of the spirit pearl space.
As the amount of water increased, the size of the puddle also increased. Now, the puddle occupied more than three acres.
Unfortunately, the Yin Qi in the water was too dense and he could not raise fish in it.
He could only plant some Inky Jade Lotus and some Yellow Spring Willows in the shallow water.
The puddle became Yun Yi's territory. Every day, she would bathe, swim, absorb the pure Yin Qi, and eat some lotus seeds. Her life was very comfortable.
Wang Daoyuan did not plan to go out now. In the Seven Stars Secret Realm's Ziwei Palace, there was a part of the Puppet Art's refining method.
Previously, he did not have the time to refine it. Now that he had enough time, he could give it a try.
There were many uses for puppets. Although low-grade puppets could not participate in battles, they could still be used to take care of the spirit fields.
Especially on the family side. After obtaining the Green Willow Secret Realm, they did not have enough manpower to take care of it.
If he could have a large number of Level One and Level Two puppets to take care of the spirit fields, he could develop the entire secret realm.
There was no problem with the supply of spiritual power. Taking care of the spirit fields consumed very little spiritual power.
With the Spirit Gathering Pearl, as long as there was sufficient Spirit Qi in the outside world, the Spirit Gathering Pearl would not lack spiritual power.
The puppets could continue working until they were damaged.
Wang Daoyuan started refining Level One puppets. The puppets could be divided into three parts: the outer layer, the core, and the connecting structure.
The outer layer could be completely solved with the Tool Refining Technique. This was not difficult for Wang Daoyuan.
The core was to use Yellow Springs Willow and other special materials to refine something similar to a human's sea of consciousness.
The connection structure was to use the core to control the external channel, just like humans and birds, fish, and insects.
With just a thought, he didn't need to consume his Spiritual Sense. His body would complete the thought.
Puppets naturally needed a similar channel. Otherwise, if one were to rely solely on Divine Sense to control the puppet, no matter how strong the core was, it wouldn't be able to withstand it.
The device that provided spiritual power was also a part of the connecting structure.
The connection structure was rather complicated. There were tool patterns, array patterns, and some special patterns that were similar to the spiritual energy conversion device of the fourth-grade flying warship.
Of course, low-level puppets had fewer special patterns, so it was nothing to Wang Daoyuan.
The most difficult thing was to find something similar to a soul in the core. He couldn't really catch a soul and put it inside.
Naturally, it would not be easy to create something with some soul functions using other materials.
For the first time, Wang Daoyuan didn't try anything too difficult. He only wanted to create a rank one puppet that could harvest spirit grains.
The simpler the function, the simpler the tool inscriptions, formation inscriptions, and special inscriptions.
The outer layer was nothing more than refining a pile of first-grade magic tool parts and assembling them into a human shape.
With Wang Daoyuan's current cultivation, refining a first-grade magic tool was no different from playing around.
In less than half a day, he finished refining all the outer layer parts of the puppet.
Although the connection structure was slightly more difficult, there were fewer inscriptions that needed to be carved.
For someone like him who could refine a fourth-grade flying warship alone, it was nothing.
It only took him four hours to complete the refinement.
The core wasn't difficult either. The inscriptions were mainly special.
After all, it had to imitate a person's sea of consciousness. There were more special inscriptions, so it was much harder to refine than the outer layer and the connecting parts.
Also, the core had special requirements for the materials.
For ordinary cultivators, refining this was the most difficult thing. After all, the materials were hard to find.
Of course, a rank one puppet couldn't stump Wang Daoyuan, who was a middle-stage Yuanying cultivator with fourth-grade elixir, tool, and talisman arrays.
It only took him a day to complete the refinement of the puppet core.
This was his first time refining, so he was still unfamiliar with it.
Once he became more familiar with it, the refining time would be reduced by more than half.
After these physical parts were finished, all that was left were the incorporeal parts.
There was only a sea of consciousness without a soul, so it couldn't be used.
Next, he had to refine a puppet soul.
This thing was similar to a soul. In a puppet, it was equivalent to the souls of humans and other living creatures.
When the puppet was doing something, it was completely up to the puppet's soul to command it.
Refining a puppet soul required the use of a demon beast's soul. All of its consciousness and instincts would be erased, and it would be transformed into an extremely pure soul.
Then, the soul would be stored in the sea of consciousness. Using his divine sense, he would inscribe the tasks that the puppet needed to do into the soul.
This method was very similar to ghost cultivation. The difference was that ghost cultivation dealt with human souls, while puppet cultivation dealt with demon beast souls.
Because puppet cultivation required the erasure of all memories and instincts, if the soul was strong enough, the lower the intelligence, the better.
It was more convenient to use a demon beast's soul than a human's soul.
Puppets couldn't use divine sense attacks, so the soul's strength wasn't high.
For a rank one puppet soul, any beast's soul would do.
Especially for this kind of relatively simple puppet, any unranked flying insect would suffice.
Wang Daoyuan used the soul of an ordinary fish in the space of the Spirit Pearl. It only took him two hours to refine it into a puppet soul.
If it was a high-level combat puppet, the difficulty of refining a soul would be especially high.
Not only was the soul's strength required, but it also had to go through a long period of nurturing. During this period, a large amount of pure Yin Qi would be consumed.
For the sword cultivator puppets in the Purple Star Palace of the Seven Stars Secret Realm, it was even more difficult to let the puppet soul comprehend sword intent.
Ordinary forces didn't have the confidence to refine a large number of puppets.
Once the puppet soul was integrated into the puppet core that was refined in advance and all the parts were combined, the puppet would be formed.
The entire puppet was about three feet tall. Its appearance was roughly that of a human, and it held a low-grade rank one scythe in its hand.
The appearance didn't affect the function much, so he didn't spend too much time refining it. It looked rather rough.
After that, Wang Daoyuan used his divine sense to awaken the puppet soul. The puppet began to move slowly. Basic movements such as walking and waving were not a problem.
Wang Daoyuan put it into the space of the Spirit Pearl. In order to allow the Soul Chasing Bees to have a sufficient honey source at all times, the spirit grains in the space were planted at different times so that they would ripen at any time.
After the puppet entered the space of the Spirit Pearl, it automatically looked for ripened spirit grains and waved the scythe in its hand to harvest them.
In order to make it easier to refine, this puppet didn't have the function of threshing and storing grains.
It was already a successful puppet that could identify ripened spirit grains and harvest them.
Wang Daoyuan wanted to continue refining, but an uninvited guest suddenly appeared on the volcanic island.
It wasn't a human, but a group of flying insects.
He wasn't unfamiliar with these flying insects. They were the Ghost Worms that the Zhenhai sect's Soul Slayer released on Drifting Cloud Island.
These guys were very good at hiding. Wang Daoyuan only discovered them when they were near the island.
The Ghost Worms were good at searching. His whereabouts had already been exposed.
His divine sense exploded and killed most of the Ghost Worms, but a few Ghost Worms that were further away escaped.
These things were extremely fast. It would take a lot of effort to catch up to them.
Moreover, the master of the Ghost Worms was definitely not far from here.
He was afraid that he would encounter their master before he could catch up to them.
Without knowing the strength of his opponent, it was better to avoid them for now.
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