Munin finished roasting the Black Crocodile's spine and reluctantly put away the Fireball Technique. Next, he prepared to increase his cultivation.
This courtyard seemed stable, but it was just his speculation. If by any chance Yu Daoan had a way to break the White Bone Yin Spirit Formation, he would be dead.
Now that he wanted to increase his cultivation, he naturally had to use the two spirit herbs, but he wasn't confident.
Because these two spirit herbs were the lowest grade of annual spirit herbs.
The general knowledge of spirit herbs could be found in Wen Xu's memories.
Apart from the type of spirit herb, the other factor that affected its value was its growth period.
The longer its growth period, the higher its value.
The two spirit herbs in front of him had a growth period of five years, which meant that it would take them five years to reach maturity.
Once the growth period exceeded ten years, its value and effectiveness would be vastly different from those below ten years. What surprised him was that the short soybean sprout was a spirit herb with a growth period of ten years.
The same was true for spirit herbs that were over a hundred years old and ninety-nine years old.
Thus, spirit herbs were generally divided into annual spirit herbs, ten-year spirit herbs, hundred-year spirit herbs, thousand-year-old spirit herbs, and ten-thousand-year-old spirit herbs.
Within the same category, the longer the growth period, the higher the value of spirit herbs.
Munin recalled clearly and cut off a small portion of the spirit herb, slowly chewing and eating it. At the same time, he used the Great Void Pill Cauldron Technique to refine it.
Several hours later, he opened his eyes with slight disappointment because his cultivation hadn't changed in the slightest.
The remaining spirit herbs should be useless. After thinking about it, he decided to learn magic to increase his strength.
The Fireball Technique didn't have much room for growth in a short period of time. The same was true for the Floating Cloud Technique and the Spirit Light Barrier.
He could only learn the Spirit Splitting Technique and the Skin Painting Technique.
In the end, he learned them in just a few hours. He successfully split a wisp of his spirit and attached it to the Skin Painting, turning it into a lifelike youth.
It was the same as when he was controlled by Wen Xu, but its aura was roughly similar to his, and he could control it as he pleased.
However, he was soon disappointed. The Skin Painting Technique controlled by the Spirit Splitting Technique had the intelligence of a three or four year old child. It couldn't even serve tea, let alone defend against enemies.
After searching Wen Xu's memories, he discovered that it was easy to cultivate the Spirit Splitting Technique, but it couldn't be cultivated to the level of defending in a short period of time.
Just as he was about to retract his avatar, he found most of the young man's memories in the painted skin.
Painted Skin was called Zhen Mowu when he was alive. He was a descendant of the Zhen family, one of the four great Xing Lin families of the Heng dynasty. However, his mother was only a concubine and he was born of a concubine. His status in the family was not high.
The Zhen Family had been backed by the imperial court for generations, and their influence was enormous. As the head of the four great Xinglin Families, they would often refine elixirs of immortality for those emperors who sought immortality.
However, a few months ago, Zhen Mowu's grandfather had refined a cauldron of elixir of immortality, and the Emperor had died immediately after consuming it.
The crime of regicide was naturally linked to nine generations of the clan.
Other than his grandfather, all of his direct descendants were beheaded in public.
Only Zhen Mowu was too inconspicuous, so his father placed his hopes on him, allowing him to escape with the family heirlooms and numerous prescriptions.
Under normal circumstances, there was no way for him to survive.
However, after the Rebellion of the Eight Princes, the Heng dynasty was already greatly weakened. Once the Emperor died, it naturally fell apart.
Baekje Of Gojoseon directly attacked the capital, Changjing City, leaving no one to care about Zhen Mowu. Only then did he have the opportunity to travel to Qingyan City, which was not under the jurisdiction of the Heng dynasty.
Zhen Mowu came here not only to escape, but also because the Family Shen, one of the four great Xing Lin families, was in Qingyan City.
The Family Shen and the Zhen family were related by marriage. He wanted to be taken in by the Family Shen with the intention of reviving the Zhen family.
However, before he could meet the Family Shen in the city, he was hit by a stick. When he woke up, he appeared in a hidden house by the azure lake. The leader was the captain of the City Lord's Mansion, Zhang Yu.
It turned out that Zhen Mowu had been very careful along the way, but when he reached Qingyan City, he let down his guard and revealed the characteristics of the Zhen family.
Quan Zhen and the others had already received information about the Zhen family, which was why Zhen Mowu was caught red-handed.
After that, Zhang Yu searched everything and asked for the Zhen family's important prescription. Then, he tied Zhen Mowu to a rock and sank him to the bottom of the azure lake.
At the bottom of the lake, Wen Xu accidentally discovered that Zhen Mowu had spiritual roots. He brought him to the small courtyard, skinned him alive, and refined him into a painted skin.
Munin was so concerned about Zhen Mowu's experience. Other than sympathy, the biggest reason was that there had been immortal cultivators in the Zhen family's ancestral family.
The family heirloom jade pendant was actually passed down by the immortal cultivators' ancestors. It seemed to contain the immortal cultivator's prescription.
Now that Munin could not leave, he naturally did not think about it. Now, he only wanted to increase his cultivation and solve the problem at hand.
His gaze shifted and he saw the short soybean sprout surrounded by the stars. He suddenly remembered something.
Wen Xu had gone to great lengths to obtain the two spiritual herbs. He wanted to use them to provide spiritual energy for the soybeans to mature and use the Magic Bean Soldiers technique.
Now, he could follow Wen Xu's plan and use the two spiritual herbs to mature the soybean sprout. Then, he could use the beans to cast the Magic Bean Soldiers technique.
Although it required the main primordial spirit to cast the technique, it was equivalent to having an extra body. It was also a great safeguard.
In just one day, Munin used the spiritual energy from the two spiritual herbs to accelerate the ripening of the soybeans. He successfully harvested five soybeans. In the immortal cultivation world, these were called immortal spiritual beans.
Looking at the five immortal spiritual beans that were full of spiritual energy, Munin had an idea. Since they were ten-year spiritual items, if he ate them and used the Great Void Pill Cauldron Technique to refine them, he might be able to increase his cultivation.
However, when he glanced at them, he saw the already withered soybean sprout and the peeled bean pod on it.
As a result, with a light touch, the sprout turned into ashes and the bean pod returned to its original green and yellow color.
He decisively picked them up and ate them. He used the Great Void Pill Cauldron Technique to refine them. Soon, he opened his eyes in disbelief. His cultivation did not change, but the spiritual energy in his body was very abundant. His meridians were somewhat swollen and painful. It was definitely not because the medicinal energy was insufficient.
He recalled the Great Void Pill Cauldron Technique and a flash of inspiration appeared in his mind. He thought that since he was using his body as a pill furnace to cultivate, perhaps he needed to use the pill formula to prepare the medicinal herbs.
Therefore, he wanted to take back Zhen Mowu's family heirloom from Quan Zhen. However, before that, he had to verify whether his guess was correct.
He did not have the pill formula of the immortal cultivators. However, in Zhen Mowu's memory, there were two pill formulas that were known as the sacred medicine of the mortal world.
The medicinal herbs needed were very precious. However, in Wen Xu's small courtyard, there was not one that was not precious.
After a round of examination by Munin, he actually managed to gather the medicinal herbs needed for one of the pill formulas.
Four hours later, Munin sat cross-legged on the ground and did not move. His hands formed the Dan Concentration Technique. Strangely, two pills were floating in his palms.
As the pills became round and smooth, he stopped the Dan Concentration Technique and slowly opened his eyes.
He took the two pills in front of his eyes and looked at them carefully. He said to himself with satisfaction, "This Clear Jade Pill is not bad."
The Clear Jade Pill was one of the two sacred medicine formulas. It was known to be able to cure all poisons in the world.
Munin did not care about the Clear Jade Pill itself. What he cared about was that he could use his body to refine the pill according to the formula and use the Dan Concentration Technique to condense it in his palms.
What made him even more satisfied was that after refining the Clear Jade Pill, his cultivation had indeed increased by a lot. His guess was not wrong.
However, the increase was limited. Moreover, the medicinal herbs needed to refine the Clear Jade Pill were already gone.
He had no way out now. In the end, he decided to let his avatar stay in his body to preserve the vitality of his body.
His main primordial spirit entered the spirit bean's incarnation. Then, he put on Zhen Mowu's painted skin and went out to check the situation. Zhang Yu, who had seen Zhen Mowu, was already dead. In any case, it was much safer than his original appearance.
However, after he really did that, he discovered a big problem.
It turned out that the Magic Bean Soldiers Technique was not something that anyone could use. One had to be at least in the Furnace Realm to use it.
It was not that cultivators in the Nourishment Realm could not use it. However, the spirit bean's incarnation had a flaw.
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