Profound-grade Low-level Secret Skill: Mystic Armor Puppet Technique! Please Keep Reading! Please Vote!

Profound-grade Low-level Secret Skill: Mystic Armor Puppet Technique! Please Keep Reading! Please Vote!

On the Dou Qi Continent, all skills that used dou qi could collectively be called Dou Techniques.

But if one were to classify them more strictly, Dou Techniques also included special categories such as cultivation methods, movement techniques, and secret skills.

Cultivation methods and movement Dou Techniques were self-explanatory. The former cultivated dou qi, while the latter used dou qi to enhance agility.

Secret skills were even more specialized. Many dou qi skills that were not direct offensive or defensive methods could be categorized as secret skills.

For example, traditionally, only Dou Wangs could turn dou qi into horses—no, into wings—and gain the ability to fly. But there was a highly precious Flying Dou Skill on the continent that could allow Dou Qi Cultivators below the Dou Wang realm to gain temporary flight. Such Flying Dou Skills were usually classified as secret skills as well.

Some powerful explosive enhancement skills were also a type of secret skill.

In short, secret skills always possessed either power or strangeness.

And the Mystic Armor Puppet Technique Jiang Lin had unexpectedly stumbled upon was undoubtedly the latter—strange.

"Profound-grade?"

"Puppet Technique?"

Jiang Lin, sitting cross-legged on the bed, raised his brows slightly. When had his luck become this good?

He remembered that during his last visit, he had only picked up a pile of scrap metal—second- and third-tier materials—which he had taken back to forge the Black Knight Armor. Only his first and third visits had yielded Mysterious-grade items.

"Mm... this doesn't seem like a secret skill any decent person would write..." Jiang Lin focused his Spiritual Sense on the beast-hide scroll and swept it over the surface. Its information swiftly flooded into his mind, a process that lasted roughly an hour.

"Young Miss... he found another treasure." Someone in the darkness spoke with a complicated expression.

"Mm... but to Elder Ling, it shouldn't be anything particularly valuable, right?" The little girl's voice rang out, carrying a trace of confusion.

"Young Miss, Wutan City is very small to me. It's like he's scavenging treasures right beside me. Even if it's only a worthless Mysterious-grade Dou Technique, that feeling... is very complicated. Very strange. It's hard to describe."

"..." Xiao Xun'er felt that she could somewhat understand that feeling. She felt that if she had appeared any later, that brat Jiang Lin would have scavenged his way right into the Xiao Family.

"If Elder Ling feels uncomfortable, you can also look around for treasures in the city."

Xiao Xun'er could only comfort him like this.

An hour later, Jiang Lin's eyes were somewhat vacant. He remained woodenly still for a long while before gradually coming back to his senses.

Compared to the last time, when a whole set of Dou Artifact blueprint materials had been forcibly poured into his mind and nearly left him severely weakened, Jiang Lin—now a Dou Zhe with the ability to see within himself and focus his Spiritual Sense—handled this absorption of inherited knowledge much better.

"I never expected it to be such a miraculous secret technique. The only pity is that this beast-hide scroll can only be used once. After I used it, it became a blank sheet." Jiang Lin looked at the now-empty beast-hide scroll and sighed inwardly.

Many items that contained soul-based inheritances had a limited number of uses, usually three. Particularly important ones had only one. Once their uses were exhausted, the soul power within them would completely vanish.

The Profound-grade low-level secret skill, Mystic Armor Puppet Technique, was a remarkably bright and benevolent corpse beautification technique. It recorded how to refine corpses that possessed a certain level of dou qi cultivation and turn them into puppets no stronger than Dou Lings. However, these puppets possessed extremely dull intelligence, and only corpses that had died very recently could retain even that dull intelligence. Living bodies could not be used, as they risked rebellion and could easily attract baleful aura.

"Baleful aura... That's a fresh concept. It says that too much baleful aura can easily cause one to suffer qi deviation during cultivation, and at higher levels, it can even attract heavenly lightning? Isn't that a bit exaggerated? Refining a Dou Ling puppet puts you at risk of being struck by lightning?" Although Jiang Lin felt that the Mystic Armor Puppet Technique's description was somewhat exaggerated, he still had to regard the wisdom of his predecessors with reverence.

"The other materials for refining a Mystic Armor Puppet are fairly simple. I have quite a few materials in my storeroom with similar effects, so I can try substituting them directly. The only troublesome part is that it says controlling the puppet requires the skin of a Soul-Containing Banshee, with soul Mystic Armor Talismans drawn onto it. But where am I supposed to find a banshee? I've never even heard of one."

As Jiang Lin thought, he looked at the mysterious beast hide in his hand and suddenly fell silent. Then he repeatedly examined it under the candlelight. The hide was grayish white all over, hairless, and smooth to the touch. It felt soft, like human skin, with a cold sensation.

In any case, Jiang Lin searched through all his memories and found nothing that matched this type of beast hide.

His intuition told him that this mysterious beast hide was likely the Soul-Containing Parchment he needed to refine a Mystic Armor Puppet.

Jiang Lin compared the Mystic Armor Talismans that had appeared in his mind with this mysterious beast hide and discovered that it could produce exactly two Mystic Armor Talismans—the precise amount required for one Mystic Armor Puppet!

"As expected... this is the wisdom of our predecessors." Jiang Lin pressed his palms together and silently recited, May the predecessors be with me. Then he happily put away the Soul-Containing Parchment and went to sleep contentedly.

When away from home, Jiang Lin generally did not cultivate, lest anyone notice something unusual.

Back then, Mr. Yao had been able to determine from experience that Xiao Xun'er was no ordinary person. Jiang Lin, who possessed exceptionally strong Spiritual Sense, naturally would not court death. He had always regarded Xiao Xun'er as Superman wearing glasses.

Originally, Jiang Lin had not intended to have much contact with Superman Xiao Xun'er. But over the past year, as he gradually sensed his surroundings, he discovered that there was nothing in the Xiao Family that made him uncomfortable. In other words, Xiao Xun'er had never shown him any hostility. Under those circumstances, Jiang Lin simply carried on as usual and followed his own plans. Besides, if Uncle Fu had not told him that the old man at home was losing dou qi every day, Jiang Lin truly would not have come to the Xiao Family to approach Xiao Yan.

After interacting with Xiao Yan, Jiang Lin thought it over. Since things had already come to this, he might as well leave behind a good connection. He directly pointed out the problem with Xiao Yan's body and tossed the garbage Dou Artifact he had seized to him. Whether Xiao Yan succeeded or failed, Jiang Lin would suffer no loss.

That Black Blade?

Its quality was not even comparable to the one Jiang Lin used himself, and merely holding it would be troublesome. Who knew who had killed those men in black? If trouble came, it could just go find Xiao Yan instead. Even if Xiao Yan exposed him, it would still have gone around in a huge circle. By then, Jiang Lin would have grown strong enough that the people of Qingshan Town would no longer be able to handle him.

Moreover, Wutan City was a blessed land to him. The Mystic Armor Puppet Technique was like someone delivering a pillow just as he wanted to sleep.

Jiang Lin now desperately wanted to strip the Black Armored Greatsword Knight away from himself, and the Mystic Armor Puppet Technique had undoubtedly given him that opportunity.

"So... Dou Master Mu She and Great Dou Master Rock Tiger, aren't they the perfect upgrade path for Black Armored Knight puppets?"

Jiang Lin had already begun calculating how to quietly eliminate the Wolf Head Mercenary Group within a year and investigate that unfamiliar Artifact Forger behind them.

Instead of properly researching artifact forging, he insisted on taking shortcuts to loot blueprints from Jiang Lin.

He didn't study seriously. Bad child. He deserved to die.