The jade bottles used to seal souls were nothing mysterious to Qin Fengming, an artifact refiner.
Magic artifacts such as the Yinmo Banner and the Thousand Soul Banner could all house spirit souls. Naturally, refining special materials into the shape of a jade bottle was no difficult matter either.
At the same time, Qin Fengming had already learned which materials retained souls within puppets. He now fully understood the most profound mysteries of their construction.
Once he understood this, the Puppet Technique no longer seemed so mysterious to Qin Fengming.
After carefully searching through the many texts, Qin Fengming finally found one titled Detailed Explanation of Puppets. It described the basic incantations and methods for refining Qi Gathering stage puppets.
This text explained the steps for refining Qi Gathering stage puppets in great detail, and its descriptions of the various incantations were exceptionally clear.
With this text in hand, Qin Fengming resolved to try refining a puppet himself.
After studying the text carefully for three days, Qin Fengming entered the chamber where the various materials were stored. Comparing them against the descriptions, he indeed gathered all the dozen or so materials needed to refine a Qi Gathering stage puppet.
With these materials, refining the puppet's body posed no difficulty for Qin Fengming.
The only difficulty was that there was no earth-core fire here. Left with no alternative, Qin Fengming casually set up a restrictive spell inside the chamber, isolating it from the outside. Then he raised his hand and summoned the Spirit Devouring Netherflame.
Although he did not need to worry about anyone disturbing him here, it was still best not to let his newly acknowledged master, Zhuang Daoqin, learn of the Spirit Devouring Netherflame. This was another reflection of Qin Fengming's habitual caution.
He placed the refining furnace over