Purple Green Ruyi Rope

A month later, all five Ironwood sticks were consumed by Wu Tian using the Silk Drawing Curse Technique, transforming into fifteen six-foot-long Yin Soul Silks.

In reality, he could have extracted even more, but he wasted quite a bit while practicing at the beginning. Only after gradually becoming more proficient did he manage to produce the current amount.

"But it was worth it. At the very least, my Silk Drawing Curse Technique has advanced by leaps and bounds!"

Since it was unexpected income, Wu Tian didn't feel any heartache.

However, to refine the Ruyi Whip next, he needed to extract four Yin Soul Silks and engrave them with the incantations of the Thunder Sound Curse, Fire Pupil Curse, Cloud Water Spell, and Gather Wind Spell, respectively.

This engraving process required the blood of a monster, preferably one with corresponding attributes.

Once each Yin Soul Silk was engraved with an incantation, these four engraved Yin Soul Silks would then be woven together using the secret Ruyi Whip method to forge a Ruyi Rope.

Three Ruyi Ropes could forge a low-grade Ruyi Whip.

Nine Ruyi Ropes could forge a good-grade Ruyi Whip.

Thirty-six Ruyi Ropes could forge an excellent-grade Ruyi Whip.

But to forge a rare-grade Ruyi Whip, a full eighty-one Ruyi Ropes were needed.

Upon reaching the Cauldron Forging Realm, if one possessed enough time and energy, they could fuse three Ruyi Whips with cauldron fire and nurture and refine them with corresponding Heaven and Earth Essence Qi to temper them into Magic Artifact-level Ruyi Lariats.

This was one of Skull Mountain's Magic Artifact inheritances. The Ruyi Lariat could grow large or small, bind enemies, and also possessed some offensive power. If a rare-grade Ruyi Lariat was forged, it would be more than sufficient for self-protection.

While not as potent as a killing weapon, it was still quite mystical.

Other Skull Mountain disciples, when refining Ruyi Whips, generally only chose two attributes, such as the Wind Fire Whip, Water Fire Whip, or Yin Fire Whip. A very important reason for this was to save time and energy.

A Ruyi Whip with four attributes like Wu Tian's required twice the materials of an equivalent-grade Ruyi Whip, and the energy consumed would only be greater, which could easily affect one's cultivation.

For all cultivators, ascending to the next realm was the most crucial matter. Even a protective artifact was merely an external object.

However, Wu Tian, relying on the System Panel, could cultivate the Silk Drawing Curse Technique to the perfected stage in a short period, and it could even trigger a talent mutation.

This was why he was willing to expend so much time.

After forging these fifteen Yin Soul Silks, he had no more spiritual materials. Ordinary trees could not yield Yin Soul Silk.

Thinking that he still needed to hunt demonic beasts, engrave incantations with their blood, and even continuously perform silk drawing and fusion, Wu Tian felt a bit disheartened. Even if the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall allowed the exchange of some beast blood for Merit points, how many would be needed for a lightning-attribute monster?

He felt a headache coming on. Just then, a thought flashed through his mind, "What about my own blood?"

"I am also a monster, and I have absorbed the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi of water, fire, wind, and lightning. If I use my blood to engrave..."

He felt a surge of desire to try it out.

Without further ado, he drew his claw sharply across his own foreleg...

Ugh, it didn't even break the skin.

He was now constantly being cleansed by the four types of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi externally and nurtured by Tongyou Qi internally. With both internal and external harmony, his skin had become quite tough.

Wu Tian gritted his teeth and opened his mouth, biting down on his foreleg.

"Woof~"

So painful!

Wu Tian cried out in pain. A small opening finally appeared on his foreleg, and blood began to flow.

But how was he supposed to engrave? Should he use his claws?

Wu Tian felt that his brain wasn't working properly after becoming a dog. A proper dog's brain, so much so that he hadn't even figured out the subsequent operational steps before biting himself.

Speaking of which, if he bit himself, would he get rabies?

Wu Tian tried to find humor in the situation, his mind racing with chaotic thoughts. He spat out a Yin Soul Silk from his mouth and then attempted to engrave an incantation using the blood from his claw.

At this moment, Zhu Yushuang, who was in a state of divine communion with heaven and earth, witnessed this scene. Even though her heart was as clear as water, she couldn't help but laugh.

"What a silly dog!"

Fortunately, Wu Tian soon found a method. There was actually a trick to it: one needed to circulate the curse technique, then use the corresponding Heaven and Earth Essence Qi to guide the blood, gradually engraving it onto the Yin Soul Silk.

Wu Tian tried for a full hour, and he was only engraving the simplest spell, the Gather Wind Spell, yet he kept failing. In the end, he only succeeded in engraving one rune.

Keep in mind that the Gather Wind Spell had a total of fifty-eight runes.

The Cloud Water Spell had seventy-four runes.

The Fire Pupil Curse had one hundred and eight runes.

The Thunder Sound Curse had as many as one hundred and twenty-two runes.

Just fusing four Yin Soul Silks into one Ruyi Rope required engraving three hundred and sixty-two runes, let alone subsequently fusing Ruyi Ropes to forge Ruyi Whips. It would undoubtedly consume a massive amount of time and energy.

Wu Tian's scalp tingled just thinking about it. "I can't do this. It'll take too long. Even bleeding myself is unbearable!"

"I wonder if using my fur would work?"

He didn't care if he became a bald dog, only that he couldn't keep bleeding himself. Of course, this wasn't because he was afraid of pain.

"Forget it, I'll try again tomorrow."

"My daily exercises are still more important."

Wu Tian put away the Yin Soul Silk, stuck out his tongue to lick his wound. It was shallow to begin with, and by now, it had stopped bleeding.

He began to chant incantations, starting with the Thunder Sound Curse and then cycling through the others.

The turbid qi within his body continuously dissipated...

The next day, when he was tired from his cultivation, Wu Tian tried again. This time, he used his own hair instead of blood.

Unsurprisingly, it failed directly.

He began to honestly use a little bit of his blood every day to engrave the incantations.

As a result, with the passage of time, not only did his proficiency in engraving incantations on the Yin Soul Silk grow, but the four curse techniques he cultivated also seemed to progress faster through this engraving process.

Unknowingly, Wu Tian had been cultivating in the hot spring forbidden area for two full months.

One day, after finishing his cultivation, he spat out four strands of Yin Soul Silk from his mouth.

These four strands of Yin Soul Silk were densely engraved with bloody incantations. During this period, Wu Tian had finally engraved the four curse techniques onto these Yin Soul Silks. The next step was to refine the four strands of Yin Soul Silk into one Ruyi Rope.

Wu Tian was a little excited. From drawing the silk to engraving the incantations, it had consumed a large amount of his time and energy, not to mention the blood he shed daily.

Refining artifacts with his own blood – even a dog would weep hearing his story.

"To refine the Ruyi Rope, one needs the Ruyi Curse. Master Man Xiong said this curse technique is very simple, but one can only successfully get started while refining a Curse Artifact."

"Let's try..."

The Ruyi Curse had a total of seventy-two incantations. It was also a Secret Transmission Curse Technique, but Wu Tian had never practiced it before. Today, with all the materials ready, it was time.

He chanted the incantations, circulating the Tongyou Qi within his body. The four strands of Yin Soul Silk, densely engraved with incantations and placed before him, suddenly rose into the air. The incantations on them flickered, actually flowing on their own.

Heaven and earth's spiritual energy gathered, and four-colored rays of light – water, fire, wind, and thunder – surged.

The four strands of Yin Soul Silk intertwined like spiritual snakes, outlining incredibly complex patterns.

More than half an hour later, the heaven and earth spiritual energy dispersed, and a rope, entirely purplish-blue with interwoven water and fire patterns, landed before Wu Tian.

The six-foot-long Yin Soul Silk was reduced to four feet eight inches after being refined.

The purplish-blue long rope flowed with a radiant glow, clearly not an ordinary object.