It was nearing midnight.
In the small courtyard Zhang Yang rented, all ten Array Talismans had been activated, forming layer upon layer of watery-blue ripples.
This was also a slight fluctuation of magical power, but it did not fall within the range prohibited by the Great Dream Sword Sect. Just like the single standard unit of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi Zhang Yang modified through the backend every day, it would not trigger the Great Dream Sword Sect's monitoring network.
After all, in this day and age, no matter how miserably a Rogue Cultivator got by, surely they were still allowed to own a few Immortal Stones?
What Zhang Yang used first was Soul Stones. They were items specifically for spiritual cultivators, similar to Immortal Stones, and could greatly increase one's mental capacity—in other words, soul strength.
With a slight movement of his thoughts, the Soul Force Field spread out. Moments later, that Soul Stone transformed into a sky-blue mist, drifting and curling away like smoke and clouds.
But it had not truly dispersed. It had been absorbed by Zhang Yang's Soul Force Field.
Next, he took out another Soul Stone and repeated the process.
Only after all the Soul Stones had been absorbed did he take out the far more precious Soul Jade.
One Soul Jade was worth a hundred Soul Stones.
That was because Soul Jade could be used as a substitute for a spirit sea. In other words, if one wanted to make a mechanical puppet capable of speaking and thinking like a True Person, or even possessing independent consciousness, it had to have a piece of Soul Jade.
The higher the grade of the Soul Jade, the better the effect.
The grade of Zhang Yang's Soul Jade was not high—only mortal grade—but it was already enough