Mother-Child Ghost Heads

The Mother-Child Ghost Heads were highly unusual, a rare combination-type magic tool.

Their refinement required Yin Spirit Materials. In the Ancient Immortal Cultivation World seven thousand years ago, they would have been an out-and-out demonic sect magic tool.

Li Mo had purchased them from Yi Bao Pavilion.

Yi Bao Pavilion never publicly sold Magic Tool Catalogues of little value. They were generally half-sold, half-gifted, and Li Mo had obtained one by a fortunate coincidence.

Yin Spirit Materials were expensive, and the Mother-Child Ghost Heads had attracted no interest. Seeing that the type of magic tool was uncommon, Li Mo had taken them along.

A combination-type magic tool referred to several magic tools linked together, controlled by one core magic tool and aided by multiple auxiliary magic tools.

Among the memories from the Book of Fortune that Li Mo had absorbed, the most renowned was the Ancient Immortal Sect, "Jiantian Sect." Their method of controlling a hundred swords with qi was a profoundly mysterious combination-type magic tool.

The core of the Mother-Child Ghost Heads was the Mother Ghost Head.

It worked alongside a varying number of auxiliary Child Ghost Heads. Yet even when taken out separately, a Child Ghost Head was still a low-grade magic tool.

After a cultivator refined a Child Ghost Head, the magic tool would parasitize their body and turn into a puppet head, greatly enhancing hearing and vision.

The Mother Ghost Head restrained the Child Ghost Heads. Not only could it forcibly sever a cultivator's connection to their magic tool, it could also mislead their five senses in turn.

Further refinement could lean toward curses, achieving the feat of taking a person's head amid the invisible.

Li Mo had no intention of developing the Mother-Child Ghost Heads into tools for ambushing others. Instead, through the Second Refinement, he intended to let the Mother Ghost Head share the Child Ghost Heads' senses.

For cultivators in the Secret Realm, having an extra nimble head would undoubtedly make it far easier to watch for danger. Even if they encountered the so-called "mud statues," they could stare directly at them for extended periods.

Li Mo immediately began refining the magic tool.

Unfortunately, his own spiritual power was not yin-aligned. Refining the Magic Tool Blank for the Mother-Child Ghost Heads required the somewhat extreme Blood Refining Technique.

Most rogue cultivators knew blood refinement, mainly because its steps were simple, causing Blood Refining Dharma Gates to become as common as dirt.

Before his cave dwelling was finished, Li Mo found time to make a trip back to the Heart Beast Black Market.

He first went to Yi Bao Pavilion and purchased an old coffin the size of an infant, along with over a hundred liters of women's blood for the blood refinement.

In the Immortal Cultivation World of ancient times, even blood-refining a low-grade magic tool meant slaughtering at least the women and children of an entire village, inevitably adding needless killing.

But nowadays, it was nothing much.

After all, once ordinary people suffered Death Sickness and passed forty years of age, nearly all the visceral artifacts throughout their bodies had rotted away. What use was their blood then?

They usually sold their blood in advance, and Yi Bao Pavilion unexpectedly had quite a large stock.

After replenishing his resources, Li Mo set off for the Iron Cauldron Secret Realm. He burrowed into the cave dwelling and stopped paying attention to the outside world.

Several people had disappeared in the mine cave, so it had already been abandoned. Coupled with its crisscrossing forks in the road, he did not need to worry about cultivators wandering in by mistake.

The cave dwelling was no larger than a guest room, and one had to stoop at its entrance, ensuring its concealment.

Li Mo took out the coffin and filled it with blood, then soaked the Yin Spirit Material, "Ghost Pear," inside. From time to time, he added beast carcasses to the coffin.

Ghost Pears could only grow on pear trees in a Mass Grave. They resembled human heads, while their flesh contained highly toxic poison that sealed the throat at the sight of blood.

Li Mo discovered that blood refinement had one advantage.

Although the required materials were somewhat expensive, as long as one followed the steps, its success rate was far beyond what the Basic Artifact Refining Method could match.

The Ghost Pear churned in the bloody water, letting out sizzling sounds.

While monitoring the Spiritual Herb's metamorphosis, Li Mo simply arranged the cave dwelling.

He merely spread a layer of dry grass across the ground and lit a candle lamp.

A moment later, just as the Ghost Pear was about to shrivel, he used the Desert Diagram to fish out the Magic Tool Blank.

Li Mo examined the Magic Tool Blank. Perhaps because he had added Beast Bones, its poor quality meant it could undergo at most the Third Refinement.

He did not demand much from the Magic Tool Blank. Being able to undergo the Second Refinement was enough.

For the first refinement of the Mother-Child Ghost Heads, he chose ordinary yinwood as the Spiritual Herb. It could strengthen the magic tool's five senses, and anything too expensive would easily arouse suspicion.

As for the Second Refinement, Li Mo did not intend to refine Child Ghost Heads. He only needed the Mother Ghost Head, and the Spiritual Herb was the brain marrow of a Boneless Bird.

He mixed the brain marrow with Bone Powder and injected it evenly into the Mother Ghost Head.

After the Mother Ghost Head completed the Second Refinement, it did not deviate from expectations. It truly could share the Child Ghost Heads' five senses, and Li Mo could not help letting out a long breath.

But when he looked at the lifelike Mother Ghost Head, he could not help falling into deep thought.

After refinement, the Mother Ghost Head needed to parasitize a cultivator's flesh and blood. Within only a few days, it would grow from the size of a fist to the size of a normal human head.

Li Mo could not help hesitating over where he should temporarily place the Mother Ghost Head.

"Wait. As long as it's my own flesh and blood, that should work, right..."

Li Mo raised his brows, his gaze covertly flicking toward the Ghost Tiger. Wasn't the Tattooed Beast composed of Flesh and Blood Spiritual Power? After canceling Paint Green Clothes, the Flesh and Blood Spiritual Power would return to him.

"Ghost Tiger, it'll be you."

"It won't take long. Just until I figure out the situation with Corpse Mountain."

Before the Ghost Tiger could react, Li Mo directly had the Mother Ghost Head parasitize its back. Yet the head that grew out was not a Human Head—it was unexpectedly a Mountain Lord's Head glaring in fury.

The two-headed Ghost Tiger truly had something of the Exotic Beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas about it.

Li Mo refined the Mother Ghost Head, establishing a connection with the other Child Ghost Heads. On the surface, the Child Ghost Heads appeared to be independent magic tools.

The Ghost Tiger flicked its tail uncomfortably, but soon grew accustomed to the Mother Ghost Head.

Li Mo deliberately made the refined finished magic tools uneven in quality, lest anyone recognize his distinctive artifact-refining style.

Being able to precisely control a magic tool's quality within a certain margin of error was something that not even a few Artifact Refiners in the entire Heart Beast Sect could accomplish.

The artifact-refining process had been uneventful. Distributing the Child Ghost Heads, however, was somewhat troublesome.

Li Mo did not want to reveal that he had refined the Mother-Child Ghost Heads, so he could not sell them from a stall. Asking Jiang Xin'an for help was even less realistic.

He had indeed found the Magic Tool Catalogue at Yi Bao Pavilion, but many cultivators had surely leafed through it. To guard against every contingency, his identity absolutely could not be exposed.

After agonizing over it for a long time, Li Mo finally set his sights on the Viper Society.

As a gang faction of the Heart Beast Black Market, a large portion of the Viper Society's income came from collecting oil water money from low-level cultivators.

Their main area of activity lay south of the Black Market.

While Viper Society cultivators were collecting oil water money, Li Mo slipped a Storage Bag containing Child Ghost Heads into their cloth bag.

The cultivators would inspect the amount of oil water money afterward and take their own share. They would definitely discover the dozen or so Child Ghost Heads.

Generally speaking, after acquiring ill-gotten gains, people would dispose of them as quickly as possible.

Li Mo did not begrudge the lost Spirit Stones. He only feared that the cultivators would choose to hand them over to the Viper Society.

Fortunately, snakes and rats nested together. The Child Ghost Heads appeared in the Black Market in less than half a day. Their selling price was even lower than Li Mo had expected, and they were quickly snapped up in a frenzy.

The Child Ghost Heads could help cultivators explore the depths of Corpse Mountain. Even if the hidden trick Li Mo had left behind was discovered, the Viper Society would be the one taking the blame.

Next, he only needed to wait for the matter to ferment.

Li Mo then took out a large quantity of Earth Attribute Spirit Materials. While operating the Circulation Cycle, he also ground the Spiritual Herbs into powder, preparing for the Primordial Acquired Dao Body.