Third-Tier Silver Corpse

Advanced Cultivation Method require Pill Formula to practice. This is because only cultivators with Golden Core stage or higher have enough Essence Blood to cast the <Blood Escape Technique>.

Foundation Establishment cultivator to cultivate will only lead to their death from exhaustion of Qi and Blood.

This is not an issue for Song Wen, as the Essence Blood within his body are comparable to those of some Golden Core cultivators.

Before arriving at Eastern Splendor Market, Song Wen found a desolate mountain with scarce spiritual energy, a place where cultivators would never go, and secluded himself for a month, successfully cultivating the <Blood Escape Technique>.

The farthest distance he ever traveled was about eighty li (approximately 40 kilometers).

However, after using the Blood Escape Technique once, his vital Essence Blood will be completely depleted, and he must replenish Essence Blood in order to use it again.

Another Cultivation Method is called the "Baleful Path Ghost Scripture," which allows one to condense the Corpse-Baleful Qi within the body into various forms, which can be used for both offense and defense. Currently, the Corpse-Baleful Qi within his body is insufficient to cultivate the "Baleful Path Ghost Scripture."

Wu Ren's storage ring also contained a pale white Funeral Banner, a Law Treasure containing a vast amount of ghostly energy, possessing considerable power. However, Song Wen, who had not yet formed his core and cultivated Law Power, was not yet capable of refining and using it.

In addition, there was Wu Ren's corpse.

Wu Ren was a Middle Golden Core Stage cultivator in his lifetime. If refined properly, he could be transformed into a third-tier Silver Corpse comparable to Golden Core expert.

To successfully refine a Silver Corpse, a large number of various Spirit Treasure are needed, and Song Wen, who only has the Foundation Establishment, cannot control a third-tier Silver Corpse.

As a second-best option, Song Wen planned to emulate Wu Sui's approach and refine Wu Ren's corpse into a pseudo-third-tier Corpse Puppet.

In this way, the Corpse Puppet can not only have the power to suppress Foundation Establishment cultivators, but Song Wen can also control it with his current cultivation level.

When Song Wen learned that the righteous path was about to besiege the Corpse Demon Sect, he spent a huge amount of Spirit Stone to purchase a large number of various Spirit Treasure.

However, he still did not expect that he would have to start refining the Silver Corpse so soon. In order to successfully refine the pseudo-third-order Silver Corpse, he still lacked a crucial Yin attribute Spirit Treasure, the third-order spiritual material Profound Yin Stone.

Currently, Song Wen has only cultivated the Longevity Art to the Qi Refining Fourth Layer. Being in the territory of the righteous path, he only dares to reveal his Qi Refining Fourth Layer of Qi Refining. It is not easy for him to find a third-tier Spirit Treasure.

The plan to create a pseudo-third-tier Corpse Puppet was thus shelved.

After entering Eastern Splendor Market, Song Wen dared not practice Cultivation Method related to demonic cultivation; he only practiced the Longevity Art.

The Longevity Art is the most widely circulated orthodox Cultivation Method, and many people practice Cultivation Method, the vast majority of whom are Rogue Cultivator.

The greatest advantage of the Longevity Art is its ability to extend lifespan; after all, the purpose of cultivating immortality is simply to live longer. However, this Cultivation Method also has obvious drawbacks: the spiritual energy cultivated lacks any elemental attributes, making it extremely disadvantageous in combat.

Generally speaking, the power of spells and Cultivation Method Law Artifact is greater when they correspond to the attributes of the cultivation Technique Method. For example, when cultivating a fire-attribute cultivation Cultivation Method, the power of Fire Element Technique Method and Law Artifact is often significantly amplified.

Furthermore, the progress of cultivating the Longevity Art Technique is quite slow.

This led many people, especially the proud and arrogant disciples of major sects, to regard it as a worthless Cultivation Method and discard it like trash.

But Song Wen didn't think so. What Cultivation Method attribute could be more important than living longer?

If you can't beat your enemy, outlasting them and then jumping around on their grave, which is covered in tall grass, is also a form of revenge.

However, it was only when he actually began to cultivate the Longevity Art that he truly understood how slow the cultivation Cultivation Method was.

The Spiritual Qi concentration in East Birch Market was abundant, and he had no shortage of Spirit Stone and pills, but even after cultivating for two full months, the spiritual power of the <Longevity Art> increased extremely slowly.

Song Wen estimated that it would take at least three to five years for the <Longevity Art> to break through to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer. This was even with Song Wen possessing Sixth-Grade Spiritual Root. No wonder most of the less talented rogue Rogue Cultivator could only manage to break through to the Late Qi Refinement in their entire lives.

During his cultivation, Song Wen discovered a problem: the righteous energy of heaven and earth cultivated by the Longevity Art and the turbid spiritual energy cultivated by the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art were both stored in his Dantian, but the two were clearly separated and did not interfere with each other.

Just like the Bagua diagram from a past life, one black and one white, one righteous and one evil, clear and muddy.

There was another extremely important reason why Song Wen chose to cultivate the Longevity Art.

The Longevity Art is the only Cultivation Method that can be purchased in the shops of East Birch Market and has complete training content from the Qi Refining to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

In Donghua Market, apart from the Longevity Technique, there were no other Foundation Establishment stage cultivation techniques for sale. Song Wen guessed that this was a deliberate move by the righteous sects to recruit independent Foundation Establishment experts.

Once a rogue cultivator has reached the Foundation Establishment stage, if they want to obtain Foundation Establishment techniques, they must join a sect and serve the sect. Otherwise, due to the lack of techniques, their cultivation will never progress.

Since his progress in cultivating the Longevity Art was slow, Song Wen turned his attention to the Blood Qi Pill Qi and Blood Pill and decided to take it to cultivate.

Back then, Song Wen's cultivation level increased rapidly after consuming the Blood Qi Pill refined from the Extreme Yin, but it required a large amount of Essence Blood, which was exactly what Song Wen had in abundance.

He still had 160 bottles of Essence Blood in his storage ring, enough to supply his cultivation for a long time, after covering the daily needs of the Black Armor Gu.

The house that Song Wen rented consisted of three main rooms and a kitchen.

There are three main rooms: the middle one is the living room, the right one is the bedroom, and the left one is the talisman room.

Song Wen entered the talisman room, picked up ten drawn talismans from the table, including nine Fireball Talisman and one Flying Talisman, and then left the Small Courtyard.

Perhaps due to the Righteous-Demonic War, many disciples of the Beast Taming Sect went to the front lines, and many Rogue Cultivators were also recruited by the Beast Taming Sect, making the streets of the market look somewhat desolate.

Song Wen entered a talisman shop and sold ten talismans.

Nine Fireball Talisman sold for four Spirit Stones, and Flying Talisman sold for five Spirit Stones, for a total of nine Spirit Stones.

After leaving the talisman shop, Song Wen went to a medicine shop.

Upon seeing Song Wen enter the shop, the shopkeeper, who had been feeling drowsy due to poor business, immediately perked up and jogged over to Song Wen.

"Fellow Daoist, what would you like to buy?"

Do you Blood Qi Pill?

"Blood Qi Pill are certainly available. How many do you need, fellow Daoist?"

"Could I take a look at the pills first?" Song Wen asked.

"Of course," the shopkeeper replied with a smile.

The shopkeeper reached into his Storage Bag at his waist, and a jade bottle appeared in his hand.

"Please look, sir. This jade bottle contains the Blood Qi Pill."

Song Wen took the jade bottle, opened the stopper, and probed it with his Divine Sense. He immediately sensed a pill inside.

The pill was blood red in color and not much different in appearance from the Blood Qi Pill that Extreme Yin had refined before. However, Song Wen felt that the medicinal properties of the Blood Qi Pill in front of him were much weaker than those of the Extreme Yin.

Song Wen frowned slightly. Why did this orthodox Blood Qi Pill, refined in the Cultivation World, seem inferior to the one that Extreme Yin had concocted on his own?

Perhaps sensing Song Wen's dissatisfaction, the shopkeeper asked.

"Fellow Daoist, are you dissatisfied with the pills? These were personally refined by Master Ma Quan; they are definitely top-grade Blood Qi Pill."

Song Wen ignored the shopkeeper's self-praise. The so-called Master Ma Quan was just a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator who could only refine first-tier pills, far from deserving the title of a master Alchemy.

"How much is this Blood Qi Pill?" Song Wen asked.

"Ten Spirit Stone each"

"So expensive?" Song Wen was somewhat surprised.

The shopkeeper said, "The Blood Qi Pill has a very small chance of helping cultivators break through the bottleneck of the Early Qi Refinement Stage, so it's naturally not cheap. However, this pill cannot be taken in large quantities, otherwise there is a risk of depleting Qi and Blood."

Song Wen nodded, observing that the Blood Qi Pill in the Cultivation World also consumed Essence Blood, but its medicinal properties were not as strong as those refined with Extreme Yin, and its effect of increasing spiritual power cultivation would probably be greatly reduced.

However, even the Blood Qi Pill refined by Extreme Yin is probably something that ordinary cultivators wouldn't dare to take. It's not a pill used to aid cultivation; it can practically be called a deadly poison.

"Give me two."

Song Wen handed over twenty Spirit Stone.

The shopkeeper accepted the Spirit Stone, put two Qi and Blood Pills into the jade bottle, and handed it to Song Wen.

"Welcome to visit again next time, fellow Daoist."

Song Wen walked out of the shop and sighed at how expensive the elixirs were in East Birch Market.

He knew the recipe for Blood Qi Pill. The spirit medicine used in it were not particularly precious. The value of gathering spirit medicine for one batch would not exceed two Spirit Stones. Normally, each batch of Blood Qi Pill yields about five pills, which translates to a profit of more than twenty times the cost.

The exploitation of Rogue Cultivator by righteous sects is evident from this.