Making a Soul Shrine required yin wood at least a hundred years old. That was easy enough to choose. After leafing through the notes, Chen Miao settled on hundred-year pagoda tree wood.
Pagoda tree wood had plenty of uses. Making the Soul Shrine would certainly leave a lot of offcuts, which could be used for the Soul-Splitting Projection Technique and the Pagoda Tree Soul-Nourishing Plaque.
Very little would go to waste.
After choosing the material came the carving.
This step was not particularly important. A Soul Shrine's effectiveness depended not on the intricacy of its carving, but on the Rune Formation constructed inside it with Soul Crystal Fragments.
Chen Miao's current carving skills were more than sufficient. Of course, he would not mind making it a little more refined if he could.
So his first step now was to redeem the material and carve out the basic shape of the Soul Shrine.
Chen Miao immediately spent two qian of Yin Virtue and obtained a section of pagoda tree trunk measuring a full thirty centimeters in both diameter and height.
Ordinarily, a hundred-year-old pagoda tree should have measured fifty to a hundred centimeters in diameter, but things produced by the notes always defied common sense a little.
After obtaining the wood, Chen Miao did not start immediately. Instead, he drove out and bought some tools, along with a few ordinary blocks of wood.
He wanted to practice first.
Although one block of pagoda tree wood cost only two qian of Yin Virtue, Chen Miao had not yet reached the point where he could dismiss that amount as nothing.
Over the course of a day, Chen Miao followed online instructional videos by skilled craftspeople and carved three rough Soul Shrines.
He had to admit that a powerful Soul Body combined with the