With the Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse dealt with, Chen Cang was in no hurry to return. He turned his palm over, and a scroll of grayish-brown bamboo slips appeared.
He untied the thread wrapped around the slips, revealing three blood-red characters.
Heavenly Demon Puppet!
This was neither a cultivation method nor an ordinary Dou Technique, but a puppet-making art passed down from ancient times.
Refining a Heavenly Demon Puppet required three materials.
A body, a soul, and a magic core!
With the body as the vessel, the soul as the guide, and the magic core as the heart, one could combine them with various other materials to forge a Demon Puppet.
The grade of the resulting Demon Puppet varied with the quality of the materials. From highest to lowest, there were three grades: heaven, earth, and human.
Chen Cang had already learned the refining method from Earth Demon Old Ghost's memories. After scanning it once more, he handed it to Heavenly Fire Venerable for his appraisal.
"According to these bamboo slips, a Demon Puppet possesses boundless power, knows neither joy nor sorrow, and feels neither pain nor injury. It truly is an instrument of slaughter. Young master, are you deciding whether to use the Heavenly Demon Phoenix magic core or the one Earth Demon Old Ghost prepared?"
Chen Cang put away the bamboo slips and shook his head with a smile. "There's nothing to agonize over. Even with the Heavenly Demon Phoenix magic core, it would be difficult to refine a true earth-grade Demon Puppet."
He had plenty of materials on hand, especially souls-enough to fill two mahjong tables if he brought them all out. But his best materials were the body and soul of Earth Demon Old Ghost, a seven-star Dou Zong. As for magic cores, the one obtained