Magic Immortal Arts Refine Jade Crab, Creation Hard to Determine Five Elements Magic

The Cai Luan Spirit Boat, Heng Hua had the Mind Monkey circulate the Creation Yuan Convergence Technique to recover qi, while he focused on making puppets.

With two hearts as one, it was naturally possible to divide one's attention.

This was the advantage of the Creation Yuan Convergence Technique. While the main body was doing other things, the Mind Monkey could maintain the cultivation method's operation, never slacking for a moment.

A palm-sized golden disc, densely embedded with dozens of thumb-sized miniature gears. As Creation True Qi circulated, the disc creaked and whirred.

Attaching the eight leg-like jade pieces from the Crab Spirit, the base automatically crawled on the table.

Heng Hua then used jade material to craft a crystal-clear crab shell and fitted it on.

Finally, it was time to repair the pair of large pincers.

"Young Master, this mechanical beast of yours doesn't look like it has Foundation Establishment Realm abilities at all."

"It's not finished yet, what's the rush?"

The large pincers left behind by the Crab Spirit had been shattered by Xiang Feng. Looking at the broken remnants, Heng Hua clasped his hands together, silently reciting an incantation.

Hearing the first few words, Xiao Yu's expression changed, and she instinctively glanced towards the door.

The young woman frowned, displeased, and could only silently console herself: It's fine, this isn't an evil art, it's not an evil art.

Gray airflow rose from Heng Hua's fingertips, bonding the fragments together. When both pincers were reassembled, a faint golden luster flowed along the cracks, inscribing two strange incantation totems.

Devilish Dao totems.

Xiao Yu's face darkened. She wanted to speak but stopped herself, struggling for a long time before holding back.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. Besides, this isn't an evil art, just a fringe spell with a slight connection to Heavenly Devil secret techniques."

Xiao Yu sighed.

She couldn't say much more.

She understood that this was a spell the Young Master had adapted from Heavenly Devil secret techniques. Driven by immortal True Essence, it not only washed away the evil aura of the Heavenly Devils but also integrated the essence of immortal mirage techniques.

Yes, it was immortal, not devilish... not devilish...

After repairing the pincers, Heng Hua reassembled them.

With that, the crab puppet was fully assembled. It was a palm-sized mechanical crab made of green jade.

As the puppet's base operated, the jade crab crawled sideways on the table. However, its movements were stiff, with only one crawling mode.

"Xiao Yu, help me catch some crabs from the water. I want to give it some more vitality."

"Young Master, although the Heavenly Devil Form Integration Technique you modified is indeed unrelated to evil arts, 'Vitality Refining and Shaping' is a true evil method. Young Master, I must respectfully decline."

The taboo of the Artificer's Puppet Technique was to increase a puppet's vitality through blood sacrifice. For human puppets, humans were sacrificed. For crab puppets, naturally, crabs would be sacrificed.

Heng Hua said helplessly, "This isn't a human puppet, it's just a crab."

"The Old Master specifically instructed that if you were to perform any evil arts, you must inform him."

Using a crab today lowers your own bottom line. Tomorrow you'll use a dead person, and the day after, you'll use a living enemy.

That's how bottom lines are lowered, step by step.

Xiao Yu stood her ground, meeting Heng Hua's gaze.

Heng Hua glared back. She faltered inwardly and forced herself to say, "I'll go tell Heng Shou to come and persuade you."

Seeing her about to leave, Heng Hua sighed:

"You and Heng Shou are helpers my mother chose for me. You're from the He family, not the Fu family, so why listen so much to the Old Master's words?"

Ultimately, Heng Hua knew what was good for him. Understanding that Xiao Yu meant well, he relented.

"On this matter alone, Heng Shou and I will follow the Old Master's instructions. Young Master, evil arts affect the mind; you absolutely cannot touch them."

They could compromise on other matters, but not on the bottom line.

Absolutely not letting the Young Master dabble in evil arts was a vow Xiao Yu and Heng Shou had made together.

"Forget it."

Heng Hua picked up the remaining Bright Moon Pearls he had obtained last night.

Creation True Qi wrapped around the Bright Moon Pearls, which floated around the jade crab. Heng Hua's palms surged with dark energy, crushing the Bright Moon Pearls one by one, injecting the essence of the river mussel spirit into the crab puppet's body.

"Then I'll switch to a different spell."

Seeing Heng Hua re-enact the Devilish Dao secret technique, Xiao Yu was still unhappy. But she managed to hold back and didn't argue with him further.

As long as it didn't involve evil arts, it was fine, it wasn't an evil art...

But thinking about the secret techniques Fu Henghua cultivated, Xiao Yu got a hundred headaches.

"Those people are really something. Hiding their cultivation methods and secret techniques in mortal texts instead of somewhere else. Isn't that clearly inviting people like Young Master to cultivate them?"

"That's enough."

Heng Hua finished casting the spell. The jade crab clearly had more spirit, crawling off the table and moving around the room.

"But this jade crab looks even less capable than a Foundation Establishment cultivator--"

Whoosh--

A jade crab's leg aimed at Howling Fish, shooting out like a swift wind.

Howling Fish hastily waved his sleeve to deflect the leg-sword, only to see three more flying towards him rapidly.

The young woman's mind was in disarray, and she frantically cast spells to defend herself.

Finally, Heng Hua was the one to actively retract his weapons.

"How was it?"

"It can only ambush, not confront cultivators head-on."

Howling Fish estimated that not to mention Foundation Establishment cultivators like himself who weren't skilled in combat, even the average maids on Panlong Island could probably defeat this jade crab Puppet after the initial shock wore off and they calmed down.

"Young Master used too few materials. The shell of this crab is just a piece of jade, easily shattered with a single palm strike."

"So, it needs further processing. But for now, it's barely usable."

Heng Hua held the jade crab in his palm, secretly hiding his Mind Monkey within.

The primary purpose of creating the crab Puppet was for the Mind Monkey to inhabit it.

After sending Howling Fish to guard Fu Heyi, Heng Hua, holding the jade crab, stood up and walked around the room. He attempted to operate both minds simultaneously, estimating how long the Mind Monkey could remain outside.

After an incense stick's worth of time, the Mind Monkey still showed no signs of fatigue, as if it could reside in the jade crab indefinitely.

Heng Hua rejoiced, "The 'Soul Sealing Curse' I carved on the crab shell is indeed effective. In the future, with the Mind Monkey controlling the Puppet, it can pretend to be a Foundation Establishment realm cultivator, and no one will be able to tell the difference."

With the jade crab moving around him, Heng Hua turned his attention to calculating the Creation Yuan Convergence Technique.

Within his Niwan Palace, a Five Elements Divine Mountain surrounded by five energies suppressed the Mind Monkey. Then, a holy monk arrived from the west, unsealing the Five Elements Mountain to release the Mind Monkey. Upon crossing the Eagle Grief Ravine, the Mind Monkey reined in its Intent Horse, forged Samadhi Fire, and entered the Intent Horse Realm...

The Mind Monkey was restless, and the Intent Horse galloped wildly.

These two were, in essence, the chaotic thoughts of the human heart.

In the Intent Horse Realm, just like the initial Spirit Embryo Realm, two external thoughts formed: the Mind Monkey and the Intent Horse. And because of the frenzied thoughts, the leaping heart fire could accelerate the cultivation of the True Fire Realm.

Heng Hua wasn't in a hurry to complete the calming "Bodhi Heart Cultivation Method" because he intended to use the restless thoughts of the Mind Monkey and Intent Horse to quickly break through to the True Fire Realm. By the time he reached the Mysterious Embryo Realm, he would then use calming techniques to suppress the heart fire, forging it into the martial dragon-tiger fire to refine his Golden Core and Jade Fluid.

However, Heng Hua still hadn't figured out how to cultivate the Mysterious Embryo Realm.

"Logically, I should use the four disciples and the Intent Horse to form the basis of the Five Elements. Then, using the innate Five Elements Dao formed by the Five Elements Mountain, I can forge the Great Dao Golden Core."

He had even figured out the subsequent Golden Core Realm.

The Five Villages, the five organs, the place of the Five Elements.

The Five Elements Mountain corresponded to the Five Villages Monastery. The "immortality profoundness" of the Ginseng Fruit alluded to the Great Dao Golden Core. The disciples gathered, the Five Elements returned to one. Enduring the "Four Sages Zen Heart Trial" and overcoming the tribulation of inner devils, one could forge the Great Dao Golden Core and step through the door to the immortal Dao of longevity.

But the preceding Mysterious Embryo Realm, specifically how the disciples corresponded to the Five Elements, stumped Heng Hua.

"The Golden Duke, Wood Mother, and Earth Crone are not difficult to understand. Only Tang Monk and the Intent Horse are difficult to assign to water and fire."

As stray thoughts surged in his mind, the Mind Monkey within the jade crab showed signs of restlessness again.

Heng Hua opened his eyes, took the jade crab in his hand, and said, "Eight Trigrams Furnace."

Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun, Dui.

The Eight Trigrams manifested, transforming into a grand furnace that swallowed the Mind Monkey.

Once the Mind Monkey was stable, it was re-entrusted to the jade crab.

He looked up at the sundial.

"An hour has passed? It's time to go out and repair the water map."

Holding the jade crab in one hand and pushing open the door with the other, Heng Hua walked to the bow of the boat and said, "Third Brother, I've recovered. Now I'll help fix the Luo—"

His gaze darkened as he saw Fu Xiangfeng having tea with a young man in red.

His cultivation method was water and fire attribute, his Dao Foundation was solid, and he was in the True Fire Realm.

Taking another look, he saw his protective clothing made of fire cloud brocade and Xuanbing silk, and boots made of Flood Dragon skin. The wooden sword behind him was millennium-old peach wood, a Spirit Wood grade.

This person's background was extraordinary, and he needed to be cautious.

Heng Hua's mind raced, and he walked forward with a smile.

"Brother, who is this young friend?"