After 100 years of leatherworking, I have become a giant in the magic sect

Chapter 53 53. Abnormal Soul

Swish, swish, swish.

The carving knife was chiseling and pushing, pulling out tiny "snowflakes" on the fox demon's skin.

The toughness of this skin is very strong. If Song Yan hadn't penetrated the carving knife with profound energy, he might not even be able to carve it.

At this time, the "rustling" sound turned into a heart-wrenching "clicking" sound from time to time, as if the blade was about to break at any time.

Obviously, this fox demon is by no means comparable to low-level monsters like the "Two-Headed Wolf", but it is a bit inferior to the powerful mid-level monsters like the "Bodyless Phantom Crow".

However.

Song Yan paused for a moment and stroked the demon's skin.

He could feel that the skin had not yet grown.

This is a fox cub that is not yet fully developed.

If it were healthy, it would probably be better than the "bodyless phantom crow".

It has only been four or five years at most since Grandma Fox came to the North. If she can give birth to cubs every few days, then over the years, she has formed an "army of fox cubs" of one or two thousand people. .

And the fox demon in his hand is just one of them, and it is one of the ones that has not grown.

Song Yan closed his eyes slightly and recalled what he had learned from the previous soul search.

The memory of this man-eating fox monster is very simple: he was born, dominated by "hunger", and a gentle and charming voice echoed in his mind forever, "Eat, eat, eat, grow up quickly, become strong, and come back to your mother." .

And the owner of that voice no longer cares about them, whether they are alive or dead.

It relies on some knowledge born in the blood to deceive, cannibalize, grow, and quickly acquire wisdom.

Then one day, he and a large number of "brothers and sisters" broke into the Puppet Sect, swarmed up from the dark corners of the mountains and forests, and went to remote places to eat people.

They have keen senses, flexible movements, and are very good at changing their self-image and illusions. Without special spells, few people in the same realm can detect them.

This makes them have no natural enemies in low-level areas.

Song Yan couldn't help but think of a description - the invasion of alien species and the outbreak of ecological disaster.

In the world before time travel, humans stood aloof, standing at the top of the ecological chain, and did not participate in the natural selection of species. They looked at things like "crayfish flooding" and "rabbit flooding" as a joke. But in this different world, it doesn't seem to be the case.

If there are no monks, or if the monks cannot stop them, the "high-niche foxes" will eat up all the "aboriginal humans", and then turn this place into a demon country full of fox demons.

In this vast and unknown world, human beings are just one of many species, neither inferior nor superior, and have no arrogant privileges.

That's all.

Brush~

Song Yan raised his hand, shook the made shadow puppet, then made a gesture of offering incense with both hands, and slowly bowed to the shadow puppet, then pressed the shadow puppet with one hand, and raised the other hand to gently wave towards the dark void.

The shadow puppet, which had obviously cooled down a long time ago, suddenly gained warmth, and the hard skin even had a warm and soft touch to the living person.

But the hand that summoned souls became extremely cold.

Wisps of unspeakable biting ink flowed from Song Yan's fingertips, then stopped on the surface of the shadow puppet, and slowly solidified.

This is the "spiritualism" in "Painted Skin Spiritualism".

Taking into account the stone master's "leather-making experience", there are three "soul sources" for "Calling Souls".

The first place is also the most common place: the remnant soul of the original owner.

Even if the original owner dies, there are still broken souls scattered in the skin. In addition, the soul of the newly deceased will stay in the human world for several days, during which it will quickly break apart, throwing away all the broken souls that imply the cause and effect of this life. , only then will you leave this world.

The so-called "when the body dies and the Tao disappears, all cause and effect disappear" is this truth, which also implies "Tou Qi", "Meng Po Tang" and other sayings, which Song Yan understands very well.

And these fragments are the best source of "soul calling".

To put it in layman's terms, it means "you have to make leather while it's hot, and pay attention to the original one."

The second place is: a lonely soul in the wild.

The soul fragments containing cause and effect will not be taken to reincarnation, so they are scattered here, or combined with the mysterious energy to form evil spirits, or form some invisible and intangible "lonely soul fields", but if you accidentally bump into them, you will get seriously ill. ghost".

There are such lonely ghosts scattered everywhere in this world. When they feel the power of flesh and blood from the "shadow puppets", they will instinctively come closer and be sucked into them. Then they will be confused and interact with the remaining souls on the "shadow puppets". Combined, they thought they were the existence carved by the "shadow puppet".

This is the most common.

But because it is "not original", the shadow puppets produced will naturally be a little different.

The third place is Master Shi's guess: the powerful remnant soul.

Master Shi believes that since the death of the body will leave fragments of the soul, if a great power in the world dies, will such fragments be left behind? If you recruit the remnants of powerful souls into the shadow puppets, the power they can unleash will be even more powerful.

As the soul slowly gathers and solidifies.

Song Yan's gentle soul-calling hand suddenly became violent, tightly grasping the solid soul and pressing it into the skin.

This step is the "Painted Skin Soul Slave Technique" after a mutation of "Painted Skin Soul Slave Technique".

Spiritualism is to let the soul enter the skin by itself. There is danger during this process. For the sake of safety, the skin masters are likely to fail at this step. As a result, the shadow puppets were destroyed and the souls they summoned flew away.

But the slave soul has no problem at all, because Song Yan will directly press it in regardless of whether the soul wants it or not.

As the original owner's residual soul entered his body, Song Yan's left fingertips shot out a ray of mysterious energy and connected to it, holding the fox demon shadow puppet like the "string" on a "marionette". The fox demon shadow puppet suddenly stood up on the table as if it was inflated, and then moved with its legs swinging.

However, Song Yan's right hand did not stop.

The hand continued to wave in the dark.

If any leather master saw this scene, he would be scared and shout "Stop, stop, stop quickly, do you want to die?"

Because this is a taboo of "summoning souls".

"One skin and one soul" is already quite dangerous, and "one skin with multiple souls" is simply forcing the shadow puppet to riot, devour the owner, and kill people.

Sure enough, another solid ghost appeared on the shadow puppet.

But this ghost seemed to feel that there was already a soul in the shadow puppet, so it began to be irritable.

However, before it could get angry, the dark hand grasped it fiercely in an even more violent posture, and pressed it forcefully into the fox demon shadow puppet.

Two souls, one shadow puppet.

Suddenly, the shadow puppet began to emit a sound similar to "boiling water and water in boiling oil", and the fox demon shadow puppet, which was originally light and delicate, began to become deformed.

Although deformed, it can still be seen as a fox.

However.

The hand that summoned the soul has not stopped yet, and continued to summon lonely ghosts in the air, and then continued to stuff the condensed ghosts into the shadow puppet.

This is the first time that Song Yan really tried to use the second perfect variation of "Painted Skin Deformed Soul Technique", which is a spell second only to "Hundred-phase Demon Body", and it took him more than 3,000 years to comprehend it.

As the ghost in the shadow puppet mutated and deformed, Song Yan felt that the shadow puppet was also getting stronger, transcending his life and climbing step by step to a higher realm.

If the fox demon was only a mid-level demon beast that could not match the "bodyless phantom crow" before, it has now surpassed the "bodyless phantom crow" and is even close to a high-level demon beast.

The residual soul of a powerful being in a shadow puppet is probably just like this.

"Heh"

"Hahahaha"

In the darkness, Song Yan laughed in a low voice.

Outside the crystal skylight on the dome of the cave, the spring rain had stopped overnight, and the golden light fell from the sky, shining on the man's black hair from top to bottom, but it made his face completely immersed in darkness.

He put away the "distorted soul one-tail fox demon shadow puppet" that was infinitely close to the high-level demon beast, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

Feeling tired, he took off his clothes, went into the side cave, hugged the two women of the Fu family, and fell asleep.

A few hours later.

Song Yan opened his eyes. He slept soundly and recovered well, but as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the angry eyes of the queen.

"Can you please stop doing this?"

Song Yan smiled and said, "What?"

If he didn't have some special hobbies, he couldn't explain why he gave the two women such a large dose of hypnotic powder.

In the previous few times he squatted, he came back in the middle of the night and didn't increase the dosage, so he could still explain that Xuanqi Cave Mansion was a good place to "help sleep" and make people sleep until dawn.

And last night, he added a lot more in order to make shadow puppets.

Fu Shirong is different from Qiu Lianyue. She is a very smart and perceptive woman. She will definitely guess that she was drugged, and then she will definitely guess that Song Yan is going to do something secretly.

So, Song Yan might as well let her guess that what he is going to do secretly is just stealing.

After all, what else can he do?

On the other side, Fu Hongmian was lying weakly because of Ji Yuan.

Song Yan stood up, put the Guben Ginseng Pill on the table, and turned to leave. After walking a few steps, he suddenly remembered the Queen's hot temper, so he took out a martial arts booklet, put it on the stone table, and said, "I'm really bored, so I'll practice."

The cover of this martial arts booklet was a set of some old books, but the content was compiled by himself.

His martial arts skills were so good that he could defeat the leader of Jiangnan with one sword. He regarded him as a god and had long been invincible in the world. What was taught in this booklet was even more than the essence of the "Four Birds".

Fu Shirong looked disgusted and didn't want to touch the booklet, but Fu Hongmian flipped through it slightly out of curiosity. When he flipped through it, the little guard was stunned.

Her stunned look made the Queen curious.

Fu Shirong couldn't help but lean over to take a look.

After taking a look, he couldn't move his eyes away.

Song Yan left the cave, and the bright afternoon sun shone on him, but he couldn't feel a bit of warmth, because he knew through soul searching that many fox demons had already entered the Puppet Sect.

Among them, there are also "mature bodies", that is, fox demons at the level of high-level demon beasts.

He felt that the top leaders of the Puppet Sect should know.

But why didn't the top leaders take any countermeasures?

A strange emotion arose from the bottom of Song Yan's heart.

Or maybe he didn't know because of his low status?

Just thinking about it, a disciple suddenly ran over from a distance. When he came in front of him, he saluted respectfully and said, "Senior Brother Song, the peak master is teaching at the top of the peak, and all disciples who have reached the first level of practicing Xuan should go."

"What kind of art is it?"

"It seems to be the magic after entering Xuan, and some common sense of cultivation. The rest of the junior brothers don't know."

Song Yan nodded, responded "I'll come", and then went to the top of the mountain.

This looks like a sect.

He also just happened to make up for his common sense.