After entering the world of cultivating immortals, I have been living and sleeping

A monk with superior spiritual talent but average or low understanding may advance quickly in the early stage, but soon he will be unable to continue and be stuck in the bottleneck between the great realms, making it difficult to break through.

On the contrary, a monk with superior understanding and average spiritual talent will not have obvious advantages in the early stage of practice. He may even have to be over fifty years old before he can be promoted to Foundation Establishment. However, this kind of person may not be a late bloomer. .

It should be noted that breaking through the realm requires two conditions, one is cultivation, and the other is state of mind, both of which are indispensable.

The better the spiritual root qualifications, the faster the progress of cultivation, which can save a lot of hard work, and the state of mind has a certain relationship with the understanding. As long as the state of mind is reached, there will be no bottlenecks in breaking through the realm, and there will be no obstacles.

In short, the role of understanding is very important. In Ye Pianran's opinion, improving understanding in a short period of time is even more valuable than thirty times the flow of time. After all, the latter only gave her an extra 145 days of practice time. The former can allow her to achieve a huge improvement in a short period of time.

Taking a deep breath, Ye Pianran sat cross-legged in mid-air, with her five hearts facing the sky. After getting rid of distracting thoughts, she quickly entered a state of cultivation.

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Time is ruthless and passes like water.

One day has passed in the real world, and thirty days have passed in the golden space.

"If you want to learn puppetry, you must be proficient in formations and weapon refining at the same time. Now that I have advanced these two skills to the third level, it is time to try making puppets."

Sitting cross-legged in mid-air, Ye Pianran murmured to herself. There was a complete set of refining instruments placed in front of her. The fire in the furnace was scorching hot, and the remaining temperature had subsided, and the finished product she made was an iron bird the size of a head. , lack of detail, but very vivid, as if spreading its wings and ready to fly.

In the past thirty days, she has focused first on puppetry, because getting started with puppetry requires a lot of energy, and she has not dabbled in the art of cultivating immortals before. If she wants to learn it, it will take a long time, but now she happens to be a Chance.

Her understanding was not bad, and her soul was even stronger than ordinary people. Coupled with the effect of the golden space to increase her understanding, her progress was astonishing. In just one month, she gained the dual identities of an weapon refiner and an array mage.

Of course, this is also related to her having some basic knowledge of formations. Don’t forget, back in Huixing City, she assisted Baokui Zhenjun in setting up the Qianyang Fuhe Formation. Although it didn’t have much effect, it also benefited her a lot. shallow.

As for weapon refining, perhaps because of her nature as a sword cultivator, she did not encounter any obstacles when melting iron and making steel. She only failed once and successfully made an iron sword, and then a low-grade magic weapon, a medium-grade magic weapon, Top grade magic weapon...

When she successfully made her first high-grade magic weapon, her weapon refining level suddenly reached the third level, and she would have to make spiritual weapons after that.

Not wanting to bite off more than she could chew, Ye Pianran didn't intend to spend all her time improving her skills. She only wanted to learn weapon refining to lay the foundation for making puppets, so she stopped here and turned to studying puppetry.

There is still a certain difference between the production of puppets and pure weapon refining, just like the difference between arranging the formation and carving the energy circulation lines in the puppet's body. The connection between the two also takes some time. If you add up all these, it will take a month. past.

Now that Ye Pianran has overcome this difficulty, the next thing she has to do is to combine the two steps. If she can successfully make a qualified puppet, then she will be an introduction to puppetry.

Exhaling a breath, she swept aside the iron bird on the stage. This iron bird was a semi-finished product that she made by imitating avian monsters. It was also one of the foundations for making puppets. If everything went well, the first iron bird from her hands would be If you have a puppet, it will look like this iron bird.

There was a blazing flame rising from the heavy furnace. It was not the fire of her earth spring, but the smelting fire that came with the furnace.

The power of the fire of the earth spring is too strong, and she cannot fully control it now. If she uses it to refine weapons, she is afraid that the materials will be burned to fly ash in an instant. Not only is it extravagant and wasteful, but it also consumes a lot of energy, so it is really impossible to use it.

After the furnace reaches a certain temperature, Ye Pianran takes out a large amount of materials, puts them into the furnace, controls the smelting fire to smelt these materials into liquids, and then fuses them into a complete mass according to the corresponding proportions to start shaping.

The process of smelting requires full concentration. If you are even slightly distracted during this period, you will immediately fall short of the success, which is a great test for the soul of the weapon refiner.

After two sticks of incense, a bird-shaped object that looked like iron but not iron was formed in the furnace. If you look closely, you will find that compared to the previous half-finished product, this bird is obviously much more refined and even smaller in size. One-third, obviously some excess impurities have been removed, and the smelting level has been improved.

After the body is formed, the next step is the most important step, carving the formation pattern.

As we all know, the formation can operate on its own without human control, and the same goes for the puppet. The reason is that the energy forms a perfect closed loop in it. As long as there is energy provided, it will not stop operating.

Therefore, the secret to making the puppet move is actually to carve such a self-contained closed-loop formation into the puppet's body. Of course, everyone knows this truth, but how to do it specifically is the secret of puppetry.

Everything involves a process of trial and error, and it cannot be achieved overnight. Ye Pianran's first attempt at making a puppet failed without any surprise.

She was not discouraged, but took care of herself, restored her condition to its peak, and started a new round of attempts again.

So, another five days passed.

On this day, she came to the step of carving the pattern as usual. After several hours of careful work, she finally put the last stroke on it, connected end to end, completely natural, without any mistakes or flaws.

"It's done!"

Ye Pianran looked happy.

At this point, the production of the puppet is basically more than half successful, but there is still one last step left, which is to conduct fire tempering to better connect every part of the puppet together, carefully carve it, and check for any defects.

Half an hour later.

A lifelike puppet bird was finally born. It was smaller than the first attempt. It was only about half the size of a head. It was exquisite and exquisite. Even the feathers on its body were clearly defined. Except that it had no vitality like a living thing. It doesn't look much different from a real bird.

Holding the puppet bird in the palm of his hand, Ye Pianran opened the groove under its abdomen and filled it with a spirit stone.

giggle!

The next moment, the puppet bird moved, and a pair of obsidian-like eyes suddenly opened, reflecting Ye Pianran's face.

"Finally done."

After touching the puppet bird's head, Ye Pianran smiled happily.