The cave is actually myself

Chapter 186 Life Soul Lantern (two in one)

Lantern Village.

Long Liu opened his eyes, slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, and recalled the experience of this practice in his mind.

While he was thinking, suddenly, there were several knocks on the door, and his sister Long Xue walked in.

"Xiao Liu, Uncle Long and the others are waiting for you at the ancestral hall. It seems they have something to ask you."

The Fifth Uncle Long in her mouth was an uncle of the two of them who was not very close, and had relatively high prestige in Lantern Village.

Although Longliu is young, his strength is already at the top of Lantern Village. In addition, he has always been closely connected with the secret realm, so he has a lot of voice in Lantern Village.

"it is good."

After hearing what Long Xue said, Long Liu immediately agreed and rushed to the Lantern Village Ancestral Hall after a little processing.

Due to the new construction, the new ancestral hall is a bit less heavy and ancient than the one in the previous village, and it looks not much different from other buildings.

Longliu entered the ancestral hall, where there were several senior villagers from Lantern Village, one of whom was his grandfather, who could be considered to have lived a long life in the strange and raging wilderness.

"Long Liu is here." A skinny old man said to Long Liu with a smile.

"Hello, Fifth Uncle." Long Liu said respectfully, and then said hello to the other people.

"I came here to talk to you about something and see if you can go over the details together and solve the problem."

The skinny old man said to Long Hong with a solemn expression.

"Uncle Fifth, please tell me."

"After we moved here, our life has been much better than before. We have a more stable living environment, and talented young people like you in the village have a place to show their talents."

"But there is a problem that has become apparent. Because I was attacked by the strange disaster when I came here, I didn't bring many important things over in my haste, including the lantern that the villagers of Lantern Village have relied on for generations to survive. The way to make it.”

"There are still a few children in the village. They don't have orthodox methods and don't know how to make new lanterns. They are always without any protection."

"Can't you learn swordsmanship from the secret realm's stone wall or learn martial arts from the lecture hall?"

Long Liu said doubtfully.

"It is true that you can learn it, but whether it is swordsmanship or martial arts, they all require talent and qualifications, and those children do not meet the conditions of the secret realm."

The skinny old man said word for word.

"It's okay if you don't meet the conditions. With the mysterious paper man seniors and the strange protection of so many monsters, plus the powerful formations set up outside the village, even if you don't have the strength, you can basically guarantee a safe life."

Long Liu argued.

"Can the secret realm be protected for a while or for a lifetime? Besides, that paper man is just weird and not of my species. Can you guarantee that it will always protect us?"

"There are often monks coming outside the secret realm, and formations may not be able to completely protect them. In the final analysis, we still need to be strong ourselves."

"Besides, it was fine when those children were still young. But when they grow up, they won't have the strength to defend themselves. They can't always be locked up in the village and never come out, right?"

"Uncle Fifth, how do you solve that problem? Is there anything I can do to help?"

Long Liu was somewhat convinced.

Indeed, although there is protection from secret realms and formations, no one can guarantee that this protection will last from generation to generation. The villagers of Lantern Village still need a method that can be passed on.

"The method of making lanterns in the village has been lost, but I accidentally discovered from Xianyuan Building that there is a strange lantern on the wooden building, and its strength is still very strong."

"I would like to ask you to ask the mysterious paper man in the secret realm if he has some kind of weird method of making lanterns. If so, what is the price to get it from him?"

"Okay." Long Liu agreed.

Three days later, he came to the lecture hall with the newly prepared elixir juice and ingredients.

After arriving at the top floor and handing the elixir materials to the little paper man, Long Liu asked the little paper man respectfully.

"Senior paper figurine, you know that our Lantern Village has been relying on separating souls to make lanterns to survive in the wilderness, but the last time we escaped from that evil Xifu, the method of making lanterns has been lost."

"Some villagers discovered the red lantern on the Xianyuan Tower, so I would like to ask you on behalf of the villagers of Lantern Village whether there is any way to solve the current predicament of Lantern Village."

Lu Yuan, who was accumulating experience in alchemy, heard what Long Liu said and stopped his movements. His mind controlled the little paper man to write on his body.

"can."

Before, when Long Hong entered the secret realm, he showed a method of making a life soul lantern in the white light group.

The lantern is made of special weird materials. When the monk is young, a special method can be used to separate his soul one by one, and put it into the lantern. With the flesh and blood of monsters and beasts, the monk's soul can be warmed day and night.

Finally, it can grow into a special existence similar to a magic weapon. The two grow together and become one and twin.

Slightly different from the lanterns made by the villagers of Lantern Village, the method of making the Life Soul Lantern comes with a mental method that can contain the resentful souls in the lantern, so that the soul does not have to worry about being devoured by the resentful souls.

Taking it from Long Hong and using it for the villagers of Lantern Village led by Long Hong can be regarded as making the best use of it.

However, Lu Yuan would naturally not hand over the making method of the Life Soul Lantern to Long Liu casually.

With a thought, he controlled the little paper man to write continuously on his body.

"I can help you make weird lanterns with the same functions as your lantern village, and you don't have to worry about being counterattacked by the resentful spirits in the lanterns, but there is one condition."

"For every life soul lantern that is successfully made, you villagers in Lantern Village need to refine a material solution of equal value for me."

"Don't you have to worry about being attacked by resentful spirits?"

Long Liu was overjoyed. Such a good lantern could not be found even with a lantern...

As for the treatment of elixir and the preparation of alchemy solution, compared to the lantern of life and soul in Zhikou's mouth, it is worthless.

He hastily nodded in agreement.

After he left, Lu Yuan's mind instantly moved to the depths of the cave and found the jade slip of the Soul Lantern that had been gathering ashes in the corner.

He did not teach the making method to Long Liu immediately. Instead, he planned to practice and play with it himself first, and when he had a lot of fun, he would teach it to the villagers in Lantern Village. He would also receive double gratitude from the villagers, killing two birds with one stone.

As soon as he thought of it, he did it, and he carefully checked the making method of the soul lantern.

The lantern is mainly composed of three parts. The lampshade is made of monster skins processed by special means. This part is the least difficult to refine.

Secondly, there are the tentacles under the lamp base and the black candle inside the lampshade. The refining method is quite strange.

Lu Yuan immediately thought of Fenggui Lantern. He flew around Lantern Village every day and swallowed up countless resentful souls with evil intentions. It was time to contribute his share.

He did it as he thought, and his mind went to the top of the Luobao and Gold Building. At his summons, the Wind Ghost Lantern swayed with countless tiny tentacles. Swept by a strong blue and black wind, it floated from the small window on the roof of the lecture hall. Come in.

Under Lu Yuan's instruction, the tiny tentacles under the small red lantern continued to extend.

In the lecture hall, there are already four or five gray-white lampshades, supported by pale monster bones, but the most important base tentacles and black candles are still missing.

The tiny tentacles of the Fenggui lantern spread to every corner of the room, extending from the bottom of the gray-white lampshades.

Strands of black wax oil as thin as hair extend along the tentacles, condensing and forming inside the gray lampshade, becoming a small black candle.

On top of the candle, as more and more wax oil seeped in, vague and strange faces began to appear on the black candle.

When the timing is almost right, the tiny tentacles of the wind ghost lantern are all cut off, some of them are retreated under the base of the lantern, and the other part is left in the newly refined soul lantern.

In this way, the Fenggui Lantern was made in the same way. Whenever Lu Yuan made a few gray and white lampshades, tiny tentacles would stick into the lampshades.

It has been a long time since Fenggui Lantern was promoted to the Guile level. In addition, he fished in the Lantern Village day and night and devoured countless resentful souls. With his strong strength, he differentiated so many tentacles. After the wax oil, he was still The dragon is vigorous and the tiger is fierce, full of vitality.

After the first batch of one or twenty Life Soul Lanterns were made, the number far exceeded the current needs of Lantern Village. Lu Yuan stopped making it and handed the Life Soul Lanterns to Long Liu when he sent him new elixir materials. .

Longliu was curious and returned to the village with five gray lanterns.

"This Life Soul Lantern really has the effect that the mysterious paper man said?"

In the ancestral hall, the skinny old man asked suspiciously. After learning that the gray and white lantern in front of him was much stronger than the weird lanterns passed down from generation to generation in his village, he was greatly shocked.

"Whether it is strong or not, you will know if you try it."

"If the senior paper figurines in the secret realm want to harm us, they can use their strength to crush them at will. There is no need to use other messy methods."

A simple and honest middle-aged man laughed at himself.

His child is within the symbiosis range of this batch of Life Soul Lanterns.

He also had doubts about this new Life Soul Lantern, but he was more hopeful. The child was just an ordinary person. If there was a way to make him stronger, he would always have to try it.

What's more, I learned from Long Liu that after the soul coexists with this life soul lantern, there is no need to worry about being devoured by the resentful soul inside as before, so it is even more necessary to try it.

He returned to his home carrying a gray and white lantern.

As soon as he opened the door, he saw his five or six-year-old son looking at him expectantly, his eyes shining brightly.

"Dad, is this the Life Soul Lantern that Brother Longliu mentioned? I heard that it was refined by Senior Paperman himself. Can it make me very powerful?"

The son's eyes were full of infinite longing.

He once went to the Dharma lecture hall and the sword wall under the gourd to raise his sword with expectations, hoping that his talent would make him a blockbuster, but the reality knocked him to the ground.

After two tests, he did not have any qualifications for cultivation.

So after hearing that it was strange to be able to cultivate a life soul lantern, he had lost hope and found new hope.

"Yes, this is the life soul lantern made by the senior paper man in the secret realm. Xiao Kai, come over and try it."

The honest middle-aged man gently shook the gray lantern in his hand towards the child, and the red light spike under the lantern base kept swinging with his movements.

He took his child into a dark room, which was surrounded by a thick black cloth and no light came through.

The honest middle-aged man lit a stick of dark yellow fine incense, and in the curling smoke, the child fell into a drowsy state, closing his eyes peacefully.

Wisps of smoke invaded the child's mouth and nose. Not long after, the blood-red lamp spike under the base of the gray-white lantern seemed to come alive in an instant, squirming constantly, and the black candle inside burned gently.

Slowly, a vague child's face appeared on the black candle. Different from those unconscious resentful souls, the child's face still had a trace of clarity, but his eyes were closed tightly.

The child's face kept wandering on top of the black candle, and the blurred face gradually became clear.

The honest middle-aged man took a deep breath, knowing that his child's soul had already entered the body of the Minghun Lantern, and he didn't know whether it would be a blessing or a curse in the future.

On the top of his room, a delicate and small red lantern was floating quietly in the air.

In the life soul lantern in the room, the free resentment on the black candle penetrates directly into the tentacles under the base.

Lu Yuan's mind sensed all this, and he immediately understood in his heart that these free resentful souls born from the Life Soul Lantern would be directly absorbed by the tentacles separated from the Wind Ghost Lantern and stored in the tentacles.

From now on, Fenggui Lantern will no longer need to come out to check in every day and go fishing in Lantern Village.

After the Life Soul Lantern replaces all other lanterns in the Lantern Village, it only needs to come over every once in a while to collect the wandering resentful souls in its tentacles.

This can be considered an unexpected surprise.

Later, when Lu Yuan finally made the Life Soul Lantern, he took a lot of tricks and benefited a lot from the Fenggui Lantern, so that he could easily refine so many Life Soul Lanterns.

In every corner of Lantern Village, the five Soul Lanterns absorbed the souls of the five little villagers successively under the uneasy expressions of the villagers of Lantern Village, and successfully formed a life community with them.

At the same time, the sustainable leeks that have successfully turned into Fenggui lanterns can grow automatically and be harvested at regular intervals.

The appearance of the Life Soul Lantern made Long Liu and other villagers in Lantern Village feel relieved. They continued to teach and try to keep the five children warm and healthy day and night.

Lu Yuan returned to the previous stage of refining elixirs. Every day, he used the excuse of exercise to make the barefoot Golden Crow take turns spitting out golden and deep purple flames.

At the same time, he also asked the little paper man Huanyin Tong to continue to stand aside. Whenever a pill was successfully refined, he would use this method to cheer Lu Yuan.

When failing, the little paper man should clench his palms, cheer up, and at the same time let Huanyin Tong show his sincere eyes.

There were hundreds of pupils of different shapes on the scarlet eyeballs. Being looked at by so many pupils with sincere and passionate eyes made Lu Yuan feel a little frightened even if it was just a spiritual thought.

In this way, encouraged by the little paper figures and others changing their tricks, Lu Yuan's alchemy skills skyrocketed, and the success rate of refining second-grade elixirs was about [-] to [-]%.

(End of this chapter)