Refuse to trample on the pride of heaven

Chapter 485: Deduction of the Kung Fu Method

The first one is a jade slip named "Essence Devouring Ghost Hand" - this skill is extremely vicious, and requires regularly devouring the Dantian essence or life essence of cultivators or living beings to maintain cultivation and practice a kind of sinister claw skill. The claw wind brings evil, and those who are hit will have a great loss of vitality.

Lu Wensheng's consciousness communicated with the system: "Devour external energy, harm others to benefit oneself...but the method of drawing evil spirits to temper finger bones and condensing the evil spirit into shape is quite desirable. System, deduce an alternative energy source."

[Deduction in progress... Suggestion: Strip away the core of 'devouring the vitality of living beings'.

The 'Attracting Evil and Tempering Bones' method was retained and optimized, with the energy source changed to guiding and refining the naturally existing Yin evil energy and earth evil pulse waves between heaven and earth, or absorbing and dissolving some of the scattered evil energy and waste energy in the opponent's attack when fighting the enemy, turning it into 'absorbing evil and feeding it back to oneself'.

The characteristics of the claw skill are retained, but the "Erosion" effect is removed, and the control effects such as "Breaking Gang", "Condensing Evil Impact" or "Slowing" are strengthened.

You need to add the corresponding mental formula to ensure that your mind is clear when refining the evil spirit, and prevent the evil spirit from backlashing your mind.

The spiritual power flowed through Lu Wensheng's fingertips and was quickly recorded on a blank jade slip, improving the "Yuan-devouring Ghost Hand" into the "Xuansha Soul-Guiding Hand".

He picked up an ancient animal skin book "Blood Puppet Refining Method".

This method requires mixing one's own essence and blood with resentful souls, supplemented by many poisonous materials to refine a "blood puppet". The puppet is powerful but the refining process is extremely cruel, and it needs to be fed with essence and blood from time to time, which is against the harmony of nature. It can be regarded as a low-end version of Qu Yanhui's living puppet.

"The idea of ​​refining a puppet is a branch of refining or combat assistance, not the original sin. The sin lies in the materials and refining methods." Lu Wensheng pondered, "System, analyze the energy structure of the blood puppet and find alternative solutions."

[The core of the 'Blood Puppet' lies in the 'Essence and Blood Mark' to achieve control, and the 'Ghostly Evil Spirit' to provide energy and spirituality.

It is recommended to abandon the "vengeful soul" and "poisonous material", and change the control core to "divine consciousness imprint" supplemented by "psychic thread" control, which greatly increases the requirements for the strength of spiritual consciousness, but is safer and more correct.

The energy source can be changed to infusing pure spiritual power, or embedded in spiritual stones for driving, or a rune array can be designed to automatically absorb the surrounding spiritual energy.

The materials for 'refining' are changed to various spiritual materials, metals, and even soil and rocks, taking the route of 'mechanical puppet' or 'elemental puppet'.

It may not be as powerful as the original, but it is safe, sustainable, and has no side effects.

Soon, Lu Wensheng deduced the outline of "Lingshu Puppetry". Although it was only a preliminary version, it had clarified the general direction.

He also saw a book called "The Yin Demon's Heart-Devouring Method", which is an evil technique that controls the inner demons and amplifies the opponent's inner fears and flaws. During the practice, the practitioner himself is also very likely to be devoured by the inner demons and become crazy.

"The art of attacking the mind..." Lu Wensheng pondered. "System, how about stripping away the part that induces inner demons and leads to self-destruction, retaining its ability to sense emotions and discern flaws, and turning it into defense and assistance?"

[Feasible. The optimization direction is to weaken the aggressive method of actively 'inducing inner demons' and strengthen related skills such as 'spiritual perception', 'emotional insight', and 'mental defense stability'.

It can be transformed into: the "Clear Mind and Concentrated Spirit Technique" to enhance one's resistance to inner demons; or the "Dongxu Spiritual Eye Technique" to detect an opponent's emotional fluctuations and find flaws in their moves; or it can be developed into the "Calming Sanskrit Mantra" similar to the Buddhist "slap on the head", using specific melodies or spiritual words to help fellow practitioners stabilize their minds and dispel minor demonic thoughts.

Lu Wensheng nodded slightly, feeling that this direction had great potential, and recorded the key points of several different improvement branches separately.

He quickly browsed, screened, deduced with the system, made preliminary improvements, and then stored the revised outline of the exercises, core essentials and precautions in separate jade slips. He and the system had honed their tacit understanding when they had deduced those genius exercises, and now when doing similar things, he could get twice the result with half the effort.

"These are preliminary ideas and directions for improvement. There are still many details that need to be improved and risks need to be assessed.

"I'll have to organize everyone and divide them up according to their respective areas of expertise. We'll review and deliberate together, identify any gaps, and ensure safety and feasibility." Lu Wensheng handed a batch of engraved jade slips to Duan Jiashu and Wu Feipeng.

Duan Jiashu and Wu Feipeng looked at each other, and had a more intuitive feeling of Senior Brother Lu's speed and efficiency. They thought to themselves that they should try hard to keep up with Senior Brother Lu's pace - after taking on the task, they would double their efforts.

Lu Wensheng nodded, very satisfied with their enthusiasm - modifying the magic skills is not the work of one person, it requires the brainstorming of everyone.

The insights and understanding of the various martial arts techniques of the many geniuses and elites from various sects present are all valuable assets that can greatly improve these improved martial arts techniques.

Now that they have a rare period of free time, Jun Ning has sent a message. After they return, they plan to immediately summon the leaders of various forces to discuss important matters. Soon, they will officially issue the "Demon Suppression Order" - a great battle between immortals and demons that has not been seen for a hundred years is imminent and is about to begin.

Although neither the immortals nor the demons have issued explicit manifestos or declarations of war so far, the general trend is clear to all discerning people.

The emergence of great demons such as Min Xiao is an indisputable fact, and the recent frequent movements of the demons and their intention to expand their power have also become obvious.

At this stage, both sides actually no longer need to engage in any conspiracies or tricks. They can each retreat to their sphere of influence to adjust and prepare for war. What follows is a full-scale conflict with real weapons and head-on confrontations.

All conspiracies and tricks are indeed paper tigers in the face of absolute strength.

What will ultimately determine victory or defeat will be the showdown between top combat forces, the competition of overall strength, the consumption of resources, and... the contest of beliefs.

Besides Lu Wensheng's personal compassion and sense of responsibility, he also had a deeper consideration in modifying the cultivation techniques for these willing demon cultivators. Who else understood demon cultivators better than the demon cultivators themselves? Who else was more familiar with the demons' fighting styles, weaknesses, and even some of their hidden strongholds than these demon cultivators, who had once been driven and oppressed by the demons?

These demon cultivators were naturally not there for nothing. Once they had gained a new, stable power system, they sought to gain a foothold in their new environment, prove their worth, and even settle old scores with the demons. The hatred they felt for being enslaved, used as cannon fodder, and deprived of their resources was real...

When the time comes to fight against their former superiors, the demons, they will probably be even more brave and ruthless than the orthodox immortal cultivators.

This is a double buff of class contradictions and racial feuds. New hatreds and old grudges are piled on top of each other. Wouldn't this be a desperate performance?

They weren't fighting ordinary enemies—they were former bosses who had exploited and bullied them, letters of allegiance to their new employers, and walking tribute points and contribution points! This motivation probably made these demon cultivators' murderous intent against the demons much stronger than that of many immortal disciples.