Chapter 380: Extreme Yin Refining Cauldron |
The concentrated Yin Qi would attract solitary evil spirits and ghosts, which was within Yang Haoran's expectations. However, he did not know from where these solitary evil spirits and ghosts came, as this place was remote.
Of course, he did not want to know either, as it was meaningless to him.
These few solitary evil spirits and ghosts were only undead beings, stronger than regular undead but much weaker than evil spirits.
Apparently, these undead had not been in this place for long, otherwise, they might have already become evil spirits.
As for why these undead could coexist harmoniously in this area, it was because they did not have much power. Devouring other undead was risky, and they could be killed instead. Rather than taking that risk, it was better for them to coexist peacefully and make a move after they all gained sufficient strength.
However, before they could find a suitable opportunity, they had attracted Yang Haoran, the Underworld Envoy, instead.
A battle without any suspense ensued, or rather, in Yang Haoran's eyes, it could hardly be called a battle at all. Dealing with a few solitary evil spirits and ghosts was just a matter of moving his fingers for him.
After successfully capturing the few solitary evil spirits and ghosts in his soul gathering bead, Yang Haoran took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Master Wu, informing him that he had returned to Lecheng and had important matters to attend to, so he would not be going back for the time being. If any trouble arose, he should contact Yang Haoran immediately.
Since the Yin Qi in this place was too heavy, the signal seemed to be interfered with, so it took Yang Haoran quite some time to send the message.
Although the signal here was poor, having a signal was still better than having none.
After making these arrangements, Yang Haoran stood by the black water pool with a pensive expression.
After a moment, he seemed to have made a decision, and he began to mobilize the Yin spirit power within his body to set up a restriction barrier in this place.
This restriction barrier was not small, covering the entire area shrouded by the Yin Qi around the black water pool. Precisely because of its large scale, setting up the barrier was time-consuming and consumed a significant amount of his Yin spirit power.
The reason he had appeared pensive earlier was that he was considering whether to set up a large barrier or a small one.
The former would cover a larger area but consume more Yin spirit power, and the effect would definitely not be as good as the latter after the power was dispersed over a wide area.
The latter would cover a smaller area, but after being concentrated, the barrier's own effect would be quite decent. However, the downside was that it could not encompass the entire area covered by the Yin Qi in this place. If the Yin Qi here attracted the attention of someone with ill intentions or more solitary evil spirits and ghosts, it would inevitably cause complications.
Therefore, after considering, Yang Haoran decided to set up both a large and a small barrier, which he believed would be safer.
He intended to refine a soul-refining cauldron in this place, and since a soul-refining cauldron was something that could not be exposed, if he did not exercise extreme caution and the news leaked out, not only would his life be in danger, but Xu Meijing might also be implicated. Thus, he had to be extremely careful, even if it meant spending more time and consuming more Yin spirit power to minimize the risks.
After an hour, Yang Haoran had set up a large barrier in this place, but by the time he succeeded in setting up this barrier, his face had turned pale, covered in beads of sweat, and he was gasping for breath.
For safety reasons, he had used up all the Yin spirit power within his body to set up this barrier, striving to make the barrier as effective as possible according to his ideal.
Normally, even if the restriction barrier covered a large area, it would not cause him to exhaust all his Yin spirit power, but this time, the barrier he set up was an absolute enhanced version.
Under the coverage of this barrier, all the Yin Qi in this extreme yin place of the black water pool was locked tightly within the barrier, with not a single bit of leakage.
At the same time, this barrier was also a concealment barrier. If one looked at the black water pool from outside the barrier, the black water pool and its surroundings would appear unchanged, but everything visible to the naked eye was false, not a real existence.
Even with eye techniques, if one's cultivation was not high enough, they would not be able to detect any issues, because this barrier was set up by Yang Haoran at the cost of all his Yin spirit power, and its concealment effect was far beyond what an ordinary barrier could achieve.
With this barrier in place, the possibility of Yang Haoran being discovered was greatly reduced. Although it had exhausted all the Yin spirit power within his body, in his view, it was worth it and necessary.
If Yang Haoran knew formation arts and had the necessary materials, he would not have had such a significant consumption in setting up this barrier. Unfortunately, he was completely ignorant of formation arts and could only resort to brute force to solve the problem.
After the large barrier was set up, Yang Haoran sat cross-legged in mid-air, meditating to accelerate the recovery of his Yin spirit power.
After an unknown period, Yang Haoran opened his eyes, having recovered the Yin spirit power he had consumed. Without hesitation, he immediately mobilized the Yin spirit power within his body and set up another small-scale restriction barrier around himself.
This small-scale restriction barrier shared some similarities with the large barrier covering the area but also had differences.
The similarities lie in the fact that both can conceal everything within the barrier, while the difference is that this barrier does not pose any obstacles to the Yin Qi, which facilitates Yang Haoran's absorption of the Yin Qi from this place when refining the soul-refining cauldron.
Setting up this barrier also consumed all of Yang Haoran's Yin spirit power. The reason he chose to use all his Yin spirit power again to set up the barrier was, of course, to improve the quality of this barrier, while also reducing the risks he would face.
After Yang Haoran's depleted Yin spirit power recovered, he took out the embryo of the soul-refining cauldron.
The method of refining the soul-refining cauldron is simple: just let the soul-refining cauldron continuously absorb Yin Qi. When the soul-refining cauldron stops absorbing Yin Qi, it is successfully refined.
The method seems simple, but Yang Haoran does not know if the process will be simple. He hopes the process will be smooth and free from any complications.
To allow the soul-refining cauldron to absorb Yin Qi on its own, one needs to understand a special method. Without this special method, the soul-refining cauldron cannot absorb Yin Qi.
The reason is simple: the soul-refining cauldron in Yang Haoran's hands is still just an embryo, not a true soul-refining cauldron.
To put it bluntly, this embryo of the soul-refining cauldron is a piece of dark yin stone, a carved piece of dark yin stone. The characteristic of dark yin stone is that it does not absorb Yin Qi.
Therefore, without a special method to catalyze it, this embryo of the soul-refining cauldron cannot possibly absorb Yin Qi.
However, since Yang Haoran has come to this place, he naturally knows this method. The piece of cloth found in the lining of Burial Master Xue Li's clothes recorded how to catalyze the soul-refining cauldron to absorb Yin Qi.
Yang Haoran levitated cross-legged above the black water pool because the area above the pool had the most concentrated Yin Qi in this place, making it ideal for refining the soul-refining cauldron.
He took out the soul-refining cauldron, and under the wrapping of a dense layer of Yin Qi, the soul-refining cauldron floated in front of Yang Haoran, gently bobbing up and down, giving the impression of floating on water despite being suspended in the air.
Following the method recorded on the tattered cloth, Yang Haoran closed his eyes and began catalyzing the embryo of the soul-refining cauldron before him.
The previously bobbing soul-refining cauldron suddenly stopped moving in the air after Yang Haoran catalyzed it according to the secret technique, and it released a weak suction force.
With the appearance of this suction force, the surrounding Yin Qi slowly began to be absorbed into the soul-refining cauldron. Although the speed was slow, the soul-refining cauldron was indeed absorbing the nearby Yin Qi.
Yang Haoran sensed that the soul-refining cauldron was absorbing the surrounding Yin Qi, but the speed at which it absorbed Yin Qi was too slow. If one did not pay close attention, it would be difficult to notice that the soul-refining cauldron was absorbing Yin Qi.
If this issue was not resolved, it would take an unknown amount of time for the soul-refining cauldron to reach a saturated state of Yin Qi absorption at this rate.
Thinking of this, Yang Haoran frowned slightly, but he did not open his eyes. Instead, he increased the intensity of his catalyzation of the secret technique.
The reason he did not intensify the catalyzation earlier was that this secret technique consumed more Yin spirit power than Yang Haoran had anticipated, so he did not dare to catalyze it at full force. Instead, he catalyzed it tentatively, intending to observe the situation before making a decision.
After successfully catalyzing the secret technique, the effect was far worse than he had imagined, so he had no choice but to increase the intensity of his catalyzation.
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