87: Low-grade magic weapon, the Myriad Souls Banner

"Five pieces."

"You, four pieces!"

"Senior, these are just common Magic Treasure refining Materials; they aren't of much significance for you to keep."

Su Ling smiled faintly and stood up, "But this yin gui fungus is extremely compatible with Senior's magic power attributes. Its effect is no less than that of a Nascent Soul Breaking Pill or Spirit Nurturing Grass."

Upon hearing this, the Black-Robed Cultivator took a few more looks at Su Ling, pondered for a moment, and nodded, "You're an interesting kid. Fine, these spiritual Materials are yours."

"Thank you for your care, Senior."

Su Ling bowed and presented the yin gui fungus with both hands.

The Black-Robed Cultivator swept his hand, tucking the yin gui fungus into his bag. Ignoring the piece of third-tier beast hide on the ground, he stood up and left directly.

Watching the other's departing back, Su Ling breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

Thousand-year Soul-Nurturing Wood, Ink Jade Spider Silk, plus other auxiliary refining Materials, could be used to refine the main body of the ten thousand souls banner.

Then, by integrating the ten thousand year nether soul jade into it, he could arrange Soul Refining and Soul Capturing Formation patterns.

With Su Ling's current Artifact Refining methods, he might even be able to refine a Top-grade Magical Artifact or even a Low Grade Magic Treasure.

Most importantly, the ten thousand year nether soul jade possessed a certain growth attribute.

It could allow the ten thousand souls banner to grow slowly; even if it was only a Top-grade Magical Artifact initially, it could grow into a Magic Treasure over time.

If not for this, Su Ling would never have taken out the yin gui fungus for the trade.

Picking up the beast hide and the five refining Materials from the ground, Su Ling smiled slightly.

Overall, this trade was not a loss.

Besides the ten thousand year nether soul jade being very useful, the other four refining Materials were also quite good.

Having gathered the Materials, Su Ling went straight to the exchange point and traded the collected Sea Beast corpses for Spirit Stones.

Then he went to the Treasure Pavilion to buy some Medicinal Pills to assist with Core Formation and rented a medium-sized Immortal Cave.

After setting up the Formation and adjusting his state, Su Ling started with basic refining Materials, attempting to refine a hundred souls banner... Three years later, with the help of a large number of Medicinal Pills, Su Ling once again condensed his magic power into crystals.

Unfortunately, this time his internal magic power still dissipated at the final moment, failing to achieve his wish of Core Formation.

Su Ling did not feel frustrated by this.

Instead, he excitedly condensed another magic power crystal.

As he expected, this magic power crystal was a bit more solid than the last one.

With his Medicinal Pills and Spirit Stones exhausted, the only thing that gave Su Ling comfort was the small, pitch-black banner floating in front of him.

[ten thousand souls banner, Low Grade Magic Treasure, can capture, imprison, control, and nurture Divine Souls, and summon Wandering Souls for battle.]

Over the past three years, he had focused on researching the refinement of the ten thousand souls banner. During this time, the Treasure Pavilion had also helped find several pieces of Low Grade Yin Nether Jade and other Materials.

Consequently, Su Ling had ruined about a dozen hundred souls banners of various grades during the process.

Based on this experience, he finally refined the ten thousand souls banner using the ten thousand year nether soul jade.

"The combination of the Soul Capturing Art and the Ghost Soul Arrow has actually caused some changes in this ten thousand souls banner..."

Feeling the cold sensation coming from the ten thousand souls banner, Su Ling nodded secretly.

The magical principles of the ten thousand souls banner shared many commonalities with the Soul Capturing Art and the Ghost Soul Arrow.

During the refining process, Su Ling had taken the opportunity to make some modifications to the Formation patterns.

As a result, the final ten thousand souls banner gained the additional ability to summon Wandering Souls.

Leaving the Immortal Cave, Su Ling headed straight out of the city.

While his magic power was still in a liquid state, he needed to kill as many Sea Beasts as possible.

On one hand, it was to fill the ten thousand souls banner with beast souls, and on the other, it was to earn Spirit Stones for himself to buy Medicinal Pills.

Arriving at the seaside, Su Ling found that the city guard's stationing area had retreated dozens of miles.

In the area where only second-tier Sea Beasts used to exist, many third-tier Sea Beasts had actually appeared.

Furthermore, the number of Loose Cultivators going out to hunt Yao Beasts had also decreased significantly.

Given this situation, Su Ling spent some time gathering information near the city guard's stationing area.

Only then did he learn that over the past three years, more and more Fourth-tier Sea Beasts had appeared in the Sea Beast Tide, and even Fifth-tier Sea Beasts would occasionally show up.

Caught off guard, many Loose Cultivators had perished.

This led many people to not dare venture deep into the coastal areas at all.

"Fellow Daoist, we are still short one teammate. I wonder what kind of Spells you are proficient in?"

Seeing Su Ling inquiring for information, a burly Cultivator dressed in armor came forward to strike up a conversation.

"Please excuse me, Fellow Daoist, I am used to being alone."

Su Ling cupped his hands slightly and declined with a hint of apology.

"In that case, I won't disturb you then."

The burly Cultivator looked him over a few times and silently retreated.

However, the three male and female Cultivators beside him showed displeasure, though they didn't say much.

All four were at the Peak Foundation Establishment level. The burly Cultivator was clearly a Body Refining one.

A young male Cultivator had an extremely sharp aura; he should be a Sword Cultivator focused on the sword.

The other two female Cultivators emitted auras of frost and vegetation respectively; they likely belonged to the control-type of Cultivators.

With this configuration, plus a Cultivator skilled in offense, they would have the strength to fight even a Middle Stage third-tier Sea Beast.

Ordinary Early Third-tier Sea Beasts were simply no match for them.

Unfortunately, Su Ling had no intention of teaming up with others and went straight onto the cloud sparrow boat, flying toward the distance.

A quarter of an hour later, Su Ling arrived at an area filled with rocks and stones.

Within a radius of several miles below, there were actually about a dozen third-tier Sea Beasts.

This density was much higher than it was three years ago.

Su Ling extended his Divine Sense and confirmed that there were no Peak third-tier or Fourth-tier Sea Beasts within a thirty-mile radius before controlling the Flying Boat to land.

To fill the ten thousand souls banner with Divine Souls, the Ghost Soul Arrow definitely couldn't be used.

Thunder roared, and the Top-grade Golden Light Sword shot out like a bolt of lightning.

The scarlet gold bow was drawn into a full moon, and a thunder arrow aimed at the nearest third-tier Sea Beast.

While the Azure Heaven Thunder power carried by the Golden Light Sword numbed the opponent, the thunder arrow vanished in a flash.

Three thunder arrows were fired in succession, and the sky-filling thunder light bloomed, instantly killing this Early Third-tier Green Pupil Turtle.

A large pitch-black banner unfurled in the wind, the pale patterns on its surface flickering with a cold spiritual light.

From the Green Pupil Turtle's corpse, a turtle-shaped Divine Soul was quickly pulled out and cast directly into the ten thousand souls banner.

Soon, a faint connection emerged in Su Ling's mind.

"The Azure Heaven Thunder Method is damaging to Divine Souls..."

Feeling the weakened Divine Soul inside the ten thousand souls banner, Su Ling couldn't help but frown slightly.

The Azure Heaven Thunder Treasure Talisman uses Yin Qi as its root and Yang Thunder as its surface.

Thunder methods naturally have a restraining effect on Divine Souls and Wandering Souls.

The Green Pupil Turtle was killed by three Azure Heaven Thunder Arrows, so its Divine Soul being weak was inevitable.

Su Ling had anticipated this; fortunately, the ten thousand souls banner was integrated with the ten thousand year nether soul jade, so it only needed a bit of time to be nurtured.

"Soul Summoning!"

The commotion here attracted the attention of another third-tier Sea Beast, and Su Ling immediately used the Soul Summoning function of the ten thousand souls banner.

A gust of cold wind spread out from the ten thousand souls banner.

Iron-armored Sea Shrimp, Red-striped Sea Snake, Clear Water Crab, Green Pupil Turtle, Variegated Jellyfish... Within a radius of dozens of yards, wisps of incomplete Wandering Souls gradually emerged.

There were even several remnant souls of human Cultivators appearing.

However, compared to the Divine Soul of the Green Pupil Turtle just now, these remnant souls appeared very dull.

"Soul Devouring!"

Su Ling lightly waved the ten thousand souls banner, and the Green Pupil Turtle's Divine Soul led those remnant souls, whipping up gusts of cold wind as they pounced straight toward the distant third-tier Broad-Finned Sea Python.