Chapter 36: She Doesn't Sleep (Part 2)

The book had been reviewed by Li Jiuchuan, and there were many marginal notes speculating about this personal magical treasure.


"...Five-Colored Lotus Platform, casting the spell from the heart, refining the spiritual energy of the Five Elements to transform into their essence, generating mutual promotion and inhibition, self-circulation, autonomous evolution, accumulating day by day to form the foundation of the Five Elements, thus creating a world of its own..."


From the scattered descriptions alone, this personal magical treasure indeed appeared powerful and full of potential.


Once the spiritual essence of the Five Elements was refined from the Five Elements' spiritual energy, it could greatly enhance the power of Five Elements spells. No wonder Li Jiuchuan said he could contend with a later stage Nascent Soul expert even in his early stage.


Furthermore, the concept of the Five Elements Origin mentioned inside was like the cornerstone of the operation of the heavens and earth. If the Five Elements Origin truly emerged, wouldn't it become a small world of its own?


Reading this made Jiang Yuebai's mouth water. Even though she was still far from reaching the Nascent Soul stage, she was already yearning for this personal magical treasure.


But considering its power, Jiang Yuebai realized that the process of refining it must be extremely complex.


No wonder Li Jiuchuan's personal magical treasure was shattered and difficult to repair. If there was no hope of restoring it, he would have to rebuild it from scratch before his lifespan ran out.


Li Jiuchuan was just a step away from Nascent Soul, yet it was truly a pity.


Jiang Yuebai lost interest in reading further and stowed the book back into her storage pouch. As she retracted her consciousness, she suddenly noticed the wooden puppet inside. She took it out and began to examine it.


"I've always felt there's something inside. It rattles when you shake it."


Jiang Yuebai lifted the skull of the wooden puppet and found a piece of spirit stone embedded inside. The stone had intricate pathways forming a formation, the purpose of which was unclear.


She attempted to penetrate the spirit stone with her weak consciousness, feeling it split into threads as it flowed through the pathways inside the stone, dispersing like meridians throughout the puppet's body.


In that moment, Jiang Yuebai felt as if the wooden puppet was an extension of herself, capable of performing various actions according to her thoughts.


"How amazing! Can this wooden puppet also cast spells?"


The wooden puppet was small, but its fingers were flexible. When Jiang Yuebai had the thought, the puppet immediately began forming hand seals.


Halfway through the spell formation, green wood elemental energy circulated at the puppet's fingertips. However, Jiang Yuebai's mind suddenly throbbed in pain, and the connection between her consciousness and the puppet was severed.


In her sea of consciousness, the three wheat seedlings that symbolized her spiritual energy withered. This was a sign of her exhausted consciousness.


"My consciousness is really too weak. I need to find a cultivation method that enhances my consciousness as soon as possible."


Jiang Yuebai rubbed her temples, and once she recovered, she continued fiddling with the wooden puppet. She opened the wooden cover on its chest and saw intricate gears and mechanisms.


"What's this?"


Deep within the body of the wooden puppet, a small piece of cloth was wound around its spine. It was covered with faint ink marks, resembling drawings and text.


After pondering for a moment, Jiang Yuebai suddenly became infuriated.


"This is so despicable! They want me to dismantle the puppet to extract the drawings inside and study them, falling into their trap! Once I learn it, I'll definitely feel guilty when we meet next time. I won't even be able to face Master."


She stuffed the wooden puppet into her storage pouch and crossed her arms, puffing out her cheeks.


"I, Jiang Yuebai, have integrity! They can't trap me. No matter what, I won't dismantle the wooden puppet!"


A while later...


Gears and components were scattered all over the table, and Jiang Yuebai held the piece of cloth with a furrowed brow.


"This is much more complex and intricate than the blueprints my father uses to build houses. I'm done for, I can't put it back together in a short time. And what's this on the other side?"


Flipping it over, she saw densely-packed tiny characters with a delicate formation diagram below.


"Method for refining the God-Machine Stone? The God-Machine Stone is the core for controlling puppets. For a puppeteer just starting out, using a low-grade God-Machine Stone made from a spirit stone can control Foundation Building stage puppets. By carving the spirit stone with divine sense, it forms a formation inside, and the spirit stone's spiritual energy aids in enhancing divine sense..."


Jiang Yuebai read it carefully, and her eyes lit up after finishing.


"This is actually a method to temper divine sense, but it consumes far too many spirit stones. No, no, I'm already poor, and I won't be able to master it in a short time. It would waste all my spirit stones. I can't learn this method. I don't even have a spirit stone mine, how could I afford the expense?"


Jiang Yuebai put away the cloth and packed the scattered components back into a box, which she then placed in her storage pouch. Leaning against the rock, she looked vexed.


Half a while later, she sat up and took out a piece of spirit stone.


"I'll try it once. Well, just once!"

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