Chapter 113: Soul Refining Insects (Part 2)

The golden light sank into the heads of the thirteen iron-backed centipedes. The iron-backed centipedes crawling all over the ground suddenly stopped moving, and a golden symbol the size of a soybean appeared on their shiny black heads. These iron-backed centipedes seemed to be restrained by the golden symbol, but some of them were obviously larger in size and still had the same ferocity. Hundreds of extremely sharp legs and feet with blue light flashing kept trembling, struggling to get rid of the control of the golden symbol.

"Souls leave the shell, capture!" The golden symbol shone brightly, and those powerful iron-backed centipedes were also tied up tightly and could not move at all. Zhou Qing flipped his handprints, and thirteen blurred and faint centipede phantoms followed the golden light and floated in the air. It turned out that Zhou Qing used his telekinesis to forcibly extract the consciousness and souls of the thirteen iron-backed centipedes from their bodies.

The iron-backed centipede is an insect with low intelligence and weak consciousness. It acts on instinct and its soul is very weak. Even so, Zhou Qing still spent a lot of effort to extract the soul. Souls exist in all living creatures. For creatures that have not been cultivated, the soul and the body are closely connected, and the two sides are inseparable. Zhou Qing wants to extract the soul of the iron-backed centipede and ensure that the bodies of these centipedes will not die. It is conceivable how difficult it is. If Zhou Qing had not comprehended the Dutian God Array and the Xuan Gong he cultivated was a special spiritual condensation technique, he would really not be able to control this delicate and subtle method.

A light breeze blew away the phantom of the soul of the iron-backed centipede, and Zhou Qing was too lazy to care. Such a weak soul is of no use at all. In the underground of Changping, a fierce ghost military soul can at least be worth more than 100,000 or 1 million of them.

Buzz! The whole cave made a slight sound, and Zhou Qing stopped the flying and changing handprints. The souls of the arrogant iron-backed centipedes were taken away, and they lost all consciousness. How could they move? They were stiff on the ground, like pieces of black iron bars.

"What are you doing?" Fairy Yunxia looked at them for a long time. "After extracting the souls of these centipedes, they are already dead things. There is no spirit at all. Even if you want to use them to practice poisonous insects, it is probably useless. This method of forcibly extracting souls is a magic spell. It is better to use it less in the future, so as not to cause trouble when people see it."

Zhou Qing smiled and said, "Of course I will not practice low-level things like poisonous insects. These thirteen iron-backed centipedes were collected from the five scattered people in the Western Region. After so many days of feeding by me, they are about to evolve into monsters. Once they become monsters, their intelligence will be greatly opened, and their souls and consciousness will increase dramatically. It will be even more difficult to extract their souls at that time. Now is the right time. My soul-refining insect technique is unique and secret. No Taoist or demon sect has this method. It is not comparable to the method of practicing poisonous insects."

"The art of refining insects with the soul?" Fairy Yunxia heard this term for the first time, and she was very curious. "Then I really want to see how powerful it is. But be careful not to blow your own trumpet. In this way, as long as the magic weapon you use these centipedes to practice can compete with my Yunxia God-Destroying Shuttle, then you will pass the test. Otherwise, you are just bragging." Fairy Yunxia became more cheerful when she got along with Zhou Qing. Her original cold face no longer existed, especially since the relationship between the two of them was made clear just now. Now she even joked with Zhou Qing.

This Yunxia God-Destroying Shuttle is an ancient magic weapon. I don't know which senior master collected the essence of the five elements, Dayan divine iron, Shoushan red copper, and five-color spiritual stones, and practiced it with great magical powers. It was then condensed into a shuttle body after being tempered by the colorful cloud aura above the nine heavens. Finally, nine hundred and ninety-nine immortal talismans and Buddhist mantras were added to it. It was neither a Taoist nor a Buddhist, but extremely powerful. If all of them were to be fully exerted, the attack power alone would not be weaker than the Shushan School's magic weapon, the Purple and Green Twin Swords. If the magic weapon refined by Zhou Qing's soul-refining insect technique could exceed half the power of this magic shuttle, it would be shocking, let alone exceed it. As soon as Fairy Yunxia spoke, her two beautiful eyes stared at Zhou Qing to see how he would answer.

This embarrassed Zhou Qing, but Fairy Yunxia suddenly felt that it was a pleasant thing.

Who knew that Zhou Qing still said unexpectedly: "The Yunxia God-Destroying Shuttle is only powerful, but it has many flaws. I guess the senior masters back then did not refine it completely, so it is not difficult to surpass it." The Blood-Transforming Knife and the God-Smashing Whip in Zhou Qing's hands were ten times stronger than the Yunxia God-Destroying Shuttle, so his vision also became higher, and he spoke with a bit of a high-profile atmosphere.

"Oh!" Fairy Yunxia was sure that Zhou Qing was bragging: "Then start quickly, don't lose face if you can't refine it later. But there are no outsiders here, so you don't have to worry about losing face, but I can't guarantee that I won't tell anyone." Fairy Yunxia smiled coquettishly, which was very moving.

However, Zhou Qing closed his eyes, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and didn't notice her at all. This time he was really flirting with a blind man, wasting his energy in vain.

Zhou Qing's Taoist robe fluttered without wind, and his feet slowly left the ground. The whole person completely violated common sense and floated in the air three feet high in the cave. Anyway, the cave was several feet high, so there was no fear of hitting his head.

Golden mist gradually emerged from Zhou Qing's eyebrows, and condensed into a faint figure in the air, but the body was quite blurry, only the face was clearer. Fairy Yunxia could see clearly that the face of this pale golden figure was exactly the same as Zhou Qing.

"Heaven and earth spirit, mind split, spirit leaves the body!" As Zhou Qing chanted the spell, with a light shout, the pale golden figure twisted and split into thirteen one-foot-tall figures, with bodies as big as children, and their faces were all the same. Following Zhou Qing's hand gestures and spells, these figures drilled into the bodies of the iron-backed centipedes whose souls had been extracted.

"This!? This is the art of spirit splitting. He can actually split thirteen spirits at once. How powerful is this person's spirit? Impossible, as long as he is a human, he will not have such a powerful spirit." Fairy Yunxia was about to laugh at Zhou Qing, but she was shocked by this weird situation. Seeing those split spirits entering the bodies of the iron-backed centipedes, those iron-backed centipedes that were originally like dead objects actually slowly moved.

"This is the same principle as the legendary method of condensing the second soul. Do we have to refine these centipedes into the second soul? Impossible. How can the second soul be condensed using living things? Even if living things can be used, at most one can be condensed. How can condense thirteen at once? Even if a fairy came down to earth, he would be powerless to do it." Fairy Yunxia actually saw some clues. She had a good vision.