Fairy cage

The fingertips cut open, and black and shiny blood was about to drip from Yu Lie's eyebrows.

But he mobilized the blackness in his body in time, and it circulated on the surface of his body. The blood was immediately trapped in the wound by the black film, like a tattoo.

Yu Lie paused for a moment, then took out a bottle of elixir from his sleeve and applied it to the wound between his eyebrows.

This time, he will not be as stupid as he was when he broke through the middle this time.

This bottle of elixir was specially made for himself by using the toxin of the black-blooded leech and mixed with a variety of medicinal materials. It not only has extraordinary effects, but also does not have many sequelae.

It's just that this anesthetic is not only expensive, but it is also currently only suitable for use by Taoists like him who have very strong anti-drug ability. If ordinary people use it, they will faint and fall to the ground, and it will affect the small meridians on the body surface. If it causes permanent damage, it will at least end up with facial paralysis.

Let the ointment come into contact with your own blood and slowly dissolve.

Yu Lie immediately began to take off his clothes and belt, so that there would be no foreign objects on his body to hinder him.

By the time he took off his underwear, the ointment had already begun to take effect, and most of his forehead had lost the pain.

Tear!

Yu Lie stretched out his hand, carefully but neatly, and cut open most of his skin membrane, then carefully took it off and hung it on his shoulder.

While taking off the leather, he applied ointment to spread the anesthetic effect as quickly as possible.

In the brightly lit quiet room, Yu Lie's figure stood on the cold altar, struggling strangely, assuming various postures, sometimes bending down, sometimes raising his head, and simply fell naked on the altar. , curled up and squirmed.

Even with Yu Lie's now well-honed processing skills, it still took him nearly an hour to remove the skin membrane from his body.

Especially when he finally took off the skin on his ten fingers, because he still needed to rely on his own hands to refine the utensils and could not apply ointment to weaken the pain, the skin on this area was particularly difficult to peel off.

It really made Yu Lie feel the pain of stripping his skin and pouring his bones.

Fortunately, he had already had experience with it. After removing as much of the skin as possible from his body, Yu Lie immediately stopped struggling and squirming.

He climbed up from the metal altar. His body was only a little damp, and there was not much blood dripping on the surface of the altar.

At this time, Yu Lie's whole body was completely changed beyond recognition. A thin black film adhered tightly to his body surface, blocking all the blood that was about to seep out.

He stood still, thought for a moment, held the membrane he had just taken off in his hand, walked to a bronze mirror, and looked at himself in the mirror.

A black mass appeared, and Yu Lie instantly transformed from a jade-faced young man into a human figure with skin as black as coal.

Fortunately, his craftsmanship is indeed very good. Only the skin membrane all over his body has changed color, and his facial features are not missing a piece here or there. Otherwise, he will not know how to pick up the face and apply it back later.

Seeing that his facial features were still upright, Yu Lie breathed a sigh of relief: "At least, I didn't lose my appearance just to refine a natal blood weapon."

After coming back to his senses, he looked at the membrane that was still in his hand. It was as thin as a cicada's wing, and its entire body was ivory white in color. It was not too pale, and it was still a little warm because it had just been peeled off.

The remaining qi and blood in the remaining columns are acting in the skin membrane, maintaining the activity of the skin membrane and making it shiny.

He held his body of human skin, with a dazed expression on his face for a moment.

After hesitating for a few moments, Yu Lie's voice alone sounded in the quiet room:

"It's nothing more than that."

As he expected, this difficult task of skinning would be terrifying and hateful to others, but to him, the difficulty was nothing more than that.

Firstly, he has a natal black membrane, which acts as a second layer of skin. Secondly, he has experienced the pain of peeling off skin and pouring bones. Thirdly, he has now learned to refine medicine and can improve an anesthetic medicine tailor-made for him.

These three are superimposed, and the biggest difficulty in the process of removing the skin and refining the instrument is not the pain of removing the skin, but the subsequent processing process.

With his mind set, Yu Lie warned himself:

"Don't be too happy, you have to hurry up."

He immediately took out a wooden frame placed in the meat coffin.

The wooden frame is in the shape of a cross, with grass roots tied in the middle. It is a medicinal material called golden silk grass, which has the effect of promoting muscle growth, stopping bleeding and suppurating.

The wooden frame and golden soft grass formed a scarecrow. It was wet and soaked in a special medicinal liquid. Its shape and size were exactly the same as Yu Lie's.

Yu Lie straightened up the scarecrow and stuffed it into the fresh skin with his own hands.

This method is exactly what he learned from the book in the library. It is called "Peeling the Skin and Realizing the Grass Method". It has unique subtleties. After peeling off the skin, it can maintain its original shape as much as possible, preventing Out of shape.

This step is crucial for Yu Lie.

After all, he still needs to put his human skin back on.

After the stuffing was complete, a straw man of exactly the same size as him appeared in front of Yu Lie. Even its facial features were 30 to 40% similar to his. If it were not filled with medicinal herbs instead of medicinal mud, it would probably be 70% to 80% similar.

After finishing this step, Yu Lie walked around the metal altar, admiring and fine-tuning his "hard work", and then took the ointment and other items prepared in advance.

He first applied it evenly on the surface of the skin film, just like brushing oil, leaving no dead corners untouched.

The aroma of the ointment is rich, and after it touches the skin, it immediately penetrates into it. The medicinal power is stimulated and the spiritual energy escapes, making the entire inside of the altar filled with a medicinal fragrance.

When Yu Lie heard this, his heart skipped a beat.

After applying the ointment, he held it down, took out another talisman pen, lay on the straw man, and carefully sketched the unique runes.

The method of shadow puppetry evolved from the paper puppet method of Fu Dao, and it retains many characteristics of Fu Dao. Fortunately, the runes that need to be drawn are not too harsh and difficult.

time flies.

After Yu Lie carefully finished drawing the runes, he found that the scarecrow was originally white as jade, but its body was occupied by twisted runes that looked like snakes and insects. The runes were dark black, and the whole body had suddenly turned into a black thing.

Yu Lie raised his head at this time and came face to face with the other person. The similarity between the two increased a lot.

By this time, all the preparations for refining the blood vessel have been completed.

Next, it was time for him to officially refine it.

Yu Lie walked back to the center of the metal altar, took the five-color grains placed in front of the meat coffin, prayed for the blessings of heaven and earth, and recited a difficult-to-pronounce incantation in a weird accent:

"The God of Danzhu Mouth, the God of the tongue who spits out filth and removes odor, the God of Zhenglun, the God of Luo Qiantooth who regulates life and nourishes the spirit."

While chanting, he took a rooster that was immobilized by the amulet and tore off the rooster's comb with his bare hands.

The rooster's eyeballs were motionless, not even blinking, but the blood flowed down from the comb like water, and soon filled a wine cup with steaming water.

Yu Lie's throat clucked as he swallowed, threw the bleeding rooster to the edge of the meat coffin, and swallowed the wine mixed with chicken blood in one gulp.

He continued to read with a clumsy throat: "Que Xie Wei's True Throat God Tiger Benn, the Qi Shen Yin Jin and the Heart God Dan Yuan."

While Yu Lie was reciting the incantation, the eyes of the rooster lying at the foot of the meat coffin suddenly started to move.

The pupils of the rooster's eyes, which were originally dark and red, quickly expanded, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into a paper-like pale color, round and white!

Squeak.

At this moment, a voice sounded from behind the busy Yu Lie.

His body was fixed, his torso was motionless, only his head was turned behind him, and a familiar figure appeared behind him.

There were squirming black snakes and insects on the opponent's body, and he was covered with remnants of skin. His eyes were black, and his speech was black. It was clearly the scarecrow he had just peeled off the skin and made of grass.

The straw man walked down from the wooden shelf on his own, and faced Yu Lie with his empty eyes.

Seeing this scene, Yu Lie's pupils suddenly shrank. If he still had skin on his body now, he would probably be terrified.

It's a pity that if the skin is gone, the hair will not be there. He now has no hair on his head from head to toe.

Yu Lie opened his mouth and spit out something weird in his throat: "I've met fellow Taoist."

There was a smile in his voice, and his teeth were exposed, which looked particularly white in the darkness, as if he was greeting his old friend.

But the scarecrow suddenly moved his face away and faced the crestless rooster lying on the ground.

When the scarecrow was about to lie on the rooster, Yu Lie stood up. He pinched the scarecrow, swallowed the blood-red wine in his mouth, and chanted the spell again:

"Let me pass through the refining liquid of Zhensi Shen, and my Tao Qi will last forever..."

Zhila!

Before he finished reciting the incantation, he hugged the light straw man and suddenly fell into the meat coffin, causing a splash of water.

The liquid medicine fell on the altar, corroding the surface of the metal altar with rust.

In the meat coffin, Yu Lie and the scarecrow were tightly entangled. The "flesh and blood" made of straw stuffed by the other party quickly melted under the erosion of the medicinal liquid that Yu Lie specially made for himself.

Gulu, the sound of liquid rolling resounded in the quiet room, and then it fell silent.

For a moment, the talismans flickered automatically without any wind, and the candlelight flickered.

But there was no sound in the huge quiet room, except for the rooster with white eyes and missing crest feathers beside the coffin, twitching feebly.

The rooster struggled silently, but it seemed as if something was covering it, and it couldn't even open its throat or crow.

This is a ritual that Yu Lie arranged, taking a bit of the rooster's spirituality and giving it to his own straw man, making his human skin come alive so that he can then subdue his own human skin.

Refining natal blood vessels actually involves considerable requirements and risks.

According to records in Taoist books, in recent times, the objects of destiny could only be refined after the soul had solidified and could emerge from the Yinshen, that is, when it reached the realm of a seventh-grade Taoist official.

Because in the stage of Taoist boy and Taoist disciple, the souls of the two are inseparable, and it is extremely difficult to separate the extra thoughts and souls, let alone the souls that are put into the objects and give them spirituality.

If you do it forcefully, you will easily suffer backlash, which will make the Taoist himself go crazy, and then your mind will be turned upside down, your mind will be schizophrenic, and your path will be interrupted on the spot.

Fortunately, with the development of the Immortal Way, Taoists have become more proficient in cultivating the truth through false pretense. Scientific ritual assistance has become popular, the threshold has been lowered step by step, and the success rate has also increased.

With the help of cultivation rituals, Taoist boys and Taoist disciples can fake cultivation and make their blood vessels "live".

After this, the Taoist will erode the blood vessel, just like a baby in the mother's body devouring its "brother". This will allow the blood vessel and the Taoist to achieve a true blood connection, which is far better than ordinary warming methods. , and get a little innate meaning.

Only those who can obtain this innate meaning can have telepathy, and the utensils can be said to be "original".

But for a Taoist boy, the risk is still very high, and the risk of going crazy is far greater than that of a Taoist disciple.

In particular, if the Taoist boy's mind is not firm, he will obviously try to cultivate himself through false pretenses, but in the end he will be eroded by insects, vegetation, roosters, etc., and his soul will be lost. There are countless situations.

Often only children from wealthy families, with sufficient elixirs, mysterious methods, and guardians to look after them, can try it at the Taoist stage.

And this is precisely the biggest reason why Yu Lie chose to refine the shadow puppet as the natal blood vessel. He used his own skin as the main body of the natal blood vessel. The two have the same origin, so the risk is actually very small.

It's just that the possibility of being strangled and swallowed by one's own human skin still exists.

The quiet room of Yaofangtang.

The coffin was placed quietly, with the liquid inside sometimes rolling and sometimes motionless, for many days.

If someone were here and looked in, they would find that the human skin peeled off by Yu Lie was like a rope, wrapped around his body, trying to strangle him.

Yu Lie curled up and held on to the human skin tightly, like a baby in its mother's womb, fighting with its umbilical cord, holding it tightly but not daring to cut it off.

A full seven days and nights passed.

When the rooster's carcass was stinking, its head was shriveled, and its feathers were stuck to the altar with dried blood.

From the meat coffin on the altar, a human figure finally emerged staggeringly. His body was stooped, and his hair was wrapped around his neck like a dead snake.

But this man raised his head, grinning with joy on his thin face!

Yu Lie was delighted, lowered his head slightly, and took out something from the already turbid liquid in his lower abdomen.

This substance is pitch black, like a flesh worm.

But its upper head was swollen, wrinkled, and shrunk into a human face, like a placenta, while its lower head was connected to Yu Lie's navel.

Holding this object, Yu Lie gently pulled it, and with a pop, the umbilical cord between the two was disconnected.

The wrinkled placenta of the human face shrank, like a ball of dough, and continued to squirm in his hands, with tentacles poking into Yu Lie's hands at any time, absorbing nutrients and blood from his body.

This object is the natal blood weapon that Yu Lie successfully refined. It can be connected with his blood, share the same mind, and entrust magic, which is the "skin placenta"!