Zhao Di touched his chin and was silent in thought.

The old man anxiously waited for Zhao Di's reply, and his eyes were expectant and a little nervous.

He is very old, his longevity is less than a hundred years, and he can no longer maintain the sect on his own, and this young man in front of him has superior strength and great potential! If this person is pulled out of some relationship with the Thousand Machine Gate, or just use this person to go to that treasure place to retrieve the treasures that have been lost in the sect for many years, he will be extremely capable of turning the tide and revitalizing the declining sect!

Although he didn't have much contact, it can be seen from all kinds of details that this person is not bad-hearted, and he is not the kind of ruthless person, even if he puts the entire Qianjimen in the hands of this person, he feels a little relieved that he will not fall into the crooked and evil way of the sect.

Of course, if it weren't for the fact that there were no other capable and potential disciples in the sect, he wouldn't have pinned his hopes on an outsider.

Thinking of this, the old man glanced at the sloppy middle-aged man at Zhao Di's feet, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

This son is extremely talented, the excellent qualifications of the second spirit root and the body of pure yang, the cultivation of the fire is particularly fast, and he succeeded in building the foundation in his twenties, and after a few decades, he took a big step forward, condensed into a golden pill, and became the youngest elder in the sect for thousands of years. Originally, he pinned infinite hopes on this son, but the providence made people, decades ago, this son was deeply in love, no longer paying attention to the way of cultivation, and finally said that it was extremely decadent, no matter how he persuaded him to exonerate, it was useless!

If this continues, I am afraid that after his longevity is exhausted and he sits down, there will be no strong monks in the Qianji Gate to protect him, and he will be wiped out at any time, or he will be forced to move out of this island and live on small and medium-sized islands, completely reduced to a small sesame sect that does not enter the stream.

If this is the case, I am afraid that after he sits down, he will not be able to face the heroic souls of the ancestors of the sect.

Thinking of this, the old man glanced at Zhao Di with mixed feelings.

"Okay, write the soul seal book below, and leave the traces of soul consciousness in the book below!" Zhao Di carefully considered it and decided to accept the old man's suggestion. The "Puppet Thousand Machines" and "Reading the Divine Technique" are extremely attractive to him, and he really doesn't want to let go!

Even if he is entangled with Qianjimen, it doesn't matter much, at most, he will stay away from here after completing the task, and he will no longer have any intersection with Qianjimen. As for these two secret techniques, he can master them himself, and he will not teach them to others at all!

The old man was overjoyed when he heard this: "Haha, Your Excellency's move is extremely wise, and this sect will definitely not disappoint you! In order to prevent the outflow of this sect's peerless learning, there is no ready-made jade slip for these two kinds of secrets, so the old man will record a copy, and your Excellency only needs to write the soul seal book, and the old man will hand it over to you!"

Saying that, as if he was afraid that Zhao Di would regret it, the old man had already taken out a jade slip and was about to record the content into it, and added: "This soul seal book is extremely mysterious, Your Excellency can only write your name with essence and blood if you recite these two rules in your heart with sincerity and sincerity, otherwise it will be invalid at all!"

Zhao Di smiled slightly, and said, "Since I agreed, I am naturally sincere!" As he spoke, he silently recited it according to a few lines of ancient text from the Soul Seal Book, and then gently pinched his index finger, squeezed out a drop of essence blood, and wrote the word "Zhao Di" on the golden scroll.

As soon as Zhao Di finished writing, he saw a flash of red light, and these two words flew into the dense names on the scroll on their own, and in front of his names were Mo Cheng and Feng Qingyun!

With a flick of Zhao Di's fingers, the scroll flew towards the old man.

The old man grabbed the golden scroll, saw Zhao Di's name listed at the end, and said very kindly: "It turned out to be Brother Zhao! Hehe, this is the old man's recorded practice jade slip, and I ask Brother Zhao to destroy it immediately after reading it! This place is not a place to talk for a long time, Brother Zhao might as well go back to Songzhu Island with me, about that task, involving many secrets of this door, the old man has to tell Brother Zhao in detail." ”

The old man was in a good mood, and threw the jade slip that had just been recorded to Zhao Di, and at the same time put away the soul seal book properly.

Zhao Di took the jade slip, immersed his divine sense in it, and quickly glanced at it, sure enough, it was the content he dreamed of!

"It's okay, but what should Elder Mo do with it?" Zhao Di put away the jade slip and pointed to the sleeping middle-aged man on the ground.

"Alas, let him sleep a little longer, perhaps for him, this state of drunkenness is the most comfortable!" said the old man with a light sigh.

...... On the second day, Zhao Di left Songzhu Island.

"Youruo, how did that young man named Ah Chi offend you, he looked so angry as soon as he came back!" Youlan asked with concern.

Zhao Di sent Youruo to send the unconscious young man back to the bedroom, and when Youruo came back, he had a pouting mouth and an angry expression.

"That little guy is so annoying! I did as my master instructed, and cast a soul-altering spell to make his memory of last night change a little. Who knew that just after performing the magic trick, this person suddenly woke up, opened his eyes in a daze, and when he saw me, he said fairy, fairy or something, and wanted to come over and move his hands and feet, and he was angry with me!"

"Hehe, you didn't do anything to him!" Youlan smiled.

"Hmph, although the master has instructed him not to hurt his life, but he behaves frivolously, and Miss Ben will punish him on his behalf. I slapped him unconscious, and blew a little yin qi into his body, hehe, presumably this kid will have a headache and brain fever for the next half a month!"

"You deserve it, who let this kid not have long eyes, and actually offended our eldest lady!" Youlan agreed.

Zhao Di smiled slightly, if you were this kind of innocuous move, he would naturally not pay much attention to it, at this time he was flying towards a large island near Songzhu Island, where there was a teleportation array leading to Abbot Immortal Island.

A few hours ago, Feng Qingyun, the great elder of the Thousand Machine Gate, informed him in detail of a task he wanted to complete, and this matter was indeed very beneficial to Zhao Di himself, and Zhao Di agreed very happily.

This is premature, and there are still fifty or sixty years to go. Zhao Di had a lot of time to refine puppets, magic weapons, and high-grade spiritual tools to improve his strength and cultivation, which was why he agreed to this matter so simply.

Now that Zhao Di has finally obtained the alchemy technique of a high-level puppet, he plans not to waste any more time, and after gathering the materials required for refining, he will immediately retreat into the crazy refining weapon, refine a large number of puppets and high-grade spirit tools, and form a powerful puppet army before leaving the level!

In the following year, Zhao Di changed his various identities and dressed up in various appearances, frequently going in and out of No. 1 Island, Abbot Xiandao, Penglai Xiandao and other major markets, and spent tens of thousands of spirit stones to purchase various materials. For a monk in the Yudan period, it was not uncommon for him to take out tens of thousands of spirit stones at one time, so his actions did not attract attention.

After this year's frantic procurement, he actually spent more than ninety percent of the middle-grade spirit stones he had accumulated for many years, and now Zhao Di, if he doesn't take out the high-grade spirit stones, he can be regarded as shy in his pocket!

However, at the same time, he also gathered the refining materials of dozens of mid-to-late stage puppets and the raw materials of dozens of high-grade spirit tools!

This is because he already has a large number of high-level demon souls and demon beast materials, if it is all based on purchase, I am afraid that Zhao Di will need to use Xiao Ding to cultivate middle-grade spirit stones for several years!

However, it is a pity that the seven treasures of Buddhism have flowed out very little, and although he has kept inquiring over the years, he still only harvested a piece of three-hundred-year-old Liuliqing, and as for the fire coral that he lacked the most, he did not get a piece.

Zhao Di couldn't bear to replace the fire coral with other fire materials, which greatly reduced the power of the Mixed Yuan Seven Star Sword he refined, he had very high requirements for his natal magic weapon, and when the raw materials were not excellent, he would never easily start refining.

At this time, Zhao Di entered the cave mansion in Yuqing Peak that Penglai Xiandao rented by himself.

After he gave instructions to the two daughters of Youlan Youruo to arrange the magic circle, guard the cave mansion, and take care of the Ice Wind Python, he entered the small but unusually quiet refining room.

Zhao Di sat down cross-legged, and carefully reviewed the refining method of the puppet in the foundation building period over and over again, making sure that he knew the details of each step well and would not make any mistakes.

A night later, with a wave of Zhao Di's sleeves, there were more than a dozen bottles and cans and a bunch of demon beast materials on the ground.

A pair of giant pincers of the Zhiyang Crab are the most suitable for refining the hands of the fire puppet, and the hard shell of the back of the Zhiyang Crab is also very suitable for refining the surface body of the puppet.

A complete spine of the Red Fire Scaly Dolphin is most suitable for refining the middle skeleton of a puppet with the surname of Fire; The two powerful hind leg bones of the Flame Toad can be used to refine the lower limbs of a puppet with the surname of Fire; so that the basic form of a puppet with the surname of Fire is available, plus hundreds of years of ironwood, the skin shell of the demon beast and some auxiliary materials, the refining materials of a puppet in the foundation building period are basically complete!

There is only one difference, that is a high-level demon soul.

To refine the puppet of the foundation building period, at least the soul of a third-level demon beast is required, and Zhao Di spared no cost and used the demon soul of a fifth-level demon beast to the Yang Crab!

The "Puppet Thousand Machines Technique" obtained from the Great Elder of the Thousand Machines Gate not only has a detailed puppet alchemy technique of the Dan period and below, but also introduces many techniques and tactics related to the use of puppets.

When Feng Qingyun tested Zhao Di's strength, the first move he used - the tactics of the seven puppets cooperating with each other and advancing and retreating in a way was one of them. "Puppet Thousand Machines" refers to this tactic as the puppet array, which is a metaphor for the marching array in the mortal world, alluding to the infinite use of puppet troops.

It is also mentioned in the Thousand Machines Technique that if it is a humanoid puppet that uses a magic weapon, when the surname of the material used in refining is the same as that of the magic weapon, it can exert the greater power of the magic weapon, and the flexible surname will also be slightly improved.

What Zhao Di wants to refine now is such a puppet with the surname of Fire. After the refining is completed, he will order this puppet to use the high-grade spirit tool Blazing Sky Blade, and see how much of the latter's power the puppet can exert!

(To be continued)