Chapter 172 Accumulating Strength
"Thank you so much, Brother!"

Han Li had a stiff smile on his face and spoke to Bai Ziye almost gritting his teeth.

Han Li was a little overwhelmed by the surprise brought by Bai Ziye. After all, Bai Ziye had never discussed this matter with him before.

Although, he did not reject the dual cultivation ceremony with Nangong Wan.

"What? Junior Brother, do you not like Fellow Daoist Nangong? If that's the case, I'll have to make another trip to Yanyue Sect to cancel this dual cultivation ceremony. But I wonder who Fellow Daoist Nangong will become his Taoist partner in the future?"

Looking at the expression on Han Li's face, Bai Ziye couldn't help but tease him.

"How come? I was just surprised by the good news."

Han Li's expression changed when he heard this, and he quickly agreed.

Although he was somewhat dissatisfied with Bai Ziye's secret arrangement of marriage for him, Han Li's dissatisfaction completely disappeared after knowing that the other party was Nangong Wan.

Not to mention, even a man's possessiveness would not allow him to watch Nangong Wan become someone else's Taoist partner.

“In that case, Junior Brother, go down and prepare for the Dual Cultivation Ceremony in half a year. Don’t let the other sects look down on Huangfeng Valley by then.”

Seeing that Han Li agreed, Bai Ziye raised his hand and patted Han Li on the shoulder, then began to give Han Li instructions.

"Yes, senior brother."

What else could Han Li say at this point? He could only agree with a complicated expression.

After dealing with Han Li, Bai Ziye left Han Li's residence and summoned the Jindan cultivators from Huangfeng Valley to announce the fact that Han Li was about to hold a dual cultivation ceremony with Nangong Wan.

As soon as these words were spoken, there was an immediate commotion. After all, Han Li was only at the Jindan stage, and holding a dual cultivation ceremony with Nangong Wan meant that Han Li was taking advantage no matter how you looked at it.

However, no matter what, Han Li was still a Jindan cultivator from the Huangfeng Valley and their fellow apprentice. Even though they felt bitter in their hearts, they still maintained warm smiles on their faces.

Afterwards, Bai Ziye asked the Jindan cultivators from the Huangfeng Valley to invite the Jindan cultivators from other sects to attend the dual cultivation ceremony of Han Li and Nangong Wan half a year later.

After announcing this, Bai Ziye returned to his temporary residence and entered the Mountain and River Realm, preparing to refine some puppets.

Before this, eight of his Nascent Soul puppets were destroyed in a battle with Nascent Soul cultivators such as Liudao Jisheng in the Chaos Star Sea, leaving only two.

However, he no longer had the thousand-year-old spiritual wood in his hands, so he naturally could not continue to make the Nascent Soul puppet.

Bai Ziye planned to make a Jindan stage puppet. A Jindan stage puppet only needed thousand-year-old spiritual wood. In the Mountain and River Realm, Mo Fengwu had already grown a large number of thousand-year-old spiritual wood.

Bai Ziye plans to use some thousand-year-old spiritual wood to refine some Jindan stage puppets to strengthen the strength of the Jindan cultivators of the seven sects.

After all, if the seven sects want to retake the Kingdom of Yue, they will have to face the six powerful sects of the Demonic Path and go through a brutal battle.

And if one could have a Jindan stage puppet by his side, it would greatly reduce the losses of the Jindan cultivators of the seven sects.

Since it was Bai Ziye who proposed to retake the Kingdom of Yue, he naturally had to be responsible to the cultivators of the seven sects.

Of course, he would not give the puppets to the seven sects for free, but planned to let the seven sects collect some fire-attributed spiritual ores for him. After all, the amount of fire-attributed minerals that the Iron Fire Ant Queen needs to take every day is really an astronomical figure, and Bai Ziye has very little fire-attributed ores left.

Of course, Bai Ziye also obtained a lot of very precious refining crystals in return. After all, you get what you pay for, so he didn't lose anything.

In the Mountain and River Realm, there are a large number of thousand-year-old spiritual trees planted, including both common spiritual trees such as the ironwood, as well as relatively rare spiritual trees in the world of immortal cultivation such as the red spiritual wood.

Bai Ziye cut off a lot of thousand-year-old iron wood without hesitation, intending to use these thousand-year-old iron wood to make a Jindan stage puppet.

It is enough to use iron wood to make Jindan stage puppets, and Bai Ziye plans to use other more precious spiritual woods to make Yuanying puppets after they reach ten thousand years old.

Carrying the thousand-year-old iron wood he had cut off and some refining materials, Bai Ziye began to make a Jindan stage puppet.

Bai Ziye has now reached the pinnacle of how to make puppets. In less than two days, he can make a Jindan stage puppet.

Moreover, with his current level of cultivation, the puppet he created in the Jindan stage would be more powerful than the puppet he created in the Jindan stage.

There are not many Jindan cultivators in the seven sects, and the total number barely exceeds three digits. In other words, Bai Ziye only needs to make more than a hundred Jindan puppets.

After all, other cultivators can only control one Jindan stage puppet made by Bai Ziye at a time, and it would be a waste to have more than that.

Nearly four months passed quickly, and Bai Ziye finally succeeded in producing more than a hundred Jindan stage puppets.

These puppets were made of thousand-year-old iron wood and many precious materials. Each Jindan-stage puppet had the combat power of a middle-stage Jindan.

In addition, the refining materials he used were of good quality, so even a cultivator in the late Jindan stage would find it difficult to destroy these puppets.

Even for all the Jindan cultivators in the human world, the Jindan puppet refined by Bai Ziye is a rare treasure.

After refining the puppet, Bai Ziye continued to refine magic weapons. Even those made with ordinary materials were top-notch magic weapons in the Jindan period, and were most suitable for rewarding the Jindan cultivators of the seven sects.

During the time when Bai Ziye was refining the puppet, Chen Qiaoqian had also returned to the Chen family and met her brother, Chen Qiaotian, who is now a Jindan cultivator.

As for Chen Qiaoqian's parents, they passed away because their lifespan had run out.

Even though Chen Qiaoqian's father was the patriarch of the Chen family, he had not yet broken through to the Jindan stage, so his life span was only two hundred years.

Now, Chen Qiaoqian has lived with Bai Ziye in the Chaos Star Sea for more than a hundred years, so it is reasonable that Chen Qiaoqian's parents have exhausted their lifespan.

At least, compared to those monks who died on the Jinguyuan battlefield, Chen Qiaoqian's parents died of old age.

The Chen family was naturally very happy about Chen Qiaoqian, the returning Jindan cultivator. After all, having one more Jindan cultivator in the family was enough to greatly strengthen the Chen family's power.

Of course, Jindan cultivators are considered high-level cultivators in the entire human world. After all, it is unknown whether there are thousands of Yuanying cultivators in the entire human world.

In the Chen family, Chen Qiaoqian's cultivation level can already be regarded as that of an ancestor, so naturally no bloody plots happened.

Time passed little by little, and the day for Han Li and Nangong Wan to hold their dual cultivation ceremony was getting closer and closer.

(End of this chapter)