Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don’t Call Me a Demon! - Chapter 91

Chapter 91: Chapter 7: Soul Summoning Banner (2nd Update)

Su Jie picked up the four Cultivation Techniques written by Ning Xinyue, and using the light from the campfire, he read the text on them.

“Seven Star Steps”

“White Crane Zen Dao”

“Five Elements Demon Suppressing Handprint”

“Soul Summoning Banner Secret Manual”

There were four Cultivation Techniques in total, and Su Jie studied them in detail.

The Seven Star Steps must have been the strange stepping pattern Ning Xinyue used to escape just now.

After cultivating it, one could step on the Heavenly Gang Seven Stars, activating corresponding major acupoints in the body, and at a minimum, double one’s speed. Those proficient in this method could increase their speed even more.

The White Crane Zen Dao, on the other hand, was a Magic Skill for absorbing Spiritual Energy.

Just from reading the text, Su Jie could feel the complexity of this Cultivation Technique, and its efficiency in cultivation was much higher than that of the Hundred Poison Refining Gu Scripture, suitable for daily cultivation to enhance one’s absorption of Spiritual Energy.

The Five Elements Demon Suppressing Handprint was purely an offensive Magic Skill, and its principle wasn’t too complicated, it was just that Su Jie didn’t really like the name.

After repeatedly observing this Five Elements Demon Suppressing Handprint, Su Jie tried to use it.

The next moment, Su Jie’s right palm struck out.

A handprint formed from condensed Spiritual Power suddenly took shape, measuring a full ten feet in size, smashing a few towering ancient trees before dissipating into the air.

“Lacking the application of the Five Elements, this is merely a handprint constructed from pure Spiritual Power, and its power is much less.”

Ning Xinyue flipped a beautiful eye-roll and ridiculed Su Jie’s poor aptitude.

Su Jie didn’t retaliate. The simplicity of the Five Elements Demon Suppressing Handprint was relative, and it wasn’t possible to master it in one go. Su Jie wasn’t discouraged.

Finally, Su Jie picked up the Cultivation Technique that documented the Soul Summoning Banner Manual.

Upon studying it, Su Jie realized that this wasn’t a Cultivation Technique, but rather a Refining Device Scripture describing how to craft the Soul Summoning Banner Magic Artifact.

“Start with the heavy, then move to the soul cloth, and diverge to the Soul Banner…”

The Artifact Refining Technique for the Soul Banner turned out to be simpler than expected, and he also had the necessary crafting materials in his Storage Bag.

According to this Soul Summoning Banner Manual, the Soul Summoning Banner could absorb living souls and gradually nurture them into Yin Souls.

The Soul Summoning Banner Magic Artifact had no specific grade; it entirely depended on the quantity of Yin Souls it contained. With the current limit imposed by his own Spiritual Power, the more Yin Souls it contained, the stronger the power of the Soul Summoning Banner would be.

“Hey, where did you get this Soul Summoning Banner Manual? This doesn’t seem like a Cultivation Technique you should be learning,” Su Jie said as he turned his gaze towards Ning Xinyue, wondering where this young girl had learned it from, since the Soul Summoning Banner was clearly something only Demon Cultivators would use.

Ning Xinyue wiped her oily little mouth, saying, “I got it in Jingzhou from a Demon Cultivation Sect known as the Heavenly Soul Sect. You wouldn’t believe it, but their sect had a Soul Summoning Banner for nearly every member, and they liked to slaughter the common people to nourish ghosts and play with souls. Because they were so cruel and unprincipled, they were jointly attacked by the Righteous sects of Jingzhou, and they should have been broken down by now.”

“You exchanged for it? Just a young girl like you daring to deal with Demon Cultivators, shouldn’t you have been captured by the Heavenly Soul Sect for Soul Extraction?”

Su Jie was quite skeptical, thinking that it was already lucky Ning Xinyue hadn’t been captured, let alone managing a deal with the Demon Cultivators.

At his words, Ning Xinyue puffed her cheeks, angrily said, “My sister was there at the time, they didn’t dare to touch me.”

“You have a sister too!”

“Of course, my sister is very powerful, she could crush you with a single finger. If you know what’s good for you, let me leave immediately.”

Ning Xinyue threatened, her confidence overflowing when she mentioned her sister.

“That’s enough; just eat your food for now,” he said.

Su Jie ignored Ning Xinyue and began to take out various materials for making the Soul Summoning Banner from the Storage Bag.

Divine Gold Liquid, Dragon Bone Pine Bamboo, Silver Silk Grass, Empty Spirit Illusion Jade Powder…

Su Jie took out the materials one by one and processed them in sequence through grinding, weaving, applying, and other steps.

Since the Soul Summoning Banner is an item that every disciple of the Demon Cultivation Sect possesses, it indicates that its production is relatively simple, and the cost is not that high; otherwise, a Demon Cultivation Sect wouldn’t have the resources or the number of Artifact Refiners necessary.

Su Jie had never studied Artifact Refining, yet the process of making the Soul Summoning Banner was overly simplified; any cultivator could easily grasp it.

More than an hour later, after failing twice, Su Jie successfully made the rudimentary Soul Summoning Banner on his third attempt, which was worth a dozen Blood Marrow Crystals.

A small white banner appeared in Su Jie’s hand, and its body was blank as paper, looking utterly ordinary without any trace of the quality a Magic Artifact should have.

Su Jie bit his fingertip and drew on the Soul Summoning Banner with his blood, sketching the image of a Yin Soul.

It was a blurry humanoid silhouette; since it was drawn with blood, it also established that the Yin Soul inside the Soul Summoning Banner would obey Su Jie’s commands.

“Is this really a Magic Artifact?”

Chen Yun curiously watched Su Jie’s actions.

The Magic Artifacts she had seen before, even the low-grade basic ones, would radiate a Spirit Charm, clearly distinguishing them from ordinary objects.

Ning Xinyue, having finished eating and drinking, replied, “There is no Yin Soul in the Soul Summoning Banner yet, so of course, it’s different! I’ve seen other people’s Soul Summoning Banners; with a single wave, souls shriek and thousands of ghosts emerge, a terrifying sight indeed.”

Su Jie sat down cross-legged, planted the Soul Summoning Banner into the ground, and then began to chant the Soul Summoning Spell.

As the spell took effect, a cold breeze slowly swept through, and several invisible light points floated in from the air within a few hundred meters radius.

These were souls, also known as spirits, which could only be seen with Spiritual Energy enhancement; but not visible to the ordinary eye.

Su Jie stepped back and watched as these light points entered the Soul Summoning Banner.

The Yin Soul image that Su Jie had drawn with his blood on the Soul Summoning Banner gained a light black layer on its face, as if stained with ink, so small and slight that it was almost imperceptible.

“Where did these souls come from?”

Su Jie himself was surprised; he had only been trying it out, yet he indeed summoned some souls.

Chen Yun suddenly stood up and ran towards the direction from which a light point had come, soon returning with a struggling fox in her left hand and a rabbit in her right.

“When I got there, the fox had just caught the rabbit and had killed it.”

“So, you’re saying one of those souls was the rabbit’s?”

Su Jie became interested, having initially thought that only humans could provide souls; he hadn’t expected animals could as well.

“Of course, it’s not just humans who have souls; animals have them too!”

Ning Xinyue also curiously watched and then commented.

To verify Ning Xinyue’s statement, Su Jie captured various animals and insects and experimented with them.

Indeed, the souls that the Soul Summoning Banner could absorb happened to be from some animals.

Some small reptiles and insects, however, their souls could not be absorbed by the Soul Summoning Banner.

It wasn’t that these insects lacked souls, but their souls were too small and weak to be detected by the Soul Summoning Banner and quickly vanished into the environment.

This is akin to fishing; the Soul Summoning Banner acts like a net filtering souls in the air, capable of catching certain fish and shrimp but unable to capture the microorganisms in the water. In this sense, the souls of these small insects are like microorganisms, elusive to the Soul Summoning Banner.