Cave Refuge-Chapter 837 - 539: Demon Path’s Three Banners_2

Moreover, the most crucial aspect is that the medicinal ingredients required for these prescriptions aren’t any rare treasures; they’re all common herbs that can be found everywhere.

However, the medicines produced from these recipes are only effective on ordinary beings that haven’t practiced cultivation.

Of course, what’s considered as common herbs that can be found everywhere in the prescriptions also depends on the timing. After all, in the current period, even wild grass that was common before the disaster has become a rarity.

But Dong Tianyu had stockpiled so many supplies before the disaster, and he looted Pengcheng during the Cold Catastrophe period. If it’s just common medicinal herbs, Dong Tianyu’s storage space should not be lacking.

At this moment, Dong Tianyu also suddenly remembered that since his cave had such an abundant supply of Spirit Energy, it was not enough to just plant crops; he should also plant some medicinal herbs.

It wasn’t too late to think of this now, so he informed Walker Violet to make arrangements for planting medicinal herbs. As for the seeds of these herbs, Dong Tianyu had purchased quite a few from seed companies before the disaster.

While these seeds were modified by their respective seed companies to be highly productive only in the first season, most of them could break through these human restrictions due to the abundant Spirit Energy in the cave.

After entrusting the task of planting medicinal herbs to Walker Violet, Dong Tianyu rummaged through his storage space for the required ingredients mentioned in the recipes.

The methods for formulating these prescriptions were very simple; even an ordinary person, upon obtaining the prescriptions and after several attempts, could successfully refine the medicines.

Since ordinary people without cultivation could refine them, it was very simple for Dong Tianyu, who was at the Golden Core Stage, even though he hadn’t specially learned alchemy.

It didn’t take long for Dong Tianyu to easily refine all the medicines listed in the prescriptions.

Now that he had refined these medicines, he naturally needed to test them.

Although Dong Tianyu could be resolute in facing enemies, at this point, he was not yet at the level of randomly picking strangers to test the medicines. However, Dong Tianyu had already thought of suitable test subjects.

The Companion Spiritual Treasure once again dived deep into the water to the area where the Dark Green Ghost Ships appeared, and it rammed directly into a ghost ship. Once a passageway appeared in the cabin, Dong Tianyu went straight through the passage and onto the opposing ghost ship.

Dong Tianyu used his Flying Swords to sever the limbs of the surrounding Fishmen, then he randomly grabbed one by the head and shoved the medicine representing pain into its mouth.

As the medicine in the mouth entered the body of the Fishman, despite being controlled by Dong Tianyu, the Fishman twisted its body continuously and showed an expression of immense pain and ferocity on its face as the medicine took effect.

Seeing the reaction of the Fishman in his hand, Dong Tianyu immediately used the newly learned technique to extract the soul filament from the Fishman’s body.

As Dong Tianyu executed the technique to refine the soul filament, the Fishman’s soul that had been extracted from the body continually disintegrated, leaving behind only a thread as thin as a fishing line.

This method of refining soul filaments had an exremely high success rate, with hardly any failures, and the method was especially simple. Not just Dong Tianyu with his Golden Core Stage cultivation level, but anyone who had entered the Qi Refinement Realm could use it too.

However, this method was quite wasteful of souls; after all, if Dong Tianyu used a more complex method to extract soul filaments, he could draw out all the soul filaments representing the seven emotions and six desires from the Fishman’s soul, not just a single type of soul filament like now.

If one were to summarize the cultivation of the Demon Path in a phrase, it would truly be "one man’s success built upon the bones of thousands."

Nonetheless, Dong Tianyu came here to acquire the Dark Green Mysterious Cores, and since those Fishmen aboard the ghost ship would have been killed anyway, using them to refine Demon Path Treasures was a form of recycling waste.

Looking at the limp Fishman corpse on the ground, Dong Tianyu used the newly learned technique to refine the flesh and blood on the body into a pool of blood.

And the remaining white bones were also tempered by Dong Tianyu using the newly learned technique into a small pile of White Bone Essence.

With that, all the value from the Fishman’s body had been completely extracted by Dong Tianyu.

As Dong Tianyu practiced more and more, his refining techniques became increasingly proficient. Although he had to wait for the medicine to take effect before extracting soul filaments each time, Dong Tianyu was now able to operate simultaneously on multiple subjects.

Only after successfully refining the three banners of the Demon Path did Zachary understand why many people would say that those who practice the Demon Path should be exterminated by everyone.

Although the Demon Path Treasures were simple to refine, they really used up too much material. Zachary had consumed the Fishmen from thirty Mysterious Ships to finally refine the three Demon Path Treasures on a preliminary basis.

There were probably more than a hundred Fishmen on each Mysterious Ship, which meant that there were roughly more than three thousand Fishmen on thirty Mysterious Ships.

It is important to note that the Fishmen on the Mysterious Ships were much stronger than untrained ordinary people. If they were untrained ordinary people, Zachary estimated that at least five thousand would be needed to succeed in the refinement.

After preliminarily refining the three Demon Path banners, Zachary was eager to try out the power of the Treasures in his hands.

Once he re-entered the Mysterious Realm, Zachary directly activated the three banners and watched the Fishmen approaching him, his expression turning unsightly.

Just as Zachary was considering whether he had failed in the refinement, the Flying Swords protecting him instantly killed the approaching Fishmen.

And the moment those Fishmen fell, the faces of the banners instantly lit up with different glows.

The White Bone Banner emitted a mournful white light,

The Hundred Ghosts Banner a gloomy grey light,

And the Bloodthirsty Banner a sinister red light.

As the light shone from the faces of the banners, the fallen Fishmen instantly split into three different lights, rushing into their corresponding banners.

Seeing this, Zachary suddenly realized that the lack of response from the banners was not due to a failure in his refinement, but because the newly refined banners were in their initial state with nothing in their internal space, which caused them to be ineffective upon activation.

After realizing this, Zachary immediately controlled the Flying Swords to massacre within the Mysterious Ship, and as the Flying Swords continued to slaughter, the dead Fishmen would instantly transform into three kinds of light and be absorbed directly into the corresponding banners.

With the appearance of the three banners, the dead Fishmen no longer left the sticky Tainted Blood scattered on the ground as before. Instead, it was as if monsters in a game vanished immediately upon death, not affecting the environment.

In fact, by this stage, the situation had already aligned perfectly with Zachary’s intentions during the creation of the three banners.

With the assistance of the three banners, Zachary truly squeezed every last ounce of value from the Mysterious Ship. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

After the three banners demonstrated their intended purpose, Zachary no longer held back and launched into a frenzied hunting spree.

As the number of Dark Green Trick Nuclei in Zachary’s hands grew, the space within the banners also gradually filled up. Noticing the situation inside the banners, Zachary began the process of advancing the banners to the next level.

After they were initially refined, the three banners were just of the lowest grade of treasures. Although the space within the banners was not large, whether it was souls, White Bone Essence, or Blood Sea Essence Blood, just the names alone would tell you that not much would be obtained from refining a single Fishman.

Now that these substances had filled up the space within the three banners, one could imagine how many Fishmen Zachary had slaughtered.

The method to advance the banners was very simple; it only required consuming the corresponding essence stored within the faces of the banners to directly upgrade their grade.

You should know that at this point, Zachary had not cultivated corresponding combat methods inside the banners, whether it was the Fierce Ghosts in the Hundred Ghosts Banner, the White Bone Puppets in the White Bone Banner, or the Tainted Blood in the Bloodthirsty Banner.

Zachary had not cultivated any of these and merely used the three banners as a cleanup tool after battle.

Of course, the reason Zachary used them for battle was simple. The treasures at the grade of the three banners were alright against ordinary people, and while they could also defeat the Fishmen, their efficiency was too low compared to the Flying Swords in Zachary’s hands.