If he honestly only focused on refining his original cultivation technique, it wouldn't consume much effort, but if he could comprehend a more perfect and powerful magic technique and chose not to, he'd never be satisfied.

'Once things settle down, I'll seek Junior Sister An Li and start skin-making every day.'

Since his lifespan only allowed him to fully digest the "Paperman Inheritance" of the Puppet Sect, Song Yan decided not to comprehend further for now and instead headed to the papermaking house on Paperman Peak.

The thick smell of blood assaulted his senses. The servants inside were still busy, and upon seeing Song Yan, many of them looked fearful and quickly avoided him. Yet, some daring or opportunistic servants came forward, kneeling and expressing endless gratitude.

Upon inquiry, Song Yan learned that his rule of "treating Furnaces well and forbidding them to be forced into suicide" greatly helped these servants. It discouraged those Demon Cultivators who treated them as consumables from casually selecting Furnaces, forcing them to be more serious, unlike before when they'd pick one to die today and another tomorrow.

This provided the servants a slight assurance of basic survival, and even if chosen as a Furnace, it wasn't necessarily a bad fate.

Song Yan felt a bit embarrassed, and the steward from the papermaking house soon ran out, grinning as he led Song Yan into the core blood pool of the papermaking house.

There were individual blood pools, limited in number, but each was relatively small in size, exuding more exquisiteness compared to the larger outside ones.

The steward chuckled and explained, "Sect Leader, outside are two blood pools: one contains the blood of mortals, used for making papermen for disciples to practice with; the other contains the blood of ordinary cultivators. Here, the blood pools mostly contain higher realm Refining Profound cultivators and demon beast blood."

Finishing, he tapped his head and said, "Yours is right here."

Following him, Song Yan glanced over the six core small blood pools, where the pulp floated quietly. Even without heating, waves of heat escaped from these pools, forming strands of hot smoke in the air.

Among them, one pool released particularly intense heat smoke, indicating the person's formidable strength in life.

The steward, following his gaze, smiled and said, "This belonged to the elder of the Sword Sect, naturally different from others."

Continuing, he added, "The tree bark used for these pulps is from over three hundred years old White Snake Eucalyptus, originally prepared for Gu Huangzi. Since the blood in these six pools is from Crimson Palace Realm beings, they require an immersion of eighty-eight days, with fifteen more days remaining."

Song Yan nodded.

Papermaking was such a trivial and exhausting task that he naturally didn't do it himself, leaving it to the papermaking house on Paperman Peak.

The blood in these six small pools came from the six Crimson Palace Realm elders who died in battle at the Nanwu Sword Sect.

...

After visiting the papermaking house, Song Yan went to Blood Corpse Peak.

By then, it was late, and he followed an elder to the "corpse fields" for observation.

The "six blood corpses" lay in the six corpse fields, right in front of the six Crimson Palace Realm elders from the Sword Sect.

However, making blood corpses took longer than papermaking.

Papermaking might take two or three months at most.

Whereas producing a blood corpse required two or three years, even at an accelerated speed, it would take one or two years.

Apart from that, papermen, puppets, and blood corpses all consumed "divine soul power."

In other words, the three puppets shared Song Yan's divine soul power.

If Song Yan used the "Hundred Forms Divine Control" to manipulate 15 shadow puppets simultaneously in battle, he wouldn't be able to employ papermen or blood corpses.

However, the consumption of the three types of puppets differed.

After mastering the techniques of the three systems, Song Yan roughly compared them in his mind.

1 unit of divine soul power could control 1 external shadow puppet, 10 external papermen, or 1 external blood corpse.

Of course, these needed soul division for external control and wouldn't affect the direct connection of the "Ten-Finger Illusion Skin Technique."

At this moment, looking at those blood corpses being cultivated in the corpse fields, Song Yan showed a thoughtful expression.

Now, let alone whether the Purple Mansion demon of the Fox and Wolf Races would arrive early, even the countdown for the Biluo Twin-headed Gall Fly tribe's arrival had already passed halfway.

He was very likely unable to wait for these blood corpses to mature.

His gaze swept over the six Crimson Palace blood corpses.

These six blood corpses might not end up in his hands but would create six experts for Blood Corpse Peak.

If stored in a storage space, they would fail for lack of earth energy, as blood corpse cultivation relied heavily on surrounding conditions. The reason that "Corpse Burial and Refining Skill" surpassed ordinary "Corpse Nourishing Technique" lay in its emphasis on environment selection and utilization.

Song Yan suddenly felt a little envy for Lady Ling's "Personal Secret Realm."

With a "Personal Secret Realm," all these troublesome issues could be resolved.

But now... he already decided if these six blood corpses couldn't be his, he'd come and destroy them before leaving.

Elder's continuous chatter reached his ears.

Song Yan's gaze scanned over, his thoughts racing, and suddenly landed on a blood corpse, pointing as he said, "I'm taking this corpse."

The elder hesitated for a moment but respectfully replied, "Yes."

...

That night, the sky was already deep.

The enthusiastic elder invited the sect leader to stay for the night.

Song Yan did not refuse either.

Because the "Song Demon" was infamous outside for having done various evil deeds, an ambitious steward from Blood Corpse Peak surprisingly jumped out and gave the elder some suggestions.

Soon after, women began to gather in front of Song Yan's temporary chamber.

Among these women, some were Furnaces, while others were female cultivators with a bit of beauty, assembling from all directions in front of the chamber for Song Yan to choose from.

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