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Chapter 174: Using Talisman as Bone, Drawing Ghost onto the Talisman

Chapter 174: Chapter 174: Using Talisman as Bone, Drawing Ghost onto the Talisman

With a rip, a small spinal bone was forcibly pulled out by Wang Zijia, and Big Baby shivered momentarily. However, not a drop of blood flowed from its body, and his flesh squirmed, about to transform into a ghost baby akin to a wicked ghost.

"Stay still!"

Big Baby trembled and obediently lied down on the Bone Altar.

Wang Zijia threw the wicked-looking bloodless spinal bone aside, reached into Big Baby’s body again, persistently extracting bones.

The four little kids huddled in the corner, watching all this in fear, shaking uncontrollably, forming a small group. Little Five, the youngest, even buried his head in the meat of his third elder brother, looking like he was about to burst into tears.

As wicked ghosts, their spiritual wisdom was very advanced. However, for the same reason, they were actually afraid of a person, which was kind of embarrassing in front of the vast demonic beings they belonged to.

Wang Zijia carefully removed all the sinful bones from Big Baby’s body. Big Baby had already turned into a pool of rotten flesh. Fortunately, Wang Zijia had transformed only their outward appearances into babies, so they didn’t die. They couldn’t even be regarded as being on the verge of death or severely injured because of Wang Zijia’s concern.

After Wang Zijia had extracted the bones, he placed the sinful bones on the altar and initiated a spell. As his mana swelled, blood red runes flickered, and gusts of Yin wind rose again on the altar.

"Whoo... Crack..."

With Wang Zijia casting the spell, two skeletons slowly fused together.

At the moment the two skeletons fused, Wang Zijia’s mana surged all over his body again and pointed it at the fused skeletons.

"Go!"

With Wang Zijia’s fingertip touching the skeleton, mana flowed in like a sea. On the skeleton, dense runes appeared, flickering.

"Bang!"

With a soft sound, the skeleton exploded into numerous runes that rushed into Big Baby’s body like a sparrow returning to its nest.

Big Baby’s flesh and blood began to rush wildly and gradually transformed into a half-meter-tall, four-handed, sharp-eared, big-mouthed, eyeless, lantern-like-eyed, wrinkled-featured deep white ghost infant.

Looking at the other side, Wang Zijia frowned subconsciously.

Big Baby’s body shivered, and its flesh and blood twitched rapidly. It immediately changed back to its original doll-like form, writhing around, seemingly very uncomfortable with its new body.

Wang Zijia carefully looked at the other side. With a stroke of his mind, Big Baby directly dissipated into a cloud of smoke. As the smoke gathered, it transformed into a palm-sized card where a ghost baby with its mouth split to the ears was staring at him.

Success!

"Using runes as bones, painting a ghost as a talisman... I’ve created a ghost baby charm summon. I must be a genius to have thought of this method!"

Looking at the ghost baby in front of him, Wang Zijia’s face filled with surprise.

Ordinary people had no reason to go through such difficulties when using False Dao Talisman Summoning, or take the path of bone extraction and marrow refining.

The main point was, a child’s usage of charm summoning was as if forming a false Dao foundation. After completing the refinement of mana, they would revert to using the charm summoning as a foundation, to fill in the gaps and condense a real Dao foundation.

However, the ghost baby was different. After reaching the peak of childhood, if they wish to advance, they have to rely fully on the accumulation of sinful origin within the body and allow quantitative changes to cause qualitative changes.

The normal method should involve finding a large number of young boys and girls and continuously sinning. When the accumulation of sins reached a certain degree, a breakthrough and advancement would take place.

Although Wang Zijia didn’t have to sin, he still couldn’t escape the process of changes from quantity to quality, so he needed a large amount of value.

When Wang Zijia broke through to the level of sacrificial wine himself, with the blessings of numerous spiritual objects, he was driven mad by poverty. Not to mention letting the Five Ghosts advance, especially considering the way of advancing that requires an accumulation—how much money would that be?

They might as well kill him instead!!!

Being broke to this extent, where would he get money to play this luxurious advancement path?

So he considered the False Dao Talisman Summoning.

However, although False Dao Talisman Summoning can complete the transformation of sacrificial wine in advance, after the ghost baby, they can’t continue to advance. They can only be five Pseudo-Sacrificial Wines, completely blocking the path of advancement.

So he thought about using the talisman as the bone, refining the five ghosts into a Five Ghosts Talisman Summoning, thoroughly treating the five ghosts as talisman weapons for sacrifice and refinement, or perhaps calling it a Sinful Talisman Nether Tool?

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Wang Zijia, with a satisfied smile, let the Big Baby Talisman hover beside him, and then looked at the corner of the wall.

Under the infection of the bloody light, Wang Zijia’s smile appeared somewhat cold and deep. With the four babies trembling in unison and being accentuated by the dim basement, Wang Zijia’s appearance at this moment was more sinister than even an evil cultivator’s, seeming much like a demonic figure steeped deep in sin.

Add to it his already perfect and elegant face, his entire person emitted a sort of eerie allure.

"Second Baby, it’s your turn!"

At Wang Zijia’s words, the Second Baby shuddered. Even though he was extremely scared, he stumbled honestly onto the Bone Altar, laid down in a position that allowed Wang Zijia to manipulate him at will.

"That’s a good boy. I’m helping you guys. Once you become Sinful Talisman Nether Tools, the path to ascend to the heavens will be right before you!"

Speaking thus, Wang Zijia once again took out a set of sacrificial-wine-grade beast bones and began casting a spell as his mana surged.

"Whimper... Crack..."

Flesh and blood writhed, the sound bone breaking echoed, blood-red light shone, and gusts of Yin Wind blew. The whole basement was unusually like the underworld.

"Third Baby, it’s your turn!"

Following the birth of the second Ghost Baby Talisman, Wang Zijia called out for the third time.

"Wah!"

Before the Third Baby could step forward, Old Five, under too much psychological stress, couldn’t hold it in anymore and started bawling.

Wang Zijia: "······"

Looking at the miserably crying Ghost Baby, Wang Zijia was speechless for a moment.

Did he make this ghost thing too cute?

If it were its previous form and it had started crying, Wang Zijia might have thought it was protesting. He would probably have beaten it and tortured it, but now... it’s somewhat embarrassing?

’That’s not right. I’m helping these five ghost things. Why should I feel embarrassed?’

’Indeed, appearance is justice. Good thing I’m not ugly right now!’

"No crying. If you cry again, I’ll torment you twice, no, three times!" Wang Zijia threatened while in deep thought.

"Wah???"

Old Five, who was wailing loudly, looked stunned. With blood-red tears in the corners of his eyes, he looked at Wang Zijia with a face full of aggrievement and confusion. Accompanied by its soft and rosy appearance, it looked awfully cute.

Wang Zijia couldn’t be bothered to pay it any mind. After all, they couldn’t even be considered humans or intelligent beings up to this point.

Once they lose Wang Zijia’s control... well...

They didn’t get to be called Wicked Ghosts for nothing!

He grimaced and started the sacrificial refinement on Third Baby who was lying on the altar.

Strictly speaking, it wasn’t refining an instrument, but rather embedding the talisman into the body of the Wicked Ghost in another way, so there was basically no possibility of failure as long as the Ghost Baby cooperated.

After a full two hours, Wang Zijia looked a bit pale. When his mana was almost completely depleted, five talismans appeared in front of him.

Despite the high cost, Wang Zijia swallowed a Replenishing Qi Pill and meditated for a quarter of an hour. After he had recovered about half of his mana, he looked at the five Ghost Baby Talismans again.

As mana surged, the five talismans circled around Wang Zijia, slowly linked together, and finally converged into one.