The Strongest Curse Master: Start by refining the Seven Arrows Book

#230 - Chapter 230 Dealing with the Gourd Prop Problem

Fang Che excitedly tossed out the voodoo doll, observing the situation of this plane through it, wanting to see how the plane's will was nurturing the life of this plane.

However, Fang Che was quickly disappointed.

Although the beasts in this plane had bodies that met the standards of awakened professions, their intelligence had not improved, and the plane's will had not created suitable professions.

Fang Che decided to help the plane's will a little more.

So, Fang Che controlled the voodoo doll to dig a pit, while he went to capture wild beasts, threw them into the pit, and poured molten aluminum into it.

Before long, the plane's will noticed Fang Che's actions and instantly woke up from its slumber.

Then, the plane's will concentrated its energy and poured it into the bodies of the wild beasts.

Seeing this, Fang Che stopped hunting wild beasts and returned to the real realm.

Immediately afterward, Fang Che used the plane coordinates to return to the Emperor Plane, opened the gourd stopper, and continued to collect the souls scattered in the Emperor Plane.

Then, Fang Che returned to the Iron Hand Gang and began processing the materials he had brought back, refining them into Tokens of Concession.

After using up all the materials, Fang Che took out books on formations and continued to read and study them.

Ten days later, the gourd prop suddenly released a strange aura that Fang Che was unfamiliar with, and the process of collecting souls was suddenly interrupted.

Fang Che sensed the gourd's condition and found that the mouth of the gourd was still open, not blocked by the stopper or any foreign object.

According to the information observed by his eyes, it was not blocked by any foreign object, but it stopped collecting souls, which meant that there was a problem with Fang Che's scattered souls in the Emperor Plane.

Fang Che first observed his physical condition and, after confirming that there were no problems, ruled out the possibility that the Emperor Plane's will had personally bound his souls.

If the Emperor Plane's will had personally taken action to bind his souls, it would definitely have affected Fang Che's body.

Excluding this possibility, the remaining possibility was that the scattered souls were affected by some special materials.

There are many materials in this world that enhance souls, and scattered souls are often attracted to them, surrounding the materials.

This attraction weakens over time; after about fifty years, the souls will move away from those materials.

Fang Che didn't want to wait fifty years and needed to use his own methods.

The simplest way was to find the materials attracting Fang Che's souls and then place some soul-repelling materials around them to drive the souls away.

However, Fang Che wasn't sure where his scattered souls were, so this method, although seemingly simple, was difficult to implement.

Fang Che could only use a clumsy method, setting up an array to attract soul fragments and compete with those special materials for souls.

As long as the souls moved away from those special materials, even if they weren't attracted to this array, they could be attracted by the gourd prop.

Setting up an array was different from refining a gourd prop.

Refining a gourd prop required using materials produced in the Emperor Plane, while setting up an array required materials from other planes.

Because if he used materials from the Emperor Plane to set up an array and attract souls, the souls would be adsorbed into the array, making them difficult to peel off and easily discovered by the Emperor Plane's will.

Using materials from other planes to set up an array could deceive the soul fragments.

However, soul fragments, having been integrated with the Emperor Plane for a long time, were very resistant to materials from other planes.

Therefore, after being attracted, the soul fragments would not merge into the array but would just stay quietly in place.

Fang Che only needed to set up the array, activate it, and then absorb the souls.

Fang Che took out the array materials from his storage ring, ground them into powder, and mixed them with a special liquid to create ink.

Using this bottle of ink, he could draw an array to attract souls.

To ensure that the array could attract Fang Che's souls, Fang Che cut his index finger and sprinkled blood into the ink as bait to attract the souls.

With everything prepared, Fang Che left the Iron Hand Academy area.

Fang Che remembered that the last time there was a bandit disaster, he had obtained an array from the Soul Manipulator, Gu Ning.

Once the array was successfully set up, he could observe the array information of the entire Iron Hand Academy area and destroy it in advance.

Fang Che didn't want the array he had painstakingly set up to be destroyed, nor did he want his array to be discovered by outsiders, so he had to go to other academy areas to set up the array.

After flying in the sky for a long time, Fang Che moved away from the Iron Hand Academy area and came to a new place, observing the situation here carefully from a high altitude.

After a moment, Fang Che confirmed that there were no powerful arrays here like those deployed by the Iron Hand Gang to monitor arrays.

Fang Che immediately landed, found an uninhabited cave, cleared a flat area, and used the ink he had just prepared to draw the array.

After a while, the array was completed, and Fang Che quickly injected energy.

The array didn't change at all, as if activating the array had failed.

However, Fang Che once again sensed a feeling of closeness on the gourd prop.

This meant that Fang Che's souls had escaped from the special material that was attracting them.

Fang Che continued to inject energy into the array, and the feeling of closeness that the gourd prop gave Fang Che became stronger and stronger.

After a while, the feeling of closeness suddenly weakened, returning to its previous state.

This meant that the array's energy had been exhausted and could no longer attract soul fragments.

Fang Che quickly cleaned up the array on the ground, then took out a pile of materials from other planes, injected energy, and expanded the aura of the materials.

The materials from other planes and the soul fragments repelled each other, and expanding the aura could quickly expel the soul fragments gathered here.

In the Emperor Plane, expelling soul fragments was a common occurrence, but the gathering of soul fragments was rare.

Especially since there were no special materials here to attract soul fragments, if there was a gathering of souls, it would definitely attract the attention of the Emperor Plane's will.

The core profession of this Emperor Plane was the Soul Manipulator, and Soul Manipulators were experts at playing with souls, and the Emperor Plane was also good at playing with souls.

This kind of soul gathering would definitely be investigated by the Emperor Plane to find out the reason.

To ensure safety, Fang Che had to expel the soul fragments.

Soul fragments were invisible, and Fang Che was not a Soul Manipulator, so he couldn't sense the existence of soul fragments at all.

Fang Che just followed the method observed by his eyes, continuing to let the aura of materials from other planes diffuse for the time it takes to burn an incense stick before putting away the materials and turning to leave.

Now Fang Che didn't have to worry about the gourd problem anymore; it wouldn't be too late to set up an array again after the gourd stopped absorbing souls again.

After that, Fang Che found a place to live nearby and continued to read books on formations.

Time flew by, and after several days, Fang Che became a little irritable, so he took the initiative to plug the gourd tightly and went to the Horned Human Plane to relax.

The defense line set up by the Iron Hand Gang still had no traces of being destroyed, and at the same time, Fang Che noticed that the pit he had dug before was filled with death sculptures.

The materials used to refine the Tokens of Concession had also absorbed enough resentment to be used to refine the Tokens of Concession.

Fang Che immediately released the voodoo doll to collect the materials.