Chapter 59 The magical effect of Soul Transfer Art

"Ding ding clank." In the backyard of the spacious wooden house, the sound of crisp hammering rang out.

A 'young' man who stood 1.82 metres tall, with a naked upper body and bulging muscles was holding a small hammer, his eyes lowered, his body half-bowed, his right shoulder kept motionless, his wrist gently lifted and lowered, rhythmically chiselling on the forging table.

Underneath the small hammer was an extremely slender black needle.

Not long after, the sound came to an abrupt end, and a slightly delighted murmur sounded, "Done!"

Carefully collecting the black needle and putting it into his waist spirit tool, he patted it. Lin Manshan had a joyful look on his face, 'It's been 1 year, I've made the Silent Sleeve Dart, the Powder Shooting Shadow as well as the Godly Zhuge Crossbow. Even the Peacock Plume Twelve Divine Needles I've built most of them; when I'm stronger, I might be able to make the Peacock Plume Inner Machine and Plume Body, it is the ranked 3rd hidden weapon in the mechanical category.'

Compared to the first-ranked Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus and the second-ranked Torrential Pear Blossom Needle, which required cold heart iron essence and deep sea mother silver as materials respectively, the materials of which were too dense for him to complete the shaping with his current strength. The required material for the third-ranked Peacock Plume is basalt iron, which based on his current strength, he can complete the casting, but the speed of shaping the material is too slow.

The difficulty of creating the Peacock Plume Twelve Divine Needles was also not small, and it was a time-consuming and labour-intensive delicate work.

Although he had obtained Lou Gao's casting handbook, the time he had applied it to practice was still short after all.

Therefore, in the past year, his focus on forging was still mainly on laying the foundation and accumulating practical experience, forging hidden weapons was also started from the simple ones first.

He could not be in a hurry to build a 10,000-foot-tall building.

"Hehehe, I have to say, Tang San is truly simple and naive as of now." When he thought of how he obtained the method of manufacturing the Peacock Plume Twelve Divine Needles, Lin Manshan couldn't help but want to laugh.

At first, Tang San hadn't recorded the manufacturing method of the Peacock Plume Twelve Divine Needles when he drew the mechanical hidden weapon drawings. Plus it involved the basalt iron as material, which Tang San didn't have, so it was impossible to give him a demonstration of its manufacture on the spot.

However, Tang San's situation is known to him, to save money, every New Year he would go home to buy some scrap iron and bring it back to refine it himself.

In the face of this kind of situation, he naturally had to support him, so he took advantage of the night to place a not-so-big piece of basalt iron ore in the corner of Tang San's house's forging room, where there happened to be a pile of iron that Tang San brought back. That night happened to be windy, Tang San didn't even notice it, he also kicked it when he was leaving, making it look like a scene where part of the iron ore was blown down by the gale, which just happened to reveal a small corner of the basaltic iron ore.

The next day when Tang San was packing up he indeed found the basalt iron ore, ecstatic, he thought he had bought a loot.

That piece of basalt ore is not big, so it's definitely not enough to make a peacock plume with it, and Tang San's strength is even more insufficient, so unsurprisingly, he chose to forge the Peacock Plume Twelve Divine Needles.

The reason why he had concluded that Tang San would inevitably use it to create needle-type hidden weapons was because he had thought of the episode where Tang San had just entered Shrek Academy, where he used various hand-throwing type hidden weapons to deal with Zhao Wuji. So he assumed that it should be the limitations of the materials that caused Tang San to not build the whole thing.

And the piece of basalt ore he threw just filled some gap.

"Hehehe, getting something for nothing truly makes a person happy. A piece of basalt ore in exchange for a whole set of hidden weapon crafting processes, it's nothing short of a blast!" The more he thought about it, the happier he got, Lin Manshan couldn't help but put his hands behind his back, and hop into the house like a child.

It was going to be the New Year again, he had to pack up and return to Holy Spirit Village.

In addition, he had now reached level 27 in terms of spirit power, and almost reached level 28, averaging 1 level in 5 months, the speed was indeed slow. But it couldn't be helped, after all, he only cultivated for a few hours in the morning. And that wasn't the point, the most important thing was that he had accumulated enough soul power.

It was time to execute the plan.

He bought gifts and visited the Tie Shan family according to the usual routine. Afterwards, he went to the Spirit Hall and visited Matthew Nuo. After receiving a round of praise from the old man, Lin Manshan left Nuoding City with a satisfied heart.

After returning to Holy Spirit Village and having a reunion dinner with Old Jack's family, while Tang San hadn't returned yet, Lin Manshan hurriedly went to the mountain at the back where Tang San would cultivate and made enough arrangements.

A few days later, Tang San returned to the village.

That night, in the wee hours of the morning, Lin Manshan noiselessly came to the window using his Vanishing Art.

'Tang San, if it wasn't for the fact that you're also a poison specialist, and I'm afraid of accidents, I would've loved to release a bewitching powder.' Mentally muttering, Lin Manshan glanced at the slightly open window beside him, his soul locked onto Tang San's location, and he focused intensely.

'Soul Transfer Art!'

In the next second, a flame-like green breath began to continuously seep out from Lin Manshan's body surface, curling up, like smoke or mist, hauntingly drifting towards the house, pouring into Tang San's body.

'Right now Tang San is sleeping, as long as the soul power I transfer doesn't exceed his physical load, it shouldn't wake him up, instead, he should feel comfortable and sleep more soundly.'

'Tang San, this power will be lent to you for now.' As if thinking of something, Lin Manshan grinned, 'Suddenly gaining power, and then abruptly losing it, hehe, when I take back the power, that feeling of falling...'

'Although I don't know what mood you'll be in at that time, I bet your expression will be quite spectacular.'

Supplementing with the Beast Control Technique to inject soul power into a beast's body, one could sense the situation inside the beast. Supplementing with the Medicine Refining Technique to infuse soul power into medicinal herbs, one could sense the medicinal properties of the herbs. Infusing soul power into a Natal Artifact would allow one to perceive the state of the artefact. Then using the Soul Transfer Art to transfer soul power into a human's body, could one perceive the other's physical condition?

The answer to that is, it is completely possible!

Regarding this point, he tried it when he was saving Dugu Yan, as well as later when he was doing acupuncture for Lou Gao as well as a few senior brothers in Gengxin City.

The results that came out proved that it is completely feasible.

However, it was just like the limitations one would be subjected to when performing the Beast Control Technique on a wild beast. Trying to perceive the physical condition of a much bigger human using soul power had quite a few limitations and problems that needed to be taken into consideration.

Taking Tang San as an example, first of all, trying to completely control Tang San with the Beast Control Technique was impossible to do. Because it was necessary to split more soul power than Tang San's soul to achieve complete suppression, or even devour Tang San's soul and memories. If he did that, with his current soul power, it would definitely injure his soul origin, and he would become an idiot even if he didn't die, so the risk was too great, and even an idiot wouldn't dare to try it.

In addition, there was the issue of volume.

While operating the Mysterious Heaven Skill, the spirit power would run through the meridians, the soul power resided in the blood, flesh, roots and bones, and did not enter the meridians. Of course, the meridians were also wrapped in the body's flesh and blood, so they could be perceived through the contact relationship between the two. So there is a problem, if he wanted to clearly perceive the operation of spirit power within Tang San's whole body's meridians, he would have to use his soul power to penetrate Tang San's whole body, which would require the use of undoubtedly huge amounts of soul power.

On top of that, he also had to retain part of his soul power to ensure that he could sense Tang San's internal spirit power's route through the meridians from a not-too-short distance away.

The amount used was already large, and having to retain some of it was the reason he had waited until now to execute his plan.

As for why it needed to be from a not-so-short distance?

The reason was simple. Once the soul power was transferred into Tang San's body, it would increase all aspects of his body's basic abilities, which included perception. So the distance had to be far enough to ensure that he wouldn't be discovered, and yet he had to be able to ensure that he could sense the spirit power operating in the already tiny meridians within Tang San's body.

Of course, the soul power he transferred out wasn't something Tang San obtained by igniting his own soul after all. Therefore, Tang San wouldn't be able to gain the ability to sense souls, which undoubtedly greatly reduced the level of difficulty. Unless Tang San could perceive his own soul and comprehend a way to infuse soul power and create a Natal Weapon in a short period of time and turn all that soul power he had transferred to his own use, he would be able to retrieve it at any time.

And Tang San didn't even know what soul power was, let alone comprehend a way to infuse soul power into his Natal Weapon.

Besides, with his current understanding of meridians and acupoints, Tang San only needed to operate Mysterious Heaven Skill once in its entirety for him to be able to memorise the route of operation, and it wouldn't take much time.

Thus, he wasn't the least bit worried that Tang San would get his soul power for nothing.

Still, he decided to take back all his soul power tomorrow night, whether or not he memorises the route of operation to play it safe.

Not long after, he sensed that he was already fully able to sense the existence of Tang San's tiny internal meridians through the link between his soul power, as well as the spirit power that flowed on its own within the meridians. Lin Manshan immediately cancelled the Soul Transfer Art and left without hesitation.

Returning to his room, he didn't sleep at all, but hurriedly sat on his bed with his knees crossed to cultivate his soul power.

'To maintain a safe distance and play it safe, it would be better to cultivate a little more.'

With a deep sigh, he no longer thought much about it and cultivated with all his heart.

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