There was no difference between the day and night of the Fengdu city!
Zhang Yan was sitting in the inn's room and concentrating on the materials that were gained from the Spirit Tattooists Unit with very slow and careful movements, while the Anti-Soul Beast was guarding the door to keep Zhang Yan from being interrupted and this was the first time that it had seen him to do things so focused.
He carefully took out all the materials, classified them, ground and purified them one by one, and mixed them together.
After finishing with those common materials, he took out an anti-soul stone found in the North Mountain, crushed it into powder without hesitation, and added it to the previous materials. Then, he asked the Anti-Soul Beast to bring the Guiding-soul chook, "I need three drops of the chicken blood."
The beast began to cut on the leg of the chook and its black and red chicken blood flowed out along the wound. Although painful, it dared not cry out in the beast's arms. But three drops of blood were not serious matter.
He dripped the blood into the previous materials and mixed them to accomplish the spirit tattooing liquid.
He took a long breath and wiped the sweat from his forehead, sighing, "The spirit tattooing liquid this time is really difficult to make, but I'm finally successful. The next is to depict my spiritual pattern!"
What he wanted to engrave this time was the Soul Suppressing Pattern, created by an ancient spirit tattooing master whose inspiration was said to come from the Stone to Suppress Souls. According to the memory in Zhang Yan's mind, the soul he absorbed in the Pa Snake's cave knew this kind of pattern in a book and it had not personally depicted before. So, for Zhang Yan, this was the very first time.
As usual, he first practiced on the ground until the muscle memory formed, which enabled him to finish depicting even with eyes closing. This practicing process took him a whole day, making him a little effortless. So he could only rest in bed after the practice.
He slept for another day, and when he got up again, he seemed to be a hundred times more energetic. Not delaying the time, he immediately took out a high-level paper, wrapped the spirit tattooing pen with his soul energy to lick a little spiritual tattooing liquid, and rapidly drew on the paper.
His movements were very smooth and only in a short time, he had finished one piece of Soul Suppressing Pattern. He did not stop, but continued to depict more instead, until the liquid was used up. 20 pieces had been done as time secretly passed. Though consuming a lot of soul energy, with the Stone to Suppress Souls and the Purifying Lotus in his Knowledge Ocean, he did not feel much discomfort as before.
Looking at the patterns in his hand, he smiled, "This trip to the Huangquan Road relies on you! I don't know if are effective as the legend says."
The Anti-Soul Beast also smelled a breath of the Stone to Suppress Souls and asked in fear, "Sir, why there's a smell of the Stone to Suppress Souls with the spiritual pattern you depicted, which makes me feel very uncomfortable? What is it? Why haven't I heard of it?"
"Since you feel so, it means that these pieces of Soul Suppressing Pattern are very effective." He replied, "This pattern was an imitation of the stone and its role is to suppress the souls. It is said that it can work for all souls, but the stronger the soul, the more it can get rid of the pattern's suppression."
The beast picked up a piece of it and carefully felt, followed with a shock, "Perhaps it is able to work on warriors of the Martial King State! Amazing!"