But as a third-rank exotic treasure, this effect was already quite astonishing. "Shi!" Right then, Lu Changsheng sat cross-legged and began to refine the Misty Sky Bead in his hand. He wanted to experience the effect of this Misty Sky Bead. After spending three days, Lu Changsheng refined the Misty Sky Bead into his body. In his mind, he imagined a cultivator he had seen before and then activated the Misty Sky Bead. Instantly, Lu Changsheng’s facial features and body began to change. He transformed into a youth who was skinny, with ordinary looks, and seemed somewhat solitary. "The changes of this Misty Sky Bead not only cover one’s facial features and body shape but also hide one’s aura and temperament, making it look flawlessly concealed." Lu Changsheng tapped his mana, and a water mirror appeared before him. Looking at his reflection in the water mirror, he nodded slightly. The original superior quality magic artifact mask could only change one’s facial appearance. It could not modify one’s body shape or temperament. One could only alter those by consuming one’s mana, suppressing or transforming it. The next moment, Lu Changsheng’s mental spirit moved slightly. A wave of spiritual power at the beginning level of Qi Refinement emanated from his body. This wave of spiritual power rose steadily, advancing from mid-stage Qi Refinement to late-stage and then to the initial stage of Foundation Establishment. Ultimately, it emitted a wave of mana in the late stage of Foundation Establishment. The changes in the mana aura of the Misty Sky Bead were determined by the upper limit of the user’s divine sense. Lu Changsheng’s divine sense had by now reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment. Therefore, through the Misty Sky Bead, he could directly simulate the mana fluctuations of the late stage of Foundation Establishment. Immediately after, Lu Changsheng took out a coffin from a storage bag. He opened the coffin. Inside were two bodies, a male and a female. They were, in fact, the bodies of the two robber cultivators who had caused trouble in the Red Leaf Valley Market. Since he planned to take the bodies to the Jiuxiao Immortal City to claim the reward, and to avoid the bodies decaying in the storage bag, Lu Changsheng had purchased a Yin Coffin to store them. "The Misty Sky Bead can devour others’ essence, blood, and soul, achieving a perfect disguise and deceiving the Spiritual Contract." "Besides devouring others’ essence and soul, the Misty Sky Bead can also merge with others’ blood and mana aura, thereby elevating the disguise to yet another level." Lu Changsheng summoned the Misty Sky Bead from his body. He took some blood and mana aura from the two bodies of the robber cultivators and fused it into the Misty Sky Bead. Then, he reintegrated the Misty Sky Bead into his body, and his whole appearance and body shape pulsed for a moment. In an instant, he turned into a burly middle-aged man with scars all over his face. It was precisely the appearance of the gray-robed robber cultivator in the coffin. "Cough cough!" Lu Changsheng looked at the water mirror in front of him, coughed lightly, and then mana surged within his body. His face, body shape, voice, temperament, and even his mana aura were exactly like the gray-robed robber cultivator in the coffin. "This effect is simply astounding." "Now that I have this Misty Sky Bead, my journey to the Jiuxiao Immortal City will be much more convenient." After a brief experimentation with the Misty Sky Bead, Lu Changsheng was very satisfied with its effects as an exotic treasure. "Now that the preparations are nearly complete, I can get ready to head to the Jiuxiao Immortal City." Lu Changsheng returned to his true appearance. Considering that his trip out would take a long time, Lu Changsheng also arranged and handled some family affairs for the time ahead. First, he went back to Qingzhu Mountain with his wives, Lu Miaoyun and Qu Zhenzhen, and then he went to the Red Leaf Valley Market. Through a shop subdued by the Lu Family, "Lu Xianzhi, from now on, this shop will be under your full management," "In this storage bag, there are five hundred spirit stones; you can buy whatever puppet materials you need, and if there are any issues, go to Gao He or your Auntie Miaoge." "If you ever run short on spirit stones, you can get an advance from your Auntie Miaoge." Lu Changsheng took his son to the shop they had acquired, pulled out a storage bag, and spoke. The location of this shop was not great. It was of almost the same grade as the shop Hong Yi had bought before. However, Hong Yi had only spent one thousand eight hundred spirit stones to acquire his shop. Whereas Lu Changsheng had spent two thousand three hundred spirit stones on this shop. This price, even with the Lu Family’s influence, was discounted. That is to say, the price of shops in the Red Leaf Valley Market had risen by five hundred spirit stones in the past eight years. "Thank you, Father!" Lu Xianzhi looked at the shop before him and the storage bag, beaming with excitement. Although Lu Changsheng had mentioned getting him a shop before, At this moment, seeing such a shop and so many spirit stones, he was somewhat overwhelmed. However, upon hearing Lu Changsheng’s following words that he should go to Gao He or Lu Miaoge for anything, he couldn’t help but ask, "Dad, do you have something busy to attend to?" "Yes, your father has some matters to attend to and needs to go out for a while, so I won’t be around for the coming time," Lu Changsheng nodded and said. "Dad, will you be out for a long time?" Lu Xianzhi continued to inquire. He knew that his father seldom travelled far. Apart from occasional trips to Ruyi Prefecture, he was usually either at Qingzhu Mountain or at the Red Leaf Valley Market. "About a year," Lu Changsheng responded directly, without hiding anything. He patted his son’s shoulder and continued, "That’s why you need to be careful with everything in the coming time." "Later, when Ruyi breaks through to the middle stage of Qi Refinement, she will come over too." "You don’t need an entire shop for your puppetry at this stage, so when the time comes, you can share half with Ruyi and let her bring some talismans from the Lu Family to sell and learn to manage these affairs." Lu Changsheng instructed. His third child with a Spiritual Root, Lu Ruyi, was currently at the bottleneck of the third level of Qi Refinement. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢 It was estimated that in a few months, or half a year, she might break through to the fourth level. By then, in his absence, Lu Miaoge would bring her over and entrust her to Lu Xianzhi.