Chapter 229

Chapter 224: Puppet? It's just 007 Alchemy Tool Man! (5k)
Chapter 224 - Puppet? Nothing more than 007 Alchemy Tool Man! (5k)

Su Xing's heart shook, and at the same time murmured with some surprise:
‘If I trigger the Origin of Force ...... I should be able to kill the Wan Mu Realist in a second with one punch, right?’

‘After killing the Ten Thousand Wood Realist in seconds, the Spirit Vein Dragon might not be leaked ...... At that time, the Dragon Protector might not know about the news of the Spirit Vein Dragon's emergence?’

Su Xing pondered.

But this was only Su Xing's speculation, how the specifics would be, Su Xing still needed to try something in the next simulation.

‘There is also the Way of the Puppet ...... Now after two times of Ghost Granny's teaching, my learning of the Way of the Puppet, although it is only at the introductory level, but driving an ordinary puppet, it should already be enough, right?’

Su Xing turned his gaze towards the eight puppets left behind by Old Dog Zong.

If these eight puppets were slightly modified, perhaps Su Xing would be able to produce an additional batch of free labour for alchemy and farming.

Thus, for the next week, Su Xing began to try to transform the living dead puppets.

‘These few puppets, all of them are combat type ...... not puppets specifically used for alchemy, the ability of the humanoid puppets, the difference between their abilities and their abilities in life is not too big ......’

Su Xing first consulted Zong Lao Dog's diary and spent an hour to find the identity of the eight puppets.

Among the eight puppets, three of them possessed wood and fire attribute auras, which were the Flower Fairy, as well as the other two puppets.

Even one of the puppets, was once an alchemist.

After knowing that these three puppets, possessed the ability to be able to make pills, the next thing was much simpler.

Su Xing first erased the divine sense imprint that Zong Lao Dog had left on the puppets, and then left his own brand.

Immediately after, Su Xing opened the manipulation core of the living dead puppet, the location of which was generally in the heart part of the puppet.

A puppet, the abilities it possessed mainly depended on three parts.

The first was, Su Xing's divine soul imprint, Su Xing could stimulate the divine soul imprint and give orders towards the puppet.

Secondly, there was the puppet imprint at the puppet's manipulation core.

There were many types of puppet imprints, combat, auxiliary, spirit formation, alchemy, and talisman making.

With different puppet marks, the puppet would be able to fulfil different tasks.

Thirdly, there were the abilities that the human puppet used to possess before it died, which would also be retained to a certain extent.

And Su Xing was currently unable to independently make new puppet marks for the puppets to replace them with, so the only ones that could make pills were these three puppets that once possessed the talent of making pills.

Su Xing named them respectively, Ah Da, Ah Er and Xiao Mei!
Ah Da, who had been at the peak of YuanYing stage cultivation in his lifetime, also retained a strength close to the peak of YuanYing after being made into a puppet, and was even an alchemist in his lifetime.

So Su Xing was very easy, and taught him the method of refining the Pyrrhic Dan.

After all, this was only the lowest-order elixir, not to mention YuanYing puppets, even Foundation Puppets were able to refine it.

Er, who was also at peak YuanYing cultivation, still retained his wood and fire attribute auras after being made into a human puppet.

Although it was only a combat puppet and did not have spiritual intelligence or independent consciousness, it also possessed the ability to imitate and learn.

So Su Xing let him follow behind Ah Da to learn the refining of the Pure Grain Pill, and he thought that he would be able to learn it in a short while.

As for Xiao Mei, that is, Zong Lao Dog's favourite Flower Fairy.

Only the strength of the Foundation stage, but the physical body remains intact, and even a little residual consciousness, should be Zong old dog had used a secret method before the refining of the best quality puppets.

The strength is the lowest, but the potential is not small.

Su Xing temporarily allowed Xiao Mei to also learn the refining of the Rescue Pill.

As for the remaining five living dead puppets, Su Xing had them do some farming, weeding, and other work.

It was also able to reduce Su Xing's pressure.

The living dead puppets, which had no independent consciousness, did not need to rest.

It only needed to be injected with energy on a regular basis, installing spirit stones into the core, and then it could be used all the time.

After Su Xing did a little calculation, he found that if he only needed to do chores like weeding, for a year, a puppet would only need one lower grade spirit stone.

Alchemy required a lot of spirit stones, a puppet would need ten lower grade spirit stones in a month.

However, this was completely affordable for Su Xing who had hundreds of thousands of spirit stones.

‘It's just that the spirit stones needed for ...... puppets to fight that's a lot!’

‘There's also the one that I got in the Wan Mu Sect's relics before, that puppet at the early Void Returning Stage, it's already basically scrapped ...... In the future, if there's time, maybe we can try to repair it a bit?’

Soon, a week passed.

In Su Xing's Spiritual Field Cave, there were eight more free puppet labourers.

Among them, Ah Da performed well, and in a week's time, he was able to provide Su Xing with an additional one thousand grain pills, with the probability of giving birth to an extreme grain pills.

Ah Er was slightly worse, in a week's time, he was able to provide roughly five hundred grain-preventing pills.

As for Xiao Mei, the number of grain-expelling pills she could refine in a week was only a hundred or so, with an extremely high failure rate.

However, Su Xing was very patient, and took it all as an accumulation for later.

As long as the number of puppets was large enough, Su Xing would even be able to produce tens of thousands of extra grain-expelling pills in the coming week!
This week, Su Xing was busy transforming the puppets and teaching the puppets to refine pills, thus he only refined less than 2,000 Pai Gu Dan himself.

It was not until the day he met with Jin Congxue that Su Xing disguised himself and headed to the villa area.

In the villa, Jin Congxue had been waiting for a long time.

The two of them sat across from each other, eating and chatting at the same time.

Jin Congxue took out the storage ring that had been prepared long ago and said:

‘A new week's worth of goods, and the output of that second-order iso-metal mine is also here ...... Every week from now on, we will be able to provide a steady supply of second-order iso-metals!’

‘There is also the Daxia military side also greeted, after that, as long as we Tarot will specifically to the Daxia military to provide Paiku Dan, every 50,000 Paiku Dan, will be able to obtain a second-order iso-metal mining area mining rights!’

Su Xing nodded slightly after hearing this and said after a moment of careful thought:

‘Pretty much....... After that, I will temporarily stop the refining of the Face Nourishing Dan, and switch to refining the Grain Rescuing Dan with all my might!’

‘Alien metal mining will become the main business direction of our Tarot Chamber of Commerce in the future!’

Jin Congxue didn't refuse after hearing this and simply said:
‘Of course, the Tarot Chamber of Commerce was originally founded by you and I. I've always been indifferent to these big decisions ......’

‘And Tarot Club's current business has basically stabilised, there is no need to inject a large amount of money ...... As for the Face Nourishing Dans, you only need to refine some occasionally to satisfy the requirements of certain guests!’

Su Xing nodded after hearing this, Jin Congxue's idea coincided with his.

The two of them chatted for a while longer, Jin Congxue looked like he suddenly thought of something funny and said:
‘Right, have you heard recently ...... including the Pearl Chamber of Commerce, the North Yuan Chamber of Commerce ...... and even my second uncle, they all seem to be looking for a rumoured hidden worldly powerhouse recently! ‘

‘As for why they are looking for that strong man, the reason is still unknown, I heard that it seems to be related to longevity?’

Speaking of this, Jin Congxue hilariously said:

‘You are not aware of my second uncle ancestor that look, more than five hundred years old, the hall of heavenly king level strong man ...... results in a rush to walk and fall several times in one day ......’

Su Xing listened to the corner of his mouth twitched, tentatively asked:

‘Oh? Then have they found news of that powerhouse?’

Jin Congxue shook his head after hearing that:

‘Not ...... that predecessor came without a shadow and went without a trace, leaving no traces ...... even several chambers of commerce also invited a legendary powerhouse in the Zhen Demon Pass to perform divination, and they didn't even find any message from that predecessor! ‘

Su Xing's heart relaxed quite a bit after hearing this.

After that incident, Su Xing was being investigated, which was completely expected by Su Xing.

But it was destined to be investigated without any results, Su Xing shielded the heavenly chances, did things covertly, simulated beforehand, almost eliminated one hundred per cent of the risks, how could this be found?

And the billions of people in the Great Summer Country, no one would associate the target to such a small college student as Su Xing.

Soon, the conversation between the two ended.

Su Xing brought a new week's worth of goods and stealthily returned to the Spirit Field Cave Heaven.

The new week's goods provided Su Xing with 150 million analogue energy.

It was similar to what Su Xing had previously imagined, a single second-order xenometal mine dungeon was able to bring Su Xing a net profit of close to fifty million analogue energy every week!

With this, Su Xing's analogue energy came to 2,968,230,000 points .
On the 16th of December in the New Era 2024, Su Xing was ready to start a new round of simulation.

Before the simulation, Su Xing set down a goal for this simulation.

‘The comprehension of the Origin of Force, as soon as possible, step into the Small Completion Level ...... so as to be able to break into the Harmonisation Stage as soon as possible!’

‘In addition to this, the art of puppetry still needs to be refined, if we can build more puppets, we will be able to obtain more simulation energy in the future, and the simulation energy for the Harmonisation Stage should be sufficient by then ......’

Thinking so, Su Xing's gaze looked towards the simulation panel.

‘Start simulation!’

[Ding! This simulation consumes 6600 points of energy, remaining energy 2,968,230,000 points, remaining simulation times none].

[Simulation begins!

[Extracting a purple talent costs 10w points of energy, extracting a golden legend talent costs 1 million energy, is it extracted?’]

‘Extract gold quality talent!’

Su Xing said without hesitation.

[Ding, congratulations on obtaining the purple talent Gunnery Mastery, next time the probability of collecting the golden talent is 50% ......]
【Gunsmanship Extraordinary】：You are beyond ordinary people in your perception of the Gunsmanship course, and your talent in the Gunsmanship course is several times that of an ordinary person.

Looking at the newly drawn talent in front of him, Su Xing unsurprisingly shook his head.

Sure enough, it wasn't a golden talent.

‘Gun art?...... It's not bad, but with a hundred weapons, how can I be proficient in all of them? Even I ...... can't do everything.’

Now, since he has already learnt the art of sword, Su Xing does not intend to practice the art of gun for the time being.

Thinking so, Su Xing's gaze looked towards the simulation panel.

[In the Spiritual Field Cave, you realise that you are simulating.]

[For the next half a month, you refine pills while accumulating the Great Wisdom Status Enhancement.]

[After half a month, you move to prepare for your trip to the Luo Heavenly Assembly dungeon.]]

In the real world, Su Xing nodded slightly when he saw this, this simulation, he was prepared to continue to receive guidance from the Ghost Granny and learn the art of puppetry.

‘Use the immersion simulation function ...... duration 24 hours!’

[Ding, you have successfully used the immersive ...... remaining energy of 2,965,830,000 points...]

......

Soon, the immersive simulation ended, and Su Xing once again gained quite a bit of knowledge about the Way of the Puppet from the Ghost Granny this time with this simulation.

‘Although I haven't yet stepped into the Minor Achievement level ...... but my comprehension of the Way of the Puppet can be said to have been refined by another big step!’

Su Xing nodded with satisfaction, his gaze looking towards the simulation panel.

[One month later, you met Luo Shufeng as promised and joined the Advent Sect.]

[Luo Shujing was already a Legend ranked powerhouse at this time, and you quickly harvested a large number of fanboys within Advent Cult.]]

For a year after that, you stayed in the Cult of the Descendants every day to refine pills and study the Way of the Puppet.

[In the second year, you once again took the time to prepare for your trip to the Luo Tian Assembly dungeon.]

‘Using the Immersive Simulation Function ......’

[You have successfully used the Immersive Simulation ...... remaining energy of 2,963,430,000 points...]

......

The one day of immersive simulation time ended, Su Xing quickly reentered the real world again, his mastery of the puppet way going to the next level.

‘Not bad, in this simulation ...... maybe the mastery of the Way of the Puppet will really be able to step into the level of Minor Achievement!’

‘By then, I should be able to independently refine puppets that are capable of refining pills ......’

Thinking thus, Su Xing gazed at the simulation panel.

[You have stayed in the Advent Sect for another year and have successfully refined enough pills.]

[Because your purpose for this simulation was to accumulate Origin Power as quickly as possible, it didn't matter whether you rebelled against the Advent Sect or not, and in order to obtain more information, you decided to stay in the Advent Sect].

[In the third year, you handed over the more than 200,000 pills you had accumulated to the Grand Xia Military.]

[In just one year, the Grand Xia military has produced many more powerful people.]]

[Although the Advent Cult was bitter about this, it never suspected you, as you did not reveal your alchemy ability.]

[So next, you continued to practise the art of puppetry, and on the day of the hibernation every year, you envisioned the Origin of Force.]]

[In this way, another three years passed.]

[In the sixth year, your mastery of the Origin of Force improved, and the amount of time you could continuously use the Origin of Force increased from three breaths to five.]

[This is almost able to allow you to swing two punches at full power in a fight.]

[You were not satisfied with this, and continued to study the Puppet Way and learnt about the Origin Power.] [Thus, another two years passed.

Two more years passed.

[In the eighth year, you had already mastered the creation of puppet marks, and according to the memories in your mind, you were able to transform ordinary combat-type puppets into medicinal puppets specialised in refining pills.] [So you tried to transform your own puppet into a medicinal puppet.

[Thus, you attempted to transform the remaining five puppets that you possessed.]

Three more years passed after this research.

In the eleventh year, after your continuous research, you finally transformed the remaining five puppets into pill puppets.

With this, you have eight puppets that work 24 hours a day to make pills for you.

[You try to have them refine the Pioneer's Pill ......]

[After two months of testing, you find that the eight puppets, in one month's time, are able to refine a total of 50,000 grain-expelling pills.]]

[This is equivalent to the fact that every month, just these eight puppets alone are able to give you one more dungeon of second-ranked foreign metal mines!

[You are very happy about this.]

But at the same time, as you continued to study, you also discovered something unusual about the puppet codenamed Xiaomei.

The remaining seven puppets, although all at the peak of the YuanYing stage, have limited potential and are difficult to break through.

[On the contrary, this puppet, Xiao Mei, is actually able to perfect itself and constantly break through ...... From the time when it was refining a hundred pills a week, it is now actually able to refine thousands of pills.]

[You realised that perhaps it was because Xiao Mei still had the imprint of her body's divine soul remaining in her body, so you tried to implant a more advanced puppet imprint.]

[After your continuous attempts, Xiao Mei does have the potential to develop further, and even the cultivation of this puppet, was able to be raised!

In the real world, Su Xing was even amazed to see this.

‘The puppet ...... is also able to raise its cultivation?’

According to the information Su Xing had obtained, if one wanted to enhance a puppet's strength, one would either have to use more precious heavenly materials to refine the puppet, or equip it with more powerful magic treasures.

But if the puppet was capable of self-cultivation, this was something Su Xing had not known.

‘Could this ...... be the rumoured puppet cultivation?’

Su Xing's eyes widened.

It must be known that ordinary cultivators, for human cultivation ...... However, after the death of the cultivator may be able to turn into a ghost, but also able to continue to cultivate, this is the ghost cultivation!
And if a cultivator refines himself into a puppet, there is a very low probability that he will become a puppet cultivator!
And right now, Su Xing's little beauty puppet seems to have turned into a puppet cultivator?
‘Hiss ...... this is an extraordinary discovery!’

Su Xing muttered, his gaze looking towards the simulation panel.

[You quickly realise that Xiao Mei is perhaps a one-in-a-million puppet cultivator, or was born by chance ......]

[But you don't know how to help Xiao Mei recover her remaining self-awareness, so you can only put it aside.]

[As such, for the next three years, you continued to study the art of puppetry on a daily basis, and to envision the Origin of Force]]

[In the fourteenth year, your mastery of the art of puppetry can already be said to be slightly accomplished.]

[You have decided to try to make an artefact puppet on your own.]

【Ware puppets are different from human puppets, they are refined from metal ores and the like ...... are more inclined towards organ beasts, robots, and other existences ......]

[And before refining the artefact golem, you must first learn to refine artefacts.]]

[So you began to study the art of artefact refining ......]

[You don't have much talent for refining artefacts, but fortunately, what you need to refine are only the lowest level artefact puppets, which don't require too much profound artefact refining skills.]]

[You refer to the jade slip left behind by Old Dog Zong and begin to learn the Way of Weapon Refining.]

[You have the Leaving Fire technique, besides being an excellent fire for refining pills, you can also refine artefacts ...... which saves you a lot of effort.]

[As for the material for refining puppets, you quickly chose it, a fourth-ranked foreign metal!]

[You manoeuvred the departing fire to burn on top of the foreign metal, forging it into the shape of a human being ...... This process requires a high degree of divine sense and control of aura and flame.]

[You tried for several months, and finally barely managed to produce a puppet that is one person tall and only in its initial human form.]

[Although from the looks of it, this puppet is not even remotely related to a human.]

[But you don't care about that either, because for you, it's fine as long as it works.]

[Immediately after that, you began to refine the puppet core and puppet mark for this weapon puppet, and left behind your own puppet mark.]

[You laid out a wood- and fire-attribute spirit formation within the puppet's body to facilitate its transformation of wood and fire-attribute auras ......]

[You then inscribed the imprint of a flame talisman at the puppet's core, so that the puppet would be able to release flames on its own]]

[You placed a few spirit stones inside the puppet for its energy needs.]]

[Next, it is time for the most difficult part of the entire puppet art, for the puppet to learn how to do a certain thing.]

[The puppet lacks the ability to learn on its own, you must implant the process of refining the Pioneer Dan in the puppet's core, and then modify it in actual combat, so as to allow it to gradually master the art of alchemy.]

[This process ...... lasted for a whole month.]

[After a month, you finally allowed this puppet to successfully learn the art of alchemy, and this puppet is able to refine two thousand Peking Dan every month!

[The efficiency is not high, but you are satisfied ......]

[Because next, you will be attempting the mass production of the alchemy puppet ......]

(End of chapter)

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