Chapter 69: Creating a Puppet |
The ancient cultivator's legacy was extremely dangerous.
Especially those evil cultivators who, even in death, didn't want others to have a good life, so they would leave behind a trap to lure other cultivators and then use an array to kill them all at once.
Some even left behind an evil altar, fantasizing about sacrificing explorers to revive themselves.
In any case, there were both good and bad ones.
However, no matter what, it couldn't extinguish the passion of cultivators seeking treasure.
Currently, resources were scarce in the cultivation world, and to improve one's cultivation, one needed resources that others didn't have. There was no better place to obtain resources than an ancient cultivator's legacy.
If the legacy was truly left behind by a powerful ancient cultivator, getting just one treasure from it could change one's life!
Hearing this news, Chen Lin also felt a surge of excitement, wanting to get a share of the spoils.
However, he immediately extinguished the thought.
"Never mind, I'll just rely on my innate abilities to make money steadily."
Knowing his own limitations, Chen Lin suppressed his excitement and left the market.
Over the next few days, Chen Lin didn't cultivate, but instead went crazy producing talismans, mass-producing large quantities of talismans and Fireball talismans, exchanging them for a large sum of spirit stones.
Although the value of these two types of talismans wasn't high, the quantity was massive, and with the current skyrocketing prices, he was making a fortune.
This allowed him to have more spirit stones to buy materials, and he even produced a few pills and Thunderbolt Beads.
With such benefits, Chen Lin naturally didn't have any plans to leave Guyuan City, deciding to stay for the time being.
As time passed, more information about the ancient cultivator's legacy emerged.
It was said that a large area had already been explored, and even a Foundation Establishment Stage treasure had appeared, indicating that the ancient cultivator's legacy was at least at the Foundation Establishment Stage.
This news caused a stir in the surrounding cultivation world, with countless cultivators rushing in, causing the inns in Guyuan City to be overcrowded.
The Mountain Sect and Qingyun Sect were going all out, even having conflicts with cultivators from other places.
However, not all the news was good; the danger level in the legacy was not small, and many cultivators had already fallen.
Despite this, the number of people coming to explore was still increasing.
Chen Lin remained in his courtyard, staying at home every day, only going to the market and back, quietly making a fortune.
He even used his free time to dig a secret tunnel in his house, preparing an escape route in case of danger.
Of course, this was unlikely to be used, but it was a product of his personality.
Not having one would make him feel uneasy.
"Rise!"
Chen Lin squatted in an empty area of his courtyard, staring at a tiger puppet in front of him, and shouted.
Then, the tiger puppet slowly raised its two front paws.
"Fall!"
Following Chen Lin's command, the tiger puppet's paws fell back down.
"Advance!"
"Retreat!"
"Jump!"
Chen Lin's voice changed constantly, and the tiger puppet made various movements accordingly.
After playing for a while, he finally put the tiger puppet away, satisfied.
"It seems it's not that the puppet is no good, but that the fat cultivator is no good. It's just that my innate abilities are too awesome!"
As he took out spirit stones from the puppet's back, Chen Lin muttered to himself, feeling proud.
Similarly, it was a tiger puppet, but the one made by the fat cultivator could only lift its paw, whereas his could perform multiple actions and even walk slowly.
People are ultimately different from one another.
With a sense of satisfaction, Chen Lin picked up the Wu Clan's Scripture again, and began to study it in earnest.
This time, he decided to take a risk and try to refine a higher-level puppet.
The Tiger Puppet was just a practice piece, and in the Wu Clan's Scripture, it was considered the lowest level of existence, with no combat capabilities whatsoever.
Of course, the materials required were very cheap, and the refining process was also simple.
The puppet's soul was the Puppet Seal, and ordinary puppets didn't have high requirements for materials.
The Puppet Seal was created using a special method, where spiritual energy was condensed into a self-sustaining seal that could be attached to the refined puppet.
It was precisely because of this Puppet Seal that the user could form a spiritual connection with the puppet, allowing them to control it like an arm, and even enable it to fight on its own.
Different inheritances had different methods of condensing the Puppet Seal, which was the essence of the inheritance.
If it was a Spiritual Puppet Seal, the refined puppet could even possess simple intelligence, with combat capabilities no different from a normal cultivator, which was truly remarkable.
Of course, Chen Lin didn't dare to hope for that, and could only try his luck.
Even the ordinary Puppet Seal from the Wu Clan's inheritance was extremely profound, and Chen Lin had to take three Enlightenment Pills to finally understand it.
This was also why he had only just started refining the puppet.
The effects of the Enlightenment Pill were as good as ever, but Chen Lin discovered that every time he used it, the aftereffects would worsen, and he needed three Spirit Nourishing Pills to compensate.
If he could keep using them, it wouldn't be a problem, and the effects of the Enlightenment Pill would be worth the cost of the Spirit Nourishing Pills.
But what if one day the Spirit Nourishing Pills lost their effect? That would be a tragedy.
So Chen Lin had stopped using them when he was learning general techniques, but for refining puppets, he had no choice but to use them.
Because refining puppets was too compatible with his innate abilities!
The materials required for the puppet itself weren't too expensive, and the Puppet Seal and the array of talismans didn't require any resource consumption, as long as his spiritual energy was sufficient, he could condense as many times as he wanted.
So, even if it took ten attempts to succeed once, it wouldn't cost too many spirit stones, but the quality would be high, and he could sell it for a good price.
It was a pure case of using small means to achieve big gains.
For Chen Lin, mastering this technique would be faster than alchemy and talisman-making, and would also be an excellent way to enhance his own abilities!
After flipping through the scripture, Chen Lin chose a snake-shaped puppet.
This was a Qi Refining late-stage puppet, and one of the only two Qi Refining late-stage puppets in the scripture.
The other one was a bear puppet, which was too large and required too many materials, wasting spirit stones and being inconvenient to store, so it wasn't suitable for now.
Since he was going to take a risk, he naturally had to choose the most powerful one, and the snake puppet required high-level materials, but its small size made it manageable.
Thinking about it, Chen Lin packed up and rushed to the market.
Because many cultivators had recently flooded into the area, some of whom were unable to explore the ancient ruins and were instead hunting demonic beasts and collecting spiritual herbs in the Dreambreak Mountain Range. Additionally, some treasures from the ancient ruins would occasionally appear in the market, making the market's resources increasingly abundant.
The materials required for the Qi Refining late-stage puppet were mostly bones and tendons from Qi Refining late-stage demonic beasts, as well as some special ores.
Chen Lin searched the entire market and barely managed to gather all the materials.
The cost was that he spent all his spirit stones, and was back to square one.
Chen Lin gritted his teeth in the dark.
If he didn't succeed this time, he would really be in trouble!
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