Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 19: Materials

"What? You said there was a thief in your house, and then Master Xie comforted you with ten bottles of elixir and a thousand spiritual coins?" Wei Tianchong's jaw almost dropped to the floor.

"Yes. I didn't expect Dean Xie to be such a good person. He really cares about his students. I, Tang Jie, am very lucky to have such a good teacher." Tang Jie replied sadly.

"Hey!" Wei Tianchong shouted, beating his chest and shouting: "Why doesn't that thief enter my house?"

Ten bottles of elixir and a thousand spiritual coins, even if the Wei family needs to provide these resources, it will be painful!

"What do you have to steal here?" Tang Jie curled his lips and said.

"Do you have anything worth stealing?" Wei Tian was angry.

"At least I planted some vegetables."

"Who is such an idiot to steal food!" Wei Tianchong was going crazy.

"Be careful what you say, your words will offend a lot of people." Tang Jie muttered softly, and took out a handful of spiritual money and handed it to Wei Tianchong.

Wei Tianchong was overjoyed: "Did you share this with me?"

"No, this is what I pay you back." Tang Jie replied with a smile.

Wei Tianchong's face immediately dropped. He snorted and took the spiritual money. He counted it repeatedly and found that there were a few more. Then he nodded with satisfaction: "You're quite smart."

Tang Jie didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Master, you are the master, you are very rich and powerful, why are you so happy just for these few dollars?"

"Alas, if you don't cultivate immortality, you don't know that money is useless." Wei Tianchong sighed: "So what if our Wei family has a great business? This bottle of medicine can easily cost hundreds or even thousands of spiritual money. It is really too expensive. Who can afford it? Don't you think it's just a stove for refining elixirs? Why is it so expensive? Could it be that all the materials used are natural and precious?"

Tang Jie said with a smile: "Young master, I don't know. The reason why this elixir is expensive is not the material, but mainly the manpower. Immortals and mortals are different after all. In the eyes of mortals, a piece of spiritual money is as valuable as It's just a few taels of silver, which is a lot of money. But in the eyes of immortals, it's about the same value as a copper coin, and the spiritual jade is equivalent to the value of silver. So whatever the cultivator does, it's all done with spiritual money. Calculated in basic units. Using the power of mortals to support the immortals is like using the income from servants to support the young master's life. After all, there is no comparison."

"That's right." Wei Tianchong muttered. He also understood this truth, but he was used to relying on his family and was accustomed to the value of money from ordinary people's eyes, so that everything in front of him was strange. Extremely expensive.

If you think of spiritual coins as copper coins, hundreds or even thousands of spiritual coins are really just that.

That's why Xie Fengtang immediately bought ten bottles of elixir and a thousand spiritual coins.

For him, this is really nothing important. Considering what he has planned, this small contribution is too small.

"So we will still have to make money on our own in the future." Tang Jie had advised.

"That's what I said, but now I know how to draw spirits, so how can I make money with it?" Wei Tianchong said helplessly.

"Of course it's a puppet." Tang Jie said with a smile: "Speaking of which, the young master's sculpting skills are about the same, right? He should be able to engage in puppet production. As long as he can make a decent puppet, Whether it is sold or used, it is wealth."

"But puppets need formations and materials?"

"Refining the formation is easy. Master, you can learn it by yourself first. Even if you don't know how to do it, you can ask a senior brother who knows the formation for help. As for the materials, just buy some and make them. Isn't this what Master is best at now?"

The biggest feature of puppetry in the world of cultivating immortals is that its own strength has nothing to do with the cultivators themselves.

As long as there are enough materials and suitable formations, a cultivator can have a powerful puppet that exceeds his own strength and become the most loyal and reliable bodyguard.

Therefore, for academy students, puppetry is actually a very practical choice, at least in the early days, it is of great value. However, it involves too many categories and requires too much wealth. Not everyone can afford it, so there are not many enthusiasts.

But in Tang Jie's view, he and Wei Tianchong have solved the two most important technical foundations of puppets: carving and formation formation, and the rest is just a matter of money.

Wei Tianchong also has the ability to meet this condition.

"That's it." Wei Tianchong touched his chin: "Okay, I'll do as you say. My mother just sent me some money a few days ago, so I'll use it for this."

"That's it. If that's the case, let's buy it now."

Just do it, and the three of them went to the workshop.

For Wei Tianchong, since he has to do something, he must do it well.

He wished he could use top spiritual materials such as mica and fine gold to create an unparalleled powerful war puppet, so he kept his eyes on that good thing.

When I saw the price of those materials, I was immediately shocked.

"Hey, dear, why does this purple turquoise stone the size of a fist cost 200 yuan? That century-old green paulownia wood actually costs 500 yuan? Isn't that too expensive?"

Walking in the shop, looking left and right, Wei Tianchong felt that everything was ridiculously expensive, so he grabbed Tang Jie's hand and said, "It's incredible, Tang Jie, these things are too expensive. I just did the math, do you know how much it costs to make a puppet? Eighty thousand! Eighty thousand spiritual money!"

Tang Jie smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Young Master, who told you to see those things? You only see good things in your eyes, so of course you can't afford them no matter what."

"Not really." Wei Tianchong felt aggrieved: "I just planned to be a third-grade puppet..."

"Third grade?" Tang Jie was so angry that he wanted to laugh.

Puppets in the world of cultivating immortals are also divided into ordinary, spiritual and immortal grades. Mortal grades are not equal, that is, they can be made with ordinary materials and activated with refining formations. For example, in Wei Mansion, Wei Tianchong The tiger created can be turned into a puppet after being activated with the refining formation. However, because it is made of ordinary wood, its combat power is extremely low, so it is of ordinary quality and has no equal.

The spiritual quality is divided into nine levels, with the ninth level being the highest, and its strength is as strong as that of Xiantai.

The third level mentioned by Wei Tianchong is equivalent to the existence of the transcendent realm.

Hearing that Wei Tianchong wanted to be a third-grade war puppet, Tang Jie could only helplessly shake his head and said: "Third-grade... you really don't have a big appetite!"

Wei Tianchong was embarrassed by what he said and scratched his head: "Isn't it that the biggest advantage of the puppet is that it can surpass the refiner, so..."

"So you are aiming at the transcendental realm?" Tang Jie couldn't laugh or cry: "Young master, please be more down-to-earth. We have just started. Let's start with the first level. The cheaper two or three thousand will be enough. Well done. It can also be used as a spiritual lake step."

Hearing that he could only "hire" a Linghu-level helper for two thousand spirit coins, Wei Tianchong felt unwilling, but he could only nod.

Tang Jie took him around the shop and finally came to a student's bunk. He pointed to a piece of burnt wood and said, "Senior brother, how can I sell this wood?"

The senior brother looked at Tang Jie and said, "Eight hundred dollars."

Tang Jie shook his head: "It's expensive."

The student immediately snorted: "You kid is really ignorant. I am a thunder tree. After being bombarded by thunder, it absorbed a trace of thunder and lightning power. If it is used to make war puppets, it will be born with thunder and lightning." The attack is extremely powerful."

Tang Jie smiled and said: "It's true that thunder strikes wood, but you also have to look at what kind of wood it is. Ordinary wood has no nature and cannot absorb the power of thunder and lightning, only spiritual wood can. Even spiritual trees have To distinguish between good and bad, it also depends on the attributes. The one whose attributes complement each other is the best. If the attributes conflict with each other, it will be worse. It also depends on what kind of thunder it is. Finally, it also depends on how well it is chopped. The reason why thunderwood is precious is that It's because it absorbs the properties of lightning, but it doesn't mean that the worse it gets, the better..."

As he spoke, he pointed at the thunder tree and said: "This thunder tree should be a hundred-year-old water shirt. It is not a good tree in itself, and the main body was hit by lightning, and half of it was damaged. After splitting it into pieces, the bottom part is probably the only one that can be used. It’s too small for the main part, and too much for the rest. Eight hundred dollars...it’s really not worth it.”

The student was stunned by what he said and looked at Tang Jie in surprise: "You can actually see so much?"

"Reading more books will be beneficial." Tang Jie said calmly, then raised his hand and said, "Three hundred."

"This price is a bit cheap." The student shook his head repeatedly.

The two bargained for a while and finally settled on a price of five hundred.

Wei Tianchong felt strange holding the piece of wood and asked Tang Jie: "Didn't you say that this thunderwood is too small for the backbone? Why do you still want to buy it?"

Tang Jie smiled and replied: "It's too small to be the main body. It refers to a war puppet that is equal to a human being. But what if it is not that big?"

"Huh?" Wei Tianchong was stunned: "Don't you want to be a humanoid war puppet?"

"Yes, why does it have to be human-shaped?" Tang Jie asked back: "The strength of a puppet depends on the material, not the size. But the cost of making a puppet is often related to the size, and more materials are used. The cost is naturally high. In this case, why can't we be small and refined?"

Hearing this, Wei Tianchong suddenly became enlightened and said with great joy: "You are right!"

Then he reacted: "No!"

"What's wrong?"

"It's too small to carve a formation."

If the material is the flesh and blood of the puppet, then the formation is the soul of the puppet. These souls must be engraved on the puppet through complex techniques in order to play a unique role. The smaller the size, the harder it is to carve. After all, the space that can be carved is limited.

In fact, the level of the puppet depends on the level of the formation.

The higher the level of the formation, the higher the level of the puppet.

The level of the formation depends on the materials. The better the materials, the better the formation can be used.

The cost of the materials determines the size of the puppet, and the size of the puppet is directly related to the number of formations - under the interaction, the strength of the puppet also changes significantly.

So the same first-grade puppet can be completed with two to three thousand spirit coins, or it can cost seven to eighty thousand to make.

According to Tang Jie's idea, it is to be small and refined first, to get a first-class product first, and to consider the rest later.

Hearing what Wei Tianchong said at this moment, Tang Jie smiled and said: "Then find a more skilled formation master."

"Would it be less effective?" Wei Tianchong asked suspiciously.

Tang Jie said seriously: "Leave this matter to me, young master. I guarantee that the completed puppet will satisfy you!"

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After scouring the market and buying the materials needed to make the puppet, Wei Tianchong went back to make the puppet.

Real puppet production is also quite troublesome. Sculpting is only the foundation. Before making, you must first conceive what kind of puppet you need and what kind of function it has, so that you can arrange the production step by step.

Buying materials like Wei Tianchong before he knew what to do was a sign of an amateur. Fortunately, Tang Jie had already planned everything for him, so he didn't have to worry about it.

As we get along with each other~IndoMTL.com~Tang Jie, a servant student, now gradually focuses his help on Wei Tianchong's cultivation, and in turn, all kinds of things in life are basically handed over to Shi Meng. . Although he was reluctant, Shi Meng had no choice but to accept his fate, otherwise he would not be able to learn the art of cleaning.

Sending Wei Tian to rush back, Tang Jie also returned to Tao Ranju.

Different from the past, as soon as I stepped into Taoran Residence, I saw that the surrounding situation suddenly changed. The original hut disappeared without a trace, and the roads became connected in all directions. I no longer knew where it was leading. Countless black clouds shrouded the sky, and lightning could be seen. Jumping, the light points straight down.

However, after the light shone on the score card on Tang Jie, Fengyun disappeared without a trace.

This is exactly the chain formation that Xie Fengtang had previously set up here, responsible for psychedelic, blocking, attacking and warning respectively.

When entering this formation, you will only fall into the maze first. This is also a setting to prevent students from accidentally entering it and encountering accidents. Only after attacking the maze formation will subsequent formations be launched. At that time, the formation will be fully activated immediately to block the incoming enemy and at the same time warn the college.

"This formation is really well laid out. It actually has a triggering effect. I must study it carefully when I have time." After walking through the formation, Tang Jie said to himself.

Under normal circumstances, it is not easy to study a prepared formation.

But as he is the target of this formation's protection, no one will be harmed by this formation, so he can naturally do whatever he wants to study.

But before that, he had to do another thing.

Opening the package, Tang Jie took out some items, which were exactly the materials he bought when he went shopping with Wei Tianchong.

When Wei Tianchong was buying materials, Tang Jie also bought some, but it was just hidden in the process of buying materials for Wei Tianchong, so no one noticed. Wei Tianchong asked him, and he only said that they were materials that would be used when refining the formation in the future.

It is indeed the material needed for the formation, but it is not for refining the formation, but for setting up the formation.