Chapter 329 Puppet Beast
"The Cloud Piercing Arrow is quite useless. It is useless in a duel with Purple Mansion cultivators and above. It can only clean up low-level soldiers." Zhang Zhixuan's expression changed, and he thought secretly: "If I were a casual cultivator, it would be useless to buy a large flying boat magic weapon. But now I control Black Mountain. Once a large number of people are needed, it is quite necessary to have a spiritual boat magic weapon with a larger space."
Seeing that Zhang Zhixuan was interested, Dong Zhongyun immediately talked about the advantages of the floating cloud boat, and finally said: "The only disadvantage of this magic weapon is that it is relatively expensive. Although the level is only the fourth-level lower grade, the price is nine thousand spirit stones."
Zhang Zhixuan knew that the price of spiritual boat magic weapons varied greatly. The giant boat magic weapon of Liang Laozu could only be considered the second-level, and the speed was not very fast, but the huge space inside made the value of this magic weapon exceed that of ordinary fourth-level magic weapons. If it was taken to the market, it could sell for at least tens of thousands of spirit stones.
Generally speaking, flying magic weapons are more expensive than normal magic weapons.
This floating cloud boat has a large internal space and uses a relatively high-grade Kongming stone when it is refined, so it is not surprising that the price is far higher than the fourth-grade lower-grade one.
More than ten years have passed since taking over Black Mountain. In the past ten years, Black Mountain’s treasury has accumulated some family assets, and Zhang Zhixuan has exchanged the Qingxuan Sect’s good deeds accumulated by the three purple mansions of the Zhang family for spirit stones.
This time, Zhang Zhixuan has more than 30,000 spirit stones in his storage bag. Qingchan has a higher cultivation level, because she has the purple sun sky fire to protect her body, and the two brothers Wei Bohan also put 100,000 spirit stones on her to buy Xuanying jade.
Zhang Zhixuan discussed with Qingchan for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and took down this magic weapon, replacing the poisonous dragon boat that had been used for almost a decade.
After purchasing the floating cloud boat, Zhang Zhixuan used another 6,000 spirit stones to buy a fourth-grade lower-grade defensive magic weapon. This magic weapon is called the black gold umbrella. Once the umbrella is opened, it can release a black gold shield to protect itself.
Although the Xuanjin Gangzhao's defense against spells is far inferior to Qingchan's defensive magic weapon Qianyang Pearl, it is better at defending against piercing flying needles.
After spending 15,000 spirit stones to buy two fourth-level magic weapons, Zhang Zhixuan casually scanned the remaining fourth-level spiritual objects in Danyang Tower. Although these fourth-level spiritual objects have different effects, they are no longer of much use to Zhang Zhixuan.
Seeing Zhang Zhixuan shaking his head, Dong Zhongyun could only helplessly put away the remaining fourth-level magic weapons.
Suddenly Dong Zhongyun remembered the several puppet beasts that the store had obtained some time ago. He suddenly remembered that Zhang Zhixuan was a family cultivator. Although these puppet beasts were a little lower than his cultivation level, they were not unattractive.
Seeing that Zhang Zhixuan's desire to buy had decreased a lot, Dong Zhongyun whispered a few words to the white-clothed attendant behind him. However, Zhang Zhixuan opened up the Purple Mansion, and his spiritual consciousness far exceeded Dong Zhongyun and others. What he said was immediately heard clearly by Zhang Zhixuan.
Zhang Zhixuan was still very unfamiliar with puppet beasts. He had only heard that the Wu family had four puppet beasts, which made great contributions in the Chaoyin Mountain War that year and helped Wu Xiangzhen defend Yanlai Peak.
Now the Zhang family has surpassed the Wu family in prestige, but since Zhang Leqian passed away, including Sidao who was in the sect and had no choice, the family has only four foundation-building cultivators, which is not as good as the Wu family who have suffered losses in recent decades.
Although the Wu family has lost three generations of patriarchs in a row, Wu Siheng has been developing the Purple Mansion for a long time, and his family has a deeper foundation. In the Qingxuan Sect, the Wu family has trained three foundation-building cultivators, and the number of foundation-building cultivators in his family still exceeds that of the Zhang family.
Soon, seven or eight white-clothed attendants came in a line, each holding a huge tray in his hand, on which were placed puppet beasts of one foot in size, which were prohibited by a series of prohibitions. If someone steals, these trays will immediately sound an alarm and pass the news to the Purple Mansion cultivators on the top of the mountain.
Zhang Zhixuan observed the puppets with interest, and a smile appeared on his face.
In the entire Nanyazhou, only the cultivators of the Qi Wanfa Sect are good at refining puppets. The ancestors of this sect fought with the demon cultivators for many years and learned a lot of magic spells on the soul. Then they got some inheritance from the Qinglihai puppeteer, which made them find another way to refine puppet beasts.
The most critical material for refining puppet beasts is the Heavenly Soul Stone. The grade of the Heavenly Soul Stone is the core of the puppet.
The Heavenly Soul Stone is only occasionally produced in the Styx. The land of the Styx restrains the soul of the cultivators, and it is also very dangerous for high-level cultivators. Except for the border with reality, even the Yuanshen stage cultivators dare not stay for a long time.
These borders are occupied by some powerful sects in the world of immortal cultivation, and the inheritance of puppet masters gradually flows out from them.
The Qi Wanfa Sect has studied the wonderful uses of the Heavenly Soul Stone in depth, and finally came up with the idea of using the soul of the cultivator to refine the Yin Soul Stone.
As long as a foundation-building cultivator is killed, a third-level ghost stone can be condensed, and then a third-level puppet beast can be refined with the ghost stone.
This method can almost be regarded as the style of the devil, but the Wanfa Sect has three Yuanying-stage cultivators, a solid mountain gate to support it, and can restrain itself. It never dares to provoke public anger and casually hunt cultivators to refine ghost stones.
Every time they refine a puppet beast, they will publicly register it, and register the names and cultivation levels of the killed cultivators on the puppet list so that other sects can supervise and query it.
Because of this compromising system, they were not besieged by many sects because of this inheritance, and the inheritance was cut off and the mountain gate was destroyed.
However, the soul power condensed by the Yin Soul Stone is far less pure than that of the Heavenly Soul Stone formed by the power of heaven and earth. The puppet beasts used to refine it are not as spiritual as those using the Heavenly Soul Stone, and the price is about half cheaper.
Zhang Zhixuan took a quick look at the blood-red core in the eyes of the puppet beasts, and immediately knew clearly that these puppet beasts came from the inheritance of the Wanfa Sect.
The cores of the puppet beasts refined by the Heavenly Soul Stone are all white.
Because of the practice of the Wanfa Sect, a large amount of corpse blood is needed in the process of refining the Yin Soul Stone. The refined Yin Soul Stone has a hint of evil blood red in color, which is very easy to identify.
To manipulate the puppet beast, you first need to engrave the spiritual consciousness on the puppet core, and then you can use the puppet beast as you wish, just like manipulating a magic weapon.
A third-level inferior puppet beast, with six late-stage Qi training cultivators, can compete with early-stage foundation-building cultivators even without relying on formations.
The Zhang family is now in great need of foundation-building cultivators. The three third-level spiritual veins near Tiantai Peak are guarded by only Zhang Sijin, who has just established his foundation. If they encounter a sneak attack from an outside cultivator, this weak defense will not last long.
Having a few puppet beasts to help can not only enhance the family's strength, but also allow the family's foundation-building cultivators to have more time to practice.
