Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming-Chapter 1288 - 534: Rushing 2 Years [Subscription Request]

Obtaining a master-level alchemy inheritance, along with the fourth-order elixir recipe for the "Jade Dew Golden Halo Pill," Luo Qingni naturally agreed to some of Zhou Chun’s requests without any hesitation.

She readily gave Zhou Chun the green light, and at his request, helped leverage personal connections to gather materials for refining the "Ancient Dust Pill."

At the same time, the two quickly reached an agreement to jointly gather materials and refine the "Jade Dew Golden Halo Pill."

Once everything was settled, Luo Qingni first went to refine the "Dragon Transformation Pill" for Zhou Chun.

Meanwhile, Zhou Chun took the opportunity to rent a cave residence in the city as a future dwelling place.

Before long, Luo Qingni emerged from seclusion and handed over the successfully refined "Dragon Transformation Pill" to Zhou Chun.

Upon receiving this pill, Zhou Chun did not delay and secretly returned once to Jingguo Country, delivering the spirit pill back to the Zhou Family, into Zhou Daoquan’s hands.

As for whether Zhou Daoquan’s spirit pet, the Bloodflame Dragon Python, can successfully evolve into a third-order Flood Dragon through this "Dragon Transformation Pill," it will depend on its own fortune and fate.

Upon returning to the Great Zhou Kingdom, Zhou Chun took the recommendation letter Luo Qingni had given him earlier and headed to the Yuan Puppet Sect’s mountain gate.

Previously, he felt his own strength was insufficient and did not dare to easily go to the mountain gate of the sect where Master Qianji resided, fearing that the other party might harbor malicious intent and harm him.

Now that his strength has reached a level comparable to a Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator, Zhou Chun dared to go there to seek purchasing a fourth-order puppet.

The Yuan Puppet Sect was once a significant sect with Nascent Soul Stage cultivators in residence, but now the sect has a gap in Nascent Soul Stage cultivators, leading it to retract its influence and become much more low-key.

However, being one of the few sects capable of refining fourth-order puppets, even in its decline, ordinary people and forces do not dare to target them.

After all, no one knows how many fourth-order puppets are hidden within Yuan Puppet Sect’s mountain gate, nor whether there might still be a Fifth Order Puppet equivalent to a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator hidden inside!

As a force specializing in puppet crafting, Yuan Puppet Sect does not recruit disciples like other sects, preferring quality over quantity, and only recruiting cultivators with talent in manipulating or crafting puppets.

Of course, if someone possesses Superior Spiritual Root Aptitude, Yuan Puppet Sect would consider them as well.

In summary, this sect has very few disciples; the total number of people in the entire sect is less than a thousand!

Having fewer people means the overall demand for cultivation resources is low, so the Yuan Puppet Sect now only guards its mountain gate to sustain itself, maintaining only one marketplace under its control outside the sect, dedicated to selling some low and middle-tier puppet magic artifacts.

It is worth mentioning that puppet magic artifacts below the fourth-order do not require spirit crystals as energy drives, and can use a uniquely refined "Spirit Origin Bead" from Yuan Puppet Sect for activation.

This "Spirit Origin Bead" is itself an energy storage magic artifact and, based on its grade, can store one-third of the mana of cultivators at the corresponding stage.

For instance, a superior-grade third-order "Spirit Origin Bead" can store one-third of the mana of a late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator.

Once the mana within a "Spirit Origin Bead" is depleted, a cultivator must recharge it to reuse it, and the mana inside cannot be preserved indefinitely, as it will gradually dissipate over time.

If this were all, the "Spirit Origin Bead" would still be considered a great invention.

However, its greatest flaw is that it can only store the mana of the magic artifact’s owner.

Moreover, due to the strong mana attribute bias of the cultivators themselves, a "Spirit Origin Bead" fully charged with metal attribute mana, if used to power a puppet skilled in fire attribute techniques, will not only be inefficient but also cause significant damage to the puppet itself.

These various constraints make the usage of puppet magic artifacts below the fourth-order very rare in the cultivation world, with only Yuan Puppet Sect’s disciples using them as a means of confronting enemies.

Curious, Zhou Chun purchased a few second-order puppet magic artifacts and accompanying "Spirit Origin Beads" after arriving at the marketplace controlled by Yuan Puppet Sect.

He discovered that although "Spirit Origin Beads" are also magic artifacts, they barely consume any Divine Sense from cultivators while manipulating puppets in battle, let alone mana.

A cultivator using a superior-grade second-order puppet requires about as much Divine Sense as controlling a superior-grade second-order magic artifact and an inferior-grade second-order magic artifact.

Moreover, a superior-grade second-order puppet has the battle power to firmly suppress a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator without consuming any of its own mana.

Thus, even an ordinary late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator could have the excess capacity to simultaneously employ a superior-grade second-order defensive magic artifact to protect themselves while commanding two superior-grade second-order puppets in battle.

Once the mana within the "Spirit Origin Beads" of the two superior-grade second-order puppets is exhausted, they can be abandoned directly, and the cultivator can tackle the enemy in a full state.

"It’s a pity the price is too high; a superior-grade second-order puppet paired with a ’Spirit Origin Bead’ costs nearly as much as an inferior-grade third-order magic artifact!"

"Aside from Yuan Puppet Sect’s own disciples or those affluent young individuals who lack neither money nor resources, how many cultivators can equip themselves with two puppets of the same tier?"

Zhou Chun shook his head and stored the puppets in his storage pouch, intending to gift them to some family juniors as protective talismans when necessary.

Afterward, he personally visited Yuan Puppet Mountain nearby, presenting Luo Qingni’s letter of introduction and asking by name to meet "Master Qianji."

Because Zhou Chun revealed his Golden Core Stage cultivation level, the receiving disciple at Yuan Puppet Sect responded quickly, and it was not long before a man claiming to be a disciple of "Master Qianji," possessing a middle-stage Purple Mansion cultivation level, came to greet Zhou Chun.