Chapter 19 Materials

"What? You said that there were thieves in your house, and then Master Xie comforted you with ten bottles of elixir and one thousand elixir money?" Wei Tian's jaw almost fell to the ground.

"That's right. I didn't expect Principal Xie to be such a good person. He really cares about the students. I, Tang Jie, was lucky to meet such a good teacher." Tang Jie replied with a sigh.

"Hey!" Wei Tianchong shouted, beating his chest and stamping his feet, "Why didn't that thief come into my house?"

Ten bottles of elixir, one thousand spiritual coins, even if the Wei family had to pay for this resource, it would be a pain in the ass!

"What is there for you to steal?" Tang Jie pouted.

"Is there something worth stealing from you?" Wei Tian was furious.

"At least I planted some vegetables."

"Who is such an idiot to steal vegetables!" Wei Tian was about to go crazy.

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

Wei Tianchong was overjoyed: "Is this what you shared with me?"

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

Wei Tianchong's face drooped immediately, he snorted, took the spiritual coins, counted them repeatedly, and found that there were a few more, so he nodded in satisfaction: "You're still a smart kid."

Tang Jie didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Young master, you are a young master, rich and powerful, why are you so happy about the money?"

"Oh, if you don't cultivate immortals, you don't know if money is useless." Wei Tianchong sighed, "So what if my Wei family has a great fortune? This bottle of medicine costs hundreds of thousands of spiritual coins, which is really too expensive. Who can buy it?" Come on. Don’t you think it’s just a stove to make alchemy? Why is it so expensive? Could it be that all the treasures of heaven and earth are used?”

Tang Jie smiled and said: "Young Master, I don't know that the reason why this pill is expensive is not because of the material, but because of the manpower. Immortals and ordinary people are different after all. In the eyes of ordinary people, a piece of spiritual money is worth a few taels." Silver is a lot of money. But in the eyes of immortals, it is about the same value as a copper coin, and the spiritual jade is equivalent to the value of silver. Therefore, if a cultivator does something casually, it is calculated with spiritual coins as the basic unit Yes. Providing for an immortal with mortal power is like providing for a young master with the income of a servant, after all, there is nothing comparable."

"That's right." Wei Tianchong muttered, he also understands this truth, but he has always been used to relying on his family, and he is also used to the ordinary people's eyes on the value of money, so that everything in front of him is extremely expensive.

If one regards spiritual coins as copper coins, then hundreds of thousands of spiritual coins are really the same.

It is precisely because of this that Xie Fengtang bought ten bottles of elixir and one thousand elixir.

For him, this is really nothing big, considering what he planned, this little effort is really too small and too small.

"So we will still have to rely on ourselves to make money in the future." Tang Jie persuaded.

"That's what I said, but I also know how to use the spirit drawing technique now, so what can I use to make money?" Wei Tianchong said helplessly.

"Of course it's a puppet." Tang Jie said with a smile: "Speaking of which, the young master's carving skills are almost the same, right? You should be able to engage in the production of puppets. As long as you can make a decent puppet, whether it is for sale It’s use, it’s all wealth.”

"But the puppet needs formation and materials?"

"Formation formation is simple, young master can learn it by himself first, even if you don't know how to do it, you can ask for help from senior brothers who know the way of formation. As for the materials, just buy some and do it. Isn't this what young master is best at now?"

The biggest characteristic of puppet art 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 supplemented by a suitable formation, the immortal cultivator can have a powerful puppet that surpasses his own strength and become the most loyal and reliable bodyguard.

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

But in Tang Jie's view, the two most important technical foundations of puppets: carving and formation,

I and Wei Tianchong have already settled the matter, and the rest is just a matter of money.

It just so happens that Wei Tianchong is also capable of meeting this condition.

"It's like this." Wei Tianchong touched his chin: "Okay, I'll do as you said. It just so happens that my mother just sent me some money a few days ago, so let's use it for this."

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

Just do what you say, and the three of them went to the workshop.

For Wei Tianchong, since he wanted to do it, he had to do it well.

He wished to use top-level spiritual materials such as mica fine gold to create a powerful and unparalleled battle puppet, so his eyes were all on that good thing.

It was just that when I saw the price of those materials, I was shocked.

"Hey, why does this purple pine stone the size of a fist cost two hundred dollars? That hundred-year-old green paulownia wood costs five hundred dollars? Isn't that too expensive?"

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

Tang Jie smiled wryly when he heard that: "Young master, who told you to look at those things, you are full of good things in your eyes, so naturally you can't afford them no matter what."

"Not at all." Wei Tianchong felt aggrieved: "I just plan to be a puppet around the third rank..."

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

In the world of cultivating immortals, puppets are also classified according to ordinary, spiritual, and immortal. There is no such thing as ordinary, that is, they can be made from ordinary materials and activated by refining formations. For example, the tiger made by Wei Tianchong in the Wei Mansion. It can be turned into a puppet after being activated with the formation formation, but because it is made of ordinary wood, its combat power is extremely low, and it is ordinary, no other.

And the spiritual grade is divided into nine grades, the ninth grade is the highest, and its strength is directly comparable to that of Xiantai.

The third rank mentioned by Wei Tianchong is equivalent to the existence of the Transcendence Realm.

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

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

"So you're aiming at the Transcendence Realm?" Tang Jie didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Young master, let's be more down-to-earth. We're just starting. We'll start with the first rank, and the cheaper two or three thousand will be enough. It can be used as a Linghu stage."

Hearing that he could only "hire one" Linghu rank helper for two thousand spiritual money, Wei Tianchong felt very unwilling, but he could only nod his head.

Tang Jie took him around the workshop, and finally came to a student's bunk, pointed to a piece of charred wood and said, "How do you sell this wood, brother?"

That senior brother looked at Tang Jie and said, "Eight hundred coins."

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

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

Tang Jie laughed and said: "Thunderwood is true, but it depends on what kind of wood it is. Ordinary wood has no nature and cannot absorb the power of lightning, but spirit wood can. Even spirit wood has its own advantages and disadvantages. It also depends on the attribute, the best attribute is the one that is born with the same attribute, and it is worse if the attribute is incompatible; it also depends on what kind of thunder it is; finally it depends on how well it is split. The reason why the thunder wood is precious is because it absorbs Lightning attribute, but it doesn't mean that the worse it is, the better..."

As he said that, he pointed to the thunder tree and said: "This thunder tree should be a hundred-year-old water jacket. It is not a high-quality wood in itself, and the main body was hit by lightning, and half of it was smashed. The part that can be used is probably the following part, it’s too small to be the main body, and too much to do the rest, eight hundred dollars...it’s really not worth it.”

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

"Reading more books is beneficial." Tang Jie said indifferently, and raised a slap: "Three hundred."

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

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

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

Tang Jie replied with a smile: "It's too small to be the backbone, which refers to a war puppet that is equal to a human being, but what if it's not so big?"

"Ah?" Wei Tian was stunned: "Don't be a humanoid war puppet?"

"Yes, why does it have to be in human form?" 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. The cost of using more materials will naturally decrease. High. So, 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 again: "No!"

"What's wrong?"

"It's too young to be in a good position."

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 hand patterns in order to play a unique role. The smaller the volume, the harder it is to engrave, after all, the space that can be engraved is limited.

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

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

The grade of the formation depends on the material, the better the material, the better the formation that can be used.

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

Therefore, it is also a first-grade puppet, which can be completed with two to three thousand spiritual coins, or it can be made with seven to eighty thousand.

According to Tang Jie's meaning, it is to start small and fine, first to make a first-class product, and then to consider other things later.

Hearing what Wei Tianchong said at this moment, Tang Jie smiled and said, "Then find a formation master with better skills."

"Could it be that the effect is not so good?" Wei Tianchong asked suspiciously.

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

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After searching around in the shop and buying the materials needed to make puppets, Wei Tianchong went back to make puppets first.

The real production of puppets is also quite troublesome. Sculpture is only the basis. Before production, it is necessary to conceive what kind of puppets are needed and what functions they have, so that the production can be arranged step by step.

Like Wei Tianchong, buying materials before he knows what to do is a sign of a layman. Fortunately, Tang Jie has already planned everything for him, so he doesn't have to worry about it.

As they get along along the way, Tang Jie, a servant, now helps Wei Tianchong gradually focus on his cultivation, and on the contrary, all kinds of things in life are basically handed over to Shimeng. Even though he was reluctant, Shi Meng could only accept his fate, otherwise he would not be able to learn cleaning techniques.

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

Different from the past, as soon as I stepped into Tao Ranju, I saw the surrounding situation suddenly changed. The original hut disappeared without a trace, and the road became all-round. pointing straight down.

But after the light hit Tang Jie's score card, Fengyun disappeared without a trace.

This is exactly the chain array that Xie Fengtang ordered to set up here before, responsible for hallucinating, blocking, attacking and warning respectively.

When entering this formation, you will only fall into the maze first, which is also a setting to prevent students from getting into it by mistake. Only after attacking the maze, the follow-up formation will be activated. At that time, the formation will be fully activated immediately to block incoming enemies and at the same time warn the academy.

"This formation is well arranged, and it has a trigger effect. You must study it carefully when you have time." Tang Jie said to himself as he walked through the formation.

Under normal circumstances, it is not easy to study a well-arranged formation.

But he is the target of this large array of protection, and no one will hurt him in this array of injuries. Naturally, he can research as he wants.

But before that, he has another thing to do.

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

When Wei Tianchong bought materials, Tang Jie also bought some by the way, but it was hidden in the process of buying for Wei Tianchong, and no one noticed. Wei Tianchong asked him, and he only said that it was the material that will be used in the formation formation in the future.

It is indeed the material needed for the formation, but it is not the formation of the formation, but the formation of the formation.