Lord of Time: From a Five Elements Cultivator to a Master of All Daos

Chapter 183 A Small Test of the Puppet

In Wangjia Market, the inner demon Ke Luo left the Wang family land and came to the outer market under the guise of Wang Boshan's newly promoted Jindan identity.

In a pavilion, he met Xuedan, a fellow tribesman.

"You are quite courageous. You dared to stay after the turmoil at the Wang family last time. Aren't you worried that those old gods will come out and find you?"

Ke Luo fiddled with the teacup in his hand nonchalantly:

"The human race's gods are busy looking for opportunities to ascend to heaven, so why would they care about us, the remnants of the demon race?

"How is the inner demon core I brought back last time? Is Lord Hurt satisfied?"

Xuedan nodded:
“Although the Heart Demon Core was damaged a lot, it was of extremely high quality after all. The remaining spiritual power allowed Lord Hurt to repair a lot of cross-border damage.

"It will take a few more years of recuperation to fully recover."

"That's good. It's worth my efforts."

"Speaking of which, how is the person you met who is suspected to be of the same race?"

Koro shook his head.
"The other party seemed to be busy with something. I only met him once in ten years, and he was in a hurry. He drank two cups of tea and then left. I never had the chance to test him."

“Lord Hutt said that it is very difficult for my inner demons to cross over and come here. They are very rare and cannot be compared to the inner demons and bone demons.

"If he is really an inner demon or a descendant of an inner demon, we must fight for him."

Koro nodded:
"I understand."

……

One month later, Wei Zhong and his men gathered at Yunduan Mountain. Under the leadership of Huang Yunqi, a fourth-level refiner, they began the final fourth-level puppet refining.

If this time is unsuccessful, there will be no chance in the short term. This is because Yu Tianze only brought back the last spiritual material.

If you fail, there is no second chance.

Everyone was immersed in the puppet refining process, and four years passed.

During this period of time, no one came and went on Yunduan Mountain, only the elders of the Chamber of Commerce would occasionally come to deliver some rare elixirs that could restore spiritual power or consciousness.

It seemed as if the Chamber of Commerce's top brass also knew that puppet production had reached the most critical moment, and had blocked most of the idle personnel. Even the share of magical instrument tasks in the Weapon Hall in recent years had been reduced.

The purpose is to allow Wei Zhong and his men to devote themselves fully to the refining of the fourth-level puppet.

It took more than three years to successfully refine the puppet body, and in the remaining years, the divine box was also gradually refined.

And in the last month, the fourth-level psychic core was finally produced with the joint efforts of Zhuge Zhao and Wei Zhong.

Its entire body is fiery red, like burning red iron.

The spreading spiritual pressure made everyone in the hall feel as if a huge stone was pressing on their hearts.

It is full of spiritual energy absorbed from the underground spiritual veins. In terms of total amount, it is more than ten times what is in Wei Zhong's body at the moment, far exceeding the Jindan level.

"It is still possible to continue absorbing, but for the first fusion, it is better not to fill it too full."

Wei Zhong felt a little scalp-tingling as he held the psychic core in his hand. He was not very confident in this psychic core that he had refined.

If this thing explodes, the power will probably be no less than the self-destruction of the real pill in the late stage of Jindan, or even exceed it.

By then, it would be difficult for anyone in the hall to survive the explosion.

"Friend Wei, are you ready?"

Huang Yunqi integrated the magic box into the puppet's body, and the only thing missing was the psychic core in Wei Zhong's hand.

The fourth-level puppet is about to be completed, and everyone looks at Wei Zhong with excitement.

Nodding: "Ready!"

Wei Zhong walked towards the puppet, and the mechanism in its chest and abdomen moved, revealing a round hole.

Wei Zhong put the burning psychic core in his hand into it.

The mechanism retracts to cover it.

In an instant, surging spiritual energy flowed wildly along the spiritual materials and spiritual patterns in the puppet's body.

A powerful spiritual pressure instantly erupted from the puppet. Wei Zhong, who was closest to it, couldn't help but take two steps back before he could steady himself.

Looking up, I saw red spiritual patterns lighting up on the eight-foot-tall puppet, as if a god was standing there.

"It didn't disintegrate. Is this a success?"

The puppet's body frame and even the divine box and psychic core are integrated very well.

"All that's left is manipulation experiments."

Huang Yunqi let out a breath, took out a palm-sized fiery red token, put his spiritual consciousness into it, and began to control the puppet's movements through the token.

Wei Zhong saw that the fourth-level puppet moved slightly, and its arms and fingertips also moved.

But apart from these, Huang Yunqi withdrew his spiritual consciousness from the puppet token.

"It's still very difficult to control the token. Perhaps it's because my consciousness is too weak. How about using my spiritual power to control it?"

Everyone looked around for a moment, and finally fixed their eyes on Wei Zhong and Zhuge Zhao.

Not all of these weapon refiners have practiced the "God-Splitting Technique", and not everyone is willing to endure its side effects.

"Fellow Daoist Zhuge, are you willing to give it a try?"

The latter smiled bitterly:
"Let Fellow Daoist Wei do it. It's extremely difficult for me to control a third-grade high-quality puppet, so I'm afraid I'm powerless against this fourth-grade puppet."

"Then leave it to me."

Wei Zhong took a deep breath, sat down cross-legged on the spot, withdrew his spirit within Yinxuan, and then took a soul-nourishing pill.

He closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing for a full half a minute before opening his eyes. A trace of distraction floated out of Wei Zhong's body.

This spiritual power was the strongest one that Wei Zhong had separated so far, accounting for 40% of Wei Zhong's entire mind, which was not much different from the consciousness of an ordinary middle-stage Jindan.

If it is damaged, it would be enough to severely injure Wei Zhong, causing his cultivation to stagnate for several years.

The clone was only three feet away from the puppet when a suction force emanated from its body.

“Is this the divine box?”

Wei Zhong did not resist and followed the suction force into the puppet's body.

The connection between the clone and the main body was briefly disconnected for a moment, and then reconnected.

Wei Zhong felt like he was in a warm ocean, without the cold feeling he had when he was controlling puppets in the past.

"It's quite comfortable! Is this the magic box?"

At the same time, he felt the strength of his own spiritual consciousness increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye in this divine box.

It surpassed the combined speed increase of all the third-order puppets that Wei Zhong had ever controlled.

"Sure enough, the "Splitting God Technique" must be used with a high-level puppet. The effect of this fourth-level puppet is much stronger than the third-level one."

Trying to spread his spiritual consciousness along the magic box to other parts of the puppet, Wei Zhong felt his spiritual consciousness tremble. The violent impact almost made Wei Zhong's eyes go black, and he almost collapsed to the ground.

"I knew it, a fourth-order puppet wouldn't be so easy to control."

Seeing this, Zhuge Zhao, who was standing by, hurriedly helped him up.

"Friend Wei?"

Wei Zhong's real body waved his hand:

"Nothing, nothing!"

Then he closed his eyes again and sensed where his distraction was.

At this moment, Wei Zhong has taken over the puppet body, and his spirit is under tremendous pressure.

But this pressure did not make Wei Zhong feel painful. Coupled with the cool feeling coming from the magic box, Wei Zhong understood the benefits of controlling such a puppet.

'While applying pressure, the spiritual consciousness is enhanced. If the spiritual consciousness strength is increased at a speed of one using only the divine box, then the speed can reach two or three when driving the puppet at this moment.

"This is the effect of improvement under pressure. It is somewhat similar to the concept of strengthening by splitting the consciousness."

Wei Zhong controlled the puppet and took a few steps, and found that compared to Yin Xuan, this fourth-level puppet was a little slower.

But this was only Wei Zhong's psychological feeling. In the eyes of Huang Yunqi and others, the puppet only took two steps and teleported from one end of the hall to the other.

The speed was so fast that it caused a cry of surprise. Wei Zhong tried his arms and palms again. After a period of adjustment, he finally adapted to this puppet and eliminated the slight sluggish feeling just now.

"So strong!"

Wei Zhong felt that there was a fire burning inside the puppet, eager to explode and show its power.

Just then, applause broke out in the hall:
"The fourth-level puppet has been successfully refined. Thank you for your help."

The visitor was Yu Tianze, who was in charge of the Chamber of Commerce.

Everyone saw this and immediately bowed:

"Meet Elder Yu."

The latter responded one by one with an extremely friendly attitude.

Then he looked up at Wei Zhong who was controlling the puppet:

"How is the puppet adapting, Wei Xiaoyou?"

"almost."

"Then I'll go and have a demonstration?"

Wei Zhong was stunned.

A moment later, Yu Tianze brought Wei Zhong to an extremely wide cave deep in the earth.

He pointed to the surroundings and said:

“This is the remains of a mineral vein mined by the Chamber of Commerce in its early days. The rocks left behind by the abandoned mines have become extremely hard after years of being nourished by spiritual energy.

"Later, the formation master in the Chamber of Commerce reinforced it and turned it into a Nascent Soul Fighting Arena."

Wei Zhong looked around and saw a large area of ​​rune-like forbidden light.

"Then shall I start?"

There is only one person and one puppet here. Those refiners who participated in the puppet refining wanted to see the power of their own achievements, but they were all rejected by Yu Tianze on the grounds that the Nascent Soul battle was very dangerous.

Even Wei Zhong's real body is hiding outside the mine to avoid being affected by the aftermath of the fight.

"let's start!"

Wei Zhong raised his hand:

"Senior, please!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Wei Zhong controlled the fourth-order puppet and stomped his feet heavily, leaving a trail of afterimage and rushing straight towards Yu Tianze.

The body of the fourth-level puppet is made of mostly fourth-level spiritual materials, and can be said to be a giant magical weapon. Every punch and kick of Wei Zhong carries the power of a fourth-level magical weapon.

Such a powerful puppet physique is naturally suitable for close combat.

"Good guy!"

Yu Tianze's eyebrows jumped, and when he raised his hand, a golden heavy sword appeared in front of him.

As a spiritual practitioner in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, his physique is far from comparable to that of this fourth-order puppet.

Seeing the golden light flashing in front of him, Wei Zhong rushed forward without hesitation and knocked the golden heavy sword away.

As the heavy sword flew backwards, a thin sword split from it and slashed towards Wei Zhong's chest.

Wei Zhong raised his body and put his arms together, trying to block the sword light.

But a light scratch on the puppet's body left a scratch half a finger long.

"Mother and Child Sword?"

Wei Zhong had not expected that the heavy sword, a magical weapon known for its power, could contain such murderous intent.

Without stopping, after getting rid of the golden rapier at a small cost, Wei Zhong went straight to Yu Tianze's body.

And in the millisecond of running, the scars on the puppet's arms had completely healed.

How could a fourth-order puppet not have the ability to repair itself?

Even if there was some sword energy of Yu Tianze left in the damaged area, it was dissipated like smoke after being rushed by the huge spiritual energy in the psychic core.

"If you have enough spiritual power, you will be arrogant."

At this moment, the psychic core was like an engine running at full power, madly absorbing the free spiritual energy in the mine to replenish itself, and then consuming it through the spiritual patterns on it to launch various attacks.

Yu Tianze saw that the puppet got rid of his sword so easily, and without thinking, he launched a spiritual attack.

But this invisible attack, when it landed on the puppet, was like a stone sinking into the sea. It gradually caused a few ripples, but then there was no response at all.

“This is the divine box!”

As the most expensive part of a fourth-level puppet, it would be a joke if it couldn't withstand the attack of the spiritual consciousness of a middle-stage Nascent Soul.

To eliminate the attack, Wei Zhong clenched his right fist, and his psychic core started to run wildly, like a roaring tiger.

Endless spiritual power poured into the right fist, and the fiery red spiritual patterns on it lit up, turning the puppet's right fist into a branding iron.

Red with white.

The magical rune engraved on the puppet's right arm was activated.

Wei Zhong punched out, as if a big sun was heading towards Yu Tianze.

The latter had a solemn expression on his face, holding a giant sword in his hand. Spiritual power poured into it, activating the dense spiritual patterns on the giant sword.

A huge amount of spiritual energy was surging here, and before the two attacks came into contact, huge spiritual pressures collided at this moment, creating a spiritual vacuum in an area of ​​several miles.

Yu Tianze chopped down with his sword, and simply uttered one word:
"cut!"

The heavy golden sword was actually chopped down easily, splitting the sun like a hatchet.

The incandescent sphere split into two, brushed past the corner of Yu Tianze's clothes and landed on the rock wall behind him.

The protective spiritual patterns flickered, and endless small pieces of gravel fell. Wei Zhong's attack was finally borne by the mine.

"The Fire Fist's spiritual power is too dispersed?"

Wei Zhong saw the problem at a glance.

This magic technique inspired by the fourth-order puppet is indeed powerful, and it is truly at the Nascent Soul level.

However, Yu Tianze's sword was more powerful. The spiritual power was contained within the golden heavy sword, which was dense and stable. It naturally tore the spiritual power of the Fire Fist into two and easily broke it.

"Good punch!"

Yu Tianze muttered to himself.

"How about you try this trick again, Senior?"

Wei Zhong stepped with his right foot, and a long flaming whip stretched out from the puppet's right foot. It was connected to the spiritual core in the puppet's body. Rich spiritual power flowed through it, accumulating a large amount of spiritual flames.

It's simply a flaming whip.

Among the people who refined this puppet were three fourth-rank weapon refiners including Wei Zhong. How could they not prepare a few Nascent Soul magic weapons for the puppet?

This long whip is one of them, the Red Flame Whip.

He kicked with his right foot and the whip was like a fire snake.

He carried his endless spiritual power and strength and lashed towards Yu Tianze's body.

The speed was so fast that the latter felt a pain in his hand before he even heard the sound of breaking air, and a huge force poured out along the heavy sword.

There was a flash of golden light under his feet, and with the help of his magic boots and unique escape method, Yu Tianze quickly escaped from this place.

But just as he escaped, another whip came at him.

This time it was the puppet's left leg.

Wei Zhong held two long whips in his hands, as if they were two ropes of fire that wrapped up Yu Tianze. The latter kept moving around in them, occasionally using a heavy sword to launch an attack, and waiting for an opportunity to get close to the puppet's body.

Suddenly Wei Zhong heard the word "kill" and a red flame whip quickly broke. The encirclement was immediately broken and Yu Tianze was able to escape from it.

He put his two fingers together and three golden lights flew out from the heavy sword.

"Who said that the mother-child sword only has one child?"

(End of this chapter)