Global Games: Reporting the Great Ascension Stage at the Start

Wu Daozi is one of the three weapon-forging masters of the Heavenly Forging Division. Shen Hua had heard about this from Lu Chuan before.

Since the Great Teacher of Virtue raised an army in Julu, almost half of the people in Taiping Gate of Tan County went north to support the main battlefield, and Wu Daozi was one of them. He is not currently inside the gate.

Half an hour later, in a quiet room of the Earth Surface Casting Bureau, Mo Jun met Shen Hua with a warm, smooth blue jade slip.

"Steward Xia, this is Fellow Daoist Wu's insights on puppet making." Mo Jun smiled and gently placed the jade slip on the table.

Shen Hua looked at the jade slip, on which were engraved several large characters: "Wu Daozi's Experience in Making Puppets".

"Thank you very much, sir!" Shen Hua immediately cupped his hands in thanks, but at the same time, he had some concerns: "May I look through this?"

"Of course." Mo Jun waved his hand and smiled. "These are the classics left by Fellow Daoist Wu in the department. Any intermediate or higher-level weapon refiner in the department can read them. He himself is happy for everyone to study them together."

He then added, "However, most of what's recorded inside are basic techniques; he naturally wouldn't include his truly secret and unique skills."

"I see. Let me take a look first."

Shen Hua picked up the jade slip and placed one end on his forehead.

With his current level of spiritual awareness, he is not strong enough to probe the contents of the jade slip.

But when he placed it between his eyebrows, the spiritual power within the jade slip activated on its own, and thousands of characters slowly flowed into his sea of ​​consciousness.

Shen Hua concentrated intently, reading the text carefully.

Because of time constraints, he couldn't possibly read through all the contents of the jade slip.

But after reading only the first part, he felt his mind suddenly opened up and he gained a lot.

Although Shen Hua was highly skilled in weapon crafting, he had little knowledge of puppetry. He had never crafted puppets in his previous life and had no experience in this area.

He only needed a quick glance to know that this puppet-making guide would be very useful to him.

He moved the jade slip aside and immediately cupped his hands in thanks: "Thank you very much, Lord Steward. This guide to puppet making is extremely useful to me!"

Mo Jun smiled upon hearing this: "Since it's useful to you, I'll make a copy for you. You can take it back to your residence and study it at your leisure."

"How could I trouble you, sir..." Shen Hua instinctively wanted to be polite.

Mo Jun waved his hand and laughed, "Don't stand on ceremony for such a small matter. You pointed out the flaws in my weapon forging and taught me how to fix them, which improved the quality of my [Azure Origin Cauldron] by a level. I haven't even had a chance to thank you yet!"

As he spoke, Mo Jun took out a blank jade slip from his storage bag.

Seeing this, Shen Hua stopped being polite and handed over the original jade slip in his hand.

Mo Jun used his divine sense to perfectly copy the entire text of his insights, and then handed the new jade slip to Shen Hua.

Shen Hua carefully put away the jade slip and thanked him again.

Mo Jun smiled and said seriously, "When it comes to weapon crafting, Wu Daozi is no match for me, but when it comes to crafting puppets, I am far inferior to him."

"Looking across the entire Xuzhou, I'm afraid no one can surpass him in the art of puppet making."

"But the contents of the jade slip are only basic techniques. If you want to learn more advanced puppet-making techniques, you can go to Julu to find Fellow Daoist Wu, or wait for him to return to the sect someday."

Shen Hua thought for a moment and replied, "I'll learn the basic techniques in the jade slip first. As for whether to go to Julu, we can consider that later."

Shen Hua knew in his heart that if necessary, he really should go to Julu County to visit Wu Daozi.

After all, everyone knows the outcome of the Yellow Turban Rebellion—Huangfu Song captured Guangzong, and the main force of the Yellow Turban army was annihilated.

Whether Wu Daozi could survive was uncertain, let alone return.

"However, I must remind you," Mo Jun said seriously, "never get obsessed with making these kinds of special puppets."

Many weapon refiners have tried this path before, but none of them succeeded; it was all a waste of time.

"Don't worry, sir, I know what I'm doing," Shen Hua nodded.

Although Mo Jun tried to dissuade him, Shen Hua had already made up his mind to successfully develop the puppets for refining weapons and medicine.

This is very important for his future earning potential!

If Shen Hua wants to cultivate at the fastest speed, a massive amount of spirit stones is essential.

Currently, it seems there are roughly three ways to earn a large amount of spirit stones:

First, complete tasks to gamble for gold;

Second, selling courses;

Third, develop puppets capable of refining medicine and crafting weapons.

The first avenue is exemplified by the golden high-grade magic artifact [Mysterious Leather Hand-Wrapped] in his backpack, which could be sold for at least 4000 low-grade spirit stones!

However, this path is extremely random, with only a one in ten chance of obtaining a golden artifact. Even though being number one on both leaderboards provides a certain probability bonus, making money through this method still heavily relies on luck.

The second way is to sell courses.

He had already profited from a previous sale, earning over nine thousand low-grade spirit stones from a single message. He still had plenty of information to sell and could make a considerable amount of money.

However, this method might not be enough to cover all his cultivation expenses. Who knows how many spirit stones he'll need to spend as his cultivation level increases?

Therefore, alchemy and the crafting of puppets became of paramount importance.

In Shen Hua's vision, he not only wanted to develop ordinary weapon-refining and medicine-refining puppets, but also to repeatedly upgrade them, eventually creating a medicine-refining puppet capable of refining the Foundation Establishment Pill.

He even had a premonition that the alchemy puppet capable of refining the Foundation Establishment Pill would become his main source of income in the later stages of the game.

Therefore, it's worth it for him to put in any more effort now.

……

Having obtained Wu Daozi's insights on puppet making, Shen Hua was quite satisfied.

He stood up and bowed to Mo Jun, saying, "Master, then this junior will take his leave."

"Go ahead. Oh, there's one more thing," Mo Jun said. "Could you inform the sect leader of your identity as a master weapon refiner?"

"Of course," Shen Hua replied without hesitation.

The logic remains the same: the more dazzling his performance, the more attention the sect will pay to him, and the more benefits he will receive.

……

As soon as Shen Hua left, a fiery red communication talisman flew towards the Yellow Heaven Palace.

Inside the main hall of Huangtian, sect leader Zhang Ning was discussing the situation with a group of high-ranking members of the sect.

The people were not talking about the battlefield of Julu, but about the current fighting in the Xuzhou area.

Five Nascent Soul elders and more than thirty Golden Core stewards were seated inside the hall.

Xu Lan's mother, Lan Shi, was also present. Although she was not a member of the sect, the sect leader, Zhang Ning, trusted her greatly and allowed her to attend the discussions.

A huge map of Tan County hangs on the wall of the main hall, clearly marking the locations of all the sects near Tan County, with the locations of Huanglaodao and Taipingdao sects marked particularly prominently.

"The current situation is not optimistic." Zhang Ning looked at the map, his brows furrowed slightly.

Originally, in Tan County, Taiping Sect held a firm advantage over Huang Laodao and Fangxian Sect. However, with half of the sect's disciples supporting the main battlefield in Julu, the situation completely reversed.

Right now, Huang Laodao and Fang Xiandao are making moves, with a large number of disciples setting out one after another, gradually approaching and encroaching on Tanxian City.

Anyone could see that a major battle was about to break out!

But at that moment, a sound transmission talisman flew into the main hall.