"I wonder if a puppet will be able to develop an inner world once it reaches the God Emperor realm?"
Lu Tao paused for a moment, lost in thought.
Throughout his entire cultivation career, the last time Lu Tao crafted a puppet was during a major training session, when he only crafted two.
Since then, although the puppet has always followed He Yuanshuang and Wu Ming, it has become of little use and has been gathering dust in the storage space.
It could even be said that they have been almost completely forgotten.
Lu Tao naturally didn't upgrade them or observe the changes in their other realms.
The main reason lies in the clone.
In the martial arts world's understanding of clones, after a clone is cultivated to the Heavenly God realm, the next step is to cultivate the domain to perfection, and then to the God-King realm, to achieve complete perfection of the realm...
It is actually a very difficult thing.
Moreover, there is the ability to comprehend the rules and transform the world.
This will obviously be more difficult.
therefore.
Puppets are essentially the same as clones and have not been valued by cultivators.
Having cultivated for so long, Lu Tao has seen countless cultivators of all levels, but he has rarely seen anyone who uses puppets.
The god-kings of the desolate region, the god-emperors and god-kings of Yulongtian, basically never used puppets.
same.
Among these powerful individuals, Lu Tao had never seen any clones.
It is evident that in the martial arts world, cultivators value clones and puppets equally, and neither is highly regarded.
But now.
Considering the world's lack of resources, Lu Tao thought of puppets.
After all, he couldn't really hunt down 100,000 God-Emperor level experts, so he had to start from other aspects.
"May you pray!"
With this in mind, Lu Tao silently made a wish, and the result made him overjoyed, even excited.
"Wow, that actually works?"
Lu Tao was somewhat surprised. Through prayer, he discovered that after the puppet was upgraded to the God Emperor realm, it could indeed have an inner world.
This made Lu Tao's heart skip a beat: "Thinking about it this way, making puppets is easier than training disciples."
Lu Tao was pleasantly surprised.
Once a puppet has accumulated enough experience, it can level up directly without needing to cultivate, and its realm will rise rapidly.
but.
The biggest difference between puppets and disciples is that, compared to the disciples trained by Lu Tao, who advance and break through by simultaneously refining their essence, energy, spirit, and marrow, their strength is undoubtedly much greater than that of puppets.
The difference is not simply a matter of several times or tens of times; it is definitely much greater.
If you want a puppet to be stronger than a disciple, you need to use extremely high-quality materials when crafting a low-level puppet, and even that might not be possible.
"However, since we are going to separate the world, we can't make the puppets too good. Ordinary materials will do."
Lu Tao was also aware that the puppet he was preparing to refine, which seemed to be able to be upgraded to the perfect God Emperor level, was actually just a consumable item, to be separated from the inner world of the puppet and used by the elders and disciples.
However, at the beginning of the refining process, Lu Tao couldn't help but ponder deeply.
“Once separated from the world, the puppets are useless, but what about the intelligence they developed…”
Thinking of this, Lu Tao couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
If a large number of puppets are created and then separated from the world, nearly 100,000, or even more, fully-fledged God-Emperor level beings will eventually appear, and then Lu Tao will collect them into the system space.
It looks somewhat cruel.
However, Lu Tao thought for a moment: "If the intelligence of those fireballs and ice beads could be fused before, the intelligence of these can be fused as well. In the future, we can refine an even more powerful puppet."
With this in mind, Lu Tao no longer hesitated at all.
He immediately set to work with his accomplices.
It would be very difficult to create 100,000 puppets. Even creating ordinary puppets would take Lu Tao a lot of time.
However, compared to refining a puppet at the God Emperor level, this amount of time is nothing.
"However, puppets cannot be made casually; the key is to consider the attributes of the inner world."
Thinking of this, Lu Tao began to pray about what method and materials to use to refine the puppet so that he could obtain the corresponding inner world.
Through prayer, Lu Tao learned that by using the materials corresponding to the three thousand talents as the main materials to refine the puppet, he could obtain the corresponding talent, realm, and inner world.
"The materials corresponding to three thousand talents?"
This put Lu Tao in a difficult position.
Other common materials are actually fine, especially the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, which are the most common.
However, finding the corresponding materials for special talents such as emotions, time, reincarnation, and summoning seems to be quite difficult.
Putting everything else aside, Lu Tao himself is still lacking even the material of time.
"Never mind, let's refine the common ones first."
Without much thought, Lu Tao took out piles of materials and began refining them with his clone.
With the help of the fireball, countless materials began to melt and smelt, and were eventually refined into puppets by Lu Tao and his clone.
These puppets are all different, with various types, including humanoid, dog-like, dragon-like, and so on.
They were all puppets made from the five elements.
It is also the most common type of puppet and the easiest to craft.
After refining them, Lu Tao sent these puppets to the beach to gain experience for him, whether they were carrying things or fighting, it was up to them.
Anyway, once you've accumulated enough experience and need to undergo the tribulation, just have number 2 take it away through the ascension passage.
It's best to accumulate all the experience points at once before attempting the tribulation.
"The Five Elements Puppets are finished, what about the others?"
Lu Tao then pondered puppets with other attributes, especially those with swords, knives, spears, pills, and formations. These innate Daos are relatively common in the martial arts world, aside from the Five Elements.
"Sword and blade materials..."
Lu Tao took out a large pile of weapons and stroked his chin in deep thought.
soon.
Lu Tao's heart skipped a beat: "What if we inlaid the finished swords into the puppet?"
Lu Tao immediately took action upon thinking about this.
He directly used the finished longsword as the main material, fusing it entirely into the puppet's body as its spine, and then forged it into shape.
No!
It cannot be said to be treated as such, but rather it has become one with the puppet's spine, inseparable from it.
To Lu Tao's surprise, he succeeded.
There is nothing wrong with this puppet.
The humanoid puppet with a sword integrated into its spine, once successfully crafted, not only had no problems, but the entire puppet also gave off a sharp and aggressive aura.
It doesn't seem like a puppet, but more like a sharp sword waiting to be drawn.
The key point is...
Even with a longsword embedded in its spine, its movement and coordination remain completely unaffected.
"Excellent, excellent! This is how the backbone of humanity should be!"
Lu Tao couldn't help but smile smugly, but as he smiled, his thoughts began to wander: "If I created this puppet, then are humans, demons, and monsters like us also created using similar methods?"
"They were probably created by other terrifying beings, just like Nuwa creating humans in Chinese legend."
Thinking of this, Lu Tao's mood became somewhat heavy.
The more powerful Lu Tao became, the less he would allow his fate to be controlled by other beings.
In particular, he knew that his situation was entirely due to the system.
The origin of the system remains a mystery.
but.
Although he felt heavy-hearted, Lu Tao knew that with his current strength, he was unable to unravel these secrets, or even resist them.
He didn't bother to think about it further and continued crafting the puppets.
Next.
Together with his clone, Lu Tao used various other finished weapons as the main materials to embed into the puppet.
Knives, swords, guns, axes, hammers, etc.
The long ones integrate into the spine; the round ones integrate into the brain or heart, etc.
As for Confucianism and Taoism...
Lu Tao first refined a Taoist book, then used his vast divine soul to inscribe all the world's common characters into it, and even inscribed three thousand different cultivation techniques into the Taoist book like inscribing supernatural powers, and then put it into the puppet's brain.
Soon, the puppet took shape.
"Greetings, fellow Daoist!"
He exuded a gentle and refined air, and unlike other puppets, he didn't address Lu Tao as "master."
Rather, it is a fellow Daoist.
He didn't look like a Taoist practitioner; he seemed more like a scholar, and a sense of righteousness was faintly emanating from him.
This piqued Lu Tao's interest.
He didn't care about the mere title of "puppet," since he could control its life and death at will.
Lu Tao was curious and wanted to talk to him, especially to find out the effects of the three thousand cultivation techniques on him.
To Lu Tao's surprise, this puppet didn't need to cultivate at all; it had already mastered all the techniques he had inscribed.
same.
He also mastered all the world's common writing systems.
"Tsk tsk, if only I could have stored up books like this in my head when I was in school."
Lu Tao shook his head and sighed, then released the puppet to gain experience, his heart filled with anticipation.
This is a puppet with three thousand different cultivation techniques inscribed by himself. However, since it is based on Taoist scriptures, he is not sure whether these cultivation techniques can be considered as the main materials.
If we're going to calculate it, why bother looking for materials?
However, he soon received the answer.
When this puppet transcends tribulation and becomes a celestial god, its domain is not the Chaos Domain, but the Confucian and Taoist Domain.
"pity!"
Lu Tao shook his head regretfully, but he had expected it, so he wasn't too disappointed.
but.
Lu Tao was somewhat disappointed with one thing: the puppet's divinely granted domain.
They were not bestowed by Number 1 or Number 2, but rather by the system itself.
Otherwise, it would be possible to deplete the will of heaven and earth, allowing them to bestow some special domains, thereby upgrading and transforming them into worlds with special attributes.
Lu Tao shook his head, not thinking about it any further, and continued to refine the puppet.
At this point, he had finished crafting the weapon-related puppets and was now turning to craft those related to the soul.
For example, the seven emotions and six desires.
Regarding these puppets, Lu Tao directly instructed the Immortal Sect disciples to go to various planets and divine realms within the body of Number 2 to collect the seven emotions and six desires from numerous living beings.
With their cultivation at the God Emperor level, collecting these emotions was quite simple.
After collecting them, Lu Tao put these emotions into the puppet's brain, and the amount he put in through prayer was determined so that they could become the main material.
That's how it is.
It didn't take long for Lu Tao and his clone to create a sufficient number of puppets with the seven emotions and six desires.
Next up are the other special puppets.
Throughout the entire process of creating the puppet, Lu Tao unleashed his powerful thinking and even collected the ideas of his disciples.
They crafted various special puppets.
but--
For those extremely special puppets, it is still difficult to achieve.
Elements like time, reincarnation, fate, and summoning are more difficult to refine.
Lu Tao thought for a moment and asked, "Number 2, can you extract the power of reincarnation, the power of time, and the power of destiny?"
Number 2 replied, "Sect Master, it is possible, but if too much is extracted, Number 2 will collapse. Moreover, extracting the power of time will affect the acceleration of time."
"That's fine."
Lu Tao nodded silently, as long as he could detach himself from it.
As for the impact, Lu Tao has no intention of withdrawing from it just yet.
He now has 100,000 disciples. Apart from the 13,000 disciples he initially took in, those with the most talent in the Five Elements and swordsmanship are the exceptions.
The remaining 87,000 disciples all had relatively even talents.
The number of disciples corresponding to the three thousand talents is basically around 30 for each type.
If they rely entirely on No. 1 and No. 2 to draw upon their own foundation, it will indeed have a huge impact on them.
Number 1 is alright, it's not that important, so let it collapse if it wants.
But number 2 definitely won't work.
It is needed for time acceleration, and its importance is even greater than that of the Rule 1 world.
but.
Since such a vast world is not enough, Lu Tao can continue to refine more vast worlds.
Just treat them like puppets, as consumables.
The newly created Great Thousand Worlds is different from Number 1 and Number 2. Those two have been together for a long time and have developed feelings, but the one that has just been forged has no feelings at all.
Consume as you please.
With this in mind, Lu Tao entrusted the task of refining the puppet to his clone, while he began refining the Great Thousand World.
It didn't take long for Lu Tao to refine ten Great Thousand Worlds in succession.
These ten Great Thousand Worlds did not use any particularly special materials. Just like when Lu Tao refined No. 1, he only used some materials at the level of God-King and God-Lord.
Once they were refined, Lu Tao immediately ordered, "Number 2, take them to gain experience and level up."
"Yes, Sect Master!"
Number 2 also breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly took the ten Great Thousand Worlds to upgrade.
Boom—
At this moment, the No. 2 God Realm was filled with incessant rumbling sounds.
The puppets undergoing tribulation were densely packed, even more so than when the first batch of disciples of the Immortal Sect underwent tribulation.
"Cool!"
Looking at the puppets undergoing tribulation, Lu Tao felt a sense of satisfaction.
He was not worried that the puppet would be destroyed by the heavenly tribulation.
Although the materials used to create the puppets were not precious, they were at least god-level materials.
Even at the level of a celestial being or a divine lord.
After all, for Lu Tao right now, such materials are piling up like mountains.
Having survived the tribulations using materials of this caliber, the puppet itself must be quite powerful.
Surviving a mere tribulation of lightning is a piece of cake.
As each puppet completed its tribulation, Lu Tao upgraded them to the peak of the Divine Emperor realm.
The world inside them was also elevated to its extreme.
It underwent four complete transformations.
"Wow, my ability is truly terrifying."
Looking at the puppets, Lu Tao couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine.
It's only been a few days?
He created so many perfect God Emperor puppets all by himself.
even.
Once he advances to the peak of the God Emperor realm, he can have as many puppets as he wants.
That's outrageous!
but.
Through observation, Lu Tao discovered that the inner world of these puppets was much weaker than that of other cultivators at the same level, even by more than a hundred times.
The main reason is that their foundation is far weaker than that of cultivators of the same level.
After all, the key to a cultivator's tribulation lies in their aptitude, talent, comprehension, and so on.
And these—
In fact, these puppets are basically non-existent, or at least the worst.
Apart from the fact that the materials they use for refining are of a higher grade, they are far inferior to cultivators of the same level in every other aspect.
It should be understood that those who can cultivate to the level of God Emperor in the God Realm must possess exceptional aptitude, talent, and comprehension.
Their lead over the puppets in these aspects is more than a hundred times greater.
therefore--
Whether it's transforming martial arts skills into supernatural powers, or the enhancement of supernatural powers by a domain, it's all pitifully weak against these puppets.
Therefore, in the four realms of Martial God, Heavenly God, Divine Lord, and Divine Emperor, their strength is far inferior to that of cultivators of the same level.
Only at the God-King realm is the rule elevated to perfection, so in terms of the rule, it is actually the same as other cultivators of the same level.
But their strength is still far inferior.
This also shows that training disciples is still the most suitable option.
Unless Lu Tao is willing to put in enough effort to create an excellent puppet.
They are given higher qualifications, talents, and comprehension.
However, as Lu Tao's cultivation level broke through and the disciples improved in various aspects, they were still able to quickly widen the gap.
actually--
Lu Tao also wanted to improve these aspects during their upgrade process.
But how should I put it?
Aptitude is ineffective for puppets; they cannot be improved by consuming Divine Transformation Pills. As for talents, they don't actually have them; they are acquired through the system-bestowed domains from the main materials.
As for comprehension... the intelligence born from puppets is fundamentally different from that of living beings. They can be stored in storage space, so they certainly cannot be considered true living beings.
Therefore, Lu Tao was also unable to improve their comprehension.
However, during the upgrade process, their intelligence will become stronger.
They are also more spiritual, or more intelligent.
It can also be considered a disguised way to improve one's comprehension.
"Although the World Pill is inferior to those of the same level, the upgraded effect after being refined into a World Pill is still acceptable. If one pill is not enough, just take a few more. It's a consumable anyway, so it doesn't matter."
Lu Tao was not disappointed.
In just a few days, he crafted tens of thousands of puppets. With such efficiency, even if he were to craft a hundred times more puppets, he could hand them over to his clone.
Lu Tao brought the puppet back to the weapon-refining room and directly commanded, "Strip the world away!"
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