Chapter 168 Senior Brother, I want to buy this
Since it concerned the reputation of their own organization, Situ Jin patiently explained to Xing Chun that their business was all compliant and legal, and that the negative rumors outside were just competitive tactics used by rival companies.
The spirit puppet can do many things.
Many dangerous forging tasks can be done by spirit puppets, not to mention the practice of the Nine Streams Techniques. Even Shui Zhou had to buy spirit puppets from the Situ family at a high price to research different kinds of fire.
Xing Chun asked, "Do they eat?"
“It’s still essentially a puppet, so it doesn’t need to eat anything,” Situ Jin stared at him speechlessly. “If it’s going to eat anything, it’ll be the five elements of energy.”
Xing Chun said, "The spirit puppets you make are so lifelike, you can't even tell they're puppets."
He looked up at the transparent threads falling from above: "Are we manipulating them with these threads?"
Situ Jin said, "The string puppet is the lowest level of puppetry. Since it is a spirit puppet that nourishes itself with qi, it does not need to be controlled by strings."
Xing Chun asked, "Then how do we do it?"
Situ Jin lightly flicked her shoulder and glanced sideways: "If you buy the spirit puppet, someone will naturally teach you how to make it."
Xing Chun then asked, "How much?"
Situ Jin said, "The price is a bit high."
Xing Chun: "Just tell me how much to sell it for."
Situ Jin held up a number, and Xing Chun turned to Mei Liangyu and Zhong Lishan below and shouted, "Meimei, Dashan, can you lend me some?"
Mei Liangyu answered without even looking up, "I have no money."
Zhong Lishan did ask, "What are you going to do with it?"
Xing Chun answered bluntly, "Cooking."
With a spirit puppet cooking and eating with him, even if Mei Liangyu and the others are all busy, he won't have to worry about eating alone.
Zhongli Shan said calmly, "There is food in the dining hall."
Xing Chun: "You can still have dinner with me?"
Zhong Lishan added, "I'll eat with you."
Xing Chun thought about it and realized that eating with living people was indeed better than eating with puppets, so he decided not to buy any.
Zhong Lishan saved Xing Chun a huge sum of money, while Situ Jin lost a business deal.
Yu Sui tilted her head back to look at the spirit puppet and said softly, "So you can buy it with money."
Mei Liangyu glanced at her and said, "Don't waste it."
Yu Sui turned to look at him and asked, "Then, senior brother, can you make it?"
Mei Liangyu stared at the spirit puppet for a long time, then said in a low voice, "The materials and procedures are too complicated. It's difficult to make. Apart from the Situ family, no one can make a spirit puppet well."
Yu Sui nodded knowingly: "Then I'll just buy it with my own money, Senior Brother, I want to buy this."
She had barely reached out her hand when Mei Liangyu grabbed it and took her away.
Mei Liangyu said, "The Situ family's institutions do not sell Taiyi students."
Yu Sui rolled her eyes but didn't reply.
After Li Jinshuang arrived, Situ Jin chased them all out and then closed the stone door.
Yu Sui waved to Li Jinshuang and stepped forward, while Mei Liangyu looked at Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu, who were waiting not far away. These two hadn't left yet.
Li Jinshuang frowned when she saw the scratches on Yu Sui's neck. Yu Sui then pulled her to a corner and whispered, "Are you alright? Were you bitten by a spider or a butterfly?"
"I'm fine." Li Jinshuang briefly explained her ordeal, then glanced up at Zhang Xiangyun. "But you..."
Yu Sui made a shushing gesture, indicating that she didn't need to worry.
Situ Jin told them to stay upstairs, believing that there were still some dangers underground, and that it was a heavily guarded area with traps and mechanisms, and he was afraid that they might trigger the traps or discover something they shouldn't have.
Ou Rushuang came up from the Panlong Grottoes and ordered all the academy disciples to return to the Spirit Bird and not to wander around Beikun City.
The academy's sages came to Beikun City mainly to investigate the Sea Fire. After Sun Heng retrieved the Sea Fire, he accompanied the people from the Mechanical Family to inspect the damage.
Ou Rushuang's goal was not to figure out the relationship between the sea eye and the sea fire, nor did he care about the life or death of the mechanical family; he only cared about where the Milky Way was.
Since Mei Liangyu is still alive, the Milky Way water is most likely on his body.
He sent Mei Liangyu and the others back to the Spirit Bird, which was also a way to create an opportunity for Zhang Xiangyun and the others to handle the Milky Way Water matter well.
Situ Jin was busy checking her own losses and searching for the spirit puppet that Hu Gui had stolen.
On the Spirit Bird, Baili Mo arranged rooms for the academy disciples to rest, informing them that they still had some time before they could set sail back to the Mechanical Island.
Yu Sui and Li Jinshuang shared a room. After entering the room, Yu Sui lay down on the bed, looking sleepy, and said, "I want to sleep for a while. Call me if there is any emergency."
Li Jinshuang nodded, stood guard at the door, and listened attentively to the sounds around her.
Yu Sui looked extremely tired. She closed her eyes and curled up in the corner of the bed, resting while also controlling the five elemental light cores left in the deep pit of the spirit puppet.
She had no interest in Mei Liangyu and Yinhe Shui at the moment.
Senior Brother has his own ideas, and he is accompanied by Zhonglishan and Xing Chun. Unless Zhang Xiangyun asks Ou Rushuang to take action personally, it is impossible to kill Senior Brother.
As for Nian Qiuyan... he is a shrewd person who knows his senior brother and his group quite well, so he probably anticipated their reactions.
Yu Sui is focusing on one thing for the time being.
She manipulated the Five Elements Light Cores into the spirit puppet's body, wanting to see if it was only the Situ spirit puppet that was so special, or if all the mechanical spirit puppets of the Situ family were like this.
Yu Sui originally intended to let the Five Elements Light Core enter the Spirit Puppet's body before crushing it, allowing the unclaimed energy to emerge and then observe its changes.
Unexpectedly, the spirit puppet in the deep pit did not contain the jade bead. After the Five Elements Light Core entered, it returned to the size of the light core cultivated by the ninth-rate sorcerer, emitting a faint white light, and functioning like a normal Five Elements Light Core.
The Five Elements Light Core within a normal Ninth-Rank Sorcerer's body is the place where the Five Elements Qi is stored and refined, and it is also the entity that governs the strength of the Ninth-Rank Sorcerer's techniques.
The strength of the light core is closely related to the level of the ninth-rate sorcerer.
At this moment, Yu Sui's consciousness was still connected to the Five Elements Light Core, which emitted a bright white light. Within the core, wisps of the Five Elements Qi could be faintly seen moving.
Yu Sui observed for a long time and discovered that the Five Elements Light Core that had entered the spirit puppet's body was actually cultivating itself.
She let the remaining seven or eight Five Elements Light Cores enter the bodies of different spirit puppets, and patiently observed them. She found that they were all the same; once they entered the spirit puppets, they returned to their normal size and began to absorb and supply the Five Elements Qi.
Between heaven and earth, the boundless energy is inexhaustible, and the Five Elements Light Core absorbs the energy of the five elements as if evolving instinctively.
This observation caused Yu Sui's brow to twitch slightly, and she was shocked.
Why didn't it cultivate and evolve on its own when it was inside my body?
No one in the world can cultivate their own light core. To improve one's realm, one must rely entirely on the efforts and talent of a low-level sorcerer.
Yu Sui frowned as she looked at the Five Elements Light Core that was beginning to upgrade within the spirit puppet's body. She recalled her previous conversation with her master.
She used to have half a piece of the Breath Soil to compete for the Five Elements Qi. Even though the Breath Soil was sealed, her Five Elements Light Core could not retain the Five Elements Qi, so she could not refine the Light Core and improve its realm.
Even though Yu Sui has mastered the three levels of Ghost Daoist Soul Control and many other Nine Stream Techniques, the Five Elements Light Core within her body has not changed, which is why she is considered to be at the first level, and others cannot accurately measure her true strength.
That light core was formed by the condensation of hundreds of light cores, which is not normal and cannot be compared with ordinary people.
The five elemental light cores, now separated, are cultivating and evolving within the spirit puppet's body.
Yu Sui calmly analyzed the situation, trying to find the answer for herself.
First, there is no trace of Breath Soil within the Spirit Puppet's body causing trouble. Second, the Spirit Puppet only has one Five Elements Light Core, not two, three, or hundreds, so they don't need to compete for power with each other.
Previously, inside Situ Lingkui's body, the Five Elements Light Cores released by Yu Sui competed with the Jade Bead inside Situ Lingkui for the Five Elements Qi.
Thinking about this, Yu Sui couldn't help but wonder if his Five Elements Light Core was too aggressive compared to others.
They seem to be born warlike.
If they had lived peacefully together from the beginning, each finding its own way to cultivate with the five elements, without fighting or competing, she would have been invincible long ago.
No one else could give Yu Sui an answer.
After all, they only had one light core from birth to death.
After figuring it out, Yu Sui began to look forward to what level the Five Elements Light Core cultivated within the spirit puppet's body could reach, whether it could still be taken out for her use, and whether it would disappear in time, just like the Five Elements Light Core that left the body.
To find out more, we'll need to spend some more time observing.
Mei Liangyu and the other two lived in the room next to Yu Sui.
Xing Chun took Zhong Lishan out to find something to eat. Mei Liangyu stood alone by the window, lost in thought. After sorting out her own thoughts, she turned to go next door to find Yu Sui.
Wei Xizhen's words at the Panlong Grottoes had indeed frightened her. Given her cautious nature, being stared at by a saint and said such a thing must have caused her great turmoil, and she must have considered the worst possible outcome.
As soon as Mei Liangyu opened the door, she bumped into Nian Qiuyan, who was about to knock on the door. Both of them paused for a moment.
Nian Qiuyan reacted quickly, glancing at Mei Liangyu's clothes and laughing, "Why are you still wearing the clothes of the mechanical craftsmen?"
As he spoke, he walked into the house quite naturally. Mei Liangyu did not stop him. He glanced around outside and, seeing no one else, closed the door and went back inside.
"What are you doing here?" Mei Liangyu pretended not to know and naturally struck up a conversation with Nian Qiuyan. "Didn't you see Chun'er and Dashan?"
Nian Qiuyan entered the room and sat down at the table, reaching for the teapot: "I came with your junior sister, but she disappeared halfway through. I was still looking for her on the Spirit Bird. I just heard that some academy disciples have been found and brought back. I only realized it was you from the description."
Mei Liangyu stood quietly by the door, listening.
Seeing that the tea had gone cold, Nian Qiuyan got up and went to the stove again: "After you disappeared, Nangong Sui was very worried about you and insisted on coming to the Mechanical Island to look for you."
Mei Liangyu stared at him and said, "Why didn't you stop her?"
“She was too worried about you,” Nian Qiuyan replied. “She couldn’t stop her.”
Mei Liangyu chuckled: "If you can't stop her, can't you stop Zhang Xiangyun?"
Those dark, indifferent phoenix eyes stared at Nian Qiuyan, their pupils reflecting the man's unhurried, consistently gentle expression.
Nian Qiuyan placed the teapot on the stove, bent down to light the fire, and her eyes gleamed with orange-red flames. She sighed softly and looked up at Mei Liangyu: "If I can stop Zhang Xiangyun this time, I can also stop Nangong Sui."
His eyes were full of helplessness, just like any other day, showing no flaws or anything unusual.
Nian Qiuyan is a person who understands herself very well, and is also good at being patient and hiding her thoughts.
You can't get through to this kind of person by beating around the bush; you have to be direct and clear so that he'll respond positively.
Before opening the mechanism box, Mei Liangyu asked, "Guess what I found in the Abyss Sea this time?"
"Is it interesting?" Nian Qiuyan asked.
Mei Liangyu placed the six-colored wood, which was stained with the Milky Way's water, on the table, and gently lifted her eyelids, gesturing for him to come over: "Take a look, isn't it interesting?"
Nian Qiuyan walked over, stopped at the table, and looked down at Liu Xuanmu: "It is indeed quite interesting."
Both of them were looking at the six-colored wooden tablet on the table, until Mei Liangyu caught a glimpse of Nian Qiuyan's sleeve twitching slightly as she reached for the divine wooden talisman she wore at her waist.
[Author's Note]
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