Su Xing's heart was shaken, and he murmured with some surprise: "If it is the origin of the triggering force... I should be able to kill Master Wan Mu in one punch, right?"

"After killing Master Wanmu in seconds, the Spiritual Vein Dragon might not be revealed... By then, the Dragon Guardian might not know about the Spiritual Vein Dragon's birth?"

Su Xing was thoughtful.

But this is just Su Xing's guess. To find out the specific situation, Su Xing still needs to try it in the next simulation.

"And the Way of Puppetry... After two sessions of teaching from the Ghost Granny, my knowledge of the Way of Puppetry is only at the entry level, but it should be enough to drive ordinary puppets, right?"

Su Xing turned his gaze towards the eight puppets left behind by Zong Lao Gou.

If these eight puppets were slightly modified, Su Xing might be able to have an extra group of free laborers for alchemy and farming.

So, in the next week, Su Xing began to try to transform the living dead puppet.

"These puppets are all combat-type... They are not puppets specifically used for alchemy. The abilities of the humanoid puppets are not much different from their abilities when they were alive..."

Su Xing first checked Zong Laogou's diary and spent an hour to find out the identities of the eight puppets.

Among the eight puppets, three possess wood and fire attribute auras, namely the Flower Fairy and the other two puppets.

Even one of the puppets was once an alchemist.

Knowing that these three puppets have the ability to refine pills, the next things become much easier.

Su Xing first erased the mark of consciousness left by Zong Laogou on the puppet, and then left his own mark.

Next, Su Xing opened the control core of the zombie puppet, which is usually located in the heart of the puppet.

The abilities of a puppet mainly depend on three parts.

The first is Su Xing’s soul mark. Su Xing can activate the soul mark and give orders to the puppet.

Secondly, there is the puppet mark at the core of puppet manipulation.

There are many types of puppet marks, including combat, auxiliary, spirit formation, alchemy, and talisman making.

With different puppet marks, the puppet can complete different tasks.

Third, the abilities that the human puppet once possessed before its death will also be retained to a certain extent.

However, Su Xing is currently unable to independently create new puppet marks for the puppets, so the only ones who can refine pills are these three puppets that once possessed the talent for refining pills.

Su Xing named them Ah Da, Ah Er, and Xiao Mei! Ah Da was at the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage when he was alive. After being made into a puppet, he still retained a strength close to the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage. He was also an alchemist when he was alive.

So Su Xing taught him how to refine the fasting pill with ease.

After all, this is only the lowest level of elixir. Not to mention the Nascent Soul puppet, even the Foundation Establishment puppet can be refined.

Ah Er, who also reached the peak of Nascent Soul stage, still retained the spiritual energy of wood and fire after being made into a human puppet.

Although it is just a combat puppet and has no intelligence or independent consciousness, it also has the ability to imitate and learn.

So Su Xing asked him to follow A Da and learn how to make the Qigong Pill. He would probably learn it in no time.

As for Xiaomei, she is the flower fairy who is Zong Laogou’s lover.

It only has the strength of the Foundation Establishment Stage, but its body remains intact, and it even has some residual consciousness. It should be the top-grade puppet that Zong Laogou had refined using a secret method before.

The lowest strength, but great potential.

Su Xing temporarily asked Xiaomei to learn how to refine the Qigong Pill.

As for the remaining five zombie puppets, Su Xing asked them to do some work such as farming and weeding.

It can also reduce the stress of waking up.

Living dead puppets have no independent consciousness and do not need to rest.

You just need to inject energy regularly and install the spirit stone into the core, and you can use it continuously.

After a little calculation, Su Xing found that if one only needed to do odd jobs like weeding, a puppet would only require one low-grade spirit stone in a year.

A lot of spirit stones are needed for alchemy. One puppet needs ten low-grade spirit stones per month.

However, this is completely affordable for Su Xing, who has hundreds of thousands of spirit stones.

"It's just that... the amount of spirit stones needed for the puppets to fight is ridiculous!"

"And the puppet in the early stage of Return to Void Stage that I got from the Wanmu Sect ruins before is basically scrapped... maybe I can try to repair it when I have time in the future?"

Soon, a week passed.

There are eight more free puppet laborers in the awakened Lingtian Cave.

Among them, Ada performed well. In a week, he could provide Su Xing with an extra 1,000 fasting pills, and there was a chance that a top-quality fasting pill would be produced.

Ah Er is slightly worse off, he can provide about 500 fasting pills in a week.

As for Xiaomei, she can only refine about a hundred fasting pills a week, and the failure rate is extremely high.

But Su Xing was very patient and regarded it all as accumulation for the future.

As long as the number of puppets is large enough, Su Xing will be able to produce tens of thousands of Bigu Pills in the next week! This week, Su Xing was busy transforming the puppets and teaching them how to make pills, so he only made less than two thousand Bigu Pills.

It was not until the day he met Jin Congxue that Su Xing disguised himself and went to the villa area.

In the villa, Jin Congxue had been waiting for a long time.

The two sat opposite each other, eating and chatting.

Jin Congxue took out the storage ring that he had prepared long ago and said:

"The new week's goods, the output of the second-level exotic metal mine is also here... From now on, we will be able to provide a stable supply of second-level exotic metals every week!"

"We have also informed the Daxia military. From now on, as long as our Tarot Club provides the Daxia military with Bigu Pills, we will be able to obtain the mining rights of a second-level exotic metal mine for every 50,000 Bigu Pills!"

Su Xing nodded slightly after hearing this, and after thinking for a moment, he said:

"That's about right... I will temporarily stop refining the beauty pills and focus on refining the fasting pills!"

"Exotic metal mining will become the main business direction of our Tarot Chamber of Commerce in the future!"

Jin Congxue did not refuse after hearing this, but just said: "Of course, the Tarot Club was founded by you and me, and I have never cared about these major decisions..."

"Moreover, the current business of the Tarot Club is basically stable and does not need a large amount of capital injection... As for the beauty pills, you only need to refine some occasionally to meet the requirements of certain customers!"

Su Xing nodded after hearing this. Jin Congxue's idea coincided with his.

The two chatted for a while, and Jin Congxue seemed to suddenly think of something funny and said, "By the way, have you heard recently... including the Pearl Chamber of Commerce, the Beiyuan Chamber of Commerce... and even my second uncle, they seem to be looking for a peerless strongman who is rumored to be in seclusion!"

"As for why we are looking for that powerful person, the reason is still unknown. I heard that it seems to be related to immortality?"

At this point, Jin Congxue burst into laughter and said:

"You don't know what my second great-uncle is like. He's over 500 years old, a powerful Heavenly King... but he was so anxious that he fell several times in one day..."

After hearing this, Su Xing's mouth twitched and he asked tentatively:

"Oh? Did they find any news about that powerful person?"

After hearing this, Jin Congxue shook his head and said:

"No... That senior came and went without a trace, leaving no trace... Several chambers of commerce even invited a legendary expert from the Demon Suppression Pass to perform divination, but they couldn't find any information about that senior!"

Su Xing felt a lot more relieved after hearing this.

After that incident, Su Xing was investigated, which was completely within Su Xing's expectations.

But this investigation is destined to yield no results. Su Xing concealed the secrets, acted covertly, and simulated beforehand, almost eliminating 100% of the risks. How could it be found?

With a population of over one billion in the Great Xia Kingdom, no one would target a mere college student like Su Xing.

Soon, the conversation between the two ended.

Su Xing brought the new week's goods and returned to Lingtian Cave in secrecy.

The new week's cargo provided 150 million simulated energies for Awakening.

It was similar to what Su Xing had imagined before. A second-level exotic metal mining copy could bring Su Xing a net profit of nearly 50 million simulation energy every week!

In this way, Su Xing's simulation energy reached 2.96823 billion points. On December 16, 2024, the new era, Su Xing prepared to start a new round of simulation.

Before the simulation, Su Xing set goals for the simulation.

"Understand the origin of power and enter the minor success stage as soon as possible... Only in this way can you break into the fusion stage as soon as possible!"

"In addition, the puppetry technique still needs to be improved. If more puppets can be created, more simulation energy will be available in the future. The simulation energy of the fusion stage should be enough by then..."

Thinking so, Su Xing looked at the simulation panel.

"Start simulation!"

[Ding! This simulation consumed 6,600 energy points, the remaining energy is 2.96823 billion points, and there are no remaining simulation times.]

[Simulation starts! ]

[It costs 100,000 energy points to extract purple talent, and 1 million energy points to extract golden legendary talent. Do you want to extract? ]

"Extract gold quality talent!"

Su Xing said without hesitation.

[Ding, congratulations on obtaining the purple talent of excellent marksmanship. The probability of receiving the gold talent next time is 50%...]

Looking at the new talent in front of him, Su Xing shook his head as expected.

Sure enough, it’s not a golden talent.

"Spearmanship... not bad, but how can one be proficient in all kinds of weapons? Even I... can't be proficient in everything."

Now that he has devoted himself to studying swordsmanship, Su Xing does not plan to practice spearmanship for the time being.

Thinking so, Su Xing looked at the simulation panel.

[In Lingtian Cave, you realize that you are simulating. ]

[In the next half month, you will refine the elixir while accumulating the great wisdom state blessing. ]

[Half a month later, you set out to the Luotian Conference instance.]

In the real world, Su Xing nodded slightly when he saw this. In this simulation, he was going to continue to accept the guidance of the ghost woman and learn the art of puppetry.

“Use the immersive simulation capabilities… for 24 hours!”

[Ding, you have successfully used immersion... The remaining energy is 2.96583 billion points.]

…

Soon, the immersive simulation ended, and Su Xing gained a lot of knowledge about the art of puppetry from the ghost woman again during this simulation.

"Although I haven't reached the minor level yet...but my understanding of the way of puppetry can be said to have made a big step forward!"

Su Xing nodded with satisfaction and looked at the simulation panel.

[One month later, you met Luo Shuying as promised and joined the Advent Church.]

[Luo Shuying is already a legendary expert now. You will soon gain a large number of fans in the Advent Church.]

[For the next year, you will stay in the Advent Church every day to refine pills and study the art of puppets.]

[In the second year, you once again took time out to prepare to go to the Luotian Conference instance.]

“Using immersive simulation capabilities…”

[You have successfully used the immersive simulation... The remaining energy is 2.96343 billion points.]

…

After a day of immersive simulation, Su Xing quickly returned to the real world, and his mastery of puppetry was further improved.

"Yes, in this simulation... maybe my mastery of the art of puppetry can really reach the minor success level!"

"By then, I should be able to independently refine a puppet that can refine elixirs..."

Thinking of this, Su Xing looked at the simulation panel.

[You stayed in the Advent Church for another year and successfully refined enough pills.]

[Because the purpose of your simulation this time is to accumulate the power of origin as quickly as possible, it doesn’t matter whether you betray the Advent Church or not. In order to obtain more information, you decide to stay in the Advent Church.]

[In the third year, you handed over the more than 200,000 pills you had accumulated to the Daxia military.]

[In just one year, the Daxia military has gained many powerful people. ]

[Although the Advent Church is troubled by this, they have never doubted you because you have not revealed your alchemy ability.]

[So next, you continue to practice the art of puppetry, and every year on the day of Jingzhe, you will comprehend the origin of power.]

[In this way, another three years passed. ]

[In the sixth year, your control over the power of origin has improved, and the time you can continuously use the power of origin has increased from three breaths to five breaths.]

[This almost allows you to throw two full punches in a fight.]

[You are not satisfied with this, and continue to study the way of puppets and comprehend the original power.]

[In this way, another two years passed. ]

[In the eighth year, you have already mastered the production of puppet marks. Based on the memories in your mind, you can transform ordinary combat puppets into medicine puppets that specialize in refining elixirs.]

[So, you try to transform the remaining five puppets you own. ]

[Another three years passed for this research.]

[In the eleventh year, after your continuous research, you finally transformed the remaining five puppets into medicine puppets.]

[In this way, you will have eight puppets every day, refining pills for you 24 hours a day.]

[You try to ask them to refine the Bigu Pill...]

[After two months of testing, you found that eight puppets can refine a total of 50,000 Bigu Pills in one month.]

[This is equivalent to, every month, just these eight puppets can give you an extra second-level alien metal mining area copy! ]

【You are very happy about this. 】

[But at the same time, as you continued to study, you also discovered the unusualness of the puppet codenamed Xiaomei.]

[Although the other seven puppets are at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, their potential is limited and it is difficult for them to break through.]

[Xiao Mei, this puppet, is actually able to improve herself and constantly break through herself... From refining a hundred pills a week in the beginning, to being able to refine thousands of pills now.]

[You discovered that perhaps it was because Xiaomei still had the mark of her previous soul in her body, so you tried to implant a more advanced puppet mark.]

[After your continuous attempts, Xiaomei does have the potential to develop further, and even the cultivation of this puppet can be improved! ]

In the real world, Su Xing was very surprised to see this.

"Puppets... can also improve their cultivation?"

According to the information Su Xing obtained, if he wanted to enhance the puppet's strength, he would either have to use more precious natural treasures to refine the puppet, or equip it with more powerful magic weapons.

But if the puppet could practice itself, Su Xing had never known that.

"Could this be... the puppet cultivator mentioned in the rumors?"

Su Xing widened his eyes.

You must know that ordinary immortal cultivators cultivate as humans... However, after death, a cultivator may be able to turn into a ghost and continue to cultivate. This is a ghost cultivator! And if a cultivator refines himself into a puppet, there is a very low probability that he will become a puppet cultivator! And now, this awakened little beautiful puppet seems to have turned into a puppet cultivator? "Hiss... This is an incredible discovery!"

Su Xing muttered, looking at the simulation panel.

[You soon realize that Xiaomei might be a one-in-a-million puppet cultivator, or she might have been born by chance...]

[But you don't know how to help Xiaomei regain her remaining self-awareness, so you can only put it aside. ]

[So, for the next three years, you will continue to study puppetry every day and comprehend the origin of power.]

[In the fourteenth year, your mastery of the art of puppetry can be said to have achieved some success.]

[You decide to try to refine a weapon puppet yourself. ]

[Mechanical puppets are different from human puppets. They are made of metal ores... They are more like mechanical beasts and robots...]

[Before you can refine a puppet, you must first learn how to refine artifacts. ]

[So, you began to delve into refining equipment...]

[You don't have any talent for the study of weapon refining, but fortunately, you only need to refine the lowest level weapon puppet, which does not require too advanced weapon refining skills.]

[Refer to the jade slips left by Zong Laogou and start learning the art of refining weapons.]

[You possess the Fire Separation Technique, which is not only an excellent fire for alchemy, but can also be used to refine weapons... This saves you a lot of effort.]

[As for the material for refining the puppet, you quickly selected the fourth-level exotic metal! ]

[You manipulate the fire of separation to burn on the alien metal, forging it into the shape of a human... This process requires a high level of control over spiritual consciousness, aura, and fire.]

[You tried for several months and finally managed to create a puppet that was only about the height of a person and had only a rough human form.]

[Although from the outside, this puppet has nothing to do with humans. ]

[But you don't care about it, because it works for you. ]

[Immediately afterwards, you began to refine the puppet core and puppet mark for this puppet, and left your own puppet mark.]

[You have arranged a spiritual array of wood and fire attributes inside the puppet to facilitate its conversion of wood and fire spiritual energy...]

[Then engrave the mark of the flame talisman on the core of the puppet, so that the puppet can emit flames autonomously.]

[You put a few spirit stones into the puppet's body to provide it with energy.]

[Next, it is time for the most difficult part of the entire puppetry, which is to teach the puppet to do something.]

[The puppet lacks the ability to learn independently. You must implant the process of refining the Bigu Pill into the puppet's core, and then modify it in actual combat, so that it can gradually master the art of refining pills. ]

[This process... lasted for a whole month.]

[One month later, you finally made this puppet successfully learn the art of alchemy. This puppet can refine 2,000 Bigu Pills every month!]

[The efficiency is not high, but you are very satisfied...]

[Because next, you will try to mass-produce alchemy puppets...]

(End of this chapter)