Golden Toad Sea Region, Desolate Island.
Wang Changsheng and more than twenty Nascent Soul Cultivators sat around in the Stone Pavilion, chatting and laughing merrily.
While the juniors were inside Flying Immortal Ruins searching for treasure, they held an Exchange Gathering, sharing their cultivation insights and each gaining something from it.
"Daoist Wang, your Wang Family excels at puppet mechanisms. If you managed to obtain Millennial Ironwood, you should be able to refine a Rank 4 Puppet Beast, right?"
Shen Wenbin asked curiously. Rank 4 Puppet Beasts were scarce mainly because their materials were difficult to find.
The cost of refining a Rank 4 Puppet Beast was enough to refine an entire set of magic treasures. The main material, Millennial Ironwood, was one thing—each of the ten great sects had some in reserve—but Fourth Order Demon Beast Essence Souls were scarce even among the ten great sects.
When a Demon Beast Essence Soul was refined into a magic treasure, the treasure could take shape and attack, thereby increasing its power. Controlling a Rank 4 Puppet Beast consumed twice as much spiritual sense as controlling a magic treasure, and once a Rank 4 Puppet Beast was damaged, repairing it was especially troublesome.
In addition, Rank 4 Puppet Beasts required High-Grade Spirit Stones to operate. Even Wang Changsheng, after obtaining the wealth left behind by the Townsea Sect, had only a little over twenty High-Grade Spirit Stones. The other great sects presumably did not have many either.
Eastern Fence World had quite a few Spirit Stone Mines, but only large-scale mines could possibly produce High-Grade Spirit Stones. There were fewer than twenty large-scale Spirit Stone Mines in Eastern Fence World, and their output decreased year by year, leaving fewer and fewer High-Grade Spirit Stones. When major forces obtained a High-Grade Spirit Stone,