Azure Lotus Peak, Azure Lotus Pavilion.
The doors to the secret chamber suddenly opened, and hearty laughter rang out. Wang Changsheng emerged from within, beaming with delight.
After failing three times, he had finally succeeded in refining a low-grade Rank 4 Puppet Beast. This was largely thanks to Ye Haitang and the others, who had obtained a considerable amount of Millennial Ironwood from the Flying Immortal Ruins.
A Rank 4 Puppet Beast required Millennial Ironwood and a Fourth Order Demon Beast Essence Soul as its primary materials, along with a variety of other ingredients. The other materials were manageable, but Millennial Ironwood and Fourth Order Demon Beast Essence Souls were not easy to obtain. The latter in particular—if the soul fusion failed, the demon beast essence soul would be ruined.
In addition, other materials had to be added, causing the cost of a Rank 4 Puppet Beast to soar. They were extremely difficult to refine, which was why so few Rank 4 Puppet Beasts existed.
Wang Changsheng had refined one low-grade Rank 4 Puppet Beast. There was still plenty of Millennial Ironwood left, but only Ao Qing's essence soul remained; all the other Fourth Order Demon Beast Essence Souls had been ruined.
Once the puppet beast had been refined, the demon beast essence soul needed to be fused into it and made one with it before it could be considered successful. This was also the most difficult stage. Of Wang Changsheng's three failures, two had occurred during this process.
His ability to refine a Rank 4 Puppet Beast was not only due to the materials Ye Haitang and the others had found, but also closely tied to the improvement in his artifact-refining skills. During the more than forty years he had been trapped in the Burial Immortal Sea, Wang Changsheng