The Puppeteer Ling Chenggang

Shortly after half an incense stick's time, the two clumps of medicinal liquid materialized, and two rich aromas of pills, along with the aura of Second Rank High Grade pills, emanated from them.

Ling Chengxin smelled the fragrance of pills wafting into his nose and sensed the aura of two high-grade Second Rank High Grade pills emanating from the Alchemy Furnace. A hint of disappointment appeared on his pale face, which was somewhat pale due to excessive consumption of spiritual energy.

"It's a pity that only two pills were successfully formed! There's still a long way to go before the required success rate of three pills is achieved. This batch of pills has cost the Lineage another three or four hundred Spirit Stone."

"Why!"

"It's still my Divine Sense that's holding me back. If my Divine Sense could reach the Consummation Realm Foundation Establishment, I could at least stabilize the success rate of refining this batch of Second Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Pill to three or four pills."

"My current cultivation level is only at the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment. It would be difficult to increase the strength of my Divine Sense to reach the Consummation Realm Foundation Establishment in a short period of time by relying on my cultivation level."

"Under these circumstances, the only thing left is to comprehend the Explosive Tempering God Art that Eighth Uncle retrieved from his Lineage. If I can comprehend this technique to the Fifth Layer and increase my Divine Sense strength by 150%, my Divine Sense strength will definitely be able to reach the Foundation Establishment Completion."

"It would be best to stop this crazy process of refining Second Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Pill and first comprehend the Explosive Tempering God Art to the Fifth Layer."

The limit for ordinary pills to be successfully produced is five, with three being considered acceptable. Only when there is a probability of three pills successfully produced in a single batch can one barely break even.

As for the success rate of refining pills, it is a different matter from the probability of forming pills.

One is success or failure, and the other is the number of pills refined after success.

Ling Chengxin, Second Grade Middle Rank Alchemist, forcibly refined Second Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Pill. This was all because of the entrustment Ling Pengyun had given him several months ago after the Lingxiao Auction, instructing him, the only second-tier Alchemist currently in charge of the Ling Clan clan, to take charge of the Lineage's Pill Refining.

He was also instructed to master the refining of two second- Second Rank High Grade Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object: Small Hundred Spirits Water and Meridian Protecting Pill.

The methods for refining these two spiritual items are extremely difficult, and even experienced Second Rank High Grade Alchemist do not have a high success rate.

Ling Chengxin, a Second Grade Middle Rank Alchemist, could only master alchemy by frantically refining Second Rank High Grade pills. By refining high-grade Second Rank High Grade pills, he could quickly improve his Pill Refining skills so that he could master the refining of Small Hundred Spirits Water and Meridian Protecting Pill more quickly in the future.

This method was indeed effective. In addition, with his Foundation Establishment Fifth Layer cultivation, he had comprehended the Explosive Tempering God Art to the Fourth Layer, and his Divine Sense strength was comparable to that of Late-Stage Foundation Establishment expert. In the past three months, with the help of more than a dozen Second Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Pill materials, his Pill Refining skills have been greatly improved.

The success rate of refining Second Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Pill increased to 20%, and the probability of successfully forming a pill was barely two.

However, while this method is effective, it is extremely expensive.

Even if the main late-stage Foundation Establishment Demon Beast Late-Stage Foundation Establishment required for Ling Chengxin to refine this Second Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Pill was obtained by the Ling Clan when they killed Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Demon Beast during their conquest of the Muddy Swamp Territory.

Those auxiliary medicinal herbs were also grown by the Ling Clan themselves.

Despite refining the Spirit Gathering Pill for the Ling Chengxin still incurred a loss of nearly two to three thousand Spirit Stone in raw materials.

This loss of valuable raw materials is a huge sum for the enormous Ling Clan.

If Ling Chengxin does not quickly increase the success rate of the Second Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Pill to 30% and the probability of successfully forming the pill to three, the Ling Clan will suffer even greater losses of Spirit Stone.

This incident also put increasing pressure on Ling Chengxin.

Immediately, Ling Chengxin made a hand Hand Seals to withdraw the earth fire gushing from the fire pit. He then used his Object Manipulation Technique to retrieve the two Second Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Pill that had just been refined in the Blazing Fire Refining Furnace. He examined them carefully and commented on them.

"This Second Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Pill has a mild effect and the various medicinal liquids are well blended, so it should be classified as a medium-quality pill."

"This Second Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Pill is a bit lacking. Its aura is unstable and the fusion between the various medicinal liquids is also somewhat poor. However, the efficacy of this Spirit Gathering Pill is estimated to be about 90% of that of a medium-quality Spirit Gathering Pill, which is not far from being a medium-quality Spirit Gathering Pill."

"This matter can be considered a happy event, albeit reluctantly."

After putting the two Second Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Pill into medicine bottles, he closed his eyes and began to comprehend the Fifth Layer of the clan's Divine Sense cultivation method, "Explosive Tempering God Art".

On the other side.

Within the Muddy Swamp Territory, within that medium-sized, First-Tier Superior-Grade Yellow Rock Steel Mine, the piercing sounds of metal clanging and striking metal echoed continuously.

The source of these sounds was a full fifteen mining Wood Puppet, each six feet tall and wielding a First Rank Low Grade spirit iron pickaxe, all constructed entirely of spirit wood.

The cultivator who controlled these fifteen mining Wood Puppet was a young cultivator with a resolute face who looked like a boy in his early teens.

This young clansman is named Ling Wanxu. He is the twenty-first among the Wan Generation and was one of the thirty-one Wan Generation clansmen who followed Ling Pengyun to conquer the Muddy Swamp Territory a year ago.

Ling Wanxu possesses the aptitude of Four Spirit Roots, and his cultivation level had recently broken through to the Qi Training Fourth Layer.

He was able to be dispatched here to control the fifteen Mining Puppet to do the easy job of mining, instead of following Ling Pengyun and the others to painstakingly use the Object Manipulation Technique to move the Black Mud of the Muddy Swamp Territory and build artificial islands on the Spirit Vein deep within the swamp, all because his talent in Divine Sense began to emerge as his cultivation improved.

Although he is only at the Qi Training Fourth Layer Refining, his Divine Sense is comparable to that of Qi Training Fifth Layer Refining cultivator.

It was precisely because of this that he was able to control fifteen Mining Puppet with his Qi Training Fourth Layer cultivation to excavate the ore from the Yellow Rock Steel Mine.

Of course, the amount of Divine Sense required to control the Mining Puppet is not much; however, a normal Qi Training Fourth Layer cultivator can only control a maximum of twelve Mining Puppet.

In addition, he was valued by Ling Pengyun because of his initial display of Divine Sense talent, and was given the Divine Sense cultivation method "Explosive Tempering God Art" in advance.

Ling Pengyun sent him here with the intention of helping him to comprehend the Explosive Tempering God Art as soon as possible, thereby increasing the strength of his Divine Sense.

The strength of Divine Sense is extremely useful for cultivators. For ordinary cultivators like Ling Wanxu who have not mastered the Hundred Arts Talent, a strong Divine Sense allows them to control more Law Artifact during battle.

Having more magical Law Artifact gives you a greater advantage in battle.

at the same time.

Not far from this mine, there is a simple cave.

Inside the cave, flames blazed everywhere.

In the place where the firelight was shining, a strong young man with yellowish skin sat cross-legged on the ground, using the flames generated by a pile of first-order Kindling Wood to burn the bottom of a huge black Refining Furnace that was floating in the air, thus heating the temperature inside the Refining Furnace.

After an unknown amount of time, the aura of a First Rank Low Grade Law Artifact emanated from the Refining Furnace.

The young, burly man's face lit up with joy. He immediately used his Object Manipulation Technique to lift the lid of the Refining Furnace and retrieved a fist-sized wooden puppet from inside the enormous Refining Furnace.

Looking at the wooden puppet, the young, burly man smiled and said.

"He's become another Wood Puppet."

"Now, the speed at which the clan develops this medium-sized, First-Tier Superior-Grade Yellow Rock Steel Mine can be accelerated once again."

This young, strong man was Ling Clan Chenggang, the only First-Tier Superior-Grade Artifact Refiner among the Ling family's "three" Artifact Refiner, and the twenty-fifth in the Ling Chenggang Cheng Generation.

Although his cultivation had reached the Qi Training Ninth Layer and he was sixty-one years old, exceeding the limit of Foundation Establishment, Ling Pengyun was improving the Secret Method that could enhance the breakthrough of cultivation age limits.

The clan is currently short of talent, and Ling Chenggang was lucky enough to be included in the Lineage's key talent development program.

The other two Artifact Refiner are Ling Pengyun, a Second Rank High Grade Artifact Refiner, and Wen Nianling, Second Grade Middle Rank Artifact Refiner.

Ling Chenggang was not good at fighting, but ever since Ling Pengyun brought back a complete set of first-tier puppet inheritance from the Boundless Sea Region Cultivation World in his early years, he has been very interested in that set of first-tier puppet inheritance.

In his spare time, he would often save up some spirit iron to forge Iron Puppet.

However, due to the large amount of spiritual materials required to create puppets, his success rate in creating puppets was not high.

However, he did have some basic skills in crafting puppets, which is why Ling Pengyun entrusted him with the important task of crafting Wood Puppet using the Spirit Shrub obtained by his Lineage.

He did not disappoint Ling Pengyun's expectations. He had only been here for half a year, relying on the large number of Spirit Shrub in the clan and his existing foundation in puppet making.

He has now increased the success rate of crafting auxiliary-grade Tier First Rank Low Grade mining Wood Puppet to as high as 30%.

The fifteen Tier First Rank Low Grade mining Wood Puppet that are mining iron ore inside the Yellow Rock Steel Mine were also made by Ling Chenggang.

Ling Chenggang, who had just completed the creation of a mining Wood Puppet Wood Puppet, walked out of the simple cave with a smile on his face and found Ling Wanxu, who was controlling the fifteen Mining Puppet.

"Cheng Gangbo!"

Upon seeing Ling Chenggang arrive, Ling Wanxu immediately stood up and bowed to Ling Chenggang.

"Wan Xu, this is a Mining Puppet I just crafted. Is your Divine Sense sufficient to refine this Mining Puppet and control it for mining?"

Ling Chenggang handed the newly crafted Mining Puppet to Ling Wanxu, but then remembered that although Ling Wanxu's Divine Sense was strong, it was at most comparable to the Qi Training Fifth Layer, so he asked another question.

A cultivator at the Qi Training Fifth Layer can only control a maximum of fifteen First Rank Low Grade Mining Puppet with their Divine Sense.

"Uncle Cheng Gang, in less than three days, I will be able to comprehend the Explosive Tempering God Art to the first level. At that time, my Divine Sense will be comparable to that of a Qi Training Sixth Layer cultivator, enough to refine this Mining Puppet."

Upon seeing this, Ling Wanxu face lit up with confidence, and he spoke.

"Very good. Peng Yun Earl was right about you, kid. Back then, it took me more than a year to comprehend the first level of the Explosive Tempering God Art."

Upon Ling Chenggang, Ling Wanxu, and a smile spread across his face as he spoke.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Ling Chenggang saw a hint of smugness on Ling Wanxu's face. His smile vanished, and he became serious, issuing a fierce warning.

"But you mustn't be arrogant, kid. You'd better cultivate diligently and not forget Peng Yun Earl's expectations of you."

"To avoid the Explosive Tempering God Art, the clan only allows members to comprehend it after their Qi Training Late Stage Refining. There are not many like you who have comprehended the Explosive Tempering God Art Explosive Tempering God Art reaching the Qi Training Middle Stage Refining."

Ling Wanxu nodded slightly, and the smugness on his face vanished into thin air.

Ling Pengyun, the Old Ancestor appreciated his talent, held a very high place in his heart.

He didn't want to disappoint Ling Pengyun, nor did he want to miss this opportunity to potentially reach a higher level.

He then nodded solemnly in response.

"I understand, Uncle Cheng Gang. I will definitely cultivate diligently."

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