Strengthen! Truth-Destroying Type One (Wu)!

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"Haha!"

Lu Qingfeng kicked Truth-Destroying Type One flying and could not help bursting into laughter.

Only a command that could complete an attack counted as true autonomous control. If Lu Qingfeng still had to direct it through simple movement commands, then it was no different from having his consciousness inhabit it.

"Improving the quality of the Thousand Mechanisms Stone improves its sensing range, and perhaps the total number of formations it can contain as well."

Lu Qingfeng remembered that Thousand Mechanisms Stones refined through the three methods widely circulated on the market could contain at most twenty to thirty sets of formations. The Thousand Mechanisms Stone improved by Huang Tiangu could contain thirty-five sets.

But the Thousand Mechanisms Stone Lu Qingfeng had obtained after three Fusions and two Strengthenings could contain a hundred sets of formations and still had room to spare.

"Strengthening the Spirit-Control Formation optimizes its formation structure and increases the total number of formations. Once it reaches a hundred sets, it achieves autonomous control. I wonder what effect continued Strengthening will have. But if it exceeds the limit of what the Thousand Mechanisms Stone can contain, I'll have to strengthen the Thousand Mechanisms Stone in tandem."

Lu Qingfeng glanced at the experience displayed on the Attribute Panel.

He had originally been Level 35 (200/250), but after strengthening the Spirit-Control Formation three times, he had dropped to Level 35 (130/250).

"I've been cultivating all this time without using any experience. I didn't realize I'd accumulated so much."

After advancing to the True Qi Realm, cultivation became even more difficult.

This could be seen from the fact that it had originally taken two levels to raise one layer of cultivation, whereas now it took ten levels to advance one realm.

Lu Qingfeng had bitterly cultivated for ten years, consuming only a small amount of experience to strengthen the Thousand Mechanisms Stone Refinement Method and a few techniques and pill recipes. Yet his cultivation had only reached the Second Layer of the True Qi Realm.

At this rate, it would be difficult for Lu Qingfeng to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm before his lifespan ran out.

Lu Qingfeng did not care.

It was only natural to be unfamiliar with cultivating in the True Qi Realm for the first time. If he failed in this life, he could simply try again in several more lives.

As the saying went, practice made perfect!

For now, he could treat this as accumulating experience for cultivation in his next life ahead of time.

"There are still many obscure areas between the First Layer and Second Layer of the True Qi Realm. I might as well use this opportunity to return to the First Layer and cultivate again from the beginning."

That way, the massive amount of experience from Level 21 to Level 35 would be enough for Lu Qingfeng to strengthen Truth-Destroying Type One to the limit it could currently reach.

First was the Thousand Mechanisms Stone.

After directly strengthening it five times, while keeping the refinement materials unchanged, its basic sensing range increased from the thousand-zhang range of the twice-strengthened version to a hundred thousand zhang, or more than six hundred li.

Lu Qingfeng estimated that the whole of Guangyuan Prefecture might not even have such a large area. That was more than enough. If he strengthened it again, the materials for refining the Thousand Mechanisms Stone would also have to be improved accordingly. Lu Qingfeng had no confidence that he could find overly rare materials in the impoverished Guangyuan Prefecture.

Moreover, the Spirit-Control Formation provided a second increase to the range!

After five Strengthenings, the Thousand Mechanisms Stone could sense more than six hundred li based on the original Spirit-Control Formation. Every Strengthening of the original Spirit-Control Formation could further increase the sensing range by the corresponding multiple.

The combination of a five-times-strengthened Thousand Mechanisms Stone and a five-times-strengthened Spirit-Control Formation resulted in an astonishing sensing range of four thousand li!

At such a distance, it could more than cover Guangyuan Prefecture. It could even cover all three prefectures of Shangyang Country with room to spare!

Lu Qingfeng could stay in Miaoyin City and attack any location in Shangyang Country.

Including Huangzhi Mountain!

"Long-range strikes!"

Just thinking about it made his blood surge!

Lu Qingfeng had turned immortal cultivation into a troop-production game!

Unfortunately, completing the mass production of troops still required overcoming quite a few hurdles. Moreover, in reality, it absolutely could not be accomplished in just three to five years.

The Thousand Mechanisms Stone and Spirit-Control Formation were already powerful enough to be useful after being strengthened to this degree.

In particular, the increase in sensing range from strengthening the Spirit-Control Formation was merely incidental. The most important effect was the increase in the puppet's sentience.

After three Strengthenings, Truth-Destroying Type One could already control itself.

After four Strengthenings, its autonomy became even stronger.

After five Strengthenings, its sentience increased greatly.

This change was difficult to describe with data or words. To put it more vividly, the four-times-strengthened Truth-Destroying Type One was equivalent to a Skylark Bird that had not taken Yellow Chestnut Pellets. The five-times-strengthened Truth-Destroying Type One was equivalent to a Skylark Bird that had taken Yellow Chestnut Pellets over a long period of time, allowing it to understand Lu Qingfeng's commands more accurately.

This change was naturally a good one.

After several Strengthenings, quite a bit of experience remained. Lu Qingfeng did not stop and began strengthening Truth-Destroying Type One as a whole.

One Strengthening!

Two Strengthenings!

Three Strengthenings!

Four Strengthenings!

Five Strengthenings!

After each Strengthening, Lu Qingfeng would refine it according to the strengthened Truth-Destroying Type One Refinement Method.

He compared the data through the physical objects—

Before Strengthening, Truth-Destroying Type One (Original) had an overall combat power equivalent to the Ninth Layer of the Embryonic Breath Realm.

After one Strengthening, Truth-Destroying Type One (Jia) had an overall combat power equivalent to the Ninth Layer of the Embryonic Breath Realm.

After two Strengthenings, Truth-Destroying Type One (Yi) had an overall combat power equivalent to the First Layer of the True Qi Realm.

After three Strengthenings, Truth-Destroying Type One (Bing) had an overall combat power equivalent to the First Layer of the True Qi Realm.

After four Strengthenings, Truth-Destroying Type One (Ding) had an overall combat power equivalent to the First Layer of the True Qi Realm.

After five Strengthenings, Truth-Destroying Type One (Wu) had an overall combat power equivalent to the Second Layer of the True Qi Realm!

After five rounds, Strengthening had reached the limit that Truth-Destroying Type One could withstand without improving the raw materials, and its cultivation level no longer increased.

"The various formation combinations are more reasonable now. The Spirit Nexus Formation, attack formations, defensive formations, auxiliary formations, and all the others have grown more powerful."

"After five Strengthenings, Truth-Destroying Type One (Wu) can already be considered a low-grade Second-Level Puppet."

Four months later.

Six Truth-Destroying Type Ones stood in a line. Lu Qingfeng could not help feeling his heart surge.

Puppet levels were divided according to combat power.

Embryonic Breath Realm combat power represented a First-Level Puppet.

True Qi Realm combat power represented a Second-Level Puppet.

Foundation Establishment Qi Guiding Realm combat power represented a Third-Level Puppet.

And so on, rising in succession.

A puppet's combat power was measured against cultivators of the same realm who practiced basic cultivation methods and mastered low-grade techniques. Among those of the same realm, their combat power was at the very bottom.

However, the puppets generally used by cultivators exceeded their own levels.

Take Mu Yuanyi, for example. With cultivation at the Liquid Condensation Realm, the Second Realm of Foundation Establishment, he should be matched against a Fourth-Level Puppet. Yet the puppet he controlled was a Sixth-Level Puppet comparable to a Body Tempering Realm cultivator, the Fourth Realm of Foundation Establishment, and a sixth-order demonic beast.

Thus, even if it could only display the combat power of an ordinary Body Tempering Realm cultivator, it still far exceeded his own strength.

"Now that the design has been finalized, it's time to accept orders and improve my proficiency!"

At this stage, Second-Level Puppets were entirely sufficient for Lu Qingfeng's needs.

There were absolutely not many True Qi Realm experts in Shangyang Country. Even within the Return to Truth Sect, based on what Lu Qingfeng had learned during this period, True Qi Realm experts were quite rare.

Reaching the Seventh Layer of the Embryonic Breath Realm was enough to advance to an elite disciple or a steward in charge!

It was obvious how many True Qi Realm experts the Return to Truth Sect could have.

Resources were hard to come by in reality. Lu Qingfeng did not plan to rashly refine Truth-Destroying Type One. It would not be too late to refine them after raising his proficiency in the game and greatly increasing his success rate!

Lu Qingfeng had already begun collecting all kinds of ores and materials through the Azure Jade Sect, which cooperated with him, immediately after finalizing the design of Truth-Destroying Type One.

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