When your strength was not enough.
You needed to lay everything out in the open, making others mistakenly believe you were powerful. Only then could you avoid many unnecessary conflicts.
That was what Su Qing had done before. He had displayed every puppet he could control.
Even though he was only at the Mid Qi Refining Stage, outsiders would merely assume he had concealed his cultivation.
Puppets did not lie. Without Peak Qi Refining cultivation, how could one's divine sense sustain so many puppets operating at once?
But as his fortune steadily grew.
Cultivation seemingly at Peak Qi Refining might bluff some small fry, but it could not fool the man-eating crocodiles.
Hundred Treasures Pavilion dared to lead men against a Tier 2 Tiger King, while Niu Ya and the others dared to battle demonic beasts on Low Mountain day after day.
That was because, compared to the risks they took, their potential gains were even greater!
When the profits were great enough, even if Su Qing were at Peak Qi Refining, some wicked people would still not fear testing him.
Su Qing did not want to become a slab of fat meat in other people's eyes.
Now that the Needle Control Incantation had reached minor mastery and allowed him to control twice as many puppets, it was the perfect time to prepare a few trump cards for himself.
After roughly glancing over the three newly unlocked types of blueprints, Su Qing put the Sword-Human Puppet into his Storage Bag and was about to head out to deliver goods.
Suddenly!
Fire Egg let out a series of howls.
Su Qing's expression tightened, and he swiftly darted into Bear Two's chest as it sat on the ground.
As Bear Two rose to its feet, Fire Egg also shot into Bear One's