Performance Puppet
Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.
Chen Mobai worked hard chopping firewood and finally ruined the Crimson Sun Firewood business of the New Bud Hall.
Yu Lian, Luo Yixiu, and Luo Yixuan each contributed 100 Low-grade Spirit Stone to him, while he only accepted the market price from Liu Wenbai, earning 50 Spirit Stone.
Among these, 100 Spirit Stone were spent to buy Yuan Chiye's storage bag.
Adding to his previous earnings, Chen Mobai now has a total of 280 Spirit Stone.
After establishing a good relationship with Yuan Chiye, Chen Mobai handed over his share of Crimson Sun Firewood and immediately took leave to go into seclusion for two and a half months.
He needs to focus on the Wuqi Dao Academy because he's falling behind in his studies.
Chen Mobai chose "Talisman" and "Puppetry" as his major courses.
I took elective courses including "Talisman Ink Pigment Extraction", "Calligraphy", "Spirit Machinery Design, Manufacturing and Automation", and "Agriculture".
Among these, "calligraphy" is the foundation of Talisman. If you want to major in Talisman, you must check this elective.
As for "Talisman Ink Pigment Extraction," Chen Mobai considered that the Talisman in the Sky River Realm required special Talisman Ink from that region to be inscribed, and felt it was necessary to learn this subject.
"Spirit Machinery Design, Manufacturing and Automation" is similar to calligraphy; it's a must-check item when majoring in "Puppetry".
As for "Agriculture," Chen Mobai hadn't originally planned to choose it.
After all, with two major courses and three elective courses, you can earn 12 credits if you pass all of them.
Even if you fail one elective course, you still get exactly 10 credits, which is enough to pass the final exam.
The problem is that the entire "Spirit Transmutation Class" of thirteen students has chosen at least two major subjects and four elective subjects.
The most outrageous one signed up for three major courses and six elective courses. This is only because first-year students can only sign up for so many; otherwise, they would probably have signed up for even more.
Moreover, the reason for enrolling so many new students is not to show off, but because they genuinely have the ability.
Those who can get into the Wuqi Dao Academy are at least top students, and those who are confident enough to choose the Spirit Transmutation Cultivation Technique are the top students among the top students, each one a god of learning.
In order to fit in, Chen Mobai could only tearfully choose another subject that interested him: "Agriculture".
He originally planned to take this course in his second year of university, and then expand it to his major course "Spirit Plant" if he had spare time in the following years.
That day, he was taking a "Puppetry" class.
On the platform, the silver-haired old man Che Yucheng is telling the story of the origin of the Formless Puppet and the Performance Puppet.
Because everyone's physical constitution and innate talent are different, different people practicing the same cultivation method will experience various subtle differences. In order to make the cultivation method perfectly suited to oneself, it is necessary to adjust it according to one's own characteristics.
But only a True Person who has Core Formation the Core Formation stage can accomplish such a thing.
True masters are rare, and it's absolutely impossible to adjust the cultivation method for every Qi Cultivation Cultivator.
However, if it is requested by one's own descendants or close relatives, Core Formation cultivator will occasionally do so.
One of the Puppetry masters, while designing a technique for his daughter, suddenly had a burst of inspiration and created the "Performance Puppet".
The Puppetry master created an identical puppet based on his daughter's physical measurements, then had it practice qigong. Through trial and error, he continuously improved and adjusted the technique, ultimately creating the perfect Qi Refining method for his daughter.
Inspired by the Performance Puppet, later generations went further and created the Formless Puppet that simulated the Foundation Establishment process.
Then, features such as simulated cultivation, simulated breakthroughs in cultivation realms, and simulated practice of cultivation techniques were added.
The Formless Puppet also has the function of simulating Core Formation after Foundation Establishment.
However, due to the scarcity of Spirit Stone, it has not yet been developed to this stage.
Even such Formless Puppet is considered the pinnacle of Puppetry Technique.
Chen Mobai was listening for half a minute when his mind was filled with "Performance Puppet".
He recently began cultivating the Longevity Sutra, but without the necessary resources from Earth Origin Star, the cultivation has become extremely difficult, and he hasn't even begun to grasp the basics. This has led Chen Mobai to consider abandoning the Two Aspects Technique and focusing solely on the Pure Yang Scroll.
However, his progress on the Pure Yang Scroll was also slow, which made him even more troubled.
After class, Chen Mobai immediately ran to Che Yucheng's side and asked if the Dao Academy had any "Performance Puppet" that he could apply to use.
"This needs to be custom-made; you can't use the Performance Puppet in the Dao Academy."
Upon hearing this, Chen Mobai looked disappointed.
"However, I have a student who has several replicas of the Formless Puppet puppets. They also have the functions of Performance Puppet. As long as you input your body model data, the effect is similar to that of Performance Puppet."
Che Yucheng gave Chen Mobai a phone number and told him to contact him himself.
This senior's name is Chai Lun!
He is an eighth-year student at the Wuqi Dao Academy. Since making and maintaining Puppetry requires a lot of investment, he opened an online store to sell his own and his Puppetry ' works.
As the pinnacle of Puppetry Technique, the "Formless Puppet" is naturally regarded as a graduation challenge by many students of "Puppetry Studies".
Chai Lun has three replicas left behind by his graduating seniors.
Although the effect is Formless Puppet, it is more than enough to be used as Performance Puppet.
Chen Mobai was very interested.
I asked about the price again.
Chai Lun said that rentals can be made by the number of times or by purchasing outright.
Renting is cheaper; the fee is 10,000 Merit Points per rental.
Buying it out would be too expensive, costing a whopping 500,000 Merit Points.
Since he didn't know how much the replicas actually Formless Puppet, Chen Mobai wanted to see them for himself and, ideally, test them out.
The Chai Lun naturally welcomed this.
He rented a warehouse outside the Dao Academy to use as a studio, and he'll be going there today.
Upon hearing this, Chen Mobai immediately asked him for the address.
"You seem to be in a hurry."
Chai Lun was a burly, tall man. When he came from the dormitory, he saw Chen Mobai standing at the warehouse door waiting.
"I've had a lot of questions during my cultivation recently, and my progress in switching to the Pure Yang Scroll is slow. I'm getting a little impatient."
Chen Mobai looked helpless, but it was the truth.
When Chai Lun heard that he had chosen to cultivate the Pure Yang Scroll, he couldn't help but give him a thumbs up to express his admiration.
"I have three here: two are for deducing techniques based on Fire Attribute, and one is for deducing techniques based on Wood Attribute. They're all priced the same. You should want the fire one, right?"
After entering the warehouse, Chai Lun pointed to three life-sized One-Eyed Puppet hanging on the wall.
"Huh, why is there only one Number Dial?"
Chen Mobai remembered that the Formless Puppet had Number Dial that could be turned on each of its left and right eye areas.
"These three alumni are also geniuses, but they certainly can't compare to Teacher Che. It's already quite good that they can imitate this level."
After hearing Chen Mobai's words, Chai Lun explained with a wry smile.
The left eye wheel of the Formless Puppet can deduce the cultivation of the Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer, while the right eye wheel represents the Foundation Establishment.
There should have been a Number Dial above the forehead representing the Core Formation Realm.
However, the Dao Academy lacks enough Spirit Stone as a power source to test this function, which theoretically simulates the Core Formation and cultivation after the Core Formation.