Returning to Divine Wood Sect

After all the equipment and Puppetry were debugged, the Puppet Factory that had burdened Chen Mobai with a mountain of debt was finally completed.

After seeing Chai Lun and Zhou Tiangong off, Chen Mobai checked his account and found that he had less than a million Merit Points left, which made him feel a little pressured.

Although the interest rate was already at its lowest because of his status as Foundation Establishment True Cultivator and Qin Baipeng as his guarantor, the Merit Points in his account were barely enough to pay off the interest by the end of the year.

The most urgent task is to open up sales channels.

Whether it's the Sky River Realm or the Immortal Sect side.

However, Chen Mobai already had a contingency plan in mind for this.

Within the Immortal Sect, only minimum standards are stipulated for the production of Talisman Paper.

The Talisman Paper produced by the tens of thousands of Talisman Factory in the Thirty-Six Cave Heavens Seventy-Two Blessed Lands is largely the same in quality; they are all just barely meeting the minimum standards to produce qualified products.

This will create many differences.

For example, some Talisman factories, unable to survive in the fierce competition of the ordinary Talisman Paper market, will begin to improve the quality of their Talisman Paper and produce high-quality products.

In the entire Immortal Sect's Talisman market, basically every factory has its own high-quality products as its flagship.

For example, the Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory has a type of Talisman Paper called "Jade" that Wu Shangru researched.

As the name suggests, it is Second Grade Talisman Paper made from the Jade Wutong, a specialty of Vermilion Cloud City, as the pulp. It is quite well-known in the Talisman market of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land east of the Immortal Sect.

Making this Jade Talisman Paper is much more complicated than making First Grade Talisman Paper.

The pulp for First Grade Talisman Paper only requires cultivators to add the appropriate amount of various spiritual additives according to normal proportions, and mix it with the crushed and boiled wood pulp. The remaining processes of removing impurities and bleaching the pulp are all automatically completed by the papermaking machine.

However, the production of pulp for Second Grade Talisman Paper is not much different from Alchemy. Although the Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory has specially ordered machines, the raw materials required are several times that of first-tier talismans.

Furthermore, experienced papermakers are required to constantly monitor the quality of the pulp. Too much or too little additives can affect the quality of the finished product, or even lead to failure.

If the Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory operates at full capacity, it can produce about 10 Second Grade Jade Talisman Paper per day.

However, if it is replaced with a first-grade high-quality Talisman Paper, the quantity will increase by 100 times, and 1,000 papers can be produced every day.

In the Immortal Sect market, the price of Second Grade Talisman Paper ranges from 500 to 5000 Merit Points depending on its Merit Points. Some top-tier Second Grade Talisman Paper are almost comparable to Third Grade Talisman Paper.

Unfortunately, even with Wu Shangru personally overseeing the papermaking process, the Jade Talisman Paper produced by the Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory could only yield a pool of pulp that produced Second Grade paper at most.

Besides the Jade Talisman Paper, another signature product of the Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory is the Talisman Ink called "Chaxia".

This is thanks to the abundant Danzhu Spirit Sand resources in Vermilion Cloud City. Relying on the excellent raw materials, the Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory has also successfully refined Third Grade Talisman Ink.

Chen Mobai had already planned it out. Once the Puppet Factory was completed, it could work non-stop for 24 hours a day. The equipment he had commissioned from the Heaven's Craftsmanship Artifact Factory at great expense could perfectly utilize the advantages of the Puppetry, and its efficiency in producing First Grade Talisman Paper was ten times that of the Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory.

However, the drawback is that it can only produce First Grade Talisman Paper and Talisman Ink.

Therefore, from now on, the Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory will be responsible for producing high-end, exquisite Jade Talisman Paper and Chaxia Talisman Ink, while the Puppet Factory will ramp up production of first-tier Talisman Paper Talisman Ink, dumping them into the Sky River Realm and gradually seizing market share among the Immortal Sect.

That morning.

After finishing his meditation with the Spirit Stone in his hand, Chen Mobai opened his eyes, looked at the Spirit Stone in his hand whose spiritual energy had been completely depleted, and put it back into his storage bag.

This stuff is Spirit Essence; whether given to Qing Nü or Wang Xingyu, it would make them jump for joy.

He got up and pushed open the door of the wooden cabin, which was in the heart of the Puppet Factory, on the small hill where the Vermilion Fruit Tree were planted.

This place is unsuitable for ordinary people to cultivate in, but he directly used Spirit Stone to propel his Pure Yang Dharma Body, without needing to absorb the spiritual energy containing fire poison.

Besides his Pure Yang Dharma Body, his Five Elements Sword Finger only required the application of ointment, and he also did not slack off in his Spiritual Sense training.

The wooden houses on the hillside were naturally built using Talisman.

The Wood House Talisman from the Immortal Sect is truly an essential item when going out, whether in the Sky River Realm or here.

Besides his home, the place Chen Mobai is most familiar with now is this kind of wooden house.

The Wuqi Dao Academy, the top of Little South Mountain, and here—everywhere is the same style, giving a feeling of home.

After stepping out of the wooden house, Chen Mobai looked up at the sky.

High in the sky, a faint bluish-red Misty Cloud Qi appeared and disappeared.

This is the Crimson Cloud Mist Silk after Ming Yihua's reforging.

At the beginning of the year, Chen Mobai was handling Student Union matters at the Wuqi Dao Academy, and with the Second-tier Talisman Master exam in addition, he had a lot of free time, so Ming Yihua to refine the Clear Wind Sha into this Magic Artifact.

After being refined, the Crimson Cloud Mist Silk, in addition to its previous pale red color, now has an extra layer of cyan light, transforming into its current azure and Misty Cloud Qi.

Above the blue and red mist, a blurry figure sat upright.

It is a Puppetry that has evolved to the Core Formation Realm under the energy of High-grade Spirit Stone.

In the distant depths of the void, a wisp of the endless Solar Vitality dispersed slightly, and after being absorbed by the Formless Puppet atop the Crimson Cloud Mist Silk, it slowly fell towards this place.

Chen Mobai had long ago Splitting Spirit Manifesting Thought and entrusted it to the Formless Puppet.

Since he deduced the method of using Puppetry to evolve into the Core Formation Realm and refine Pure Yang Purple Qi, he has tried it several times, but all of them have failed.

In the previous instances, either the Solar Vitality ignored us, or after acknowledging us, we were not drawn in, or the direction of the attraction was incorrect.

After several failures, the energy of the High-grade Spirit Stone that Chen Mobai obtained from the Water Mansion was almost depleted to below 40%. If he failed again this time, he was planning to give up.

Fortunately, one wisp of Solar Vitality, perfectly guided by the Formless Puppet, fell from the Outside the Heavens Starry Sky towards the Fire Poison Land of Vermilion Cloud City.

Just as Chen Mobai concentrated all his attention on the Puppetry, he saw that the wisp of Solar Vitality falling towards him, upon contact with the outermost edge of the Earth Origin Star's atmosphere, vanished without a trace, like a drop of rain falling into a vast ocean, as if it had been merged into the ocean.

What's going on here?

Chen Mobai was completely confused. After hesitating for a long time, he still didn't call Che Yucheng to ask about it.

After all, once this matter is brought up, the High-grade Spirit Stone will definitely be exposed.

Although this teacher was very kind to me, High-grade Spirit Stone are practically strategic resources in the Immortal Sect. Even Golden Core True Person have to apply for them before they can use them.

Although he was known as the number one Foundation Establishment in the Immortal Sect, the origin of his High-grade Spirit Stone was completely inexplicable.

So after thinking it over, Chen Mobai decided to keep the matter to himself and suspend the condensation of Pure Yang Purple Qi.

Then, with a thought, he brought the Formless Puppet to the Crimson Cloud Mist Silk transformed into a streak of blue-red smoke, like a colorful cloud, and rapidly fell towards the ground.

When it landed above the Puppet Factory, a light red shield appeared out of thin air. This was Grand Array set up by Yun Yangbing. After a thousand saplings were planted, it had taken shape. Although its power had not yet reached its maximum, it already had the most basic protective capabilities.

Standing beside the Vermilion Fruit Tree, Chen Mobai waved his hand, and the protective Grand Array covering the entire Fire Poison Land immediately opened a gap large enough for the Formless Puppet to pass through.

As Chen Mobai witnessed the Crimson Cloud Mist Silk passing through the Array Formation above, a sudden inspiration struck him.

He suddenly looked up at the sky.

He seemed to be deep in thought.

He remembered something: all the spiritual energy of the entire Earth Origin Star, including the energy from the stars in the Outside the Heavens, had been suppressed and controlled by the Immortal Sect. So, was the Solar Vitality he had drawn down using the Formless Puppet absorbed and refined by the Grand Array set up by the Immortal Sect that covered the entire star the moment it fell into the Earth Origin Star Fetal Membrane?

It's as if if he, the master of the Array Formation, didn't untie the opening, the Formless Puppet would need the power to break the entire Array Formation in order to enter this Fire Poison Land.

He condensed Pure Yang Purple Qi within the territory of the Immortal Sect, but the Solar Vitality he painstakingly drew down was intercepted and refined by the Immortal Sect Grand Array the moment he entered the Earth Origin Star.

Although it was just his own guess, based on the rumors he had heard since childhood, and recalling the scene of the Solar Vitality falling like water melting into the sea, Chen Mobai felt that the truth should be just like that.

[Let's go to the Eastern Wasteland and test it out, to see if that's really the case.]

All the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy of the Earth Origin Star, whether underground, Outside the Heavens, or between heaven and earth, has been suppressed and controlled by the Immortal Sect.

But Chen Mobai also has another cultivation world with a sun.

However, before teleporting, he went to the Puppet Factory's warehouse first.

One hundred thousand sheets of top-grade first-level snow-white Talisman Paper were neatly stacked on the shelf.

This is the output of the Puppet Factory in the ten days since it started operating, which is equivalent to the output of the Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory in the first quarter.

With the inexhaustible supply of Crimson Sun Spirit Tree materials from the Divine Tree Secret Realm, Chen Mobai spared no expense on the cost of spiritual electricity, maximizing the efficiency of this Puppet Factory.

However, since these Talisman Paper lack proof of the spirit tree, if they were to suddenly circulate in large quantities in the Immortal Sect market, they would easily attract the attention of market regulators.

Chen Mobai was a patient person. He first took out twice the annual output of Talisman Paper Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory Puppet Factory factory, and planned to sell the rest to the Eastern Wasteland.

He took 12,000 Talisman Paper and scanned them with his Spiritual Sense. He found that most of them were qualified first-grade high-quality talismans, but about 2% were first-grade mid-quality talismans. However, there were no Grade 1 Low Rank that were supposed to be defective.

Besides the fact that the equipment in his Puppet Factory was brand new, the raw wood of the Crimson Sun Spirit Tree was also rich in Wood Spiritual Qi, so the pulp produced was naturally of high quality.

When Chen Mobai was young, the Talisman Paper he cut to earn pocket money was the defective product from the Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory. These were usually bought by students, and using these Grade 1 Low Rank Talisman Paper to get started was just right.

Defective products were also a benefit for the employees of the Soaring Heavens Talisman Factory. When Wu Shangru was still the boss, he would give them directly to the employees.

Chen Mobai, carrying a storage bag full of Talisman Paper, teleported to Little South Mountain.

"Greetings, Master."

Before long, all three of his disciples who had received his message that he had left the pass came over.

"Well, there haven't been any major events in the sect lately, have there?"

Chen Mobai stood in front of the wooden house and skillfully inquired about the situation.

"Reporting to Master, it's nothing serious. However, a few days ago, the Sect Leader led a group of people to visit Golden Light Cliff. Before leaving, he seemed to want to take you, the sect's number one Sword Cultivator, with him, but I told him that you were in seclusion, so the Sect Leader gave up on that idea."

The one who said this was Luo Yixuan.

Within the sect, she was responsible for communicating with the other Foundation Establishment True Cultivator on behalf of Chen Mobai. Messages sent by Chu Zuoshu to Little South Mountain in the name of the Chu Zuoshu Sect Leader would be forwarded to her when Chen Mobai was in seclusion and no one was available to receive them.

"Golden Light Cliff! What a pity. If I could communicate with the Sword Cultivator of this sect, my swordsmanship would definitely improve greatly."

Hearing this, Chen Mobai couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

As brother sects sharing the same roots, the Divine Wood Sect sends a group of Sword Cultivator to Golden Light Cliff every year for exchange and learning. Chen Mobai had longed to go there since he was still Qi Refining.

At that time, he was thinking of Foundation Establishment first, and he always felt that the Eastern Wasteland was dangerous, so he didn't want to go out.

As a result, it dragged on year after year until he became the Chief, then Foundation Establishment, and it's been like this ever since.

Although Chen Mobai is known as the number one Sword Cultivator of the Divine Wood Sect in the Eastern Wasteland, and even has the title of the Eastern Wasteland Second Sword, Chen Mobai himself knows that his swordsmanship is purely based on his high level of cultivation to bully others.

Compared to sword cultivators like those at Golden Light Cliff, whose Sword Cultivator levels were all improved through battles and fights, their foundation was rather weak.

Chen Mobai currently relies on the power of Sword Light or sword aura to overpower opponents. If he could go to Golden Light Cliff, he would surely be able to make up for his shortcomings in using techniques.

"Master, there is one more thing. Now that you are the garrison commander of Jian Country, you should, in principle, make a trip to inspect the five major markets of Jian Country."

The eldest disciple, Liu Wenbai, spoke up to remind him.

"Well, the reason I came out of seclusion this time is because of this matter. It has been delayed for almost three months, and spring is almost over. If it is delayed any longer, it will be a bit unreasonable."

Chen Mobai originally planned to take some time at the beginning of the year to make an inspection tour, get to know the heads of the major Cultivating Family, and then hand the matter over to Liu Wenbai.

However, the Puppet Factory was more complicated than he had imagined. In addition, the exams for the Dao Academy and the Second-tier Talisman Master had delayed the matter until now.

But this is actually just right.

"Ming'er, sort these Talisman Paper into groups of 12."

Zhuo Ming stared blankly as Chen Mobai tossed out a large pile of high-quality Talisman Paper from his storage bag.