He truly had not expected it.
His status as the master of a Treasure Gathering Pavilion branch would bring him such enormous gains today.
Most importantly—
A precious treasure like the Nine-Turn Tribulation Lightning Pearl had actually been purchased directly from another's hands at an incredibly low price.
It was no different from a minor Qi Refinement cultivator walking down the street and suddenly finding a Storage Pouch in his hand.
And the person who handed him that Storage Pouch asking for only a single Spirit Stone in return.
Of course, the matter went far beyond that.
After returning home with doubts in his heart, he discovered that the Storage Pouch contained immense resources sufficient to support his cultivation all the way to the Golden Core Realm.
And even such an analogy seemed far less outrageous to He Song than what he had truly experienced.
The Nine-Turn Tribulation Lightning Pearl's value—
Could not simply be measured in resources.
Its significance to He Song was equally astonishing.
The immense lightning power within the Nine-Turn Tribulation Lightning Pearl would continuously recover, even grow stronger, as time passed and as it constantly absorbed the spiritual energy of the outside world.
Therefore, so long as the Nine-Turn Tribulation Lightning Pearl was given enough time—
Raising a Nascent Soul Puppet to a level comparable to Nascent Soul cultivators was truly only a matter of time.
Such an ability might indeed be nothing extraordinary to other Nascent Soul Cultivators, or even Nascent Soul cultivators.
After all, though the Nine-Turn Tribulation Lightning Pearl was powerful, the time needed to raise a Nascent Soul Puppet's strength to a level comparable to Nascent Soul cultivators was still far too long.
But—
As an Immortal, He Song did not care about that at all.
For no matter how slowly the