"Let's try it!" No sooner had the thought occurred than he acted. With a flick of his wrist, several hundred Red River Crystals flew out. He spread his five fingers, gripping a mass of scarlet aura in his palm, and the crystals turned to powder.
It was the spiritual energy contained within the crystals.
With a flick of his finger, the spiritual energy entered the puppet's body and was absorbed completely in the blink of an eye.
Whoosh!
Like an engine supplied with fuel, the puppet took several steps forward. Just as Nie Yun's face lit up with delight, it stopped.
"This consumption is far too great..."
The energy provided by more than a dozen crystals was only enough for this puppet to walk a few steps. Even if he converted the more than one million crystals in his possession entirely into spiritual energy, they would not last long.
"The consumption of a Peak Emperor Realm expert is immense to begin with. Though these Red River Crystals are decent, they are merely ordinary spirit stones. They are of little use even for ordinary cultivation, much less for maintaining operation..."
Nie Yun rubbed his brow.
While Peak Emperor Realm experts possessed formidable strength, their consumption was equally enormous. Just as a horse had to eat much to run fast, the Red River Crystals in his possession were merely currency used by ordinary people for trade. They might be greatly useful to King Realm experts for cultivation, but to someone of Elder Liu Xia's level, they were already of little use. Using them to drive a puppet of this level could not provide power for long, either.
"Extracting all the spiritual energy from the Red River spirit stones in my possession could indeed keep the puppet running for a while, but... if