"That's the Feng Household's heirloom, the four-star Battle Puppet, the Jade-Eyed Fire Thunder Beast!"
As the crowd below discussed it in shock, Li Chen, You Renzhi, and Fu Wei, who followed close behind, each watched it with an inscrutable expression.
Li Chen noticed that a rogue cultivator from Suyang beside him even betrayed a hint of envy and greed, seemingly coveting it.
"They say that after Feng Mingzhu of the Feng Household advanced to Foundation Establishment, he used the Mechanism Device 'Red Lotus' to defeat every opponent in Suyang. He won the position of city lord and founded the Feng Household's two-hundred-year dynasty."
"But the object that truly made the Feng Household famous, the one everyone talks about, isn't that Mechanism Device, Red Lotus. It's something else."
"It's this four-star Mecha, the Jade-Eyed Fire Thunder Beast, modified from an ordinary beast-shaped Mecha!"
"Building it consumed a great deal of the Feng Household's Cultivation Provisions, along with treasured materials normally reserved for the Core Formation Realm. Even now, the entire Feng Household hasn't managed to produce a second one."
"This is a true family heirloom, something ordinary rogue cultivators can't build. They could only obtain one through extraordinary luck."
There was a kind of encounter called a fortuitous encounter, one that could grant even an ordinary rogue cultivator wealth comparable to the foundations of an aristocratic clan or household.
But in this world, without cultivating strength and gathering Cultivation Provisions, it was difficult to amass such a fortune or manufacture such a Puppet.
Ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators could, at most, use three-star Puppets and three-star Mechanism Devices.
Four-star equipment already offered an overwhelming advantage. More than eighty percent of Foundation Establishment cultivators possessed no such treasure.
Li Chen knew why that rogue cultivator from Suyang had shown such an expression. The