"The Blood-Transforming Pool, the Blood-Transforming Divine Art... essentials for the man-eating approach!"
"Though I dislike that path, I have to admit they're superb tools for feeding war with war."
"If I had them and charged into the Star Sea, slaughtering in every direction, wouldn't that mean an endless supply of energy reserves?"
"Besides, if I obtain top-grade Demon Cores in the future, I could process them further myself instead of having to sell them to someone else."
After listening to Mu Qing's explanation, Li Chen thought of many things.
In the world of Puppet Masters, low-ranking Puppet Masters lacked the expertise to fully utilize their various resources and materials. They had no choice but to sell their hard-earned gains for a pittance, then pay high prices to buy finished products back from High Rank Puppet Masters. This happened over and over, every moment of every day.
This was the so-called "price scissors."
High Rank Puppet Masters could exploit their superior skills to squeeze and plunder cultivators from all quarters, and the world's Cultivation Provisions and various treasured materials would naturally gather around them.
Yet even knowing this, no one could do anything about it.
When ordinary powerhouses plundered outright, killing people for their treasures, you at least had a chance of escaping. This method, however, was inescapable.
It operated on a large scale, as part of a system. The only escape was to imitate the Ancient Cultivators, shutting yourself away to cultivate and having no contact whatsoever with the outside world.
In practice, however, a Puppet Master simply could not refuse all exchange. The only way out of this predicament was to cultivate to High Rank and master more related skills and secret arts of creation.
Having lived two lives, Li Chen naturally understood this more deeply than ordinary young