He sat cross-legged, pondering for a long time.
Li Ping shook his head, then rose and left the room for the courtyard.
He had now squeezed every last bit of value from Yan Liming's living soul, and felt it was time to feed it to the Inheritance Tree as nourishment.
Whoosh!
He took a section of millennial ironwood, as thick as the mouth of a bowl and roughly ten feet long, from his Storage Bag and stood it upright in the courtyard.
Next, he took out a hundred thumb-sized, multicolored spirit stones and placed them beside the millennial ironwood. These were all Middle-Grade Spirit Stones of various attributes.
Then Li Ping beckoned lightly, summoning the tireless, uncomplaining Ten-Thousand-Work Puppet.
Lastly, he drew Yan Liming's living soul out of the Purifying Bottle once more.
One section of millennial ironwood, one third-tier living soul, a hundred Middle-Grade Spirit Stones, and, most importantly, the Ten-Thousand-Work Puppet, which embodied the prized techniques of generations of puppet masters from the Heavenly Craft Sect.
Li Ping had gathered all the nourishment required to inherit the memories of a third-tier puppet master developed by the Heavenly Craft Sect.
In truth, Li Ping was quite reluctant to feed the Ten-Thousand-Work Puppet to the Inheritance Tree.
After all, most of the materials used to refine this puppet were third-tier. It could only display second-tier combat power because it had been damaged.
Its toughness still rivaled that of a Treasure, however, making it barely half a step into the third tier. Melting it down just like this seemed quite a waste.
But then he remembered that the old had to go before the new could come. Once he learned the art of puppet crafting, he could make not only second-tier puppets, but third-tier ones as well. Li Ping made up