After several months of painstaking work.
Li Ping finally finished crafting the second-tier upper-grade puppet.
He controlled the puppet and tested its attacks, movement, defenses, and other capabilities in the courtyard. Overall, he was quite satisfied with it.
Equipped with specially crafted offensive and defensive magic artifacts, this puppet could be treated as a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator in battle.
The only thing that made Li Ping frown was its consumption of spirit stones.
A second-tier upper-grade puppet needed at least a Middle-Grade Spirit Stone as its power source, and once combat began, it burned through them extremely quickly.
Li Ping tested it. When operating a second-tier upper-grade defensive magic artifact and a second-tier upper-grade offensive magic artifact simultaneously, it would turn a Middle-Grade Spirit Stone to ash in roughly an hour.
A Middle-Grade Spirit Stone was worth a hundred low-grade spirit stones.
This was no battle of spells-it was burning spirit stones!
Fortunately, if it only performed everyday activities without fighting, its spirit stone consumption dropped considerably. Still, despite the steep cost of using puppets in combat, Li Ping intended to craft several more for protection.
He had mastered several high-level crafts, after all, and had no shortage of spirit stones.
Above the barren land of the Cloudmist Mountains.
Whoosh!
A black streak of escape light hurtled across the sky toward the Western Wasteland.
Within that black escape light was, naturally, Li Ping's Floating Shadow Shuttle.
A figure in black robes stood at the stern of the Flying Shuttle, guiding the flying boat forward, while Li Ping himself sat cross-legged, busy refining pills and making talismans.
The expressionless "cultivator" beneath the black robes was the second-tier upper-grade puppet Li Ping had recently crafted and named "Jia Yi."
In truth, aside from being unable to cultivate independently, Jia Yi