I Accumulate Spirit Roots for My Next Life - Chapter 100 - 8: Qi Cultivation Perfection

Chapter 100: Chapter 8: Qi Cultivation Perfection

Senior Hua is a true Puppet Master, and furthermore, a Tier Two Middle-Level Puppet Master.

Puppet Masters hold the highest starting threshold among the myriad arts of cultivating immortality,

because the crafting of puppets in this realm requires Metal Element magical power for the source, Fire Element pill fire to forge its form, Wood Element magical power to connect its veins, and finally a powerful Divine Soul to awaken its spirit!

Three types of elemental magical power must be practiced from the foundation.

This necessitates that Puppet Masters must have at least lower-grade Spirit Roots in Metal, Fire, and Wood Elements to be able to learn the corresponding cultivation techniques.

This alone excludes eighty percent of cultivators, just like in Li Jizhou’s previous life, where he only had lower-grade Spirit Roots in Fire and Wood Elements, while the other three elements were inferior grade, making it impossible to learn puppetry skills.

Moreover, like in Li Jizhou’s current life at the Inverted Mountain, at the starting stage, just to practice one primary cultivation technique, he had to go to great lengths to earn a living to sustain his cultivation, and there the Spiritual Qi was both barren and unstable, making even the practice of one technique arduous, leaving no energy for practicing two techniques.

Whereas Puppet Masters must learn at least three techniques from the beginning.

This starting stage is incredibly difficult.

Besides three types of elemental magical power, there is also a high requirement for the Divine Soul.

Senior Hua is at the Early Stage of Foundation Establishment, yet his Divine Soul is not weaker than average at this stage, already reaching the Divine Sense of the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment, and despite this, he often needs to take Soul Condensing Pills in hopes of further enhancing his Divine Sense.

Only those who truly love it rarely go to study puppetry skills.

Besides, puppets have a notable downside; Tier One puppets are mediocre in power, even weaker than cultivators of the same stage and are also costly, where the material costs are enough to buy a magical artifact or talisman with greater power.

For instance, Senior Hua gave Li Jizhou this Tier One Late Stage puppet, with material costs of at least a hundred Spirit Stones.

However, its power is estimated to be about the same as a cultivator at the Middle Stage of Qi Cultivation, with low cost-effectiveness, generally only used for labor tasks.

The early stage for Puppet Masters is indeed grueling, but once you endure Tier One and become a Tier Two Puppet Master, sweetness follows bitterness.

Tier Two puppets undergo a qualitative leap compared to Tier One, not only due to significant enhancements in crafting techniques and materials but also by incorporating a Demon Core into the main material, allowing the puppet to absorb the abilities of the Demon Core and develop Innate Divine Abilities, making it more than twice as powerful as its counterparts at the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Regardless of combat or tactical defense, they become the top choice!

Prices naturally increase accordingly.

A Tier Two early-level middle-grade combat puppet is valued at over a thousand, and profits start at half!

Senior Hua’s earlier life was impoverished and he contemplated giving up countless times, only to persist for a peculiar reason.

Finally, ten years ago, he thrived after enduring hardships, since then attaining wealth and stability.

His experience is called inspirational among the upper circles of the Upper City District.

After everyone left, Li Jizhou took out the puppet given by Senior Hua to study.

Upon activation, a life-like human figure, clad in clothing, appeared; however, the exposed skin clearly showed it was made of a wood-like material.

Nonetheless, Senior Hua’s craftsmanship is admirable, so well-carved and lifelike.

Tier Two puppets can use the skin and flesh of Demon Beasts as surface material, with some looking indistinguishable from humans.

After a moment of careful study, Li Jizhou followed Senior Hua’s Puppet Control Skill instructions to inject a thread of his Divine Soul into the puppet’s brain core, instantly establishing ownership and imbuing it with instructions akin to setting a thinking model, after which it can autonomously act according to the owner’s set thinking mode.

For example, if Li Jizhou set it to protection and attack mode, upon being attacked, it would prioritize protecting Li Jizhou and then initiate an attack on the assailant—a relentless pursuit unless ordered by Li Jizhou to stop.

However, for this Tier One puppet, Li Jizhou did not have high expectations, directly setting it to main modes such as cleaning and labor.

Once ownership was established, Li Jizhou attempted to control it for a while and found it satisfactory.

Then he recalled the family of three he’d poisoned at Inverted Mountain, where the old man had Tier One puppet inheritance and a very rudimentary laborer puppet.

Li Jizhou had previously planned to practice puppetry once he had ample time after reaching Foundation Establishment, intending to learn it as best as he could.

Thus, the inheritance puppet in his storage bag remained unused.

Then he released that rudimentary laborer puppet.

Comparing the two, the former seemed like a paper figurine.

With a strategic thought, the puppet gifted by Senior Hua leapt up and shattered the paper figure laborer with one kick.

After examining the old man’s Tier One puppet inheritance, a surge of pill fire emerged from his palm, burning the inheritance Jade Talisman to ashes.

Nearly all Tier One inheritances are worthless, readily available on the market, unless it’s relatively advanced inheritance.

And this old man’s puppet inheritance was only common lower-grade, worthless.

“Once I reach Foundation Establishment, I can study a Metal Element cultivation technique, devoting brief daily periods to puppet study!” Li Jizhou devised his plan.

Having no usage for Tier One, it’s inconsequential, but if he finds advancement difficult in this life, he can at least accumulate puppet proficiency for the next reincarnation.

——

With the first success, yielding delightful results, requests naturally kept flowing.

As more sought out Li Jizhou for pill-making assistance, he established his own rules.

Accepting only one order per month.

Prioritizing the eight Foundation Establishment seniors who aided him in demon hunting at Purple Vine Mountain.

Thusly,

After one year, he adeptly controlled the Anomalous Fire, commanding it with precision, ensuring a thirty percent premium rate for Tier Two early-level pills through intense control!

However, while concocting pills for these patrons, he deliberately curtailed the Anomalous Fire at the last minute, dropping the pill’s grade to oscillate around their expected value, gradually increasing it.

And now, the Ninth Level of Qi Cultivation is nearing completion.

This year marks the twenty-fourth year since the awakening of Innate Wisdom in this life, making him forty years old!

Six months later, having consolidated the Ninth Level of Qi Cultivation, Li Jizhou headed towards the main hall of Miaodan Tower.

He had queued for Foundation Establishment Pill purchasing eligibility for two and a half years, and now with Qi Cultivation reaching completion, it was time to inquire about it.

According to his current Ninth Level of Qi Cultivation, normally the Divine Soul’s strength reaches only the Early Stage of Foundation Establishment, making the creation of Tier Two early-level pills the limit.

While Foundation Establishment Pills belong to Tier Two Middle-Level, they can’t be exceeded for now.

Meanwhile, in the Miaodan Tower’s main hall’s back courtyard.

Steward Chen respectfully stood before the chief shopkeeper of Miaodan Tower’s main hall: “Elder Xu, that youngster advanced to Tier Two Pill Master a year ago and has concocted numerous Tier Two early-level pills over the year; I specifically examined his Tier Two pill concoctions, and his methods are orthodox and his skills commendable.”

The chief shopkeeper of Miaodan Tower’s main hall is concurrently the Fake Pill Second Elder of Golden Sun Sect’s Miaodan Peak.

“Hmm, a promising young man, much more talented than I was back then. Alas, when he attended our Golden Sun Sect’s entrance test, he only had Fire and Wood lower-grade Spirit Roots, and failed the intelligence assessment, otherwise, it would have been exceptional had he joined our Miaodan Peak.” Elder Xu listened to Steward Chen’s report while reviewing all information regarding Li Jizhou, ultimately sighing.

After pondering, he slightly frowns and states, “Approve the special use of Middle Grade Foundation Establishment Pill; he has used a potent pill to forcefully elevate his stage, transitioning into Foundation Establishment may not be so straightforward.”

“I will adhere to Elder Xu’s instructions!” Steward Chen bowed.

“With the acquisition of a Middle Grade Foundation Establishment Pill, should we start advertising?”

“Indeed!”

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