It is always sad to be about to leave. Even if the two of them are intentionally making some jokes, they can never really be happy in their hearts.
Chen Guan didn't like that kind of atmosphere. He accompanied them in Qingshan Town for half a day. The next morning, he entered the Monster Mountain alone.
He only knew that the Soul Palace guardian was hiding in it, but the specific location was not clear.
Therefore, before Jia Xingtian arrived, he had better find the hiding place of Jiejie Monster.
A Dou Zong strongman, even if he is seriously injured, is really hard to find if he wants to hide.
But for Chen Guan, this problem is not difficult.
After entering the Monster Mountain, Chen Guan did not release his soul perception to search immediately. Even though he has a strong mental power, the Monster Mountain is so big that he can't support searching inch by inch.
Moreover, it is easy to alert the enemy.
Therefore, some small tricks came in handy.
It took half an hour for Chen Guan to kill dozens of descendants of his old friend, the Red Ice Snake King.
I have to say, there are so many of these things, and they like to move in groups of three or five, which makes it convenient to hunt them.
After opening a cave on the cliff and letting a puppet guard outside, Chen Guan took out the body of a red ice snake.
Because he deliberately controlled it when hunting, the body was very complete.
A dagger appeared in his hand, and he skillfully cut a hole three inches below the red ice snake.
The powerful mental power came out from the center of his eyebrows, and Chen Guan quickly sketched it in the body of the red ice snake. In less than ten minutes, a simple puppet formation was successfully engraved.
Leaving a trace of brand, taking out a first-level magic core and filling it into the center of the puppet formation to provide energy, Chen Guan immediately felt that he had established a mysterious connection with it.
Closing his eyes, a picture like a radar appeared in his mind, and he could clearly sense the energy fluctuations around it.
For example, now, Chen Guan did not use his own mental power, and completely used the red ice snake to detect, and found that there was a not very strong energy fluctuation on the cliff, probably at the level of a second-level magic beast.
In order to verify the accuracy, Chen Guan took out a Dou Wang-level puppet to hunt, and soon, the puppet returned with a fire fox.
It was indeed a second-level monster!
Satisfied with the fire fox corpse, Chen Guan simply sutured the wound of the red ice snake. With a slight thought, the dead red ice snake actually moved strangely. If you don't see its wound, just look at it with the naked eye, except that you can feel that it is a little stiff, everything is no different from a normal red ice snake.
"Although it is a defective product and will be scrapped after one use, it is not bad to be able to detect a thousand-meter range."
Muttering, leaving the red ice snake aside, Chen Guan worked hard and took out the second red ice snake corpse.
What he is making now is a special function of tracking puppets, which can be used to explore the way, search for prey, etc. It's
just that the normal tracking puppet is a second-level puppet, and his is a disposable toy that has not entered the level.
The orthodox puppet master can refine puppets in three steps.
First, materials are needed to refine the puppet body.
For example, some spiritual wood, rare iron, etc., are used to create the body. The higher the grade of the puppet, the more demanding the materials required.
This step is relatively simple in refining puppets.
After completing the body, it is the most important second step.
Use mental power to engrave the puppet array. Different puppet arrays have different functions. A high-level puppet has an astonishing number of puppet arrays in its body.
Combat puppet formations are the most complex and the most common. Therefore, most puppets' attack methods are relatively simple, crude, and formatted.
Puppet formations are similar to the alchemist's recipes in some aspects.
The higher the level of the puppets, the more puppet formations need to be engraved. This is a process that consumes a lot of mental energy.
Therefore, Teacher Shu Tianhe said that the requirements for soul strength of puppet masters are no worse than those of alchemists, and even more so.
After engraving the puppet formation, the second step is not over. At this time, it is just like cutting the side dishes when cooking. You need to connect these puppet formations together in one go to complete the second step.
Once the mental power can no longer support the connection, the previous efforts will be scrapped. Before the engraved puppet formation is connected as a whole, it is difficult to maintain for a long time, just like the side dishes expire at a very fast speed. If you want to connect them again, you can only start over.
However, one thing that is better than the alchemist is that when refining puppets, except for some special materials, most of them can be recycled, unlike refining medicine, where the medicinal materials are gone once they are destroyed.
This is also the reason why Chen Guan's teacher asked him to dismantle the puppets instead of completely destroying them when facing the attack of the puppets in the stone chamber at the bottom of the lake.
Back to the topic, after successfully connecting all the puppet arrays in the second step, the refining of a puppet can be considered to be 99% successful.
The last step is to leave your own soul imprint to recognize the master. Before the eighth level, the puppet will not give birth to its own spirituality and can be successful directly.
But after reaching the eighth level, the puppet has given birth to its own spirituality. If you want to leave a mark to make it completely recognize the master, it will be troublesome, which is equivalent to the alchemist's step of making pills.
Of course, there are also some special means that can make it easier for you to leave a soul imprint, but let's not
talk about this for now. It should be noted here that not all puppets need magic cores to provide energy. This method is too dependent on the grade of the magic core. Once the energy in it is consumed, the puppet will be "dead" and the magic core needs to be replaced.
Moreover, if it is a puppet of a very high grade, there are certain requirements for the magic core attributes, and there are great restrictions.
Therefore, high-level puppets are all engraved with puppet formations that absorb the energy of heaven and earth in their bodies, so as to achieve self-sufficiency.
Because the puppet formation is very energy-consuming, low-level puppet masters sigh at this, so among the puppets of low grades, almost all use magic cores as energy drive.
Although the puppets that Chen Guan dismantled at the beginning were of low grade, there were no magic cores in their bodies. This was because the teacher's mental power was strong enough to engrave the puppet formation that absorbs the energy of heaven and earth.
After all, it is the same dumpling. Ordinary people can only use flour to wrap it, but capitalists can make it with gold. This is the same reason.
The tracking puppet that Chen Guan is making now uses the corpse of a first-level red ice snake as a ready-made body. Even the puppet formation is simply engraved once, and it is still driven by a first-level magic core. It can be said that it is all made of garbage, and the finished product is not enough to enter the grade.
According to his estimation, it will be scrapped after one use, and it is all disposable toys.
However, it is quite practical to use it to find the hidden guardians of the Soul Palace, and it is not easy to be detected. Red ice snakes are too common.
In addition, a proper tracking puppet is not limited to detecting within a kilometer range. The one it made casually is an exception.
This range is closely related to mental strength. This is the case for puppets below the eighth level. After exceeding a certain range, they can no longer be driven.
P.S.: I would like to take this opportunity to explain my settings for puppetry. I have tried to make it as simple and easy to understand as possible. I feel it should be easy to understand. I wonder if you can accept it.
It is quite troublesome to open a new profession. There are too many things that need to be improved. This is just a simple overview. I will give a more detailed explanation when it is used in the future, including comparison with the unorthodox puppetry of "evil ways" and so on.
In addition, I would like to ask for your requirements on the update time. I now update once at midnight, once in the morning, and once in the evening, which is a stable three updates.
(End of this chapter)