Chapter 182 – Performance Puppet


Half a month had passed in the blink of an eye.

Chen Mobai had worked hard chopping wood, and finally put an end to the Red Sun Wood business of the New Sprout Hall.

Yu Lian, Luo Yixiu, and Luo Yixuan each contributed 100 lower-grade spirit stones to him. From Liu Wenbo, he only took the market price, earning 50 spirit stones.

Out of this, he spent 100 spirit stones to buy Yuan Chiyi’s storage bag.

Adding to what Chen Mobai had before, he now had a huge sum of 280 spirit stones.

After establishing a good relationship with Yuan Chiyi, Chen Mobai handed over his share of the Red Sun Wood and took a two-and-a-half-month leave.

He wanted to focus on the Dance Instrument Dao Academy because he was falling behind in his studies.

Chen Mobai chose “Talisman” and “Puppet” as his major courses.

He chose “Talisman Ink Extraction”, “Calligraphy”, “Spiritual Tool Design and Automation”, and “Agriculture” as his elective courses.

Among these, “Calligraphy” is the foundation of talisman, and if you want to major in talisman, this elective must be chosen.

As for “Agriculture”, Chen Mobai originally did not plan to choose it.

After all, with two majors and three electives, as long as all are passed, there are 12 credits.

Even if one elective is failed, there are exactly 10 credits, which can pass the final exam.

But the problem is that among the thirteen people in the “Deification Class”, the least number of people chose two majors and four electives.

The most extreme one chose three majors and six electives, and this was only because freshmen could only choose so many, otherwise, they would probably choose more.

And those who chose so many were not showing off, but really had the strength.

Those who can enter the Dance Instrument Dao Academy are at least top students, and those who are confident to choose the Deification method are the top among the top students, all of them are gods of learning.

In order to fit in, Chen Mobai had to choose “Agriculture”, which he was interested in, with tears in his eyes.

He originally wanted to wait until his sophomore year to choose this course, and if he had spare time in the following years, he would expand to the major course of “Spiritual Plants”.

Today, he was attending a “Puppet” course.

On the podium, the silver-haired old man Che Yucheng was talking about the origin of the Formless Puppet, the Performance Puppet.

Because everyone’s physique and talent are different, the same method will show various subtle differences when practiced by different people. If you want the method to perfectly fit yourself, you need to adjust according to your own characteristics.

But those who can do this are at least the Taoist masters who have reached the Foundation Establishment stage.

Taoist masters are rare, and it is absolutely impossible for them to adjust the method for every Qi Refining cultivator.

But if their own descendants and close relatives pray, the Taoist masters who have reached the Foundation Establishment stage will occasionally do so.

One of the puppet masters had a burst of inspiration when he was customizing a method for his daughter, and created the “Performance Puppet”.

The puppet master made a puppet that was exactly the same as his daughter according to her body data, and then let it run the method. Through constant trial and error, he continuously improved and adjusted, and finally perfectly created the Qi Refining method that was most suitable for his daughter.

Later generations were inspired by the Performance Puppet and further created the Formless Puppet that simulated the Foundation Establishment process.

Then, they added functions such as simulating cultivation, simulating realm breakthrough, simulating method operation, and so on.

After the Foundation Establishment, the Formless Puppet also reserved the function of simulating the Divine Transformation.

However, due to the lack of spirit stones, this step has not been developed yet.

But even such a Formless Puppet is already considered the pinnacle of puppet art.

Halfway through listening, Chen Mobai’s mind was full of “Performance Puppets”.

He recently started practicing the Longevity Sutra, but after lacking the conditions of the Earth Element Star, the transition was difficult, and he hadn’t even started yet. This made Chen Mobai decide to give up the Two-Phase Method and focus on the Pure Yang Scroll.

However, the progress of the Pure Yang Scroll was not fast, which made him even more troubled.

After class, Chen Mobai immediately ran to Che Yucheng and asked if there were any “Performance Puppets” in the academy that he could apply to use.

“This needs to be customized, and you can’t use the Performance Puppets in the academy.”

Hearing this, Chen Mobai looked disappointed.

“But I have a student who has several replicas of the Formless Puppet, which also have the function of the Performance Puppet. As long as you input your body model data, the effect is almost the same as that of the Performance Puppet.”

Che Yucheng gave Chen Mobai a phone number and let him contact it himself.

This senior was named Chai Lun!

He was an eighth-grade student of the Dance Instrument Dao Academy. Because the production and maintenance of puppets required a lot of investment, he opened an online store to sell his own works and those of his classmates in the Puppet major.

As the pinnacle of puppet art, the “Formless Puppet” was naturally regarded as a graduation challenge by many students of “Puppet Studies”.

Chai Lun had three replicas left by the graduates.

Although the effect was not as good as the original Formless Puppet, it was more than enough to be used as a Performance Puppet.

Chen Mobai was very interested.

He asked about the price.

Chai Lun said that it could be rented by the number of times, or it could be bought outright.

Renting was cheaper, with a fee of 10,000 Good Deeds each time.

The outright purchase was high, and it actually cost 500,000 Good Deeds.

Because he didn’t know how effective these replicas were compared to the Formless Puppet, Chen Mobai wanted to see for himself, and it would be best to test it.

Chai Lun naturally welcomed this.

He rented a warehouse outside the academy as a studio, and he was going there today.

Upon hearing this, Chen Mobai immediately asked him for the address.

“You seem quite anxious.”

Chai Lun was a burly tall man. As he came from the dormitory, he saw Chen Mobai waiting at the warehouse entrance.

“Recently, I’ve had many doubts during my cultivation process. The progress of transitioning to the Pure Yang Scroll is slow, and I’m really a bit impatient.”

Chen Mobai showed a helpless expression, but he was telling the truth.

Upon hearing that Chen Mobai had chosen to cultivate the Pure Yang Scroll, Chai Lun couldn’t help but give him a thumbs up, expressing his admiration.

“I have three here, two are for the deduction of fire attribute techniques, and one is for the deduction of wood attribute techniques. The prices are all the same. You should want one of the fire ones, right?”

After entering the warehouse, Chai Lun pointed to three life-sized cyclops puppets hanging on the wall.

“Eh, why is there only one number dial?”

Chen Mobai remembered that the Formless Puppets had a number dial that could be rotated in each of their left and right eye areas.

“Although these three graduated seniors are also prodigies, they definitely can’t compare to Teacher Che. It’s already quite good that they can imitate to this level.”

Upon hearing Chen Mobai’s words, Chai Lun explained with a bitter smile.

The left eye dial of the Formless Puppet could deduce the cultivation of the nine levels of Qi Refining, while the right eye dial represented the Foundation Establishment level.

Originally, there should also be a number dial representing the Golden Core realm on the forehead.

However, the Dao Institute lacked enough spirit stones as a power source, so they couldn’t test the theoretically simulated Golden Core, as well as the cultivation function after the Golden Core.


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