Battle of the Roads

Chapter 491 The Puppet Auction

Puppets are not uncommon in the world of comprehension, they can be found in many shops in the city, but these puppets that exist in large numbers are basically puppets of the Qi training stage, but puppets above the foundation stage are very few, and the price is expensive .

This is mainly because there are very few monks who refine puppets in the foundation-building period, and there are few people who know the secret art of puppets, and things are rare in the cultivation world. Handing over the puppet's secret technique in the foundation building period is tantamount to smashing his own job.

In addition to the fact that there are few monks who know how to refine, it is also related to the very high cost of puppets in the foundation building period. The puppets in the Qi training period may only need a few hundred or a few thousand spirit stones to refine.

However, the cost of the puppet in the foundation building period has directly surpassed one hundred thousand spirit stones.

Take the Dzogchen puppets refined by Fang Zhe as an example. The price of various materials in Tianmenhai is cheaper than that in Qizhou, so the cost is much lower than before. For the puppets of the Dzogchen in the base period, the cost of materials alone must reach 30 to [-] spirit stones.

This cost is only the cost of materials, and the cost of refining failure has not been included. You must know that even Fang Zhe, who can skillfully refine the Dzogchen puppets in the foundation establishment period, has a success rate of about half at most. In this way, On average, for every foundation-building stage Dzogchen puppet that is successfully refined, the cost of materials alone reaches about 60 spirit stones.

And strictly speaking, the cost of materials is okay. What is more expensive is the time cost of a puppet master. A puppet master who can refine puppets in the foundation establishment stage can already be regarded as a top-level puppet master. Their time cost is very high. of.

A similar situation also happened to alchemists and formation masters. Those alchemists help people refine a batch of high-level elixir, and only the handling fee is a million spirit stones to start with. Otherwise, they would not help you refine it at all.

After all, these puppet masters and alchemists need to spend time refining pills and puppets, and the time spent on refining pills and puppets means reducing the time for daily practice.

This will inevitably affect the cultivation progress of the monk himself.

This is also the reason why Fang Zhe only refines puppets in his spare time, even though he knows that if he keeps refining puppets day and night, he will earn more spirit stones, but he still won't do it.

Most of his time is still used for cultivation.

The combination of many factors has led to the high price of puppets in the foundation building period. This is the same whether it is in Zhao, Qizhou, or Tianmenhai.

The objective laws of the cultivation world will not change because of the lack of resources in different places.

Of course, because Lingshi is relatively scarce in Tianmenhai, and because the prices of all kinds of treasures are also lower than those in Qizhou, the price of Fang Zhe's puppet refining materials is about a quarter cheaper than that in Qizhou. In other words, Fang Zhe estimated that the puppet of the Dzogchen in the foundation period he brought would cost about 160 million, which is basically equivalent to the price of 200 million spirit stones sold in Qizhou.

However, when the auction was held, he was pleasantly surprised by the enthusiasm shown by the many monks in Tianmenhai.

In order to really know what price the puppets he refined could be auctioned off, and whether the spirit stones he earned could meet his future training needs, Fang Zhe went to the auction to participate in the auction.

This time the auction was held by Tianmen Chamber of Commerce, the most powerful chamber of commerce in Tianmenhai. Well, the Tianmen sect must occupy the bulk of it.

Basically, there are shops belonging to the Tianmen Chamber of Commerce in the medium and large islands of the Tianmen Sea.

The Tianmen Chamber of Commerce, like other large chambers of commerce, holds a large-scale auction every few years, and this auction is the five-year large-scale auction of the Tianmen Chamber of Commerce.

The auction is divided into auctions for ordinary monks, and auctions for middle and high-level monks. It is said that all the auction items can reach thousands of varieties.

Fang Zhe's puppets were auctioned at the high-level auction. Although it was not the finale auction item and the price was not the highest, the more than 200 puppets at the high-level auction were the most popular auction items among monks.

Because there is also a great shortage of puppets in the foundation-building period in Tianmen Haili, and puppets of such strength as the Great Perfection in the foundation-building period have not appeared for many years. The attention of the foundation building stage monks, and even many alchemy stage monks want to buy it.

A puppet of Dzogchen in the foundation-building period is enough to become his trump card for any monk in the foundation-building period. If a monk in the early foundation-building period has a puppet of Dzogchen in the foundation-building period, he can completely compete with monks in the late foundation-building period, or even build a puppet. The monks of the Dzogchen period in the base period compete with each other.

This can directly improve the combat effectiveness of foundation-building stage monks more than top-grade spiritual weapons, because top-quality spiritual weapons are very restrictive in use, and it is impossible for monks in the late foundation-building period to fully exert the power of top-quality spiritual weapons.

However, as for the puppet, although manipulating the puppet also has certain requirements on the spiritual consciousness and cultivation base of the monk, the requirements are not too high. As long as the difference between the realms of each other is not too big, then there is no big problem.

A monk in the late stage of Qi training can also control a puppet in the early or even middle stage of foundation establishment, and a monk in the early stage of foundation establishment can completely control a puppet in the foundation stage of Dzogchen cultivation.

Whether monks can use puppets is largely not limited by their own cultivation and the strength of their spiritual consciousness, but by spirit stones.

The price of puppets is very expensive, even the puppets in the Qi training period are not cheap, and the puppets in the foundation building period can easily be hundreds of thousands.

The price of a Dzogchen puppet in the Foundation Establishment Stage has reached about 200 million spirit stones. This price is not cheap even for monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage, let alone those ordinary Foundation Establishment Stage monks.

The net worth of ordinary foundation-building stage monks is only tens of thousands of spirit stones. Only some foundation-building stage monks who have special opportunities or have the support of elders behind them can spend hundreds of thousands or millions of spirit stones.

Secondly, puppets are different from spirit beasts. You don’t need to spend any extra spirit stones to drive spirit beasts to fight, but if you want puppets to fight, you have to provide a lot of spirit stones, otherwise the puppet is a dead thing.

So even though theoretically a monk in the Qi training stage can drive a puppet in the foundation stage as long as he has enough spirit stones, in reality, such a thing rarely happens.

However, there has never been a lack of rich monks in the cultivation world. When Fang Zhe's puppet was auctioned, almost at the beginning, there were many monks bidding. After only more than ten rounds of quotations, the price of his puppet has already It was bid up to 200 million spirit stones, and this price has exceeded Fang Zhe's psychological expectations.

(End of this chapter)