227 The Might of the Sacred Fire Sword (2/2)

Why was a Four stars Executor assessment so difficult? Mo Wen's eyes revealed a baffled look.

Based on the puppet's early conditions, it would be hard to pass without the cultivation of the Qi Nucleation realm. How did the previous Four stars Executors pass the assessment?

Mo Wen reassembled the Sacred Fire Sword into a belt. After hiding it on his person, his gaze shifted to the two halves of the puppet that lay unmoving on the ground.

He walked up to the two halves of the puppet. With one foot he stepped on the puppet's head, then punched hard on the position of the puppet's mouth.

The sound of metal clashing resounded. The puppet's mouth immediately sank in, the upper and lower jaws separating. Mo Wen used both his hands to grip the upper and lower jaw, and using his entire body's Inner Qi, he forcefully ripped open its mouth.

A milky white stone immediately dropped out of the puppet's ripped mouth and rolled onto the floor.

Mo Wen's eyes flashed with a glint of joy. He cast aside the puppet in his hands. With one hand he picked up the milky white stone and inspected it carefully.

A spiritual stone! As expected, it was a spiritual stone!

Mo Wen took a deep breath. The joy in his eyes did not fade. It turns out spiritual stones existed on Earth! He had always thought that on a planet so devoid of spiritual energy like Earth, it would be rare for a spiritual stone to appear.

After all, spiritual stones could only be produced from pure spiritual pulses. Normal spiritual pulses could not produce spiritual stones. On Earth, there probably weren't many spiritual pulses that could produce spiritual stones. He had never come across any.

But in that Immortal Cultivation world of his, spiritual stones were the most common of things. It also served as the immortal cultivator's most fundamental and crucial item. Without spiritual stones, many things in the Immortal Cultivation world would not exist.

Things such as the puppet's energy source were mostly spiritual stones. Although there were substitutes, they were much rarer than spiritual stones.

Things such as Immortal Cultivation world stratagems, without spiritual stones as energy sources, could not even activate on their own. Not everyone could arrange a stratagem that was synchronized with the heavens and earth, and that could activate itself by drawing energy from them.

The people who could set up such a stratagem were so few in the Immortal Cultivation world that they could be counted with a person's fingers.

It was said that the spiritual stones were the most fundamental things in the Immortal Cultivation world. Their importance needed no elaboration. In the Immortal Cultivation world, spiritual stones were like currency. They could be used no matter where you were, similar to the Huatian Palace's Contribution Credits.

However, the Contribution Credits could only be used in the Huatian Palace. They had no value of their own. Spiritual stones not only had many uses of their own, but could also be used all around the world as currency.

The spiritual stone before him was just one of the lowest grade spiritual stones. It had also used up one third of its spiritual energy from powering the puppet.

However, Mo Wen was not the least disappointed. One low grade spiritual stone was extremely valuable to him. Although he was not an immortal cultivator and could not absorb the spiritual energy stored inside it to cultivate, he could still use it for alchemy. With the aid of a spiritual stone, the certainty that he could concoct panacea went up another level.

Just as Mo Wen was prepared to search the puppet to see what other treasures it had on it, a beam of white light suddenly descended from the sky, engulfing Mo Wen's body. In an instant, it was as though Mo Wen was stuck in a sealed container. He could not move an inch from top to bottom.

Within the white beam of light, a beam of golden light quietly descended, shining on the Vermillion Bird Ring on Mo Wen's hand. The next moment, he noticed a slight change on the Vermillion Bird Ring. Two more stars had appeared on one side of the ring. Before, there had been only two. Now, there were four.

Just as he thought of this, a blue screen came out from the Vermillion Bird Ring. On the screen, a fire phoenix with its wings outstretched was displayed. It looked extremely lifelike. It was not a fire phoenix, but the Vermillion Bird that was one of China's Four Mythological Creatures, which was the symbol of the Vermillion Bird Palace Hall.

Mo Wen glanced at the screen. Except for a record of his identity, there wasn't much else. Only four stars that burned with golden flames were sparkling. The position for Contribution Credits in the upper right hand corner was still at zero.

After completing the Vermillion Bird Ring upgrade, the white beam of light quietly scattered and disappeared. At the same time, Mo Wen's silhouette also disappeared, completely disappearing from the stone tower room. Only the damaged halves of the puppet gave testament to what had just happened.

The empty room was silent. After who knew how long, the two sections of the puppet that lay on the ground suddenly moved and then bizarrely stood up. The two sections of damaged steel wreckage soundlessly joined together to become whole.

The damaged puppet opened its mouth strangely and said, ”That brat took away the spiritual stone. He has good eyes. As expected, a person who knows the goods.” Fortunately, no one was in the empty room. Otherwise, such an incomprehensible situation would have surely scared the living daylights out of people.

The puppet seemed befuddled and kept mumbling…”He wields the Sacred Fire Sword and is practicing both the Nine Yin Scripture and the Nine Yang Scripture. He knows how to find a puppet's Eye of the stratagem and knows the value of the spiritual stone. Interesting. Could he be the successor of that person? Didn't that person disappear 200 years ago?! How could he have a successor from the outside world?”

In reality, Mo Wen's previous actions had already drawn the attention of many because under normal circumstances, an ordinary Executor could not possibly know how to locate the puppet's Eye of the stratagem. They basically didn't even know what an Eye of the stratagem was.

Only people who understood puppets could know of these things. This type of puppet also belonged to the Immortal Cultivation world. If he could comprehend puppets, it meant he possibly knew about a world that others didn't.

The ordinary Four stars Executor assessment naturally wasn't as hard as Mo Wen imagined. This was because the condition of the assessment was not to defeat the puppet, but to remain steadfast under the puppet's attack until it ran out of energy.