Chapter Two Hundred and Twenty Two – Lil’ Pagoda’s Levelling Up (1/2)

Chapter Two Hundred and Twenty Two – Lil’ Pagoda’s Levelling Up

Pu Yao stepped out of and off the altar, the water ball collapsing behind him.

His expression was not too good.

“What did you do?” Zuo Mo probed.

“None of your business!” Pu Yao’s expression was dark, his tone unfriendly.

Seeing the sign, Zuo Mo knew that he couldn’t get anything out of Pu Yao and went on his own business. Ge was busy.

He started to make puppets for the Stone Door Beach that would soon enter his hands. He had deep confidence in Gongsun Shidi who was a battle crazy maniac. He didn’t know exactly where the confidence came from. When he thought about it, Gongsun Shidi was just a beginner, but Zuo Mo’s confidence in his did not lessen because of this.

“Was this the a psychological shadow from having lost in War Chess several times,” Zuo Mo muttered in his heart.

There were many ways to make puppets. The most commonly seen and crude method was to use paper and bamboo to make puppets. High level used things like corpses. After death, corpses would be buried in the ground. Yin and corrosive energies would permeate for long times, and birth some qualities. But in the eyes of large sects, they still avoided using corpses. However, that was not difficult or hard to find. They only needed a suitable corpse, forge it for a bit, and the power would be significant.

Most of the corpses used would rarely be human since no one wanted their own corpses to be ruined after death. They were mostly animal corpses.

However, Zuo Mo didn’t have the territory needed to find so many animal corpses. The corpse method was not suited to him. He decided to make the simplest paper puppet, with bamboo as the skeleton, the paper as the body. Paper puppets could not be greatly relied upon, but they should manage in mining.

Zuo Mo decided to make one to try first.

He took out a second-grade Rain Consort Bamboo and second-grade yellow paper. After a while, he finally folded out a paper person. This was the first time he had done this, so his skill was crude, and the paper figure looked very awkward. Zuo Mo did not care. He took up the cinnabar brush, and patiently painted characters on the paper person.

After a while, the body of the paper person was covered in squiggly characters. Zuo Mo put down his pen in satisfaction.

Bending down and pushing it in front of his face, he opened his mouth and blew a breath full of ling energy onto the paper person. The cinnabar seals suddenly lit up. The paper person creaked as it moved, and swayed as it struggled to stand up.

The paper person was about one chi high. As it walked, the creak of the paper and bamboo was endless. Zuo Mo’s mind moved. The paper person awkwardly raised both of its hands, making him worry that it would scatter into pieces at any moment.

Woosh!

A belt of palm-sized yellow paper suddenly flew out of the arm of the paper person. Different than the awkwardness of the paper person, the yellow paper that flew out was very nimble, accurately grasping a fist-sized rock. The paper belt shrunk back with the rock and flew in front of the paper person.

Interesting!

Zuo Mo looked at the paper puppet and found it more interesting. He controlled the paper puppet to do all kinds of movements. After a while, the paper person plopped to the floor, and would not get up no matter how Zuo Mo urged it. Zuo Mo hurriedly inspected the paper person and found the ling energy of the paper person had been used up.

This couldn’t work. If they stopped after just this little bit, the paper puppets didn’t have any value at all. He needed a way to increase the ling power of the paper puppets. Zuo Mo stared at the paper puppet in front of him, thinking inside.

What he used were all low level materials. They could not store much ling power. This was a problem with all low level puppets.

Zuo Mo suddenly thought of the jingshi talismans. His eyes lit up. Jingshi talismans used jingshi as the source of ling power and could be used in the long term! After thinking it through, he felt that this characteristic of jingshi talismans fit his needs.

He wasn’t going to depend on these paper puppets to fight or kill. They were only doing some hard labor. A steady source of ling power would completely fulfill their needs.

After thinking it through, he instantly made modifications. Inside the body of the paper puppet, he used thin bamboo to weave a cage that jingshi could be held and then added new characters along the bamboo skeleton.

The newly modified paper puppet was full of energy. After playing around for several hours, it showed no signs of exhaustion.

However, Zuo Mo quickly found a new problem. The paper puppet did not know exhaustion, but after so many hours, Zuo Mo was tired from commanding it. The new problem was very important. These paper puppets were going to be used in mining. He couldn’t always stay in the mine and direct them. That wouldn’t be as efficient as him mining by himself.

To get the paper puppets to mine by themselves and not need his control. If he could do this, even if the efficiency was low, he would be able to offloadthe heavy duty of mining. In any case, he could fold some more paper people!

But quickly, Zuo Mo realized that this problem was beyond his abilities. To make the puppet able to perceive, that mean that the puppet needed to have intelligence. There were many ways to create intelligence, but no matter which one, it wasn’t something a ningmai could do.

Did this idea have to be discarded?

Zuo Mo furrowed his brows and though. There were more and more for him to do. It would be best if he could split himself in two. Split in two … …

Like a bolt of lightning, he suddenly thought

– Lil’ Pagoda

Something to replace him and connected to his mind, that was Lil’ Pagoda! Lil’ Pagoda was even able to control a formation as complex and large as the [Skyring Moon Chime Formation], a dozen or so puppets would be a piece of cake.

Right right! Lil’ Pagoda would be perfect as the supervisor. Zuo Mo instantly felt confidence.

Hm, where was Lil’ Pagoda?

Scanning the surroundings, he didn’t find the shadow of Lil’ Pagoda. His mind moved, wanting to communicate with Lil’ Pagoda, but found that the connection between him and Lil’ Pagoda seemed to be blocked by an invisible force.

Zuo Mo jumped in fright and started to search.

He quickly found Lil’ Pagoda in the corner of the room. Lil’ Pagoda was silently floating in the air, surrounded by an invisible pressure.

Silly Bird proudly walked its bird walk around Lil’ Pagoda in circles, occasionally revealing its concern. Lil’ Black had climbed onto the ceiling, the two antennae on its head continuously waving.

Seeing Silly Bird and Lil’ Black guarding Lil’ Pagoda, Zuo Mo’s heart felt very warmed.