My Beasts Grind Proficiency For Me

Outside the Nine Marvels Small Realm, Yang Jing used his Magical Power to suspend the Profound Celestial Furnace amidst the vast expanse of Arctic True Thunder.

The moment he touched the wisp of Magical Power left behind by Nine Marvels, the world spun around him. He then appeared inside the Nine Marvels Small Realm.

Nine Marvels stood before him, looking the Profound Celestial Furnace up and down. The unique pressure of a High Tier Spiritual Treasure made the Profound Celestial Child tremble uncontrollably.

"The Refining Technique for this furnace is passable, but the materials are simply awful. If you use it to refine my body, I'm afraid the furnace will explode halfway through the process."

Ah Guoshami's Divine Body was condensed from Divine Light. During the refining process, it would release immense heat. An ordinary Alchemy Cauldron could never withstand such extreme temperatures.

"I'll give you a thousand catties of Profound Gang Purple Copper. Reforge this furnace for me."

Nine Marvels said with a look of disdain, all but pinching his nose.

He was supposed to be reborn in this furnace in the future; something of such low quality simply wouldn't do.

The most suitable Spiritual Material for refining Bell Tripod-type artifacts was Shoushan Copper. However, that copper was a true Celestial and Earthly Treasure. Below Tier Five, the best material for Bell Tripods was this Profound Gang Purple Copper.

The Profound Celestial Child's origin was an Artifact Refining Furnace, so it naturally understood how precious Profound Gang Purple Copper was. It joyfully leaped onto the furnace lid and bowed repeatedly to Nine Marvels.

Yang Jing returned to the Positive and Negative Five Elements Formation he had set up earlier, bringing the Profound Celestial Furnace with him. Although he had already mastered the Creation Scripture Puppet Chapter, he still pretended to be a mere beginner, studying it from scratch.

During this time, he had the Wanhua Child and the Five Fire Child gather some Tier One and Tier Two Spiritual Materials in the Nine Heavens Small Realm for him to practice with.

「Three months later」

Yang Jing sat cross-legged on a flattened stone platform atop a mountain peak. He was surrounded by piles of various Spiritual Material scraps, as well as discarded and replaced parts.

A Cyan Sparrow was dancing gracefully by his side. It had glistening, jet-black eyes, and its feathers were sleek and glossy, reflecting a shimmering cyan light under the sun.

A Demon Bird in the sky spotted the Cyan Sparrow and dived down, its sharp talons aiming for the sparrow's plump little body.

The moment the talons were about to strike, dazzling arcs of electricity erupted from the Cyan Sparrow's body, zapping the Demon Bird. It shrieked in pain and fled in a panic.

A flicker of pride flashed in the Cyan Bird's eyes, but soon after, the light in its eyes grew dull. It dropped to the ground, motionless.

Yang Jing took out a Spirit Stone, ground it into Spiritual Sand with his bare hands, and poured it in front of the Cyan Bird.

The Cyan Bird mustered its last bit of Qi Power and ate the Spiritual Sand. As it consumed the sand, it quickly regained its vitality, came back to life, and began to chirp happily.

'Interesting.'

Yang Jing watched the Puppet he had casually refined with great interest. What amazed him most about the Creation Scripture was the use of a Magical Artifact called a Primordial Essence Stone to create a virtual Primordial Spirit for a Puppet.

The Nine Heavens World also had Puppetry Skills. However, most Puppets either required a Cultivator to control them from afar with Divine Thought or needed a Soul-Catching Stone refined from the Divine Soul of a Demon or human to grant the Puppet Spiritual Essence. They were extremely difficult to control.

But the Creation Scripture Puppet Chapter provided a method for refining the Primordial Essence Stone. After successfully refining one, a Cultivator could not only set the Puppet's personality but also its Divine Power Techniques. The only catch was that a corresponding Divine Register had to be inscribed into the Puppet's body.

This placed extremely high demands on the Puppet Master's skill. Only Magic that the Puppet Master had personally mastered could be programmed into the Puppet.

Yang Jing had input the Yi Wood True Thunder magic into this Cyan Sparrow's Primordial Essence Stone and inscribed the Divine Register for the Yi Wood True Thunder in its abdomen.

For him, who had long since made Thunder Techniques second nature, this was as easy as turning over his hand.

「A few days later」

Ten birds—cyan, white, red, yellow, and black—appeared by Yang Jing's side, chirping incessantly.

With a single thought from Yang Jing, a yellow bird fawningly picked up a rib bone carved from Spiritual Camphor Wood and flew before him.

Another bird, a white one, picked up another rib bone and waited attentively at his side.

Yang Jing pointed a finger, and a Sword Silk as fine as a strand of hair carved densely packed Talismanic Script onto the rib bone.

With the help of the ten little Puppet birds, a tall skeleton of Spiritual Camphor Wood was quickly assembled.

Yang Jing then took Spirit Fish Fat and refined it into muscle, and gumwood sap, which he refined into skin. He assembled them one by one onto the skeleton.

A moment later, a Puppet with rough skin and large joints, resembling a mortal farmer, appeared before him.

The Puppet's eyes held an honest, simple look as it gazed at Yang Jing.

"Greetings, Master."

It bowed respectfully to Yang Jing.

"You will stay at the foot of the mountain and tend to the Spirit Plants. Do not stray too far from this mountain," Yang Jing said.

He had input all the knowledge of a Spirit Plant Cultivator into this Puppet's Primordial Essence Stone.

Afterward, Yang Jing refined more Spirit Plant Cultivator Puppets, miner Puppets, and artisan Puppets. These Puppets cultivated Spirit Plants and mined for ore in the mountains and on the plains.

It was as if this place had become the territory of a Qi Cultivation Clan, rather than the completely uninhabited Nine Marvels Small Realm.

Yang Jing even handed over the manufacturing of some Puppet components to the artisan Puppets.

Nine Marvels appeared silently in the mountains. With a casual grab, he seized a Spirit Plant Cultivator Puppet that was using the Spiritual Rain Technique to water the Spirit Plants.

The Spirit Plant Cultivator actually let out a terrified cry, just like a real person.

"Not bad. From the outside, it's almost indistinguishable from a human!"

Nine Marvels hadn't expected Yang Jing's progress to be so fast.

Yang Jing shook his head.

"These Puppets can only be powered by Spirit Stones. They have no meridians, let alone a Dantian, and cannot perform the breathing in and out of spiritual energy on their own. In the Creation Scripture Puppet Chapter, they can only be considered Ghost Puppets. Controlling them is like controlling a ghost; they are like inanimate objects and can hardly be considered sophisticated."

In the Creation Scripture Puppet Chapter, Puppets are divided into five types: Heaven, Earth, Human, God, and Ghost.

Ghost Puppets have limited potential. Once refined, their abilities are fixed. They are mostly used for manual labor after their creation.

A Puppet capable of housing Nine Marvels' Primordial Spirit would have to be an Earth Puppet at the very least.

Yang Jing looked at Nine Marvels.

"I have completely mastered the chapter on Ghost Puppets. The next step is to refine a Divine Puppet. Some of the Spiritual Materials are difficult to find in the Nine Heavens Small Realm, so I must ask Senior to find them for me."

Divine Puppets are mostly used by True Gods from the Upper Realm to walk the world while possessed. They conserve much more Divine Power than a clone would.

In reality, a Divine Puppet would be sufficient for Nine Marvels to travel through the Central Continent. It's just that using Ah Guoshami's Divine Body to refine a Divine Puppet would be an incredible waste. Furthermore, a Divine Puppet can at most exert one-tenth of the original body's power and cannot house all of Nine Marvels' Primordial Spirit.

If an accident were to occur, his very source would be directly damaged.

Although Nine Marvels yearned for freedom, he would never risk a drop in his Tier.

Given the current Spiritual Mechanism of the Nine Heavens World, if his Tier were to fall, he would likely never have a chance to recover.