Chapter 975: Chapter 308: “The Chao Tian Sect Really Has a Lot of Assets.

He had been searching for a secluded place on the “Jiang Taiping” continent to cultivate for a long time without finding a particularly satisfactory one. In the end, he only found one that was so-so, but this palace completely met all his expectations.

It’s just…

It’s just that it feels a bit like being forcibly secluded away in a dead end.

How to return is indeed a headache-inducing problem for him.

At this moment, Chen Qiu focused his attention on these Sword Cultivation Puppets. The “puppet” technology of Chao Tian Sect was very advanced. It could even be said that, so far, he had not seen any continent’s puppet technology surpass Chao Tian Sect’s, even though thirty thousand years had passed.

After all, this actually counts as a wrong path.

Puppets with high cultivation, to exert enough combat power, often need a large number of spirit stones to drive them and use many rare treasures to build these puppets’ bodies. With so many resources consumed here, it can indeed create a batch of instant combat power in a short period.

But… the strength of the puppets has a limit. At least from the information he has obtained so far, the strongest puppet the Chao Tian Sect has managed to create is at the “Heavenly Immortal Peak” level. This cultivation is naturally absolute dominant on the Fourth Grade Continent and in the Fifth Grade Immortal Realm, but in some higher-level battles, it seems a bit like small fry.

Spending so many resources at this time to create a batch of small fry seems somewhat unworthy.

Currently, he could not drive a single one of these Sword Cultivation Puppets.

These Sword Cultivation Puppets need “Top-grade Spirit Stones” to activate. He has some top-grade spirit stones, but not a single top-grade spirit stone, and to drive a Sword Cultivation Puppet with a “Heavenly Immortal Peak” cultivation requires 16 top-grade spirit stones.

The mechanism behind the Sword Cultivation Puppet’s head is a small storage space, so there’s no worry about not fitting 16 top-grade spirit stones.

One top-grade spirit stone is eight hundred top-grade spirit stones, and one top-grade spirit stone is eight hundred mid-grade spirit stones.

And 16 top-grade spirit stones are equivalent to 10,240,000 mid-grade spirit stones. These 16 top-grade spirit stones can enable this “Sword Cultivation Puppet” to engage in high-intensity continuous combat for a month, intermittent combat for a year, and guard operation for a century.

Just activating a Sword Cultivation Puppet with “Heavenly Immortal Peak” cultivation requires tens of millions of mid-grade spirit stones.

And to activate all these puppets… the spirit stones spent would be an astronomical number.

He figured out why these puppets, once manufactured, had never been used; they are all brand new, simply because they cannot be afforded to use, who could possibly afford it?

According to the information he obtained from within the copper pillar, when the original Sect Master of the Chao Tian Sect ordered the production of this batch of puppets, Chao Tian Sect had been at war for many years and was already on the verge of defeat. He was uncertain of the exact level of battle or the specific enemies; he only knew that it was thirty thousand years ago.

This batch of puppets was secretly manufactured and never activated. Not long after, Chao Tian Sect was officially extinct, and until its demise, not a single puppet had been activated.

Such an obvious waste of massive resources, he even doubted whether the Sect Master of the Chao Tian Sect at the time was at his wit’s end when he made this decision.

As for that puppet with “Mid-Tribulation” cultivation, it was made to serve as a logistics puppet to guard other puppets and was the only one that had been activated.

However…

Even though he could not activate this whole batch of “Heavenly Immortal Peak” puppets, activating two or three is still no problem for him. By the time he goes to the Immortal Realm, having two or three Heavenly Immortal puppets as bodyguards would give him such a sense of security…

Don’t even mention it.

He is already somewhat anxious to head to the Immortal Realm.

Of course, the premise is that he can find a way out first.

…

After inspecting his army at the Green Stone Square, Chen Qiu sat satisfied on the chair, returning to the study.

This magnificent and large palace, besides these functions, has many other features.

For example…

The formation that envelops the entire palace, preventing it from being corroded by the Nihility.

Also, the super-strong defense; even if there are real enemies walking through the Nihility to invade, facing this ironclad fortress would be meaningless.

There are also means similar to “Artifact Spirit”.

This palace has many intelligent designs, like in the “Spiritual Energy Pipeline”, controlling the timing of spiritual energy bursts during high-speed movement, surely there were capable people in the Chao Tian Sect at that time.

From the information obtained from the copper pillar, Chao Tian Sect originally planned to use a large number of Artifact Spirits to achieve this, but eventually abandoned this plan. Firstly, because the lifespan of Artifact Spirits is not permanent, secondly, replacing them is troublesome, and thirdly, the most critical point is that if there is no regular examination, Artifact Spirits can easily awaken their consciousness.

As for the dangers of Artifact Spirits awakening consciousness, Chen Qiu had already experienced it.

So—

At that time, Chao Tian Sect invented a very miraculous thing.

Taking the square and wide “Spiritual Energy Pipeline” as the main body, and the vein-like dense “soft material spiritual energy pipeline” as the link, a massive circuit board was created below the palace.

Using the boundless and endless spiritual energy as the driving power, to achieve full automation.

For instance, earlier, he entered the tunnel by controlling the copper pillar with his thoughts, this was the highest authority, but actually, others could do it too. Inside the palace, each place has its code, just by entering the code of the desired location on the walls, study, or buttons in the elevator.

It can automatically complete the entire process.

There are a total of nine numbers, by clicking two numbers among them, one can determine the code of the desired location, such as 09, 18, 37, etc., and the code for this room is 01, some places’ codes cannot be accessed without sufficient authorization.

For example, his room code is 01.

Also, the Green Stone Square, with the code 02.

And through the elevator at the sixth level, as long as one has the authority, they can instantly reach any place in the entire palace. However, some functionalities were hidden at the time, after he inherited the copper pillar, the long-slumbering palace was completely revived.

One point is quite noteworthy.

The entire palace has its own name, called “Taunting Heaven Palace”.

And this is not the old stronghold of “Chao Tian Sect”, it’s simply the Chao Tian Sect Master, sensing impending defeat, sent a trusted squad to the Nihility to hastily and temporarily establish this palace.

It seems like they were preparing to escape here to enjoy the rest of their life after losing the war.

Only…

The Sect Master of Chao Tian never came here from beginning to end, let alone lay down. He didn’t even come to look at it. With the demise of Chao Tian Sect, this place was also gradually completely abandoned, and as for that trusted squad, they have long since vanished with time.

From start to finish, the palace has never been officially put to use, only leaving the souls of that trusted squad and numerous workers wandering above the entire palace.

This room was initially designed for the Sect Master of Chao Tian Sect, but over time, as this trusted person could not get in touch with the Sect Master, he probably guessed something and just moved in.

It’s just… why is the bedding in a mess, if there was some sudden event, that is unknown.

The copper pillar really didn’t mention this point.

…

“No matter how you say it.”

“Chao Tian Sect indeed had a lot of properties.”

Chen Qiu couldn’t help but sigh, even a starving camel is bigger than a horse. They were on the brink of extinction and still had so many resources to make this. The main thing is, after making it, you don’t say you’d use it, but should at least take a look, just leaving it like that?

In any case, he couldn’t understand.

If it were him, he would be heartbroken.