In the next time, Zhang Yifan seized every moment to cultivate, mainly to improve his cultivation. It's just that due to his own qualifications and the assistance of pills, the time for cultivating and cultivating every day is actually not very long.

He still divides the time into four parts and makes a reasonable allocation.

Part of the time is spent practicing exercises, part of the time is spent practicing spells and body refining, part of the time is spent practicing the art of puppets, and part of the time is directed to the three of them to practice.

At present, he has suspended the refining of magic weapons and the drawing of talismans, and his hard work has improved his cultivation to the extreme.

In view of the urgency of time, he also entrusted the sect to search to see if there was any practice to expel evil qi or use evil qi, and to use the means of the sect to see if a solution could be found.

At the same time, Zhang Yifan thought of the four nameless maps in his hand, which were about the treasure of the King of Fudong, and it was rumored that the King of Fudo Ming majored in supreme evil powers, and there might be a solution to the evil spirit.

It's just that he only knows that the other nameless map may be on Wuji Island, and the other two don't know where they are, so he can't tell where the treasure is located.

Judging from the existing map, he only knew that the treasure was in a sea area in the far east of the East China Sea, but the specific location could not be determined because of the lack of a map.

In desperation, Zhang Yifan could only give up for the time being, and wait to find clues in the future.

Zhang Yifan's current puppet technique has just started, and even the most basic first-level puppet has not been successfully refined, but he has only learned to refine some puppet joints.

The spiritual materials required to practice the puppet technique are several times or even dozens of times more than magic weapons and talismans, and this year, Zhang Yifan has spent thirty or forty thousand spiritual stones on spiritual materials, and he has not yet seen the real puppet come out.

He couldn't help but sigh that this puppet technique was really something that only real people with spirit stones could afford, no wonder there were very few puppeteers on the market, and there were even fewer puppet masters, because it was indeed too costly.

There are many restrictions on refining puppets, which are far from being accessible to ordinary monks, let alone becoming puppeteers.

First of all, refining the puppet requires good spiritual wood, gold stones, etc., and some special parts even need very cherished magic weapon materials to ensure that the puppet can function well.

Therefore, refining puppets is very costly in spirit stones, and some small sects are not even able to support a puppeteer, and when they grow to the stage of feeding, they will decay because of this.

Secondly, puppet refining is a very energy-consuming thing, and even the most ordinary puppets have an outrageous low success rate without skilled refining.

Because there are too many steps to refine a puppet, it is too complicated, as long as there is a flaw in one step, the puppet refining will fail. This requires absolute certainty at every step of refining a puppet.

The difficulty of refining puppets is far higher than that of refining alchemy and talismans at the same level, and the success rate is naturally low, which makes people desperate.

Finally, each puppet needs a spirit of at least level 4 demon beast to drive, and the higher the level of the puppet, the higher the level of the demon beast spirit soul required.

The step of injecting the spirit soul into the puppet is the most important step in the entire puppet refining, and it is also the step with the highest failure rate and the most demanding requirements, which requires the strength of the monk's divine consciousness, which is also the main reason for the scarcity of puppeteers.

It is because of some of the above reasons that there are very few puppeteers in casual cultivation, and the sect also focuses on cultivating several puppeteers according to the monk's talent to be used as a place for the special needs of the sect.

Burning Sky Valley uses refining weapons as the foundation of the sect, and there is only one puppet master in the sect, and the puppet master's ten finger skills can be counted.

Puppet art is an immortal cultivation technique with a very large investment in the early stage and a very small income.

Even if a first-level puppet is proficient in refining, it will require hundreds of spirit stones, and with each additional level, the required spirit stones will be doubled. For example, refining an ordinary third-level mining puppet will cost two or three thousand spirit stones, which is comparable to the price of a top-level magic weapon, not to mention some attack and defense puppets, the cost of spirit stones will only be more.

However, in addition to some auxiliary things, such as mining and repairing the cave, the puppets below the third level do not have strong combat power, and perhaps a few third-level attack puppets are not as good as a monk in the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Period who is holding a top-level magic weapon.

However, once the golem reaches level 4, it will usher in a qualitative change, and the level 4 golem will begin to increase greatly in flexibility and power. Level 4 puppets are not afraid of life and death, and they are very powerful in both attack and defense.

Of course, fourth-level puppets are also very expensive, and a fourth-level puppet needs at least five or six thousand spirit stones.

Therefore, what can really make people feel that the puppet master is terrifying is the puppet master who can refine puppets above level four.

The number of puppets that a puppet master can control at the same time varies according to the strength of the divine soul, but generally there are no less than three, so the puppet grandmaster and the monk can often fight more and less.

And as the level of the puppet increases, the more powerful it becomes, the more difficult the puppeteer will become. It is rumored that a tenth-level puppet has the combat power to fight with a Yuan Infant Monk, and a sect with one such puppet can immediately become a dominant force.

Of course, Zhang Yifan has never heard of such a puppet at present, and even the Lihuo Sect, which is famous for refining weapons, is said to only have a few puppets equivalent to the Jindan stage level, which also makes other sects feel jealous.

As for the puppet grandmaster in Burning Sky Valley, there are only a few sixth-level puppets, and the seventh-level puppet cannot be refined at present, so at least the puppet mechanism technique needs to reach the realm of the Great Grandmaster to refine it.

Zhang Yifan knew that this kind of thing was in a hurry, so he still patiently laid the foundation for refining the puppet. Whether it is refining weapons or talismans, he has already entered the hall, his foundation is extremely solid, and he has the body of fire refining, so he has a natural talent for refining puppets, and his natural progress will not be slow.

And so it went on for two years.

Two o'clock grocery store, underground refining room.

At this time, the refining room was full of all kinds of joint-like parts, which seemed to be disorganized, and they were discarded at random.

On the refining table is placed a puppet that looks like a pangolin, the puppet is dark as a whole, with a hideous face, four forelimbs, the forelimbs are holding a device like a shovel, standing on both legs, the strangest thing is that its belly is large, and there is a groove behind the head, which is the entrance to place the spirit stone. This is the third-level mining puppet refined by Zhang Yifan.

The whole mining puppet shape looks indescribably beautiful, which is impressive.

"Huh, this third-level basic mining puppet on the Heavenly Crafts Secret Archive has finally been successfully refined. This has failed more than ten times in a row, and it is still really difficult. Zhang Yifan looked at the mining puppet in front of him and muttered to himself, showing a relieved smile.

However, when he thought that in the past two years, he had invested nearly 100,000 spirit stones and spiritual materials in order to refine the puppet, and he couldn't help but feel a little painful.

This is still based on the fact that he had a lot of spiritual materials before he had them, and he had collected a lot of the spirit souls of demon beasts before, otherwise he might not be able to eat it.

However, Zhang Yifan's harvest is also huge, and he finally successfully refined a third-level mining puppet, which can meet the needs of multi-purpose mining and transport, and the efficiency is very high.

However, the cost of spirit stones for a third-level puppet is also very high, and a medium-stage spirit stone is needed to work continuously for a month, which is several times more expensive than hiring a spirit mine miner. However, golems can continue to mine without stopping, and the mining efficiency is much higher than that of miners.

In order to lay a solid foundation before, Zhang Yifan refined nearly 100 first- and second-level puppets, which could barely take care of the medicine garden and simple mining and transportation, and it was useless for Zhang Yifan to keep them. So they all gave them to the Valley of the Burning Heavens.

Burning Sky Valley calculated a lot of contribution points for Zhang Yifan, but it didn't make Zhang Yifan lose a lot.

However, Lu Tianyang was a little concerned about Zhang Yifan's mind on the puppet, and reminded him that he mainly considered the matter of advanced Jindan first, Zhang Yifan said that he did not delay his cultivation, and the other party was relieved.

"If you want to go to that place, you can't use one mining puppet, you have to refine four or five, otherwise it will be more dangerous to stay too long. Zhang Yifan pondered.

"Alas, it's a pity that the success rate of refining is too low now, and it costs three or four thousand spirit stones to refine this puppet light spirit material. Zhang Yifan was a little distressed.

"There is no way to do this, the puppet is not very skilled in the early stage of refining, and it is indeed a waste of a lot of spiritual materials. When the puppet is proficient in refining and the number of failures decreases, the cost will be much smaller. Moreover, the Heavenly Puppet Mechanism has a unique insight into the refining of puppets, and once the trial is successful, the follow-up will often be smoother. ”

Zhang Yifan thought about some of his gains and losses before and after refining, summed up his experience, and then continued to devote himself to refining.

Another year has passed in the blink of an eye.

During the year, Zhang Yifan refined nearly ten puppets, five of which were mining puppets, and the other few were carrying puppets and burrowing puppets. And he increased the success rate of refining puppets to more than five layers, which was a huge improvement.

But even so, Zhang Yifan still has a long way to go before he becomes a puppet grandmaster, and according to his estimates, if it goes well, it will take at least ten years of hard work to truly become a puppet grandmaster.

However, being able to refine the currently available puppets has already achieved his goal, so he is not in a hurry to become a puppet grandmaster, Zhang Yifan.

The puppetry on the Tiangong Secret Book is completely different from the puppet technique that Zhang Yifan has seen, forming its own unique style, and the puppets made are not only practical but also delicate in appearance, with a sense of ingenuity, which is also the core pursuit of Tiangongmen.

Therefore, the puppet technique of Tiangongmen is much more difficult than other puppet techniques, otherwise it would not take so long to refine a third-level puppet with such a deep foundation of Zhang Yifan.

In addition, the puppet technique of Tiangongmen is actually a puppet technique, and in addition to the puppet technique, there is also the technique of the mechanism. The so-called mechanism is an ingenious mechanism that realizes a variety of functions, such as trapping enemies, killing enemies, covering enemies, and so on.

Mechanism technique is a skill that is different from the formation, and it is also used for the protection of caves or sects. However, due to the complexity of arranging the mechanism technique, it was gradually replaced by powerful and fast formations, and not many people studied the mechanism technique anymore.

Zhang Yifan also only practiced puppet art at the beginning, but found that his progress was slow, and when he practiced puppet art and mechanism technique together, the progress was much faster than cultivating one alone.

Only then did he know that the mechanism technique could assist in the cultivation of puppetry, and some of the puppets had some very mysterious mechanisms, such as the big belly of the mining puppet was a storage mechanism for storing compressed ores, and the structure was complex.

After three years of non-stop cultivation, Zhang Yifan's mechanism technique has also reached a good level, and the arranged cave mansion, even if there is no protective magic array, the monks in the Qi refining period will not be able to enter it at all, and it is very likely to fall.

Zhang Yifan carefully recalled the gains and losses of practicing the puppet mechanism technique in the past few years, and then began to think about the next action.

The underground Yin Sha Iron Mine he discovered in the Wanling Mountains before now has the conditions for extraction, and Zhang Yifan has decided to go to the Wanling Mountains in the near future.

At the same time, he decided to bring Wang Congwu and the other three as the last assessment in three years, and then they would officially join the Burning Sky Valley and officially become the disciples of the Burning Sky Valley.