Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!-Chapter 505 - 329: Six Months Later_2

Chapter 505: Chapter 329: Six Months Later_2

Disciples were busy drawing new arrays, constantly conducting experiments.

Since the arrays in the Flying Magical Boat had mostly been destroyed, they needed to be researched and tested again to suit the overall characteristics of the Flying Magical Boat.

On the entire magical boat, there were hundreds of busy disciples, all skilled artisans from the Puppet Hall. Ordinary disciples could not participate at all in taking on the arduous task of repairing the Flying Magical Boat.

In six months, about twenty percent of the damage to the Flying Magical Boat had been repaired. The cost for this was 2 million spirit stones from the Puppet Hall’s own coffers and 1 million spirit stones sponsored by the sect, a total of 3 million spirit stones had been spent.

It was like a gold-devouring beast, continuously consuming financial resources. It was no wonder that among the many sects in Qingzhou, only the large and wealthy Guan Chao Pavilion could afford to operate a Flying Magical Boat.

“Hall Master!”

“Hall Master!”

“Hall Master!”

As soon as Su Jie entered the Puppet Hall, shouts rang out.

The disciples respectfully greeted Su Jie; most of them were of lower cultivation in the First and Second Levels of Yunling Realm and had found good jobs here in the Puppet Hall. They all felt grateful to Su Jie.

Su Jie nodded slightly and continued walking past the Flying Magical Boat.

In addition to the repairs of the Flying Magical Boat, the area of the entire Puppet Hall had once again expanded several times.

The place was like a busy factory, with more than fifteen hundred disciples bustling about.

They were performing completely manual labor, but the speed was in no way inferior to that of modern mechanized and intelligent factories.

With the involvement of spiritual power, a magical energy, and the Superman-like physical quality of each individual, they were able to complete tasks that seemed quite impossible to ordinary people.

For example, the giant puppet arm that Su Jie was now looking at.

Its construction completely exceeded the imagination of ordinary people. Pieces of iron ore were thrown into a pit, and a disciple at the Fifth Level of Yunling Realm, who practiced the Molten Fiery Light Art, stood at the edge of the pit.

He exhaled gently, spewing a flame that expanded and covered a ten-meter diameter pit.

The pieces of iron ore were heated until they were scorching hot and then gradually melted, turning into a crude mixture of iron liquid and slag.

Normally, turning iron ore into steel would require several processes: crushing, screening, and beneficiation to separate minerals from impurities. Then, the iron ore would be sintered to reduce it to metallic iron, refined into pig iron, and only then would it be subjected to other procedures and materials to make steel and various alloys.

But in the Puppet Hall, all these complicated procedures were unnecessary. There were no sophisticated converters or refining furnaces or any other heavy machinery, as everything was accomplished purely by manpower.

The molten iron liquid in the pit churned unpredictably. After some materials were added, it mixed into the required metal material. Several Puppet Hall disciples created wind in their palms, separated the iron liquid, and rapidly cooled and solidified it into simple steel rough castings.

Then, there were disciples specifically practicing the Sky-splitting Palm to split and polish the steel, shaping it into the required form.

The entire process required the cooperation of hundreds of people, who had to pass tasks down layer by layer until it culminated in the creation of a puppet arm. This was a Cultivator’s assembly line.

Su Jie walked through the production area to the newly built martial practice field behind it, which covered several thousand acres and was dotted with targets of various sizes.

“No, the budget has already been exceeded. There aren’t that many spirit stones for you.”

“Sister Yun, please, our Canghuo Puppet really needs a modification. You can’t just stop us from making improvements. It’s a Fifth Grade Puppet that can match those in the Secret Realm. We’re only a little bit away from success.”

“This isn’t the first time you’ve said this. Every time, your ‘success’ has been just a little bit away.”

“Uh… Sister Yun, you have to believe us. This really is the last time. Please put aside your prejudice and seriously consider it with your reason.”

Just as he had entered, Su Jie heard the heated argument.

A man and a woman were facing each other: Zhu Zhangqi, who was hopping mad, and Chen Yun, cold as frost.

Chen Yun pursed her lips and looked up at the sky as if she was seriously thinking. After a few seconds, she turned to Zhu Zhangqi, “Alright, I’ve just put aside my prejudice and thought it over carefully, and it’s still a no. The Sect Master entrusted the Puppet Hall’s budget to me, not for you to mess around. You need to come up with a practical and reasonable budget.”

Zhu Zhangqi’s expression stiffened until he saw Su Jie.

“Hall Master, look, Sister Yun is being too stingy. We can’t even afford to modify our puppets, which are fundamental to our Puppet Hall. This funding isn’t for personal enjoyment; it’s entirely for puppet research!”

Upon seeing Su Jie, Zhu Zhangqi looked as if he had seen his savior, and a look of hope appeared on his previously stifled face as he hurried towards Su Jie in big strides.

“Is it about the funds again?”

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Su Jie crossed his arms, seeing through Zhu Zhangqi’s intentions. Puppet Hall was indeed valuable, but it was equally a drain on resources.

“Hall Master! This time, the funds really cannot be approved. The success rate of their modifications is too low and doesn’t meet the requirements for funding allocation.”

Chen Yun also approached, as Su Jie had invited her to manage the fund disbursements in Puppet Hall.

“You handle it.”

Su Jie nodded. Before Chen Yun’s arrival, Puppet Hall’s disciples each let their imaginations run wild, recklessly stacking those fine spiritual materials onto the puppets, causing the budget to grossly overrun.

After Chen Yun took over, the funding was effectively controlled over the past six months. Controlling the funds was akin to controlling the lifeline of those Puppet Hall disciples, preventing them from being reckless and stacking whatever good materials they desired on the puppets as if spirit stones were blown in by the wind.

Seeing Zhu Zhangqi’s frustrated expression, as he seemed to want to say something more, Su Jie promptly cut him off, “Alright, I have seen all the merits of Puppet Hall, but since the funds are limited, you also need to economize. Let me first see the results of your research. What’s the completion level of the Spider Armor Puppet prototype?”

The Spider Armor Puppet Su Jie mentioned was a research task he had assigned to Puppet Hall.

Today, Su Jie had come to Puppet Hall because the Spider Armor Puppet prototype had successfully come off the production line, and Su Jie was here to inspect it.

“Hall Master, please see, this is the result of our research.”

Zhu Zhangqi set aside his other thoughts and led Su Jie to a warehouse.

When the iron door was pushed open, the spacious warehouse was filled with numerous types of puppets.

Most of them were various combat puppets developed by the disciples of Puppet Hall, almost as tall as a person, with the tallest not exceeding five meters.

Then there were rows of rocket artillery, a miraculous weapon during sect wars, for which, later, the sect ordered five hundred more, leading to a thousand units now at Ghost Ridge Palace.

If not for the power of the rocket artillery making it a secret weapon of Ghost Ridge Palace, Su Jie’s original proposal to export them for profit would have been rejected by the sect, but with these rocket artillery, Su Jie could have made a fortune long ago.

Inside the warehouse, apart from various human-like puppets and rocket artillery, the most eye-catching was a peculiarly shaped puppet.

Unlike those human-like puppets crafted by the disciples of Puppet Hall, this puppet stood twelve meters tall with eight significantly noticeable long legs.

Its overall design resembled a giant spider, dark in color, with its body covered in steel metal engraved with complex patterns.

The eight robust legs, each equipped with sharp claws, and the head was a hemispherical metal structure fitted with pairs of bio-compound eyes.

Because it was a prototype, the Spider Armor Puppet appeared round and somewhat bulky, lacking sharp edges, and seemed clumsy without the actual armor and weapons attached.

Su Jie stood in front of this massive puppet, stroking his chin as he looked around the special puppet built with the participation of the entire Puppet Hall.

Su Jie named it the Spider Armor Puppet, intended not for Tianyuan World, but for Blue Star.

The exterior of this puppet appeared to be cast as a single piece of metal, but the interior was completely different.

Su Jie climbed onto the back of the Spider Armor Puppet and opened a hatch there.

What met his eyes were clusters of squirming flesh, with the veins clearly visible.

This was a meat tumor specially cultivated by Su Jie, adjusting the poisonous insects and using the “Insect Transformation Manual” to foster and graft it to meet his requirements.

Although it looked a bit disgusting, this meat tumor was indeed a valuable asset.

For instance, the meat tumors inside this Spider Armor Puppet were cultivated by Su Jie specially to possess anti-shock, fireproof, and gas protection effects. Su Jie spent a considerable amount of spirit stones on their cultivation.

The most outstanding feature of this type of meat tumor was its powerful regenerative ability, specifically adjusted by Su Jie after numerous trials to perfect it.

“Has this Spider Armor Puppet undergone any trials?”

Su Jie turned to look at Zhu Zhangqi, pinning high hopes on this Spider Armor Puppet.