Three months later.

Qiufeng Island, underground secret room.

A rat puppet with dark yellow fur, a streamlined body, and about three feet long was assembled in front of Lu Changan.

Embedding several third-order puppet crystals, Lu Changan used the puppet control technique.

The gray eyes of the mouse puppet glowed with a cold red light, making people shudder.

laugh!

The silver-gray claws flashed away, breaking through the restrictions in the secret room, leaving a deep crack.

The afterimage of the rat puppet appeared, emitting invisible spiritual pressure comparable to that of a third-level creature.

"The first level three puppet!"

Lu Changan's face was filled with joy, confirming that the puppet was running stably.

After being promoted to True Alchemy, Lu Changan's spiritual consciousness and mana increased greatly. With sufficient third-level materials, he was successfully promoted to third-level puppet master.

Before this, Lu Changan failed twice and scrapped a lot of materials.

The puppet that was finally refined was a rat puppet because there were not many materials left.

That kind of heavily defended puppet requires a lot of materials.

Third-level materials are expensive and scarce. Those puppet materials accumulated before have been collected for ten or twenty years.

The mouse puppet is small in size, more flexible and saves materials.

Lu Changan is a puppet designed based on the prototype of the Earth Rock Rat, and his abilities are much simplified.

"Escape!"

Lu Changan gave the order, and the mouse puppet got into the ground, causing dust to fly.

The traces of escaping from the ground are obvious, and it does not have the seamless talent of the Earth Rock Rat.

After about a moment, the mouse puppet hurried back, looking disgraced and miserable.

Squeak!

Behind him, a rock rat of similar size chased after him with gleaming eyes.

"Okay, don't mess around."

Lu Changan waved his hand and put away the mouse puppet.

The Earth Rock Rat was still unfinished and reluctantly looked back.

"Master, can this puppet be my playmate?"

The rock rat speaks human words childishly.

"Didn't you go to the Black Mist Mountains to play with that third-level bear demon? You haven't had enough fun in half a year?"

Lu Changan said with a straight face.

It turned out that Lu Changan gave the Earth Rock Rat a long vacation during the six months he was looking for body-building exercises.

The Earth Rock Rat went to the Black Mist Mountains to find the mid-level third-order bear monster that he met when he advanced, and met some fellow monsters in the Black Mist Mountains.

The Earth Rock Rat shook his head aggrievedly. It had only been half a year since he had seen a rat demon of the same level.

Rat monsters are relatively weak in the Black Mist Mountains and are at the bottom of the food chain. Those who can grow to great monsters are extremely rare.

"Don't worry. It won't be long before we return to Liang Kingdom. By then, you will be able to see your old friends."

Lu Changan said a few words of comfort.

The rock rat heard the words and swallowed, as if recalling some wonderful experience.

…

Send the rock rats away.

Lu Changan briefly tested the puppet mouse's comprehensive ability.

The strength is definitely not comparable to that of the Earth Rock Rat.

Even Lu Changan, relying solely on his magic power and magic weapons, couldn't defeat the Earth Rock Rat who had formed a half-step golden elixir.

"The defense is relatively weak and cannot withstand a few blows from the True Pill cultivator. Although it saves materials, you get what you pay for."

"Fortunately, the attack is not inferior to mine, and it is more flexible."

The first level three puppet overall met Lu Changan's expectations.

At the moment, Lu Changan is not lacking in the ability to protect himself. In addition to the treasure talisman, he also has a small moving talisman obtained from Master Lihuo.

On the contrary, under normal circumstances, the attack is insufficient.

One more dexterous mouse puppet, which can be strengthened in terms of attack, ambush, and raid.

"Now I am still cultivating pills. I will refine some more puppet crystals for later use."

Lu Changan took out a pile of spirit stones from his storage bag and began to refine third-level puppet crystals through puppet skills.

Puppet crystal is an essential driving energy for high-level puppets.

It is refined using spirit stones as the base material, consuming spiritual consciousness, and adding a small amount of soul material.

The puppet embedded in the third-order puppet crystal has basic intelligence.

Even if there is no owner to control it, or even if the owner is not around, it can perform simple tasks.

For example, guarding the cave, patrolling and guarding, hunting down enemies...

Of course, this kind of intelligence is not the complex intelligence of intelligent creatures, but more like the elementary AI on earth before Lu Changan traveled through time.

If the tasks performed are more complex, the reliability will be poor.

"There is not much material left for the third-level puppet. I will have to save it slowly in the future..."

Lu Changan refined a bunch of puppet crystals, which consumed a lot of money.

Evergreen Kung Fu has strong recovery power.

The next day, he completed the routine cultivation of treasure talismans and did not need to practice the Evergreen Kung Fu.

The spare time is just in time for me to practice the moderate body-training technique "Hundred-forging Vajra".

Lu Changan did not plot Xiang Jinglong's "Earth Demon's Power of Heaven".

It is understood that this is a top-level body-training technique for major cultivation, similar to the ancient school of body-training.

Practicing this technique will indeed give you some extra supernatural powers, and may even be stronger than most techniques of the same level.

However, when you reach the fourth level, you will face heavenly calamity just like you advance to the Nascent Soul stage.

Lu Changan is a monk of the health-preserving sect. His pursuit of living older will lead to another horrific calamity for himself.

Xiang Jinglong has reached the third level of physical training. He should have given up on fake elixir cultivation and followed the path of true physical training.

Lu Changan only wants to practice physical training at the same time, and does not pursue physical training for special powers.

Just make your body stronger and faster.

The "Yunsand Body Refining Technique" and "Hundred Forging Diamond" he practiced can only be regarded as supplementary skills or methods in essence.

…

Half a month later, Lu Changan was over 172 years old.

On this day, a rising wave of water and wood spiritual energy appeared in the deep pool behind the mansion.

Lu Changan's consciousness swept away and he nodded slightly.

Xuan Shui Turtle's cultivation level broke through and reached the middle stage of the second level.

Compared to the achievements of the Earth Rock Rat, its growth rate is comparable to that of a tortoise.

This is the characteristic of the black water turtle, a long-lived species.

In fact, the Xuan Shui Turtle's current cultivation progress is more than twice as fast as its peers.

Otherwise, how could Lu Changan have bought the Xuanshui turtle egg that sick Yangzi had with hundreds of spiritual stones?

"After all, this turtle is only one hundred and thirty years old."

Lu Changan said thoughtfully.

It would take about two hundred years for a normal Xuan Shui Turtle to reach the second level.

Lu Changan fed it with the true elixir-level evergreen mana, allowing it to absorb the breath of the cycle of time.

Due to the large gap between the realms of the two sides, Xuan Shui Turtle will enter a period of rapid growth in the future, and is expected to advance to the third level within a few decades.

This growth rate is naturally abnormal.

But it's still slower than ordinary spirit beasts.

As a high-level monk, Lu Changan's unique secret of cultivating spiritual beasts is not a big deal.
To be continued...