300: Chapter 146: I Have a Book_3 300: Chapter 146: I Have a Book_3 This guy probably doesn’t believe he can create the Paulownia Puppet Men.
He thinks they’re mechanisms obtained from who knows where, so he wants to take them and then disassemble them to study.
Study?
As if Mozi’s mechanical techniques are so easily deciphered!
Given the time, I might discuss with him, proposing that Puppet Peak help manufacture the mechanism men and I take a cut.
But right now, I still need to undertake alchemy, and there’s one material I haven’t sorted out yet.
Where’s the time to negotiate such matters?
Cao Zhen pondered, then purposefully showed a troubled expression and said, “Peak Master Zhou, our Four Treasures Peak only has ten wooden mechanism men.
If we were to give them all to you, our Four Treasures Peak would be left with none.”
He couldn’t agree too easily; if it was too easy, the other party might make more demands in the future.
Besides, he needed to keep at least two mechanism men to help with tasks.
A look of surprise flickered in Peak Master Zhou’s eyes.
Take them all?
I never intended to take all his mechanism men.
I had someone investigate, and there have only ever been ten mechanism men on Four Treasures Peak, no increases.
Clearly, Cao Zhen has acquired ten mechanism men from somewhere.
How complex is mechanical craftsmanship?
It’s not possible that Four Treasures Peak could have crafted such exquisite mechanism men.
They must have been obtained from elsewhere.
There’s no way Four Treasures Peak would give them all to me.
But now, from Cao Zhen’s words, he obviously misunderstood my intentions, thinking that I wanted all the mechanism men.
Cao Zhen is still too naive.
I wanted some mechanism men to study, and now he’s offered, I might as well take a few more.
After all, each extra mechanism man increases the odds of successfully deciphering their secrets.
Peak Master Zhou thought for a moment and said, “How about this, Peak Master Cao, we’ll only take eight of your mechanism men, leaving two for Four Treasures Peak.
Does that sound fair?”
Cao Zhen shook his head repeatedly, “Eight?
That’s too many, too many.
Peak Master Zhou, I only need half a pound of Fish Gliding Secret Silk.”
“Half a pound?
That’s not a small amount!
Alright, seven then.
How does seven mechanism men sound?”
“Six…”
After some haggling, Cao Zhen ultimately traded six mechanism men for half a pound of Fish Gliding Secret Silk from Puppet Peak.
Cao Zhen left the mountain looking satisfied.
Six mechanism men, which could be created anytime, exchanged for half a pound of Fish Gliding Secret Silk that even Bai Fengzi, the Sect Leader, did not possess seemed a very profitable deal to him.
Now the problem was how to obtain the Millennium Double Dragon Bamboo from Military God Peak.
Above the mountain, Peak Master Zhou also smiled.
While the Millennium Fish Gliding Secret Silk was indeed hard to obtain and truly rare, its real value to him lay in being a required material for crafting strongmen.
Material, what does it matter compared to the art of creating mechanism men?
Six wooden mechanism men – as long as I can understand the intricacies within, I can mass-produce them.
Cao Zhen departed from Puppet Peak and headed towards Hidden Dragon Observatory.
Although he hadn’t acquired the Millennium Double Dragon Bamboo yet, and alchemy had already begun, he couldn’t stop.
He had to return and continue with alchemy while figuring out how to barter for the bamboo with the people from Military God Peak.
Cao Zhen had just returned to Five-Element Pill Ground.
“Boom…”
Suddenly, a loud noise rang out.
Cao Zhen abruptly looked up in the direction of the sound.
In the distance, atop a mountain peak, rays of colorful auspicious light in the sky began to converge in one direction.
In just a short time, the colorful lights had completely vanished.
And from afar, the mountain peak seemed devoid of any signs of life.
“This…
this is…
someone has fallen into slumber!” Cao Zhen exclaimed in shock.
Wasn’t there supposed to be more time?
Who else had fallen into slumber now?
With the previous news from Elder Copper Plate about a sleeping Supreme Elder, this was now the second powerful expert within the Hundred Peaks Sect to fall into slumber!
“Slumber, another has fallen into slumber,” Gu Chengyu observed the distance and frowned, “The arrival of the Qiankun small epoch might be sooner than we, and the various sects, have calculated.
When the time comes, I wonder what dangers all the clans and sects will face.”
No one can confirm the exact day of the Qiankun small epoch’s arrival; we can only predict an approximate time based on the changes in the Heavenly Dao.
Now it seems that the epoch will come sooner than anyone guessed, disrupting many of the sects’ plans, a scenario none of the major clans wishes to see.
As for Cao Zhen, he is still too weak to get involved; right now, his foremost task is to complete the Pill for Xiang Ziyu.
That day, Ling Xi arrived at the Five-Element Pill Ground to inquire about Puppet Peak’s personnel going to Four Treasures Peak to retrieve mechanism men.
After informing Ling Xi about it, she quickly left.
Then, the next day, Ling Xi reappeared at the Five-Element Pill Ground, bringing several talismans with her.
“Master, didn’t you once mention a type of talisman that can transmit sound over thousands of miles?
I studied it recently and finally crafted this type of talisman, which I call the Ten Thousand Miles Sound Transmission Talisman.
However, the talismans I’ve crafted can only be used once, and will require new ones for subsequent use.”
Cao Zhen looked at the dozen or so talismans laid out in front of him by Ling Xi, utterly dumbfounded.
So, this is what talent looks like?