My teacher is a deity.

Chapter 38 Re-examining the Ground

Due to a minor incident along the way.

Vishi rested for another day in the harpy's lair to recover his strength.

As her blood and qi circulated, she could clearly sense that there was a lot more 'qi' in her blood.

She has completed four bone-tempering processes: ingesting poison, resisting cold, being tempered by fire, and resisting wind, which greatly enhances her resistance to abnormalities.

Once the final step of mastering metal is completed, the second stage of the Blood Python Fist, "Breaking Iron Like Mud," will be halfway complete.

But this task doesn't seem to be so easy to complete.

"Teacher, it seems the lions have run away."

"?"

Shi Qing put down the puppet in his hand and looked at Vixi in surprise.

"They ran away?"

"Um."

Vichy nodded. She had just gone out to search for the trail of the gold-loving lions, and with her powerful blood energy sensing, she quickly found the lions' whereabouts from the slightest clues.

But upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the gold-loving lions had already fled, taking their families with them to the deeper underground world.

"Tsk, it seems the commotion up there was too big and scared away these monsters."

Shi Qing shook his head, pondered for a moment, then waved his hand and tossed the broken puppet aside.

"Perfect timing. I've gained some insights from studying this puppet these past few days. Let's go back to Earth and buy some information and materials."

"A puppet?"

Vichy blinked and asked in confusion, "Teacher, you learn so fast!"

"If you understand one method, you can understand all methods. The underlying principles of many paths are similar. These puppets and spirit puppets have a certain degree of similarity."

It can only be said that optimal solutions are always similar.

Vishi didn't understand any of this, but he quickly packed his things and headed up the giant stone pillar.

As she wandered through the underground city, she saw many landscapes that were quite different from what she had seen before.

The previous war was quite astonishing, leaving behind the remains of golems everywhere. Some middlemen were dismantling these golem remains and extracting the usable parts.

"Look, take a look! They're all good parts!"

"Why learn magic? Why not just use a magic puppet? It's cheap, durable, and sturdy!"

Soon, a small market trading in the remains of magical puppets appeared before Vishi.

This place used to be an open space, and no one set up stalls here before. It must have been formed within two or three days.

Vishi casually picked up a template of integrated magic. It had a half-damaged magic circle on it, which was charred black and its effect was not clearly visible.

But the puppet's magic only has a few variations, so this should be the template for the magic shield.

"Hey buddy, buy a few more! They're only fifty copper coins each."

"You can always piece together a good magic template by piecing things together."

"Fifty copper coins? That's so cheap?"

Vichy raised an eyebrow, thinking, "A magic template that costs twenty yuan for just one gold coin."

"Hehe, we little people just earn a meager living through hard work."

The vendor, with a forced smile, quickly prepared to stuff the defective products into the bag.

At that moment, a pair of large hands immediately clamped down on his switcheroo hand.

"Jose, this guy is my friend."

The vendor looked up and found that Gabo had been standing to the side for some time, staring intently at him.

"Fine, fine, you decide."

The vendor sighed, then stopped what he was doing and went to the side to smoke in silence.

"My lord, it is a pleasure to see you again."

Gabo turned his head, bent down, and took out a black card from his pocket, handing it to Vichy.

"This is?"

"This is your reward. After the war began, the city defense army suddenly announced the appearance of the Blood Demon."

You can get a thousand gold coins as long as you can destroy one of his blood puppets.

A thousand gold coins are too much to carry. This is an anonymous magic record card from Gem City, containing a key.

Vichy paused, his expression turning strange.

She remembered very clearly that she was the one who tipped off the city defense forces about the appearance of the Blood Demon.

Does this mean I've inadvertently discovered a sustainable way to make money?

Keep a close eye on the Blood Demon, tip him off, and then ask your teacher to kill his Blood Puppet and seize the wealth.

"Dream on! If you endure my possession a few more times in a short period of time, your body will be almost broken."

The raven slapped Vichy across the face with its claw, shattering her beautiful fantasy.

"Uh, I was just thinking about it."

Vichy blushed slightly as she accepted the payment.

She glanced around and casually remarked, "The city defense forces have started deploying a large number of magical puppets?"

"Yes, sir, the city defense forces have suddenly increased their deployment significantly."

Gabo's expression turned serious, and he began to explain the sudden changes of the past few days to Vichy.

Under normal circumstances, adventurers should advance with their own flesh and blood, gradually wearing away the veil of the Shadow Children.

But for some reason, the once precious magic puppets began to be distributed on a large scale, causing prices to plummet and some policies to become ambiguous.

"Take the puppet recycling industry for example. Originally, the city defense army required all of them to be recycled."

"But now we only require the recovery of the core components; the rest are no longer mandatory."

As he spoke, Gabo showed the magic circle template in his hand.

This is the most fundamental reason for the rise of this market.

The city's defense forces are encouraging the advancement of puppet technology, seemingly eager to test the puppets' greater power.

Vichy suddenly felt a little strange.

Gem City is not a very radical city. Under the leadership of the vampire lord Ryan, Gem City has only produced magic ore for many years and is not interested in many of the empire's technologies.

"Teacher, is the pressure from the Children of Shadows really that great?"

"I don't think so. It's possible that their higher-ups are starting to put pressure on them."

Let's chat casually for a bit.

Vichy listened to Shi Qing's words, his expression turning strange.

"Hey, um, I need to buy something."

Vichy then called out to the street vendors again.

"Oh, sir, just choose whatever you want. Everything here is top-quality."

Under Gabo's stern gaze, the vendor had no choice but to pull out a large basket of high-quality magic templates from the bottom.

Clearly, these are his real main products; the items on top are just scraps used to rip people off.

No, I don't want any of that.

"don't want?"

"I want these that are badly damaged, the more damaged the better."

"ha?"

The vendor and Gabo were both stunned.

It's important to understand that although the city's defense forces have opened the gates, the real technology is not something that ordinary people like them can access.

Among them, the ability to inscribe a magic circle in a small area is something they could never do, no matter what.

Normal magic is either branded onto a scroll or engraved in a mage tower. The former is small in size but has only one-time use, while the latter can be reused but is troublesome to maintain and takes up a large area.

This is why the more damaged the magic array template, the worse the effect.

Whether the items displayed on the counter by these unscrupulous merchants can actually re-release their magic is a question.

Otherwise, these things would cost more than fifty copper coins each.

What is this guy up to? Selling scrap metal?