My Master Knows It All-Chapter 157 - 121: Unexpected Joy_3

If I set up a formation to stimulate the spiritual energy and then craft on top of it... this seems doable.

Cao Zhen quickly left, purchased a batch of the lowest grade formation materials, and after finding an open space in the backyard, began to set up the formation.

The Four Treasures Peak lacked many things but not open spaces.

"If I add some Miao Tian rare earth to this soil and introduce a bit of spiritual energy, I should be able to craft the simplest mechanical beings."

Cao Zhen started to shape the stone man, but...

"Why is this so hard? I have no experience in shaping things." Cao Zhen was at his wit’s end, though he had full theoretical knowledge, his technical skills weren’t at the same level, and at times his hands seemed uncontrollable.

Shaping a head took forever, and he ended up with a triangular head.

Shaping an arm, after much effort, turned out to be the same length top to bottom.

After much difficulty shaping a leg that nearly looked right, he accidentally applied too much force and snapped it off. He still had to work on the hands, two hands with a total of ten fingers, and accidentally ended up creating a nine-fingered thief.

All these were relatively easy. The key was to design the meridians, and if that went wrong, the carefully shaped stone man would be ruined.

Cao Zhen looked at his hands with a helpless sigh, "These hands of mine... I should have played with more mud when I was younger."

"Master? What are you doing?"

Suddenly, an exclamation sounded, and Cao Zhen, who was squatting on the ground, looked up to see a pair of long, white, straight, and slender beautiful legs entering his sight.

Looking at those legs that scored full points with just a skirt, no stockings needed, and then at the deformed legs of the clay figure he had shaped, he suddenly lost even the desire to speak.

Yi Sheng looked on with a puzzled face at the messy shaped clay before her and then at her master’s face also covered in clay, she even began to doubt whether the master in front of her was someone transformed through divine skills...

"Master, are you playing with mud?"

"What do you mean playing with mud. This is mechanical techniques, do you understand?" Cao Zhen’s face instantly darkened as he still squatted there, taking on the authoritative tone of a master to instruct, "Why aren’t you cultivating properly, running around instead?"

Yi Sheng responded grievously, "Disciple has just collected talismans from the mountain.

"Oh, after collecting the talismans, you should go back to cultivation," Cao Zhen hastily waved his hands, wanting to get his disciple out of there as quickly as possible. It was too embarrassing for a master theoretically at full level in mechanical techniques to be seen creating such things.

As for talisman making, he initially thought about learning from Boss Ma’s something-bao; those Taoist Institutions were like different shops, letting them sell while he took a bigger share.

But later he realized this wasn’t right; without a system like something-bao, who would know how many talismans those Taoist Institution folks actually sold?

If they sold a thousand talismans and told him they sold a hundred, wouldn’t he be at a huge loss?

He had no choice but to change his original idea to taking the talismans from the Taoist Institutions and selling them himself.

Yi Sheng didn’t immediately leave but frowned and said, "Master, disciple knows the number of disciples in these Taoist Institutions and has also calculated their talisman-making speed, and I’ve found that the quantity of talismans they turn in is incorrect. They must be hiding talismans. But disciple is powerless and can’t think of a perfect solution."

"Such things can’t be completely prevented. Fortunately, we take the lion’s share, let’s leave it at that for now. After a while, your master will look for other solutions. For now, go back and cultivate," Cao Zhen’s gaze fell back on the mud mechanical beings still in the making.

If this had been before, he really wouldn’t have had any better solutions, other than threatening to sell the Supreme Gathering Spirit Talismans to make those Taoist Institutions restrain themselves.

After all, he couldn’t really develop a system like something-bao in a world without even electricity, could he?

But now, he could just create more mechanical beings and have them make talismans.

The people of the Hundred Peaks Sect suddenly found that the normally very active Cao Zhen had disappeared.

Cao Zhen finally realized that his hands were indeed clumsy — it was just that he had never done this before. As he continued crafting, he gradually became more proficient.

Within three days, he had crafted the first batch of mud mechanical beings.

These mechanical beings, almost entirely made of mud, had the great advantage of being very cheap; they could be activated simply by placing a spirit stone inside them, functioning like real people.

Since Ling Xi had gone to the Hidden Dragon Immortal Palace and the task of taking care of Cao Zhen’s daily life fell on Yi Sheng, cooking duties had also become Yi Sheng’s responsibility.

According to the rules of Four Treasures Peak, unless one was in long-term seclusion, meals were still to be had, following the master’s words, it gave a sense of home. Even though there were only two of them, meals needed to be cooked.

At noon, Yi Sheng continued to cook and prepare meals as usual and headed towards the open space where her master had been busy lately.

But even before reaching the open space, she was surprised to hear a series of noises from afar, as if something was being built.

"Strange? What is he up to now? It seems like there are quite a few people too?"

Yi Sheng quickened her pace.

In no time, she saw a group of busily working mud people.

There were five or six mud people moving stones, carrying straw, all bustling about fervently, and her master was not far away, directing them.