Chapter 976: Persuading Young Master He

"Want to compare like this?" Dong Rui pointed in the direction where Fang Canran disappeared. "That broken sword head can sell for 800,000, which is worth ten of your archipelagos, right?"

The sword head of the First Shore True Immortal was successfully auctioned at the Dun Garden managed by Fang Canran.

"Because of the lack of money and materials, my research has been stagnant for a long time." Dong Rui rubbed his hands. "Once these 80,000 taels of materials arrive, I can use them for a long time."

"..." He Lingchuan kept a straight face. "What kind of ghost are you studying!"

"Still remember the Child-Eating Ghoul Beast you gave me? The one that wouldn't hatch?"

"I regret it." He should have thrown that thing away in the Panlong Desert!

"It's good stuff, good stuff!" Dong Rui's face was full of pain. "It's my first time getting a live young Ghoul Beast. Judging from its insatiable demand, it's likely an ancient monster species."

"What species?"

"The famous giant monsters of the ancient period, most of which have disappeared, such as dragons and phoenixes. The current world's spiritual energy cannot carry their needs." Dong Rui explained casually. "But this Child-Eating Ghoul Beast you gave me, after some unknown transformation, actually survived. But to stuff it into a human body, the Tiangong tortured it so weakly that it was easy to die prematurely."

He Lingchuan frowned: "Is that Ghoul Beast a dragon or a phoenix?" Otherwise, how could it be worthy of his 80,000 taels of silver?

Dong Rui sneered: "Your imagination of giant monsters only has dragons and phoenixes? Poor, truly poor!"

"Then what is it?"

"Currently, it has entered the childhood return period, and the characteristics are not obvious. I can only determine that it is a monster of the Earth Scale class."

He Lingchuan frowned: "At that time, no matter how much the Tiangong's Du Yun Envoy He Jing urged, it refused to leave the host to help in the battle. Are you sure this thing will listen to you in the future?"

"Is He Jing the feeder?"

"Don't know." Would the Du Yun Envoy personally raise a Ghoul Beast? This knowledge point is not within He Lingchuan's grasp.

"Then he might not know that this Ghoul Beast is congenitally weak and has extremely high requirements for food and spiritual energy. The outcome of being summoned out at that time was death, so it refused."

"I heard Ghoul Beasts are hard to control."

"Hard? It's almost uncontrollable! Almost!" Dong Rui glared at him. "Only my demon puppets can be commanded like an arm and a finger."

He Lingchuan cut: "How do you count Shenyuan?"

The giant beast Shenyuan, which fought with Ju Ju in Xushan, had a lot of rules in its later battles, obviously controlled by someone.

Dong Rui choked: "Almost means there are occasional exceptions. The Tiangong has such great ability, what's strange about adjusting a few that can listen?"

"But the little Ghoul Beast you gave me is too weak, and after the Tiangong's blind transformation, it will immediately grow into a full body upon birth to help the Lamp-Guarding Envoy fight. But this process is pulling seedlings to help them grow, which will exhaust all its life force in a short time. Regardless of whether it fights or not after birth, it will die soon!"

He Lingchuan said "Oh," the so-called Child-Eating Ghoul Beast turned out to be a one-time combat consumable.

The Tiangong team brought them out, and didn't intend to bring them back.

"This little thing has high spirituality, so it instinctively refused He Jing's summons." Dong Rui explained. "But the nourishment I am undertaking can replenish its vitality and adjust its congenital deficiencies, allowing it to naturally be born at the right time. Hehe, it's lucky for this little guy to meet me!"

Lucky? He Lingchuan was dumbfounded. Don't look at this guy saying it with a straight face, how much less torture was there in the process of his research and manufacturing of demon puppets?

"Of course, I also have to make some transformations to make it more powerful!"

Right, this is the Dong Rui that He Lingchuan knows, three sentences away from his line of work.

"But because of the lack of funds and materials, my demon puppet research has been stagnant for a long time!" Dong Rui said righteously. "But you won't let me go out and rob houses myself!"

Then of course he could only reach out for money.

"..."

He Lingchuan was very helpless: "What is the effect of spending this 80,000, what effect can it have?"

He is the boss, of course he wants to see results after spending money!

"Let me put it this way." Dong Rui was very serious, knowing this was related to his future research funding. "The Ghoul Beast that can be brought by the Du Yun Envoy He Jing to suppress the finale battle will not be an ordinary player. It's just because this little guy has flaws itself, otherwise it shouldn't have been raised as a Child-Eating Ghoul Beast. If this Ghoul Beast can be successfully adjusted, the initial combat power is at least five or six times that of a violent ape—I'm talking about the initial stage—and it will grow even more limitless in the future!"

He was very rigorous and added an "initial stage."

Even so, He Lingchuan glared at him gloomily: "Are you bragging?"

"No!" Dong Rui said sternly. "Is this something to joke about? The growth of demon puppets does not necessarily depend on spiritual energy."

"I think you are going to cheat funding. You don't even know what species this Ghoul Beast is."

"Ghoul Beasts and demon puppets are originally monsters created out of nothing, each is different, what kind of species to talk about?" Dong Rui was not to be outdone. "One is one species, can't be classified!"

The two were arguing, and Fang Canran came back and coughed on the side.

Dong Rui immediately shifted his target: "How is it, is there a spectrum?"

Fang Canran hesitated rarely before saying: "Do you need these three materials urgently?"

"Not urgent, but they will definitely be used in a few months."

He Lingchuan interjected: "Not for the Ghoul Beast?"

Dong Rui looked at him: "Yes, it's for the mutation stability research of demon puppets. Both Ghoul Beasts and demon puppets are products of mutation, which are very unstable themselves, easy to collapse and go crazy, and even the Tiangong can't handle them well until now. However, that one of ours is temporarily showing no signs of birth."

"It's very difficult to get these three materials, and they are not very regular." Fang Canran said slowly. "I can find someone to think of a way, and there is an 80% chance of getting them, but I need to pay half of the deposit in advance, that is—"

"—100,000 taels!"

Buying these three materials costs a total of 200,000 taels? Not counting the other materials listed on the list, which also cost 80,000 taels, He Lingchuan's eyes went dark.

Dong Rui immediately persuaded: "You spend a huge amount of money to build a Jin Jia Copper General, and it's not as easy to use as my demon puppet, right?"

He Lingchuan's upgrade of the Jin Jia Copper General to a God General is also an astronomical figure, and there is a time limit for summoning; demon puppets are different, as long as Dong Rui commands them properly, they can run for a long time, such as the Snail Toad that carried them for tens of thousands of miles.

Dong Rui continued: "If you spend hundreds of thousands of taels to exchange for a powerful big demon that can fight, and it can continue to grow in the future, will you do it or not?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 977 =====