Chapter 496

"Did you craft all of these?" Su Wanjun asked with a tremor.

"That's right! The crafting method has been placed in the Scripture Library on the back mountain. You can let the family's artifact refiners go take a look."

Su Fan nodded. The high-level members of the Su family were all in the main hall, plus Bai Yuan, the Clan Head of the Bai family, so Su Fan did not hide anything.

He was not afraid; even if it spread, so what? Could it be that someone would dare to come and snatch it by force?

If they come to trade, he would not mind. At that time, whether it is the Yunyang Sect or other forces, they will inevitably have to pay some price.

As for whether other forces will learn it and snatch the Su family's interests, Su Fan does not care, because these puppets themselves are extremely niche, and the market demand, at least in the Zheng State, is definitely not large.

After all, in the entire Zheng State, how many Foundation Establishment immortal cultivation families are there? There are no more than fifty, and not every Foundation Establishment family will buy one.

As for those Qi Refining families or loose cultivators, that goes without saying. Twenty-five thousand low-grade spirit stones can block ninety percent of immortal cultivation families.

So, wanting to rely on these puppet things to get rich is simply impossible.

However, as a foundation, it is not bad.

A Tier 2 puppet at least has Foundation Establishment combat power, and a Tier 3 one is comparable to Purple Mansion combat power, which is even more powerful and can become a family's absolute foundation.

Purple Mansion combat power, placed in the Zheng State, can also be considered a high-level cultivator.

After all, in the entire Zheng State, there are fewer than thirty Purple Mansion stage cultivators.

Of course, Tier 3 puppets are even harder to craft. With Su Fan's current level, the success rate is not high either.

Secondly, there are no Tier 3 soul crystal stones in the Zheng State. Of course, without soul crystal stones, Su Fan can actually use the inner cores of monster beasts to craft them.

The inner cores of monster beasts are actually somewhat similar to the divine cores of the Great Qin World, but the inner cores of Tier 3 monster beasts can only craft Tier 2 high-tier puppets.

If one wants to craft a Tier 3 one, the minimum must be a Tier 3 top-tier monster beast, or even a Tier 4 monster beast.

The only inner core Su Fan has in his hand is the wolf king inner core of that Golden-Backed Iron Wolf, which has a tiny chance of being crafted into a Tier 3 puppet.

Of course, the success rate is not high. After all, his artifact refining level is not very high, and it is even slightly worse than Su Shi'an's.

So in the end, he held back and did not craft that inner core into a puppet. Once it fails, a top-tier Tier 3 inner core would be wasted.

If it were used to craft Foundation Establishment Pills, with the quality of that top-tier Tier 3 inner core, it could probably craft six Foundation Establishment Pills.

The younger generation of disciples in the family would probably be able to produce five Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Five Foundation Establishment cultivators, compared to one Tier 3 low-tier puppet, are more valuable in terms of the former. After all, Purple Mansion combat power, although not bad, is not necessary for the Su family at present.

The family has him and Su Wanjun, so there will not be any major danger.

And five Foundation Establishment cultivators have a chance to grow to the Purple Mansion stage in the future.

One is the present, one is the future. Ordinary families might choose the present, but the Su family naturally chooses the latter, which is more beneficial to the family.

"That's great. Shi'an, your artifact refining level is the best. You can learn it and see if you can try crafting one."

Su Wanjun's eyes lit up when he heard Su Fan's words. He knew that Su Shi'an's artifact refining level had already reached the Tier 3 level.

Even if this puppet beast is more difficult, he believes that with Su Shi'an's ability, crafting a Tier 2 low-tier puppet is still possible, at most consuming some resources in the early stages.

Of course, generally speaking, soul crystal stones will not be destroyed even if they fail, and they can be crafted again.

Su Fan has experimented; a Tier 2 soul crystal stone can be crafted seven or eight times in a row. At most, if it fails, it will consume the power of the soul crystal stone, making the puppet's service life shorter after successful crafting.

It doesn't really count as a loss.

The key is that these soul crystal stones are not so easy to buy, and there are very few in the Zheng State. These soul crystal stones generally come from some places with Yin Miasma.

Or from demon caves and ghost holes. How they are formed, very few people know. For righteous immortal cultivators, these things have almost no use other than crafting puppets.

On the contrary, Yin ghosts and demonic cultivators can use them to improve their cultivation.

If the Su family wants to buy soul crystal stones, I am afraid they can only get them from other places, so Su Wanjun looked at Su Fan.

"Clan Head, don't worry! When I come back, I will bring some back."

Su Fan knew what Su Wanjun was thinking immediately and nodded. Although soul crystal stones are very expensive, he is an alchemy master.

He still cannot earn too many spirit stones in the Zheng State. After all, how many Purple Mansion cultivators are there in the Zheng State? The demand for Tier 3 spirit pills is not very large.

However, in a major immortal cultivation country like the Wu State in the Southern Wilderness, there are probably more than a hundred Golden Core stage cultivators, not to mention Purple Mansion stage cultivators.

Naturally, for Tier 3 spirit pills, ordinary Tier 3 low-tier ones are all around two thousand. If it is a spirit pill that improves magic power, the value is probably even higher.

Tier 3 high-tier pills that can improve the magic power of late-stage Purple Mansion cultivators are eight or nine thousand each.

And among the pill formulas Su Fan obtained, there is a Ziyun Pill, which belongs to the Tier 3 high-tier spirit pills. For late-stage Purple Mansion cultivators, one Ziyun Pill can increase eight years of magic power.

This effect is already very powerful, saving nearly ten years of time, which is imaginable for the late Purple Mansion stage.

One must know that for an average three-spirit-root Purple Mansion cultivator, it often takes forty or fifty years to improve one level of cultivation.

Spirit pills that improve magic power and cultivation have always been extremely precious in the immortal cultivation world. One costing nearly ten thousand spirit stones is normal.

And Su Fan also knows a kind of Tier 3 high-tier spirit pill, the Ziyun Barrier-Breaking Pill, which is a pill specifically used for Purple Mansion level 6 to break through to the late Purple Mansion stage.

This kind of Tier 3 high-tier spirit pill costs about fifty thousand spirit stones each, or even higher.

Unfortunately, Su Fan does not have this pill formula. The value of this pill is not even worse than a Tier 4 spirit pill.

Of course, although it is Tier 3 high-tier, both the crafting difficulty and the required spirit herbs are extremely rare, similar to the Foundation Establishment Pill.

But the effect is much more powerful than the Foundation Establishment Pill.

After all, the Foundation Establishment Pill can only be applied to Qi Refining cultivators, while this pill has a great effect on Purple Mansion cultivators, regardless of the level, especially for breaking through bottlenecks.

The three levels of the Purple Mansion stage 9, Purple Mansion level 3 breaking through to the mid-Purple Mansion stage, is fine. Generally, if the foundation is deep, one can break through.

But if Purple Mansion level 6 wants to break through to the late Purple Mansion stage, it is different, and it can even trap many cultivators for a hundred years or longer.

This is why the Ziyun Barrier-Breaking Pill is precious.

Although Su Fan does not have this pill formula, the Ziyun Pill is also very precious to Purple Mansion stage cultivators. It is not only effective for late-stage Purple Mansion cultivators.

Some early-to-mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivators with strong foundations can also take it to increase their magic power even more.