Su Xiaoqi came to Lu Changsheng’s cave abode in a cheerful mood, for her master was going to bestow another treasure upon her.
As expected, as soon as she arrived, Lu Changsheng directly awarded her an Immortal Sword.
[Ding, you have bestowed upon your disciple Su Xiaoqi a mid-grade Ultimate Treasure “Astonishing Dragon Sword”, and received a hundredfold return reward for mentoring: a high-grade Ultimate Treasure “Zhanlong Sword”.]
Lu Changsheng then gave away the high-grade Ultimate Treasure he received in return.
[Ding, you have bestowed upon your disciple Su Xiaoqi a high-grade Ultimate Treasure “Zhanlong Sword”, and received a mentoring return reward: Holy Artifact Fragment×1.]
There was still no return of the Nine Heavens Sword Formation.
Lu Changsheng continued to award Immortal Swords.
Immortal Swords of Ultimate Treasure-grade were indeed rare; after Lu Changsheng had finished bestowing these Ultimate Treasure-grade swords, he could only start giving away Immortal Artifacts.
[Ding, you have bestowed upon your disciple Su Xiaoqi a low-grade Immortal Sword “Rufeng”, and received a hundredfold return reward for mentoring: a mid-grade Immortal Sword “Yanhai”.]
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Lu Changsheng gave Su Xiaoqi a heap of Immortal Artifacts and then accumulated a batch of Ultimate Treasures, after which he started bestowing Ultimate Treasures again.
[Ding, you have bestowed upon your disciple Su Xiaoqi a low-grade Ultimate Treasure “Suiying”, and received a mentoring return reward: Holy Artifact Fragment×1.]
Two returns of Holy Artifact Fragments.
If the next return was still a Holy Artifact Fragment, then the chance of returning a Holy Artifact in these hundred years would be gone.
[Ding, you have bestowed upon your disciple Su Xiaoqi a mid-grade Ultimate Treasure “Meiying Sword”, and received a ten-thousandfold return reward for mentoring: a low-grade Holy Artifact “Youmeng”.]
This time, there was no return of a Holy Artifact Fragment, but instead, a Holy Artifact was directly returned.
Although he would not be able to continue returning Holy Artifacts for the next hundred years, after a hundred years, Lu Changsheng would be able to directly gift a low-grade Holy Artifact-level Divine Sword and most likely receive a higher-level Holy Artifact in return.
Next, Lu Changsheng began to bestow other types of treasures.
Lu Changsheng took out a Talisman – an eleventh-grade Talisman “Mixed Gold Puppet Talisman”, within which was a puppet from the Void Refinement Realm.
This type of Talisman had significant uses; Lu Changsheng could manipulate the puppet to scout ahead, and if it were damaged, he wouldn’t mind in the slightest.
Even higher-level puppets could be useful in battle.
Lu Changsheng wanted to see what grade of Talisman he would get in return for bestowing the “Mixed Gold Puppet Talisman”.
If the returned Talisman contained Earth Immortal or Heavenly Immortal-level puppets, their value would be incomparable to that of a Void Refinement Realm puppet.
A Void Refinement Realm puppet, for a Loose Immortal, primarily served as a scout, but Earth Immortal and Heavenly Immortal-level puppets were entirely different.
Such puppets had combat capabilities comparable to Elders of a normal Immortal Sect.
Lu Changsheng prepared ninety-nine Mixed Gold Puppet Talismans.
These Talismans came from the Treasure Pavilion of the Zhengsheng Sect.
For an Immortal Sect of Zhengsheng Sect’s level, the quantity of eleventh-grade Talismans was vast, with stocks increasing continuously every year, far beyond what could be used up.
[Ding, you have bestowed upon your disciple Su Xiaoqi a “Mixed Gold Puppet Talisman”, and received a tenfold return reward for mentoring: a “Yanjin Puppet Talisman”.]
[Yanjin Puppet Talisman: A twelfth-grade Talisman, within which is a Unity Realm puppet, refined from materials like Yan Stone produced in Unparalleled City.]
A Unity Realm puppet?
For Lu Changsheng at present, a Unity Realm puppet was merely cannon fodder for scouting purposes.
Having used up today’s mentoring return opportunities, on the next day, Lu Changsheng continued to bestow Mixed Gold Puppet Talismans.
Lu Changsheng awarded ten Mixed Gold Puppet Talismans, and the system returned nine Yanjin Puppet Talismans and one Tianyao Puppet Talisman.
[Tianyao Puppet Talisman: A thirteenth-grade Talisman, within which is an Earth Immortal Realm puppet, refined from materials like Tianyao Yan Iron.]
“Such Talismans have a low probability of returning higher-grade Talismans…”
Lu Changsheng bestow ten Mixed Gold Puppet Talismans before he received one Tianyao Puppet Talisman in return.
Over the following days, Lu Changsheng bestowed all of the Mixed Gold Puppet Talismans to Su Xiaoqi.
Ninety-nine Mixed Gold Puppet Talismans in total returned nine thirteenth-grade Tianyao Puppet Talismans and ninety twelfth-grade Yanjin Puppet Talismans.
Su Xiaoqi was quite disheartened.
Her master had given her ninety-nine Mixed Gold Puppet Talismans, but she couldn’t use them at all.
However, Lu Changsheng then began to bestow Yanjin Puppet Talismans.
Lu Changsheng awarded ninety Yanjin Puppet Talismans and nine Tianyao Puppet Talismans, which returned eighty Tianyao Puppet Talismans and twenty Separation Fire Puppet Talismans.
[Separation Fire Puppet Talisman: A fourteenth-grade Talisman, within which is a nascent Heavenly Immortal Realm puppet (ranging from the first to the fourth level of Heavenly Immortal), refined from materials like Separation Fire Divine Light Stone.]
At last, a Heavenly Immortal-level puppet appeared.
A Heavenly Immortal-level puppet, comparable in strength to a Heavenly Immortal, was still weaker than a cultivator of the same realm.
After all, puppets are mass-produced tools with simplistic techniques and require the user’s divided attention to control.
Lu Changsheng took out a Separation Fire Puppet Talisman and bestowed it upon Su Xiaoqi.
[Ding, you have bestowed upon your disciple Su Xiaoqi a “Separation Fire Puppet Talisman”, and received a twentyfold return reward for mentoring: a “Sunflame Puppet Talisman”.]
[Sunflame Puppet Talisman: A fifteenth-grade Talisman, within which is a Heavenly Immortal Realm puppet (ranging from the fourth to the ninth level of Heavenly Immortal), refined from materials like Sunflame Essence Gold, and almost indestructible.]
The Sunflame Puppet Talisman that Lu Changsheng received contained a fifth-level Heavenly Immortal Realm puppet.
A fifth-level Heavenly Immortal Realm puppet was somewhat helpful to Lu Changsheng.
Of course, Lu Changsheng was still not satisfied.
He continued to bestow Separation Fire Puppet Talismans.
Twenty Separation Fire Puppet Talismans in return all yielded Sunflame Puppet Talismans.
Lu Changsheng then gave away the eighty Tianyao Puppet Talismans.