A Ba Ling Sect Disciple at Condensing Qi Stage Level Seven ran over in a panic.
The Disciple was around twenty years old, with only four fingers on his left hand, and moved somewhat clumsily.
Qian Duoduo used his Spiritual Awareness to form a soul hand, pressing the Corpse Puppet to the ground, "How do you manage the Corpse Puppet?"
"My Left Ear Peak's business, do you need to meddle? Let go! If you damage Senior Brother Pang's Corpse Puppet, you'll have to compensate!"
"Which Senior Brother Pang?"
"You're new, aren't you? Senior Brother Pang Yunxiao!"
The finger-missing Disciple wiggled his fingers seven or eight times before finally regaining control of the Corpse Puppet.
So Pang Yunxiao was at Left Ear Peak.
He should now be a Protector of Left Ear Peak, just like Zeng Ruohai.
The finger-missing Disciple looked at the blood on the Corpse Puppet's mouth, then at Qian Duoduo, "Were you bitten by it?"
Qian Duoduo chuckled; this Disciple was quite foolish.
"No."
"Where did this blood come from?" The finger-missing Disciple carefully examined the Corpse Puppet's belly, then slapped his thigh, "It didn't suck someone's blood dry, did it? Who's so unlucky!"
Seeing Qian Duoduo still standing there, he glared, "What are you looking at? Haven't you seen a Corpse Puppet before? Get out!"
After speaking, he herded the Corpse Puppet towards Left Ear Peak, muttering under his breath, "Always causing trouble. Just three days without feeding you, and you're that hungry, even running away?"
Qian Duoduo shook his head; there was no reasoning with such a clumsy and unreasonable idiot, and it wasn't worth getting angry.
Corpse Puppets, like Puppets, require external power.
Low-level Corpse Puppets rely on various fresh blood, Intermediate ones on Medicinal Pills, and Advanced ones on Spirit Liquid.
The only difference from Puppets is that Corpse Puppets have an instinct: once their accumulated power is insufficient, they will actively seek food. When out of control, Corpse Puppets even dare to suck their master's blood.
Upon entering Nose Peak and returning to Qian Manor, Qian Duoduo saw a sign at the entrance that read, "Manor Lord is not in. Those wishing to buy Magic Treasures, please leave a note."
Next to the sign, there were over a hundred messages posted.
He would have Guan Tusheng organize these messages later; goods still needed to be sold, and money still needed to be earned.
When the rattle drum at the entrance rang, Ming Huanhuan, who was standing in the center of the open space, looked up, "Senior Brother, you're back!"
Qian Duoduo saw the corpse of a Golden Ox lying in the open space, and Ming Huanhuan was holding a knife, carving out the ox's horns and hooves, "Why are you killing an ox?"
"This Golden Ox was wild; it wandered in on its own and I caught it. Its hide, meat, horns, and so on, can sell for one or two hundred gold coins."
Ming Huanhuan's knife skills were proficient, clearly not her first time doing this.
In Refining Spirit Sect, a live Golden Ox could sell for four or five hundred.
"Why don't you raise Golden Oxen?" Qian Duoduo asked Ming Huanhuan.
Ming Huanhuan didn't even lift her head, "Raising oxen? That's what Shengling Sect does. No one in our Ba Ling Sect does that. It's too slow to make money. When we need Golden Oxen, we just hunt some outside."
Qian Duoduo looked at the Golden Ox blood on the ground and felt a bit of pity.
This Golden Ox blood could be used to feed Corpse Puppets.
Remembering Huang Guiren, who was troubled by Golden Oxen in Refining Spirit Sect, Qian Duoduo couldn't help but instruct:
"Ming Huanhuan, I need live Golden Oxen in some places. Go catch some more for me and raise them in this open space of ours. Get two hundred to start, one hundred males and one hundred females. If anyone asks why you're using them, just say you're practicing Cultivation Technique and using the Golden Oxen as sparring partners."
Upon hearing this, Ming Huanhuan jumped up, "They really can be sparring partners! I'll go catch them now."
Returning to his Cultivation chamber, Qian Duoduo steadied himself, sat on his Spiritual Platform, and began to Cultivate with all his might.
He was now at Foundation Establishment Middle Stage; the first layer of the Everlasting Wealth and Nobility Cultivation Technique was complete, and it was time to practice the second layer.
As for the Golden Life Devouring Dragon Art, he had only refined three golden bricks, and he still needed more golden bricks, each one as rare as the last.
Qian Duoduo seemingly had tens of millions of gold coins in his hands, but if he really started spending, it probably wouldn't even support the second layer of the Everlasting Wealth and Nobility Cultivation Technique.
He still had to keep making money; he could never forget about making money.
Throwing the newly acquired golden brick into the cauldron, Qian Duoduo pressed his right hand on the cauldron and began to refine the golden brick, planning to go to Right Eyebrow Peak tomorrow to meet Protector Teng Libin, arrange an Appraisal Fair at Right Eyebrow Peak, and earn another large sum.