Chapter 346: A Beginner Puppet? Electronic Circuit Runes Cultivation?
Seeing this game prompt, Chen Han just felt speechless. In the game plot, the Puppetry Sect could be ranked first among puppet factions and even hold the Puppet Fighting Competition, so their strength was definitely extremely formidable.
Now that his refinement of the Demonic Path Puppet had been noticed, and the other side could determine its relation to the Demonic Path just from the images in the Spirit Shadow Mirror and had even invited him to the Puppet Fighting Competition to test him, they were clearly very powerful in puppet techniques.
Using the Demonic Path Puppet would definitely expose him, so he could not use it.
But if he used normal puppet techniques, they had only given him a single beginner puppet technique. Was that not just sending him to be abused?
More importantly, going to get abused with that, being so weak compared to what the Demonic Path Puppet had displayed, had no persuasive power at all.
That would only make them suspect him more.
You could say that in the game plot, he was in some trouble.
Fortunately, he had not successfully transmigrated into the game plot but was in reality. Thinking of those robots in the Robot Mecha League, he could not help wanting to complain again.
If this cultivation beginner puppet technique could not even deal with those, then as for the game plot, that would basically be doomed.
Also, since this was reality, this beginner puppet technique was a free gift; there was no reason not to use it.
He immediately chose to use this beginner puppet technique, and moments later, information related to puppets poured into his mind.
Compared to puppets remodeled with the Demonic Path Puppet stone, this beginner puppet technique was ten thousand leagues inferior.
First of all, although this beginner puppet technique also required controlling a complete, flexible puppet, without a Puppet Heart there was no way to recognize a master and no way to control it with mind power.
Such puppets could only be controlled to attack through carved runes driven by spirit stone energy, and the control method was extremely trash. For example, for a humanoid puppet, with five rune combinations and five spirit stones operating, you had to multitask: hands, feet, attack, defend; everything had to be coordinated.
In other words, you needed a strengthened version of very strong micro-control ability.
With his current state of having opened the eight extraordinary meridians and entered the opening meridians stage, his body had been enhanced, and his mental agility and reaction speed far surpassed ordinary people, so this should not be a problem.
For ordinary people, even his junior sister and his uncle, without talent in this area it would be very hard to control this puppet.
Simply put, in the cultivation world this thing was both low-level and complicated and could not become mainstream.
No wonder that in Shu Shan Swordsman only a few chapters mentioned puppet techniques, and in major sects like Emei there were even fewer people who cultivated puppetry.
However, since the task had arrived, he needed to do it. Just right, he also had the refined +1 mecha puppet, which could be put to waste-utilization.
To cultivate this beginner puppet technique, the first step was to carve runes on the puppet.
Moreover, the cinnabar used to carve the runes could not be ordinary materials; it needed special materials, with an excellent effect of containing spiritual energy.
Because the embedded spirit stones inside the puppet were the key to driving it, the spiritual energy from the stones had to activate the runes carved with cinnabar.
This was different from a person inputting true qi into runes. Here, you needed the spirit stones’ energy to pour out, the runes to absorb spiritual energy and be activated, which required that the runes have a very strong effect of containing spiritual energy; otherwise this would be impossible.
The key was that Chen Han did not have the materials to make this cinnabar.
This was painful.
Could it be that he would fail at the very first step?
Fortunately, he quickly thought of the Artifact Refining Furnace in the Family Cave Mansion.
This Artifact Refining Furnace was somewhat like a rule-type magic treasure. Put something in to refine and there was a chance to grant +1, +2 attributes.
So if he put cinnabar into the Artifact Refining Furnace for refinement, perhaps the cinnabar would gain the attribute effect of containing spiritual energy.
Chen Han acted as soon as he thought of it and immediately took out a small bag of cinnabar from the game system, along with a container to hold it.
These were common Daoist items he had prepared in the game warehouse.
After all, he was now the Chen Family Head and also wore the Daoist purple robe. There would always be times to use such things. For example, right now, he could use them, could he not?
Moreover, this was not just ordinary cinnabar. It was premium cinnabar, which could not be bought outside and could only be purchased by people inside the Daoist Sect.
Without hesitation, Chen Han took some from the bag and put it into the Artifact Refining Furnace.
He did not pour in the entire bag at once, because if it failed the first time it would be awkward.
Since he only put in a little cinnabar, the refinement was quick. It finished in a short while, but when he put this refined cinnabar into the game warehouse, an awkward scene appeared.
【Cinnabar（Quenching）: This is cinnabar quenched by the Artifact Refining Furnace and has gained a special effect: contain spiritual energy +】
“Damn!” Chen Han was speechless.
If he had known it would gain this attribute on the first refinement, he would have put the whole bag in.
Would that not be a whole bag of +2 now?
The amount he had refined this time was not much, not nearly enough runes to carve for one puppet.
So he immediately put some more into the Artifact Refining Furnace and continued refining.
This time it was even more awkward. When he opened the furnace after refining, there was a pile of black paste, clearly a failure.
The third time he put some in, it was still black paste.
The fourth time… black paste.
The fifth time… bright color +
This was a completely useless attribute effect.
Without the real effect of cinnabar, no matter how bright the color was, it was useless.
It was not a beauty pageant.
The sixth time…
The seventh time…
…
Chen Han suddenly felt he was being toyed with.
Either that, or he had used up all his luck on the first refinement. For more than ten attempts afterwards, he never again produced cinnabar with contain spiritual energy +
This was just…
He could only stubbornly keep refining. Finally, after refining more than half a bag of cinnabar, his luck broke out again, and twice in a row he produced cinnabar with the contain spiritual energy +2 attribute.
This made the quantity just enough.
Without hesitation, Chen Han first picked out a complete set of parts from those previously refined mecha parts and put them aside.
Then he took out the brush and inkstone needed to draw the runes.
However, he still needed to go out to get water from heaven, so he left the Family Cave Mansion and headed straight for the back mountain.
Now, with the Spirit Spring water, there was no need to wait for morning dew.
Chen Han’s hurried figure climbing the mountain drew a lot of tourists’ attention.
Now the back mountain had been very well developed; the stone steps up and down the mountain were all bluestone stairs. Because of the Spirit Spring, this path had become the one most trodden by tourists.
There was already a saying: “If you do not taste the Spirit Spring water, your visit to the Chen Clan is in vain.”
So you tell me, would you not go up the mountain when you came to the Chen Clan?
The Chen Clan’s three ornamental forests had also been completed, stirring a lot of tourist curiosity.
Ornamental pine, bamboo, and plum, although each looked nice, taken alone were only so-so. Only when grown in stretches could their ornamental value be fully displayed.
Just so, the Chen Clan’s three ornamental forests of these plants covered a large enough area. Seen from afar, they had great ornamental value, especially the ornamental bamboo forest. Standing within it had a strong poetic mood.
Climbing quickly, Chen Han attracted many tourists going up and down the mountain. The fame of this Chen Family Head was too great; naturally, encountering him, they had to record a video.
Now, getting a video of the Chen Family Head in the Chen Clan grounds was an unexpected surprise and could get a lot of popularity when uploaded online.
So, most tourists, when they ran into the Chen Family Head, would take out their mobile phones, record a video, upload it, and piggyback on his popularity.
In fact, these tourists did not know that they were also indirectly helping Chen Han increase his popularity, adding to the traffic pool and topic saturation.
Chen Han soon arrived at the Spirit Spring, where there stood a large stone tablet engraved with ancient text, telling a story.
Roughly, this Spirit Spring had been struck out by the Chen Clan ancestor, Daoist Priest Qing Feng, together with Daoist Master Ziqing, one of the five patriarchs of the Southern Sect, when they were having a Dao discussion.
The spring-striking method was naturally learned by Daoist Master Ziqing, who then also struck a Spirit Spring each in the Southern Sect and at Longhu Mountain. But due to various reasons, those two springs were damaged and lost their miraculous effect.
The Chen Clan’s Spirit Spring, however, had previously been buried underground, very well protected, and was later located and unearthed when the Chen Family Head and Daoist priests from the Daoist Sect verified the spring-seeking feng shui technique. Thus the Spirit Spring saw the light of day again.
In any case, the story of this Spirit Spring spanned several hundred years and was mysterious and profound.
If it were somewhere else, no one would believe it. But not long ago, feng shui had already been confirmed and was to be included within the scope of science.
Most importantly, the effect of this Spirit Spring water was truly miraculous.
So this story was undoubtedly true, with rich legendary color.
Hundreds of years of history; this was a Spirit Spring that had witnessed the passage of time and the rise and fall of history.
Therefore, this stone tablet had also become a popular photo spot for many tourists.
When Chen Han arrived, there were tourists taking pictures in front of the stone tablet. He went straight to collect some Spirit Spring water, then went back down the mountain, returned to the Chen Clan, entered the Family Cave Mansion, took out the tools for grinding cinnabar, and began to grind the cinnabar with the spring water.
The runes for beginner puppets needed to be inscribed inside the puppet, because if carved on the outside, they could easily be damaged in battle, causing the runes to fail and the puppet to be scrapped.
These runes drawn with talisman techniques were different from the integrated rune parts in Demonic Path Puppets.
So these needed to be drawn on the inside of the parts to be safer.
The runes were divided into three types: one type to contain spiritual energy and drive the puppet’s movement, one type to activate the spirit stones so that energy would pour out, and the last type was, of course, for sensing control.
Only when all three kinds of runes were combined would it work, especially the third type, which was the key to controlling the puppet.
Simply put, it really was somewhat similar to modern battery circuit loops.
The third type of rune was somewhat like the remote control part. The second type was like electrical reactions, where electrons and ions at the positive and negative electrodes moved.
The spirit stones were the batteries; the spiritual energy in the spirit stones was like the single electrons and ions at the positive and negative electrodes.
As for the first type of rune, that was simpler; was it not just the principle of terminal motor conversion?
Thinking about it this way, this could actually be tied back to physics.
Chen Han channeled true qi into the talisman brush and drew the three types of runes one by one inside those parts. Then he took out five primary spirit stones and placed them on the centers of the five rune clusters.
Then something miraculous happened. Once the primary spirit stones were placed on the runes, they seemed to be adsorbed and would not fall off.
When this was done, Chen Han was again troubled by a new problem.
The spirit guiding patterns.
This thing was not drawn with cinnabar.
Although there were quite a few materials that could be used to draw spirit guiding patterns, it seemed, apparently, that he had none.
Spirit guiding patterns were different from runes. They were the groove-like patterns connecting runes, used to guide spiritual energy.
When the five embedded spirit stones were activated and spiritual energy poured out, it needed to be transported to the corresponding rune positions, and then the runes would drive the puppet’s movements.
This transport was key and needed to be achieved via spirit guiding patterns.
Spirit guiding patterns were generally engraved using materials that could strongly guide spiritual energy.
That was right: carved first, then the pattern drawn in.
There was no technical sophistication in the process, but the requirements for materials were extremely high.
The key was that he did not have such materials.
He had planned to handle this beginner puppet technique step by step, but he took a heavy blow at the second step. His path of puppets was cut off.
So this task was basically ruined.
“Damn!” Chen Han cursed and suddenly felt played. He had thought the game system had given him a beginner puppet technique for free, and not to use it would be a waste, but it turned out that even if he accepted it, he could not use it.
Just as he was about to give up, he suddenly recalled something.
Spirit stones were batteries, so could spirit guiding patterns be considered circuits?
He recalled a hypothetical spiritual energy circuit he had seen online before. It seemed feasible.
No spirit guiding rune patterns? Then use electronic circuits instead.
As long as they could guide spiritual energy, that was fine.
As for controlling the puppet, it required triggering the inscribed runes and then sensing the spiritual markings inside the puppet, like how a remote control sensed signals.
Normally, people would make a puppet control token to control it, but that required true qi.
There were not many in the Chen Clan who could operate it, because it consumed too much true qi. A junior sister with little true qi would not be able to hold on long.
But this was modern society, with advanced science.
Since he was going to use electronic circuits as the internal spirit guiding patterns, could he skip the conventional puppet control token?
Could he make an electronic circuit, add a spirit stone function device on the remote end, and make it truly like a remote control?
As long as he input a trace of true qi at activation, the subsequent energy would be supplied by the spirit stones as the power source.
There was also the need to control through mind power and multitasking. Could he use some method to assist, to make it more convenient?
That would be something like a BCI brain-computer device, a device that connected the brain directly with the external world. Now such devices were highly advanced, and many AR glasses already had that capability for use with various games.
That would help with assisted operation. Then, as long as one had cultivated a trace of true qi to initially trigger the runes and input spiritual energy into the spirit stones, the puppet could be continuously controlled until the spirit stones’ energy was exhausted.
Chen Han could not help feeling emotional that the phrase “technology changes life, technology changes the world” was applicable even in the cultivation world.
Cultivation also needed to keep pace with the times.
Now, he just had to sort out the electronic circuits, such as making connecting wires. These wires could not be ordinary wires; copper and such materials had no way to guide spiritual energy.
He needed special materials.
He thought of those spirit stones that had been exhausted of spiritual energy. He had never thrown them away, and now they could be used as materials.
As for BCI-style brain-computer setups, he could not handle them; he had no understanding.
He thought of Chen Qing（Chapter 328）.
Chen Qing was the computer technology team leader for the Chen Clan’s illusion array, managing associated technologies and having to constantly adjust and inspect the array paths. Those QR code sensing facilities had to be effective, without any issues.
He had previously proposed setting up a full-system virtual device to construct the illusion array paths and simulate the array status.
Chen Xiaoyan had approved it, the equipment had been purchased, and he had seen it. There were several BCI-like brain-computer AR glasses.
Perhaps he could ask Chen Qing whether they could be modified according to his requirements.
Thinking so, Chen Han exited the Family Cave Mansion and called Chen Qing.
In an office in the Chen Clan office area.
Chen Qing and several team members were wearing a set of AR glasses, and different moving images and paths could be seen on the screen in front of them.
They were checking the Chen Clan’s illusion array paths in a virtual way, when a sudden ringtone made Chen Qing quickly put down the AR glasses.
Seeing it was the Family Head calling, he did not dare hesitate and answered, “Hello, Family Head!”
“Come to my courtyard,” Chen Han directly ordered.
“Okay, Family Head.” Chen Qing hung up the phone and hurried out towards the Family Head’s courtyard. The more he had come to understand the Chen Clan and the more authority he held, the more he knew the Chen Clan’s foundation and the Family Head’s authority.
Just the two Body Tempering Pills he could receive each month were something many wealthy people could not obtain no matter how they tried.
Someone like him did not even have the qualifications for the record book yet.
He soon arrived at the Family Head’s courtyard and respectfully asked, “Family Head, may I ask what instructions you have?”
Chen Han asked straightforwardly, “You are familiar with BCI technology, right? Devices similar to brain-computer setups. Is there a way to make one that can…”
He told Chen Qing all of his requirements, especially explaining in detail the reserved positions.
Chen Qing was stunned as he listened. He understood BCI, and he understood modifying a terminal. He could even work on it; he had done some research.
But the Family Head wanted special circuits and also needed reserved blank areas for carving runes. What was this?
Could it be that the Family Head wanted to combine this device with Daoist methods?
“Family Head, I will give it a try and bring it to you tomorrow,” Chen Qing immediately agreed without asking too many questions.
The Family Head was not asking him to create new BCI technology, just to modify an interface and leave blank areas.
The difference lay in chip docking and functionality. As long as it did not destroy the original technology, adding an external connector was not a big deal.
He just did not know whether this idea would satisfy the Family Head’s requirements.
Still, he would make it first.
Chen Han did not waste time. After Chen Qing left, he took out those spirit stones that had been exhausted of spiritual energy from the game warehouse.
Spirit stones could store spiritual energy and also guide it well. Using them to make electronic circuits would definitely allow the guidance of spiritual energy.
The problem was making wires and circuit boards in such a way. Fortunately, there was Douyin now, and any technique could be quickly looked up.
Wire making mainly revolved around three steps: conductor, insulation, and protection. First was preparing the conductor, which he would make from the exhausted spirit stones.
He had to first grind these spirit stones into small particles, then draw them out into wire form…
With his current strength, he did not even need machines. Give him two iron plates to crush and stretch with, and the effect would be better than machines.
So after spending a day and a night, he produced the wires and simple circuit boards he wanted and put them into the Artifact Refining Furnace for refinement.
When he took them out and checked the remark information in the game warehouse, his eyes lit up.
【Special wire: This wire is made from spirit stones exhausted of spiritual energy and has been refined by the Artifact Refining Furnace. It possesses a special effect: guide spiritual energy +】
He then checked the simple circuit board and saw it had the same attribute.
Perfect.
Without hesitation, Chen Han directly used the wires and simple circuit boards he had made to connect the spirit guiding patterns of those puppet parts, then used the simple circuit boards to link the wire-based spirit guiding patterns and the corresponding runes.
After that, he quickly assembled the +1 mecha model.
Although it did not look as dominant as the Demonic Path Puppet, a mecha model that could sell for such a high price definitely had an extremely perfect, imposing appearance.
Plus, after another round in the Artifact Refining Furnace, the texture was even more perfect. The key was the four attributes granted by refinement, which meant these parts were no longer ordinary. Even the higher-ups would be envious.
After finishing all this, Chen Han only lacked the BCI control component made by Chen Qing. Shortly after he exited the Family Cave Mansion, Chen Qing contacted him and delivered the finished BCI control component, modified from an AR glasses device.
Chen Qing had clearly added an extra plugin board. Opening the shell, one could see that this method did not damage the original design while still meeting his requirements, especially with enough reserved space to draw runes and connect electronic circuits.
Chen Han did not hesitate. He took the device, put it on the table, then took out the prepared cinnabar from the game warehouse and picked up the talisman brush to draw on those blank areas.
Chen Qing watched in astonishment, especially when he saw the Family Head take out wires and simple circuit boards to construct electronic circuits and connect the runes.
He even drew some runes directly on the circuit board, and crucially, took out a crystal and placed it on the runes.
The crystal seemed to be adsorbed and did not move at all.
This…
The Family Head was truly combining Daoist methods with technology?
Cultivation keeping pace with the times?
After finishing, Chen Han hurriedly left the courtyard, went to the Affairs Hall, and directly entered the Family Cave Mansion to test it.
After all, all of this was based on his random design. He did not know whether it would work or if there would be circuit issues.
Only trying it would tell. If it did not work, he would redesign it and find some professionals in physical circuits. He did not believe he could not make it work.
Thinking this, he put on the BCI-like AR glasses device. Although this version was already advanced, it was still large and heavy.
Then he mobilized a trace of true qi to activate the spirit stone inside the BCI device. Spiritual energy surged out and instantly connected with the special electronic circuits he had made.
He clearly felt the AR glasses vibrate slightly; it had started up. Then his face showed delight.
As he operated, he could sense the runes inside the +1 J-16 mecha being activated. The puppet was started.
Then the model really moved, walking forward to stand before him.
This meant that he had succeeded. He could control this beginner puppet without relying on a puppet control token.
The joy on Chen Han’s face could no longer be concealed.
This truly gave him a sense of achievement. It was his first time in reality combining technology with cultivation, an incredibly fantastic experience.
He immediately controlled a +1 mecha part at the side to smash toward this beginner puppet, while controlling the puppet to slash with one sword, directly knocking that part aside.
Clearly, the power could not compare with a level 1 Demonic Path Puppet that could cleave it in half with one stroke, but that +1 part was still cut with a notch.
Keep in mind that part had sturdiness +
Taking this to bully those robots in the Robot Mecha League, if it did not split them in two with one sword, would that not be bullying?
But since they had come to him seeking abuse and he had triggered the task, he had no reason not to do it.
So at the Puppet Fighting Competition held by the Puppetry Sect, he would set off sparks and make the circuits spit flames.
He directly took out his mobile phone and recorded this beginner puppet, then logged into Douyin, posted the video, and directly @-mentioned the Robot Mecha League side, saying he would participate in the Robot Mecha League.
Originally, this matter would have blown over after a couple of days and its popularity was declining, but with Chen Han’s video, the heat instantly soared to the peak again.
And it stirred up a storm.
Was the Chen Family Head really going to bring this thing to participate in the Robot Mecha League?
Was he sure he was not joking?
……
（Tickets, tickets, tickets!）
