My Master Only Breaks Through on the Edge of Death

Chapter 398: 371: The Light of Chives

A puppet, wielding a machete, thrusts it directly into the heart of the Demonic Beast. He withdraws the blade, turns around, and lops off the head of a Golden Core Period Monster in another stroke, all clean and efficient, without any dragging.

“These Demonic Beasts never end, do they?” The middle-aged Butcher remarked as he looked at the Demon Clan pressing up from the rear.

“Why think so much? Just kill and it’s done.” A puppet nearby, holding a blood-red machete, was even more ruthless than the middle-aged Butcher.

“Be careful.” The middle-aged butcher spotted a dark figure attacking the puppet with the blood-red machete.

With a flash of thunder, swift as lightning, the claw of the attacking beast is severed.

“Be careful, Blood Spirit. To damage a puppet would cost a fair number of Spirit Stones.” The middle-aged butcher burst into a hearty laugh.

This puppet with the blood-red machete is a buddy he met some time ago. The two got along well and often teamed up for tasks.

“Thanks.” The operator of Zhan Ling puppet was surprised. The flash of thunder just now was weak, but strangely, it caused his heart to tremble.

“Thanks. I’ll treat you to a drink after the game.” Zhan Ling replied with a laugh. He found that making friends in the game with his virtual identity was interesting, and it stirred in him a desire to explore the entire game.

“All right, you supply the wine and I bring the food.” The middle-aged butcher killed the Demon Clan while laughing, there was a feeling of being a chivalrous person of the world.

“Deal,” Zhan Ling laughed heartily.

At this moment, the Demon Clan charging towards the Steel Great Wall gradually became Nascent Soul Stage demons, making it difficult for the many Golden Core Period puppet characters to resist.

“All Tianjue Masters of fourth-order and below, fall back.” Pu Tao’s voice sounded in every battling puppet’s ear.

“Time to fall back, it’s the turn for the official puppets of the Immortal Sect to take the stage,” said the middle-aged Butcher.

“All right then.” Zhan Ling looked at the new Nascent Soul Stage beasts appearing around him and felt a trace of pressure. His techniques cultivated in the Realm of Nothingness were quite challenging to deal with the incoming waves of Nascent Soul Stage beasts.

In the Virtual Game World, the middle-aged butcher exited the specialized operation room.

Right outside the room was the Task Center of the game.

The middle-aged Butcher chuckled while looking at the tasks displayed on the light curtain of the Task Center. Apart from the top Tianjue Masters who could receive low-level tasks in the game, the rest were all basic entry-level tasks.

“Use the Spiritual Rain Technique to irrigate farmland. Five spirit stones for every one hundred mu.”

“Help 169th Agricultural Team in Sky Lake City No.4 to create fertilizer.”

“Recruit logistics personnel for the battlefield.”

“Recruit a Qi Cultivating Cultivator who knows the Earth Spirit Technique. One spirit stone per day.”

The middle-aged Butcher glanced for a while and saw there were no tasks suitable for him, so he went to the task settlement area to settle his tasks first.

“Settle the task.” The middle-aged butcher directed at the virtual staff on the counter.

“Two defense tasks, four fights. You killed twelve Golden Core Period Beasts and one Nascent Soul Stage Beast. After deducting puppet rental and maintenance costs, you have earned a total of 179 spirit stones,” the staff behind the counter said with a worshipful expression that the middle-aged butcher quite enjoyed.

“Withdraw nine Spirit Stones, and help me deposit the rest into the Money Bank,” requested the middle-aged Butcher.

“Sure.”

The middle-aged butcher walked out of the Task Hall with nine spirit stones, unconsciously ending up at a Puppet Center that specifically deals in puppets capable of interfacing with reality.

As he passed the entrance, he was once again whisked away by the youthful salesman of the Puppet Center.

“I’ve only got nine spirit stones, find me something good for that price,” the middle-aged butcher instructed the salesman.

“Big Shot, your fame is spreading fast. You kill Golden Period demons like they’re dogs and have even taken down a Nascent Soul Demon Clan.”

“There aren’t many in the game who can now kill Nascent Soul demons,” the salesman said enthusiastically, guiding him to a Nascent Soul puppet model.

“This is a Fourth-Order, Top-Level Swordsman Puppet, forged in entirety from golden source iron-alloy, its power core generates 1.8 nascent spirit energy. It’s designed with a modular construction, making repairs a breeze,” he elaborated.

“It wields a Dark Element Machete, a Third-tier premium Treasure Artifact, capable of chopping Nascent Soul Demons as casually as one slices fruits.”

“With your advanced machete techniques, you could govern this puppet to be an unconquerable force,” the youthful salesman sang the puppet’s praises in an effort to make the sale.

“Alright, enough with the sales pitches every day, tell me how many spirit stones it’ll set me back,” the Butcher said, captivated by the two meters tall, dark golden puppet, swallowing involuntarily.

He found his heart racing at the mere thought of himself, striding the battlefield, puppet in tow.

“The original price is 990,000 spirit stones, but there’s a promotion running, so it’s now 790,000.”

“With just 200,000 spirit stones as a down payment and subsequent monthly payments of 3,000 spirit stones, you can take this puppet home,” the young salesman urged with a temptingly enticing tone.

“All right, I should head back to rest and prepare for the next task,” the middle-aged Butcher said, his voice betraying his fatigue after the recent battle.

“Okay, Next time I will introduce you to another puppet model from the Swordsman series, you’ll love it,” the young salesman bid him goodbye.

“Yeah, yeah, smarty pants.” The middle-aged Butcher laughed,

He had initially stumbled upon this Puppet Center when he was looking to get off and rest after completing a task. When he was drawn in by this youthful salesman, they ended up practicing their conversation.

At that time, the middle-aged Butcher had just been an entry-level Tianjue Master and the salesman had newly become the Puppet Center’s first player salesman.

As the middle-aged butcher strolled down the street, he opened up his item bag. He looked at the over four thousand spirit stones from the Money Bank that he had saved for a long time and mumbled to himself, “all in good time. It’s best to save up for a Nascent Soul Puppet down payment first.”

In the game, Tianjue Masters have to rent the puppets they operate, and using these rental puppets for tasks will only yield thirty percent of the task quota.

This is why the middle-aged Butcher wants to buy his own puppet. Only by doing this can he receive the full reward amount for each mission.

“It will take six years. Not long. After reaching the Fourth Order Tianjue Master level, I’d be able to rent a Fourth Order puppet, and I’d earn spirit stones much faster.”

“Maybe it’ll take less than five years.” the middle-aged Butcher said, licking his lips.

What he didn’t know was that a heartless capitalist was currently discussing a serious issue with Pu Tao.

“Pu Tao, have you set the prices for puppets in the game too cheaply?” Xu Fan asked, creasing his eyebrows.

A Nascent Soul Puppet in the Cultivation World is worth at least three million spirit stones.

“Have you taken into consideration the production costs?” Pu Tao asked.

“Even if it’s an inexpensive alloy, it’s still a Nascent Soul level puppet. Your pricing has been detrimental to oust potential sales,” Xu Fan remarked, stroking his chin.

The spirit stones in the game are pegged to reality. Shouldn’t they consider harvesting some spirit stones? He feared it could destabilize the financial system in the virtual game if they didn’t.