After finding a place to sit, Tang Jie rged himself back together. Because of the avatar, his body shrank, but it wasn't as bad as before, which was a sign that he had sowhat adapted to the environnt.
He then took out the Mother Cloud combat puppet.
After successive upgrades, this puppet was able to fight against Violet Palace experts, so it should have been a capable helper for Tang Jie. Alas, Tang Jie's opponents this ti were too strong, and a Violet Palace helper wasn't too useful.
But with the Five Elents treatise, Tang Jie saw an opportunity.
All the world belonged to the Five Elents; all things comprised them.
In the Great Dao pairing of Yin Yang and Five Elents, Yin Yang referred to the negative and positive aspects of all things while Five Elents referred to the basic elents that composed them.
Tang Jie's Infinite Palace was based on this principle of the Five Elents, drawing on the basic elents to create the palace.
But using only the basic elents was a little too… basic. True mastery would be to use the Essences of the Five Elents.
In other words, tal Essence, Water Essence, and so on.
The Mother Cloud Combat Puppet was made from Mother Cloud tal Essence, the toughest substance in the world. The Sovereign Blade was made from a variant of tal Essence, possessing not just toughness, but also the sharpness of a weapon and the ability to transform of a spell art, which made it even better than tal Essence.
In short, tal Essence was the physical foundation of the combat puppet while the Soul Refining Pearl was its ntal foundation.
To make it stronger, tal Essence alone wasn't enough.
With this Five Elents treatise, Tang Jie had deepened his understanding of this Dao, with the biggest breakthrough being that he could now refine the other four essences.
Tang Jie took out two balls of fla.
The Pale Cloud Fla and the Deicide Fla.
Holding these two flas, he began to form hand signs, and various Dao Runes belonging to the Fire Dao began to appear in the room. Gradually, influenced by the Dao Runes, the two flas began to rge together and condense.
Forming hand signs and manifesting Dao Runes seed simple, but Tang Jie's forehead quickly beca caked with sweat. Even killing two Earth Immortals in a row hadn't been this tiring. Refining Fire Essence wasn't easy, at least not as easy as tal Essence had been with the Weapon Mantra.
This was primarily because Tang Jie had just learned this. As ti passed, he would slowly grow more proficient.
As the ball of fla condensed, there was a burst of sparks, and the fla ultimately transford into a fist-sized fla flower.
This was the Fire Essence that Tang Jie had refined, also known as the Fire of Primal Chaos, the Fla of Origin. By no ans should one underestimate it because of its size. It shared the properties of both the Deicide Fla and the Pale Cloud Fla, and it would only grow stronger as one added more exotic flas to it. ṘάƝỗ𝐁Ěş
Of course, this Origin Fla was far inferior to the Fla Celestial Sovereign's Origin Fla. That man had entered the Dao of Fire, so his Origin Fla was thousands of tis stronger.
For Tang Jie's purposes, however, this was enough.
He threw the Origin Fla over to the combat puppet. At the sa ti, a Dao Rune manifested, attaching to the puppet and guiding the fla into the body.
Tang Jie then called out, "Little Three."
A Nether Passage appeared, and a small ghost appeared next to Tang Jie's side.
Tang Jie held out his hand. "Give the Profound Heavy Water."
Little Three passed a water ball to Tang Jie—the Profound Heavy Water that Tang Jie had given to protect him. This object could hold seas of water, and it even had the Yellow Springs of the Nether Domain.
Tang Jie began to refine the Water Essence.
Using the sa thod, he quickly obtained a giant drop of water with a yellow sheen. There was a great turbulence within, as if countless waters flowed within it.
Tang Jie also put this drop of water in the puppet's body.
All that was left was the Wood Elent and Earth Elent.
Tang Jie had obtained so Wood Elent and Earth Elent treasures in the past, but he had fed the Wood Elent treasures to Yiyi and used the Earth Elent ones for formations. Thus, he had nothing appropriate to refine into their respective essences.
Fortunately, what he lacked, the Mustard Seed Bag possessed.
A ten-thousand-year-old pine tree, a handful of sand from a stellar river, a frosty purple willow tree, and a piece of golden night jade.
These weren't as rare as the Deicide Fla or waters of the Nether Domain, but they were rare enough to just barely et the grade for refining the Earth and Wood Essences.
Tang Jie also threw in the other materials in the bag, finally refining the two essences and placing them in the combat puppet's body.
Tang Jie began to thrust out his palms, Dao Runes dancing and formation lines flashing all across the puppet's body, and even its form began to gradually change.
Tang Jie called out, "Forge the body with tal, making it your bones. Let the Earth be your ridians, traveling along the formation lines. The Wood shall be life, forming the organs. Water shall be your blood, a dium for energy. Fire will be your source, enhancing your power. The Soul Refining Pearl shall be your soul, casting spell arts and controlling attacks so that you know when to advance or retreat, attack or defend. I na you the Everlasting Combat Puppet!"
With the last word, Tang Jie slapped his hand down, and all of the formation lines on the puppet lit up in unison, its aura erupting. Its materials had limited it to Infant Tending, but now, its power surged, breaking into Deification and soaring straight past it, all the way to Soul Projection. But this still wasn't the end, and it went all the way to the peak of Soul Projection before finally stopping. This speed of advancent was simply unheard of.
Even then, Tang Jie wasn't satisfied, frowning. "Is it because of your soul that you're still unable to break into Immortal Platform?"
The puppet body created through the five essences had actually already reached the Immortal Body level, perhaps even surpassing it. But Earth Immortals were powerful not just because of their Immortal Body, but also because of their Divine Soul. It was precisely because their soul had been deified that they could achieve Immortality.
And the Mother Cloud combat puppet was far from reaching this level.
While he had long guessed this outco, he still couldn't help but feel a tinge of disappointnt.
A Soul Projection puppet might as well not exist. After all, not everyone could be like Tang Jie and fight with Immortals while still at Soul Projection. Of course, as the puppet was perhaps even tougher than an Earth Immortal, fighting a battle was still possible. However, while Earth Immortals could afford to die, the combat puppet couldn't. Without so overwhelming advantage against Earth Immortals and without their ability to be constantly reborn, the puppet could only offer limited aid.
At this mont, a crimson light erupted from the puppet's eyes, and its aura began to soar once more.
Tang Jie was startled, and then he realized what was going on.
Unlike other combat puppets, the Mother Cloud combat puppet had a life force.
It was the ghost guard, the Soul Refining Pearl.
This life existed within the puppet, and had been accumulating energy all this ti. It was now unleashing this energy, causing the puppet's energy to soar toward the Immortal Platform Realm.
Was it really about to reach the Immortal level? Tang Jie could barely suppress his excitent.
But at this mont, its progress ca to a halt.
What was going on here?
Tang Jie carefully examined it and found that the Soul Refining Pearl was completely drained of energy.
"Ah, it's still not enough," Tang Jie said in realization.
Though the pearl had been storing up energy for several hundred years, this still wasn't enough compared to the humongous quantities of energy required for Immortal Platform.
This put the combat puppet in a state like the Vermillion Bird: half-step Immortal Platform. The only difference was that the Vermillion Bird's body was slightly weaker while her soul was slightly stronger, with the puppet being the exact opposite.
Doing the math, two half-step Earth Immortals would be enough to hold out against… half an Immortal Platform expert.
Yes, two half-step Immortal Platform experts multiplied by two would be enough to fight with a single Earth Immortal.
But if combined with Tang Jie's formation and the help of Xu Miaoran and Yiyi, it was doable.
"This should increase my chances even more," Tang Jie muttered.
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