These mechanism puppets on the first floor of Qianji Pavilion should all be practiced by Qianji Sect disciples, and they do not involve too profound mechanism skills.
Ye Zan himself has the basic skills of Taoist Baiji, so he can understand many things at a glance. Therefore, after this round, he has basically learned the basic mechanism skills of Qianji Sect.
What Ye Zan is more interested in is actually the "intelligence" in it. The machine puppets of Baiji Taoist use animal souls and human souls in terms of intelligence. Of course, animal souls don't matter, but using human souls is suspected of being a demon.
Since Qianji Sect is a righteous sect, at least on the surface it must not be able to use human souls.
Since these machine puppets can do some small things in life for people, of course they also have certain intelligence. However, no matter whether it is an animal form or a human form, the "soul" is not used as the intelligent core, but a special energy body.
This special energy body is a bit hard to see through with Ye Zan's insight. Or it can't be said that I can't see through it, but I haven't seen it before. Without comparison, it is difficult to have a deeper understanding.
"Fellow Taoist, please move." Ye Zan called to the people in Qianji Pavilion after looking around.
"Fellow Taoist, is there any puppet you like?" The person from Qianji Pavilion walked closer and asked.
Ye Zan pointed to a machine puppet next to him and asked, "I wonder how much this puppet is worth?"
This machine puppet is the only humanoid puppet among all the machine puppets that has some human appearance. The puppet is about one meter high. The creator probably wanted to look like a boy, so he also made some modifications to the puppet, such as carving out facial features and adding a wig.
However, even with such modification, it is just a large toy doll at best. Fortunately, it's not too realistic, otherwise it would fall into the uncanny valley and make people feel strange.
Of course, Ye Zan wanted to buy this puppet not because of its appearance, but because of its intelligent core. After comparison, although the level of this puppet is similar to the others, the intelligent core of this puppet is obviously a bit stronger than the others.
"Oh, fellow Taoist, you are really discerning. This puppet is the work of a talented disciple of our sect. Among these many puppets, it can definitely be regarded as a fine product." The person from Qianji Pavilion did not say the price. First a compliment. On the surface, he was praising Yezan for his vision, but in reality it was just an old-fashioned way of raising prices.
"Fellow Taoist, please tell me the price. If it's suitable, I'll buy it. If it's not suitable, no matter how much you want to spend, I won't be able to pay for it." Ye Zan said with a hint of joking.
"Uh, okay, make fellow Taoist laugh." After the trick was seen through, the man from Qianji Pavilion turned slightly red and said, "The disciple entrusted this puppet with a price of five hundred first-level talismans. "
"Wow, five hundred talismans. If converted into gold and silver, it would be enough to buy a large group of boys from the world." Lin Mumu exclaimed exaggeratedly from the side.
You know, the secular world of this world is similar to the ancient world of science and technology, and buying and selling people is not uncommon. If the five hundred talisman money is exchanged for gold and silver, not to mention mountains of gold and silver, it is no problem to buy at least a hundred boys and girls, and the quality and quantity will be guaranteed.
"How can we compare with this?" the person from Qianji Pavilion said with some embarrassment.
"Why can't we compare? Isn't it just serving tea and pouring water? Don't think that we haven't experienced it in the secular world. With our status, as long as we ask for a few servants and maids in the secular world, there will definitely be a lot of people vying to give away their children. Come, and you don’t have to spend a penny, believe it or not!" Lin Mumu retorted unceremoniously.
Ye Zan looked at Lin Mumu in surprise. He never expected that Lin Mumu, who was tricked by Zhang Qingshan when he first inquired about his information, would learn to bargain at some point.
"It's incomparable. This machine puppet is more considerate and obedient, and it doesn't do things like a child." The people from Qianji Pavilion quickly defended.
"After all, don't you still serve tea and pour water?" Lin Mumu said, spreading his hands.
"Okay, fellow Taoist, although my friend's words may be a little offensive, the price of these five hundred talisman coins is indeed a bit too much. After all, the material used for this puppet is just ordinary wood. Look, The shape is quite exquisite, but I can only pay three hundred talisman." Ye Zan countered.
Although Ye Zan is not short of money, he doesn't want to be taken advantage of. In fact, three hundred talisman money is not low. If it were not for the purpose of studying the intelligent core of the puppet, he would not even be able to come up with a single talisman money.
After some haggling, Ye Zan finally spent 350 first-level talismans to buy this boy-shaped machine puppet.
Then, Ye Zan and the Lin family siblings went up to the second floor of Qianji Pavilion.
The things on this second floor are much more advanced than those below. There are already machine puppets for combat and some puppet mounts. The materials of these puppets are all made of metal. Although most of them are just ordinary iron and copper, some core parts also use special materials.
Ye Zan still looked at them one by one, and after a circle, he had almost learned the mechanism skills involved in these puppets.
While watching, Ye Zan compared the strength of these puppets with his two bronze terracotta warriors. Although the two bronze terracotta warriors were very old, and some of their technologies might not be as good as today, their strength was much stronger than these.
In fact, the strength of this second-level machine puppet is equivalent to that of a monk who has reached the Qi Refining Realm. And since the human soul is not used, there are no killing moves such as sword intention and sword intention. At most, the body is strong enough.
Compared with the puppets on the first floor, the intelligent core of these puppets is not much different in nature, that is, the energy intensity is higher. Therefore, on the second floor, Ye Zan did not buy any machine puppets and took the Lin family siblings to the third floor.
On the third floor, the space is slightly smaller, and there are many fewer machine puppets inside, but it is also more powerful.
At least from Ye Zan's point of view, the third level of machine puppets can already be compared with the bronze terracotta warriors in terms of strength. If divided according to the realm of practitioners, the several mechanism puppets on the third level should be regarded as foundation-level puppets.
These mechanism puppets are all beast-shaped puppets. The intelligent core uses the beast soul, and the energy core is the demonic beast inner elixir. In terms of materials, there are metal, animal bones, and black iron wood. The physical strength alone is not comparable to those of the puppets below.
In fact, the mechanism puppets on this third level are the mechanism puppets in the true sense. The two floors below are just practice works of Qianji Sect disciples, just to fool laymen.
Of course, the prices of these foundation-level mechanism puppets are not comparable to those of the two levels below. After all, having such a machine puppet is equivalent to having a foundation-building-level thug, and he is extremely loyal and will never have any disloyal intentions. (To be continued.)