That was when Dyon remembered something that made him laugh uproariously. Didn’t he had the Energy Core sitting in his inner world right now?

Unfortunately, his excitement was shot down again. After he brought up the idea, his master told him that no puppet could withstand such energy and that he’d end up causing it to implode. But, the good news was that as long as Dyon found a few energy stone mines and allow the energy core to absorb them, his efficiency at powering the puppets would sky rocket.

Obviously, the saint puppets would need saint stones, the celestial puppets, celestial stones, and the dao formation puppets, either dao stones, transcendent stones, or enigmatic stones. The number of stones would dictate the strength the puppet could exude within its realm for the saint and celestial puppets, however the dao puppets were slightly more complex than that.

Because there were three divisions for dao level energy stones, each division corresponded to a third of the dao formation stages. Dao stones could elevate a puppet from the 1st to 4th stage, transcendent stones dealt with the 5th to 8th stage, while enigmatic stones could raise them the final levels to the 12th stage.

Dyon didn’t even want to think about that level of cost… He hadn’t even seen an enigmatic stone in his life, let alone even conceiving the number it would take to power a puppet for an extended period of time.

According to the spirit, it would take a thousand stones of a corresponding energy to power a single puppet for 1 minute. Even worse, that was only for the lowest barrier of the corresponding cultivation stage. For example, if Dyon gave a saint puppet a thousand saint stones, it would be able to fight with the battle power of a first stage saint for one minute. If he set it to fight with the battle power of a second stage saint, it would only last for 6 seconds, which means he would need to insert ten thousand stones for the equivalent minute of fighting.

When Dyon heard this, he wanted to fight the spirit head on, but he obviously hit nothing but air. How the hell could any kingdom withstand such consumption? This was too ridiculous.

In the end, Dyon could only sigh and wave his hand. A moment later, three tightly bound kitsune had appeared, each with their cultivations sealed.

Gin was still in a half-muddled state, not having recovered from his sacrifice. Masako was shocked that she had survived and could only look at Dyon with a complicated gaze. While Aki’s eyes were still spitting fire, after all, one doesn’t get over becoming a eunuch so quickly.

“What are you keeping us for?!” Aki raged. “Unseal me if you have the balls!”

Dyon snorted. “I defeated four people far more powerful than you at the same time, why would you even say something so embarrassing?”

Aki grit his teeth. “You used cheap tricks, you didn’t fight like a man at all.”

“Mm. I’m sure fighting so many vs one is very manly.”

SLAP!!

Aki was sent flying across the room, awkwardly tumbling over bits of furniture before slamming into the wall.

“Speak out of turn again and I’ll cut something else off.”

After he finished speaking, he ignored the three of them. ‘Are you ready, master?’

Before this, Dyon could casually use his contract seals. However, that was only because the strongest person he had ever used it against were the essence gatherers of the Uidah Clan.

However, now that he wanted to seal three geniuses of the Kitsune clan to follow his will, the difficulty rose to a completely different level. It took a month of his master siphoning off his soul energy to create three comet level contract seals for this plan to come to fruition.

It had to be said that Dyon’s master was a former Star level array alchemist. When she had died, she was still at the comet level. But, after spending thousands of years in seclusion beneath Focus Lake, she had nothing better to do that to comprehend array alchemy theory.

This was all to say that Dyon’s master was incredibly familiar with drawing arrays without a body to rely on. The fact it still took her a month to draw these arrays, even though there were three of them, was a testament to their intricacy and efficacy.

Before the three kitsune could even realize what was happening, Dyon had already placed the three seals on them. With their cultivations sealed beforehand, they had no chance to resist, making it an extremely smooth process.

‘Alright Dyon, I’m going to go into a deep slumber like the Archer. If we remain awake, it’ll slow down the awakening of your inner world too much. I’ll wake up from time to time to guide you properly as your master,’ Although it seemed like she was saying this casually, the 25th White Mother’s eyes were filled with emotion. As a master, she had given Dyon too little guidance. Now that she was here, how could she allow this trend to continue? ‘Stay safe, little one.’

‘Mm.’ Dyon nodded, fighting spirit lighting in his eyes. With his master by his side again, he had one less worry in this world.

After getting his emotions under control, he sealed the three kitsune in the tower prison. How could a war machine not also have a dungeon?

Then, he looked at a list of 10 or so names. After Dyon recruited the Archer, whose name he later found out was Legolas, he had the idea of possibly repeating this again. Although Dyon’s empire had a very solid base of talents, what it lacked the most were experts of the upper end. Maybe the valley could help him solve that.

These 10 or so names weren’t randomly chosen, but were rather made of individuals his master and Legolas trusted in the moral character of, and also happened to be individuals from poor backgrounds as well.

Dyon involuntarily laughed to himself, ‘Of course his name is Legolas.’