The Romance of the Immortal Cauldron

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Matthew followed Tang Wenguang into the Jinqiao Sect.

When he came in, all the monks inside looked at him with curious eyes.

After being scolded by Tang Wenguang, these monks left in disappointment.

Afterwards, Matthew followed Tang Wenguang into a secret room.

After the two of them sat down, Tang Wenguang said, "I saw you earlier using some special puppets. Forgive my poor eyesight, I still can't tell what kind of puppets they were."

"I got this puppet from a secret place, and I don't know where it came from. I don't have the real method to control the puppet, so I can only guess randomly. I'm sorry to have embarrassed myself." Matthew said with a chuckle.

"Your puppet is quite good, but the method of controlling it is a little crude. If it is combined with our sect's secret method, the power of the puppet can indeed be increased by at least twice."

When Tang Wenguang said this, a hint of pride unconsciously appeared on his face.

He didn't dare to say anything else on other aspects. After all, Matthew's strength was there.

But when it comes to puppets, Tang Wenguang still has some confidence.

After saying this, Tang Wenguang took out a jade slip from his storage bag and placed it in front of Matthew.

Matthew was not polite and directly reached out to grab the jade slip in his hand. He probed his spiritual sense into the jade slip and began to examine it.

Tang Wenguang was also slightly surprised when he saw this scene.

Usually when checking the information inside a jade slip, the cultivator would hold the slip close to his forehead.

Only cultivators with strong spiritual awareness do not need to do so.

However, he was only slightly surprised.

After all, Matthew had previously controlled more than a thousand puppets by himself, which meant that his spiritual awareness was strong enough.

"Although this secret method is quite mysterious, it is not of much help to me." After a moment, Matthew put the jade slip back on the table and shook his head.

"This secret method can control more than 2,000 low-level puppets at the same time. With your strong spiritual awareness, 3,000 should be no problem. Isn't that enough?" Tang Wenguang said with a look of surprise on his face when he heard it.

"In the human world today, the demon army easily numbers tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people. What's the use of me controlling two or three thousand puppets? What I want is to have a large puppet army!" Matthew said softly with his eyes flashing.

Now that people have arrived at Jinqiao Sect, there is no need to hide too much.

"Then fellow Daoist, take a look at this secret method."

After thinking for a while, Tang Wenguang took out another jade slip from the storage bag and placed it in front of Matthew.

This time, Matthew felt a little bit of anticipation and picked up the jade slip.

Matthew read this jade slip very carefully.

He looked at it for a whole incense stick of time before putting the jade slip back to its original place.

"The secret technique in this jade slip is indeed much better than the first one, but it is still not enough. It seems that I overestimated the Jinqiao Sect. Someone told me before that the Jinqiao Sect is one of the few remaining sects that rely on puppets to survive."

"I know you didn't fool me. The value of these two jade slips alone is inestimable. But this is not what I want."

After putting down the jade slip, Matthew folded his arms, leaned back slightly and said.

He made no effort to conceal his disappointment in his tone.

After hearing this, Tang Wenguang's face suddenly turned a little ugly.

Matthew's words were so direct, without giving any face at all.

If Matthew was humiliating Tang Wenguang, then he had no complaints.

But Matthew was talking about Jin Qiao Zong now, and Tang Wenguang became a little restless.

"Fellow Daoist Ma, don't be disappointed. Those two skills are indeed our sect's secret skills. However, I believe that you must have guessed the reason why I took out those two skills so easily."

“Although fellow Daoist has done a favor to our sect, I feel that using those two secret techniques is enough to repay the favor.” Tang Wenguang said after taking a deep breath.

Hearing this, Matthew's face became unusually calm.

He knew that things would not be that simple. From the way Tang Wenguang took out the two jade slips so easily, he had already guessed that there would definitely be something else going on.

This is not to say that Tang Wenguang is an ungrateful person, as he said.

The value of those two jade slips is indeed extraordinary, and is definitely enough to repay the favor.

It's just that Matthew wanted more.

"My friend, you must be interested in my puppets." Matthew said with his arms folded and smiled.

Judging from the previous situation of resisting the demon army, Matthew had already guessed that the Jinqiao Sect did not have much wealth left.

If I hadn't shown up, the Jinqiao Sect would probably have been breached by the demon army.

What Tang Wenguang wants most now is definitely something that can enhance the sect's strength in a short period of time.

They are good at controlling and refining puppets, and Tang Wenguang also showed interest in the tree man puppet.

Therefore, it was easy for Matthew to guess.

"Hehe, fellow Daoist, you are really smart. I am indeed attracted by your puppets. If you can bear the pain and give up some of them, I am willing to teach you the real secret method of control of our sect." Tang Wenguang said with a grin when he heard this.

He finally made his purpose known.

After confirming that Matthew was not a monster, Tang Wenguang began to have some thoughts about Matthew's tree man puppet.

He really wanted to make more puppets.

Every time we resist the demon army, the consumption of puppets is extremely great.

The puppet inventory in Jinqiao Sect had already run out, and even Tang Wenguang's own puppets had all been damaged.

So, when he saw that Matthew could control so many tree man puppets, he was indeed tempted.

"I have a group of puppets here, all of which have reached the Jindan stage. You can take a look at them first."

Matthew did not reject Tang Wenguang's proposal. He took out a bulging storage bag from his arms and threw it to the other party and said.

When Tang Wenguang heard this, his eyes lit up and he immediately reached out to take the storage bag.

After probing his spiritual sense inside to check, Tang Wenguang put the storage bag back on the table.

"The puppets here are from ancient times and are very well preserved. They all have the cultivation level of the Jindan stage, but there are too few of them. If there were twice as many, I would agree." Tang Wenguang looked at Matthew with some anticipation and said.

"You used to see ancient puppets everywhere. I got these puppets a long time ago. I put them in a storage bag because I didn't know how to control them." Matthew said with a sneer.

The puppet he just took out was not a tree man puppet, but the puppets he got from the Sunset Palace that year.

It was indeed as he said, there was no way to control them, so he left so many puppets in the storage bag.

Originally, Matthew had some expectations for those puppets.

But as his cultivation level gradually improved, and he didn't learn how to control them, he gradually forgot about those puppets.

This time, he guessed that Tang Wenguang wanted a puppet, so he took out the storage bag in advance.