My Master Knows It All-Chapter 1304 - 318_4

"No more?" Yu Long was dumbfounded again and asked, "How many disciples does Four Treasures Peak have?"

Yi Sheng replied without any hesitation, "Seven."

"So, including your master, there are a total of eight people on Four Treasures Peak?" Yu Long was left speechless. There are a total of one hundred peaks in the Hundred Peaks Sect, yet the strongest among them only had eight people?

He had seen on his way here that the number of Disciples of Hundred Peaks Sect was definitely over ten thousand. How could it be that the strongest Four Treasures Peak only had so few people?

With fewer people, naturally, there are fewer rooms here.

He looked up, and there were precisely ten houses that the Hundred Peaks Sect used for living.

And they were thirty-one people!

This...

Yu Long regretted in his heart. Had he known, he would have let the Vice Sect Master of Hundred Peaks Sect arrange accommodations for them. Now, they actually had no place to stay.

Although they said that with their cultivation base, it wouldn’t matter if they had no place to stay for a few days.

But what about the long term?

Yi Sheng seemed to know what problem they were troubled with and said with a bit of apology: "Since the disciples of Four Treasures Peak very seldom stay on the peak, we rarely have visitors. Therefore, the preparations are insufficient. Please forgive us."

She paused for a moment and then continued, "If you don’t mind, we can now construct temporary housing for you."

"There’s no need for such trouble; any cave will do. We often slept in caves when we were out on training expeditions, exploring ruins," Yu Long declined directly, shaking his head, as building houses could take an unknown amount of time.

"It’s not a bother at all, and it will be done very quickly." Yi Sheng spoke and quickly flew away. However, she returned again after just a short moment.

Yu Long and the others watched with confusion as Yi Sheng, who had left behind the Flying Boat and returned so quickly, wondering what she was up to.

As they were pondering, suddenly, a rumbling sound came, and in their view, automatons appeared one after another.

"Automaton Puppets?"

"So many automatons?"

They were no strangers to automaton puppets, as there were a handful of Immortal Sects in the Eastern Province centered on creating them, but they were few in number. Among these, only one was a Great Teaching.

Mainly because Immortal Sects focused on making puppets and automatons found it extremely difficult to start from scratch and develop step by step.

First of all, training disciples to create automatons consumed too many resources.

Compared with Talisman Making or even Artifact Refining, training disciples required far fewer resources. Even an Alchemist disciple needed less.

The process of making automaton puppets involves too many different aspects, and one single failure in any part means starting over.

Meanwhile, during the initial phases of Alchemy, the herbs used are not so precious, nor the consumption so high.

Moreover, if a novice Pill Master successfully makes pills, they can also be sold, since all Cultivators need pills for their cultivation. Even low-grade pills sell well, and if not, they can just use them themselves.

However, it’s different for novice Automaton Puppet Masters.

Aside from taking longer to train, the things they create don’t look that great.

For instance, no matter what rank the pill is, at least they are round, but the automatons created by novices, let’s not even talk about their appearance.

These automatons can only perform the simplest tasks in place of people. Anything slightly more complex is beyond them, and generally, no one buys such automatons; they’re either used in-house or given away.

After all the effort to train a disciple capable of creating Automaton Puppets, it’s extremely hard to sell them.

Every Cultivator needs Talismans, Pills, and Divine Weapons or Treasures.

But Automaton Puppets?

What use are those things?

Sects with too many disciples don’t need so many Automaton Puppets.

It’s mostly Sects with fewer disciples that might want some Automaton Puppets.

In summary, if a Sect is mainly focused on Alchemy, Artifact Refining, or Formations, it can gradually grow and expand without much difficulty. However, for a Sect focused on creating puppets and automatons to grow, and even become a Great Teaching, is incredibly tough. In the entire Eastern Province, there is only the Puppet Sect that is a Great Teaching.

Of course, the Puppet Sect can’t be considered poor either, since it has many master craftsmen. The automatons they create are of superior quality and are often intended for those above the Earth Immortal Realm; thus, they can still be exchanged for treasures.

However, the Puppet Sect is certainly not rich, especially compared to those great teachings centered on Alchemy or Artifact Refining; it falls short by a great deal.

All in all, creating Automaton Puppets isn’t considered a mainstream craft.

Now, here at Four Treasures Peak, he saw heaps and heaps of Automaton Puppets, and moreover, these automatons were extremely well-crafted.

Could it be that Four Treasures Peak intended to employ these Automaton Puppets to...

In Yu Long’s eyes full of amazement, these Automaton Puppets started to construct foundations and build houses, and they were doing it quite substantially.

"This..." Yu Long pointed at these Automaton Puppets and said in astonishment, "Does the Eastern Wasteland have a Sect that excels in making Automaton Puppets?"

Yi Sheng nodded slightly and said, "In the Eastern Wasteland, naturally, we have Sects that excel in making automatons. However, these automatons were not made by other Sects; they were all crafted by our master."