I don't know if it was God's will or Meng Zhang's luck. He used Dayan calculations to calculate the whereabouts of this rare treasure and collected it.
If God doesn't take it, he will be blamed for it. Since the treasure is delivered to his door, Meng Zhang naturally accepts it without any courtesy. As for whether there would be any trouble after collecting this rare treasure, Meng Zhang couldn't care about it for the time being.
Meng Zhang used Dayan Divine Calculation to deduce new forces to participate in the battle and reduce the losses of his own low-level monks.
After figuring out the general function of this rare treasure, he had a clue in his mind.
In the world of cultivation, some powerful sects will have methods of raising and refining Taoist weapons.
According to different refining methods and inheritance factions, the sources of Taoist weapons are complex and diverse.
Humans, monsters, and even some spiritual objects can be used as raw materials for refining Tao weapons.
In its heyday, Taiyi Sect naturally had some unique Tao soldiers.
Strictly speaking, the guardian generals in the Taiyi Sect are also a type of Taoist soldiers.
Until now, many inheritances from Taiyi Sect have been lost. Even among the inheritance that Meng Zhang acquired at the trial site, there was no means to refine Taoist weapons.
In the small world, Meng Zhang obtained the Zijin Sect's inheritance classics, which recorded the refining techniques of the Zijin Sect's two Taoist weapons.
However, refining Taoist weapons requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and consumes a lot of cultivation resources. Moreover, there are not many monks in Taiyi Sect who practice the Zijin Sect’s inherited techniques. Therefore, Meng Zhang had not refined the unique Taoist weapons of the Zijin Sect before.
When this rare treasure is in the hands of the fifth-level earth spirit, it can be used to refine sand monsters. The sand monster is also a kind of Taoist weapon.
The sand monster is a kind of puppet, not a living thing, but it can be used as a qualified war tool.
Meng Zhang used this rare treasure to also refine Tao weapons.
For some Taoist weapons that are difficult to refine, with this rare treasure, the refining process can be simplified and the difficulty of refining can be reduced.
It took Meng Zhang a while to figure out how to use this rare treasure.
To use this rare treasure to refine Taoist weapons, two conditions need to be met.
One is to provide a template for Tao soldiers.
Like the fifth-level earth spirit, he absorbed some characteristics of the earth spirit clan and added his own creativity to create the template of the sand monster.
The second condition is to provide sufficient resources. Among them, spirit stones are indispensable basic resources.
The fifth-level earth spirit is good at manipulating the earth and can easily extract spiritual energy from his spiritual veins and condense spiritual stones. You can even communicate with the earth veins and create treasures like spiritual marrow at the cost of consuming spiritual veins.
The main component of the sand monster is sand, with some ores mixed in.
With the ability of a fifth-level earth spirit, extracting various ores from under the earth is a piece of cake.
In order to come up with a Taoist template, Meng Zhang thought hard for a long time. Even the most knowledgeable Ji Sword God General among the generals called him over and asked him for advice.
Regarding the origin and function of this rare treasure, Meng Zhang did not hide the thoughts of the higher-ups in the sect.
Although the Supreme Sword God General and the Thunder God General are currently only in the Foundation Establishment Stage, they are enough to sweep through all the Foundation Establishment Stage monks, and can even compete with the Golden Core Stage monks.
Meng Zhang was worried that using them to sweep away the enemy's low-level monks would overly stimulate the Huoyun Sect and Huanglian Sect's Hedong branch, so he did not send them to the battlefield.
The Ji Sword Divine General who had been staying in the door soon appeared in front of Meng Zhang.
The Supreme Sword God General did not disappoint Meng Zhang and provided many valuable opinions.
Ji Sword God General is simply the living fossil of Taiyi Sect, and he is very clear about many of Taiyi Sect's inheritances. Moreover, he is well-informed and has come into contact with and fought many different types of Taoist soldiers.
Meng Zhang dreamed of refining Taiyi Sect's protector God in the future. However, despite the help of rare treasures and the detailed refining methods provided by the Supreme Sword God, the current Taiyi Sect is still far from being able to provide refining conditions.
Meng Zhang had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, hoping to refine Taoist weapons that could compete with the foundation-building monks.
After some discussion, Meng Zhang and Ji Sword God General weighed the pros and cons, and comprehensively considered cost-effectiveness, and agreed on two templates for Taoist soldiers.
One is the sand monster created by the fifth-level earth spirit.
Among this rare treasure, there is still a template of the sand monster. All Meng Zhang needs to do is make some adjustments.
First of all, the image of the sand monster must be changed and cannot be copied completely.
Sand monsters have caused countless catastrophes in the history of the endless sand sea, with countless victims. Even Meng Zhang himself can be said to be one of the victims of the sand monster.
As the public enemy of cultivators, sand monsters have cast a shadow on everyone in the endless sand sea, and there are still many terrifying legends circulating to this day.
If the sand monster appears intact in Taiyi Sect's camp, it will definitely arouse doubts from Taiyi Sect disciples and vassal forces.
Even if Meng Zhang could subdue all the different voices, he would still alienate everyone.
And if it spreads to the Jiuqu League, it will damage the image of Taiyi Sect's righteous sect. If you don't do well, you will be labeled as a heretic by hostile forces.
Secondly, the fifth-level power possesses the magical power of void creation. Although the created sand monster is not a living thing, it still has strong intelligence and fighting instincts.
Meng Zhang doesn't have that kind of ability. Even with the help of rare treasures, his ability in this area can only be greatly weakened.
The Taoist template selected by Meng Zhang and Ji Sword God General is made of specially made loess as the main material, mixed with various spiritual materials, such as red copper and black iron. After being strengthened by this rare treasure, the Taoist soldier created was named Loess Warrior by Meng Zhang.
Loess warriors mainly take human form, and can also change into other forms when necessary.
Compared with the sand monster, the fighting instinct of the loess warriors is much weaker, they appear to be more rigid, and their ability to fight independently is very poor.
In Meng Zhang's imagination, the loess warriors acted as servants of the disciples and cooperated with the disciples in fighting. It can be used as a human shield or cannon fodder. The main function is to improve the combat effectiveness and survivability of the disciples.
The materials for refining loess warriors are not difficult to find, and they can basically be found everywhere in Yaofeng Gobi. The most valuable thing should be the spirit stone used to activate the loess warriors.
Although there are no high-grade spiritual stones produced in Yaofeng Gobi, low-grade spiritual stones and medium-grade spiritual stones can still be collected occasionally.
For refining loess warriors, mid-grade and low-grade spiritual stones are enough.
Taiyimen and Dafeng City have close business ties, and all kinds of supplies can be replenished from Dafeng City.
Especially after the war between Taiyi Sect and Huoyun Sect began, Gale City intentionally or unintentionally increased the supply of supplies to Taiyi Sect.
Because this rare treasure looks like a honeycomb, and its main function is to refine Taoist weapons, Meng Zhang named it the Weapon Nest.
When retracted, the military nest is only the size of a human head. After being refined with true energy, it can be placed on the spiritual veins. After absorbing enough spiritual energy, the military nest can be slowly expanded.
The third-level spiritual veins on Baicao Slope have been strengthened by God General Houtu, and supplemented by spiritual energy drawn from the underground river, they have become very stable. In addition to meeting the spiritual energy needs of Baicao Pavilion, it can also support two or three Jindan Daoists.
Now that the military nest is placed on this third-level spiritual vein, the Jindan master in the sect is basically absent. It didn't take long for the soldier nest, filled with spiritual energy, to begin to expand.
In a small valley, a huge building like a honeycomb appeared, crowding the nearly 100 acres of flat land.
Various materials for refining Taoist soldiers were quickly collected and put into the soldier nest.
The weapon nest is a rare treasure with a strong spirituality. As long as you set the Taoist template in advance, put in enough materials, and start it, you can automatically start refining it.
At the beginning, all the loess Tao soldiers that were refined were first-level Tao soldiers, and they were incomplete in shape, missing arms and legs.
Meng Zhang learned from experience, controlled the operation of the military nest, and slowly adjusted, the situation began to improve.
It didn't take long for the soldiers' nest to produce second-level loess Taoist soldiers.
At least in terms of strength, the second-level loess Taoist soldiers are similar to ordinary foundation-building monks. The preset combat modes and spell skills are not too bad.
Meng Zhang specially recruited the foundation-building monks who stayed behind to guard the gate, and asked them to try to command these loess warriors to fight.
After some testing, I have a certain understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Loess Warriors.
The Taiyi Sect previously purchased a large number of various puppets from the Jiqiao Sect in the Jiuqu League. In the battle, it played a huge role.
Unfortunately, outsourcing puppets is always inconvenient and inevitably depends on others.
The Taiyi Sect also tried to train its mechanical masters and let them learn to refine the mechanical puppets.
But so far, Taiyimen can only refine first-order mechanism puppets.
Meng Zhang didn't know the cost of Jiqiao Sect's refining of the second-level puppet. However, the cost of the first-level warriors refined from the military nest is equivalent to one-tenth or two-tenths of the cost of the first-level puppets produced by the Taiyi Sect.
The cost of refining a second-level loess warrior is less than one-tenth of the cost of purchasing a second-level puppet.
More importantly, Loess Lux can be mass-produced. As long as the materials can keep up, the Soldier Nest can operate at high speed and continuously produce loess warriors.
Loess warriors have a single type, few combat methods, and not high enough intelligence. But the advantage is that the cost is low and it is independently manufactured by Taiyimen.
In addition, after many tests, Meng Zhang and his disciples also summarized many tactics for using loess warriors.
The place where the advantages of loess warriors can best be used is when several second-level loess warriors lead a large group of first-level loess warriors to form a military formation. In large-scale wars, it is directly used in frontal battlefields to fight to the death.
The only bottleneck currently limiting Taiyi Sect's violent troops is the production speed of the soldier nest.
Producing the lowest level of first-level loess warriors, the Soldier Nest can produce hundreds of them every day. However, to produce a second-level loess warrior that can be used in large quantities, it takes ten and a half days to produce each one, and there is also the possibility of producing defective products.
Anyway, the war on the front line will not be over in a short time. Meng Zhang does not need to be too anxious. He can slowly produce loess warriors and slowly accumulate troops.
