I Have A Cultivation World

Chapter 572: Chapter 377 Full of Debts_1

Chai Lun was a man of swift action, and the two of them started discussing various professional terms related to the puppet factory right at the dinner table.

“When Master Che helped the Fourth Armament Factory of the Immortal Sect to design weapon assembly automated puppets, I followed along to do odd jobs. I originally thought that something like a puppet factory would only be adopted under the large volume of the Immortal Sect.”

Chai Lun said with a wistful expression on his face, using puppets to replace manual labor was a luxurious thing.

That’s because within the Immortal Sect, there were many cultivators, and labor was cheap.

However, even the most ordinary Rank-1 puppet costs at least one hundred thousand Good Deed Points.

The latest data shows that the average salary of Qi Practitioners in the Immortal Sect is 14,750 Good Deed Points per person per year, and it does not even reach this average in the remote city of Red Sandstone City.

That is to say, the cost of making a puppet is enough for Chen Mobai to employ a Qi Practitioner for almost ten years.

The usage scope of the puppet is also very narrow. Rank-1 ones can only recognize some common commands, which is far less than human.

If talking about advantages, it is that puppets absolutely obey, will not make mistakes, and don’t need rest. As long as the energy is sufficient, they will work ceaselessly.

“I plan to expand and strengthen my factory. After all, I still have at least two hundred years of life. After a one-time investment in the puppet factory, the cost can be recouped in about ten years. Tightening the belt for a while to exchange for the future’s substantial profits, I think it’s quite worthwhile.”

Chen Mobai’s words were half true and half false. The main reason was that the puppets would absolutely keep secrets and would not expose his resource laundering in the Immortal Sect and Tianhe Realm.

“But it seems your funds are a bit short?”

Chai Lun put down his cup, his face showing an uneasy expression.

He had already seen Chen Mobai’s plan before coming. The cost of one hundred puppets would exceed tens of millions of Good Deed Points, and there would need to be an investment of nearly twenty million Good Deed Points for newly necessary equipment and assembly lines to suit the puppets.

Among these, the item “Heavenly Calculation Bead” alone had already cost one million eight hundred thousand Good Deed Points.

“No problem, I still have a backup funding plan. And what I’m thinking is to complete the overall layout first, there’s no need for a one-time investment. The equipment for making talisman paper and talisman ink can be converted from the old ones first.”

“But the main thing is that I need Senior Chai’s help to make the puppets to cut costs.”

“The main bodies and insignificant parts of the puppets are all made of wood, which can save nearly two million Good Deed Points.”

Upon hearing Chen Mobai’s words, Chai Lun couldn’t help but look surprised.

“Using wood can indeed lower the cost, but it will also degrade and damage more quickly. Originally, one puppet could be used for twenty or thirty years, but with this method, it may not even last ten years.”

The most expensive part of a puppet is the core chip, also known as the main controller. It’s all about the technique. If you want to use the Heavenly Calculation Bead for recognition and control, you can’t save on it.

Next is the drive device, but since Chen Mobai himself has Spirit Stones, he can save a lot again.

The rest of the Spiritual Power Pipelines, moving joints, adjusting gears, etc., are not suitable to lower their standards for the sake of future maintenance.

But the majority of the remaining puppet bodies, as long as the client has no objections, can use any material.

The highest-end of course is the bionic material of the Formless Human Puppet, which can perfectly simulate the human body.

Then comes the hard Spirit Materials like Fine Iron Alloy. Among these, wood is the cheapest.

Because it’s easy to break.

But Chen Mobai is now an outstanding Puppet Master himself. As long as the framework of the puppet factory is set up first, he can stay in the factory and maintain and repair it in the future.

The main reason is that he owns the Divine Tree Secret Realm, and his Spirit Wood resources are almost inexhaustible, which he can use for free.

Actually, there is another issue. Before using Spirit Wood to make puppets, it is actually necessary to check the relevant documents of the Immortal Sect Forestry Bureau to ensure that these Spirit Woods have been approved and are legally felled and sold.

But in this case, Chen Mobai himself is the client, and Chai Lun was invited by him to make the puppets. He has already defaulted that the material sources of this junior are all legal, and he won’t do anything superfluous.

However, for safety, Chen Mobai ordered a batch of Spirit Wood under the name of the Flying Heaven Talisman Factory from a supplier in neighboring Yu Wood City, with whom he had cooperated before.

In this way, even if the relevant departments come to check in the future, he could show related documents.

There would only be a problem in terms of quantity, but in Red Sandstone City, Chen Mobai was confident enough with his own background. The Immortal Sect Bureau wouldn’t inspect to this extent. After all, Qin Baipeng had already provided a lot of policy support in order to have him settle there.

And once he expands and strengthens his business in the future, Chen Mobai plans to lease a forest in Yu Wood City. By then, he could perfectly solve this problem by controlling both the upstream and downstream sectors.

“I kind of understand. But some keys still need your guidance when manufacturing.”

After finishing the meal, Chai Lun looked at Chen Mobai with new respect. His tone of speech had even become somewhat polite..

In their exchange about the puppet factory, sometimes Chai Lun couldn’t even keep up with Chen Mobai’s thinking. This showed that his attainments in Puppet Dao were already inferior to the current junior.

However, Chai Lun didn’t have any extra emotions. He even felt in his heart that Chen Mobai indeed deserved to be the top student of Dance Tool Dao Academy, the favored closed-door disciple of Master Che, and the number one Foundation Establishment cultivator in the Immortal Sect. It was only normal for him to surpass himself.