Chapter 158.

Outside the house, snow was flying.

Inside the house, the copper stove was burning charcoal, warm as spring.

Wang Dust sat in front of the table, taking stock of the income from the first two days of practicing the stall.

Because he was too obsessed with practicing swords, he only ran to Cloud Mountain City three days after the opening of the Sky Cloud Immortal Collection.

He set up a stall to sell a batch of magic talismans that he had refined himself.

Although the talismans he sold were regular talismans such as Evil Warding Talismans, Amulets, Meteor Fire Talismans, and so on, because the quality was outstanding and the price was affordable, Wang Chen’s business was quite good.

The talismans that could be brought out for sale were all sold out.

A sum of spirit stones was recovered.

Wang Dust just counted, all the spirit stones and broken spirits added up, total income of seven hundred and twenty-six lower spirits.

But this was not pure profit.

After deducting the cost of the talisman paper, ink and pen, it wasn’t much.

The real bulk of the profit was earned by the merchants who had the materials to make the talismans!

Wang Chen silently cursed those black-hearted merchants, and then reincorporated the spirit stones into his storage bag.

“Boing Boing.”

It was at this time that Yuan Yuan, who was squatting on the side, barked twice at him.

The little guy’s eyes were crystal bright.

Wang Chen reached out and touched it.

Since receiving the vermillion fruit from the Xuan Turtle, Yuan Yuan’s “growth” was quite pleasing, and in a few months, it was no longer the original tiny little one.

The feel of the hand is also better.

And the little guy’s spiritual wisdom obviously followed the growth, is more active than before.

It never disturbed Wang Chen’s cultivation.

Then except for meal times and bedtime.

Wang Chuan could rarely see it.

Wang Dust suspected that Yuan Yuan had dug a labyrinth out under his house!

But he had no proof.

Round Round pressed its little head against Wang Chuan’s palm and closed its eyes looking very cozy.

But the next moment, it steeply opened its eyes, revealing a wary look!

“Senior Brother Wang, are you home?”

At the same time, a voice Wang Chen was familiar with came from outside the courtyard, “I’m Pang Zitong!”

“Senior Brother Pang?”

Wang Chen hurriedly went out to open the door and welcomed the visitor in, “It’s snowing so heavily, just send a crane letter if there’s something wrong.”

Pang Zitong shook the snowflakes on his robes and smiled, “The distance is not far, so if you can save it, you can save it.”

Wang Duan was dumbfounded and only thought that the other party was joking.

Although Pang Zitong belonged to the commoners, he really wasn’t a poor spirit stone owner.

A poor cultivator couldn’t play with an organ puppet!

He invited the other party to take a seat in the front hall and brewed steaming spirit tea.

“Thank you.”

Pang Zitong held the teacup and sipped the tea, his eyes glowing as he looked at Yuan Yuan squatting on the table, “What a cute spirit mouse.”

His admiration came from the bottom of his heart, but it was not at all well received by Yuan Yuan.

The little guy jumped onto Wang Dust and flew into the spirit animal pouch.

Pang Zitong sardonically rubbed his nose as he put down his teacup and opened his storage bag.

A human-tall wooden puppet instantly appeared in front of Wang Chuan!

“Senior Brother Wang, it’s a pleasure to meet you!”

Only then did Wang Chen realize that Pang Zitong had come to deliver the Spirit Plant Puppet to himself!

This wooden puppet was about the same height as him, with two hands, two feet and four very thick limbs, and its body and head were square, showing a very dark blackish brown color.

If one looked closely, one could find that the surface was full of wood texture.

And on the front of the wooden puppet’s head, there were two white crystals inlaid, similar to human eyes.

As for the ears, nose and mouth, that was throughly absent!

Wang Chen asked curiously, “How does this work?”

“It’s simple.”

Pang Zitong reached out and opened the wooden puppet’s front chest armor, and the nine square slots inside were immediately revealed.

He embedded nine spirit stones into each of these square slots.

Then he closed the armor.

The wooden puppet’s crystal eyes immediately emitted a faint light.

The method of manipulating the wooden puppet was really simple.

After activating it, as long as one directly gave it commands, it would be able to execute them accurately.

It was similar to the intelligent robots in Wang Chen’s previous life.

The wooden puppet came with its own storage compartment, with various spirit plant tools built in.

Since it was a reduced version, its functions were limited to plowing, hoeing, fertilizing, watering, and getting rid of insects.

Other than that, it couldn’t be made to do anything else.

It’s like a built-in fixed program that needs to be triggered with keywords.

However, it was possible to realize free control.

It would require the use of a distraction to control the puppet’s every move with the power of the divine soul.

It was similar to the feeling of an out-of-body detachment.

It was also very interesting.

Although the wooden puppet did not have a spirit.

But Wang Chen still felt that the technical content of this thing was very high, and that a thousand spirit stones were really worth it.

He immediately took out seven hundred spirit stones, as well as spirit rice equivalent to three hundred spirit stones.

Payment was made to Pang Zitong.

Although Pang Zitong had previously stated that he could pay in installments and didn’t even need interest.

But how could Wang Chen take advantage of him.

It was important to know that a debt of favors was the most difficult to repay!

And for Wang Dust’s move to make a one-time payment.

Although Pang Zitong was a bit surprised, he still accepted it with high spirits.

Gu~

Just as he got up and was about to say goodbye and leave, a thunderous sound suddenly came from his stomach!

Wang Chen laughed, “Senior Brother Pang, if you don’t mind, have lunch at my home.”

Pang Zitong was mortified, “Then I’ll trouble senior brother.”

Wang Chen shook his head, “No trouble.”

Since he hadn’t prepared in advance, he took out two copper pots and set them up on separate red clay charcoal stoves.

After this year’s winter, Wang Dust had ordered a few hot pots in Yunshan City and purchased matching items.

Now it came in handy.

He added his own ingredients to the pot and then served sliced meat, tofu, fresh vegetables, mountain mushrooms, brook trout, and other ingredients on a plate, shabu-shabu with Pang Zi in unison!

The hot pot method of eating is ancient in this world, and is nothing new.

However, Pang Zi Tong was very impressed with Wang Chen’s recipe and was eager to learn about it.

Wang Dust didn’t hide anything and told him the source.

It wasn’t like it was some divine secret.

As the two ate and chatted, Wang Chen took out the home-brewed spirit rice wine and shared it with the other.

In this cold time of year, it was a rare treat.

After they had enough to eat, Pang Zitong was satisfied and left.

Wang Chen cleaned up the dishes and took out the wooden puppet again.

“Boing Boing.”

Yuan Yuan poked his head out of the storage bag and curiously surveyed the big guy in front of him.

Wang Dust smiled faintly and took it out, gently placing it on top of the wooden puppet’s head.

“Boing!”

The little guy was a bit scared at first, but soon became intensely interested in the wooden puppet.

It climbed up and down on the puppet, playing with it.

Suddenly the puppet twisted its head, and Yuan Yuan was so scared that it jumped up three feet and jumped back onto Wang Chen’s shoulder.

Then once again, it hid in the spirit animal bag and didn’t come out.

Wang Chen laughed and reached out to pat the wooden puppet’s square head, “I’ll call you Mu Kui from now on.”

He had a premonition that this fellow could become his good helper in the future.