The number of stones would dictate the strength the puppet could exude within its realm for the saint and celestial puppets, however the dao puppets were slightly more complex than that.
Because there were three divisions for dao level energy stones, each division corresponded to a third of the dao formation stages. Dao stones could elevate a puppet from the 1st to 4th stage, transcendent stones dealt with the 5th to 8th stage, while enigmatic stones could raise them the final levels to the 12th stage.
Dyon didn't even want to think about that level of cost… He hadn't even seen an enigmatic stone in his life, let alone even conceiving the number it would take to power a puppet for an extended period of time.