Puppet With Intelligence?

Unfortunately the heavy battle took a lot out of the plant, preventing it from providing any feedback to Dante immediately. It was also at this moment that Dante learnt what type of tree it was.

Dantes new tree puppet was a mediocre species called the Moon Wood Tree, it is barely comparable to a Rank 5 physique, too low for Dante to truly pay attention to it. As for the reason why it managed to cultivate the Spirit State, that was all the Dragons Bloods contribution.

Rather than using the Dragons blood to develop its qualifications, the plant made the decision to absorb the spiritual energy to increase its cultivation.

Unfortunately the side effect of this is that the tree's intelligence is incredibly low, it's actions are mostly based on instinct. However it does have one distinct advantage, it is able to almost double its cultivation speed when under direct moonlight.

Furthermore as a tree, its longevity is much better than that of other races. When a human reaches the Fairy state their longevity would already reach 10,000 years but the trees would be upwards of 100,000!

But this benefit is irrelevant after it was transformed into Dantes puppet, the puppets no longer have their own longevity. Rather their life is connected to Dantes, the longer he lives the longer they live.

After successfully transforming the tree into a puppet, Dante stored it in his Pendant. After all, not to mention if he could carry it or not, he couldn't walk around with a giant tree hanging off his back. Where would his prestige as the Heir of an Antique family be?

Next he simply turned his head towards the cowering sunflower, a little surprised at the things intelligence. His first two puppets, while slightly intelligent, are definitely not able to show such humane emotions as the little flower.

Dante slightly stretched out his hand, and the flower took the initiative to stretch out its little roots and coil around his pudgy fingers.

As if gaining confidence in itself, the flower curiously hopped onto Dantes palm, but before it could settle down it felt spiritual energy pouring straight into its head as if he was submerged in an endless ocean.

Naturally this was Dante performing his Puppet Technique, as he felt the rope between him and the plant tighten he noticed something different this time. He could hear slight sounds when he focused his soul onto the rope.

''Eh. Mhe,'' All that Dante could hear was some jumbled voices coming out from his living puppet. But after scanning his inheritance he could naturally tell what had happened.

Apparently if he forms a living puppet while using a body that still has an intelligent soul, he will transform the soul of the creature into his loyal puppet that will be able to have its own thoughts.

Naturally Dante wasn't too surprised but it was still a pleasant find, after all it means that he wouldn't have to find a replacement soul for each human puppet he would create in the future.

As these thoughts ran through Dantes head he felt an influx of power flowing through his body as he was promoted from the Fifth stage of Bone refining all the way to the Seventh Stage.

As he relished in the pleasant feeling brought by the consecutives promotions, he also noticed that the spiritual power needed for each promotion was increasing drastically.

He even estimated that the required amount was hundreds or even thousands of times the total amount needed for his primary cultivation base.

But the benefits far exceed the difficulties in promotion. Dante felt that if he fought his previous physique with the same cultivation base, he could beat it in one move.

Dante even felt that he could even defend himself against those in the first stage of the fairy state.

Nodding in satisfaction, Dante stared at the sky, noticing that it was starting to Darken. Judging from his intuition he had less than ten hours before he had to leave the forest. So to make the best use of this time… Dante started the hunt.

Sprinting from each edge of the forest following the carefully drawn out map Dante found countless beasts and plants in the fairy state.

By the time that the Sun finally rose in the morning, Dante successfully caught 20 more plants and beasts in the fairy state. Birds, wolves, bluebells, even spiritual acorns, Dante caught them all aslong as they were in the Fairy state.

The feedback from the creatures pushed him to the Peak of Stage 9 in the Bone refining realm. The amount of energy required stunned even Dante.

Seeing the sun finally fully visible, Dante realised his time was up. Almost Simultanously he felt a powerful suction force impacting his body, the energy contained countles dragon chants as it dragged him to the border of the forest.

''Haha Son you didn't disappoint!'' Before Dante could view his surroundings he heard a deep set voice echoing in his ears, and at the same time felt some dainty hands encircling his back.

Hearing the familiar voice of his father and embrace of his mother Dantes face unconsciously showed a smile. After all, no matter how mature he seems, he is still a five year old child who craves some attention from his parents.

His small arms stretched out and held his mother tightly. When he looked up he saw his mothers familiar features and felt a great sense of safety. His mother had a cute round face with long brown bangs slightly covering her forehead. But don't underestimate her, Dante knows that his mother is a powerful cultivaor at the rank of Ancient.

After hugging with his mother, Dante turned towards his father who still showed excitement and pride on his face. As his fathers only son Dante was the future of his line of the Armstrong family.

After all the competition between the heirs of the family is intense, there are hundreds of lines in the Armstrong Family and even if there are rules to limit the action taken, there are still countless small and large competitions between the lines.

Even if Dante is currently named the Heir of the family, if he doesn't show enough talent and those in the other lines do, then even he has the chance to be replaced.