Feng Chou used the map of the wild creatures found by his scouts to harvest the souls of more than ten intelligent creatures above rank 9 in a few days.
Although one only needed a soul above level-7 to make a magical wood construct, there was an obvious difference between a level-7 creature's soul and a level-10 creature's soul using the same materials and processes. Regardless of whether it was the strength, reaction speed, or lifespan of the construct, there would be an obvious difference.
Moreover, it was a waste to use the high-purity soul crystal in Feng Chou's possession, which was worth a hundred thousand crowns, to carry the souls of rank 7 creatures. Although the soul crystal could be cut again, it was still troublesome.
Therefore, when Feng Chou hunted intelligent creatures in the wild, he would do his best to choose the higher level ones. If not for the fact that rank 10 intelligent creatures were too rare and too difficult to find, he wouldn't even want to take a rank 9 one.
A soul stone was both a cage and a shelter for imprisoned souls. Once a soul left the body, it would quickly be expelled to the spiritual world or other outer planes by the power of laws if it didn't have a soul stone to contain it. Alternatively, it would be polluted by all kinds of energy and become a vengeful spirit.
After collecting enough souls for his experiments, Feng Chou continued his blissful vacation, waiting for Qiankun Pagoda to revive.
After three months, Qiankun Pagoda was finally rebooted successfully!
After this upgrade, Qiankun Pagoda's scanning range had expanded to nearly a kilometer!
Moreover, its scanning effect also came with a secret visual effect!
After the upgrade, Qiankun Pagoda could cast all mid-level spells at the cost of soul force. Moreover, there were no spell slots restrictions!
Mastering teleportation, Anywhere Door, Greater Flight, and other spells gave Qiankun Pagoda a greater degree of freedom.
On top of having mid-level spellcasting abilities, Qiankun Pagoda could use soul force to copy mid-level spell scrolls, create mid-level magical items, create mid-level alchemy potions, create mid-level magical armor, and so on!
From now on, Feng Chou was equivalent to having an all-rounded mid-level alchemy factory!
After Qiankun Pagoda was rebooted, Feng Chou ended his vacation and went back to the laboratory.
With the help of Qiankun Pagoda's possession, Feng Chou's experiment was back on track.
He finally experienced the refreshing feeling of succeeding in any experiment on the first try.
With the help of Qiankun Pagoda, Feng Chou quickly created a magical wooden construct.
Next, Feng Chou took out a soul crystal that had imprisoned a level-9 goblin Warrior. With the help of Qiankun Pagoda, he used a small magic ritual to erase most of the memories of the goblin's soul. He kept the memories related to the battle, and injected some new memories into the soul according to the needs.
Next, he installed the soul crystal into the chest cavity of the wooden construct he had prepared beforehand.
In fact, very few people would install a soul core into the fragile head of a construct.
After installing the soul crystal, Feng Chou used a small magic ritual to connect the soul crystal and the alchemy circuit in the construct's body.
The ritual ended, the connection was successful, and the construct was successfully activated!
In the first hour or so, the construct was like a newborn, unable to even control its own body. Just standing up took more than ten minutes.
In the next few hours, it quickly familiarized itself with its new body.
The memories that had been injected into the construct's soul core and a part of the memories that hadn't been erased came into effect. The construct could remember that Feng Chou was its master, and quickly grasped some of the life and battle skills that Feng Chou needed it to master.
The construct's intelligence wasn't too high, only about seventy to eighty percent of its original intelligence when it was alive. This kind of magical creation had no emotions and no fear. Under the effects of the memories and consciousness that had been injected into it before it was activated, it was completely obedient to its master. Its only weakness was that it was inflexible and unable to carry out complex tasks. It could only be used as a hired thug or laborer.
If the soul had been chosen properly, and the memory injection hadn't gone wrong, the wooden construct would have been able to quickly grasp some of the basic battle skills of a warrior.
Although it wasn't as smart as a real warrior, and its fighting skills couldn't compare to a powerful one, it had great strength, almost equivalent to a level-13 warrior. Its agility was equivalent to a level-11 warrior, and it didn't fear death or injury.
Under the effect of the internal circuit, the construct could use 'Ghoul Touch', 'Energy Damage Protection', 'Lesser Spell Nullification Barrier', 'Roar', 'Fatigue Wave', and other fixed spells.
The biggest weakness of this type of construct was that the magical wood material was relatively fragile, and could be easily destroyed by the enemy through physical means. If this construct could be equipped with a set of sturdy enchanted armor, its combat strength would be multiplied.
After handing the wooden construct to the apprentice, Feng Chou went back into the laboratory. He intended to try to make another golem, a clay golem.
The lowest grade of golem was the flesh golem. This kind of golem made of flesh and blood was also the oldest type of golem. However, Feng Chou didn't intend to use the flesh golem for practice. On one hand, it was because he already had two flesh golems that he had bought before. He had already figured out the characteristics of the flesh golem through studying the two finished flesh golems.
In addition, as an ancient type of golem, the flesh golem was quite different from other types of golems.
Of course, the unwillingness to fiddle with corpses was also one of the main reasons Feng Chou avoided the flesh golem.
The clay golem wasn't that disgusting.
The clay golem's body was of course not made of clay, it just looked like clay.
The "clay" that made up the clay golem was a mixture of dozens of alchemical materials. It looked a bit like semi-wet clay on the outside, but this thing was far tougher than clay.
If a person could deform the clay golem material, then they could probably also deform gold with their hands. The clay golem material also had amazing toughness. This material wouldn't break even if it was stretched dozens of times.
The composition and activation principle of the clay golem came from the earth elemental creatures of the earth elemental world.
The composition and activation of the clay golem, the way in which power and movement were generated, and the way in which nerves were transmitted were very similar to those of the earth elemental creatures.
The form of existence of the earth elemental was neither magic nor supernatural, but a special ability, which was very important.
The greatest feature of the golem was its magic immunity.
The so-called magic immunity was actually a powerful law of chaos that broke the normal law. Once the normal law was broken, the magic composed of the normal law would naturally disappear.
The clay golem's magic immunity came from a kind of magic material that came from the sea of chaos. This material could make any spell unable to operate in the clay golem's body.
If the clay golem was the same as the constructs, and the composition of its body relied on magic, then the chaos material in its material would also repel the magic effect of its own body. But the existence of elemental creatures was a special ability, which wouldn't be affected by magic immunity.