He intended to make multiple puppets on the journey out of the magical woods he already owns. Unfortunately none are at a standard higher than a fourth Rank Physique, so he intended to give up on giving them a strong physique and focus solely on high cultivation instead.
Based on his calculations he could produce 10 Fairy state puppets and 3 Spirit State Cultivators with all the materials he has on him. Unfortunately their Physique will not exceed the 7th Rank.
That means he would not receive much spiritual energy in the future, but nonetheless it would provide some needed combat power in the battle for the inheritance.
Despite Dantes confidence in his strength, he wouldn't be arrogant. After all he never knows what type of subordinates they would be lucky enough to recruit. Not every family is as particular with their subordinates as the Armstrong Family. Of course this is the reason why the Armstrong Family was able to have spies in almost every family on the continent.
But this also holds a massive disadvantage, that is the other arrogance of antique families could recruit as many cultivators as they want using their prestigious name.
It's not that Dante hadn't thought of publicising that he is recruiting men and then transforming them into living puppets, but he had no way of explaining how he gained the absolute loyalty of so many men immediately.
It would inevitably cause some suspicion, and even if others didn't dare act on him due to his background, it would make it much harder to find targets for puppets in the future.
His current view is no longer on simply controlling powerful clones. Now his target is now controlling the forces around the continent. If he can place puppets in various forces around the world, and use those puppets to cultivate with the entire continent's resources...
The progress he would make is naturally unimaginable.
Of course this is still a few steps away, and Dante felt it was a good idea to start with the Weak FireBird County. He is only five year old right now, he knows he might make mistakes so he would rather be able to cover it up than to dive straight towards an Antique family and be exposed.
His next step was the purple phoenix walking next to him. As a talent cultivated by the family since it was a child it was naturally very loyal.
''Reach your head down'' Dante commanded the phoenix who completed the action loyally.
Placing his hand on the Phoenixes head, Dante performed a familiar puppet technique. This time he actually received some subconscious pushback by the Phoenix.
Luckily he had experienced the second spirit tempering or else he wouldn't even be able to deal with this unintended pushback.
Dante smiled happily when he felt the connection reach its firmest point. Followed by an incredibly high influx of spiritual energy. This is a talented Ancient beast! Even the little initial feedback is incredible.
Fifth Stage of Spirit tempering up to the Eighth Stage!
While it might not seem like much, Dante clearly felt his spirit was sublimated. However another shocking discovery left Dante dumbstruck.
He noticed that a small Purple Phoenix circled around his original empty mind emitting a powerful mental power.
Suddenly Dante felt a large influx of a deeper inheritance, he realised that any puppet above an Ancient will leave a trace of their soul in Dantes Mind.
Even if it is only a hundredth of their true spiritual power, it is equivalent to an average spirit state cultivator. And the number is infinite, meaning unlimited potential.
After become one of Dantes Puppets the Purple Phoenix showed deep dependence and love towards Dante, stroking its feathers against his outstretched Palms.
''Hello Master'' Dante Heard a cute quiet voice in his head. Clearly that of a young girl.
''Huh? Surprisingly you're a girl?'' Dante was surprised, he originally thought that the phoenix was a boy. As for the fact that she was a young phoenix, that isn't surprising.
The growth period of a Phoenix is countless times longer than that of a human. The thousand year old Phoenix in front of him is the equivalent of a 20 year old girl.
An ancient at the age of 20… if it was a human it would be unbelievable. But sadly she is still technically a thousand years old meaning it will be even longer before she can be promoted again.
But nonetheless it was still Dantes first Ancient Puppet.
Following his successful conversion, Dante returned to his palace and began to prepare for his journey.
In preparation he not only had a flying mount but had a flying house as a form of transportation.
It runs based on the spiritual energy that is implanted into it, that's the reason why the clan provided him with an Ancient Phoenix.
Luckily the Clan weren't completely negligent, situated inside of the house were 3000 beautiful women of all different shapes and sizes, if it was a teenager or an adult in this situation the result would naturally be imaginable.
Unfortunately Dante wasn't yet at the age where he is thinking of that sort of stuff at all. Merely glances appreciatively at the beauties and begins his regular process of transforming them into puppets.
Unfortunately due to the restrictions imposed by the clan, all of the girls' cultivation base was no higher than the core building stage. But nonetheless there were still some good seeds among the girls.
Dante counted 100 fourth Rank Physiques and 500 fifth rank but the rest were all below that.
But the tiny bit of spiritual energy is still existing. If the number stacks up it would cause a substantial increase to his cultivation speed.
Dante happily packed away all of his necessary belongings into his spiritual pendant, borded the flying house and set off on his journey.