Chapter 360: Qianji Zhenren
Sometimes Yu Sheng was really curious about how this shorty who was only 66.6 cm tall on his shoulders could come up with those extraordinary combinations of words in her head - but no matter what, he could deeply feel the level of resentment the little doll had towards his height.
For example, now, she doesn't even mind maintaining her real height of 66.6 cm, and then "driving" a 1.67 meter body...
This made Yu Sheng sigh: "You are good at 'settling for the second best', but this is too bad, isn't it?"
"What can I do?" Irene held Yu Sheng's head and shook it vigorously, "Just tell me if this is feasible!"
"Let go! Let go! My hair!" Yu Sheng frantically pulled at the puppet's paws, "I'll ask for help later! Let go!"
Irene finally let go of her hand, then looked up at the twelve-meter-tall Giant God Soldier with a silly expression.
"I always feel like I used to be so tall that I looked down at everything. Now I can't even remember what it felt like to look down at people," she muttered. "Now I have to look up to see everything. I have to hide when I see a Chow Chow or a Pomeranian mix... I'm afraid they'll be snatched away."
Yu Sheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he could only raise his hand and touch the doll's head as a comfort. Then he looked at Yuan Ling Zhenren beside him and said, "You have disassembled this 'mechanical man' like this. Have you found anything new?"
"If I must say, yes," Yuan Ling Zhenren nodded. "On the inside of the rib armor of the mechanical man, there is an inscription that should have been left by a craftsman. It reads 'Cast, March 8, the 127th year of Tianyuan, Taiming Valley Casting Golden Pavilion, Craftsman Song Xingzhi'. This is the language that is still used on Taixu Star today. The three characters Tian, Gu, and Jiang are in ancient script."
Irene blinked: "What do you mean?"
Yu Sheng had understood, so he said before Yuan Ling Zhenren opened his mouth: "It means that the parts were produced on March 8, 127 Tianyuan, and the production site should be a place called Taiming Valley Gold Casting Pavilion. The person directly responsible for the production was a craftsman named Song Xingzhi - is that what you mean?"
His last sentence was directed to Master Yuan Ling.
"That's right." Master Yuan Ling nodded.
"The mechanical man dug out from the foreign land not only has the marks of the real world, but also has such a formal production mark inscription..." Yu Sheng thought, "This is indeed a bit strange."
Yuan Ling Zhenren looked serious and shook his head slowly: "Not only that, the bigger problem with this sentence is that we don't know what year 'Tianyuan 127' is, nor do we know where the 'Taiming Valley Gold Casting Pavilion' is."
Yu Sheng was stunned when he heard this.
Just when he was about to ask for more details, a pleasant sound like a wind chime came from somewhere, and then Yuan Ling Zhenren looked like he was listening attentively.
"The elder Qianji from the Tenth Palace of Woyun has arrived," after a moment, Yuan Ling Zhenren nodded to Xuan Che, "Xuan Che, go and welcome him in."
Xuan Che immediately bowed and accepted the order, then turned around and flew out of the hall.
Yu Sheng waited patiently and curiously. After about twenty minutes, he heard the sound of a mechanism operating outside the door of the hall. Then the heavy door finally opened again, and a tall figure entered the sight of Yu Sheng and others, and walked quickly towards the direction of Yuan Ling Zhenren.
The moment he saw the figure clearly, Yu Sheng was stunned.
Because the person who walked in looked almost like a mechanical man - this "Thousand Machines True Man" was made of metal all over, with copper skin and iron bones emitting a hazy spiritual light, and even his Taoist robes had a metallic luster, as if it was one with the steel body. His chest was deliberately open, as if for show. The chest of this "true man" was inlaid with a thick transparent shell, through which one could clearly see the ticking gears, connecting rods and rotating shaft mechanisms, and an iron-gray heart beating slowly in the center of those constantly running mechanical parts. With every beat, many mysterious and complex immortal symbols would faintly emerge on the surface of the "heart", which looked exquisite and strange.
This tall "machine man" strode in, and from a distance he bowed to Yuan Ling Zhenren, and uttered a deep voice with a slight tremor in his chest: "Yuan Ling, you have added a lot of new things to your Soul-Calming Tower. When can I study them?"
"Master Qianji, how are you?" Master Yuanling smiled and returned the greeting, while reminding, "We have distinguished guests here today, so you should restrain yourself..."
The "Master Qianji" seemed to have just noticed that there were "things" in the hall besides Master Yuanling and the Giant God Soldiers, and turned to look at Yu Sheng and his group.
Then his eyes fell on Luna who was in a daze.
"Hello, fellow Taoist," Master Qianji bowed solemnly, "May I ask what material your muscles and bones are made of?"
Luna didn't react at all...
"Ahem," Yuan Ling Zhenren at the side coughed twice and raised his hand to introduce, "This is Yu Sheng, the 'expert' I mentioned to you, the host and the guest. The one you greeted just now is Miss Luna, the nine-tailed silver fox is Miss Hu Li, and the one on Yu Sheng's shoulder..."
While Yuan Ling was introducing himself, Qian Ji had already turned around and came to Yu Sheng, and bowed solemnly again: "Hello, fellow Daoist, is this small mechanical man on your shoulder made by yourself? It is really small and exquisite..."
Yu Sheng felt something was wrong the moment the other party said the words "small mechanical man". Sure enough, he heard a whoosh of wind in his ear, and Irene rushed out like an angry bird, accompanied by the chirping of birds and the fragrance of flowers along the way: "You XX, just say it's a small one, and it's still small and exquisite! Small, you..."
Fortunately, Yu Sheng had been with this little doll for such a long time that he had developed some skills. The moment he felt the shaking on his shoulder, he guessed that this short and fat man was about to be ejected. He had already reached out to catch it in the air and grabbed Irene by the waist, leaving her hanging in the air by her belt while she was helpless and furious, waving her hands and cursing. But the target of her cursing had become Yu Sheng...
Qian Ji Zhenren's face, which was made of many copper sheets and flexible metals, instantly showed astonishment. He looked at Irene who was struggling in the air, and the gears on the side of his eye sockets squeaked and turned: "She is so clever! And she has a bad temper!"
"Her name is Irene," Yuan Ling Zhenren finally found an opportunity to speak helplessly, "She is the Alice doll. It's just that she encountered some changes in her early years, so she had to temporarily live in this body - this body was also refined by Yu Sheng."
The gear set in Master Qianji's chest clicked and he froze for half a second.
Just when Yu Sheng was thinking about how to deal with this "Elder of the Ten Palaces" who seemed to have a strange temper, he saw the latter suddenly turn around and bow to Irene, saying, "Hello, Daoist Fellow Irene. I apologize for any offense I have caused you."
Now it was Irene's turn to not know: "..."
Apparently, the little puppet was used to swearing at the low-class netizens on the Internet, the kind where hundreds of posts were posted without stopping. This was the first time he encountered such a situation. He was tongue-tied for a long time before he finally reacted. In the end, he even managed to choke out the last bit of politeness in his bones: "Uh, it's okay, you too."
Luna, who was standing beside him, suddenly raised her head and nodded to Master Qianji: "Well, okay."
Master Qianji was stunned for a moment, not knowing what Luna's sudden reaction of "Yeah, okay" meant.
And then, he seemed to suddenly discover something, and his eyes fell on Yu Sheng again.
From deep within his ticking machinery came an eerie "click" sound.
"This is Daoist Fellow..." Master Qianji muttered doubtfully, the lenses embedded in his eye sockets stretched and retracted unsteadily, and his tone suddenly became uncertain, "Daoist Fellow, is it an incarnation that you have here? Why can't I see clearly..."
This time it was Yu Sheng's turn to be confused: "...Ah?"
"Just think of it as the lenses needing to be cleaned!" Yuan Ling Zhenren said unhappily, "And why does your body always make strange noises - what number is this?"
"Number 22 of Tianzi," Master Qianji said casually, "I originally planned to send Number 16 of Dizi over, but when Number 16 was repairing the earth veins a few days ago, he accidentally fell into the magma and burned up. I could only send the body of Number 22 of Tianzi who was still available. The strange noise you mentioned might be because he crashed into the mountain when he flew over here, and his joints are somewhat loose, it's not a problem."
Yu Sheng was a little curious when he heard about "Heaven No. 22" and "Earth No. 16". Yuan Ling Zhenren explained: "We are busy with the affairs of the sect, and we cannot delay the practice of teaching. We have our own ways to deal with it. I use the method of external incarnation, and Qianji Zhenren created a lot of identical bodies for himself. They are divided into three types according to their uses: 'Heaven, Earth, and Man', which are used to handle research, construction, and government affairs respectively.
"This can be considered as a unique 'incarnation' method of the weapon refining method - what you see here is not his real body, but just an incarnation of a mechanism.
"Of course, after so many years, I'm afraid Master Qianji himself can't tell which body he was originally from, right?"
"Haha, sometimes it's hard to tell them apart," Master Qianji laughed, sounding like he didn't care at all. "Anyway, just use whichever you draw. The soul is the origin, and the body is just a place to stay. This is the 'way of ascension'..."
Irene understood what he said at this time, and immediately poked Yu Sheng's head excitedly: "Hey, this process seems to be similar to mine!"
When Master Qianji heard this, he immediately turned around and asked, "Fellow Daoist Ailin, are you also practicing the way of ascending through mechanical devices?"
Irene: "I don't understand! Yu Sheng helped me massage my body."
Master Qianji looked at Yu Sheng again and said, "Daoist Yu Sheng, are you also practicing the way of ascending to heaven?"
Yu Sheng was already overwhelmed by this time - why is it so messy! ! (End of this chapter)
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