The little girl who came out of the inner cave silently stepped forward to pour tea for Wang Yao and Master Lu, and then silently retreated back the way she came.
Wang Yao stared at the little girl's back, noticing that her expression and behavior were no different from ordinary people. He wondered to himself whether this little girl was a divine being or a puppet.
"Yes, this is the core I just told the immortal about."
Master Lu seemed to ignore the little girl's presence. He went straight to a display shelf by the cave and casually picked up a pale yellow egg from among the various colored egg-like objects on the shelf, then handed it back to Wang Yao.
"Immortal, please take a look and see if there's any mystery hidden here?" Master Lu said to Wang Yao with a smile.
"This is... divine power?" Wang Yao took the egg and played with it in his hand for a moment, then looked up at Master Lu. He didn't know what material the egg was made of; it was neither gold nor wood, and it was slightly elastic, somewhat similar to rubber products. He sensed a strong divine power in it.
“Excellent!” Master Lu nodded emphatically. “This is the core I recently prepared for a mechanical puppet. It’s made from the Sun Glue produced on the Sun Tree in the Sunlight Sea of the Demon Realm. It’s the material I know that can best preserve divine power for a long time.”
"Discovering the Blazing Sun Glue isn't anything special. As long as you run around and look around more, you'll eventually find it. The key is how much divine power should be input into this core to achieve the goal of controlling the puppet? Another question is, how many of the same cores can we control at the same time?"
It must have been a long time since he had discussed puppetry with anyone, because at this moment, Master Lu's wrinkled face seemed to be glowing.
“An ordinary Primordial God, even if he is proficient in the art of puppetry and has combined all his power, can only control one mechanical puppet. When he only needs half of his divine power to control ten cores, which is ten mechanical puppets, it means that he has advanced to the God of War.”
Master Lu gestured with his fingers to Wang Yao.
"When he only needs a quarter of his divine power to control a hundred cores, he has already stepped into the threshold of becoming a fierce god. This is a major leap for the cultivation of puppetry. After all, once he reaches this level, he will have the conditions to start researching puppets without mechanisms."
“A puppeteer can only be considered to have truly entered the inner sanctum of puppetry when he can actually create puppets without any mechanisms,” Master Lu said, stroking his beard.
"So, corpse puppets, flesh puppets, and spirit puppets all belong to the category of puppets without mechanisms?" Wang Yao asked, his spirits lifting.
"Yes, the first step in mastering mechanical puppetry is the corpse puppet. These things are extremely filthy and mysterious. Studying them often leaves the practitioner looking neither human nor ghost. This is why puppetry is often misunderstood. However, the corpse puppet is the only way to master higher levels of puppetry!"
"It simply cannot be omitted," Master Lu sighed.
"Back in the underworld, I once suffered a great calamity of corpse qi disease. The culprit behind the chaos was the corpse puppet..." Wang Yao briefly recounted his experiences in the underworld to Master Lu.
"Corpse energy is indeed a hallmark of corpse puppets, but the use and transformation of corpse energy by corpse puppets of different levels are different. In fact, the same is true for mechanical puppets. Every type of puppet has different levels. A high-level mechanical puppet is not necessarily worse than a low-level corpse puppet."
"However, high-level corpse puppets are made from refined corpse energy, so the methods of control are more demanding. But the actual combat power still varies from puppet to puppet. Using corpse puppets in the underworld is indeed the right place, but there is one point of view that I cannot agree with, Immortal."
“That means the corpse puppets themselves are neither good nor evil. The real culprit is the one who controls the corpse puppets from behind the scenes,” Master Lu said, staring intently at Wang Yao.
“Master Lu is right, I misspoke.” Wang Yao nodded repeatedly.
"Why is the corpse puppet the only way to study mechanical puppets? The reason is that corpses are lifeless, just like the bamboo, wood, metal and stone used to make mechanical puppets, but they also have flesh and blood like us. Therefore, only the corpse puppet is the bridge from mechanical puppets to mechanical puppets."
"Moreover, low-level corpse puppets also need to have mechanisms set up on them, but when it comes to high-level ones, the mechanisms are completely undetectable," Master Lu continued.
Recalling his experience of encountering the corpse puppets in the underworld, Wang Yao couldn't help but nod repeatedly, as those low-level corpse puppets were indeed quite similar to mechanical puppets.
"Then what about the essence body?" Wang Yao then asked.
"The essence body is actually a type of twin puppet. After a cultivator enters the Ferocious God realm, he can try to create corpse puppets. When he can control ten corpse puppets with half of his divine power, he enters the Mad God realm. Of course, at that time, the number of mechanical puppets he can control will increase greatly."
"However, after the God of Ferocity, the number of mechanical puppets that can be controlled is no longer the standard for measuring the level of puppetry. Starting with the God of Madness, one can try to create flesh puppets, which use living flesh and blood bodies as puppets, but completely annihilate the original form and consciousness of that life."
"This is another reason why puppetry is so criticized. However, only after a cultivator has mastered the use of corpse puppets and flesh puppets and reached the level of a Celestial God can they begin to study twin puppets. Twin puppets represent another major leap forward in the cultivation of puppetry," Master Lu said.
"So, only those who have reached the Void Refinement stage can create twin puppets?" Wang Yao nodded secretly. It seemed that Saruman's disciple Robin was at least at the Void Refinement stage.
“Not bad.” Master Lu nodded. “The essence body is actually just a side branch of twin puppets. The real significance of twin puppets lies in greatly improving the combat and survivability of puppets. The abilities of a single type of puppet are limited, and its shortcomings are also obvious.”
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