After Lu Ban finished speaking, he pointed to a few places on the large cart that had slowly stopped behind him. Immediately, the dark mass on the cart began to shake, and soon, flat, leather-like objects began to climb off the cart on their own.
Watching the limbs beneath the leather, which were also flat and resembled short legs, moving rapidly, Wang Yao felt that this thing was much more bizarre than any Eight Gates Formation.
The leather pieces quickly expanded like air after being unloaded from the cart, transforming into eight-legged spiders. The surface of the leather became the round body of the spider, while the short legs below turned into short, thick limbs, with gleaming blades visible at the joints.
After getting off the vehicle, they all crawled towards the jungle on both sides of the road.
"Master Lu, I've noticed that many of the puppets you make are shaped like spiders. Is there any particular reason behind this?" Wang Yao asked curiously.
"Wang Xian, you may not know this, but after years of testing, I have found that this form has the most hands and feet, making it more convenient to do things. However, when it comes to combat, the human form is still more advantageous. As for which form is the best, it is impossible to generalize." Lu Ban patiently explained to Wang Yao.
The eight-legged spiders crawled down the road, carefully avoiding the protective barrier of the Decapitation Demon City. Some picked up plant debris from the ground, while others continued forward, burrowing into the jungle to chop down trees.
Each of these eight-legged spiders' legs was specially made by Lu Ban for crawling. They were agile and swift, and they were also very efficient at cutting down those seemingly extremely tough demonic plants. More than a dozen eight-legged spiders were scattered on both sides of the road, working in an orderly manner.
“Mr. Lu, if I had known you had such skills, I should have asked you for some puppets earlier, so that I wouldn’t have lost so many men in the process of building this camp.” The Lord of Reclamation couldn’t help but say to Lu Ban with a hint of resentment as he watched this scene.
“What the Divine Lord says is true. However, these puppets require me to control them with my own divine power, and their movements are quite stiff. It would be a waste of time for the army to set up camp with them. I was afraid of delaying military operations, otherwise I would have offered them to the Divine Lord myself,” Lu Ban said with a smile.
“We really didn’t know that the Decapitation Demon City was actually set up with an array, so it’s not surprising that we suffered some losses. Lord God, you don’t need to be too upset about it.” Seeing that the Lord of Filling the Sea was still fretting about the previous losses, the Gale Ghost King couldn’t help but chime in.
"If you had also lost several thousand men for nothing, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to speak so lightly," the Lord of Reclamation said unhappily.
Seeing the anger on the face of the Lord of Sea Filling, the Gale Ghost King laughed awkwardly a few times and dared not say anything more. After a while, Zhang Liang, having settled the rear army of the demon race, also rushed over to join Wang Yao and the others.
Everyone watched as the eight-legged spiders gathered many tree branches and twigs, then found an open space to begin cutting branches, removing leaves, peeling bark, and taking stems. After working for a while, they pieced together the pieces of wood to make dozens of things that looked like little people.
The wooden figures pieced together from tree branches lay on the ground, looking as if they were made by a mischievous child. Not only were their appearances hard to discern, but their workmanship was also extremely crude. After the eight-legged spiders finished their work, they climbed back onto the cart and returned to their original leathery state.
At this moment, Lu Ban stepped forward and walked to the results of the work of the eight-legged spiders. He took out a stack of palm-sized pieces of paper from his pocket, waved his hand and scattered them down. In the blink of an eye, the pieces of paper were neatly pasted onto each of the wooden figures.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Ban suddenly let out a sharp shout, and then all the paper pieces on the wooden figures emitted a faint orange-yellow light.
Then Lu Ban stretched out his hands towards the wooden figures, his ten fingers spread wide. A yellow beam of light shot out from each finger, instantly connecting with the glowing paper pieces on the ten wooden figures. The yellow light quickly spread to the corresponding wooden figures.
The yellow light emanating from the wooden figures gradually intensified. Soon, all that could be seen were clusters of yellow mist, and the wooden figures themselves could no longer be seen. Then, Lu Ban shouted "Tsk!" and ten rays of light flashed from his fingers, illuminating ten more wooden figures.
The light on the ten wooden figures quickly dimmed, and Wang Yao was astonished to find that the ten wooden figures had changed from lying down to standing up, and their appearance had changed to human shape. Although their facial features were blurred, there was no trace of the wood branches that had been pieced together.
Lu Ban's movements were so swift that everyone was surprised. The dozens of wooden figures on the scene had all transformed into dozens of upright human figures about one meter tall. They stood in several rows in front of Lu Ban with expressionless faces, just like soldiers waiting to go to battle.
"After all, this is just a test of the formation, so please excuse the crude puppet." Lu Ban turned to everyone with a slight smile and said politely. Then he pointed at the Decapitation Demon City and let out a soft "thu" sound again.
Ten puppets emerged from the queue on their own. Two walked directly towards the gate of the Decapitation Demon City along the main road, while the other eight were four on each side of the road. Each puppet was spaced about one person apart, and they walked towards the Decapitation Demon City from different directions.
Upon seeing this, the God of Land Reclamation opened his mouth as if to speak, but then hesitated and stopped.
Before the puppets even reached the protective barrier, Wang Yao saw a torrent of flames suddenly erupt from the seemingly veiled jungle on the east side of the road, igniting one of the approaching puppets.
Flames engulfed the puppet, which did not pause its steps and quickly reached the edge of the curtain. It seemed to pass through the curtain without any hindrance and enter the jungle, but after only two more steps, the puppet collapsed, as if it had been burned to ashes by the demonic flames.
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