Chapter 460 Puppet Master

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Chapter 460: Chapter 460 Puppet Master "Contraband?" "Yeah, didn’t your mom tell you to find a decent girl before? You’re taking this angle, trying to use an unexpected story to prove her wrong about marriage, so you can create a more relaxed environment for picking up girls." Lin Xiaosu shook his head repeatedly. "I understand your mindset about sneaking in contraband, but is this how you sneak it in? Your mom’s not stupid!" Ding Dong plopped down. "Thinking about it, you’re right. Oh well, I still have a hefty eight-figure balance in my account, which should last a while. Next time I have a plan, I’ll show you the proposal first..." He reached out, opened the drawer under the coffee table in front of him, and took out a stack of white paper and a pencil. He started drawing symbols. Yes, he was drawing symbols. The strange pattern in the Wing Blade’s brain. This pattern was very complex, Ding Dong had memorized it after a day and a night, and now it was being sketched under his pen. Lin Xiaosu sat opposite him, staring at the tip of his pen, silently admiring him. That talisman pattern, he only glanced at it. And it was firmly etched in his mind. He possesses the Heavenly Tao Primordial Spirit, Human Tao Orchid Heart, and a Sub-God Skill level of 24. He truly has a photographic memory. Being able to memorize every detail at a glance doesn’t mean everyone can do it. This pattern is so complex that even if you spent days and nights memorizing it, trying to draw it perfectly would still be almost impossible. However, Ding Dong did it! The symbol he drew on the white paper was extremely precise, in size, spacing, the nine-layer line strokes, and the interior pentagrams, all without error. You have to give it to him! No wonder he’s a mechanical genius, his fundamentals in mechanical knowledge are truly solid. Also, it might be a matter of attitude. On other matters, he basically has no principles, but in mechanical manufacturing, he is genuinely meticulous and serious. Ding Dong slowly raised his head, a satisfied expression on his face, lifting the white paper in his hand. "You saw this symbol before too. Help me see, is it like this?" Lin Xiaosu said, "Pretty good, just a few small errors." "Hmm?" Ding Dong was surprised. "Where are the mistakes?" "Here... and these four places, they’re not pentagrams, they’re hexagrams!" Lin Xiaosu took his pen and marked five spots. "Hexagrams?" Ding Dong furrowed his brow. "Yes, hexagrams! The remaining seventy-one stars are indeed pentagrams, but these five are hexagrams! Mixing five hexagrams among a bunch of pentagrams, to be honest, it’s quite easy to confuse them." Ding Dong was full of doubt. "You only saw it for a moment." "Yeah!" "Is this detective vision? Able to spot the tiniest details?" "Maybe!" Ding Dong exhaled gently. "To quote one of your famous sayings, ’you can doubt a person’s character, but not their professionalism,’ right?" "Damn!" Lin Xiaosu rolled his eyes. "To doubt my character, you need to have had good character yourself! Others can doubt you, are you sure you can too?" Ding Dong laughed heartily and made the corrections Lin Xiaosu suggested, changing the pentagrams to hexagrams in those five spots. "No more mistakes now, right?" "At least I can’t spot any errors!" Lin Xiaosu commented truthfully. This drawing was now perfectly aligned with the image imprinted in his consciousness. Ding Dong rubbed his hands together. "Ready? Let’s meet the person with a high ’ghost content’ now!" Lin Xiaosu’s heartbeat quietly sped up as he nodded lightly. The Blood Coffin, inside there was an old man. An Ancient Relic! This he knew. Not unfamiliar. But... No two drops of water are exactly alike, nor are any two Ancient Relics. Each relic unearthed is like opening a blind box. You never know if inside is a god, or a demon... Ding Dong walked into the inner room and opened a mechanism. Inside, a wooden box. The wooden box looked ancient, and he carried it over to Lin Xiaosu, slowly opening it. Inside was a coffin. A blood-red coffin, a miniature coffin. Lin Xiaosu stared at the coffin, his heart racing with a peculiar energy sensation that didn’t seem particularly vast but was immensely ancient... Ding Dong’s fingers lightly tapped on the coffin, tapping three times! In the next moment, the blood-red color on the coffin seemed to flow like water, and a human figure stood upon the blood-red coffin. This was an elder with hair and beard all tangled and matted. The elder saw Lin Xiaosu in one glance, and his complexion changed dramatically: "Boy, you’ve violated our agreement!" His voice, ancient and timeworn. Ding Dong put on a smile. "Master, this isn’t an outsider, this is my brother-in-law. He has deep research into matters of the Ancient Era..." "A brat, what research could he have? Tell him to leave immediately! Otherwise, I will kill him!" The elder’s beard bristled. Ding Dong’s expression changed... But Lin Xiaosu smiled. "Senior, you are merely a Primordial Spirit projection, having endured millennia of years, your power is long gone. You can’t kill me, but on the contrary, killing you would just be a flick of the hand!" "How dare you!" the elder roared, murderous intent surging. In the next moment, he completely disappeared. Breaking into Lin Xiaosu’s Sea of Consciousness. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered, a primordial spirit phantom inside slapped him, sending the old man’s primordial spirit phantom back onto the Blood Coffin. It quivered as he looked at Lin Xiaosu in utter disbelief... This kid has a primordial spirit! Isn’t this era supposed to be the End of Dharma Era? How could there be a cultivator with a primordial spirit? As long as one possesses a primordial spirit, he would be unbeatable by him, as combat wasn’t his forte. Moreover, as Lin Xiaosu said, his primordial spirit had endured ten thousand years, its power barely one-thousandth of its full strength, maintaining the spirit was tough, any primordial spirit with combat power was beyond his ability... "Master, I have something to ask you," said Ding Dong. "Hmm... alright!" The old man stopped dwelling on Lin Xiaosu, the spectator. "I think I’ve come across the Puppetry Technique!" Ding Dong said, "This is the puppet talisman I copied, I feel it’s very similar to what you taught me." He extended his hand, the sheet of white paper raised and stood before the old man. The old man stared at the paper, his brows slightly furrowed, "Level 5 Puppetry Technique, not a low level... hmm, compared to you, it’s not low." Indeed! Both Lin Xiaosu and Ding Dong felt something simultaneously, Ding Dong said, "Master, relative to you, is it low or high?" "What nonsense? Forgot what I said? On the Puppet Path, I, your master, am a Grandmaster! This level of puppetry is nothing!" "That’s great, take a thorough look, is there any issue with this talisman? In reality, this puppet can’t be controlled," said Ding Dong. "See this break? There’s a section of the talisman missing!" The old man said, "Just fill it in, and the talisman will be complete!" Lin Xiaosu’s heart leaped... Wing Blade, currently unable to activate its most powerful third form, the fundamental reason is that the path taken was wrong. Using modern technology as a plugin, ultimately was just an illusion. If modern technology was removed, and Wing Blade’s original setting applied, its power would increase tenfold! The missing element was actually just a talisman. This talisman, over the long and eternal years, had been obliterated, weathered, if supplemented, it would be a true puppet. Ding Dong’s eyes lit up: "Master, try fixing it!" The old man’s body shook, suddenly transforming into a plume of smoke. The smoke landed on the talisman, connecting the gap between the two talisman segments. The talisman formed from his transformation, nine lines perfectly linked, with five stars added in between, one five-pointed, four six-pointed. In this way, the entire talisman had seventy-two five-pointed stars, nine six-pointed stars, totaling eighty-one stars. In Lin Xiaosu’s Sea of Consciousness, some patterns arose as well, perfectly aligning with the talisman in front of him. Once the talisman completed, he suddenly felt a mysterious sensation. This talisman seemed to come to life... His heart raced wildly! Indeed! This should be the true appearance of the Wing Blade’s brain talisman. Success! Ding Dong glanced at the sheet of paper, rubbing his eyes: "It seems complete, but, how to test it?" The old man’s body shook, vanishing from the paper: "Puppet talismans aren’t easy to draw, appearance is useless, to truly connect with Array Power, True Qi is needed, boy, I previously pointed out your bottleneck, yet you haven’t cultivated True Qi... hmm, you’ve suddenly brought your brother-in-law, who happens to be a cultivator, are you trying to get me to pass the Puppetry Technique to him?" Ding Dong quickly said, "Master, the issue about True Qi, I’ve already solved it!" "Solved?" "I indeed have no True Qi, and couldn’t cultivate it, but through experimentation, I’ve found a substitute, created a weak electric rod, using transformed current, it can simulate the effect of True Qi. Let me show you!" He rushed into the inner room, soon coming out with something resembling a stun baton. Using current to simulate the effect of True Qi? Lin Xiaosu’s vision expanded... Is it feasible? The old man eyed this contraption he didn’t understand, wanted to ask a question Lin Xiaosu contemplated, but perhaps felt asking too much would reveal his lack of knowledge, so he shifted the topic: "One more thing... besides True Qi, a talisman pen is also needed!" Ding Dong’s face full of excitement was heavily struck by this: "You... you talk as if constipated, can’t you just explain everything at once! Where can I find an Ancient Era talisman pen now?" The old man, being an ancient person, didn’t understand the modern term "constipation," was not effectively enraged, explained, "The talisman pen might not need to be ancient, as long it can connect with Array Power, a regular array pen can substitute." "C! Is there a difference between an array pen and a talisman pen? If I can’t find a talisman pen, can I find an array pen? Old man..." Ding Dong, anxious and disregarding respect for his master, exclaimed. Lin Xiaosu suddenly spoke, "I have an array pen!" Raising his hand, the array pen obtained from Kun Cang appeared in his palm, with Five Elements Spirit Stone inside. Ding Dong grabbed the array pen fiercely: "Master, is this it?" "Yes!" "I’ll experiment immediately!" He affixed the array pen to the stun baton, pressed the button, and the baton emitted a strange arc of light. The arc of light, suspended in the air. His hand moved, quickly inscribing the talisman from the paper in the air, forming an extraordinary scene... Ding Dong’s heart raced faster and faster. Lin Xiaosu’s eyes also widened. His brilliant brother-in-law really was a genius! The world had often said True Qi could emulate effects created by modern technology, yet he, inversely, used modern technology to emulate True Qi. From his perspective, it really worked!

Chapter 460 Puppet Master

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