53 Puppet Dharmic Artifact! (2/2)

It's not enough for it to be sturdy. Because it is human-shaped, it needs to be pliable! At the same time, it has to be able to make alerts. Even if it can't speak, it needs to emit sound…

Furthermore, it cannot be obvious that it is a puppet. That is very important, too, so that it has the element of surprise. It will also be important in the modeling aspect. Anyway, puppets are the highest level. Once refined, it will be a true Dharmic artifact that is almost no different from a real human!

When Wang Baole started, he did not pay much attention. But after carving Inscriptions, the refinement of Spirit Kernel for the puppet became too difficult, so he placed all his effort into refining. With this deep thinking and deduction, he gradually perfected the puppet.

Just so he could make it perfect, Wang Baole decided to use Rainbow Spirit Stones as the core, arrange other superior-grade Spirit Stones around them, then meld them all together. Finally, after several days, when he had refined the Spirit Kernels, Wang Baole saw that he had used forty or so Spirit Stones. Only after going through many calculations to achieve the arrangement of Inscriptions could he find the framework of the human-shaped Spirit Kernel. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, and his gaze showed a hint of regret.

It's too bad that time is short and that this is my first time. If not, I should have been able to make an even better one!

Wang Baole shook his head and sent a voice transmission to Xie Haiyang to ask him to purchase forging materials.

These materials were not valuable but regular materials that Wang Baole found according to his own refinement of Spirit Kernel Inscriptions. He had learned most of them from the jade slip that the Dharmic Armament Pavilion Elder had given him.

I must be the first one to refine with fusing materials… Wang Baole sighed. He felt that this task of losing weight was too difficult this time. If the Dharmic artifact was not effective, he was definitely going to make Xie Haiyang compensate his losses from refining the puppets.

With this thought, he took the Spirit Kernel and materials and left the cave abode, charging at full speed till he reached the Spirit Cauldron Cave at the Dharmic Armament faculty. This Spirit Cauldron Cave was similar to Combat faculty's Lava Chamber, except the temperature was different. The main point of the Spirit Cauldron Cave was to allow Spirit Kernel students to increase their familiarity with refining Dharmic artifacts.

There were many rooms within, all filled with heated Spirit Cauldrons and simple molds. People could borrow these instruments to melt materials and then simply fuse them with Spirit Kernels to make basic Dharmic artifacts.

Because only Spirit Kernel students could attempt to refine simple Dharmic artifacts, there were few people on normal days. As Head Prefect, Wang Baole could naturally enter as he pleased.

When he arrived, he chose one room and began familiarizing himself with it before starting his first refinement.

The content of Materials study was very complicated. Even with the jade slip from the Dharmic Armament Pavilion Elder, Wang Baole went through great difficulty, wasting many materials in the process. The good thing was that his Spirit Kernels were sturdy, so he did not break many. After countless experiments and repairs, Wang Baole finally emerged after a while with dark circles under his eyes, and he had even gotten thinner. He had lost much of his energy and strength during those few days.

When he returned to the cave abode, Wang Baole sent a voice transmission to Xie Haiyang. As he waited for Xie Haiyang to arrive, Wang Baole drank several bottles of Ice Spirit Water to wake his brain up.

This artifact refinement is too difficult. Thinking back on the process, Wang Baole felt that he had truly expended excessive capital in this attempt to lose weight.

Very soon, Xie Haiyang arrived. The moment he entered the cave abode, Wang Baole raised his right hand before he could speak. In that instant, his storage bracelet flashed, and what must have been a two-meter-tall human-shaped puppet appeared in front of Xie Haiyang with a bang.

This puppet looked very burly, and it even exuded an aura of savagery. This was especially so since its whole body was covered in hair, giving off a ferocious impression.

Although it was not especially realistic, if one did not look carefully, it did not seem too different from a real person.

”Whether he is satisfied or not, the puppet possesses the characteristics of being big, mighty, and ferocious!” Wang Baole rubbed the area between his eyebrows tiredly. His gaze swept across the puppet that he had refined; although he was not very satisfied, it was passable.

At the side, Xie Haiyang stared. After circling around the puppet several times, he inhaled, his gaze bright.

”I'm satisfied, very satisfied!

”Don't worry, Schoolmate Wang. With this object, I will definitely be able to get the Dharmic artifact for you!”

Once he had finished assessing the puppet, Xie Haiyang took the puppet away, left the Lower Academy Island on a boat, and reached the entrance of the Upper Academy Island.

From afar, the scenery was magnificent. Sky and sea met in an imposing way. But when one got closer, the scene was starkly different, with swirling thick fog. Whenever Xie Haiyang arrived at the Upper Academy Island, he was always nervous. Now, as he grew closer, he waved a token. Soon, the fog parted to reveal a blurry silhouette.

”Did you bring it?” The blurred silhouette had a low voice, filled with intention.

Xie Haiyang quickly took out the puppet. Before he could even hand it over, the silhouette seemed to raise its hand to grab at the air. In that instant, the puppet flew toward the fog and shortly after, there was an exclamation from within the fog.

”To use a Spirit Kernel that is a condensation of forty or so Spirit Stones, and with less than 3,000 Dao Inscriptions; yet, it possesses the effect of 10,000 Dao Inscriptions carved onto one hundred Spirit Stones… Although the manufacturing is crude, it is interesting. Not bad, not too bad at all!” The silhouette in the fog was full of praise. Till the end, his tone was one of delight. Then, he threw a helmet at Xie Haiyang and left.

Xie Haiyang exhaled, wiped his sweat, and then left. When he returned to Wang Baole's cave abode, he was clearly excited.

”Brother, the other party was extremely satisfied with your puppet!” As he spoke, he gave Wang Baole a crimson helmet and a jade slip with the instructions for its use.

”The other party said that you can borrow this Dharmic artifact!”