The clanging of tal echoed around the room.
A young girl with short hair, dressed in white, seed to have found a new aning in life as she threw herself into categorizing the puppet materials without regard for her fatigue.
She was focused and obsessed, passionate yet devout.
Even though it was already the early hours of the morning, even though she had just rushed back from the Martial House outside the city, even though... she should be so tired that she couldn’t keep her eyes open.
Yet a certain force within her heart allowed her to transcend so kind of limit, imrsing her in a world of oblivion, as if the sky and earth consisted only of her, the materials in front of her, and the puppet behind her.
She had always longed to find a better body for the Demon Heart.
She had searched for years herself, but the only outco was the need to purchase it with Blood Gold; besides that, there was no other solution.
Just when she was so disappointed that she began to drink, her foster father brought these materials to her.
Li Yuan watched her with a sense of solitude in her state of oblivion and selflessness and suddenly realized his adopted daughter’s condition...
This child has always been lonely.
He walked forward, not advising Tang Nian to go to sleep early, but squatted beside her and said with a smile, "Niannian, let help you with sothing."
Tang Nian looked up, suddenly realizing soone was beside her.
A young man, a boy.
Why would there be a boy in her room at such a late hour?
And calling her Niannian?
Does he have a death wish?
She grew puzzled in her mind, her pupils focusing imdiately, and then she disengaged from her world to see clearly that this young man was her foster father.
The young foster father appeared evergreen, and apart from his presence, he was almost as young as she was...
She was montarily at a loss for words and fell into a small silence.
Saying "Foster father, go to sleep" felt alien.
Asking "Help do this or that" was sothing she wasn’t used to since her puppet world contained only her... anyone else was an intruder.
Moreover, her foster father wasn’t skilled in puppetry, so he couldn’t help her.
"Then..."
She thought for a mont and finally ca up with a task for her foster father, pointing to a pile of materials and smiling, "Foster father, help move these to that table over there."
"Sure." Li Yuan bent down and started moving the miscellaneous items while saying, "Is making a Sixth Grade Puppet hard?"
Tang Nian, also busy, softly replied, "Hard."
"Tell about it," Li Yuan said in a casual chatty tone.
Tang Nian said, "The puppetry states that a puppet, like a Martial Artist, undergoes a leap at the Sixth Grade.
Compared to the Seventh Grade, a Sixth Grade Puppet involves an arduous process called blood nourishnt."
Without waiting for Li Yuan to ask, she picked up a piece of "tal Material."
Under the absence of light, the material showed a hint of iron blackness, but under the moonlight, it had a slightly hazy crystalline appearance, quite magical.
Tang Nian asked, "Foster father, do you know what this tal is?"
Li Yuan shook his head honestly.
Tang Nian was sowhat surprised, then said, "This tal is called Soul Iron Crystal.
In puppetry, it’s said that a heart with blood, cast with Soul Iron, can produce... flesh."
Li Yuan inexplicably felt that "Soul Iron Crystal" and "Blood Gold" connected in so way,
One with "soul" and one with "blood," doesn’t it resemble "Ghost Realm" and "at Field," "Evil Ghost" and "Martial Artist?"
Previously, a talk by an Elder Celestial Master from the Daoist Sect ntioned so theory of end-tis yin-yang, wasn’t it just yin and yang?
But he quickly returned to his senses, saying, "Then once a Sixth Grade Puppet is made, won’t it be just like a real person?"
Tang Nian said, "Not the sa, they lack a true soul.
But to rely let the flesh and blood nurture properly requires a lot of effort, as the veins within this Soul Iron need to be crafted by , little by little.
Before my father died... he made rember these veins.
He said it’s the core secret of the Tang Family.
However, these veins have to be extrely precise; if there’s deviation, it may not directly fail but will result in weakening the puppet.
Once these veins are done, the Sixth Grade Puppet is more than halfway complete.
Then, blood will flow from the Demon Heart, linger in the veins, and nurture the Soul Iron.
During this process, I need to monitor it constantly to prevent any accidents from occurring...
Normally, after three months, the puppet should have fully grown flesh and blood."
Tang Nian didn’t hide anything from Li Yuan because Li Yuan was already her family.
Li Yuan thought for a mont and said, "Then you’ll be busy for half a year?"
Tang Nian nodded.
Li Yuan asked again, "If I bring more puppet materials and Sixth Grade Demon Beast Hearts, will you still be able to keep working?"
Tang Nian, full of confidence, said, "As long as this attempt succeeds, afterward... I can succeed every ti. However, when you buy next ti, let co along and choose, foster father."
Li Yuan said, "Don’t trust my judgnt?"
Tang Nian hurriedly shook her head, saying, "Niannian would never doubt your judgnt, foster father."
Then, she jested, "Mainly... foster father doesn’t understand, so there’s no judgnt at all, right?"
Li Yuan was left speechless, raising his hand as if to strike, "You cheeky girl."
Tang Nian stuck out her tongue.
However, one didn’t dodge, and the other didn’t truly strike.
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