Gu Ding had not expected the black statue to be a war puppet preserved from the Ancient Era.
War puppets were a special type of combat weapon from the Ancient Era. They could merge with their users, allowing them to gain extraordinary Combat Strength that their physical bodies could bear. Therefore, war puppets were generally operated by powerful Body Cultivation experts with formidable physical bodies.
If a lower-rank Main God had a sufficiently powerful physical body, they could use a war puppet to directly wield the Combat Strength of Main God Perfection.
If a one-star lord had a sufficiently powerful physical body, they could even use a war puppet to wield the Combat Strength of a Seven-Star Lord.
Of course, there were limits to the power a war puppet could unleash.
Since Main God Level powerhouses had not grasped the power of order, they could at most raise a war puppet's cultivation to Main God Perfection.
Furthermore, using a war puppet placed an enormous burden on the physical body, so each use was time-limited. Exceeding the time limit the body could endure would cause severe backlash to the user. In the worst cases, it could even cause the physical body to collapse, resulting in death.
The technology behind war puppets had long been lost with the end of the Ancient Era.
In Gu Ding's plane, no one had ever found such an object in any ruin, not even a fragment. Thus, this was also Gu Ding's first time seeing one, so naturally, he had not recognized it.
Following the method recorded in the inherited Jade Slip, Gu Ding dripped a drop of blood onto the statue's forehead.
The war puppet was instantly activated, its eyes examining Gu Ding from head to toe.
"Identity confirmed. Begin fusion?" After confirming that Gu