The Mystic Armor Puppet took far longer to refine than Jiang Lin had expected. It took him nearly a month just to complete the first step: weaponizing the corpse.
He then spent another month repairing the Mystic Armor Puppet's main energy meridians. Compared to the meridians evolved by the human body to carry out all sorts of complex movements, the Mystic Armor Puppet did not need so many. As long as its twelve primary meridians were connected and it could jump, run, and move, that was enough. After all, Jiang Lin did not need the Mystic Armor Puppet to make facial expressions or control its sphincter muscles.
The subsequent soul infusion was simple. The Soul-Containing Parchment that carried the Mystic Armor Puppet Technique was itself a spiritual control system. Jiang Lin examined it and found what seemed to be some mysterious symbols on it. Back when he had been refining Pei Suo's corpse into an artifact body, Jiang Lin had already pasted the Soul-Containing Parchment onto Pei Suo's forehead.
Following the procedure, Jiang Lin dripped his own blood onto the Soul-Containing Parchment. The blood seeped through the parchment and directly entered Pei Suo's forehead, leaving behind a faint red rune.
For the final step, Jiang Lin placed the Mystic Armor Puppet on a rack inside a fire pit, kept the temperature within a suitable range, and slow-roasted it for over half a month. Only then were the Mystic Armor Puppet's organs completely softened, while the pale silver mercury blood inside successfully fused with the artifact body and formed a distinctive anti-seepage layer within its blood vessels.
By the time Jiang Lin finished refining the Mystic Armor Puppet, three months had already passed.
Over those three months, Jiang Lin had not only refined the Mystic Armor Puppet, but also studied the