Extra: Prequel · Puppet

Deep beneath a mountain ravine somewhere on the outskirts of Eternal Night Sovereign City

Within a spiritual pool, a petite little girl lay submerged silently in the spirit water, her eyes tightly closed.

The little girl looked no more than five or six years old. Though her face was pale as paper, it could not conceal her delicate and lovely features.

All manner of rare and precious medicinal herbs floated or soaked in the spirit water around the little girl.

Countless rare and precious Immortal Herbs and Spiritual Medicine were also planted and piled around the spiritual pool.

Every one of these Immortal Herbs and Spiritual Medicine was a precious medicinal ingredient capable of nourishing the soul or nurturing the body.

Aside from the vast quantities of Immortal Herbs and Spiritual Medicine, the cave was littered with all kinds of corpse parts, as well as numerous unfinished puppet prototypes.

Dozens of figures bustled about the cave, using its materials to refine puppet after puppet.

Some were responsible for refining skeletons, some for tempering fleshly bodies, while others fused various weapons or functions into those bodies.

The enormous cave resembled a fully man-made puppet production line.

Yet today, this cave hidden in such a secluded place welcomed two uninvited guests.

With a boom, the cave's barrier and gates were shattered together.

Ning Yechen and Yue Qingyou stepped into the cave.

The moment they entered, Ning Yechen and Yue Qingyou could not help being drawn in by the sight before them.

Dozens of people were busily condensing puppet bodies inside the cave, their division of labor clearly defined...

Even though the gates had been smashed apart, these "people" paid them no heed whatsoever and remained wholly focused on their work.

With one sweep of his gaze, Ning Yechen saw that the dozens