Nine million years ago
Liang Mu, the Puppet Butler, was a top-tier Puppet Master. He had already been a peak powerhouse long ago.
However, he had not appeared anywhere for a very, very long time. He had remained in the Puppet Plane he created, conducting puppet research.
Other than when he needed materials, he generally never went out.
Back then, Liang Mu had always wanted to use Puppetry Technique to create a living human. He firmly believed that puppets could be like living beings, possessing independent consciousness and the ability to cultivate on their own.
He wanted to become the father of puppet creation.
This kind of conscious puppet was not one of those Spirit-Transforming Objects that only had a chance to gain sentience after endless years, nor was it like the current Puppet Butler, whose soul resided within Soulwood and thereby controlled a puppet's movements.
The puppet Liang Mu wanted had to give birth to consciousness on its own. No, more accurately, it had to independently give birth to a soul.
But souls had always been one of the great problems of the cultivation world. Even now, there was not much knowledge related to them, so it was extremely difficult for Liang Mu to realize his idea.
Yet for someone like him, who had always been immersed in his own world of puppets, he would never give up for the sake of his dream.
Thus, he began conducting a vast amount of puppet research.
If a puppet was to be like a human, its body first had to resemble a human's, and its internal structure had to resemble one as well.
That alone was very simple for Liang Mu. With Puppetry Technique, he could casually create a person's structure, even one no different from a True Person.
However, humans