[You used the Nine Returns Needle on an acupuncture bronze figure. Proficiency +5] [You used the Nine Returns Needle on an acupuncture bronze figure. Proficiency +3] [You used the Nine Returns Needle on an acupuncture bronze figure. Proficiency +2]
Under the bright lights, Zhao Xing picked up silver needles as fine as hair and worked his art on the bronze figures.
There were twenty-eight bronze figures in the room, made by Song Lin, a Mechanism Master and friend of Zheng Yulin.
Beneath their bronze-colored surfaces lay Precision-Imitation Meridians. Moving Passage Acupoints flowed through those mechanical meridians; if a needle went astray, a red glow would flare around the point where it landed.
"What exquisite bronze figures. I had no idea Elder Zheng knew such a skilled Mechanism Master." Zhao Xing had just finished needling eight figures. As he paused to rest and looked them over, he could not help marveling at them.
There was no doubt these medical devices had been made by an exceptionally skilled Mechanism Master.
From the player forums, he had gathered that they were probably the work of a Dao Soldier Stream Mechanism Master who specialized in medical instruments.
Of the two major Mechanism Master schools, the Divine Luo Flow and the Dao Soldier Stream, the former was common and the latter rare.
Creations of the former were usually immense, built for substance and scale. Some, like the Mechanism Great Wall, were colossal weapons of war.
The Dao Soldier Stream focused instead on the minute, putting its efforts into the microscopic.
"According to Mechanism Master players, the Dao Soldier Stream's 'great walls' can fit beneath a thumbnail. They usually have ways to conceal and disguise them with vital energy, too. When I looked inside a bronze figure through that large opening, all I saw