"Fellow Daoist, you are actually from the Miaoji Sect of the Lingxiang Realm. This Qin has truly been rude. If there is a chance in the future, I hope Fellow Daoist can exchange some insights into mechanism artifacts with me."
Shock and goodwill flashed through Qin Fengming's eyes. He clasped his fists toward the young cultivator and spoke courteously.
Qin Fengming knew a little about the Miaoji Sect. He knew that this ancient sect, which had established itself through the manufacture of mechanism artifacts, was far from simple.
Mechanism artifacts were a branch of formations and puppets, but they were completely different from formation techniques and puppet crafting.
Formations were built on profound rune arts and incantations, which were combined to form an area that manifested a certain might. Puppets, meanwhile, were refined from suitable materials into various forms using rune arts and incantations. By sealing a soul essence inside them, the sealed rune arts and incantations could be driven to perform precise movements and attacks.
Mechanism artifacts, however, were not in this state. They were divided into mechanism traps and mechanism puppets.
A mechanism trap was a marvelous device arranged in an area using specially refined objects. Once a cultivator entered its range, it would trigger the mechanism and suffer some kind of attack.
Although mechanism puppets were generally similar to refined puppets, with rune arts and incantations sealed onto bodies refined into various shapes so they could unleash powerful attacks, they differed from ordinary puppets in that they had no soul essence sealed within them and did not require a cultivator's divine sense to control them.
Once a cultivator triggered one, the mechanism puppet would automatically lock onto the person who had activated it and launch a fearless, all-out attack until one side was defeated or its own