Puppets—no matter what kind—were not rare in the Cultivation World, and there were plenty of methods for refining puppets with intelligence. However, very few refining methods could truly give a puppet complete intelligence.
A puppet with complete intelligence was already no different from a cultivator.
Of course, ancient records also contained refining methods for puppets comparable to those with complete intelligence, such as Spirit Corpse Puppets and Spirit Puppet bodies. All of them were methods for refining puppets with extremely high intelligence.
However, those puppets were all refined using corpses as their bodies, and the souls required during refinement were intelligent souls. They were entirely different from the refinement of ordinary puppets, which did not require erasing the soul's own intelligence.
It could be said that those puppets—if they could still be called puppets—were already no different from cultivators. Their only distinction was that the puppets possessed a soul connection with their masters that was exceptionally close, far beyond what ordinary puppets could compare with, and completely unbreakable.
Yet now, the agility displayed by the skeletons Zhong Miao had released with a wave of his hand gave Huntian the impression that they possessed extremely high intelligence.
Faced with such a scene, not only Huntian, but also Hua Huanfei and Ying Yi, had their expressions change. Their gazes froze, and they found it difficult to believe what they were seeing.
Hua Huanfei was familiar with Zhong Miao and naturally knew what his skeleton puppets were. Yet now, these skeletons seemed to have been reborn, transformed into something entirely different.
"After being refined anew using Fellow Daoist Qin's method, Zhong's skeletons possess far greater intelligence than before. They are fully capable of cultivating complicated talismanic patterns and incantations, and of completing this spellcasting."
Brilliant light flickered ceaselessly in Zhong Miao's eyes. His