Mechanical Rune, True Martial Emperor Lord

A cultivator's growth in strength could not be separated from personal effort, nor could it be separated from fortuitous encounters and creation.

For Su Qing, it had not actually been long since he advanced to become a Tier 5 Puppet Master. The Fifth-tier Puppets he had refined—the North Sea Giant Kun, Peng Tian Jia Peng, and the like—had barely had a chance to show their worth before they now faced the fate of modification, upgrading, or elimination.

The reason he had been able to advance from a Tier 5 Puppet Master to a Tier 6 Puppet Master in such a short time—

Was because of his struggle with the Samsara Demon.

The countless Divine Soldier Masters of the Jingshen Realm were Puppeteers under the definition used in the manifested Heavens. Because of the Divine Soldier Manual he had sent Bear Two and Tiger Egg to bring them, they had embarked upon the path of Puppeteers.

Perhaps, at the beginning, they had merely been elementary schoolchildren learning to walk, able only to follow diagrams and refine according to the Puppet Blueprints in his Divine Soldier Manual. At most, they would combine the resources and needs of their own realm during the process to make localized alterations.

But two or three hundred years had passed. Pressured by the Samsara Demon's threat to the living beings of this realm, and blessed with their unique natural gifts—their bodies and souls restricted, yet their spiritual senses and thoughts soaring, making them natural seeds of Puppeteers—countless Puppeteers collided in thought, exchanged spiritual senses, and continuously put their ideas into practice for verification.

This allowed the many Divine Soldier Puppets refined by the Puppeteers of this realm to broaden Su Qing's horizons and bring him great gains as well.

For instance, after some Puppet Masters—namely, the Divine