Su Qing shook his head with a laugh and pulled Qing He off himself. She had been rubbing herself all over him, like a kitten currying favor with its owner, or a puppy hoping for a free meal—anything but human.
Looking again at the little shop, whose puppet stock was nearly sold out, he felt somewhat dazed as well.
Having forged puppets nonstop for a month was truly far too long for him.
After buying all the materials from the Hundred Treasures Pavilion,
he had immediately begun working on the Viper Dragon Bone.
His original plan had been to forge it into an Exorcism Type armor puppet.
Using the Viper Dragon Bone together with the Viper Dragon pill, he would make it capable of releasing dragon might, just like a true dragon.
Using Heavenly Spirit Gold mixed with Flood Dragon Powder, he would shape its flesh, scales, and claws, granting it physical strength no different from when it had been alive.
Then, using a Tier 3 Exorcism Rune to guide the purple calamity lightning within it, it could spit out Exorcism Purple Lightning, specially effective against Demonic and Heretical Paths.
Once successfully forged, he had expected this puppet to become the strongest under his command, even several degrees more formidable than Five-Star General Bear.
Unfortunately, heaven did not fulfill man's wishes, and puppet forging was always prone to mishaps.
The very first step in forging this puppet—sending the dragon pill into the dragon bone—had gone wrong.
A dragon race dragon pill differed from an ordinary demon pill.
Not only did it contain part of the dragon race's inheritance, but it also retained remnants of the dragon race's instinctual consciousness.
To make it his own, he first had to erase the lingering instinctual consciousness within it.
To erase that dragon race