Puppet Yama and True Lord Longyuan

On the appointed date, Shen Mo put away the Soul Refining Banner and returned to Jade Spring Mountain from the Blood Serpent Ridge outpost via the grand teleportation array.

Not long after meeting up with the silver-haired boy, a tall, ferocious humanoid puppet descended at the gate of the Subduing Dragon Immortal Sect, its enormous iron wings beating as it rode a gale of spiritual force.

This puppet stood a full four men tall, and the iron wings on its back were a treasure it used for flight;

Its entire body had been forged from rare spiritual materials, its surface gleaming with the sheen of gold and iron and covered in intricate, mysterious runes. Altogether, it looked exactly like a giant clad in heavy armor!

"Fellow Daoist Qingyun, this is Puppet Yama, the fifth-tier puppet of Qin Zhen, Sect Master of the Thousand Mechanisms Sect. You may treat it as Fellow Daoist Qin himself." With his hands clasped behind his back, the silver-haired boy acted as intermediary and briefly introduced the two to each other.

Over the years Shen Mo had spent at Jade Spring Mountain, he had gained some understanding of the large and small factions upon the mountain.

The Thousand Mechanisms Sect's mountain gate lay amid the clouds halfway up the western slope of Jade Spring Mountain. It was likewise an ancient sect with a heritage spanning several thousand years, most skilled in refining and controlling puppets.

However, ever since all the older Divine Bridge Realm cultivators within the sect had perished more than a thousand years ago, the Thousand Mechanisms Sect had begun to decline;

Until four hundred years ago, when a supremely gifted disciple burst onto the scene. With Origin Core Realm cultivation, he flawlessly controlled several fifth-tier puppets passed down by his forebears, allowing them