Thought Imprints Again

"A clone?"

Tang Ruowei thought for a moment, then reminded her, "Master, don't lose your mind when you see Nascent Soul. Those Puppet will definitely extract the Souls of normal material beings to transform them into their appearance. Even if we use the Creation Art to create a new physical body as an avatar, it still..."

Before she could finish speaking, Bai Qiuran swiftly cast a spell, creating two Blue-skinned People bodies that looked exactly like them, from bones, flesh, internal organs, muscles, blood vessels, skin, and hair. Not only that, Bai Qiuran also casually created two blank Souls within their Spiritual Platform.

"Have you forgotten what your master's identity is?"

Bai Qiuran stretched out her finger and poked at Tang Ruowei's forehead.

"I always tell you to cultivate yourself properly and study more, but you've become lazy since you grew your breasts. It seems you really are all talk and no action."

Tang Ruowei slapped his hand away and snapped, "Being brainless is better than being chestless!"

With just this one sentence, the values of the Princess of the Shangxuan Kingdom were fully revealed.

Intelligence is her everything, but unfortunately, big breasts are her everything.

"Here, the blank Souls has been created."

Bai Qiuran pointed to the two Souls in the Spiritual Platform of their physical bodies, which were devoid of any thought.

"Alright, Ruowei will go with you this time."

Tang Ruowei thought for a moment and was about to use her Thought-Splitting Technique, but Bai Qiuran stopped her.

"Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute."

Bai Qiuran stopped her.

"This is not appropriate, not appropriate at all. I suddenly thought of a possibility. Thought Splitting into it is not a safe method. This thing here may very well have inherited the Thought Imprint Technique of Shuhua. If you rashly split your mind into it, be careful not to get marked and become a weapon of that damned Machine God."

"Ah?"

Tang Ruowei was startled.

"Then what should we do?"

Have you ever studied proper Puppet Arts?

Bai Qiuran said to her, "You haven't learned it? When we lived at Seven Star Peak of the Azure Nether Sword Sect, I put my Puppet Arts on the Study Room in the study. It seems you haven't seen it either... Fine, today I'll give you a tutoring session. Listen carefully—"

Although the Ascension Ceremony was time-limited, Bai Qiuran, who controlled time, was not worried at all. He adjusted the flow of time in the Shadow Dimension and the Material Plane, and then forced Tang Ruowei to learn the Puppet technique.

His fingers extended out threads formed from condensed True Essence, directly penetrating the empty soul within the Spiritual Platform of the physical body. Like a Wooden Puppet, he manipulated the physical body, and then the Blue-skinned People's body truly began to move, walking, sitting, lying down, talking, eating, and even fighting and relieving himself, all with lifelike realism.

"I even deliberately added a wisp of my own thought to create a mental fluctuation, which should be able to evade the Machine God's detection."

Bai Qiuran said to Tang Ruowei, "Watch carefully and learn well."

That wisp of thought used for disguise was definitely not his own, but rather extracted from the Heavenly General Puppet whose Souls he had previously captured and sealed into Spirit Crystal.

Anyway, the Heavenly General Puppet was already in the form of the Machine God back then, so letting the Machine God in again wouldn't be a problem.

The art of Puppet is not difficult. In fact, with Tang Ruowei's aptitude, it would be very easy for her to learn. After she learned to manipulate the Puppet and together with Bai Qiuran manipulated the Puppet bodies to return from the Shadow Dimension to the Material Plane, less than half an hour had passed on the other side.

The Ascension Ceremony is still ongoing, and registration has not yet closed.

Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei manipulated their Puppet bodies to arrive at the registration area.

"Heavenly Gods."

The Puppet he manipulated was incredibly lifelike, and respectfully said to the Puppet in charge of registration, "We both want to register as well."

The Puppet raised its head, its eyes scanning them intently. Finding nothing amiss, it asked, "Name, age."

Bai Qiuran randomly combined two names and ages she had overheard in Serast City and reported them. The mechanical Puppet didn't seem to care much about the information, and didn't verify its authenticity. It simply recorded it and then sent Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei's Puppet bodies to line up.

"I'll go in first."

Upon joining the waiting line, Bai Qiuran turned to Tang Ruowei and instructed, "I'll tell you once I find their review criteria, so you can pass the assessment."

"Knew."

Time passed, and soon it was Bai Qiuran's turn to be Puppet body. When the Puppet announced the name he had lied about in a mechanical voice, Bai Qiuran stepped forward and was led into the metal cylinder by two Puppet.

The hatch closed, Bai Qiuran looked up, discovering numerous Runes related to the Souls engraved inside the metal cylinder.

Not long after he entered, the Runes lit up one by one, and a power surged out, beginning to scan his Sea of Consciousness and Souls.

With a thought, Bai Qiuran transmitted a tiny wisp of Spiritual Sense into the Sea of Consciousness of the Puppet through the ropes that controlled its body.

This Spiritual Sense merged into the Sea of Consciousness within the physical body, instantly strengthening the empty Souls within Sea of Consciousness several times over.

As the force above scanned his Souls, the indicator light on the hatch immediately turned green.

"Congratulations to Equir, the chosen one from the Serast City, for passing the Ascension Ceremony and entering the Machine God Heaven."

A Puppet's mechanical voice reported to the entire plaza.

At the same time, Bai Qiuran's true form, located in the Shadow Dimension, turned to Tang Ruowei and said, "This test mainly examines the strength of the chosen one's Souls. You just need to inject a wisp of your Spiritual Sense into it later."

"Um."

Tang Ruowei nodded and did as instructed, quickly passing the test smoothly.

The two Puppet bodies were taken behind the light screen by the Puppet, and together with the other four, they were placed in a group of six and sent into the life support pod.

The hatch closed, Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei quietly felt their Puppet bodies lose Consciousness under the influence of some kind of hypnotic force, and then gradually lose control of their bodies.

The blank Souls they used as Puppet were extracted from their bodies by a force and then injected into the body of a newly appeared mechanical Puppet.

Fortunately, Bai Qiuran's improved Puppet Arts allowed for the direct manipulation of blank Souls. Therefore, after their blank Souls entered the mechanical Puppet's body, Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei encountered no operational obstacles.

However, after the blank Souls they fabricated entered the artificial spiritual Spiritual Platform of the mechanical Puppet's body, the machine was not awakened immediately. Bai Qiuran sensed that a vast Consciousness had silently arrived here through the pipes within this chamber.

The Runes on the ceiling of the cabin lit up, and a force quietly inscribed several inviolable laws onto the wisp of thought within their blank Souls.

Bai Qiuran calm and discreetly perceived the true nature of this power.

It was a spell created by the Immortal Emperor Shuhua, Thought Imprint called "Chain".