Senior Song, Don't Die!

"It's Blood Pool. People still build things like this? Aren't they afraid of being found out by the monks of the Great Light Reincarnation Temple?" Soft Feather, completely clean, climbed out of the Blood Pool.

Crawling out beside her was Song Shuhang, his body stained red with blood, the two forming a stark contrast.

After climbing Blood Pool, Soft Feather saw Liu Jianyi standing motionless in front of her. "Senior Brother Liu, what are you doing?"

"Hmm." Liu Jianyi slowly turned his head and replied, "Watching Senior White tear people apart."

Song Shuhang: "Huh?"

He quickly stepped forward and looked ahead.

Soon, he saw the 'gentleman' who had seemed so powerful in the Chu Household's basement, now being pinned to the ground by Venerable White. His hands and legs had already been dismantled by Venerable White.

At this moment, Venerable White is dismantling the outer shell of this 'gentleman's' head.

In the blink of an eye, Song Shuhang had dismantled the man's skull.

But what was revealed wasn't a human brain... but rather intricate circuit boards and thin, transparent tubes. Within these tubes, a blue energy liquid flowed slowly—was it true qi?

Is this 'sir' not human?

Although Venerable Spirit Butterfly had torn off the 'gentleman's' two arms in the Chu Household's basement, it was clear at the time that the arms contained mechanical parts. Venerable Spirit Butterfly had guessed that parts of the 'gentleman's' body were puppet devices.

But unexpectedly, this 'gentleman' was actually a mechanical puppet!

"How is this possible? How is this possible!" a shocked voice rang out.

But it was the Mechanized Man himself who was roaring. He saw his current appearance reflected in the Venerable White's pupils. "How did my head become like this! Why is this happening? What did you do to me, you bastard?"

"Calm down, I only disassembled your skull. I didn't do anything else," Venerable White said calmly. "You were just a puppet robot to begin with."

"Impossible! How could I be a robot? I am She Lan, a disciple of the Thousand Hands Sect! I have flesh and blood, fathers and mothers! How could I be a robot!" the man roared, extremely agitated. "I only had my hands and feet modified into puppets due to severe injuries. But how could the rest of my body be entirely mechanical...? What kind of magic did you cast on me? It's an illusion, isn't it? You used an illusion on me, didn't you?"

His 'eyes' were remarkably lifelike, vividly depicting a 'bloodshot' appearance.

Upon hearing this, Venerable White Time Freeze dismantling 'Mr.' He stroked his chin, lost in thought—this guy, he doesn't even know that his body is entirely made of puppet mechanisms?

Song Shuhang walked over to the 'gentleman' and squatted down to examine his body. "Artificial intelligence? A 'robot' that possesses human emotions and believes itself to be human?"

Liu Jianyi Dao Initiation, "For example, there was once a pair of the Ink Sect disciples who couldn't conceive and have children. They meticulously created a 'puppet,' raising it like their own child, secretly giving it a slightly larger body from time to time, allowing it to have its own life experiences, and making it mistakenly believe that it was human."

"No." Venerable White shook his head.

Soft Feather also approached and guessed, "Could that be a magical artifact that has cultivated into a spirit? I've heard that many magical artifacts develop Artifact Spirit. Some high-level Artifact Spirit even possess intelligence, just like cultivators."

"It's not Artifact Spirit either. The structure of Artifact Spirit is completely different from that of a human soul." As he spoke, Venerable White flicked his wrist, and the 'Meteor Sword' at his waist floated up, moving around under his fingers like a pet. At the same time, 'affectionate' thoughts emanated from the Meteor Sword from time to time.

"My Meteor Sword has already begun to take shape as Artifact Spirit. You can sense it for a moment and you'll know that the difference between Artifact Spirit and a human soul is like the difference between ice and fire. They are two completely different things."

Finally, Venerable White guessed, "Perhaps this guy accepted a very extreme method."

"Transforming the human body into a mechanical puppet. Human lifespan is limited, and the body will decay, but after being transformed into a puppet, the body can achieve Longevity. Long ago, a genius of the Ink Sect with the 'Heavenly Mandate Talent' tailored a 'Longevity Method' for himself. Moreover, from a certain perspective, any skilled Ink Sect disciple can achieve this Longevity Method, easily granting themselves a Longevity body." At this moment, Venerable Spirit Butterfly descended from the sky and added.

Venerable White nodded and continued, "As long as you take good care of it and replace the broken parts, the puppet's mechanical body can Longevity. However... a cultivator's soul will still be gradually consumed over time. As far as I know, apart from that 'Heavenly Mandate Talent' genius from the Ink Sect, no one has been able to enter the realm of 'Longevity' using this method."

Song Shuhang nodded and said, "Oh, I know! Human mechanization is mentioned in science fiction movies. In the future, after people mechanize themselves, they will need to maintain their important parts and apply lubricant every day. It's really interesting."

Venerable White said, "Yes, you can understand it that way too."

In just a few words, the two Venerable explained the issue of 'the master's' health.

On the ground, the master... that is She Lan, a disciple of the Thousand Hands Sect, stood motionless, staring blankly.

His body was transformed into a mechanical puppet?

After a long silence, She Lan simply couldn't accept this fact. He roared frantically, "How is this possible? In my entire life, no one has ever modified my body... Impossible, this is impossible!"

"It seems that even his memories from when he was modified have been erased?" Venerable White said. "It looks like we need to dissect it further and examine the memory storage areas; we might find an unexpected surprise."

"No, don't tear it down anymore..." Mr. Shelan cried out in anguish. If this was a nightmare, then please wake him up quickly.

"If Fellow Daoist Bai intends to continue dismantling, could you please remove that glowing object from his body? I am more interested in that object than his puppet-like body," Venerable Spirit Butterfly said. The object buried within She Lan's body was the treasure he used to activate the 'Star Transposition' formation.

"Alright!" Venerable White began to dismantle She Lan's chest, peeling back the outer shell of the armor plate.

Only here can one see the few remaining tissues from 'She Lan's' body. These small pieces of tissue are precisely what, in conjunction with his mechanical body, maintain the location of the cultivator's 'Dantian'. This allows 'She Lan' to retain his 'Fourth-Grade Xiantian' level cultivation even after becoming a puppet.

On its chest is an octagonal crystal, each facet engraved with a miniature world pattern.

The Venerable Spirit Butterfly smiled, "This is it, I sensed the power of space emanating from it."

The Venerable White reached out and grabbed the octagonal crystal...

When the crystal was pulled out, She Lan's struggles suddenly stopped.

"Senior, this guy isn't moving!" Song Shuhang.

"Huh? Could this crystal be one of the energy sources for the mechanical body? Or perhaps a crucial component, something like a switch?" Venerable White handed the octagonal crystal to Venerable Spirit Butterfly.

Venerable Spirit Butterfly accepted the crystal. "Fellow Daoist Bai, you've worked hard... I will share a complete set of materials regarding the research results on this crystal with you later."

"Alright." Venerable White nodded, then prepared to continue dismantling She Lan's body.

At this moment, Song Shuhang cautiously glanced at She Lan's body on the ground. "I feel like stopping like this isn't quite right. In movies, when villainous robot bosses are defeated, don't they self-destruct?"

Boom... Boom... Boom... Boom...

A terrifying explosion suddenly rang out...

However, it wasn't 'She Lan's' body that exploded; rather, it was the imposing Black Dragon Puppet beside it that inexplicably exploded.

After the Black Dragon Puppet exploded, it followed suit, and She Lan's body also exploded.

Fortunately, there were two Venerable nearby. Even though the explosion was sudden, the two Venerable managed to erect a spiritual defense in time.

The power of the explosion was contained.

"It really exploded?" Soft Feather exclaimed in disbelief. Senior Song has a talent for prophecy!

Liu Jianyi: "But it's the Black Dragon Puppet on the side that gets blown up!" He had been paying attention to the Black Dragon Puppet, thinking it was cool and awesome. More importantly, this thing could replace the 'flying sword' to fly in the air.

If he could take this thing with him, he wouldn't even need to Sword Flight anymore. He could just lie on the Black Dragon Puppet and fly all over the world, and be able to laze around happily for a long time. Just thinking about it makes him happy.

But the dream had barely begun when it shattered!

"Huh? Could it be that you, Senior White, dismantled that Puppet Black Dragon?" Song Shuhang blurted out subconsciously.

"Hehe." Venerable White chuckled dryly, his lips twitching.

The aftershocks of the explosion subsided.

Venerable Spirit Butterfly and Venerable White withdrew their defenses.

Ahead, the Black Dragon Puppet had been blown to pieces, with all sorts of parts scattered all over the ground.

Mr. She Lan was also blown to pieces, scattered all over the ground... He looks like he's dead. Even if the founder of the Ink Sect's 'Human Mechanization Longevity Method' came, he wouldn't be able to piece these parts back together to look like Mr. She Lan.

In the void, Mr. She Lan's unwilling and angry roars seemed to still echo.

That was a roar from the depths of his soul; if it weren't purified, it might have turned into a Resentful Ghost or something.

"Turning yourself into a robot is really tough, because you never know when you might suddenly explode," Song Shuhang sighed.

"Yes, it just exploded suddenly." Soft Feather nodded, then turned to look at Song Shuhang. Suddenly, she screamed, "Senior Song, something's wrong! Your soul has left your body! Senior Song, don't die..."

End of update for the second chapter~~~