The puppet battle dolls were impossible to kill completely...
After Mountain-Bearing True Person, Qi the Old Freak, and Heavenly Fortune Hall's Supreme Elder, Zhang Tie became the fourth person to pierce a puppet battle doll's chest with the Abyss War Spear and blast it into metal fragments and parts scattered across the ground.
Zhang Tie had thought that would be the end of it. Who would have known that less than half a minute after the fragments and parts fell to the floor, they began moving on their own, automatically reassembling themselves until they slowly took the shape of a puppet battle doll again.
Seeing this, Zhang Tie recalled one of his favorite games as a child—taking a shoebox, tossing nails, screws, and similar things into it, then slowly moving a magnet along the bottom of the box. The nails and screws inside would start moving by themselves and gather into a clump...
Before he was five, Zhang Tie had never tired of that game. But now, seeing the scattered metal components on the ground seemingly controlled by some enormous magnet beneath the floor, reassembling and gathering themselves again, his scalp went numb. At last, he understood why Mountain-Bearing True Person needed a team to explore this temple ruin with him.
Puppet battle dolls possessed close-combat strength comparable to quasi-knights. They could be destroyed and smashed apart, but that was only true of the puppet battle doll as a whole. The tiniest components that made up the dolls could not be destroyed—not even by an Earth Knight's attacks.
A knight of flesh and blood could be killed, but those parts would merely be scattered temporarily. In less than ten minutes, they would gather together again and rejoin the battle.
This was not a battle against puppet battle dolls. It was