Ye Wudao spoke, then froze. He could feel that his voice seemed to have changed.
He opened his eyes, and a blinding light stabbed into them, making him feel uncomfortable. He squinted for a long time before he could open them fully.
The first thing he saw was an unfamiliar face.
Xuankai looked at Ye Wudao and asked softly, "How are you feeling?"
Ye Wudao lowered his head and glanced at his body. Xuankai had shown some decency, at least giving him a piece of cloth to cover himself.
He looked at his arm and frowned. "This body of mine doesn't seem to have been refined from heavenly treasures!"
"Why does it feel a little like a mechanical body?"
Xuankai raised an eyebrow at that.
He hadn't expected Ye Wudao to see through the nature of his body at a glance.
He said quietly, "Your physical body was completely destroyed. There was no way to transfer your consciousness over using the usual method of refining a body."
"So I fused your original body into this puppet."
"That was the only way to stabilize your Sea of Consciousness inside this body."
"This body was actually created by refining your flesh with artifact materials."
"So it contains everything your original body had, but its true form is a puppet. In a sense, it's an artifact."
Ye Wudao nodded. "A Flesh Puppet?"
Xuankai nodded. "That's right!"
He was actually a little surprised. Ye Wudao seemed to know a great deal about the Way of Puppetry.
And Ye Wudao's next words left him dumbfounded.
Ye Wudao looked over his body, then raised his right hand for a glance. "But this Flesh Puppet seems to have flaws!"
"A true Flesh Puppet is a real physical body, just reinforced by adding some top-grade artifact materials to