Alchemical Puppet

"Talking bad about me behind my back? Jue, it seemed you needed another lesson." A voice that should have sounded somewhat angry rang out behind Jue.

Yet for some reason, by the end, it always carried a trace of indulgence.

Hearing the voice behind them, both Jue and Skadi froze, then turned around.

A familiar figure stood not far away, watching them with great interest.

The moment Skadi saw that figure, she immediately bowed and said with utmost respect, "Mother Goddess."

"Ah, Skadi, there is no need to be so restrained every time you see me." The one who had appeared behind the two of them was Cheng Jue.

At the sound of Cheng Jue's voice, Jue shuddered. Her legs, which had been wrapped around Skadi's slender waist, immediately loosened.

Seeing the person behind her, she blushed with embarrassment and stammered, "Sister."

"Ah, how many times must I say it? Call me Elder Brother." Cheng Jue emphasized it again, though who knew for the how-many-th time.

"But Sister, on the internet from those other worlds you showed me, girls are clearly called sisters, while boys are called brothers." Jue looked at Cheng Jue innocently.

Fine. Had I known, I would never have let you look at all that strange nonsense. Cheng Jue thought.

Unable to argue with her own creation, Cheng Jue could only fly into a rage out of humiliation. "Do you not know that, as a Primordial Divine Saint, gender is an utterly insignificant matter to me?"

Jue innocently spread her hands. "But wasn't it Sister who chose to take the form of a girl?"

Cheng Jue's expression stiffened. She could only change the subject and say to Skadi, "Skadi, return to the camp first. Keep an eye on those night owls, and do not let them stir up anything strange."

"Yes, Mother Goddess." After respectfully accepting the order, Skadi silently retreated into the forest and disappeared.

Seeing that there was no longer a third person nearby, Cheng Jue turned a "friendly" gaze upon Jue.

When Jue saw that terrifying look in Sister's eyes, she instantly shrank her neck and did not dare make a sound.

Seeing Jue frightened like this, Cheng Jue's expression softened, and she asked gently:

"Jue, how did it feel today, being assigned to the Traveler's side?"

Jue, who was the Traveler—the player 'Dun Qu Qi Yi'—heard Cheng Jue's question and scratched at her ears and cheeks, her brows tightly furrowed as she struggled to recall how the day had felt.

Jue sighed. Feeling nothing in particular, she could only tell the truth. "Being with them today felt very fun. Very happy."

Seeing her troubled expression, Cheng Jue sighed helplessly. She did not even know how many times she had sighed whenever she spoke with Jue.

Cheng Jue revealed the opportunity to enter the early stage of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm. An Auspicious Cloud rose above her head, and from within it, a mysterious yellow jade disc fell into Cheng Jue's hand.

It was precisely the Human Dao Jade Disc.

Cheng Jue flicked the jade disc in her hand, and the Human Dao Jade Disc transformed into an ancient jade key.

Seeing the jade key in Cheng Jue's hand, Jue's face could not help turning bitter. Extremely unwilling, she walked over to Cheng Jue.

She turned around with her back to Cheng Jue and lifted her beautiful hair, silver-white beneath the moonlight.

Under the moonlight, Jue revealed her snow-white neck and the exquisite lock clasp at the back of it.

Cheng Jue inserted the Human Dao Jade Disc, transformed into a jade key, into the keyhole behind Jue's neck and turned it several times, as though she had done this countless times before.

If one listened carefully, one could hear sounds like mechanical gears clicking.

As the mechanical sounds rang out, fine lines appeared across Jue's skin. Upon close inspection, one would discover that her entire body seemed to be assembled from all manner of components.

When the mechanical sounds stopped, a platform extended from Jue's back. Upon it rested a magnificent crystal radiating the brilliance of Humanity Dao.

This was Jue's consciousness core. This was the real Jue. Just as Cheng Jue was about to inspect her consciousness core—

Jue asked somewhat awkwardly, "Sister, could you let me fall asleep before inspecting me next time?"

"What, Jue? Are you unhappy?" Cheng Jue paused in the middle of her next movement.

"No, no, it is not that." Jue hurriedly waved her hands. Looking at her arm, now covered in countless seams between its components, she said bitterly, "Sister, Jue feels so ugly like this."

Cheng Jue raised her head and looked at Jue. Though Jue had not turned around, Cheng Jue, who had watched her grow up, immediately pictured Jue's little face scrunched up in misery.

"Even now, are these little matters of appearance all you care about? Jue, you are already an independent life, yet you still trust me so much."

"Hehe, what are you saying, Sister? Jue is your first family member. Jue trusts Sister the most." Jue planted her hands on her hips and proudly tried to turn around, only for Cheng Jue to press a palm onto her head, leaving her unable to move.

"Fine, Jue. Today will be the last time Sister does this for you. From now on, you must understand the condition of your own body yourself," Cheng Jue said after some thought.

"Is that so? Sister—" Before Jue could finish, Cheng Jue removed the crystal.

At that instant, Jue, who had been brimming with energy, immediately went limp. She muttered weakly, "That feeling again."

Her consciousness sank into darkness.

Cheng Jue, having removed the crystal, carefully observed the Dao resonance it unconsciously emitted.

"So that is how it is. The connection between the two worlds has also brought different civilizations with it. Though it is very faint, if this continues, there will be a chance to complete the laws missing from the Primordial World."

Just as Cheng Jue was observing the crystal, the Human Dao Jade Disc, which had transformed into a jade key, suddenly shook and returned to its original jade-disc form.

Turning into a streak of mysterious yellow light, it pounced toward the crystal Cheng Jue was examining, as though that crystal were also part of the jade disc.

Cheng Jue was not the least bit surprised by this. It was not the first time this had happened. With practiced ease, Cheng Jue opened the Auspicious Cloud and stored the Human Dao Jade Disc back inside it.

Without the jade disc's interference, Cheng Jue could examine Jue's changes more carefully.

"Now that she has the ability to obtain the laws of other civilizations and feed them back to heaven and earth, the body I designed at the beginning is no longer quite suitable."

As she spoke, Cheng Jue beckoned with one hand, and a branch snapped off from the distant crown of the World Tree.

The branch twisted in Cheng Jue's hands and transformed into an emerald-green spine, engraved with Cheng Jue's comprehension of laws and the Great Dao.

The spine containing Cheng Jue's comprehension was installed with remarkable ease, without even the slightest sense of rejection. Naturally, Jue's entire body had been crafted from branches of the World Tree.

If she could grow according to Cheng Jue's expectations, Jue would one day become a wondrous being like the World Tree.

Once everything had been inspected, Cheng Jue patted Jue's little head. "All right, wake up."

"Mmm, Sister, are you done already?" Jue rubbed her eyes and asked dazedly, as though she had merely just awakened.

"Yes. This is the last time. From now on, Jue, you must inspect yourself. This time, I also added my comprehension of the Great Dao. In the future, you will cultivate like the Traveler, without any bottlenecks."

But after hearing Cheng Jue's explanation, Jue became somewhat downcast.

"What is wrong?" Cheng Jue asked in confusion.

"Sister, since I already have a road for the future, what about Big Brother Albedo?" Jue remembered that before Sister had created her, there had been another Alchemical Puppet. "I wonder how Big Brother Albedo has been lately."

Cheng Jue flicked her forehead.

Jue cried out in pain, clutching her little head where a red bump had risen, and looked at Sister with a wronged expression.

"You still have the leisure to worry about Albedo? He found his own path long ago."

Jade Capital Mountain, Hongjun Patriarch's Dao field before he attained the Dao.

Two figures sat atop a stone platform, one old and one young.

"What an exquisite idea. If there is an opportunity someday, I must properly seek guidance from this little friend's master." The old man let out a hearty laugh.

Looking at the young man, he asked in puzzlement, "Little friend Albedo, ever since just now, you seem somewhat absent-minded."

The youth opposite him respectfully bowed to the old man and replied, "Senior Hongjun, earlier, this junior felt someone calling for me. I do not know whether it was my master."

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