"You possess such temperament, little friend. Your future achievements will surely know no bounds!"
"For the time being, Xuan Nu Tower cannot arrange for anyone to go to Quicksand Land to assist you."
"However... this treasure may be able to lend you a hand at a critical moment."
Tan Taiqing assessed Su Shi'er. The reaction of the man before her made her regard him even more favorably.
As she spoke, she could not help but offer a word of praise.
Then she continued, raising a hand with a sweep.
The next moment, a dull thud from a heavy object striking the ground made the earth beneath their feet tremble faintly.
Before Su Shi'er stood a clay statue a few inches taller than an ordinary person.
Rather than a clay sculpture, though, it would be more accurate to say that it was entirely a statue formed from piled grains of sand.
The sand statue stood upright. Though it was clearly a dead thing, the grains of sand upon it slowly circulated like flowing water.
The sight gave off an exceedingly strange feeling.
"Hm? This is... a puppet forged entirely from quicksand? No... that is not right. It was forged from Purple Crystal Blazing Sand?"
His gaze swept over it, and Su Shi'er's pupils contracted slightly as he first frowned.
Yet halfway through his words, after a brief pause, his voice abruptly rose.
He had studied the art of puppetry to some extent in his early years, so it was hardly unfamiliar to him.
At first glance, the sand-grain puppet before him appeared quite ordinary. Yet the grains flowed slowly like water, while the puppet itself did not collapse.
That fact alone showed how extraordinary this puppet was.
Not to mention that every grain of sand gave him an extremely unusual feeling.