Nine members of the tree demon squad had already reached the Eighth Rank. Li Shu helped the highest-ranked Seventh Rank tree demon warrior advance to the Eighth Rank, then spent countless Superior Saint Stones to bring all ten Immortal Tree Demon Warriors to its peak. Luo Qian took them to Master Basmo. The master glanced at them and asked in surprise, "What kind of creatures are they?" Luo Qian explained where the warriors had come from, and the master laughed. "That makes things even easier."
Master Basmo's knowledge of Alchemy ran deep, and Luo Qian could not make sense of anything he did. The master smelted more than a hundred metals into a strange substance. Once cooled, it was neither solid nor liquid, but viscous as glue.
The master wrapped all ten warriors in the metal, leaving them looking like strange cocoons. Then he carefully took out the Star Core and released it gently between his hands. It hovered above the Metal Cocoon. Master Basmo shut the laboratory's heavy iron door, putting Luo Qian outside as well. "Three days. It'll take at least three days to see any results."
Luo Qian's heart sank. "You mean you don't know what the result will be?" "Of course not. Even cultivating in seclusion carries some risk, let alone using Alchemy to force an increase in strength." Luo Qian froze. The master had not made that clear before, and now Luo Qian felt as though he had boarded a pirate ship. With the deed already done, all he could ask was, "Master, what do you think their chances are?" "Hard to say... About seventy percent, I'd think." Master Basmo gave him a very "optimistic" estimate.
Luo Qian felt deeply uneasy. He had never thought of the Immortal Tree Demon Warriors as "mechanical warriors." They