As everyone had expected, Li Chen's elevation to Grandmaster was richly deserved, as natural as water flowing into a channel. All the Grandmaster Artisans had approved it, and the Grand Artisans from every quarter, along with the middle- and lower-ranking Puppet Masters, had readily accepted it.
Li Chen had already made something of a name for himself during his stay in Guangyun. Later, he had earned merit by helping Golden Light City defend the Vast Sea and helped Heavenly Will attain the Dao, becoming the guardian deity of the Puppet Dao Faction. Then, through the online marketplace and the many methods of cultivation industrialization, he had brought about changes in political systems, the economy, and all manner of technological innovation.
It could be said that Li Chen was now not merely the leader of his own Materialized Heaven, but also the spokesman for the industrialist bloc and the reformists among the Puppet Masters.
A great many people under his command depended on him for their livelihood, while a great many allies around him relied on his leadership to cooperate and stride toward the future.
As the old saying went, one who refined an artifact was an artisan, one who mastered an art was a master, and only one who established a Dao could be a grandmaster. What Li Chen had established was the Dao path of new Puppet Masters and a new age. There was nothing inflated about his title of Grandmaster.
After Li Chen was announced as the new Grandmaster, the Puppet Masters immediately received tragic news: the venerable True Person Miaobao, a hero in the hearts of countless rogue cultivators, had passed away peacefully at the end of his natural lifespan.
Among the previous generation of Puppet Masters, he had been the only one born in the underworld