At the end of September, Li Chen was completing the final assembly in the underground workshop.
Dense Restrictions, like dark-gold cloud patterns, covered the muzzle of the long, tubular Thunder Dragon Cannon. Its outer, nestlike casing was none other than the Keen Warrior Puppet's right arm.
When he reconnected the arm and mounted it back onto the main body, it was noticeably thicker than the left, like the arm of a qilin.
Off to one side, the dark-red Spirit Pump, resembling a real heart, still rested quietly on the table.
Li Chen walked over, took it in his hand, and placed it inside the open chest cavity.
Click...
The pipes connected, the flexible components clamped tight, and the interfaces fitted together without a gap, locking securely into place.
"Gurgle..."
With a sound like a torrent of liquid rushing past, Spirit Mercury surged in, filling the interior and beginning to flow.
Li Chen had already installed the reforged main body of the Spirit Essence Furnace. After stepping away from the table, he commanded the chest armor to close, waited for the self-check to finish, and began powering it up.
The Auxiliary Brain's synthesized voice sounded in his mind.
"New hardware detected. Model identified: Tiger-Force Furnace, custom modification..."
"Mechanism Device serial number: zero zero two three zero nine three zero zero one..."
"Entering data..."
"Data entry complete..."
Within Li Chen's perception, densely packed points of light lit up across the furnace cylinder's surface, forming the tiger-head emblem he had deliberately crafted. Before long, a lifelike phantom enveloped the entire furnace, as though a roaring demon tiger were flaunting its might inside his body.
As the spiritual pressure rose, Spirit Mercury began circulating through the eight main meridian channels inside the Keen Warrior Chassis. Vast quantities of Spirit Essence filled them, forming flowing