"Old Hou, do you still remember when we traveled together back then..."
Li Chen's head remained outside, but his divine sense kept watch over the movements within the Magic Cube Maze.
Yet he also understood that the real Old Hou was dead. What stood before him now was nothing more than a walking corpse.
Xiao Die and Xiao Ying, whom he had sent over, were likewise not the Wind-and-Dust Sisters of old. They were both Three-Star Battle Puppets, Sword Guard Girls Li Chen had fashioned in their likeness.
Xiao Die drew two slender blades, while Xiao Ying held a Miao Saber. From left and right, they swiftly charged at Old Hou, who stood in the room.
Clang, clang, clang!
The clash of metal rang out without pause, as dense as rain beating against banana leaves.
Old Hou had once been a Qi Refining rogue cultivator, utterly mediocre, with nothing remarkable about him. But after the Grand Artisan sent his subordinates to dig him up and refine him into a human puppet, he had been reborn in flesh and bone.
The man outside had not lied. Old Hou had indeed become a Four-Star Corpse Puppet. Even the Puppet Sisters' fierce attacks could only leave shallow marks on his body.
It was truly hard to believe.
Li Chen knew full well that Xiao Die's and Xiao Ying's weapons were sharp battle blades forged from blood mystic gold. Of all the materials he currently possessed, it offered the best overall performance. Reinforced with spirit essence, those blades could be called unstoppable.
Only weapons like these could injure other Combat Puppet chassis likewise cast from metal and inflict truly effective damage.
Old Hou clearly had a body of flesh and blood, yet somehow Grand Artisan Zuo had refined it to such formidable strength that