Li Chen had just severed the Three-Excellence Heavenly Treasure Centipede's heads when Qi Maigu's voice came over the communication channel. "Fellow Daoist Li, has the battle been decided?"
"You really caught a big one this time. I've long heard of these modified corpse puppets. Hurry and bring it back so we can study it together."
He had watched the entire battle through the surveillance magic array, but had not come out because he knew Li Chen could easily handle an enemy of this caliber.
And if Yuan Keshan was bent on escaping, his presence or absence would make no difference to the overall outcome.
Besides, Qi Maigu had little interest in fighting. He was a true Puppet Master; what genuinely interested him was the Three-Excellence Heavenly Treasure Centipede Li Chen had killed.
Such a creature was a masterpiece of someone else's biological modification and had considerable research value. Perhaps they could salvage some precious materials from it, or learn the other party's modification principles and related techniques.
Li Chen answered, "All right."
He summoned the Worker Bee Puppets to carry the rigid corpse of the Heavenly Treasure Centipede back, while disposing of its three heads on the spot by smashing them outright.
Creatures like this had brains that had long since rotted away. They moved entirely through an Artificial Core stimulating their biological instincts, and thus needed someone to control them.
But if left alone, there was still the fear that, like a hundred-legged insect that refused to lie still even in death, it might suddenly lash out and hurt someone for no reason.
Li Chen did not return himself. He simply reattached his head to his Puppet Chassis and gently stroked the damaged areas in silence, refining the refined gold with magic power to fuse and mend it.
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