Hua Yongshan did not play hard to get. He readily chose to join.
Through this battle, not only had Li Chen witnessed Hua Yongshan's abilities, but Hua Yongshan had also gained a deeper understanding of Li Chen.
Having undergone puppet conversion, Li Chen had now demonstrated the potential to advance to Grand Artisan. The strength he had displayed earlier was clear proof.
As a Puppet Master, his great host of Warrior Constructs and the thriving Broad Cloud Ward were valued all the more. Even failing to win this contest would not have proved much.
For many Puppet Masters, their true strength lay in the Puppets under their command, and even more so in the forces they controlled. They were fundamentally different from those of the Outer Dao, who sought to gather all the mighty power of divine abilities within themselves.
"Once you join my service, sir, your main task will be compiling texts related to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Array. We have the comprehensive array manual, the Book of the Nine Xuanmen Arrays, as well as the array language I created myself, the Rune Script Dao. You may use both as references."
Li Chen assigned his main duties on the spot: preparing new troops for him and organizing them into structured units.
Within that work, the primary focus would be developing intelligent programs to control Puppets.
Qimen Dunjia was vast and profound. Applying it to his Puppet Legion would be no easy matter.
Li Chen was unwilling to devote time and energy specifically to studying it. The best approach, of course, was to have the artificial intelligence under his command handle the scheduling.
Artificial intelligence was not omnipotent. Although the nature of its algorithms gave it a certain capacity to learn, this learning was not true intelligence, merely