Puppet Masters had fought many battles against the cultivators of the Other Continent and had long since captured numerous sword techniques. Naturally, they had thoroughly studied something as basic as the Twenty Forms of Mortal Swordsmanship.
The Puppet Masters had adapted it into a universal foundation of swordsmanship with the distinctive flavor of the Eastern Victory Continent. In particular, the eight forms-blocking, thrusting, drawing, flicking, twisting, cleaving, slashing, and slicing-had been widely incorporated into ordinary moves used by various Combat Puppets, including Wooden Soldiers, Armored Warriors, and Keen Warriors.
This also reflected the ideal of automation that Puppet Masters strove for. After all, it was inconvenient to keep one's divine sense immersed in a puppet and control every detail. They could only trigger mechanisms through precompiled instructions and have them execute the movements.
Cultivators of the Other Continent often criticized this, dismissing it as clumsy imitation, but Li Chen knew it had advantages of its own.
A Wooden Soldier or Armored Warrior might have crude swordsmanship that could not compare with a true master, but mastering these sword techniques required only the brief moment needed to load the programmed restrictions.
Sword masters trained through summer heat and winter cold from early childhood. Even those blessed with outstanding talent and comprehension needed years to succeed. Who could truly know the hardships involved?
The steel spider legs now appearing before You An were equivalent to a low-level Sword Cultivator with a certain foundation in swordsmanship.
Unlike an ordinary Sword Cultivator, however, this one could almost be considered bodiless. The steel legs themselves were its only physical form.
Each of the three segments of a steel leg measured over three feet, giving it a total length of more than ten feet. Its attack range and angles were far superior, and it lacked vulnerabilities