Several days later, a thousand miles east of Mistywood Town, You An rode the Mechanism Beast Flower Leopard onward, keeping watch as he went.
Li Chen had the Water Spider lock onto him and followed behind at an unhurried pace.
This was a lush sea of forest seldom visited by humans. As far as the eye could see, towering trees stretched without end.
With spiritual energy pooling here, the clearings among the trees were far more open and clean than in the dense forests they had traversed over the previous few days. Li Chen could finally devote more attention to dealing with the aftermath.
A few days earlier, he had inspected his losses and discovered that two of the Water Spider's steel legs had been hacked clean off. Several others were also covered in damage and needed repairing as soon as possible.
Along the way, he had worked on these matters whenever he was not traveling, and he could not help feeling a pang.
"This isn't fighting a battle at all-it's burning money!"
"Luckily, with the loot from the Heavy Armored Warrior and Sickle Demon, I haven't come out at a loss."
"Those local snakes were carrying dozens of Thunderfire Thunderclaps, and even five Divine Fire Flying Crows made using Bing Fire Blaze Thunder. Perhaps I can put those to use too!"
Li Chen held a detached section of steel leg in his hand, white light gathering in his palm. Refined by his magic power, metal-aspected spiritual energy seeped into it like pigment. Before long, the damage on the steel leg gradually closed, leaving it whole and unblemished.
This was his ability as a Puppet Master to "build a cart behind closed doors." With his own strength alone, he could perform the work of a repair workshop.
After repairing the