Li Chen remained unaffected by You An, for his mind was already immersed in the work before him.
The skin worn by this wooden puppet in the likeness of the young girl Xiao Ying was his finest masterpiece, created by combining divine abilities and spells with the arts of disguise. It perfectly embodied his current attainments in Shape-Stealing Skin-Painting.
However, he could scarcely improve it any further at this point. Tidying her up was merely a way to practice mundane grooming and dressing techniques.
After working for a while, Li Chen released the seven corpse concubines from the Spatial Storage Compartment.
Watching the seven corpse concubines, ranging in age from roughly ten to thirty or forty and each differing in bearing and appearance, open their eyes one after another as though waking from sleep and stand there blankly, Li Chen shook his head and began feeding them Corpse-Nourishing Pills.
These were essential for keeping their bodies from decaying, and even allowing them to grow.
A single Corpse-Nourishing Pill cost over ten thousand talisman coins on the market. Fortunately, he had obtained quite a few from Zuo Hao; otherwise, he truly could not have afforded to keep them.
While feeding the corpse concubines, however, Li Chen discovered that six of them could already draw in Heaven and Earth Vital Energy on their own to nourish their yin baleful intent.
This was the stage of drawing energy into the body. Corpse concubines that reached this point were already finished spirit materials suitable for making human puppets. In fact, they could remain free of decay even without further Corpse-Nourishing Pills.
"By the look of it, only one fell victim to foul hands in recent years."
She was a young woman in the full bloom of her twenties. Li Chen stood silently before her