Several months passed before anyone knew it.
At Broad Cloud Peak, a low-key military review was underway on an open stretch of the northern outskirts, outside the Market District and beside the river.
Li Chen had not invited fellow cultivators far and wide. Only a few allies within Guangyun had come to watch. As he watched Sword Crane Battle Puppets sweep across the Drill Ground at high speed, he was filled with emotion.
These Sword Crane Battle Puppets were roughly seven feet long. After maneuvering at high speed, they landed in perfect unison, resembling swordsmen draped in cloaks, though each had a crane's head and long beak that gleamed with a metallic sheen in the sunlight.
They walked upright, stepping like immortal cranes, their movements graceful and nimble as they displayed their distinctive majesty to the fullest.
This was another newly formed Puppet Legion under Li Chen, joining the Maiden Automaton Guard Legion, the Kun Blood Warrior First Legion, the Second Legion, the Inkstone Continent Insect Race Legion, the Chess Mountain Insect Race Legion, the Chess Mountain Mercenary Legion, the Guangyun Ward City Guard Army, the Heavenly Dragon Ward City Guard Army, the Shaman Folk Field Army, and his many other legions. It was called the Sword Crane Battle Puppet Legion.
As its name suggested, this was a Puppet Legion whose main force consisted of Sword Crane Battle Puppets. Its defining feature was its commitment to intelligence and automation, with artificial intelligence controlling it directly.
But its greatest difference from other units that mixed humans and machines was that most of this legion had been refined with the aid of mortals' modern industrial methods.
Through ingenious design, Li Chen had already replaced the spirit materials originally used with large quantities of mundane materials produced in Chess Mountain.
Although Cultivation Mortalization