Once the ring-shaped jade pendant's Intelligent Chip was complete, Li Chen performed the Puppet Dao's traditional consecration art-Capture Shadows, Refine Souls!
He plucked at his own shadow with an empty hand. His divine soul was formless, but a portion of the spirituality responsible for logical computation and rational thought was copied out, then gathered in his palm like eerie ghost fire.
The earth soul wavered like a shadow, but it did not linger in Li Chen's hand for long before he stuffed it into the Thunder Prison Sword.
Lin Yue's soul gave a muffled grunt and immediately manifested.
"Awaken Spirituality!"
Li Chen extended his index and middle fingers and touched her forehead.
Powerful magic power condensed into primordial spirit energy, almost as tangible as a true spirit, and filled her soul.
The sword spirit, long trapped in an incomplete state, was like parched land meeting sweet rain after a drought. A little more vitality inexplicably appeared within her.
Li Chen was consuming his own life vital energy and mental strength to reconstruct her spirit body, much as repairing a damaged fleshly puppet required treasured materials.
Yet Lin Yue's soul still stared coldly at Li Chen, like a low-level female ghost without consciousness.
Only when Li Chen condensed his magic power, seized her, and carried her aside like an eagle snatching a chick did her expression change. She began struggling uneasily.
Li Chen shoved her head straight into the ring-shaped jade pendant, forcing her inside as though pressing down a flame.
Her sizable human silhouette turned into spiritual light and was squeezed entirely inside.
As the jade pendant flickered with a deep blue glow and a life-like aura emerged upon it, Li Chen quickly activated the mechanism before him. On a long bench resembling an operating table, an artificial body sealed