The Tale of Yan Shi recorded that Yan Shi was an ancient Divine Artisan Creator who once fashioned a Mechanism Automaton to perform as an entertainer. Its steps, bows, and every movement were so ingenious that they seemed real. This referred to how Ancestral Yan Shi, the founder of the Puppet Dao, had once created an exquisitely lifelike Mechanism Automaton, thereby opening a Dao Path.
The modern Puppet Dao began with Melt Gold, Temper Bone, and its ten great Creation-Promotion Secret Arts all arose from the empirical certification of that creation. She was Yan Shi's masterpiece, the fruit of his lifelong devotion to the Dao, and one of the Creation Sect's ultimate creations-Dancing Maiden!
Dancing Maiden is still alive? That was the first thought that surfaced in Li Chen's mind. Doesn't that mean she's truly attained everlasting life and immortality?
Dancing Maiden stood there calmly and replied in an even voice, "Very well."
Li Chen privately asked through voice transmission, "Great Elder Shen, how should I interact with her? And what should I call her?"
Great Elder Shen looked at Li Chen and transmitted back, "Whatever feels natural. Just call her Dancing Maiden. That is her actual name."
Li Chen asked curiously, "Did the ancestral master attain longevity through this and survive to this day as well?"
Great Elder Shen said, "You're overthinking it. Creating life is taboo. Even an occasional success is already a stroke of Heaven-granted fortune. How could anyone swim against the tide of the ages? The ancestral master exhausted every means to live for eighteen thousand years, making him one of the few long-lived figures since the Final Tribulation. In ancient times, that would have been enough to prove his attainment of longevity. Sadly, he was born in the wrong age."
Li Chen said, "Born in