To Ye Han, these Metal Puppets were truly powerful. He had no idea what materials they were made from, but their defenses were astonishing, and they could attack and defend on their own as though they possessed intelligence...
If he could command such powerful puppets himself, they would be an enormous help.
Unfortunately, although he had seized some puppet-refining methods, they were all for making rather lackluster puppets with little intelligence that required divine sense to control.
The only relatively powerful method he had seized was the puppet art belonging to the sinister cultivator who had pursued Wang Lan and the others. Yet it involved refining cultivators' corpses and controlling them as puppets. The methods were gruesome and cruel, and Ye Han had little interest in them...
Of course, the main reason was that, although these skeletal puppets and zombie puppets had decent combat strength, they were not particularly cost-effective. Otherwise, Ye Han could have considered them.
However, after Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan entered this area, the Metal Puppets actually stopped pursuing them. This put Ye Han on his guard. Who knew what dangers awaited them farther ahead?
At that moment, Zhang Qingshan stopped, turned to Ye Han, and said, "Junior Brother Ye, now that we've entered this area, fortune and danger are evenly balanced. I've found that the danger grows greater if I lead, but the auspicious signs increase if you lead."
Hearing this, Ye Han recalled that he had already witnessed Zhang Qingshan's means of seeking fortune and avoiding calamity. They were indeed highly effective.
But to think it would be safer with me in front? How did that make sense?
Ye Han also knew Zhang Qingshan would not say such a thing out of cowardice, so he nodded and replied, "All right! I'll lead, then, but