Wang Yu hid inside a huge cavern hollowed out of a mountainside.
The cavern was sixty or seventy feet long, its entrance sealed tight by a stone slab several feet thick. A specially made torch burned fiercely inside, illuminating the entire cavern as brightly as daylight.
Several finger-width ventilation holes had even been bored through the ceiling with a magical artifact.
At that moment, a massive, pitch-black Puppet Wolf thirty feet long occupied most of the cavern.
As Wang Yu examined the enormous puppet, he kept exclaiming in amazement:
"This doesn't seem to be ordinary iron essence. Several rare supplementary materials have been added... these inscription patterns look familiar. Could they be those uncommon patterns that increase spell resistance? Let me see... this one seems to increase fire resistance, and this one increases earth resistance... hmm, what are these hook-shaped structures around the neck for? To let the puppet's head turn more freely, perhaps... these words are..."
Wang Yu soon finished examining the Puppet Wolf's exterior. He also discovered a barely noticeable line of tiny characters on its neck: "Pang Shan, Heavenly Craft Sect." A look of surprise crossed his face.
He was not at all surprised that this giant puppet came from the Heavenly Craft Sect, but this was the first time he had seen someone's name inscribed on a puppet alongside the sect's.
Every Heavenly Craft Sect product he had seen before, whether a mechanical airship, a mechanical carriage, or even another puppet, had been a standardized production model.
Did the name on this Puppet Wolf mean it was not a standard model, but a "masterpiece" personally crafted by the named artisan?
Wang Yu grew increasingly interested in the Heavenly Craft Sect, and his expectations for the puppet's strength rose as well. First, however, he had to figure