"Puppets!"
At that moment, Gu Chenfeng, who was hiding in the shadows, was also startled.
Back on the Seven Star Continent, he had seen some puppet arts.
But those puppets had mostly been clumsy, crudely made stone men, bronze men, and the like.
Although the puppets controlled by the man in the bamboo hat were larger than ordinary people, their appearance and movements were just like those of humans.
Only their joints and pupils differed ever so slightly from those of living people.
He could not help recalling the Fourth Prince he had met at the Dragon-Controlling Guard branch camp. The prince seemed to be a Puppet Master as well and had even given Gu Chenfeng the Myriad Puppet Treasure Art.
During this visit to the market, Gu Chenfeng had intended to buy a batch of puppet materials to try refining and controlling puppets once he returned.
Instead, he had unexpectedly learned that the path of puppetry was rather obscure even on the Central Earth Continent.
Some ordinary materials were easy enough to find and could be bought anywhere.
Many of the core materials needed to refine puppets, however, could only be purchased in specific places.
Thus, Gu Chenfeng had only bought a small quantity of supplementary materials.
He had never expected to encounter a Puppet Master while hiding here.
The green-robed elder and the Yellow-Skirted Young Woman were also greatly startled.
Puppet Masters were rare on the Central Earth Continent, and they tended to be difficult to deal with.
The man in the bamboo hat, however, did not hesitate.
"Hehe... kill her!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...!
An eerie light flared in the eyes of the four burly puppets, and a trace of the Power of Profound Meaning rippled within them.
The four immediately charged at the Yellow-Skirted Young Woman from