The three of them spread out and looked along the stone pillars and walls of the hall one by one.
The light in the hall was dim, with only a few rays of dark red skylight leaking from a very narrow crack above the stone chamber. Liu Suifeng took out three fluorite lamps from Storage Bag, and each person handed one over. The white light of fluorite opened up a small patch of bright color in the empty hall, illuminating the dusty stone floor and shadowy corners of the walls.
This treasure house is actually more like a workshop.
The main hall is almost empty except for the five guardian puppets. There are only a few square grooves left, which are just sized to fit into the bases of the five puppets' feet. The side hall is completely different.
The side hall on the left is divided into three independent workshops. Each workshop has a half-person-high forging platform. The metal fixtures on the forging platform have been rusted to death, but the pattern on the base is still vaguely discernible.
There are a large number of metal parts scattered next to the forging table, including gears, Spirit Rune pieces, and joints. They are made of metals of different materials. Some gears have rusted into scrap iron, while others still have the luster of spiritual materials. There are several bundles of spiritual wood piled in the corner. The materials have long since rotted and turned into crumbs at the slightest touch.
The side hall on the right is an assembly room. Several rows of tool racks are hung on the stone walls. The racks are empty, and most of the tools are scattered on the ground, soaked in dust that has accumulated for thousands of years.
In the center of the assembly room are three stone workbenches. On three of them, there is an unfinished puppet semi-finished product. The torso, limbs, and head are placed separately. The joint joints are polished smooth, but they have not yet been assembled.
There is also a complete set of assembly tools and several spare core array disks scattered on the table. It was obvious that the craftsman suddenly stopped while assembling.
In the deepest part of the side hall is a row of overturned material racks. The spiritual wood and metal plates on the racks have long since decayed, and only a few stone boxes on the lowest floor are still intact.
Liu Suifeng rummaged through the material racks in the right side hall, and then went to squat down by the forging platform in the left side hall and rummaged through the piles of scattered parts. Most of the things were not rare items in his eyes. Although the metal parts were made of good materials, they did not have a complete array structure. The spiritual wood materials had long since decayed, and the array patterns on the forging platform were also incomplete. He looked around every corner, and the look of expectation on his face gradually turned into disappointment.
"This is not a treasure house, it's more like a scrap warehouse." He kicked the rusted gear on the ground, and the gear rolled twice and hit the stone wall. "Parts, wood, and array fragments are all semi-finished products and scraps. Not even a complete Jade Slip was found."
Ling Shuyao is not disappointed at all.
She pulled out a few relatively well-preserved metal joint plates from under the forging platform in the left side hall, tapped the Spirit Rune score on the plate with her fingertips, and raised the corners of her mouth slightly. Then she walked to the workbench in the right side hall and stood at the three unfinished carvings. She looked at the half-finished puppet for a long time. She stretched out her fingers and gently touched every part of the puppet's torso. Her eyes were focused and enthusiastic, and her posture was as if she was admiring some priceless work of art. She didn't have the dislike of Liu Suifeng at all.
"This is a complete long-range attack puppet skeleton. The spirit wood torso is equipped with metal joints. It is at least one level higher than the two I am using now. The assembly parts are all in the parts box next to it. Only the spirit wood body is weathered. It must be that it was not assembled before. Something happened to the pretending sect." She bypassed the first one and walked to the second one, "This one is defensive. The breastplate and arm shield are made of Mysterious Iron mixed with spiritual materials. It can withstand Foundation Establishment Late Stage's frontal attack."
She walked up to the third body, bent down and looked at it carefully for a moment.
"This one is the most interesting. The joint structure is of the scout type. The body is only half the size of the previous two, but the precision of the joints Spirit Rune is higher than those of the guardian puppets." She straightened up and looked at the three semi-finished products. He scanned them back and forth several times, with undisguised surprise in his tone, "Three semi-finished products, the core array plate is also carved in a very regular way. They should be puppets specially made by the Spirit Pivot Sect, but they haven't had time to complete them yet."
Qin Tiexin leaned against the stone wall between the main hall and the side hall for a moment. After both of them had seen more or less, they said, "Did everyone find anything valuable?"
The three of them spread out the things they found on the stone platform of the main hall.
Liu Suifeng found the most and most complicated things.
He poured out the contents of Storage Bag and spread bits and pieces on a small half of the countertop. Several complete Spirit Rune pieces, a pile of shiny dark copper gears, and two drive cores embedded with micro Spirit Gathering Formation were all dug out from the pile of parts in the left side hall.
He deliberately picked out the drive core and put it alone, pointing to the Spirit Rune wiring on the surface of the core. "Look at this structure, it radiates spiritual power directly from a miniature array eye that looks like Dantian. Everything else is too decayed, and the array pattern on the forging table is also very incomplete. The rubbing can only be used as a reference."
Ling Shuyao moved the three semi-finished puppets over with storage rings. The torso of each puppet was nearly complete, but the joints still needed a few final assembly steps and the entire body needed to be re-prepared. She also moved the assembly parts box next to it. The box was neatly packed with metal parts for the arms and legs, Spirit Rune inserts and some spare parts.
Qin Tiexin found the least stuff.
He unearthed a few stone boxes at the bottom of the row of dumped material racks at the deepest part of the left side hall. The stone boxes were not big, and the materials used were not precious. The protective Spirit Rune was engraved on the box surface, and it was specially used to preserve Jade Slip for a long time. This allowed that the protective structure of the stone box itself was not damaged for thousands of years, and the Jade Slip inside was intact as before.
He opened the first stone box and found a blue-grey Jade Slip inside, with the words "Puppet Refining Technique" engraved on it.
Divine Sense dug into it, and found that the content in Jade Slip was much more systematic than he expected, from the most basic spiritual wood selection and metal smelting proportions, to the joint Spirit Rune carving of intermediate puppets, and the refining of drive cores, to the assembly, debugging and maintenance of advanced puppets, all layer by layer, covering Spirit Pivot Sect The various stages of Puppet Refining Technique. One part is dedicated to the production of the soul puppet, which records in detail the structure and operation steps of Spirit Rune Array that separate the soul into the puppet, as well as the risk control and consciousness sea protection methods in the process of soul separation.
The Jade Slip inside the second stone box is titled "Detailed Explanation of War Puppet Structure and Spirit Rune".
This article Jade Slip specifically talks about the actual combat design of combat puppets, the structural differences of different types of combat puppets, the adaptation of different weapons Spirit Rune, the formation eye settings of attack modes, and the common emergency methods for puppet damage Repair on the battlefield.
There is also a section in Jade Slip dedicated to explaining the "autonomous combat mode". By embedding multiple sets of preset instructions in the core array, the puppet can complete combat actions independently without a controller. At the end, detailed structural diagrams of dozens of commonly used combat puppets are attached, and the Spirit Rune routing of each joint is clearly drawn.