"I think there must have been some other reason. It might not necessarily have been deliberate. From the voice transmissions between those two little ones, the puppet he obtained was a gift from an elder in their village.
Logically, if it was meant as a gift, they should not have given him a defective item. They surely would have brought out a puppet they were more satisfied with!
And from what they said, they seemed to be gathering these spirit stones to help some elder in the village. That showed their village was not wealthy and was badly lacking in spirit stones.
Perhaps the materials available for refining were poor, so they could only compensate through other refining methods. That might have caused this situation.
But what I cannot understand is this: if they possess such superb refining techniques, these are mechanism puppets. Spirit stones should be rolling in like waves. Why would they still be in such straits?"
After hearing just a few words from Bai Rou, Li Yan immediately thought of even more questions, though there were still some things he could not understand.
"What Junior Brother said indeed makes sense. I also examined those two puppets. Just as that youth said, they were not made by the same person.
But their methods bore the same traces. In other words, that village may possess a clan inheritance. They have inherited mechanism puppet arts from the same lineage.
Moreover, their mechanism puppet arts ought to be of a very profound kind. But if things are as Junior Brother says, how could they possibly be so poor?"
Bai Rou's delicate brows furrowed slightly as well. She could not make sense of it either. At that moment, Li Yan's gaze flickered, and he suddenly said to Bai Rou,
"Senior Sister, how