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"This!"
He Hongfei and the others had previously seen the Pangu in the stone cave where Yi Xuan was staying, but the Pangu was not activated at the time, so none of them paid any attention to it.
To their utter surprise, the creature that followed them into the Stone Mountain was none other than the metal man they had seen before.
Everyone gathered around the Pangu, examining it closely. Qu Ling glanced at Pangu a few times, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Is this Puppet Technique?"
"What? This is Puppet Technique?"
After hearing Qu Ling's words, everyone else stared in amazement at the metal man before them.
Pangu nodded, and then Yi Xuan's voice came from its mouth. "That's right, it's Puppet Technique. I can control this puppet to follow you into the Stone Mountain, just like I came here in person!"
The situation with the Pangu was of course different from that of the Puppet Technique, but Yi Xuan did not want to explain it to everyone at this time, so he simply stated that the Puppet Technique was the truth.
The nine Azure Cloud Sect disciples who entered the Artifact Ruins all held positions second only to the sect's higher-ups. Perhaps one of them would advance to the Golden Core stage and become a Middle Sect Elder someday. Therefore, they knew far more about the Cultivation Realm than Yi Xuan.
This explains why Yi Xuan was full of curiosity when he first heard about Puppet Technique, while these disciples looked astonished.
Next, although it was the first time everyone had witnessed Puppet Technique, and they were still a little curious, their curiosity began to fade after taking a few more glances.
Yi Xuan then put the Pangu into free mode and followed the others toward the mountaintop.
Meanwhile, Yi Xuan, who was inside the stone cave, was keeping a close eye on the Temperature-Controlled Separation Furnace.
The murder weapon that Yi Xuan threw into the separation furnace had been there for a whole day. The temperature in the furnace had reached its maximum a day ago, but the weapon showed no sign of melting.
Having no other means of heating the weapon, Yi Xuan was at a loss and could only hope that the fact that the murder weapon hadn't melted wasn't because it hadn't reached its melting point, but because its internal structure was relatively stable.
This also demonstrates the power of the laser emitter; in just over ten seconds of attack, many parts of the murder weapon's surface began to melt.
Through this battle, Yi Xuan gained a new understanding of laser emitters. The previous assessment that laser emitters could unleash Nascent Soul Realm attack power under the simulation of No. 01 may not have been accurate.
Yi Xuan felt that the attack he had used on Qi Yun earlier was something even Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator might not be able to withstand.
"Boss! We just detected that it's starting to melt!"
The Butler's voice startled Yi Xuan from his reverie. Shaking his head, Yi Xuan quickly went to the observation window of the Temperature-Controlled Separation Furnace.
Just as the Butler had said, the murderous knife inside the furnace did indeed begin to melt little by little. This melting speed was not a steady trend, but rather a progressive one; the higher the degree of melting, the faster the melting speed.
Soon, the large sword, which was two meters long including the handle, completely melted into liquid.
Then, as the platform in the separation furnace rotates, different metal materials are separated.
Half an hour later, the discharge port opened automatically, and Yi Xuan was all smiles as he looked at the dazzling array of materials inside.
Through the separation furnace's testing, it was discovered that none of the materials used to forge this murderous blade were ordinary; some were even extremely rare in the Cultivation Realm.
Putting aside the materials for now, besides the materials, Yi Xuan also found two spheres, one black and one white, inside the discharge port of the separator.
These two spheres looked somewhat familiar to Yi Xuan, resembling the soul spheres his senior brother Shi Zhenghao had provided him. However, unlike those soul spheres, these were semi-transparent, containing a cloud of energy that existed between reality and illusion.
The two spheres in Yi Xuan's hands were different from the Soul Sphere; their interiors contained two different types of energy, one black and one white.
Yi Xuan was naturally very curious about this unknown thing, but for safety's sake, he did not investigate it. Instead, Yi Xuan put it into his Storage Bag, planning to have his master return it to him after returning to the sect.
It took two days to refine the murderous blade. Because he was afraid that the blade would affect other Law Artifact, Yi Xuan only put the Law Artifact he had obtained from various sects into the furnace to begin refining them after the blade was completely refined.
At this moment, He Hongfei and the others finally arrived at the top of Stone Mountain.
Yi Xuan surveyed the summit of Stone Mountain through the Pangu. If Yi Xuan hadn't climbed up step by step, he would never have guessed that this was actually the summit of a mountain. At first glance, it looked like a paradise on earth.
Although the area below the mountain is entirely composed of rocks, the mountaintop is teeming with vegetation, flowers, birds, and even fish and insects, clearly forming a small ecosystem.
The most eye-catching feature is the magnificent and imposing main hall in the center of this idyllic paradise.
It looked much larger than the main hall of the Azure Cloud Sect. Yi Xuan had the drone that was following him scan the outside of the hall, and roughly estimated that the area of the hall was more than ten times that of No. 1 Base.
The Azure Cloud Sect members weren't the first to arrive. By this time, many disciples from other sects had already gathered on the mountaintop, searching around in small groups.
Perhaps because of what happened with Qi Yun, the relationships between the various factions in the Artifact Ruins are now very harmonious. Even if someone occasionally exclaims that they have found fortuitous opportunity, others will only glance at them with curiosity and envy before continuing their search.
"It seems we're too late. We probably have less than eight days left. Let's each make our own moves!" Qu Ling said to the people behind him after glancing at the disciples of the other sects on the mountaintop.
The others nodded in agreement, and the crowd immediately scattered to seek their own fortuitous opportunity.
Only the Pangu, controlled by Yi Xuan, remained standing there conspicuously.
It wasn't that Yi Xuan didn't know he should look for fortuitous opportunity at this time, but the Pangu was just a robot, so even if he found fortuitous opportunity, it wouldn't be of any use. Moreover, there were many people on the mountaintop, so Yi Xuan couldn't use the same strategy he used on the outskirts of the Artifact Ruins, which was to have the Pangu up.
With nothing else to do, Yi Xuan could only steer the Pangu toward Qu Ling's direction.
Seeing Qu Ling cautiously searching for fortuitous opportunity, Yi Xuan behind him asked curiously, "Hey Qu Ling, why don't you guys go into that main hall? Logically speaking, it's the ruins of the High Antiquity Artifact Sect; there should be plenty of good stuff there, right?"
Qu Ling turned around and looked helplessly at the main hall of the Artifact Sect Great Hall that Yi Xuan was pointing to, saying, "Protector Yi, didn't the sect leader tell you before we came? That main hall should indeed be the place with the most fortuitous opportunity, but the conclusion drawn from thousands of years of exploration of the Artifact Ruins is that there is nothing in the main hall!"