Having many children brings many blessings; the struggle for power begins with marriage.

After Mu Zixuan explained the Wangfu's assets to Wu Junwan, Wu Junwan gained a deeper understanding of the entire Bei Wangfu.

Just as Wu Junwan was about to continue learning about the Prince's estate, a maid entered the courtyard and said, "Your Highness, the carpenters have finished making several small wooden figures according to your requirements."

Hearing this, Lu Chen was taken aback. "So fast?"

Lu Chen said, "Have someone bring the finished wooden figure directly here."

"Yes, Your Highness."

The maid then turned and left.

Watching the maid's departing figure, Wu Junwan murmured, "A wooden figure?"

She was curious about what strange thing Lu Chen had come up with this time. At this moment, Lu Chen smiled and said to Mu Zixuan, "My dear consort, weren't you curious about what use I have for being a wooden doll? You'll find out soon enough."

A short while later, several female guards brought in the wooden figures made by the carpenters. However, Lu Chen noticed that the wooden figures were not very big, only about the size of a palm.

However, their carvings were remarkably lifelike, as if they were scaled-down versions of someone else.

Seeing these wooden figures piqued Wu Yunwan's interest; she was also curious about their purpose.

Just then, Lu Chen bit his finger, squeezed out some blood, and then channeled his spiritual power into it. Following the basic puppetry technique in his mind, he drew a rune on the body of a wooden figure.

After a while, the wooden figure emitted bursts of green light. Lu Chen then placed the wooden figure on the stone table, but not long after, the wooden figure actually stood up on its own.

Both Wu Yunwan and Mu Zixuan were stunned by what they saw.

At this moment, Lu Chen closed his eyes and tried to control the first puppet he had created.

The next moment, he felt as if a connection had been formed between him and the puppet, and the puppet seemed to share his feelings.

Immediately afterwards, his vision shifted to that of the puppet, and Lu Chen then manipulated the puppet to take a few steps on the stone table.

When they saw the wooden figure actually move, Mu Zixuan and Wu Junwan stared in disbelief.

After familiarizing himself with how to control the puppet, Lu Chen manipulated it to jump directly towards Wu Yunwan's body. Before Wu Yunwan could react, the puppet had already jumped to her chest.

Wu Yunwan knew, of course, that Lu Chen was behind this mischief. She raised her beautiful eyes and glared at Lu Chen.

Lu Chen manipulated the puppet to continue climbing, and then it climbed onto Wu Junwan's shoulder and stood there.

Mu Zixuan asked in confusion, "How did this little person come back to life?"

Wu Yunwan said, "It's the prince controlling it."

Wu Yunwan, having been to the Misty Immortal Sect before, was quite knowledgeable. Although she was genuinely shocked when the puppet started moving, she quickly recovered and understood what was going on.

Upon hearing Wu Junwan's words, Mu Zixuan turned to look at Lu Chen and found that Lu Chen had his eyes closed.

Mu Zixuan was still very shocked that the prince could control a wooden figure, but when she thought about the fact that Lu Chen was a disciple of an immortal, Mu Zixuan's emotions quickly calmed down.

After all, he was a disciple of an immortal, and Lu Chen was practically an immortal himself, so it was normal for him to be able to do things that ordinary people couldn't.

At this moment, Lu Chen tried to make the puppet speak. The next moment, the puppet, perched on Wu Yunwan's shoulder, asked, "Ladies, how is my puppetry skill?"

When the puppet actually spoke, Mu Zixuan was stunned again.

Mu Zixuan said blankly, "Your Highness truly lives up to his reputation as a disciple of an immortal."

Wu Yunwan asked curiously, "Your Highness, what is the use of this puppet?"

Lu Chen, controlling the puppet, said, "I don't know yet. I've only just learned puppetry and need to experiment with it."

Lu Chen thought to himself, if he could control the puppet to go anywhere in the future, wouldn't he no longer need to leave the Northern King's Mansion and use the puppet to patrol the Northern Kingdom in his place?

Not only that, he could also place the puppet next to certain people, and then directly control the puppet to give orders to others if anything happened, which was much faster than transmitting information by telegraph.

However, he still doesn't know the maximum extent of his connection with the puppet.

According to the puppetry techniques inherited in his mind, the farther the puppet is from the main body, the more spiritual power he needs to consume. He is currently only a pseudo-celestial being. If ranked according to the levels of the cultivation world, he is probably still the lowest-level cultivator. Therefore, he should not be able to control the puppet to run around the world.

At this moment, Lu Chen opened his eyes. He wanted to try multitasking and see if he could still control the puppet while doing other things.

When he opened his eyes, another image appeared in his mind. His visual experience was very strange, as if he had an extra pair of eyes. However, he did not feel uncomfortable with this, as if the puppet's eyes had become one with him.

Lu Chen manipulated the puppet to jump off Wu Yunwan's shoulder, and then made the puppet walk to Mu Zixuan.

Mu Zixuan quickly caught the puppet, which then climbed onto her shoulder. Seeing the hopping wooden figure, Lu Chen felt a sense of accomplishment.

He then manipulated the puppet to jump down and walk directly outside the courtyard, wanting to see how far he could control the puppet.

After a short while, the puppet ran to the entrance of Fengyun Academy, still not severing its connection with Lu Chen.

Lu Chen said directly to the guards at the door, "Tell Qin Yushan to go to the study. I have something to discuss with him."

The female guard was stunned when she saw the puppet speaking to her, but she quickly realized it was the Northern King's voice and replied, "Yes, Your Highness."

At this moment, Lu Chen stood up and said to Mu Zixuan and Wu Junwan, "My dear consort, you and Junwan discuss the management of the Prince's estate. I have other matters to attend to."

Mu Zixuan immediately replied, "This concubine understands, Your Highness, please take care."

Lu Chen then went to the study to wait for Qin Yushan's arrival.

Not long after, Qin Yushan appeared in the study.

"Greetings, Your Highness."

After Qin Yushan finished bowing, he looked up at Lu Chen and found that Lu Chen's gaze was fixed on the wooden figure on the desk, and the wooden figure seemed to have come to life, jumping around on the desk.

Upon seeing this, Qin Yushan froze on the spot.

Lu Chen came to his senses at this moment. He looked up at Qin Yushan and said, "Commander Qin, take this puppet and leave Yancheng. Every now and then, I will speak to you through the puppet. If the puppet stops responding, ask it. If I do not reply, return to the Northern King's Mansion immediately. I want to test how far I can control this puppet."

Upon hearing Lu Chen's words, Qin Yushan instantly understood what Lu Chen meant and immediately said, "Yes, I will leave Yancheng immediately."

After speaking, Qin Yushan walked to the desk, picked up the puppet, and then left the Northern Prince's Mansion.

Lu Chen sat in the study, closed his eyes, and focused all his attention on the puppet.

Qin Yushan quickly rode his horse out of Yancheng. However, he noticed that the puppet was not making any sound. He wondered if the puppet had lost the prince's control.

He then took the puppet out of his hand, looked at it, and was about to ask a question when the puppet suddenly spoke, "Commander Qin, continue forward."

Upon hearing the puppet actually speak, and it was Lu Chen's voice, Qin Yushan quickly replied, "Yes, Your Highness!"

Qin Yushan then led the puppets south along the straight road built in the northern country.

When Qin Yushan rode his horse to a military camp in the south, he stopped again, took out a puppet, and Lu Chen spoke through the puppet once more: "Continue onward."

Qin Yushan was shocked. He hadn’t expected that even after such a long distance, the Northern King could still control the puppet. With such a means, wouldn’t the Northern King be able to inspect the entire Northern Kingdom through the puppet in the future?

Without much thought, Qin Yushan set off again with the puppet, heading south. In half a day, Qin Yushan had brought the puppet to another city in the northern kingdom, but Lu Chen could still make sounds through the puppet.

Not only that, Lu Chen was also able to control the puppet to walk and so on. However, Lu Chen also clearly felt that he was having some difficulty controlling the puppet. Even the puppet's vision was starting to become blurry and not as clear as before.

Although his control over the puppet was not as strong as before, as long as the connection between the puppet and him had not been severed, Lu Chen planned to continue testing.

Lu Chen then spoke to Qin Yushan through the puppet: "Commander Qin, find a loyal subordinate and have him lead the puppet south. That way, you won't need to continue south."

Qin Yushan was, after all, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and there were still many things waiting for him to handle in Yancheng. Lu Chen thought that he probably wouldn't be able to measure the limit of Qin Yushan's puppet control today, so he simply changed people and found someone to take the puppet south.

Qin Yushan immediately entered the city before him, found a commander of the Imperial Guard, and explained the matter of the puppet to him, instructing the commander to continue south with the puppet.

When the commander heard Lu Chen's voice coming from inside the puppet, he was startled. However, when he thought that the Northern King was the chosen one and a disciple of an immortal, he quickly accepted it.

The commander of the Imperial Guard then led Lu Chen's puppet southward.

For the next two days, Lu Chen was still able to make sounds through the puppet. Even when he arrived in Anping City and at the border of Qi Kingdom, the puppet continued to emit faint sounds intermittently.

This truly shocked Lu Chen. He hadn't expected that a mere beginner-level puppetry technique could control a puppet from such a distance.

Of course, he also realized that although the furthest distance he could control the puppet was Anping City, it consumed a lot of spiritual energy when he controlled it. He felt like his body was completely drained after he just spoke a sentence through the puppet.

Left with no other option, Lu Chen had to tell the Imperial Guard commander not to continue south and to send the puppet back directly.

A few days later, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard delivered the puppet to the Northern Prince's residence, and the carpenters also made an even larger wooden figure.

morning.

After getting off Wu Yunwan's body, Lu Chen returned to Fengyun Academy to prepare for crafting a new puppet.

Seeing the wooden puppets in front of him, each the same height as him, Lu Chen smiled.

At this moment, Lu Chen's wives and concubines, having heard about the puppet, all rushed to Fengyun Courtyard to watch.

At this moment, Lu Chen bit his finger and drew some runes on the puppet. After a while, Lu Chen closed his eyes and controlled the puppet, which was the same height as him, to move around.

As soon as he started controlling it, Lu Chen clearly felt his spiritual energy draining away rapidly.

Lu Chen instantly understood that the larger the puppet he made, the more spiritual energy it would consume when controlling it.

The puppet he made last time was only about the size of a palm, so it was very easy to control and consumed almost no spiritual energy, allowing him to control it from a greater distance.

The control range of this puppet is definitely not comparable to that of the previous one.

Seeing Lu Chen's puppet move, Xiao Wenyao exclaimed in surprise, "It moved! It moved! It actually moved!"

The women were also stunned by the scene before them.

Lu Chen then tried to make the puppet punch the air, but after that punch, Lu Chen immediately felt exhausted.

Lu Chen took a deep breath and then muttered to himself, "I didn't expect that controlling a life-size puppet would consume so much spiritual energy. It seems that my strength is still insufficient."

Lu Chen then abandoned controlling the life-size puppet in front of him. He picked up the several thumb-sized puppets and quickly crafted them.

Although there is no way to control life-size puppets in battle at this stage, these puppets still have some use. He can place these puppets with the Embroidered Uniform Guard and then have the Embroidered Uniform Guard take the puppets to patrol the northern country.

If anything happens in the Northern Kingdom in the future, the Embroidered Uniform Guard can inform him immediately.

……

in the afternoon.

Yun Xianxian was enjoying afternoon tea and pastries at the Prince's residence in the pavilion of Yunrong Courtyard when Lin Wanyun entered the pavilion.

Yun Xianxian asked, "It seemed quite lively at Fengyun Academy this morning. What were you doing there?"

Lin Wanyun then told Yun Xianxian about Lu Chen's creation of the puppet.

Upon hearing Lin Wanyun say that Lu Chen could create puppets, Yun Xianxian's hand, which was holding a teacup, immediately froze in mid-air.

"To create puppets?"

"This guy even knows how to make puppets?"

Yun Xianxian fell into deep thought. The Dragon and Phoenix Yin-Yang Technique that Lu Chen had taken out was already a Heaven-rank technique, and now Lu Chen had also demonstrated the ability to refine puppets.

As far as she knew, puppetry was only found in high-level worlds, so how could Lu Chen possess puppetry?

Does that mean this guy, like me, comes from a high-level cultivation world?

If this guy really came from a higher world, how could he possibly have things from a lower world? Those trains and electric lights are clearly products of a lower-level technological world.

Those things don't exist in the typical cultivation world, so most people in the cultivation world don't know that kind of common knowledge.

After thinking for a moment, Yun Xianxian still didn't care too much. So what if this guy came from a high-level world? Anyway, his current strength is lower than hers, and he has even become her disciple.

Yun Xianxian still didn't care about Lu Chen; all she wanted now was to recover her strength as quickly as possible. (End of Chapter)