Treasure Gathering Immortal Furnace

After arranging the tasks for Lu Fan, Mo Li left the cave alone.

At this moment, Lu Fan looked at the hundreds of puppets. Although he was extremely unwilling, he had no choice but to roll up his sleeves and get to work.

Anyway, it's only a month, and as long as he gets a thousand contribution points, that's enough for him to learn those spells.

Lu Fan took the bone-disassembling knife and began to work on one of the puppets.

After all, this was Lu Fan's first time dismantling a puppet, so his unfamiliarity with the task was inevitable.

The first cut injured the puppet's bones, but Lu Fan didn't care. After all, it was the first puppet, so he just needed to find the joints first, and he would naturally become more skilled with the rest.

As Lu Fan continued to disassemble the items, time passed from day to night.

The puppet's arms and other parts were scattered on the ground; only three puppets had been dismantled in a day.

Two of them were severely damaged, but the third was in much better condition.

Meanwhile, Lu Fan was busy disassembling the fourth body, and this time he was much more skilled.

As long as you find each key point and keep the cutting position stable, there will basically be no accidents.

After disassembling the fourth puppet, Lu Fan placed all the parts on the large puppet-making platform in order.

"Strange, all these puppets are at the fifth or sixth level of Qi Refining. Could it be that Mo Li can only refine such low-level puppets?" Lu Fan was also full of surprise.

After all, puppets need to reach the point of perfect Qi cultivation to have any combat power; otherwise, no matter how many you make, they'll be destroyed by a single fireball spell.

"It seems Mo Li is also a third-rate puppeteer," Lu Fan shook his head repeatedly.

...

For the next two weeks, Mo Li never visited Lu Fan again.

In order to complete the mission as soon as possible, Lu Fan worked day and night to dismantle the puppets, and in half a month, he dismantled a total of sixty puppets.

They were all placed on the puppet-making platform.

On the night of the fifteenth day, the stone gate, which had been closed for half a month, slowly opened, and Mo Li, who had been away, returned.

Upon entering the cave, Mo Li looked at the puppet parts on the puppet-making platform and nodded in satisfaction: "Not bad, only three or four were lost, the rest are intact."

"Thank you for your praise, Uncle-Master," Lu Fan said with a slight bow.

"You should rest early today. The secret room on one side of the cave is your training room. Don't come out unless I call you," Mo Li said.

Upon hearing this, Lu Fan put down the bone-disassembling knife, bowed, and walked towards the secret room, but he did not completely close the door.

Instead, he left a crack to observe the outside world, as he still harbored strong vigilance towards Mo Li.

After Lu Fan entered the secret chamber, Mo Li walked to a puppet-making platform. With a wave of his hand, a woman was suddenly released from Mo Li's storage bag and stood steadily on the puppet-making platform.

The woman was strikingly beautiful, with a graceful figure, slightly deep-set eyes, and long, bright almond-shaped eyes that, upon closer inspection, seemed to possess a touch of exotic charm.

This scene shocked Lu Fan, because this woman was also a puppet!

However, this female puppet was far more refined than the puppets he had disassembled. Her face was as fair as a peach blossom, pink with a hint of red. If it weren't for her lifeless eyes, one would never have guessed that she was a puppet.

She is a living, breathing person!

"I misjudged Mo Li. He's actually quite capable. It seems those crude Qi-forging puppets were just something he casually crafted," Lu Fan thought to himself.

As Lu Fan was examining the woman closely, he noticed that she seemed to be missing her right arm.

Just as Lu Fan was watching, Mo Li selected a right arm from the puppet-making platform, walked up to the female puppet, and installed the right arm on it.

Immediately afterwards, Mo Li patted his storage bag, and five apricot-yellow flags flew out of the bag, landing precisely around the female puppet.

Mo Li quickly formed hand seals, and the five apricot-yellow flags spun rapidly. Then, a large amount of spiritual energy was continuously poured into the female puppet's arms.

After a moment, Mo Li stopped. Then, with a thought, the female puppet moved and raised her right arm to clench her fist.

boom!

But the next moment, the right arm that had just been spliced ​​on exploded on the spot!

Seeing this, Mo Li closed his eyes and sighed, then continued to select a suitable right arm to splice together.

Lu Fan just watched quietly.

Over the next two hours, Mo Li tried dozens of times, but almost without exception, all of them failed.

This made Mo Li somewhat anxious. He then patted his storage bag, took out a puppet-refining manual that was only half-finished, and read it over and over again.

The more Mo Li looked, the more frustrated he became, and he exploded in anger: "Damn it! Why! I clearly followed the ancient records to refine it, why do I keep failing!"

"Is it just because a page is missing? But if it's incomplete, why did I even get this manual in the first place! It gives me hope, only to disappoint me time and time again!"

At this moment, Mo Li was clearly out of control. He then walked to the brazier and threw the manual into it.

Lu Fan witnessed this scene, but he dared not utter a sound.

After venting his emotions, Mo Li walked up to the female puppet and said, "Zi Yuan, I'm sorry! My abilities are limited, and I'm truly unable to repair your broken body!"

"I have less than a year left to live, and I've truly done my best!"

After saying this, Mo Li collapsed to her knees as if she had been completely exhausted, her eyes filled with despair.

At this moment, Lu Fan had roughly figured out what was going on from Mo Li's few words.

This female puppet named Ziyuan was probably Mo Li's Daoist partner, or a daughter or other relative, who died unexpectedly.

In order to help Zi Yuan restore her broken body, he entered the Dao Sect and searched for corpses day and night, all for the purpose of restoring Zi Yuan's broken body.

However, it is clear that the manual Mo Li obtained was missing a page, which is why it could not be fully refined.

However, none of this mattered to Lu Fan. He only needed to dismantle the hundred puppets and then leave.

However, even as Lu Fan continued to observe, he was still thinking this.

The female puppet standing quietly on the puppet-making platform, her exquisite face as smooth as porcelain, suddenly cracked open.

Mo Li suddenly saw this scene and slowly stood up: "Sigh, it's cracked again. It seems you don't have much time left."

After saying this, Mo Li suddenly turned to look at Lu Fan in the secret room, a barely perceptible killing intent flashing in her eyes.

At that moment, Lu Fan was so frightened by Mo Li's sudden glance that he hurriedly closed the secret room, collapsed to the ground, and looked terrified.

"This old guy! There's definitely something wrong with him!" Lu Fan thought with alarm.

Although this old guy only has one or two years left to live, and his combat power is probably not too strong, he is still a Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivator, which is a Pseudo Core Formation stage cultivator.

Killing him, a cultivator at the 20th level of Qi Refining, wouldn't require much trouble at all!

"Yan Ruyu! You bastard! You really pushed me into a fire pit!" Lu Fan clenched his fists.

Once Lu Fan got involved with Mo Li, he was truly helpless. Even if he escaped the back mountain, he couldn't escape the Dao Sect, especially since Mo Li was a special talent hired by the Dao Sect.

If I offend him, killing me would be an easy thing for him.