Under One Person: The Puppet Immortal in the Tang Sect

"Let alone revenge, it's difficult for them to even take care of themselves."

"and you……"

Li Muxuan's voice was hoarse.

"You...have a solution?"

Li Muxuan knew that Cui Ming was an elder of the Divine Machine Alliance and that he himself had made great achievements in the field of mechanical puppets.

"I have."

Cui Ming looked directly into his eyes.

"The Divine Machine Alliance can create mechanical limbs that are stronger than flesh and blood, and also has the means to reconnect meridians and reconstitute the dantian."

"But the cost was high, and the process was painful. More importantly—"

Cui Ming paused.

What can you offer in exchange?

Li Muxuan's pupils contracted.

Cui Ming said slowly.

"A year ago in the Earth Vein Village, you were full of vigor and were a rising star of the Quanxing Sect, the successor of the Ghost Hand King who turned the world upside down."

Back then, you had value and a future. But now? What do you have left to offer?

The air was stagnant.

The oil lamp flame cast a flickering shadow on the wall.

Li Muxuan's breathing became heavy.

He closed his eyes, his Adam's apple bobbing. When he opened them again, the flame in his eyes had not been extinguished, but there was a chilling clarity in them.

"...My life."

He spoke each word carefully.

"From this day forward... I am yours. If you want me to live... I will live. If you want me to die... I will die."

"I only ask... that you let me... personally... finish off those bastards."

Cui Ming looked at him for a moment and nodded.

"can."

Then Bai Lian stood up, and Fenrir the wolf even crawled half its body out of the ground.

Several mechanical arms flew off Fenrir Wolf, transforming into a sophisticated set of tools.

Silver needles, thin blades, tweezers, specially made drainage tubes, and several glass bottles filled with medicinal liquid.

He then summoned two more puppets, one to hold Li Muxuan's body in place and the other to assist in the operation.

"Miss Wei, please use your Gu technique to protect his heart and mind, and stabilize his life while I clear the Gu worms."

Cui Ming said to Wei Shufen.

Wei Shufen nodded and took a jade box out of her basket.

Inside the box lay a plump, emerald-green silkworm-shaped Gu worm, wriggling lazily.

She placed the Gu worm on Li Muxuan's chest. The Gu worm spit out fine threads that burrowed into his skin and connected with his heart meridian.

"This is a life-sustaining silkworm, which can temporarily maintain its vitality. But it can only last for two hours at most."

Wei Shufen offered a reminder.

"enough."

Cui Ming began to take action.

He inserted silver needles into major acupoints all over Li Muxuan's body, temporarily blocking the pain nerves, but keeping him conscious.

The thin blade sliced ​​through the flesh and skin of the severed limb, revealing the blackened, rotten tissue and wriggling worms underneath.

The power of Dan Shi is like a precise scalpel, separating the Gu worm from healthy tissue. Tweezers remove the worm corpse, and a drainage tube sucks away pus, blood, and necrotic matter.

Throughout the process, Li Muxuan's entire body was tense, and the veins on his forehead bulged, but he kept his eyes open, staring at the rock wall above him, without uttering a sound.

After clearing Li Muxuan's body, Cui Ming used his true qi to probe into Li Muxuan's body, searching for the venomous insects lurking deep within his meridians and bone marrow.

This is a more delicate and dangerous task; the slightest mistake can damage the very foundation of the meridians.

Cui Ming attached part of his mind to the Hundred Refinement Puppet, which then used the Hundred Refinement Puppet to control the True Qi threads, hunting Gu worms in the intricate network of meridians.

Time passed little by little.

The liquid in the glass bottle was constantly being changed, changing from clear to cloudy.

The extracted Gu worm corpses were piled up in a clump of black filth in the corner.

An hour and a half later, Cui Ming stopped.

Li Muxuan's wounds have been cleaned and a special tissue-regenerating ointment has been applied.

The Gu worms in his body were completely eliminated, but his meridians were riddled with holes, his dantian was depleted, and his cultivation was almost completely dissipated.

"The Gu worms have been eliminated."

Cui Ming wiped the fine sweat from his forehead.

"But your meridians need a long period of warming and nourishing to recover."

Whether your dantian can heal depends on your own fate.

As for the limbs—

He took out four metal parts.

Those were mechanical limbs that Cui Ming had temporarily modified using the Shadow Spider. They were made with earth vein stone as their core, and the surface was covered with the Shadow Spider's special black coating. There were intricate runes flowing around the joints.

"This was temporarily modified based on my puppet. It can be connected to nerves and move according to my thoughts."

"But it's just a prototype right now, and it needs to be adjusted and adapted to your physical condition. The connection process is extremely painful."

Cui Ming placed the parts next to Li Muxuan.

"Think carefully before you decide whether to accept the call or not."

Li Muxuan's gaze fell on the metal limbs, his eyes filled with hatred.

"Without giving any thought whatsoever," Li Muxuan hissed.

"catch!"

Chapter 190 The Wonderful Uses of Puppetry

The moment Li Muxuan finished speaking, Cui Ming had already begun to act.

The Hundred Refinement Puppet stepped forward and placed Li Muxuan flat on a cleaned stone slab.

Fenrir crouched low, its abdominal armor slid open, and dozens of thin, silver mechanical arms, as thin as hair, emerged like tentacles, each end of which was attached with various tools.

Cui Ming himself was hidden inside the control cabin in the belly of the Fenrir wolf, his eyes slightly closed, his entire mind connected to the mechanical arm through the Fenrir wolf.

He first inserted silver needles into Li Muxuan's neck and vertebrae to block the main pain signals, but preserved his sense of touch and position.

Wei Shufen stepped back three steps, holding an hourglass in her hand to keep track of time.

The life-extending silkworm slowly wriggled in Li Muxuan's chest, its emerald green silk threads already covering his chest cavity.

"start."

Cui Ming's voice, transmitted through the Hundred Refinements, was calm and undisturbed.

The first mechanical arm reached towards the stump on Li Muxuan's left shoulder.

A thin blade sliced ​​through the healed flesh, revealing the broken bone and intricate nerve bundles.

The power of Dan Shi swept over first, clearing away the remaining necrotic tissue and Gu worm eggs.

Subsequently, a probe was inserted into the main nerve bundle to read the neural signal patterns.

Li Muxuan's body trembled slightly, his jaw clenched, and the veins on his forehead throbbed.

Cui Ming manipulated another mechanical arm to retrieve the left arm component.

This limb, modified by the Shadow Spider, is entirely black, with intricate runes embedded in its joints.

He connected the cross-section to Li Muxuan's shoulder bone, and the core of the earth vein stone lit up with a faint light.

Several nerve connectors were inserted into the component and precisely connected to Li Muxuan's nerve bundle.

The moment the contact was completed, Li Muxuan's pupils shrank.

A cold, hard, foreign object came from my left shoulder.

It wasn't the warmth of flesh and blood, but the coolness of metal. To Li Muxuan's surprise, he had the illusion that it was really his arm.

He tried to move his fingers, and the five black metal fingers opened and clenched into fists, their joints moving with remarkable flexibility.

How are you feeling?

Cui Ming asked.

"……active."

Li Muxuan hissed, a complex expression flashing in his eyes—surprise, bewilderment, and finally, a deeper resolve.

"continue!"

The connection was made in sequence: right arm, left leg, and right leg.

The process was repeated, but each time the nerves connected, Li Muxuan could feel that cold touch becoming a part of his body.

After the time it takes for two incense sticks to burn, all four limbs were successfully reattached.

But this is only the first step.

Cui Ming manipulated the mechanical arm to draw a miniature rune array in the center of Li Muxuan's forehead.

The array glowed with a ghostly blue light, connecting with the core of Fenrir's abdomen.