Their commission was suspicious.

This is the true value of being an expert in furniture.

Oh wait, now they're called furniture masters.

……

"Wow, Xiao Shi is so cute." Gretchen, sitting next to Chen Luo, couldn't help but touch the lotus flower in Chen Luo's hand.

More accurately, it was the little scholar sitting on the lotus platform.

Yu Duchen could originally transform into the shape of a lotus flower, and in order to give Xiao Shi a place to stay, Chen Luo directly transformed Yu Duchen into a lotus platform.

Xiao Shi, who could sit on a lotus platform the size of a palm, also transformed into a three-headed figure.

It's small and cute.

"Ouch!" Seeing Gretsch's finger poking at her, Xiao Shi bit down with her silver teeth.

Fortunately, Greta dodged quickly enough.

It's not that Xiao Shi didn't warn her, but rather that Xiao Shi warned her many times, and Gretchen didn't listen.

At this moment, the Feathered Dust Lotus Platform floated in front of Chen Luo, while Chen Luo was holding a ball of light in his hand.

This is Star Soul.

Vita's Star Soul.

The Star Soul is constructed from five original stones of the flower Chen Luo.

Greta's was already done.

Chen Luo is currently shaping Xinghun.

As a puppeteer, Chen Luo has skillful hands, and the shape of the Star Soul gradually takes shape in Chen Luo's hands.

The ball of light formed from the star soul was gradually shaped into the three-headed Vita form in Chen Luo's hands.

Finally, Chen Luo gently blew a breath, which was considered the final shaping of the doll.

"Here you go, it's done, the substitute doll." Chen Luo handed the doll to Vita.

"Thank you, boss. Mua!" Watching the Star Soul, worth a life, being completed and handed over to her by Chen Luo, Vita couldn't help but pull Chen Luo's head over and kiss his cheek.

It's all emotion, no skill whatsoever.

"Hey, you..." Before Chen Luo could react, Xiao Shi, sitting on the lotus platform, almost got anxious.

Vita quickly raised her hands in surrender.

"Alright, stop fooling around. This substitute doll can be used as a Star Soul when it's in close contact with you, enhancing some of your power. When you die, the cost can be transferred to her to shield you from a calamity. Once you and the substitute doll are familiar with each other, you can store it in your sea of ​​consciousness," Chen Luo said.

"Understood." Vita was overjoyed.

[Liar elements +1000]

She believed it, she believed it.

As Vita believed Chen Luo's words, a faint, imperceptible light flashed in the small doll in her hand.

He transformed from a star spirit into a true substitute doll.

That's right, Chen Luo added elements of lies when he was kneading the Star Soul. Only when Vita believed it was a Stand doll would it become a real Stand doll.

Moreover, in addition to the first wave of lies, Chen Luo can harvest another wave of lies whenever this stand-in doll appears in front of him.

Actually... it's not like Chen Luo doesn't know how to make substitute dolls. He can even make World Tree dolls, let alone basic dolls like these from advanced puppeteers.

Chen Luo knew how to make it, but he didn't have the ingredients.

Advanced substitute dolls require fragments or elements of the Law of Life to be made, and Chen Luo did not have such things on hand.

Fortunately, there are now elements of lies that can replace them, but to perfectly replace them, the other party still needs to "believe" them.

That's why Chen Luo lied to Vita.

This kind of substitute doll is the perfect doll that can resist attacks of the law and the soul.

Ordinary stand dolls can only act as substitutes to defend against illegal attacks, and sometimes they can't even block soul attacks... People in bars probably don't need them.

Within the world, they don't need to worry about dying because they are often the local bullies.

Beyond this world, within the dimensional sea... the wear and tear on souls is everywhere, which is a combination of law-based and soul-based attacks. Substitute puppets are useless; only resurrection spells can do the trick.

Chen Luo has reached the level where he can personally craft resurrection items...

"With the element of lies... I could make a substitute doll for each of them. I'll ask them later if they need one," Chen Luo thought to himself.

Resurrection items that cannot withstand attacks of the law or soul type are better not to be made at all.

"Speaking of which, is it possible for me to make another Gretsch hold a meeting in my mind?" Gretsch raised her hand.

Gretsch also has a miniature Gretsch in her hands, and Gretsch also chose to create a substitute doll.

As long as the stand doll stays with her, it serves the same purpose as the Star Soul, and can even replace the deadly one in a critical moment. Gretsch was tempted.

"Guess?" Chen Luo glanced at Gretchen.

"Probably not..." Gretchen said, sounding a little disappointed.

“There’s a significant difference between you and the Stargazers. The Stargazers’ situation is almost impossible to replicate. Actually, a Star Soul is just a simple Star Soul, which is quite good,” Chen Luo said.

Although a simple Star Soul cannot stack computing power to make itself smarter, at least the necessary condition of mutual recognition is gone.

The star spirits that observe the stars represent her future possibilities, and the time difference is only a few days, so they can get along peacefully.

However, getting along well with yourself in another timeline, or even in the distant future, is extremely difficult.

Leaving aside distant examples, let's take red a as an example.

He felt like killing his past self... and in fact, that's exactly what he did.

“Are there any other ways to obtain more substitute dolls?” Vita asked.

"beg me."

"Please, boss, just tell me, I'll warm your bed for you."

"Vita!" Feather Dust, which was floating around Chen Luo, crashed directly into Vita's face.

At the same time, Xiao Shi's angry voice rang out.

I don't want my bed to smell like another woman!

"Ahem, what I mean is, you beg me to provide you with more raw stones, and I can help you make more substitute dolls. Instead of you begging me, I'll tell you how to get them," Chen Luo said.

"You should have said so earlier."

"...You've misunderstood, haven't you?"

“So I begged you just now. Is that alright?” Vita asked.

One substitute doll is simply not enough!

If someone travels to the Sea of ​​Quanta or even the Sea of ​​Dimensions without having a dozen or so stand-in dolls, what's the difference between that and going to challenge the Great Demon King naked?

From this perspective, Vita still envies the adventurers in the amusement park.

However, Vita could not afford the price of the Paradise Adventurers' ability to resurrect indefinitely.

Wasn't Vita betraying Sa in order to gain freedom?

"No. You've already issued a large commission; the commissions you're issuing now are too few."

"This……"

"Moreover, you need to collect the materials yourself. That is, find an existence similar to yourself in other world bubbles in the Quanta Sea. Obtain the other party's token—something that can represent the other party and something you have spent a long time with, that's the token," Chen Luo said.

This is how to obtain Star Souls.

While creating a substitute doll doesn't necessarily require binding a Star Soul, other materials are more expensive.

"However, there are substitutes for the materials used to make the substitute dolls. I'll give you a list in a bit, and you can check on the group network to see if any Paradise Adventurers have obtained them in the Dimensional Sea. It's just that those substitute dolls won't have the Star Soul effect."

“On the other hand, if your substitute doll is damaged, you can ask Xiao Shi for your own potential and make another one,” Chen Luo said.

“Then…” Vita suddenly had an idea.

"No, only one possibility can exist at a time." Knowing what Vita wanted to ask, Chen Luo rejected Vita's idea.

To keep extracting the same possibility from the timeline we've known since childhood and create a large number of stand-in dolls... That's quite a beautiful idea.

"Wait, do you mean I've become a Star Soul wholesaler now?" Xiao Xiaoshi was taken aback.

"Pretty much. The god who governs the souls of the three Honkai stars." Chen Luo gently rubbed Xiao Shi with his fingers.

Xiao Shi did not refuse Chen Luo's caresses.

How could furniture possibly refuse the touch of a skilled user?

It's like the string of beads you're playing with might suddenly jump up and punch you, saying it'll knock your head off if you keep playing with it.

Furniture, furniture, the tools in the house are furniture!

"Hmph, you'd better be more polite when you talk to me from now on." Xiao Shi stood on the lotus platform, hands on her hips, pointing and gesturing at the crowd.

"Does Your Excellency need a massage?" Vita asked with a fawning smile.

"Is all you know how to do massage?" Chen Luo complained from the side.

"Then, the bed warmer?"

"All you do is show off your unremarkable body!" Xiao Shi said, somewhat angrily.

“…” Vita blinked innocently.

Is it my fault for having big breasts?

"Ding-a-ling!" The wind chimes rang out.

The visitor pushed open the door and entered.

"Dad, what brings you here?" Gretchen looked at Hen in surprise.

Greta remembered that when she arrived, her parents were still having breakfast.

When he invited them to have dinner at the bar, he even said something like, "You go first, your mom and I will have a candlelight breakfast."

"Who are you? No... why do you look so much like Gretchen? You're practically a giant version of Gretchen! And you even called me dad..." The newcomer looked at the giant Gretchen in surprise.

"Chen Luo, where is this? Another bar you've created? And this Gretchen is..." Hen looked at the only person he recognized in the room with a blank expression.

Given that Chen Luo pulls out some amazing things from that Adventure Certificate every day, even if Chen Luo told Hen that the Gretchen in front of him was Gretchen from the future, Hen would believe him.

Of course, Hen felt that the Gretsch in front of him was more likely to be that... Gretsch from the World Bubble.

Hen also remembered Vita, who was standing next to Chen Luo; she was a Pokémon that Chen Luo had caught from the Sea of ​​Quanta.

Hen was able to know about World Bubble because of Vita, since everyone said that this might be another Su in World Bubble.

Hen means to listen to it as gossip.

"Hmm, why aren't you guys saying anything?" Seeing Chen Luo and the others with strange expressions after he asked a question, Hen scratched his head.

Did I say something wrong?

"Hen, come here for a second."

"Huh?" Hen was puzzled, but he went over anyway because he trusted Chen Luo.

"This is Gretchen, or more precisely, Gretchen from the future," Chen Luo said, pointing at Gretchen after calling Hen to his side.

“Dad…” Gretchen said with a somewhat unnatural expression.

Although this was indeed her father, Gretchen inexplicably felt like she was going around claiming fathers everywhere.

too weird.

"Gresh in the future? She's grown up so beautiful, she looks just like her mother." Hen looked at Gresh with great satisfaction.

The highest praise this rough man could give to someone is probably that they resemble his own wife.

"How many years into the future is this Gretchen? What's our future like? Have we defeated the Honkai? Has Gretchen found a boyfriend? Is she in a relationship?" Hen asked curiously.

"I'm in a relationship," Gretchen said.

"Huh? Who?" Gretchen's words instantly caught Hen's attention, and he didn't even notice Chen Luo sneaking up behind Heng.

"Yes... it's Chen Luo's younger brother."