82: Condensed Combat Power

Qin Yue himself didn't expect that the new Puppet's full-strength strike could achieve such an effect.

In terms of destructive power alone, the effect of this attack could fully match the attack power of a Sword Sect Martial Artist.

Of course, in addition to normal attacks, Sword Sect Martial Artists also have various secret techniques, which are still more powerful than Qin Yue's Six-Armed Puppet attacks.

However, such attack power was already enough for Qin Yue.

From today onwards, Qin Yue could formally shed the label of a 'strongest among the weak' and display his true combat value in battles of the same Realm.

After the attack capability test was completed, Qin Yue also tested the Puppet's defensive capabilities.

After Qin Yue's tests, the defensive capability reached the level of an ordinary Ninggang Realm.

Regarding the poor recovery capability, Qin Yue had also found some solutions during the Puppet's manufacturing process this time.

Qin Yue's previous approach to enhancing the Human Puppet's recovery capability was to find ways to make the Human Puppet recover like a Martial Artist, either through Blood Qi or by taking Medicinal Pills.

However, experiments showed that this method was incorrect.

Because the Martial Artist's physical body can recover so quickly, it is rooted in repeated Body Refining cultivation, accumulating a subtle control over their own physical body.

This method couldn't be applied to Human Puppets because Human Puppets themselves don't have Blood Qi and require the operator to use their own Blood Qi to help the Puppet recover.

The mismatch between Blood Qi and the body, and the operator's unfamiliarity with the subtle details of the Human Puppet's physical body, resulted in the Human Puppet's recovery speed being much slower than a Martial Artist's own recovery.

Not to mention Demon Puppets, which are even less compatible with a Martial Artist's Blood Qi.

As for using Medicinal Pills to restore Puppets, the cost was simply too high.

Taking the Life-Generating Pill that Qin Yue used before as an example, one pill actually caused Qin Yue to waste ten years of his mentor Master Zhao's life, which shows how rare such a Medicinal Pill is.

When these Medicinal Pills are refined, they are definitely prioritized for Martial Artists; using such Medicinal Pills for Puppets is simply too extravagant.

So Qin Yue abandoned his previous ideas and returned to the fundamentals of Puppetry.

Why do Martial Artists use Puppetry?

Isn't it because Puppets are not afraid of pain or death!

If that's the case, why give Puppets recovery capabilities?

They can be replaced as needed!

Therefore, Qin Yue's Puppet manufacturing this time completely abandoned the original Demon Puppet and Human Puppet manufacturing ideas.

Instead of processing intact finished corpses, he processed Puppets in a modular fashion.

He treated the Puppet not as a whole, but as a collection of individual parts, assembled together.

This way, if a part of the Puppet was damaged, he could simply take out a pre-processed spare part and replace it~

To achieve this 'replace as needed' approach without affecting the overall performance of the Puppet, Qin Yue relied on two main things.

One was to extract the core of the Human Puppet, the meridian System; as long as this System was not completely destroyed, Qin Yue could manipulate the entire Puppet through it.

The other was a type of demon vine that Qin Yue discovered.

This demon vine had both a tough exterior and an interior that allowed Blood Qi to flow unimpeded, making it the best carrier for Qin Yue's Protective Aura threads.

So Qin Yue stripped out the vine tendons from this demon vine and incorporated them into the modification of the new Puppet.

By fusing these demon vine tendons with the original meridian channels, connecting the various body parts of the Puppet, he achieved the effect of being able to cut and reattach the Puppet's body parts as needed.

This time, Qin Yue completely broke through the old conventions of the Puppetry knowledge he had learned, and newly developed a Puppet suitable for himself.

This new Puppet manufacturing technology retained the basic combination form of metal and wood Puppets while also utilizing the techniques of Demon Puppets and Human Puppets; Qin Yue officially named it the Human-Demon Construct Puppetry!

Now that the attack and defense of this Human-Demon Construct Puppet had been tested, all that remained was its durability.

Qin Yue activated the System's automatic monster-fighting mode, letting this Human-Demon Construct Puppet attack him, wanting to see the Puppet's limits.

After receiving the System's command, the Puppet immediately turned and delivered a six-handed combined strike at Qin Yue.

Qin Yue dared not let this strike land; with Qin Yue's Body Refining ability, he couldn't withstand this combined attack. Senior Brother Shi might be able to handle it.

A vine suddenly appeared in Qin Yue's hand.

This vine was made of thousands of bundled threads, and it whipped the side of the Puppet, causing its attack to go astray.

The vine in his other hand stretched out, grabbing onto the tree canopy behind him.

The vine contracted, pulling Qin Yue directly up into the tree canopy.

This vine was a byproduct of Qin Yue's Puppet manufacturing this time, and also the main weapon Qin Yue had prepared for himself in the future.

By using the threads generated by Qin Yue's Thousand Thread Guiding Qi Skill to manipulate these physical demon vine threads, Qin Yue could move in a full, three-dimensional space, much like Spider-Man.

From the moment Qin Yue flew onto the tree canopy, the battle scene completely changed.

It was no longer an exchange of blows, but a game of chase.

Although the flexibility of Qin Yue's Six-Armed Puppet had been enhanced, it still couldn't catch up to Qin Yue, who had three-dimensional movement capabilities in the forest.

Coupled with constantly enduring Qin Yue's occasional sneak attacks, in less than twenty minutes, the Puppet stopped and gave up!

Seeing the Puppet motionless, Qin Yue jumped down from the tree canopy, deactivated the automatic destruction System, and infiltrated the Puppet's interior with Protective Aura threads to carefully perceive the extent of its damage.

First, there were external injuries.

During these ten-plus minutes of offense and defense, Qin Yue had continuously attacked the Puppet's arms.

Inspection revealed that two of the Six-Armed Puppet's arms were severely damaged, and one arm was completely destroyed. It seemed the Puppet's defense still needed to be strengthened, as such a rate of wear and tear would likely not sustain a high-intensity battle.

Then there were internal injuries, which were mainly the damage caused by the Medicinal Pills to the Puppet.

Qin Yue's developed Six Demon Pill, because it was for use by Puppets, completely abandoned protecting the Puppet's body, and instead concentrated all its medicinal properties on enhancing the Puppet's strength.

Although this allowed the Puppet's offense and defense to reach the Ninggang Realm, it also reduced the Puppet's durability.

Looking inside the Puppet, the medicinal properties' damage to the Puppet's interior exceeded Qin Yue's original expectations.

The Puppet's internal organs had completely turned into a paste and needed to be reconfigured.

Generally speaking, a normal Puppet does not need an internal organ structure, because Puppets do not need to maintain metabolism.

But Qin Yue's Medicinal Pill-refined Puppet was different; it needed a living internal organ structure to digest and balance the medicinal power, allowing the Six Demon Pill to achieve a sustained-release effect and enhance the Puppet's durability.

Now, looking at this degree of damage, the internal organ structure needed to be strengthened; this time, it completely failed to withstand the ravages of the medicinal power.

However, the parts of the Puppet that suffered from the medicinal power were not just the internal organs, but also the muscles and bones throughout the body, all of which had varying degrees of damage. However, these damages were within Qin Yue's acceptable range and were minor issues.

Qin Yue's most valued meridian System, although also subjected to the attack of medicinal power, remained completely unharmed under the protection of the demon vine threads and Qin Yue's Protective Aura threads.

This strengthened Qin Yue's resolve to modify Puppets in this way, because according to Qin Yue's new Puppet theory, as long as the meridian System was not destroyed, the Puppet would be considered intact, and with only a little repair, a new Six-Armed Puppet would experience Rebirth.