CHAPTER 516: REFINING THE PUPPET.

Hao Ren used his hammer to refine the puppet with higher degree of difficulty and function at the same time. The clanging sounds of the metal were echoing through the refining room and the rhythm was almost hypnotic to the people.

Fudge had asked Hao Ren if he could stand in the back to watch, although it was very offensive of him to even think like this but he wanted to see the difference between himself and Hao Ren’s skill level. The repair work on the array was not about forging, it was his knowledge of the formation dao.

The middle-aged man couldn’t help himself from asking for such a thing. Hao Ren also didn’t let him down, but acknowledged it. He was confident that even if he forged the artifacts before the old Council Head, the latter wouldn’t be able to copy his technique, and it was not that his technique was complicated, but because he had reached a level which could be called, ’Returning to the roots’

Hao Ren smelted the material he needed to forge his puppet and then he began to swing his hammer down. The swings were simple, and they were fast. It was all so simple that it looked like a rookie handling the hammer, however, the profoundness behind each swing was hidden in the amount of impurities that Hao Ren cleared with each strike.

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!

The hammer rose and fell, Hao Ren regulated his breath and his body was akin to a mountain that stood tall ignoring everything else in the world around him.

The sound changed, from a clanging bang to a melodic note on the scale.

Ting! Ting! Ting! Ting!

Fudge shivered when he heard this sound and he mumbled, "The sound emitting from his hammer has already surpassed the level of a grandmaster. How is this possible, he is so young yet he stands the closest to the realm of the saints."

In the past few months that Hao Ren has spent alone with Han Lingshi, he had been using his time to comprehend the knowledge of forging artifacts. His saint halo had been completed to seventy nine percent. These last two stops were supposed to be his goal to reach the hundred percent completion. After that he would be able to reach the higher level of his spiritual cultivation.

Hao Ren was forcefully suppressing his realm at the world overlord realm because once he reached the realms of the king it would be impossible for him to complete the strength goals set by the system.

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Hao Ren made one part after the other, he engraved the runes on the parts. The entire process was seamless and it shocked the spectator so much that Fudge decided to leave the refining room and protect his dao heart. Yes, the middle-aged man concluded that the skill gap between the two of them was so much that he would only harm his Dao Heart if he kept on comparing himself with Hao Ren.

The young man noticed that the situation but he didn’t comment, he knew that something like this would happen and now that it did happen, he would not be holding back.

With Fudge gone, Hao Ren unleashed his complete strength. The speed of the forging was increased by three folds. One after the other the parts were forged and Hao Ren didn’t even put them in the furnace to smelt, but directly used the Phoenix Flames to smelt the metals and used his spiritual energy to cover the anvil and the hammer.

These things didn’t have the best quality, and he didn’t wish to take out his own tools to scare fudge, now that he was using these tools, changing them mid way would be unwise, after all the strikes would change.

Hao Ren continued in his endeavour and refined the parts for next three hours. Then came the tough part, he stepped back and consumed a rejuvenation pill to refuel his energy base, before he made one seal after the other. His speed was so high that his hands turned into a blur, the parts that he had forged all began to float in the void before they came together one by one.

After twenty minutes, the puppet was ready, however, the young man held the shell for the puppet and put them all together before he picked up a carving knife and carved out some complicated arrays.

The whole process lasted for an entire day. When Hao Ren was done with the inspections and the tests to confirm how good the puppet had come out he nodded. Then he took out a pile of spirit stones and smelted them with a unique method. This way the spiritual energy inside the stones didn’t go to waste at all. After refining a rectangular brick with the stones, Hao Ren began to carve Dao runes on the brick. These were the instructions that the puppet would follow.

It was something similar to the codes that were input inside the computers. Hao Ren had learned a lot and now he could create a core for low level smart puppets. This puppet wouldn’t be able to hold a conversation but following commands wouldn’t be difficult.

Commands such as protect, kill, search/follow, and cast illusion. These four would be enough, and more advanced than the ones left behind on the fate puppet. Hao Ren intended to deliver what he promised.

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The next morning when he came out of the forging room, he was followed by the puppet and found Fudge waiting for him at the end of the corridor. The council head was accompanied by many high level forging grandmasters, who were shocked to receive the news that Hao Ren had come over to the Iron Star Islands.

When the saw the puppet following behind Hao Ren with natural and smooth movements they were shocked. This wasn’t something that they expected when they heard that the young man was forging a puppet.

The young man sighed and replied, "I apologize Council Head Fudge, the puppet core that I refined reached the heaven level artifact but it is not a legendary one. This thing can only qualify as a mediocre product."

Fudge and the rest looked at him and then rolled their eyes as they began to inspect the artifact, before the former said, "Are you kidding with us, Grandmaster Ren? If this puppet is mediocre, than all of us older people are the rookies that should only clean the furnace from now on."

The others nodded, and Hao Ren faintly smiled, this was the normal outcome of things when he did his task nicely. The people would think that it was a high level produce, but only Hao Ren knew that its shit developed by deliberately withholding his skills.