On the experimental table lies the puppet—

Or rather, it should be called a puppet.

The main materials are all leather, wood, resin, lacquer, charcoal...

It’s entirely made of wood and stone, yet meticulously constructed to form the internal structures of the liver, gallbladder, heart, lungs, spleen, kidneys, intestines, and stomach. Supplemented with muscles and bones, limbs, skin, teeth, and hair on the skeleton, the imitation is full of spirit. Although everything is fake, nothing is lacking.

After a series of professional wood carving, coloring, scraping, and molding techniques, the puppet’s image appears even more lifelike, almost like a real person.

Gu Mo seemed like a craftsman who had been immersed in this field for years, handling it with ease and proficiency. His actions were smooth without any hint of awkwardness, as if he knew exactly what the next step should be, where to cut, and how much Qi Power to exert. The entire process was incredibly smooth.

All in one go.

Now, the face is already lifelike, and he’s beginning to try to integrate a "curse" imbued with Heart and Mind Spiritual Power into the last step of the mechanical mortise and tenon.

"No, the current body is still perfect, without any flaws... I’m just testing new technology. After all, the stones from other mountains can be used to polish jade," Gu Mo replied calmly, soothing Miss Shenqi’s emotions.

He didn’t feel that the current body, after just ten days, suddenly became outdated and needed an update.

—Even if he really thought so, he couldn’t show it in front of the silver-haired girl.

—He wasn’t so tactless as to be blind to such a degree.

This is the "Yanshi’s Skill" obtained from a shop, carving wood into humans, self-activating, indistinguishable from living people, a skill from ancient China in making mechanical puppets. When King Mu of Zhou praised it with admiration: "Can man’s ingenuity really compete with the work of creation?"

He had always wanted to make an article using the art of puppets and naturally valued this point. Now, he is practicing, and through hands-on operation, testing Yanshi’s Skill’s performance to see if it can organically combine with his mastered domain, sparking a chemical reaction.

"Why try this...what can it do?"

Miss Shenqi’s expression slightly relaxed, as long as he wasn’t complaining about the body she personally created being inadequate.

Yet, after Gu Mo’s words, she couldn’t help but peek at the puppet on the experimental table. Although this craftsmanship amazed her, the material limitation ultimately meant subpar quality, incomparable in performance to the body she created by hand and Gu Mo is currently using.

"Naturally, since I’m using readily available wood and stone materials."

Gu Mo smiled lightly, finding it quite normal.

"And the product made by me can in no way compare to the strength of you, who is a Demon God..."

If the two were comparable, it would indeed be absurdly strange, so he didn’t even consider it. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, and comparing them this way isn’t quite fair.

Yanshi’s Skill has its unique advantages, which are very precious in his eyes, and it’s not that shortcomings are truly irreparable. For instance, if combined with the Treasure Refining Technique, using more precious materials, treating each part as a Magical Treasure to refine, the final combination will certainly be terrifying.

It could be considered the best choice for his backup puppet plan.

With the awareness of being an alt account entering high-risk advanced maps, he is quite cautious about his own safety. The current plan is to try to open a personal small dimensional space, always containing one or more backup puppets inside—

If the current body is damaged, immediately transfer his consciousness into the dimensional space.

Seamlessly transferring account assets on the spot, without needing, like those alchemists, to set respawn points hundreds or thousands of kilometers away, where the Consciousness Seed bears great risk during the transfer...

Though not absolutely foolproof, at least the safety factor increases significantly. If there are enough prepared puppets, in a sense, it counts as having an undying body... emmmmm, it feels it could become a standard configuration for many worlds’ alt accounts.

Strange ideas flashed through his mind, Gu Mo gently put down the carving knife in hand and flickered, sending out a pure strand of mana.

Void Talisman, gathering curse, infused into the mechanical mortise and tenon.

They are located at the seven simulated meridian nodes distributed in the puppet, simulating Celestial Assault, Spiritual Wisdom, Qi Power... and so on. —At the moment of activating the "Seven Spirits," the puppet lying quietly on the experimental table opened its eyes at this moment.

This signifies the operating system coming online.

The three souls belong to the Spirit, and the Seven Spirits belong to material. Installing the operating system makes it more convenient and easier to operate, Gu Mo tried to divide a thread of Spiritual Power into a Life Soul entering the main puppet, everything went very smoothly, the "he" on the experimental table sat up, meeting his own eyes.

Looking at oneself always feels kinda strange... 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

The signal seems quite good, though he’s unsure about the effective distance, he pondered a moment and thought perhaps another experiment could be made. While thinking this, he lightly severed the connection of Spiritual Power, making the newly "powered-up" puppet shut down and lay back down.

"By the way, are you planning to use this kind of thing to help Xieshi Country?"