Chapter 789

Several people searched everywhere, but they did not see the figures of the two envoys of Yaqing; instead, they found the scrapped Xueyi, smoking all over, in a corner.

"Xueyi… is here."

Hanque looked at Xueyi with a solemn expression.

Dan Heng: "Miss Xueyi died a heroic death… Miss Hanque, please accept my condolences."

Hanque, however, raised her head with some doubt: "Condolences? I didn't mean that."

Dan Heng, who had just been about to speak to comfort her, froze for a moment.

"You've misunderstood. Thanks to the grace of the Ten Kings, my sister already became a mechanized body hundreds of years ago. After death, her 'soul' returns to the archives of the Hall of Causality; for her, that's already routine."

"Although I also don't want to see her so carelessly consume her own body each time, like a part that can be carelessly replaced…" She trailed off, then Hanque suddenly seemed to think of something, lifted her head, and said, "By the way, have you found any possible casualties among the Yaqing envoys? One is a fox person in splendid attire, the other wears a dark robe and looks like a fugitive."

"... No, aside from the Bu Li people, I haven't seen any corpse here that looks like a fox person." Dan Heng said.

"In other words, the jailbreakers and Hu Lei have seized the Yaqing envoys." Hanque rubbed her head, feeling a buzzing in her mind for a moment, "This is really the worst situation. With hostages in hand, the jailers probably can't do anything about these guys. If anything goes wrong, the relationship between the Luofu Xianzhou and the Yaqing Xianzhou… will likely fall into an irreparable rift."

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A Mortal's Journey to Immortality.

"I see, that's indeed convenient."

Looking at the Xueyi sizzling on the ground, Han Li's eyes flashed with a strange hue as he muttered softly, "The shell is destroyed, yet the soul can instantly return to a specific point, taking residence in a backup puppet body to fight again on the battlefield—this method of refining the 'puppet' of Judge Xueyi is indeed extraordinary."

"Its outward appearance can be no different from an ordinary person's, even lighter and more agile; a human soul inhabiting it can freely use the various divine abilities hidden within, as if moving one's arms. Such puppets are already akin to external incarnations, yet they seem not to rely on the main body's cultivation for continuous supply, but form a self-contained system… Too bad we don't know how its core drive and the connection of soul and spirit are actually achieved."

"Master, you'd better not think about that." Yinyue laughed softly from the side, "In this universe, it's completely different from our cultivation world; their puppets aren't even called 'puppets'—some are called 'mechanisms', some 'mecha'… The difference is huge."

"Oh?" Han Li raised his brows, looking at Yinyue, "Go on, tell me where the difference lies."

"The core lies in a single character—" Yinyue raised her finger, pointing at the Xueyi lying on the ground, its body still emitting blue electric sparks, "Electricity."

"Electricity?"

"Master, you usually stay in seclusion, your mind focused, so you naturally can't spare attention for these side matters. Yinyue also observed carefully for a long time, and combined with the scattered information from the heavenly curtain, she inferred that… in that world, the force driving such mechanized creations is precisely electricity!"

Upon hearing this, Han Li also lowered his head in thought. This term was not completely unfamiliar to him—heavenly thunder and earthly lightning also fall under the category of electricity, and his God‑Repelling Divine Lightning is likewise such—but to infuse 'electricity' so finely into a puppet, enabling it to move and even accommodate a soul?

But his divine lightning is utmost yang and utmost rigid, capable of subduing evil and breaking demons, with matchless power; however you look at it, it doesn't seem able to perfectly merge with a human's yin soul—could there be another method here?

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"Suddenly, Hanque's gaze shifted to the side."

""What did Miss Hanque discover?""

Hanque silently stared at the damaged mechanical bird on the ground; after a moment, the little bird actually spoke in human words: "Han… Han…"

"Cyber ghost!!"

"Xing was startled and stumbled back a few steps on the spot."

"The mechanical bird's voice came in fragments: "Re… again…""

"It's sister. It seems her soul is faithfully on duty and hasn't yet returned to the Hall of Causality." Hanque exclaimed with delight, "Precisely at this juncture… sister's 'death' has instead become our intelligence advantage."

"Fortunately, this mechanical bird isn't badly damaged; Xing fixed it in a couple of moves, letting it fly back to the sky."

"Hanque! Wuwu… I'm back!"

"Welcome back, sister. I don't know what expression to make right now—should I be happy? Or tearful with joy? Never mind, I've already gotten used to you returning in various guises."

"Cyber ghost!"

"This is just a makeshift measure. This thing can't bear… all of my… parts…"

Hanque eagerly asked: "Sister, after 'death', what did you see?"

Although the mechanical bird spoke in fragments, it concisely provided information to everyone.

Dan Heng mused: "Did one of the Yaqing envoys escape? And was the other abducted and taken upward?"

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Kamen Rider Builid.

"Oh——!! Are you kidding?!! You can actually just attach a soul to a mechanical construct like that?!"

Wanzhang Longwo sat cross‑legged on the ground, staring wide‑eyed at this unbelievable scene: "If that's the case, it's way too convenient! It's practically a living mechanical body! Battle Bunny, how did you manage to… ah!"

He hadn't finished speaking when a science magazine lightly tapped the back of his head.

"Idiot Longwo, don't bring this up for questioning—Battle Bunny is a scientist; this kind of 'soul transfer' is obviously beyond the realm of science," Miku couldn't help but roll her eyes.

"The technology of the Xianzhou is indeed extraordinary; if Miss Xueyi is a mechanized body, then her flesh must have died hundreds of years ago. Moreover, not only her soul, but Miss Xueyi's memories also seem to have been 'digitized', involving high‑level technology of neural signal simulation and blockade… As for the material of that damaged mechanized body, it looks light yet sturdy, with excellent energy conductivity—it might even contain something unknown…"

As she spoke, Battle Bunny had already fully entered scientist mode, beginning to write a dense series of formulas and hypotheses on the whiteboard beside her.

"Well, I shouldn't have brought this up." Wanzhang pursed his lips, turning his gaze back to Xueyi's damaged body, "The Xianzhou's mechanization technology seems no worse than Miss Black Tower's doll craftsmanship—looking at it this way, the Xianzhou might even be a bit stronger in combat."