Chapter 499

The mechanical puppets lined up in two long rows, silent and soundless.

Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong stood at the very front of the two rows of mechanical puppets respectively.

The two of them used their spiritual sense to control these mechanical puppets.

As the mechanical puppets moved forward with the team, they clicked their own heads, turned them a few times, and then removed them.

When they walked in front of Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong, they all became headless. The mechanical heads were all held in their hands.

The two of them took out mirror after mirror of the Divine Split Mirror, used their spiritual sense and magic power to slightly modify these mechanical puppets, and finally inserted the Divine Split Mirror.

The surface of the Divine Split Mirror was close to crystal, transparent like a pool, refracting vast blue light, as if starlight were flowing.

The mirror frame was jade-like and lustrous, magnificent like the green waves at the first light of dawn, with four corners slightly upturned, like the clouds drawn by the ancients, timeless and distant. When spiritual sense penetrated the mirror frame, one could see strips of meridians inside, like the roots of an ancient tree.

This is one of the treasure mirrors recorded in the Foundation Establishment chapter of the Mirror Platform Spirit-Connecting Art, capable of receiving spiritual sense and splitting spiritual sense.

Among all the treasure mirrors, the cost of the Divine Split Mirror is the cheapest. This was also carefully designed by the Three Sects' Shangren, intentionally done so. Because, among all the treasure mirrors, the demand for the Divine Split Mirror is the greatest.

Like what Ning Zhuo is doing now, it is to add Divine Split Mirrors to all the mechanical puppets.

These four hundred and more Divine Split Mirrors were made by the two of them in these few days, working overtime without sleep or rest.

The entire installation process did not take much time.

Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong tried to control them, and both showed joy. Ning Zhuo released his spiritual sense, and only needed to project it onto the nearest mechanical puppet to strengthen it by a few points in the Divine Split Mirror.

Ning Zhuo could not only contact and control this mechanical puppet, but the excess spiritual sense was divided into six or seven parts, spreading to the surroundings.

These six or seven parts of spiritual sense were attracted by the remaining Divine Split Mirrors, and after falling into the mirrors, they were also strengthened a bit; the excess spiritual sense was then divided into several parts and projected out.

After a few rounds of projection like this, Ning Zhuo mastered a large number of mechanical puppets.

He exerted his full spiritual sense, spreading it everywhere, and soon fully covered the four hundred and more mechanical puppets.

"Let me try, let me try."

Sun Lingtong found it fun and couldn't wait to try it.

His spiritual sense could also be put into the Divine Split Mirror, but although the total amount was more than Ning Zhuo's, the degree of mirror surface blessing was not even half of Ning Zhuo's, and the divided spiritual sense was at most only three or four parts.

The Divine Split Mirror also had many benefits for Sun Lingtong in controlling the mechanical puppets, but not many.

After all, the Mirror Platform Spirit-Connecting Art and the Divine Split Mirror are a set.

This made Sun Lingtong sigh from the bottom of his heart again: The Three Sects' Shangren are talented and brilliant, and the Three Sects' Supreme Arts they created are rare in the world. Not to mention the triple dantian cultivation, just taking out one of the items has rich content and perfect matching.

Ning Zhuo was both excited and exhausted.

In order to make enough Divine Split Mirrors, he had been working continuously for several days, almost without sleep or rest.

Whether it was Ning Zhuo or Sun Lingtong, both had very heavy dark circles under their eyes.

Ning Zhuo yawned: "Let's sleep first, Boss, I'm so tired that my eyes can't even open."

Sun Lingtong nodded: "You sleep first, I'll stay up."

When out and about, he and Ning Zhuo cooperated, always trying to stagger their rest and cultivation, always maintaining a defense to the outside.

Ning Zhuo nodded naturally.

Since they were young, Sun Lingtong would always let Ning Zhuo sleep first, and he would keep watch. Ning Zhuo was already used to this arrangement.

Young people have very good sleep quality.

Ning Zhuo was tired to a certain limit, and after lying on the bed, he fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

After a sound sleep, he opened his eyes on the bed, his eyes gradually shining, his spirit refreshed, sweeping away the previous exhaustion.

He immediately changed Sun Lingtong to rest, wrapped the Ten-Thousand-Mile Swimming Dragon around his waist, lifted the tent curtain, walked out, and saw the afternoon sun.

He went to see Liu, Generals Guan, and Zhang training the troops, saw them practicing hard, greeted them with spiritual sense, and then left the camp.

Ning Zhuo also had to train troops!

But after the Three Generals Camp received Ning Zhuo's capital injection, it was already fully staffed. The camp space itself was not large, only enough for the three generals to toss about.

Ning Zhuo thought about it and came to the Red Flower Camp.

He now enters and exits the Red Flower Camp, only needing to show his waist token. Sometimes, before he even walked to the camp gate, he was discovered by the soldiers who immediately took the initiative to open the camp gate for him.

In the Red Flower Camp, Mu Lan was also training troops.

In fact, after the ambush battle, these few armies returned to Canglin Immortal City to rest, and were all actively recruiting troops, supplementing soldiers, and then training hard, which could be called racing against time.

At this time, the amount of sweat shed might determine life and death on the battlefield.

Therefore, whether it was generals or soldiers, they were all willing to practice hard. As everyone knows, they will still head to the front line.

Compared to the Three Generals Camp, the Red Flower Camp was much more spacious.

On one hand, the Red Flower Camp's specifications led to a very large camp, which was much higher than the new army of the Three Generals Camp. On the other hand, although the Red Flower Camp also supplemented soldiers, they were all carefully selected and did not rashly increase the number.

This is because the difficulty of the Red Flower Battle Array far exceeds most battle arrays. In this case, just increasing the number of people would instead get in the way, causing the battle array to be unable to be concluded, greatly lowering the combat power of the entire army.

Seeing Ning Zhuo come over, Mu Lan immediately stepped aside, let the deputy general take over her training of the troops, and she herself came to welcome Ning Zhuo.

"Ning Zhuo... Young Master." Mu Lan was expressionless, but her eyes flickered, revealing that her heart was not calm.

Ning Zhuo waved his hand, stated his intention, and wanted to use the open space in the camp to train troops.

Mu Lan agreed immediately.

Arranged by her, and leading Ning Zhuo all the way, they came to the open space.

Since Ning Zhuo chose to train troops in the Red Flower Camp, there was no need to hide anything from Mu Lan. Therefore, he generously took out all the mechanical puppets.

Mu Lan's eyes shone slightly.

She knew that Ning Zhuo had spent a lot of money to purchase a large number of mechanical puppets.

"But Ning Zhuo, in the previous ambush battle, although he controlled the mechanical puppets, they were individual entities."

"Single control and group control are two different things. How is his foundation in this aspect?"

A strong interest suddenly surged in Mu Lan's heart.

After several interactions, Ning Zhuo, by chance, became Mu Lan's husband, so she was naturally interested in her husband.

More importantly, as a tiger daughter of a general's family, she had been very sensitive and attentive to various things in the army since she was a child.

Under Mu Lan's observation, Ning Zhuo began his first drill.

His face was solemn, and he released his spiritual sense.

Through the continuous projection and reception of the Divine Split Mirror, soon, Ning Zhuo fully controlled all the mechanical puppets.

He was like having many prosthetic limbs, and had a close connection with the mechanical puppets, and directing them to act only consumed his own spiritual sense.

Ning Zhuo first tried the simplest action, which was to let these mechanical puppets walk together.

Seeing four hundred and more mechanical puppets suddenly move, Mu Lan was surprised, couldn't help but glance at Ning Zhuo, and secretly thought: "He is only at the Foundation Establishment stage, but he connects so many mechanical puppets, and the speed is very fast."

Controlling so many mechanical puppets at the same time, for Ning Zhuo, was the first time.

Before, although he had hoarded quite a few mechanical creations in Fire Persimmon Immortal City, those were all things he had worked hard for more than ten years, and purchased from the market one after another.

His level at that time was not enough, so how could the mechanical creations bought from the market compare to the four hundred and more mechanical puppets in front of him?

The previous mechanical creations were mostly beast-shaped, with simple structures, and were simple to control.

But these mechanical puppets now are military-grade, with more complex structures, requiring more manipulation ability, and can make more free and sensitive movements.

Ning Zhuo was fully focused. He felt like a toddler learning to walk, first groping to crawl on the ground, then slowly standing up, and then starting to walk unsteadily.

Mu Lan, who was watching from the side, soon discovered this point.

"So, Ning Zhuo has never controlled so many mechanical puppets."

Mu Lan frowned slightly, deciding to find a suitable time to persuade Ning Zhuo to give up training troops.

Using this kind of immature technique on the battlefield is not only irresponsible to himself, but also irresponsible to his allies and comrades-in-arms.

Especially since Ning Zhuo is still her husband, the son-in-law of the Mu General's Mansion, he cannot act recklessly.

Ning Zhuo took out spiritual food from his storage belt, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it.

Before long, he took out pills and swallowed them.

Whether it was spiritual food or pills, they were all helping him restore his spiritual sense at a faster speed.

His spiritual sense consumption was very rapid, to the point that his head was dizzy, as if an anvil had been installed.

Ning Zhuo took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes.

Please... collect... 6... 9... book...!

Mu Lan had been evaluating from the side, seeing this scene: "Ning Zhuo is only at the Foundation Establishment stage, and his spiritual sense is limited. Being able to support until now is already quite good."

"Although he learned quickly, this level is still far from being able to go to the battlefield."

"Must persuade him to stop."

"Taking this to the battlefield is simply a joke."

However, the next moment, Ning Zhuo opened his eyes.

He mobilized his spiritual sense again to control these mechanical puppets. And different from before, this time he was not just using spiritual sense control, but using both, using the Buddha Heart Demon Seal!

Ning Zhuo had long since planted heart seals on all the mechanical puppets.

Dual control of spiritual sense and heart seal!

The mechanical puppets suddenly became agile, as if they had changed from being dull to being normal people.

"How is this possible?!" Mu Lan's pupils shrank, and she felt shocked.

She could never have expected that Ning Zhuo just closed his eyes to rest halfway, and when he opened his eyes again, he had such a terrifying improvement!

The advance and retreat of the entire mechanical army were no longer scattered as before, but quickly became neat and uniform.

Mu Lan also noticed a detail—the distance between different puppets could even be adjusted!

This, in the past, was a scene that would absolutely not have happened.

"Since Ning Zhuo can perform such micro-manipulation, it shows that he still has a lot of spare energy."

"How could he suddenly improve so much? It's as if he had changed into a different person."

A reborn-like improvement!

Ning Zhuo also felt quite happy.

After fully mobilizing the heart seal, his spiritual sense consumption plummeted, less than one-tenth of what it was before.

He controlled them without any obstacles, had plenty of spare energy, and was very smooth.

A moment later, after Ning Zhuo adapted to this state, he stretched out his hands, spread his fingers, and activated his magic power suspension threads.

Ten suspension threads fell on the nearby mechanical puppets.

In an instant, it was as if they had been injected with souls, the speed of each movement became several times more sensitive, and the combat power displayed also rose a lot.

"Using this method, I can control some more powerful mechanical puppets."

"But I don't need it for now."

The general Ning Zhuo matched for this mechanical army was the Shadow Blade, Night Tiger. The spirituality possessed by the latter was even higher than that of the Heavy-Armored Blood Ape, Yuan Dasheng.

Meng Meng Ye Hu didn't need Ning Zhuo's control at all; free action instead allowed it to perform excellently.

"But regarding the matter of spirituality, it is better to hide it as much as possible and not expose it."

"In the future, when using Shadow Blade, Night Tiger, I will pretend to connect a magic power suspension thread to it."

While Ning Zhuo was thinking, Sun Lingtong woke up in the Ten-Thousand-Mile Swimming Dragon.

He came to the dragon head cabin with sleepy eyes, saw the situation of Ning Zhuo training troops, and the more he looked, the brighter his eyes became.

"Little Zhuo, Little Zhuo, hurry, hurry, hurry, let me play!"

Sun Lingtong showed a very strong interest in training mechanical soldiers.

"Okay, Boss, I'll give a part of the mechanical puppets to you. You must catch them immediately!" Ning Zhuo transmitted secretly.

Sun and Ning have been together since they were young, for more than ten years, and their cooperation is naturally incomparable.

Many mechanical puppets changed their controlling masters, from Ning Zhuo to Sun Lingtong, and the handover process was very natural and smooth.

Mu Lan had been watching from the side the whole time, and she didn't notice the secret tricks of the two of them.

Sun Lingtong's own cultivation technique and talent were quite outstanding, and he had learned the mechanical classics left by Meng Meng Yaoyin long ago, so controlling these mechanical puppets was also quite decent.

It was just that he was slightly unfamiliar before, which led to some bumps.

Mu Lan saw these bumps and looked at Ning Zhuo: "The time for training troops is very long, and Ning Zhuo is almost at his limit."

As a result, after Sun Lingtong's control became more and more proficient, the performance of the mechanical army also became better and better.

"..." Mu Lan found that she had misjudged again.

Ning Zhuo transmitted his spiritual sense: "Hahaha, Boss, with your help, the pressure of my control has plummeted by at least 40%."

Sun Lingtong said: "Little Zhuo, this is too fun."

Ning Zhuo: "Boss, it's better not to play. After you are familiar with it, we will start practicing the battle array. Without the battle array, the army is just a pile of loose sand. In battle, they will become cannon fodder and sacrifices."

After another half a cup of tea, both Sun and Ning were much more proficient.

Form the array.

Battle Array—Light Body Gale Array!

Sun and Ning joined forces to conclude the battle array!

It was almost successful, but at the last moment, two or three mechanical puppets were controlled improperly and did not walk to the corresponding battle array position in time.

Seeing that it was about to fail, Ning Zhuo immediately carried out remedial measures, shooting out magic power suspension threads.

He specifically controlled and increased the magic power infusion, finally catching up at the last juncture, letting these three mechanical puppets make the correct movements and walk to the correct positions.

Boom.

After a light sound, the Light Body Gale Array was successfully concluded.

Between the entire mechanical army, countless light winds lingered. The light winds lifted and entangled the mechanical puppets, making them increase in speed, act agilely, and almost silently.

Seeing this scene, Mu Lan finally couldn't cover it up, and her expression changed.

Being able to successfully conclude the array, this mechanical army leaped to become a reliable fresh force that could be expected.

"It was I who underestimated Ning Zhuo."

"He is indeed a rare genius! His talent for controlling mechanical arts is even more than I have ever seen in my life."

Mu Lan stared at Ning Zhuo, her expression becoming more complex.

The more she interacted with Ning Zhuo, the more advantages she discovered in him.

These advantages all accumulated in her heart, making her impression of Ning Zhuo rise again and again.

(End of this chapter)