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 buckled 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.

Sun and Ning took out the Divine Division Mirrors one by one, used their spiritual sense and magic power to slightly modify these mechanical puppets, and finally installed the Divine Division Mirrors inside.

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

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

This was one of the precious mirrors recorded in the Foundation Establishment chapter of the Mirror Platform Psychic Art, capable of receiving spiritual sense and dividing spiritual sense.

Among all the precious mirrors, the Divine Division Mirror was the cheapest to manufacture. This was also carefully designed by the Three Sects' Masters, intentional. Because, among all the precious mirrors, the demand for the Divine Division Mirror was the greatest.

Like what Ning Zhuo was doing now, it was to install the Divine Division Mirror on all the mechanical puppets.

These four hundred plus Divine Division Mirrors were what Sun and Ning had worked tirelessly to manufacture in these few days.

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 be able to strengthen it a bit in the Divine Division Mirror.

Ning Zhuo could not only contact and control this mechanical puppet, but the extra 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 other Divine Division Mirrors, and after falling into the mirrors, they also strengthened a bit, and the excess spiritual sense was divided into several parts again and projected out.

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

He activated his spiritual sense with all his might, spreading it everywhere, and soon fully covered the four hundred plus 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 Division Mirror, but although the total amount was clearly more than Ning Zhuo's, the degree of reinforcement received by the mirror surface was not even half of Ning Zhuo's, and the spiritual sense divided out was at most only three or four parts.

The Divine Division Mirror also had many helps for Sun Lingtong to control the mechanical puppets, but not many.

After all, the Mirror Platform Psychic Art and the Divine Division Mirror were a set.

This made Sun Lingtong sigh from the bottom of his heart again: The Three Sects' Masters were talented and brilliant, and the Three Sects' Supreme Arts they created were rare in the world. Not to mention that one could cultivate all three dantian, just taking out one of the items had rich content and perfect matching.

Ning Zhuo was both excited and exhausted.

In order to manufacture enough Divine Division Mirrors, he had worked 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 are about to be unable to open."

Sun Lingtong nodded: "You sleep first, I'll hold on."

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

Ning Zhuo nodded naturally.

From childhood to adulthood, Sun Lingtong would always let Ning Zhuo go to sleep first, and he would keep watch. Ning Zhuo was already used to such an 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 he lay down.

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

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 the three generals Liu, Guan, and Zhang training the troops, and seeing them practicing hard without stopping, he used his spiritual sense to transmit a greeting, and after that, he 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 for a while, and then came to the Red Flower Camp.

He now entered and exited 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 the Canglin Xiancheng to rest and reorganize, and were all actively recruiting troops and buying horses. After supplementing the soldiers, they trained troops with all their might, which could be called racing against time.

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

Therefore, whether it was generals or soldiers, they were all willing to practice hard. As everyone knew, they would still be heading to the front line.

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

On one hand, the specifications of the Red Flower Camp resulted in a very large camp, which was much higher in grade than the new army like the Three Generals Camp. On the other hand, although the Red Flower Camp also supplemented soldiers, they were all carefully selected, without rashly increasing the quantity.

This was because the difficulty of the Red Flower Battle Array far exceeded most battle arrays. In this situation, 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 withdrew, let the deputy general replace her to continue training the troops, and she herself took the initiative to welcome Ning Zhuo.

"Ning Zhuo... Young Master." Mu Lan was expressionless, but her gaze 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 it 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 heavy capital to purchase a large number of mechanical puppets.

"But Ning Zhuo was previously in the 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 heavy interest suddenly surged in Mu Lan's heart.

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

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

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 Division 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 needed to consume his own spiritual sense.

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

Seeing four hundred plus 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 was still the first time for Ning Zhuo.

In the past, although he had also hoarded many mechanical creations in the Fire Persimmon Xiancheng, those were all accumulated by him through hard work 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 plus 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 were for military use, with more complex structures, requiring more manipulation ability, and capable of making more free and sensitive movements.

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

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 was not only irresponsible to himself, but also irresponsible to his allies and comrades-in-arms.

Especially since Ning Zhuo was still her own husband, the son-in-law of the Mu General's Mansion, he couldn't mess around at will.

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

Before long, he took out elixir and swallowed it.

Whether it was spiritual food or elixir, they were all helping him recover his spiritual sense faster.

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

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

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

"Although he got started quickly, this degree is still far from 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 unlike before, this time he was not just using spiritual sense to control, but using both, using the My Buddha Heart Demon Seal!

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

Dual control of spiritual sense and heart seal!

The mechanical puppets immediately became agile, as if a dull person had become a normal person.

"How is it possible?!" Mu Lan's pupils shrank, feeling 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—different puppets could even adjust the distance between each other!

This was a scene that would absolutely not have happened before.

"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 almost like he has changed into a different person."

A rebirth-like improvement!

Ning Zhuo also felt quite happy.

After fully activating the heart seal, his spiritual sense consumption plummeted, less than one-tenth of before.

He controlled them without any hindrance, with plenty of spare energy, and very smoothly.

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

Ten suspension threads fell onto the nearby mechanical puppets.

In an instant, it was as if they had been injected with souls, the speed of every 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 Blood Ape Dasheng.

Meng Yehu didn't need Ning Zhuo's control at all, and free action could instead perform brilliantly.

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

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

When 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 quite strong interest in training mechanical soldiers.

"Okay, Boss, I'll give up a portion of the mechanical puppets to you. You must catch them immediately!" Ning Zhuo secretly took care of it.

Sun and Ning have been together since childhood, for more than ten years, and their cooperation is naturally extremely tacit.

Many mechanical puppets changed their control 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 Sun and Ning.

Sun Lingtong's own cultivation method and natural talent were quite outstanding, and he had learned the mechanical records secret manual left by Meng Yaoyin very early, so controlling these mechanical puppets was also quite decent.

It was just that he was slightly unfamiliar before, leading to bumps and bruises.

Mu Lan saw these bumps and bruises, then looked at Ning Zhuo: "The time for training troops is very long, and Ning Zhuo is about to reach 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, let's not play anymore. 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 the battle, it will become cannon fodder and a sacrifice."

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 originally about to succeed, 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 deliberately controlled it, increased the magic power infusion, and finally caught up at the last juncture, letting these three mechanical puppets make the correct movements and also walk to the correct position.

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, causing their speed to rise, their actions to be agile, and almost soundless.

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 new force that could be expected.

"It was I who underestimated Ning Zhuo."

"He is indeed a rare genius! His talent in 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 helped Ning Zhuo, the more advantages she discovered in Ning Zhuo.

These advantages were all accumulated in the bottom of her heart, causing her impression of Ning Zhuo to rise again and again.

(End of chapter)