Xue Shuyu Xie was still sensible, and took the initiative to greet.
In comparison, Xue Cai Nv Hui remained motionless, staring blankly at Ning Zhuo.
To be safe, Ning Zhuo hung the Life Hanging Thread over the heads of the two mechanical puppets.
He inspected them to ensure both had their spiritual nature in the Spirit Growth period.
Ning Zhuo pondered: "Is it because the shells like Floating Ice Jade Hands and Weather Balloon·Ice Crystal Snow are too small, making it difficult for spiritual nature to have space to grow?"
Ning Zhuo speculated inwardly.
His understanding of spiritual nature mostly came from "Spirit Theory."
Although the book was extremely valuable, its content was limited, focusing on the classification of spiritual nature.
"Perhaps I should start with the Myriad Images Sect, to see if there’s a magic technique for nurturing spiritual nature?"
Ning Zhuo kept this thought in mind.
This is the advantage of joining a super sect. Many things that are unavailable on the market can be found here.
Of course, regarding the knowledge of spiritual nature, the Complete Book Pavilion should also have it. But Ning Zhuo wasn’t part of the pavilion, as a customer, the price to buy such high-level jade slips would be much greater.
Besides, wasn’t he currently at Myriad Images Sect instead of the Complete Book Pavilion?
A moment later.
Inside the cultivation room, Xue Cai Nv Hui and Xue Shuyu Xie stood facing each other, with a huge ice block placed between the two puppets.
Inside the ice block, there was a monkey-shaped mechanical puppet, namely Heavy Blood Ape Da Sheng.
"Begin." Ning Zhuo stood further away, watching with arms crossed.
Xue Shuyu Xie took the lead in action.
The ice beast head on her shoulder armor gleamed with cold light, fiercely shooting into the ice block in the field.
Inside the ice block, countless azure blue light threads quickly extended, radiating everywhere, forming hexagonal shapes within the ice block.
The hexagons interlocked, forming a three-dimensional grid.
Ning Zhuo knew: the more grids there were, the deeper Xue Shuyu Xie’s control over the ice block.
The hexagonal grid was only an appearance; the true source of power was Xue Shuyu Xie’s innate talent—Snow Soul Frost Spirit!
This innate talent makes the soul of the possessor different from ordinary people; even without soul cultivation, one can detach the soul from the body and grasp certain icy powers.
If the soul is injured, it can utilize the ice and snow to accelerate the healing of soul wounds.
The downside is that the soul foundation gets increasingly stronger, thus oppressing the physical body. In the early stage, it might lead to chronic frostbite. The gap between the soul and physical body will grow larger with the cultivator’s cultivation level.
To the extent that in the mid-to-late stage, the cultivator’s physical body will be frozen to death, leaving only the soul existing.
Once possessing the Snow Soul Frost Spirit talent, the cultivator will ultimately become a ghost cultivator.
This is considered a low-class innate talent.
The ice block freezing Heavy Blood Ape Da Sheng was mostly permeated by the hexagonal grid.
But soon, Xue Shuyu Xie’s power reached its limit—when the hexagonal grid was about to approach Heavy Blood Ape Da Sheng, it stopped abruptly, unable to touch Yuan Dasheng’s body no matter how much innate talent was exerted.
Xue Shuyu Xie began the next move.
The azure blue grid’s brightness soared under the infusion of mana.
Crunch, crunch...
Amidst a series of crisp sounds, the ice block covered by the grid cracked. Subsequently, countless ice shards, like millions of tiny diamonds, flew away, scattering outward.
The ice block freezing Heavy Blood Ape Da Sheng rapidly diminished at a visible speed.
After Xue Shuyu Xie’s full effort, only a thin layer of ice remained freezing Yuan Dasheng.
But this thin layer was an abrupt increase in difficulty; no matter how Xue Shuyu Xie exerted herself, it remained unmoved, not reducing a bit.
Seeing this situation, Ning Zhuo decisively ordered Xue Cai Nv Hui to also make a move.
Three pairs of jade arms suddenly unfolded, the graceful female puppet body slowly floated up, Innate Ice Fat Jade Hand began deploying, the three-color enamel armored claws radiating splendid brilliance.
The two mechanical puppets joined forces, immediately making a breakthrough.
The thin layer of ice outside Yuan Dasheng melted rapidly like accumulating snow under the blazing sun.
Dark black yin qi dispersed everywhere, collected by Ning Zhuo, preventing it from interfering with the subsequent thawing rescue operation.
Inside the mechanical puppet Heavy Blood Ape Da Sheng, it was also frozen, packed with ice blocks.
These ice blocks had a darker hue, clearly containing more yin attribute power.
Xue Shuyu Xie and Xue Cai Nv Hui put in their best efforts, only dispersing a small portion of the ice blocks, roughly thirty percent.
The remaining seventy percent still held their ground, being quite stubborn.
Divine Skill—Life Hanging Thread!
Ning Zhuo’s eyes lit up with joy on his face.
Unlike before, Life Hanging Thread finally managed to connect with Yuan Dasheng’s spiritual nature.
His spiritual nature curled up, also frozen, not reacting no matter how Ning Zhuo called.
As for using Life Hanging Thread to extract it, it was out of the question.
Ning Zhuo sighed softly.
This was already the limit.
Being able to achieve this level was already quite good.
After all, both mechanical puppets were made of Golden Core level materials, and their Golden Core level combat power couldn’t handle the methods of a Nascent Soul level strongman in a life-and-death battle.
Fortunately, this scenario was within Ning Zhuo’s expectations.
He continued to order Xue Cai Nv Hui to deploy Ice Fat Jade Hand.
But this time, Ice Fat Jade Hand no longer thawed, but increased the ice blocks.
The new ice blocks froze Heavy Blood Ape Da Sheng, almost restoring its previous state. But this time, these ice blocks harbored vitality, continuously bringing life and nourishment to Yuan Dasheng’s spiritual nature.
Ning Zhuo carefully observed through the Life Hanging Thread and confirmed that Yuan Dasheng’s spiritual nature could barely be maintained, then he somewhat set aside his worries.