Chapter 1497: Chapter 1409: A New Discovery
Seeing the two of them in a rage, Ye Guichen didn’t waste any time, and suddenly drew the Immortal Slayer Sword, directly slicing off one of their uncle’s arms.
"You, what are you doing!"
Wenya screamed as she charged at Ye Guichen, raising the Qianji Umbrella, ready to fight him to the death.
Xiang Yun was quicker, kicking towards Ye Guichen.
From their looks, they seemed intent on killing Ye Guichen on the spot.
However, Ye Guichen didn’t confront them head-on; he flickered, easily evading their attacks.
At the same time, he reached out and grabbed their master’s arm: "Take a good look before you act."
Wenya and Xiang Yun were stunned, lifting their heads to look at the severed part of the arm.
What they saw made their eyes widen as if they had seen a ghost.
Only to see the severed part of the arm densely packed with mechanisms, like precise instruments.
"What’s going on?" The two could no longer describe their feelings; was their uncle, whom they lived with day and night, not even human?
Ye Guichen chuckled: "Wasn’t I right? If my guess is correct, your uncle is also a puppet, just a very advanced one?"
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Wenya shook her head: "How could anyone in the world make such a lifelike puppet? Even Third Elder, though obsessed with this type of lifelike puppetry technique, has never succeeded."
Ye Guichen looked at their emotional turmoil and spoke: "Your junior brother is likely in the same situation."
Then, Ye Guichen came to their junior brother, and after a slight investigation of his body, he discovered that the other’s breath was weak, although his pulse and heartbeat were no different from a normal person.
However, those extremely slight changes were still easily detected by Ye Guichen.
Relatively speaking, this junior brother was likely just a half-finished product.
Ye Guichen looked up: "Have you guessed something as well?"
Xiang Yun’s face twisted: "Impossible! Junior Brother is definitely not a puppet. I have known him since he came to Qianji Sect. All these years, I have watched him grow bit by bit. Puppets don’t grow at all, you, you are talking nonsense!"
Ye Guichen didn’t argue with Xiang Yun: "I didn’t say he was a puppet, but he is not much different from one either."
"What, what do you mean?" Xiang Yun couldn’t accept Ye Guichen’s words.
This situation was entirely mind-blowing.
Although Qianji Sect highly valued puppetry techniques, they could even transform beasts into puppets, but turning humans into puppets is against their principles.
Even Elder Qianji once said that, even if puppetry reached an unprecedented height, one must never experiment on living humans.
But according to Ye Guichen’s implication, it seemed their junior brother was indeed a puppet.
Wenya also struggled to suppress her inner panic, trembling as she said: "Ye... friend, what do you really mean? Are you saying that our uncle is a complete puppet? And our junior brother is only half a puppet?"
"That’s right." Ye Guichen nodded: "According to my observations, your junior brother doesn’t know he’s a puppet, but half of his body has mechanisms installed."
Saying this, Ye Guichen pried open the junior brother’s eyes, reached in, and with force, plucked something out.
The eyeball actually rolled out directly.
"This, this..." Wenya and Xiang Yun were flabbergasted, looking at the eyeball, which showed no trace of blood, and in fact, didn’t look like an ordinary person’s eye at all.
Ye Guichen placed the eyeball back into the junior brother’s eye, then with his hand like a knife, sliced open the junior brother’s abdomen.
This time, Wenya and Xiang Yun did not stop him, just silently watched.
Once the junior brother’s abdomen was opened, it could be seen that half of the internal organs had been replaced, interlinked with many mechanisms.
Such skill was unimaginable even to Wenya and Xiang Yun.
Xiang Yun finally closed his mouth, looking consultatively at Wenya.
Wenya bit her lip gently, as if she thought of something, but didn’t intend to tell Ye Guichen. Instead, she cupped her hands towards Ye Guichen: "Friend, we only hope you can revive our uncle and junior brother. As for other things, we can discuss them later."
"Senior Sister, he may know medicine, but looking at the state of uncle and junior brother, he clearly doesn’t understand mechanical techniques. How can he possibly revive them?" Xiang Yun increasingly doubted Ye Guichen’s ability to revive the two.
Ye Guichen did not provide much explanation, he simply said: "I told you, reviving them is possible, so naturally it is possible. But as for what happens after revival, that’s not my concern, just remember your promise to me."
"Rest assured, if you have the ability to revive our uncle and junior brother, we will definitely tell you all the information we’ve investigated about the northern wasteland’s underground mechanisms." Wenya looked determined.
Whether it’s Uncle Master or Little Junior Brother, the situation has far exceeded her imagination.
Although Wen Ya is strong in mechanical techniques, it is completely ineffective when used on a human body.
Ye Guichen nodded, searching his mind for the Esoteric Sect’s one hundred and eight techniques about casting off the body technique.
This casting off the body technique seems to include a scroll detailing the steps to make a person into a puppet.
In fact, unknowingly, the person made into a puppet would not even realize it.
According to the records in the casting off the body technique, its original purpose was to treat diseases, invented by some alchemists.
However, as the technique developed, those alchemists discovered that it could not only replace human organs, allowing one to live in a half-human, half-object state, but also increase physical strength and enhance one’s constitution.
For instance, replacing a person’s internal organs with those of an ox would significantly increase their temperament, appetite, and strength.
If replaced with those of a demonic beast, they would even display some of the beast’s prowess.
Moreover, if a high cultivator were killed and their organs transplanted into a common person, that common person could cultivate at lightning speed, reaching the original cultivator’s level in no time.
This gave those alchemists hope.
They suddenly realized that if the casting off the body technique were further developed, it could easily break some cultivation barriers.
But later, because this technique was too inhumane, and each success had to be paid for with thousands of lives.
The alchemist who initially crafted this technique was discovered and was soon killed.
From then on, this casting off the body technique vanished into thin air.
But now, it seems that this technique did not completely disappear, but was learned by some with ulterior motives, recorded, and practiced anew.
Ye Guichen even suspected that the founder of the Esoteric Sect might be related to that alchemist.
Because, within the Esoteric Sect’s casting off the body technique, there were indeed similar records.
And the records were extremely detailed.
Not only were there organ replacements, but also using some precise mechanisms to replace organs.
This was similar to the condition inside the Little Junior Brother.
Some of his body organs and even joints were crafted with precise mechanisms.
This method of using mechanisms to replace body organs is relatively simpler than organ-to-organ replacement.
Ye Guichen only skimmed through the casting off the body technique in his mind and easily understood the situations inside Uncle Master and Little Junior Brother.
It seemed that at that time, some mechanism in their bodies resonated with the giant mechanism beneath the northern wilderness, causing a malfunction, which resulted in them displaying injury-like conditions.
After reattaching Uncle Master’s arm and using the Evergreen Technique of Yimu to heal the exterior skin, then using the same technique to repair Little Junior Brother’s abdomen, Ye Guichen began to search for abnormalities inside the two.
However, Ye Guichen’s method of skin repair left Wen Ya and Xiang Yun astonished, their mouths agape once more.
Whether it was Uncle Master or Little Junior Brother, their skin was undoubtedly real, just like human skin.
But even the strongest expert, once injured, cannot recover in an instant.
Yet, these seemed to be no issue in Ye Guichen’s hands.
Wen Ya and Xiang Yun exchanged glances, clearly seeing the amazement in each other’s eyes.
Xiang Yun originally had many doubts about Ye Guichen, but he now fell silent and signaled to Wen Ya with his eyes, indicating for her to join him.
Wen Ya saw Ye Guichen deep in concentration, hesitated slightly, and followed Xiang Yun away to a place where they were sure Ye Guichen could not overhear their conversation before speaking up: "Junior Brother, I know what you want to say, but this matter concerns the reputation of our entire Qianji Sect. If it gets out, it could bring disaster upon us."
Xiang Yun retorted angrily, "Senior Sister, I know, but allowing a puppet man to be our Uncle Master without anyone noticing, such means, besides the Sect Leader, are completely unattainable by another. Moreover, Little Junior Brother has become half-human, he grew up with us, even if not related by blood, he’s our closest kin, how can you watch him become a puppet?"
Wen Ya furrowed her brow, deeply conflicted: "Currently, Little Junior Brother’s condition is unclear, and whether he can recover is uncertain. I also don’t want Junior Brother to be harmed. However, our priority is figuring out why the Sect Leader placed them by our side. Also, given that Uncle Master is a mechanical puppet, it’s probable that the Sect Leader knows our every move, but what is his purpose in doing this?"
"Hmph, is there any need to ask? Surely, he doesn’t want anyone to unravel the mechanism left by Elder Qianji and seeks to remain as the Sect Leader," Xiang Yun said angrily.
Wen Ya shook her head: "It’s not that simple. If it were just that, why wouldn’t he directly forbid us from coming?"
As she spoke, Wen Ya gestured subtly towards Ye Guichen: "Moreover, that person is with the Third Elder, who has always aspired to be Sect Leader, so sending someone from their side is understandable. But if the Third Elder sent someone, why not send someone he trusts? From my observation, the one named Ye Guichen doesn’t seem aligned with the Third Elder."
Xiang Yun was stunned, puzzled: "Senior Sister, do you mean Ye Guichen deceived us?"
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