Chapter 526: Collapse
After deciding, Jiang Yue relaxed and looked around the room.
Compared to other rooms, this room was less empty.
At one corner, there was a desk and chair placed against the wall.
’Let’s check it out.’ Jiang Yue thought and walked towards the desk.
A few moments later, she arrived at the desk and saw a pile of papers on top of the desk.
"I somehow have a bad feeling." He muttered and looked at the topmost paper.
Soon after, Jiang Yue sighed and frowned.
"As expected." He muttered with a solemn look in his eyes.
The topmost paper had instructions for the task.
From the paper, he learned what he was required to do and the rules of the task.
"Design and construct a level seven puppet." Jiang Yue mumbled.
Most importantly, everything had to be built from scratch.
This meant he would only receive the raw materials but not the carved-out parts.
Fortunately, the task had no time limit.
However, the rewards he would receive were proportional to the level of the puppet he built and the time taken to build it.
"How bothersome." Jiang Yue couldn’t help but complain.
’Azhen, do you have the same task?’ Jiang Yue wondered with a yearning look in his eyes.
’No, I can’t see him now. Let’s finish the task first and then go to him.’
After that, Jiang Yue sat on the desk chair and began designing a puppet.
At first, he only drew different shapes.
Lion...
Turtle...
Snake...
Butterfly...
In the end, Jiang Yue chose to construct a butterfly puppet.
After all, his contract beast was a butterfly.
Considering that, he felt it was easier to construct a butterfly puppet since he intimately knew a butterfly’s anatomy.
Most importantly, if he encountered a problem, he could release XiaoLan to study her a little closer.
’Azhen doesn’t have a contract beast. Will he be okay?’ Jiang Yue couldn’t help but worry.
However, he soon shook his head and smiled.
’Azhen is smart and resourceful, he will find a way.’
After choosing the kind of puppet he wanted to make, Jiang Yue began to design the parts required to build the puppet.
Time passed in this way and before he knew it, it was already fifty years later.
On this day, Jiang Yue sighed and looked at his designs with a gloomy face.
"I didn’t expect to spend fifty years on the design alone." He muttered.
However, he was very satisfied with the end result.
Drawing from the experience he gained in the ruins; his design was not only intricate but also beautiful.
If the puppet was made, it would definitely be more powerful than the eagle and tiger puppets he assembled before.
’I don’t know how long it will take to make the parts and assemble the puppet...’ Jiang Yue thought and sighed.
At the same time, he looked at the pile of raw materials that had suddenly appeared in the room.
’This room is too intuitive and mysterious.’ He thought with a solemn look in his eyes.
However, he didn’t dwell on the matter.
Instead, he focused his mind and sat close to the raw materials.
"It’s time to carve the parts." He said and began his work.
Four hundred years later, Jiang Yue stood next to a life-size butterfly puppet.
At a glance, the puppet looked alive and Jiang Yue couldn’t help but feel proud.
"It took more than four hundred years but I have finally completed the task." He said and as if the room was listening to him, a creature suddenly fell from the ceiling.
The creature was a bird puppet.
It was about the same size as the butterfly puppet and it looked at Jiang Yue with a ferocious look in its jewelled red eyes.
Seeing this, Jiang Yue took a step back and activated his butterfly puppet.
"Defeat it." Jiang Yue said and his butterfly puppet immediately soared into the sky.
At the same time, the bird puppet also soared and the two began to fight.
From the task instructions, this fight was a test.
If Jiang Yue’s puppet couldn’t defeat the bird puppet, he would directly lose his inheritance qualifications.
Fortunately, failure wouldn’t lead to death.
Rather, he would be thrown out of the ruin and never gain another chance to enter.
’I have come this far and spent so much time. I won’t accept failure.’ He thought with a determined look in his eyes.
Simultaneously, he controlled his puppet to attack the bird puppet.
’Break it’s right wing.’ He thought and his butterfly puppet looped around the opponent.
Soon after, a sharp wing sliced at the bird’s wing.
However, the bird puppet was not a vegetarian.
When the butterfly attacked it, the bird also did a loop and escaped.
In this way, the two struggled for an incense stick before the butterfly puppet managed to decapitate one of the bird’s wings.
After that, everything was easy.
Because its wing was damaged, the bird puppet fell from the sky and the butterfly took advantage.
Soon after, the butterfly puppet removed a spirit stone from the opponent’s body and the bird puppet immediately deactivated.
’This bird puppet is powerful. How can I let it be too badly damaged?’ Jiang Yue thought and rushed towards the puppet.
After examining it, he nodded and took it away.
"I can repair it easily." He said with a smile on his lips.
"Now..." He started but didn’t get a chance to finish.
"Another door?" Jiang Yue exclaimed with a gloomy look on his face.
After more than one thousand years, he was tired of the ruins and doors.
However, he had no choice but to walk through the door that suddenly appeared.
With a resigned look in his eyes, Jiang Yue put away his butterfly puppet and walked through the door.
A moment later, his eyes widened and happy laughter echoed in the room.
When he entered the room, Jiang Yue thought he would find another task.
Unexpectedly, the new room wasn’t a task room but a reward room.
In front of Jiang Yue were one dozen humanoid puppets.
At a glance, the puppets were more refined and powerful than all the ones he encountered before.
Most importantly, each puppet held a jade scroll and behind them were three large boxes.
"Master." The puppets shouted in unison and Jiang Yue couldn’t help but laugh happily.
’Are they all mine?’ He wondered.
"Master has qualified to receive the inheritance of the ten thousand puppets sect." The puppets spoke again.
"Ten thousand puppets sect..." Jiang Yue muttered and tried to recall the sect.
However, he couldn’t think about it and soon gave up.
’It’s most important to put away the things and find Azhen.’ He thought.
After deciding, Jiang Yue didn’t waste time.
He quickly put away the jade scrolls, puppets, and large boxes.
When the room emptied, the ruin began to shake.
Cracks appeared on the blue stones and dust rose from the ground.
Seeing this, Jiang Yue narrowed his eyes.
At the same time, he activated the golden teleportation talisman and directly disappeared from the room.
A moment later, he appeared in another room that was also cracking and about to fall apart.
"Azhen." Jiang Yue called and the swordsman smiled when he saw his lover.
"Let’s leave first." The man said and Jiang Yue nodded in agreement.
Now that the room was falling apart, large gaps had appeared and the two quickly made their way out of the room.
After struggling for half an hour, the two made their way out of the ruins and arrived outside.
"Finally." Jiang Yue said and heaved a sigh of relief.
Simultaneously, he fell into his lover’s arms and hugged him tightly.
"I missed you." He said and Yu Nianzhen chuckled before he spoke.
"I also missed you." The swordsman said.
With that, the two hugged for a while but soon separated.
"The ruin is about to collapse." Jiang Yue observed.
"Mmmm." Yu Nianzhen asked and looked at Jiang Yue.
Seeing the questioning look, Jiang Yue smiled and nodded.
[I got the inheritance.] Jiang Yue said proudly.
[My XiaoYue is the best.] Yu Nianzhen said with a smile on his face.
[What about you?]
[I made a dragon. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to finish it before the ruins began to shake.]
[Dragon? So ambitious?] Jiang Yue was a little surprised.
Although they were novice masters, they were proficient enough to estimate the complexities and difficulties of making certain kinds of puppets.
Generally, a dragon was not easy to design and make.
Most importantly, the two had never seen a dragon and didn’t have more than a general understanding of its anatomy.
From a certain perspective, Yu Nianzhen was courting failure.
[I suddenly felt like it.] Yu Nianzhen said and shrugged.
For some reason, when he was preparing to design his puppet, he suddenly thought of a dragon.
However, he knew the difficulties involved, so he didn’t plan to indulge his thoughts, but the idea wouldn’t leave his mind.
