After tidying up the dishes, Yu Sheng took Hu Li and Erin straight to the valley and arrived on the teleportation gate platform.

This time, Yu Sheng brought all three Erins along.

This is because the little puppet needs to personally complete several key parts of the ritual, including the drawing of complex arrays, the placement of alchemy materials, and even part of the sculpting work—given her current size, one body wouldn't be enough to handle so many complex tasks.

This time, Yu Sheng and the others are trying to improve the "completion" of the sculpting as much as possible, avoiding any part that might lead to defects.

"Still here?" Erin looked around, found the corner of the platform from last time when her body was sculpted, "It's quite fitting."

"Wait a bit while I make a wall to prevent the wind from blowing out the candles," Yu Sheng said while starting to focus, mumbling as he manipulated the platform to "grow," "I should've left the wall from last time..."

"More than that, you should hurry up and get that 'divine temple' in your plan built. I've been saying to build some kind of hub here, but now the platform is still bare with just a gate, no fence at all," Erin grumbled, "I suggest you stop daydreaming over those epic architecture images you found online, at least make a box or something..."

Yu Sheng broke into a cold sweat, realizing why Erin always gave him a strange look while he searched for architecture images online; she had guessed he intended to use them for house plans...

But despite the cold sweat, he didn't stop his work.

With the sound of rocks grinding and a slight tremor underfoot, the surrounding ground began to rise and grow rapidly as if alive.

He erected temporary walls to block the wind in the valley, and raised a platform of suitable size in the middle to serve as the alchemy platform, then asked Hu Li to place the needed items on the platform one by one.

Ritual candles procured from the Special Service Bureau, holy oil, spices, crystal dust, ink...

All top-grade alchemy materials from the Boundary Land, some of which can't even be bought on the market and are treasures supplied internally by the Special Service Bureau.

It's undeniable that these high-end goods are different from those bought from a five-yuan store—even the packaging is not on the same level, with some ritual spices even stored in gold-plated boxes with a sealing effect, while Yu Sheng recalled he used a plastic bottle for his purchase...

Various high-grade materials were laid out in front, making the little puppet's eyes widen. When she turned to look at Yu Sheng, her eyes were full of amazement, "How much the hell did you pluck?!"

"That's not all, Hu Li still has more in her tail," Yu Sheng said proudly, "And you were there when I plucked the materials last time, so what's there to be surprised about now?"

Erin blinked and then sheepishly scratched her head, "Oh, that's right."

Yu Sheng: "..."

He suddenly didn't care how high the physical quality of the body made with these good materials would be; he just wondered if they could make Erin's brain work a bit better...

Meanwhile, the little puppet had already begun to draw the basic part of the alchemy array on the platform.

Compared to the simple magic technique she had previously taught Yu Sheng, she was now drawing a more complex, profound high-level array—dazzling runes formed every line in the magic technique, with every spirit injection area having more intricate amplification, stabilization, and connection "nodes," with four layers of circular foundational lines, and the closer to the core, the more complex it became, making one dizzy just looking at it.

The two Erins each held a pen dipped in water, drawing on the platform seriously with special ritual ink. They had tense faces, looking meticulous, while the third Erin stood outside the array, checking the completeness and symmetry of the entire array from a third-party perspective.

To be honest, her ability to have multiple bodies working synchronously and still have a third-party perspective overseeing everything was really suited for this task; Yu Sheng felt a bit envious watching.

He mused that if he could have multiple perspectives watching when he planned buildings, he wouldn't always end up making them look like public landscape restrooms...

While Erin was drawing the magic technique, she appeared to be at ease. The body responsible for supervising also took the time to converse with Yu Sheng: "What material are we using for the skeleton this time?"

Yu Sheng: "Actually, I think rebar would be fine..."

Before he could finish, and before the little puppet could start rambling, he immediately added, "But Hu Li just came up with a new suggestion."

The supervising Erin paused, subconsciously turning her head.

Then she saw Hu Li raise a tail and shake it, with a loud bang, shaking out a massive iron block onto the ground.

The little puppet was dumbfounded: "…What?!"

Yu Sheng hurriedly spoke up: "Don't make that face, this is probably the highest-grade material we can find. According to the Special Service Bureau, in terms of mysticism values, it's off the charts; its capacity for containing and conducting spirituality is even stronger than that of a living person—there's nothing better in the Special Service Bureau's own warehouse. Just think, they even have to source stuff from us..."

Erin was a bit taken aback by Yu Sheng's long explanation, almost convinced, but suddenly she remembered something and reacted: "Wait a minute! This stuff will produce Mechanical Souls! Anything even like a hammer can produce one! If my skeleton is made of this, wouldn't it come alive on its own? Then everything I do, I would have to discuss with my own bones first?"

"No," this time before Yu Sheng could speak, Hu Li shook her head and patiently explained, "The Spiritual Fox Mysterious Iron is not an evil item that seizes one's mind. It only shows spirituality when crafting ordinary items, but if used to shape a skeleton, it only communicates heart-to-heart with its owner—in my homeland, there are merchants from foreign planets who specifically purchase our Mysterious Iron. Although they don't create Artifact Spirits, they do make implants for use inside the body, and there have never been any problems."

"...Your hometown seems to have everything..." Erin muttered, but ultimately dismissed her doubts, merely looking at the big chunk of iron beside Hu Li with some confusion, "But with something like this, how are you planning to turn it into a skeleton for me? Wouldn't you need a forge or something to melt it down first?"

Yu Sheng looked smug: "Oh, that's simple. I'll just create a skeleton-shaped groove in the ground next to it. Then Hu Li will melt this piece of iron into liquid and pour it in..."

While talking, he walked to an open space at a safe distance from the alchemy platform, raised his hand to guide for a moment, and on the ground a groove formed, wriggling into a skeleton frame with dimensions proportional to that of a real human skeleton. Then Hu Li came to the groove, waved her hand, and intoned a spell, causing the "Mysterious Iron" to float before her, gradually melting under the encircling Fox Fire…

Yu Sheng continued explaining to Erin: "I actually learned this technique from watching videos online about casting iron fences on the ground..."

Erin: "..."

The not-so-bright little puppet's mind always felt that the scene before her was a bit odd.

On her side, the two bodies were still engrossed, sketching complex alchemy magic techniques, the arcane runes, and the related alchemy knowledge originating from ancient puppet traditions.

On the other side, Hu Li was using flames imbued with spiritual power to smelt the iron ingots, with the fire and spellcraft stemming from mysterious techniques and demon fox immortal arts from a distant otherworld.

The key to merging these two elements lay in Yu Sheng carving a groove on the ground, a technique mainly derived from the craft of casting iron fences in small village workshops...

And to be honest, the casting looked pretty decent—Yu Sheng carved out the groove quite evenly...

A moment later, the Fox Fire receded, and Hu Li temporarily set aside the remaining iron ingot, then took out several large buckets of water from her tail, splashing them on the ground. After letting it cool slightly, she pried the cast "skeleton" from the ground, still steaming, and placed it in the center of the alchemy array Erin had just drawn.

"The materials serving as 'flesh and blood' are the soil and rocks from the valley," Yu Sheng said from the side, "This material is probably the most fitting thing we have that meets your requirements, 'like living earth writhing,' we don't have anything more advanced right now."

"Alright then, at least it's not lotus root powder," Erin sighed, "You handle the basic shaping, and I'll help you refine the details."

Essential oils and spices used for the ritual were thrown into the flames, and the earth and stones wriggled to cover the surface of the skeleton brimming with spiritual energy. The puppet's body rapidly began forming, Yu Sheng with the blade of the "Artificial Saintess" cut open a wound on his own hand, letting blood flow into the writhing, transforming earth and stone, completing the most crucial step of the ritual.

Erin took charge of guiding and perfecting the details in this process, ensuring the new body can be infused with a soul in its most perfect state.

The spiritual steel was gradually awakening.

Life began to appear in the soulless rocks and soil.

The surface of the grayish puppet roughcast began to show the texture of skin.

Yu Sheng, Hu Li, and Erin all gathered beside the alchemy table, watching this scene with tension and anticipation.

Its chest started to rise and fall.

It was trying to learn how to breathe.

Its limbs were forming and gently trembling.

It was waiting for someone to call its name…

"Erin——"

Yu Sheng whispered.

And thus she was given life.

A magnificent and elegant black gothic long dress cloaked the newborn puppet's body, the initially rigid and crude face instantly becoming animated and full of vitality. Erin's mind entered this new shell, and in the next second, Yu Sheng saw—

This body began to shrink.

Very quickly, with a "swish," it shrank from 167 cm to 120 cm, then soon from 120 cm to 66.6 cm.

Both he and Hu Li were dumbfounded: "...?"

On the alchemy platform, the newly born Erin Pro max (66.6cm) sat up in a daze, staring blankly at her three other bodies.

Two seconds later, she burst into tears with a "wah".

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