Protect Our Clan Leader

“Regarding this matter, Senior Artifact Spirit need not worry,” Wang Zong’an said with a cheerful smile as he communicated with the Artifact Spirit. “We anticipated this problem in advance and made some modest preparations. I have a proposal here for you to review.”

As he spoke, he handed a plan document to Artifact Spirit Jiu Xiao.

In fact, the original materials he prepared were stored in a portable miniature Sky Mechanism Recording Disk, which could be viewed directly on a matching crystal screen. But considering that both the Wang family’s crystal screens and Sky Mechanism Recording Disk had been extensively modified by the Wang Clan Research Institute, they might not be compatible with the equipment here at the academy, so he specially prepared a paper document.

Now, it finally came in handy.

Artifact Spirit Jiu Xiao took the document and immediately brightened up: “To publish tasks such as repairing puppets, organizing the Spirit Fields, and constructing residential areas as academy tasks? This is a good idea. Let’s do it ~”

With that, she promptly drafted a series of tasks and posted them in the Testing Tower.

The newly enrolled students, under the arrangement of Wang Zong’an and several other elders, began to work together to tackle tasks in various places such as cleaning, repairing puppets, clearing silt, and weeding… and so on.

In addition, some of the clan members stayed behind to plan the site, set up military tents, and various living facilities such as food and sanitation.

For this academy visit, every one of them stored a large amount of “dry food” in their Storage Rings, so there was no immediate shortage of food. After all, they came to the academy for advanced study and learning, not for leisure tourism.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly fashion.

It was said that the Wang family had pioneered the Puppet Master profession. The Wang family’s “King of Artifact Refining Puppets” Wang Ningxi was guiding the younger generations of the clan in repairing those cleaning puppets, allowing the younger ones in the artifact refining path to apply and thoroughly understand their puppet knowledge in practice.

The family’s artifact refining industry, as well as the alchemy industry, couldn’t rely on just one person to carry on. Nowadays, the Wang family had long established complete systems for alchemy and artifact refining.

Puppet Masters, as an important branch of Artifact Refining, had already cultivated a large number of professional technical talents over the years.

“Ningxi, Old Ancestor.”

Amidst the busy atmosphere, a simple-minded young man around a hundred years old swiftly flew over on a flying sword, hurriedly landing beside Wang Ningxi.

His face was full of excitement, and as soon as he landed, he hurriedly reported to Wang Ningxi: “Ningxi, Old Ancestor, I discovered an incredible puppet while I was cleaning.”

This young man, named Wang Hongliang, was a talented youth from Old Ancestor Wang Shouxin’s lineage. At just over a hundred years, he had already cultivated to Level One of the Purple Abode Realm.

In the past, or in other prominent families, he would definitely be considered a super elite.

But in today’s talent-stacked Wang family, he was merely categorized as an ordinary elite, with his bloodline talent only at the level of an “Absolute Grade D.” Most importantly, he hadn’t yet inherited a Codex!

There’s nothing he could do; the Wang family had too many talents, leading to a significant shortage in Immortal Scriptures and even more so in Codices.

After a series of competitive cycles, over a hundred people were in line ahead of Wang Hongliang waiting for a Codex.

This time, Wang Shouzhe wanted to accelerate the establishment of the Senior Officer Improvement Academy because the family was desperately short on Codices. No matter how many they acquired from the outside, they couldn’t fill the gap, which, instead of shrinking over time, only grew larger.

In fact, most of the prospective students coming for advanced study at the General Institute were waiting in line for a Codex. Some were even waiting for a Divine Skills transmission…

“So it’s Hongliang~” Wang Ningxi was also intrigued upon hearing this news. Putting aside his guidance work, he patted Hongliang’s shoulder with a smile, “Let’s go, take me to see it.”

With that, a group of people enthusiastically followed to join the bustling scene.

The puppet Wang Hongliang discovered was in the cafeteria.

It sat slumped in the corner of the kitchen like an injured cultivator, motionless as if dead.

The puppet’s level of realism was very high. If not for the exposed mercury-like metal structures at the damaged joints, even a non-professional in artifact refining puppets like Wang Hongliang wouldn’t have realized it was a puppet.

Wang Ningxi examined the puppet quickly, and his expression grew serious.

After figuring out how to open the puppet’s Spirit Stone energy slot, he inhaled sharply.

The energy slot had eight sockets, which had exhausted their Spirit Stone energy long ago, and the stones had crumbled into powder. Yet, amid the powder, there still lingered a trace of Immortal Spirit Qi.

It required powering by Immortal Spirit Stones!

Moreover, it required a full eight Immortal Spirit Stones for power.

Currently, the Wang family’s most powerful puppet- the Old Ancestor Wang Xiaojia- possessed advanced Transcendent Void Realm strength and utilized top-quality Spirit Stone power. The only puppet he knew of using Immortal Spirit Stones for power was his Master in Artifact Refining, Elder Tian Ji’s puppet body.

However, the puppet body of Elder Tian Ji required only four Immortal Spirit Stones at a time, just half of what was required for the one before them.

“Go and invite Old Ancestor Wang Chenlun and my Old Ancestor Grandfather.” Wang Ningxi had his suspicions, but he didn’t dare to activate it lightly, so he immediately sent someone to invite the Old Ancestors.

A few moments later.

Wang Shouzhe, Wang Chenlun, and Wang Baosheng all arrived.

“It’s an Immortal Puppet. It was assigned to do security work at the General Institute, maintaining the order and safety of the academy. How did it end up with depleted energy and damaged?” Wang Chenlun immediately recognized the puppet and showed a look of surprise on his face.