Chapter 505: Family Life.
A week passed since, Hao Ren returned to the Cauldron Valley, and he won the first price for creating the Spiritual Puppet. The people were shocked when Xiao Mei was revealed to them. The people who had doubts about him earlier were now very shocked and held Hao Ren in awe. They could see that the five elements inside the puppet were flowing in harmony and that was the sign that the grandmaster has reached the peak of grandmaster realm.
The people had no idea what to say anymore, but the higher ups of the council were sure happy that Hao Ren had decided to stay in the city for sometime. The reason Hao Ren wanted to stay here was first to spend some time away from the royal burdens, and just be with his family.
The second reason was to improve his foundation in refining artifacts. The blueprint that the system gave him had been a reward and not something that he came up with on his own. The young man had rented a courtyard already, and with Hao Yin and Agnee living with them, life was not boring at all.
Xiao Mei had come back with them as well, and Hao Ren had been rewarded with a huge amount of material for refining after winning the contest. For the past couple of days, the family had resumed a routine of things.
They would wake up with Hao Ren and Han Lingshi sparring with each other which was getting increasingly competitive, and then they would guide the girls about various arts. Yin had become a very good sword fairy, whenever she stepped out of the courtyard, the boys of the city big shots would try to gain favor with her, but just one glance from the girl would make them shiver and back off.
Agnee was favored by many but she was too aloof to care about anyone of them. She didn't bother with the men, and simply focused on her mastery of alchemy. Yes, Hong Yue, the spirit phantom inside the cauldron noticed her unique physique and imparted her all of her knowledge.
All that Agnee needed to do in order to unlock the final level of the information was to visit the Seven Star Alchemy Gate. Han Lingshi was happy living a stable life with her family. Ever since last week, Crescent Moon Empire had began the national overhaul, and Xiao Mei was literally flexing her skills of management and development.
She was now known to be the Wisdom Princess. Before leaving, Han Lingshi was asked to confer her a title. Originally the couple wanted Hao Mei to take over, but the lady was stepping into the world human realm and she was a sword saint as well. If Hao Ren was seen as a power monger than you can expect his elder sister to be ten times more crazy.
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Inside the house, Hao Ren was reading the scroll on forging techniques where the creator introduced several layers and blended them together. Han Lingshi was looking at him as she wiped her forehead clean from sweat and she said, "Your body is akin to metal. How can I ever defeat you?"
Hao Ren smiled but what surprised him was that the system didn't tell him to cater to Lingshi, he replied, "By constantly trying. Remember Lingshi, even the heavens bow to those who work hard."
Han Lingshi sighed and closed her eyes to recover the strength that she lost during the spar. Hao Ren on the other hand decided to check on the system, 'Yo, system, are you still functioning?'
*I am functioning, what do you want?*
Hao Ren asked, 'So why have you not been issuing any tasks or saying anything?'
*I didn't feel the need to issue a task. Do you think that I am like other systems? I don't issue tasks at any other corner. However, you have done a good job this time. If you continue like this than you will easily become an omnipotent being.*
Hao Ren rolled his eyes, and turned around to see that Han Lingshi was cultivating, and on the other hand, Xiao Mei was watching a plant while she was watering it. He didn't know what she was thinking about but he could sense that she was onto something and so he didn't bother her.
The young man went to his refining room, and began to work on a sword. Although he could craft a puppet now, he wanted to craft a battle puppet that was similar to Xiao Mei, however, for this he wanted to find out a spirit that could inhabitat the puppet, which was really hard for him.
The crux of the puppet design lay in the core that would give this thing a spirit. He didn't want an autonomous spirit, but he wanted a spirit that had some purpose and could help him out when the puppet was used. For this he had come up with some theories, to capture the spirit beasts and probably try to extract their soul and imprint it on the core that he would make.
However, none of these were plausible, after much thought, Hao Ren decided to take the rather logical approach to all the things. In the world of mortals the software developers often used to monitor the moves and behavior patterns of the animals to copy their movements and patterns in various games or various movie projects.
Hao Ren created a sword puppet, and he used the body style of a mantis beast. The puppet was as big as a cat in size, and it looked rather exquisite. He did this because his youngest child had found a spirit beast in the market, it was called the rainbow mantis.
Although it looked small but this thing was rather unique, it could detect natural treasures, and its arms were akin to swords that could even compete with master grade spiritual weapons. The young man came out holding the small puppet in his palm and he arrived at the alchemy room, he could sense the rising temperature radiating from the door of the room.
He waited for a bit before he sensed the temperature recede and he knocked the door and said, "Agnee, Baba has a task for you."
The door opened and Agnee looked at him with a calm face and asked, "What is it Baba?"
Hao Ren revealed the puppet and said, "Want to play with this toy?"
Agnee looked at the puppet carefully before she smiled and asked, "What do you really want?"
Hao Ren rubbed her head and then began to tell her what he wanted. At this moment, Xiao Mei came over, and said, "Boss, Old man Sypher has come to find you. He says they have a project that needs your help."
Hao Ren nodded and then gave the puppet to Agnee before heading out.