It's here!
Hearing Fang Qing speak, Qi Tian knew he couldn't escape. He looked at Fang Qing, "Uncle-Master Fang, my purpose for going to the Misty Immortal Palace has been achieved, so naturally I will leave. My presence here is, of course, for my own purpose."
"What purpose?"
Fang Qing stared at Qi Tian, his brow furrowed.
"I'm here to obtain data from Lin Xiao," Qi Tian said, patting Lin Xiao. "It's just that I didn't expect him to choose this place for our meeting."
"Data? What data?"
Fang Qing was even more confused.
"Naturally, it's data for improving my puppets. Uncle-Master Fang, we live in a technological era. I've combined technology with the artifact refining techniques of my Artifact Sect, complementing each other. I'm sure you've seen it, the way Uncle-Master He sparred with my puppet earlier." Qi Tian immediately opened up, "At that time, I had collected enough data on Uncle-Master He. Although the puppet was destroyed, its chip... its core, was preserved. Later, I can create even more powerful puppets."
"And Lin Xiao is also a target for me to collect data from."
Qi Tian explained vaguely, unsure if these people could understand him.
"Just like when you collected my data," Ye Chen chimed in.
"Oh..."
Whether it was Ning Yu or Fang Qing, they wore expressions of partial understanding. They might have grasped the general meaning, but not the full extent of it.
"However, I didn't expect to see this legendary 'unmelting bone'," Qi Tian said with admiration. "If only I could observe and study it up close, how wonderful that would be..."
His old habit resurfaced. After speaking, he immediately realized something was amiss and quickly shook his head, "Pretend I didn't say that last sentence."
Ning Yu raised an eyebrow, "The remnants of the unmelting bone from my Ning family were all taken by your Artifact Sect. Have you not seen enough over the years?"
"Certainly not enough," Qi Tian explained immediately when this matter was brought up. "Those remnants from back then were mostly destroyed. With various bodies, the information we could obtain was very limited. Elder Ning, as a member of the Ning family, you should know that the unmelting bone is ultimately refined from powerful zombies. In essence, they are powerful zombies, and powerful zombies rely on the manipulation of spiritual energy and your methods of control."
"Those remnants could not demonstrate the methods of spiritual energy circulation or control to us. As for the components on those bodies, there was nothing significant to research. In the end, they were merely used as raw materials for artifact refining, leaving behind many puppet parts."
"You refined the bodies of unmelting bones into puppet parts?!" Ning Yu blurted out instinctively.
"But then you brought the puppet from the Misty Immortal Palace?"
Fang Qing also instinctively questioned.
"Of course not the puppet from the Misty Immortal Palace," Qi Tian shook his head. "That puppet was cobbled together by myself with parts. In terms of material and affinity for spiritual energy, it's naturally not as good as the materials from an unmelting bone."
"And this is why I've been continuously collecting data on God Realm experts," Qi Tian's eyes grew distant with longing as he spoke. "If my data were sufficiently complete, perhaps I could refine a humanoid unmelting bone..."