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Days sped by, and in the blink of an eye, eight years had passed.
From time to time, Ma Xiaoqiu would proactively seek Chen Yi for comfort, feeling that she was ready.
However, each exploratory step she took ended in failure.
Aside from this, Ma Xiaoqiu would occasionally venture out to prepare. Now, with her memory recovered and significant progress in her Puppet Skill, except for insufficient mana, she meets all the other conditions for Third Tier.
Theoretically, as long as Ma Xiaoqiu's cultivation level reaches Pseudo-core, she can naturally become a Third Tier Puppet Master.
Over the years, she has also been searching for a special puppet capable of housing a cultivator's soul, in preparation for her possible failure in the Ninth Transformation,
However, this technique of transferring one's soul into a puppet, akin to a divine technique for creating an external body, has been lost since ancient times.