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Chapter 16 Mindl Puppet
update icon Updated at 2026/2/1 22:00:02

"Come here, Beibei!" Bexia took the ancient coin from Lucifer's hand and placed it in Beibei's hand, saying, "This is for you!"

"Meow ⊙ω⊙~! Thank you, master meow~!" Beibei happily took the golden ancient coin. In reality, she was just curious about the cat paw print earlier. Although she was a little disappointed that the paw print had disappeared, Beibei still liked what Bexia gave her very much. She carefully put it away as if it were a precious treasure.

"Dad! Dad! I want that..." At this moment, little Amaryllis flew over, pulling Bexia's hair and pointing at a puppet not far away.

"If Amaryllis likes it, we'll buy it!" Bexia quickly agreed, letting Amaryllis stand on her shoulder as they walked to another stall, where they met Christine.

"You can tell this young sir is extraordinary. The turnover at my stall is very high, and I'm quite well-known in the market!" The well-fed stall owner said with a slightly creepy smile. It was hard to believe he was an immortal god, as Christine had just told him.

"My daughter likes this little puppet. I'll make an offer for it myself!" Bexia reached out and picked up the palm-sized black puppet. Although it looked pitch black, the fine craftsmanship was still evident. If not for the sense of touch, it would have looked just like a miniaturized person.

"This is something I found at the Great Rift at the risk of my life. How about one hundred thousand law fragments?" The chubby stall owner said.

"Alright!" Bexia promptly forked over one hundred thousand law fragments and handed the puppet to Lucifer, this time without saying much.

Lucifer repeated his previous actions, and after the black puppet shed its black dust of laws, it revealed its original appearance, like a lady in a black and white dress with a small umbrella in hand.

"This is a puppet used by puppeteers," Lucifer said to Bexia.

"Puppeteers are a type of puppeteer, mostly female. They like to craft puppets in exquisite human-like forms, finding regular puppets too crude. So they call themselves puppeteers, separating themselves from regular puppeteers. However, this profession is almost extinct now!" The chubby stall owner chuckled.

"It seems the guest has average luck. This puppet doesn't have much use. Would you like to see something else?"

"No, thank you!" Bexia handed the puppet to Amaryllis.

"Thank you, Dad!" Amaryllis planted a small kiss on Bexia's cheek and flew to Christine's shoulder while proudly showing off her new toy.

Christine looked at the puppet for a moment, then smiled and said, "Let Amaryllis's new friend move, okay?"

"Okay! Mom, make her move quickly!" Amaryllis said excitedly.

"Sure!" Christine nodded, then extended her right hand. A white thread emerged from her fingertip and entered the puppet's body.

"Huh!?" Christine, who had only intended to control the puppet with her soul power, suddenly looked surprised.

"What's wrong, Christine?" Bexia, curious, asked, "What did you discover in this puppet?"

"This doll is quite unusual, it actually has a faint soul response!" Christine replied.

"Really? Could it be like Conesy, born with a soul?"

"Not a soul like Conesy's, but a special spirit, just like I used to be!" Christine said.

"Then it must be a spirit vessel!" Bexia remarked.

"More or less!" Christine turned her gaze to the doll and said, "I'll try to awaken it."

"Allow me!" Lucifer stood up at this moment and said, "The insides of this doll have already decayed, it needs repairs!"

Lucifer gently tapped the doll's forehead with his finger, the power of creation seeping in, restoring the decaying material and greatly strengthening it, making it even more robust than before.

"Hmm!?" The doll suddenly let out a low humming sound, then opened its eyelids. As a doll maker pursuing perfection, the doll created was not a true living being, but in many aspects, it was identical to a real person.

"It's alive! It's truly alive!" Xiao Bi'an Hua happily hugged the newly born doll, as if gaining another playmate, before letting the bewildered doll go.

"I'm Bi'an Hua, what's your name?"

"I...I...I'm Xiao San!" The doll struggled to recall some memories for a while, then suddenly jumped up, shouting loudly, "Sister! Sister..."

No one responded to her cries, but some onlookers gave her strange looks, catching the doll Xiao San's attention. She realized that this place was no longer familiar to her, everything here seemed so strange!

"No need to shout, just try to remember your past, your sister has long been dead!" The chubby stall owner responded without tact, adding, "When I found you, there were skeletal remains all around, one of them was probably your sister's!"

"Sister...Sister...sob sob sob—" The doll was taken aback by the revelation, then collapsed on the ground and cried heartbrokenly.