A Game for Everyone: God-Level Talent is Achieved Through Rolling In.

At this moment, Nie Wan was standing in this dark and gloomy room, surrounded by puppets.

Each puppet held out its arms like a zombie, with fine silver threads shooting out from its wrists, binding Nie Wan from her shoulders to her arms to her legs. The threads wrapped around her layer by layer, making her look like a silkworm cocoon, with only her head sticking out.

In the darkest corner of the house, countless puppet figures overlapped to protect a hunched old man. He bowed his head, holding a file in his hand, patiently carving on a bamboo strip.

The scratching sound of planing wood, along with the rustling of sawdust falling to the ground, drifted back and forth in the quiet room.

It has the atmosphere of a horror movie.

But Nie Wan's heart remained calm.

Unless a player has already accepted a mission that is of great interest to them, NPCs cannot take the initiative to do anything to the player.

This is common sense from the previous life.

Moreover, although Nie Wan had not had much contact with this Wanxian Master, she knew a lot of information about him.

As Dapeng Zhanchi once said, this guy has the personality of an old rascal. Every player who comes to him for the first time will be scared by him like this. With his thin face and missing eye, he will startle many players so much that they will lose their composure.

But it's just a scare for a while; they won't actually do anything to the player.

Sure enough, after Nie Wan uttered those words, the gaunt old man rushed in front of her in an instant and delivered a swift and deadly blow to her face.

With their eyes locked, Nie Wan could see everything clearly.

One eye was yellow and bloodshot, while the other eye had a deep-set socket with a dark blue glass bead embedded in the cavity. The bead would occasionally flash, looking particularly eerie in the dark eye socket.

Nie Wan stared intently at his injured eye socket without blinking, and after a moment said, "Injured by ghostly energy."

The old man took half a step back and burst into laughter.

"Little girl, you're not that old, but you've got quite the nerve!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the silver threads rustled away from Nie Wan's body, and the puppets also made way for her.

The bamboo curtain was opened, letting in light. It was a simple room with nothing but puppets.

While the puppet's stiff, motionless appearance might trigger a sense of unease, this old man, who is blind in one eye and loves to make fake eyes out of glass of various colors, is even more of a heavyweight.

One puppet dragged over a table and chairs, while another puppet brought over a teacup. Both puppets were tall and muscular, gleaming with gold. To serve Nie Wan, they bent over slightly, looking rather comical.

Master Wan turned around, fussing over himself as he said, "I am an ugly old man and I'm afraid I'll frighten you, young lady. Please allow me to spruce myself up before I see you."

Nie Wan accepted the teacup, nodded her thanks, and said, "It's alright, sir, please feel free to make yourself at home."

A moment later, Master Wan turned around, his face now adorned with a smiling Maitreya Buddha mask.

Nie Wan's expression remained unchanged as she smiled and asked, "Old sir, you left a note in my shop, inviting me to come and chat. Is there something in my shop that you urgently need?"

Master Wan shook his head: "It's not something from the shop, but... little girl, you can go to the Ghost Clan, can't you?"

"Yes."

Even through the mask, Nie Wan could feel Wan Xianshi's expression soften instantly.

"Then, young lady, could you do me a favor?"

Are you about to receive a mission?

Nie Wan could hardly believe it.

In her past life, Dapeng Zhanchi confidently declared that he wouldn't get any missions from the Master of Ten Thousand Threads, but she was just selling something from the Ghost Clan, and now she's about to receive a mission?

But a system notification rang in my ears.

[Accept the quest "Search for the Soul Jade"?]

Click "Accept," and Master Wan will begin his story in a calm and unhurried manner.

"Young lady, you must have already figured it out. I am a puppeteer. In my youth, I was arrogant and overconfident in my talent. I refused to follow the usual path and insisted on my own way. In the end, I went down a dead end and ruined myself to this day."

"Senior, are you referring to the method of using puppets to capture souls?"

Master Wan was surprised: "You noticed?"

With its eerie and sinister appearance, who wouldn't be able to tell?

Moreover, the moment Nie Wan heard the words "Yin Soul Jade," she naturally recalled that when He Shuya set up the Imprisonment and Killing Array, a Yin Soul Jade was flashing in the center of the array.

Nie Wan originally had a chance to escape from the formation, but the dark stone, enhanced by the formation, emitted a viscous soul-binding power that completely imprisoned her soul, making it impossible for her to even commit suicide to release her soul...

The Yin Soul Jade is at least of the exquisite level. Nie Wan had studied it and boasted that he had sorted out all its uses, but he never realized that it also had the use of binding souls.

This oversight that led to her downfall is something she will never forget.

"I once saw the method of capturing souls with Yin Soul Jade in an ancient book, but the method was too obscure and the materials required were too strange, so I thought it was just a joke and never took it seriously. If you were an ordinary puppeteer, you would be looking for materials with good hardness and toughness. Yin Soul Jade is brittle and not a good material for forging puppets. You must be looking for it for some other purpose. Other purposes are nothing more than raising ghosts, warming souls, and capturing souls."

Master Wan nodded slightly, his tone carrying a hint of appreciation, but deliberately asked, "Just because of this?"

Nie Wan shook her head: "This village has methods for raising ghosts, so there's no need for you to look for Yin Soul Jade. As for warming the soul, there are many materials that can be found in the human world to replace it. As a female healer, I know quite a few methods. Only the soul-binding method is difficult to find in the human world. Ordinary people regard it as a heretical path, but it has some similarities with the puppetry method you are exploring."

"So, without presuming to ask, you intend to embed the Yin Soul Jade into the puppet, using the three souls and seven spirits to drive the iron armor and golden helmet, thus changing the landscape of puppetry. If it weren't for such ambition, someone as talented as you wouldn't be so persistent."

Master Wan laughed loudly: "Little girl, you are indeed clever! For your cleverness, this old man should give you some reward."

[Master of Threads' Favorability +15]

[Obtained Ironclad Golem (Excellent) x1]

Nie Wan no longer suppressed her emotions, but calmed down and focused on the task at hand.

How could a master of so many lines not be able to extract anything from someone like that?

"Senior, I haven't been of any help to you yet, so I dare not accept such a great gift."

"Don't say that, little girl. I've lived for over seventy years, and for forty of those years I was considered a madman. Those people simply don't understand my way, they don't agree with my views, they say I'm utterly devoid of conscience and humanity, that's why I insist on taking this crooked path... In this world, perhaps only you can be considered one of my confidants. Just for your confidant's kindness, I can't let you come here for nothing."

Nie Wan smiled and said, "There are countless paths, and even the most unorthodox ones are still paths. As long as a person walks the right path, it is not considered a crooked or evil one. Just by looking at your demeanor, Senior, I can tell that the Soul-Binding Puppet is definitely not an evil technique."