Actually, Li Dai did not have a deep understanding of mechanism arts, so figuring out how these puppet-like automata were crafted was practically impossible for her at the moment.
However, Li Dai did not waste time trying to figure out how the automata were made. Instead, once she entered the array, she threw herself entirely into studying the marks left upon them.
Earlier, when disabling these automata, Li Dai had temporarily used a powerful divine soul isolation technique to seal off their central brain cores, cutting them off from their master's control. To avoid alerting the enemy, she had not directly wiped away the divine soul imprints inside the cores.
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