Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 1046 - 900: Eighth Order Puppet Skill

Chapter 1046: Chapter 900: Eighth Order Puppet Skill

Skywater Pavilion.

In a Cave dwelling with the best Immortal Qi.

Fang Xi sat cross-legged, arranging the spoils from today’s slaying of Guixu Zi.

The first thing that caught his eye was an amalgamation of black and white Qi in a jade scepter.

"Biyi Jade Scepter, a rare treasure of the Immortal Mansion, unparalleled in defense..."

He took a liking to it at first sight and promptly decided to reserve it for his main body’s use.

Besides that, there was a puppet, which must be the ’Zangmingzi’ mentioned by Qingxu Child, ranking at the eighth tier.

"Rumor has it, Guixu Zi’s Taoist Companion perished under the Immortal Thunder Calamity, but it seems the rumors are wrong. Zangmingzi didn’t fall to the calamity but was secretly murdered by Guixu Zi?"

"This Guixu Zi, though not a spy for Demon Beasts or the Alien race, is selfish, cold-blooded, and ruthless, much like Old Meng... He even attempted to sneak attack the Banner of Two Realms today. The Banner of Two Realms is a treasure of the Cave Heaven with only the ability to store things. A Mahayana Monk, unless entering voluntarily, would hardly be able to take it, but at that time we were all inside the Banner. Had he successfully refined it and then thrown it into the depths of the Void or some Great Array... I might have been fine, but Qing Xuzi and the others would have suffered..."

"So it seems, Guixu Zi felt the human race’s fortunes waning and was prepared to jump ship? With his cultivation, if he became an Individual Cultivator, he would be able to go anywhere in the Earth Immortal Realm, and the Demon Beasts and Alien race might even treat him as an honored guest."

"When he struck today, did he intend to capture us all, refine us into puppets, or covet the grand opportunity on me?"

"After all, once I break through, I can match or even slay an old Mahayana Monk. In addition to my heaven-defying talent, there must be a supreme opportunity on me worth coveting by Mahayana Monks!"

After thinking for a long while without any clues, Fang Xi stopped pondering it.

It wasn’t surprising whatever Guixu Zi, who cultivated the way of ruthlessness, would do.

On the contrary, seeing the reactions of Qingxu Child and the three Mahayana Monks when they saw the hundreds of Integrated cultivators and thousands of Returning to Emptiness cultivators, Fang Xi couldn’t help but feel slightly amused.

Looking back on it now, he found it quite interesting.

’The existence of this batch of God Path cultivators proves that even if I cleanse the entire human race’s upper echelon, there will be people who can quickly take their place...’

’That’s the real reason why Qingxu Child and the three Mahayana Monks completely submitted, because I really would flip the table...’

Unable to defeat the strongest, and able to completely renew the middle ranks, the current Fang Xi is the uncrowned king of the human race!

After musing for a while, he opened the treasure of Guixu Zi’s Cave Heaven.

What he saw was not that the Cave Heaven’s treasure was particularly large; amidst a primordial chaos, there was only a Floating Island with a few buildings on it.

Inside the largest one were stacks of Immortal Jade.

Fang Xi entered another building, where he saw strands of Immortal Mansion Secret Inscription converging to form a milky white light screen.

Within the screen, all manner of brilliantly shining treasures floated mid-air, each revealing unique visions and radiance.

At the front, a bronze long table stood silently with jade slips and even Immortal Mansion secret manuals laid upon it.

He picked up a jade slip, and upon allowing his Divine Consciousness to enter, he was immediately presented with a secret skill—"Thunderlight Distracting Spirit Primordial Talisman!"

"It’s a Transcendence Secret Skill. It might not be of much help to Mahayana Monks, but Integrated cultivators would surely dream of it..."

Fang Xi extended his hand into the light screen, grabbing a cone gleaming with lightning.

On the cone, rings of ancient patterns lit up, filled with an aura of antiquity.

"Treasures of Thunder Transformation?"

"Indeed, most of the collections of this top-tier human race Mahayana Monk seem to be related to transcendence."

Fang Xi shook his head.

He didn’t wish to cultivate like Guixu Zi, practically turning oneself into stone.

Or to put it another way—a puppet with only one goal.

For the sake of ascending to Immortality through transcendence, Guixu Zi had truly stopped at nothing.

"So... even if one ascends to Immortality, what pleasure is there to enjoy?"

"Or is it that...the joys of Immortals are beyond my imagination?"

Fang Xi stroked his chin, his Divine Consciousness sweeping over the jade slips on the bronze long table. His face finally showed a trace of pleasant surprise as he picked up two slips.

With his current discerning eyes, only the top-notch items caught his attention.

One of them was the ’Luan Bird Life-exchange Skill.’ Don’t think that this skill couldn’t hold its own against the Supreme Northern Dipper Life-controlling Divine Light; if encountered by other Mahayana Monks’ trump cards or curse killing techniques, it could save one’s life.

Unfortunately, this Secret Skill requires related cultivation techniques to execute. Fang Xi took it with the intent of seeing if he could modify it.

At the moment, all his focus was on the second jade slip.

This jade slip was fashioned like a bamboo slip, connected by golden threads, and bore ancient Immortal Mansion Secret Inscriptions.

After deciphering it, Fang Xi finally saw some clues:

"’Mysterious Jade Reference’... It turns out to be a puppet skill, at least eighth tier, perhaps even higher?"

This ’Mysterious Jade Reference’ was a puppetry tome of the highest grade he had seen!

Every character in it was written in the Immortal’s secret script, which alone would take an immense amount of time to comprehend.

It included countless methods for processing various materials, the construction of key puppet components, and even the techniques for crafting their cores. Describing it as ’vast as a sea of smoke’ wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

Fang Xi quickly flipped through it and came across a puppet description: "Ten Thousand Tribulations Puppet... crafted using a Mahayana body combined with a refined Nascent Soul subject to prohibitions... can it offset part of the Mahayana Immortal Thunder Tribulation?"

"It’s clear that Guixu Zi had malicious intentions. He not only refined his Taoist Companion into a puppet but also had designs on our bodies... truly shameless."

As he read about the Ten Thousand Tribulations Puppet, a look of satisfaction appeared on his face, and he glanced over at Zangmingzi.

The higher the rank of a puppet, the more difficult it is to control.

Even though he had this puppet, he couldn’t make it unleash its full potential.

But now, after obtaining the design blueprints, everything had changed.

As long as one slightly refines them to remove the brands and prohibitions left by Guixu Zi, one should be able to manipulate these puppets!

"Originally, I thought that after the array, the Talisman Path would be the first to break through to the eighth rank... It seems now that I cannot neglect my puppet skill."

Fang Xi murmured to himself, then suddenly his eyebrows twitched and with a single-handed gesture, a prohibition within his cave dwelling disappeared without a trace.

Five-colored clouds swirled around as a female cultivator with a veiled face entered through the door.

Upon seeing Fang Xi, her face immediately showed a look of disbelief, followed by a respectful curtsy: "I, Ji Feixue, pay my respects to Senior Fang, Congratulations to Senior Fang on advancing to Mahayana!"

In fact, when Ji Feixue first heard this news, she couldn’t believe it at all.

But after Wu Xingzi and Old Meng’s disciples and followers were all captured, she gradually came to accept the reality, and in her heart, there was even a trace of secret joy.

"No need to be so polite... You can call me ’Qing Hezi’ as usual..."

Fang Xi said with a slight smile.

The title of Qing Hezi suited him well, and he chose to keep using it.

Moreover, after throwing out Old Meng’s life-bound magical artifact, he hadn’t thought about hiding his identity or anything of the sort.

With his current strength, even if his alter egos were fully exposed, what of it?

"Lord Qing Hezi..."

Ji Feixue didn’t dare to be negligent.

Although there was a brief romantic interlude between them, the Qing Hezi before her was now a Mahayana monk!

Even Qingxu Child would feel inferior, and now he might already be the number one cultivator of the human race!

There were also countless Integrating and Returning to Emptiness monks as his wings, and Heaven Origin City was under martial law, cut off from the inside and outside.

With such power and strength... how could she take it lightly?

Moreover, most female cultivators admire those with profound cultivation and astonishing power, and Fang Xi just happens to be the top figure of the human race, with an extremely handsome appearance to boot.

Ji Feixue’s gaze towards Fang Xi couldn’t help but carry a hint of tenderness...

"This place also has a fake Immortal Vein laid out, which is very good."

However, Fang Xi had no interest in rekindling old flames, and simply started giving orders: "The traction array you made before was well done... This time, using this fake Immortal Vein as the source, set up another Immortal Array!"

"Is it the Nine Nether Underworld River Mysterious Sand Array?" Ji Feixue’s eyes lit up.

The last battle at Heaven Origin City left a profound impression on her with this array.

With such an Immortal Array to support them this time, perhaps the human race still had hope?

At this moment, before the annihilation of their race, most cultivators, no matter what they previously thought, at least did not want the human race to fall.

"No..."

Fang Xi said, "What I am going to set up is the ’Jiuqu Yellow River Three Flowers Immortal Array’!"

It is better to call back the heterodox incarnations exploring that precarious Big Thousand World and set up this Great Array first.

By then, annihilating the Monster Clan and the Alien race’s Mahayana, the fate of the Earth Immortal Realm may be decided in one battle.

"This Great War of the Four Clans is finally going to come to an end."

Fang Xi’s eyes gazed into the distance, his expression profound...

...

Outside Heaven Origin City.

Countless camps of the Monster Clan and Alien race stretched on.

All kinds of Spirit Boats, Flying Pavilions, War Vessels, and Royal Beasts...densely packed, suspended in mid-air.

One Void after another opened, and from within each came out mighty presences.

Countless prohibitions intersected, forming a terrifying array within and outside the military camps.

Even for a Mahayana monk, to barge into such an array and be besieged by many of their peers, it’s feared they might never return.

"What has happened in Heaven Origin City?"

At that moment, within a Void, the True Spirit Phoenix spoke discontentedly.

Previously, news from within Heaven Origin City would sporadically escape, but ever since that Big Dipper Array enveloped Heaven Origin City, not only the Monster Clan but also the Alien Alliance were horrified to find that the spies they had planted had not transmitted any information at all.

Heaven Origin City seemed to have turned into a black hole, engulfing everything from the outside.

The thorough change of the God Path monks that was trained in complete seclusion meant that no matter how the Monster Clan and Alien Alliance had planned, it all became empty talk.

Before the battle, this scene clearly gave this True Spirit existence a somewhat ominous premonition.

"The human race has been contending with my clan until now; they naturally have quite a few foundations..."

The True Spirit Xuanwu emerged, his voice as heavy as mountains: "According to what I know, among them is a set of ’Heaven Extinction Earth Destruction Array Chart’, which, if coupled with an Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure as the Array Eye and sacrificed to detonate, possesses the truly devastating power to destroy heaven and earth. Even an eighth-tribulation Mahayana might directly perish..."

"No need to worry!"

Accompanied by a majestic Five Elements Divine Light that pierced the heavens and the earth, the Five Elements Qilin slowly walked out, adorned in a strange armor.

This armor seemed like translucent liuli, shining with the radiance of five colors, thoroughly enveloping the massive Qilin’s body.

"Heaven-shattering Five Elements Armor...the most powerful Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure of our race..."

The Phoenix unfolded its wings, joyfully proclaiming: "This time... we shall utterly defeat the human race!"