“I’ll hand this puppet to you. Enter its body, and fight for me in the future.” Ling Han retrieved the puppet tiger.
The Asura Demon Emperor didn’t care in the least whether he entered the body of a human or the body of a dog. He immediately heeded Ling Han’s command and entered the puppet tiger. The puppet tiger instantly started to move.
“M-Master, this puppet is at the consummate level!” he exclaimed in excitement. One had to realize that, at his peak, he only had a cultivation level at the medium extreme. He was still a long way off from reaching the consummate level.
“Are you not satisfied?”
“I’m satisfied! Very satisfied! As satisfied as satisfied can be!” The Asura Demon Emperor was shaking with excitement.
Ling Han nodded, and said, “As long as you remain honest and do my bidding, I can even give you puppets at the Sun Moon Tier and Heavenly Body Tier in the future. In fact, finding Genesis Tier Demonic Qi for you to absorb isn’t out of the question, either.”
“Master, you’re too kind! I’m willing to be your dog and slave!” The Asura Demon Emperor drifted out of the puppet tiger and latched onto Ling Han’s leg again.
This time, he didn’t dare to oppose Ling Han even though he had received a powerful puppet that was at the consummate level of the Mountain River Tier.
After all, this was a puppet that had been captured by Ling Han!
‘Gasp! Master is so powerful! He’s even able to crush beings at the consummate level!’
Chapter 1027 - Abhorrent Practices
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Ling Han grabbed Guo Xiuwen. He was still unconscious after being knocked out by Ling Han’s Seven Kill Subduing Soul Technique previously.
This secret technique was naturally more deadly to those of a lower cultivation level. In fact, cultivators at the low extreme could be easily killed by it.
Guo Xiuwen’s eyes shot open as he was slapped awake. However, he was completely stupefied by what he saw.
‘Where is this? How long was I unconscious for us to have reached some unfamiliar place so far away from the island?’
“Y-y-you… You…” He was almost scared to death upon seeing Ling Han as the latter was completely unharmed.
‘Did he not open the jade vial?
‘No… I can clearly see the fragments of the jade vial in the distance, so he definitely opened it.’
“Are you disappointed?” Ling Han asked with a smile. “Tell me, why should I not kill you?”
“I-I-I… I’m also a victim! I was forced into doing this!” Guo Xiuwen said in a shaky voice. He pushed all of the blame onto Pei Ji.
Ling Han shook his head, and said, “Perhaps you were forced to in the beginning. However, I don’t see a shred of remorse in your eyes right now. You’re no different from Pei Ji anymore.
“Little Asura, kill him!”
The Asura Demon Emperor immediately entered the puppet tiger and raised its tiger head, and said, “As you command, Master!”
Guo Xiuwen was both shocked and confused. This puppet tiger had been created by him, and he had also used it as his steed for a long time. It could be said that he knew it through and through. However, this puppet tiger actually opened its mouth to speak just then! This almost frightened him to death.
Ever since he remembered, he had never set foot outside this island, so it was only normal that he wasn’t aware of the matters regarding the Netherworld. As such, he found this situation completely unfathomable.
“You… You’re also a puppeteer!” He was convinced that he had figured out the truth. Ling Han was definitely a puppeteer who was numerous times more skilled than him, thus allowing him to easily capture his puppet and even give it the ability to speak. His supreme skills made the puppet tiger extremely lively as if it were truly sentient and intelligent.
The Asura Demon Emperor leaped over and snapped its jaws shut, crushing Guo Xiuwen’s neck with a single bite. Guo Xiuwen’s divine sense was also obliterated by this overwhelming attack, and the life drained from him in the blink of an eye.
“Stay by my side and don’t attack without my command,” Ling Han said.
The Asura Demon Emperor was overcome with joy. ‘Is Master planning to let me out?
‘I’m so touched!’
Ling Han waved his hand, and the two people and one tiger immediately appeared in the workshop.
“This is… the Immortal Realm!” the Asura Demon Emperor said in astonishment. Although he had already guessed that Ling Han had arrived in the Immortal Realm after learning that his cultivation level was at the medium extreme of the Mountain River Tier, he was still astonished when he experienced the completely different regulations of heaven and earth and the rich Spiritual Qi for himself.
Only a few years had passed, yet Ling Han had already advanced into the Immortal level. Moreover, he could even take out a puppet at the consummate level of the Mountain River Tier with a casual wave of his hand. This astonished him immensely.
“Lead the way,” Ling Han commanded.
The Asura Demon Emperor hurriedly nodded, and said, “As you wish, Master!” Now was the time for him to perform. He had to show his master just how loyal he was!
He immediately opened the door and exited the workshop.
“Search every single room!” Ling Han said.
Peng!
The Asura Demon Emperor rammed open the door of the neighboring room. However, apart from piles of tools and materials, there was only an empty platform in the middle of the room. There wasn’t anyone there.
They left the room, and the Asura Demon Emperor rammed open the door of another room.
“Ugh…” A distressed expression appeared on Shui Yanyu’s face; she immediately turned around and started to vomit.
The layout of this room was identical to that of the previous two rooms, with piles of tools and materials sitting everywhere. There was also a platform in the middle of this room, yet unlike the other two rooms, there was a corpse that had been cut into eight pieces resting on top of it.
It was Fan Yong.
He hadn’t been refined into a puppet yet, and thus his expression of terror from before his death was still frozen onto his face. The sight was enough to send shivers through one’s body.
In fact, Ling Han held a suspicion that Fan Yong had still been alive when he had been cut into eight pieces.
How could one not be petrified as they watched their body being dissected, their organs being dug out, and their blood flowing out drop by drop? It was no surprise that the expression on his face was so twisted.
“This bunch of monsters!!” Shui Yanyu said angrily.
Ling Han unleashed his divine patterns of flame and burned Fan Yong’s corpse into ashes. Although there was strong animosity between them, Fan Yong’s crimes also disappeared along with his death.
“Next room!”
The Asura Demon Emperor obediently led the way. He knew that his master was in an extremely bad mood right now, with even his tone being icy cold as if it had seeped out from an ice cave. Meanwhile, he found these sights to be extremely normal and unsurprising. Wasn’t it just a dismembered corpse? The Netherworld had tonnes of things that were hundreds or even thousands of times crueler and bloodier than this.
Peng!
He rammed his way into the fourth room.
There was… a living person!
“How… How did you people enter? Huh? Isn’t this senior brother’s puppet tiger? Why is it with you guys?” The person in the room was Tong Yulong, and he was currently busy with making his puppet. He had only turned around because he had heard a disturbance.
A female body that was being processed lay on the platform that was already painted red with blood. Her slender legs and arms had already been severed from her torso, and her abdomen had also been sliced open. Tong Yulong was in the process of digging out her organs.
This female was none other than Liu Ying.
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sp; To their surprise, she still hadn’t drawn her last breath yet. Her eyes slowly focused on Ling Han, and her lips trembled a little. However, she was unable to make a single sound.
This didn’t matter, though, as Ling Han could guess what she wanted to say—kill the monsters on this island! Also, kill her and free her from this world of pain!
“Kill him!” Ling Han commanded coldly.
The Asura Demon Emperor immediately lunged toward Tong Yulong.
“Roar!” A puppet wolf appeared and blocked the Asura Demon Emperor’s advance. This puppet was also at the consummate level of the Mountain River Tier, meaning that its battle prowess was no lower than that of the Asura Demon Emperor.
Ling Han took a few steps forward and cast his divine sense out like a net.
Xiu!
The puppet wolf instantly disappeared from the room.
Pu!
Like Guo Xiuwen from before, Tong Yulong’s eyes also bulged out in shock, his tongue hanging out in disbelief. Meanwhile, the Asura Demon Emperor had already arrived before him and swatted his paw over.
Pa!
His head was obliterated, and the headless corpse crashed to the ground with a loud thud.
Ling Han swung his sword and destroyed the remnants of Liu Ying’s life force. Liu Ying gave him a grateful look as she shut her eyes one final time. Then, Ling Han waved his hand and burned Liu Ying’s corpse to ashes.
They entered the fifth room and discovered another victim.
Yang Tiecheng!
This sturdy man had also been dismembered, with each of his limbs immersed in some sort of silver liquid. Unlike Liu Ying, however, his life force had already completely vanished. He had already been dead for quite some time.
He had most likely been dismembered sometime today as Ling Han had still seen him in the morning.
Ling Han only had killing intent for Luo Wu and Fan Yong, and he didn’t have any good impression of Liu Ying, either. After all, she had come here to kill him. However, he harbored great respect for Yang Tiecheng as the latter could push his emotions aside and firmly follow his principles. There were few people who could do this.
Moreover, they had battled side by side before, and he had even entrusted his back to Yang Tiecheng at one time.
“Rest in peace, Brother Yang. I’ll definitely slay those monsters to appease your spirit!” Ling Han said solemnly. Then, he turned around, and said, “Let’s return to our residence. Perhaps we can still save the others!”
Chapter 1028 - Nemesis of Puppets
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Ling Han and Shui Yanyu hurried toward the courtyard that they had been living in.
“Huh?”
Just as they left the workshop, they saw Cui De and Yin Yuanxiang walking over together. Cui De was extremely baffled when he saw Ling Han and Shui Yanyu walk over, especially since the puppet tiger was following behind them.
‘What’s going on? Weren’t they meant to capture these two people? What’s with this situation?
‘What on earth happened? This doesn’t make any sense at all!’
“Die!” Ling Han roared.
The Asura Demon Emperor immediately charged toward Cui De. It had to be said that he was quite smart. Ling Han hadn’t explicitly said whom he wanted to kill, yet the Asura Demon Emperor directly chose to target Cui De. He probably thought that, as a man, Ling Han wouldn’t want him to kill a beauty like Yin Yuanxiang.
Cui De’s puppet bear leaped out to battle with the Asura Demon Emperor.
“Brother Ling, what’s the meaning of this?” Yin Yuanxiang asked in confusion.
“Oh, you can thank me later,” Ling Han said calmly. “Pei Ji and his five disciples wanted to refine all of us into puppets, and Luo Wu, Fan Yong, Liu Ying, and Brother Yang have all been killed already.”
“What a load of bullsh*t!” Cui De retorted. “Lady Yin, don’t listen to his nonsense. He’s simply accusing me with no evidence at all! I invited you because I sincerely want you to witness the beauty of newly refined puppets. I would never fathom bringing harm to you!”
“Heh, Guo Xiuwen said the exact same thing,” Ling Han said with a cold chuckle. He walked over and directly absorbed the puppet bear into the Black Tower. He didn’t have the patience to argue with Cui De anymore.
Cui De and Yin Yuanxiang were both astounded by Ling Han’s actions. Meanwhile, the Asura Demon Emperor charged over and quickly swatted Cui De to death.
Without their puppets, the battle prowess of puppeteers was truly too terrible to look at.
Ling Han shook his head when saw that Yin Yuanxiang was still lost in a daze, and said, “I’ll explain when we gather everyone together.”
They hurried back to where the courtyards were located.
Ning Tai and Bu Zhengyun both appeared and tried to capture Ling Han, yet both of them were swatted to death by the Asura Demon Emperor after having their puppets easily stripped away by Ling Han.
Peng, peng, peng!
Ling Han and the others knocked on the doors of the courtyards and called Jin Zhihui and Fu Tian out.
They were still in their courtyards as they were most likely on the bottom of the list, and thus it wasn’t their turn to be killed and refined yet. Meanwhile, they were also completely oblivious to what had happened around them.
Ling Han recounted what they had seen just then, and the expressions of Jin Zhihui and the two others instantly changed drastically.
“I’m going to kill that old bastard!” Fu Tian roared furiously. The veins on his body suddenly bulged, and the hair on his head also stood on ends as a devastating aura emanated from his body.
“What do you two think?” Ling Han turned to look at Yin Yuanxiang and Jin Zhihui.
“Kill them all!” Jin Zhihui said as he waved his fist.
Yin Yuanxiang nodded, but remained silent.
“Very well!” Ling Han drummed his fingers on the table, and said, “There’s only the old man left right now!”
Puppeteers relied on their puppets to battle, yet he was coincidentally the most powerful nemesis of puppets. Moreover, the Asura Demon Emperor could enter and control any puppet. Thus, they would be able to turn their enemy’s weapons into their weapons.
So, even if Pei Ji owned two pseudo-Sun Moon Tier puppets, and even if he was an elite at the consummate level of the Mountain River Tier himself, Ling Han was still completely unafraid of him. Instead, he was brimming with confidence.
The group of five set out together and started to search for Pei Ji. However, they looked around for a long time, but were still unable to find him.
“There’s still a small workshop. Pei Ji is definitely in there!”
Ling Han recalled Guo Xiuwen’s words, and started to head toward the small workshop.
This was genuinely a small workshop. It was nine meters by nine meters, and its door was securely shut.
Fu Tian took a deep breath before ferociously charging toward the door.
Peng!
He slammed into the door like a powerful meteor. The door instantly shuddered and crashed to the ground. Meanwhile, Fu Tian was also pushed back. However, he simply shook his head and quickly recovered his best condition immediately.
The door sent puffs of dust billowing through the air as it crashed down, and they could vaguely see Pei Ji resting in the embrace of a woman in the room. There was a look of intoxication and gentleness in his eyes as he caressed the face and breast of the woman.
However, the female was clearly a puppet. Although her body was extremely lifelike, there were two black and lifeless gems where her eyes should have been.
“Since you’ve arrived here, it means that my disciples are all dead.” Pei Ji wasn’t flustered, and had the female puppet turn him around to face Ling Han and the others.
A look of contempt flashed across his face, and he scolded, “What a bunch of useless trash!”
“Old bastard, I’m going to murder you!” Fu Tian was t
he first to charge over, yet the female puppet merely extended an arm toward him. It seemed as if the sky were about to collapse, and it appeared as if the hand could expand without limit.
Pa!
The palm struck down, and Fu Tian was instantly sent flying. Blood spurted through the air as he collapsed to the ground and fainted.
“Hmm? He didn’t die after facing that attack?” Pei Ji was clearly a little surprised, and said, “I underestimated you people. No wonder you were able to kill all of my disciples. However, since you’ve come here, don’t dream of leaving alive!”
He whistled loudly, and a middle-aged man instantly walked out from some dark corner. He was also a puppet. However, the appearance of this puppet was quite harrowing, as there were sabers and swords sticking out from all over its body, making it look like an echidna.
“Kill them!” Pei Ji commanded coldly. He then turned around and buried his head into the female puppet’s chest, gnawing at it greedily.
“F-freak!” Jin Zhihui said with a grimace. Was this old man a f*cking necrophile?
Pei Ji was still lost in lust, yet he suddenly noticed that something was off. Why was it suddenly so quiet?
He turned around, and he almost wet himself in shock.
‘It disappeared!’
The middle-aged male puppet had vanished. It wasn’t in the sky, nor was it on the ground. Where the f*ck had it gone?
One had to realize that it was a pseudo-Sun Moon Tier puppet! It was just as powerful as the puppet that he was embracing.
The Asura Demon Emperor charged over, and roared, “Die!” He had grown quite a bit, and he knew whom to attack even without Ling Han’s command—as the emperor of obsequiousness, his ability to read the mood was naturally top-notch.
The female puppet struck her palm toward the Asura Demon Emperor.
Peng!
The Asura Demon Emperor was instantly sent flying, and even his tiger head had been twisted at an unnatural angle by the force of the strike.
The gulf between their battle prowess was far too huge. The female puppet was at the pseudo-Sun Moon Tier, while the puppet tiger was merely at the late stage of the consummate level.
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