These puppets seemed endless, and mountains of severed limbs and remains had appeared beneath the feet of Mo Xingjue and the others.

“This won’t do. I’m going to go and investigate on my own,” Mo Xingjue said. This was a decision he made after careful consideration. Rather than killing puppets here without seeing any hope, he would rather go and investigate.

Without anyone by his side, he can move faster and escape more easily if he encounters danger.

Liu Haozhi and Sun Chenghao couldn't bring themselves to say anything to persuade him to stay. They wholeheartedly agreed with Mo Xingjue's decision, but they were afraid that if Mo Xingjue left, they wouldn't be able to stop the puppets.

“Go ahead, we’ll hold out until you come back,” Liu Haozhi said through gritted teeth.

Mo Xingjue nodded, "I will be back as soon as possible."

As Mo Xingjue had predicted, he returned shortly after leaving, bringing back more than twenty people with him.

"I met him on the road," Mo Xingjue explained, before disappearing into the white mist again.

This time, Mo Xingjue was gone for a long time, so long that Liu Haozhi thought they were about to give up.

Li Ze walked through the white fog. Apart from not being able to see anything more than a meter away, he did not encounter any danger along the way.

Until the sound of fighting was heard—

Li Ze followed the sounds of fighting, but before he saw any humans, he was struck by a dense mass of puppets. He was stunned; how could there be so many puppets?

Before Li Ze could decide whether to intervene, he heard screams and cries for help coming from ahead, "Senior Brother Liu, save me!"

Senior Brother Liu?

Liu Haozhi?

Li Ze was still wondering if this Senior Brother Liu was Liu Haozhi when he heard a familiar voice reply, "Hang in there a little longer, I'll be there soon."

"Senior Brother Liu, I also need support on my end."

"Wait!"

However, before Liu Haozhi could go to save the person, screams rang out again, along with the sound of a sharp blade slicing through flesh.

"Senior Brother Liu, fellow disciples, I'll take my leave first!"

The disciple, riddled with stabs, charged forward with a ruthless glint in his eyes, ignoring the blades embedded in his body. He grabbed the puppet with both hands and then slammed his head down on it, as if intending to smash its head off.

When Li Ze approached, he saw the puppet covered in blood from being smashed. He felt a pang of pity and, before the puppet could continue smashing, he used his sword to sever the puppet's head.

The opponent slammed the object down, its body suddenly leaning forward, and it tumbled forward along with the puppet.

With lightning speed, Li Ze grabbed the disciple's clothes from the back and slashed at the puppet that rushed up from the side with his sword.

The puppet fell to the ground, still tightly gripping the knife in its hand. The broadsword was pulled from the disciple's body, drawing blood everywhere. The disciple's eyes rolled back, and he fainted.

Seeing that he was barely breathing and might die at any moment, Li Ze quickly laid him flat and then took out a pill and put it into his mouth.

Fortunately, although he had sold out of the pills he had refined with his own spiritual power, he still had the pills that Lin Jingyuan and the others had given him.

After feeding him the pill, Li Ze stopped paying attention to him and focused on dealing with the endless stream of puppets, each holding a long sword.

Li Ze's swordsmanship was fast and fierce; he could kill a puppet with almost a single strike, and he could kill one puppet with one hand. While others could kill one, he could kill five or six.

Soon, everyone's stress was greatly reduced.

About an hour later, the puppet army was almost completely wiped out, leaving only a few scattered ones.

It wasn't until the few remaining ones were eliminated by Li Ze that everyone discovered him.

"He Yu!" Liu Haozhi exclaimed in surprise.

"Senior Brother Liu," Li Ze said with a smile, then nodded to the person next to him as a greeting.

In reality, not many people saw him, but they all heard his voice.

"I was wondering why there were so many puppet corpses. It turns out it was you." Liu Haozhi said loudly. For some reason, even though the other party was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, he felt inexplicably at ease when he saw him. This feeling was similar to the feeling he had when he saw his senior brother.

That's really strange!

"Why are there so many puppets? Isn't your senior brother here?" Li Ze asked.

"Our senior brother went to investigate. As for these puppets, we don't know where they came from," Liu Haozhi said. Then, he told Li Ze about their discovery.

After hearing this, Li Ze felt heavy-hearted. While silently absorbing the surrounding evil energy, he took out all the spirit stones from his storage bag. "I still have some spirit stones here. Please distribute them to everyone, Senior Brother Liu."

"If you distribute them to everyone, what will you do?" Liu Haozhi asked.

"I still have some," Li Ze lied without blinking.

Liu Haozhi remembered the 50,000 high-grade spirit stones Bai Xue had given him, and without suspicion, he accepted the spirit stones.