Soon after, Lin Jinglong landed at the bottom of the canyon, which was hundreds of feet deep. Rocks kept rolling down from above, and some martial artists were falling from above.

Shouts of fighting and killing came from all directions.

Everyone was trying to grab the spot with the most concentrated spiritual energy.

Lin Jinglong observed from the vicinity. What he cared about was not the spiritual vein itself, but rather what arrangements Yang Xinhu had made at this entrance to the Holy Realm.

"Lin Jinglong, come quick!"

Situ Xue suddenly discovered something.

After Lin Jinglong and Hei Yue arrived, they saw a strange pattern stained with blood on a cliff not far away.

"This blood has dried and congealed; it wasn't freshly left, and the patterns look very strange..."

"Blood Sacrifice Formation!"

Lin Jinglong's eyes flashed.

His figure swiftly disappeared into another location.

The remaining bloodstain patterns were quickly found.

There are five locations in total, situated on the cliff faces at both ends of the canyon bottom. All of them were left from before, and Lin Jinglong was able to discern the patterns on them.

"Using this cliff face as talisman paper, and the blood essence of at least a hundred people as paint to draw the array diagram, along with the incredibly abundant spiritual energy at the bottom of this canyon, a blood sacrifice array with a scale of a thousand people was set up!"

Lin Jinglong muttered to himself.

In his view, this spiritual vein was more like bait, meant to lure thousands of martial artists in before activating the blood sacrifice array to refine them all...

So what was his purpose in initiating this blood sacrifice?

Without thinking twice, Lin Jinglong grabbed the two women beside him and tried to rush towards the canyon exit above their heads.

But soon, a figure descended from the sky and suppressed them.

Yang Xinhu hovered high in the air, raised his hand and released his aura, suppressing Lin Jinglong who was trying to rise.

"Don't worry, the target of the blood sacrifice is not you. Now that you have taken the Spirit Essence Pill, you will become my puppet. You will not die."

Yang Xinhu said with a smug smile.

Dozens of martial artists appeared behind him one after another.

Ying Qingyou looked down at Lin Jinglong, his fists clenched, his expression extremely excited.

"This guy's done for!"

After Lin Jinglong returned to the ground.

Yang Xinhu's expression grew increasingly satisfied.

He immediately shouted a rebuke.

"Stop fighting! Stop robbing!"

After the domineering aura of the Martial Emperor realm was released, the remaining nearly a thousand martial artists present had no choice but to stop fighting, most of whom were injured.

Yang Xinhu hovered in the air, standing with his hands behind his back.

"You're all going to die soon, what's the point of fighting over this? The saying 'Man dies for wealth, bird dies for food' is perfectly embodied in you!"

"What does Patriarch Yang mean by that?"

The crowd began to murmur again, looking at Yang Xinhu with confusion. Just then, Lin Jinglong appeared in front of the crowd.

He pointed to the cliff face beside him.

“A blood sacrifice array has been set up here. You and I are just livestock for Yang Xinhu to sacrifice. It won’t be long before we die in this canyon.”

"Whoosh!"

Everyone panicked.

Finally, some of them began to study the cliff face and saw the dried bloodstains, and they all showed expressions of despair.

"I thought these bloodstains were left from fighting, so I didn't look at them carefully. Now I know that they are actually a blood sacrifice array!"

Some people turned pale and collapsed to the ground.

What should we do?

They looked up at Yang Xinhu, who stood high above them, looking down at the crowd at the bottom of the canyon with an expressionless face, like a god.

The lives of thousands of people are in his hands!

Yang Xinhu suddenly shook his head and smiled.

"Lin Jinglong, I've already said that there are a hundred of you, including yourself, who won't die, but will simply become my puppets, Yang Xinhu's puppets!"

He raised his hand and took out the jade Guanyin statue, while Yang Ruolin behind him also stepped forward, holding an antique jade pendant in his hand.

Hundreds of threads, faintly visible on the two individuals, quickly spread to hundreds of people, including Lin Jinglong, forming a connection with them.

Several weaker individuals experienced a sudden surge of their inner soul essence, causing their eyes to roll back and them to collapse on the spot, losing all consciousness.

A smile bloomed on Yang Ruolin's face.

Following the puppetry techniques taught by his father, he probed the jade slip with his divine sense and then used the threads to control the three early-stage Martial Emperors who had fallen to the ground first.

He immediately used the parasitic soul to turn them into puppets, making the three of them stand up from the ground again.

Their joints were twisted, and they were somewhat unsteady when moving, which was because Yang Ruolin's control was not yet proficient.

But he still burst into laughter.

"Hahaha! Father, I've mastered it! I've finally mastered it! This puppet technique allows me to control countless powerful beings without needing to cultivate!"

Yang Xinhu turned his head and glared at him.

"This is just the beginning. You'll only be considered a master when you can control a ninth-tier Martial Emperor like your father, Lin Jinglong!"

Yang Xinhu reprimanded him, then looked at Lin Jinglong and said with a touch of emotion, "As the first place winner of the World Martial Arts Tournament, a prodigy like you should not have become a puppet."

"But there's nothing you can do, you died because of your own stupidity."

"I can only accept your body with a smile!"

Yang Xinhu also laughed heartily.

He raised his hand, attempting to control Lin Jinglong.

At this moment, Lin Jinglong and those around him were trying to use their own spiritual power to fight against the suddenly erupting soul seeds that were parasitizing their bodies.

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