Ah Yao hid in the shadows, filled with fear, as the corpse puppet looked in her direction.
Upon seeing those blood-red eyes, A Yao was so terrified that she immediately fled into the distance. But before she could move, the other person blocked her path, and A Yao unexpectedly crashed into their chest. This made A Yao even more panicked. A Void Refinement cultivator could crush her like an ant. She took a few steps back, her whole body trembling.
She was trembling, wondering what she should do.
If the other party were a living person, they could communicate, but... he's a dead man. He just killed his master, probably because he was too powerful, and the old man couldn't control him. But... that doesn't mean he'll be friendly to her. What would happen if the corpse puppet went out of control? Ayao hadn't practiced corpse refining techniques, so she wasn't quite sure.
She stood still, her body tense, not moving for fear that if she moved, she would die even faster.
What she didn't expect was that when she didn't move, the other person didn't move either, and just kept staring at her.
Ayao: "..."
What's wrong with this guy?
Ayao's heart pounded. Staring into the other person's blood-red eyes was terrifying. After a long, unwavering stare, Ayao tried taking two steps back. He stepped forward, and when she did, he stopped, just staring intently at her.
Countless question marks popped into A Yao's mind. Suddenly, she turned and flew away into the distance. The corpse puppet's figure flashed and appeared in front of her, blocking A Yao's path again. A Yao almost crashed into its chest again.
Ayao took two steps back in mid-air. As the other person approached her, she suddenly shouted, "Stop!"
The other party actually stopped.
Ayao was filled with doubt, but she felt that the corpse puppet didn't seem to want to kill her. She told it to stop, and it actually stopped. Did this thing still have its own consciousness?
Just as A Yao had predicted, Xu Fengzhi's physical body still retained a trace of consciousness.
When Lou Munan extracted his primordial spirit, he was naturally unwilling to return to Lou Munan's body like that, so he resisted desperately. As a result of this resistance, a wisp of remnant soul remained in this physical body. Lou Munan did not want his weak body, so he let this wisp of remnant soul hide deep in this body. However, this remnant soul had no memory, and he did not know who he was.
When Luo Hong tried to make him acknowledge him as his master, he instinctively resisted. Luo Hong couldn't handle him and reluctantly sealed him away.
He had just killed Luo Hong and sensed a familiar aura from A Yao. The familiarity he felt with A Yao made him feel a sense of closeness, so he didn't kill her. He was filled with curiosity about A Yao and wanted to follow her.
"You, you, do you have your own consciousness?" A Yao asked. This was indeed a corpse puppet. A Yao scanned the other party's body with her divine sense but did not find any primordial spirit inside the physical body. His body was filled with the aura of the dead, and the death aura was extremely dense.
A corpse puppet with its own consciousness?
Ayao had never seen it before.
She stared into the other person's bloodshot eyes, but the other person just stared back at her without saying a word.
Ayao descended from the sky, and he followed her down.
Ayao stared at the corpse puppet, thought for a moment, and then cast a restriction on it. She was trying to brand it with her own mark, making it submit to her. Ayao was just trying it out casually, but to her surprise, the corpse puppet didn't struggle at all and was easily subdued by the restriction, becoming her corpse puppet.
Ayao's eyes lit up. Such a good thing? A Void Refinement stage corpse puppet willingly followed her.
Ayao was overjoyed.
After branding herself on the puppet, she could command it with a single thought. So, Ayao brought along the coffin that Luo Hong had used to seal the puppet, and had the puppet come with her.
The other party obediently followed behind her. A Yao's purpose in coming out this time was to capture a level 7 wind attribute demon beast. Now that she had a Void Refinement stage corpse puppet, A Yao felt that she could raise her requirements. So she ordered the corpse puppet to capture a level 9 wind attribute demon beast for her.
After receiving her command, the corpse puppet vanished into the dense forest in a flash. A short while later, a huge black shadow descended from the sky. This corpse puppet had killed a level nine celestial horse and brought its corpse back.
Ayao was overjoyed. She put the corpse of that heavenly horse into her storage bag and returned to her cave with the corpse puppet.
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Inside the cave, A Yao sat on a futon. Various materials floated in front of her. In addition to the materials, there were several small flags. A Yao cast a series of restrictions on the small flags and then incorporated the materials into them.
Various colored lights flashed, and one after another, restrictive runes appeared in the air and merged into the small flags. After about seven days of this process, A Yao's Heavenly Wind Blood Thunder Array was finally completed.
After completing the Heavenly Wind and Blood Thunder Array, A Yao stood up from the futon and walked towards the outside of the cave. On a large rock outside the cave sat a mysterious man whose entire body was wrapped in strips of cloth. His long, black hair hung down his back, and a pair of blood-red eyes were exposed. He exuded an aura of death.
When A Yao was refining the formation, she asked him to guard the outside, and he sat there without moving.
Ayao walked up to the corpse puppet and saw its blood-red eyes staring into the depths of the mist. Ayao didn't know what it was looking at.
"What are you looking at?" Ayao asked.
The corpse puppet didn't speak, nor did it even turn around to look at A Yao, as if it hadn't heard A Yao speak at all.
Ayao took out a storage bag, which belonged to Luo Hong. Luo Hong's storage bag contained spirit stones, magic treasures, various cultivation techniques he had acquired, maps, refining materials, and so on.
Ayao pulled out all the techniques for crafting corpse puppets from the storage bag, read them carefully, and then threw them back in. Luo Hong's storage bag didn't contain any information about corpse puppets possessing their own consciousness. Generally, if a corpse puppet's level was too high, it would only become enraged when someone tried to control it.
If the seal is intact, they won't attack people randomly as long as they aren't provoked. But if they go out of control, that's a different story. The records state that out-of-control corpse puppets drink blood and devour souls every day, killing all living things around them. Therefore, wherever out-of-control corpse puppets go, they bring carnage and corpses everywhere.
The corpse puppet in front of me was quiet and didn't look out of control at all.
Ayao stared at the corpse puppet in front of her, and for some reason felt a sense of familiarity with it.
Could it be that I know him?
The moment the thought crossed her mind, Ayao found it absurd. A cultivator at the Void Refinement stage? She did know a few, but they were all in the Canglan Realm… the Canglan Realm…
The thought of the Canglan Realm made A Yao feel dazed. She realized that she had been away from the Canglan Realm for several hundred years. Her memories of the people and events of the Canglan Realm had gradually become blurred.
"You, you come in with me," Ayao said to the corpse puppet.
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