Spirit Vessel

“The Grand Puppet Art is really here. Then what about the other volumes? Are all eight immemorial arts recorded? Who the hell wrote this record?”

Feiyun became frightened because of the sacred scripture named Grave-seeking. How could such a powerful scroll be found in a tiny place like Jin?

The upper part of the Eight Arts Volume already had plenty of incredible arts. The whole record was invaluable.

Feiyun used a telepathic message to ask the turtle about these mysteries. He thought there was something off about the turtle. Maybe it actually had an impressive background.

“Well, this pertains to a secret in the past, it’s better for you to not know right now.” The turtle tried to be cool.

He wanted to drag the turtle out to give it a good beating.

“Fine, since you insist on knowing, I can tell you a little bit. It has to do with the legendary grave palace.” The turtle said mysteriously.

“Grave palace?” Feiyun has never heard of it before.

Due to the scroll’s power, he should have heard of this place in his previous life.

“It’s understandable that you haven’t heard of it before.” The turtle said: “There are too many secrets at place here. Sigh, no, it’s not good for you. Just focus on cultivating the Grand Puppet Art first.”

It paused for a bit before continuing: “I feel something watching us the entire time, do you think this expert is still alive?”

“I don’t know about that, I just know that the enemy paragons are near.” Feiyun’s awareness was exceptional and had used his Grand Change Art to calculate. There were around ten paragons coming.

The stone maze would only be able to stop them for half a day at best. If he could somehow learn the elementary basics of the Grand Puppet Art, he might be able to trap them for three days to buy time for Xuanyuan Yiyi.

He sat on the ground and focused on cultivating this art. The saint ashes inside him became radiant, heloping him cultivate.

Six hours later, he closed the scroll and took a deep breath. A smirk appeared on his face as he murmured: “They’re here.”

Though he couldn’t understand the primary points, he saw a path wide enough to start practicing this art. Alas, time was running out.

One of them was here already and he would be Feiyun’s first victim. He put on the invisible cloak and headed for the incoming expert.

He was one of the four paragons from the Yin World, a first-level Heaven’s Emergence. Everything was covered in a black cloak outside of his fiery eyes. An iron loop coiled around his left shoulder.

Though he tried his best to hide his aura, Feiyun still found him with the Grand Change Art. The domain of this art was invisible and could find hiding experts.

The old man was very careful and moved unpredictably.

Feiyun was now behind him. He gathered all of the saint ashes power into a single strand of saint energy for an attack.

Space erupted as a result and shocked the old man. He immediately grabbed his iron ring, turned around, and tried to block the attack.

“Boom!” The strand easily cut both him and his weapon into two halves. Blood gushed out from the wound.

“Saint energ-” He was still not dead and the two halves attacked Feiyun.

However, the saint energy had obliterated him so the remaining power was not a threat.

“Cosmic Seal.” Feiyun’s hand became resplendent as he pushed the old man’s head down on the ground, crushing it like a watermelon.

The old man finally went down afterward. He then gathered the corpse because this belonged to a Heaven’s Emergence expert and would fetch a high price on the black market.

His blood, skin, bones, and everything else were desired by evil cultivators.

He then returned to Yiyi’s location but… she was no longer there.

He stopped and felt something behind him.

“Boom!” He gathered all of his power for a thunderous blow.

“You hid your power.” Yiyi’s voice came from behind.

She was sitting on a swordsman statue and gazed at him.

He dispersed his energy and smiled: “Saintess, your dao heart is insightful and omniscient, you know full well know strong I am.”

“Don’t be hard on yourself, from all the geniuses I’ve seen, you’re definitely among the top thirty. Moreover, your hidden ace cards are unfathomable. You have many secrets.” Her voice was elegant and ethereal.

“Haha, a half-demon like me has nothing to hide, not like I can reach Heaven’s Emergence.” Feiyun said.

“Few half-demons can kill Heaven’s Emergence.” She said.

“It’s because of the successful ambush. If I were to fight two at the same time, I would need to run after a few seconds unlike you who fought against ten without losing.”

“You’re being sarcastic.” She said.

“No, I’m being sincere.”

“Forget it, I will take it easy on you out of consideration for Liu Suzi. I won’t inquire about your secrets.” Her eyes looked rather strange as she recalled what happened that day. She averted her gaze, not wanting to face him.

Liu Suzi? I’m that close to her?

This wasn’t her first time bringing this up so Feiyun was confused. Their relationship was only out of mutual benefits, nothing more.

His final conclusion was that there was really something going on between the two women.

“How is your wound, Saintess?” He asked.

“I’ve comprehended the first sacred truth.” She closed her eyes and sat down again.

So fast! He was in awe of her comprehension.

He himself didn’t know the sacred truths but understood their significance. Seeing the first truth meant being able to see the door towards sainthood. Her cultivation must have improved greatly.

Her strong mentality and dao heart were impressive, not inferior to the young Shui Yueting. He thought that it wouldn’t be easy to deal with her.

I can start with Liu Suzi. He smiled with his eyes.

Of course, this was later down the road. Now, he needed to deal with the current crisis.

His comprehension was just as fast right now due to the help of the saint ashes. It looked like he was losing but this was his first time reading the Grand Puppet Art.

On the other hand, Xuanyuan Yiyi had studied the Heart Meditation Sword Scripture her entire life. It was easier for her to learn the sacred truths.

After another two hours, Feiyun had reached the elementary stage of this art. It focused on creation, control, soul, and life.

Refining a puppet was a type of creation. The art taught him to use heaven and earth as his palm, the five elements as the pillars, and everything else as puppets.

Laws would move the cosmo, reason would become the soul, time itself would become life. Then subsequently came living entities. They could all become puppets.