Transmigrating to the Qi Cultivation Path, I became an outdated Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Chapter 108 The Divine Puppet Displays Its Power

The blood-red light was so thick it was almost tangible, emitting a pungent, fishy odor. Countless tiny runes flowed within it, radiating a chilling pressure.

He Sheng felt a tightness all over his body, as if he were being gripped by an invisible giant hand, and even the flow of his magical power became sluggish.

His divine sense was also compressed to the extreme. The range of perception that could originally cover dozens of miles was now forcibly suppressed to a range of about one mile around him.

As the fishy smell entered his nostrils, He Sheng felt a slight sense of disorientation.

Just then, an image flashed through his mind—the image of "turbid water" that he had seen during the fortune-telling.

He immediately understood:

This blood-red light is a supernatural power of the [Turbid Water] path!

Taking advantage of the opportunity of his destiny being activated, He Shengfu regained his clarity. He dared not delay any longer and immediately activated the [Ripples] to bless the Thousand Waters Illusionary Dharma Body.

boom!

With a muffled thud, He Sheng exploded, transforming into nine water droplets that shot out in all directions.

As it flew, the water spheres quickly condensed into human-shaped Dharma bodies, each one incredibly realistic.

"what?"

The owner of the voice let out a soft exclamation, seemingly surprised that He Sheng was able to break free from the blood-red aura, but then a chilling laugh followed.

"Heh, that's interesting, but too bad you can't escape!"

Before he could finish speaking, the stone door that He Sheng had found earlier suddenly opened from the inside!

An intensely pungent, overwhelming stench of blood emanated from it.

Immediately afterwards, a thick pillar of blood-red light shot into the sky, dyeing half of the sky dark red.

The beam of light shot into the air and then exploded with a deafening roar, with blood-red light scattering like a torrential rain, creating an extremely horrifying scene.

Sizzle...

The originally barren, ochre-gray ground, upon contact with the blood-red light, was like a red-hot iron falling into grease, emitting a piercing corrosive sound.

Then, fist-sized, blood-red dots of light appeared on the ground, densely packed, like pairs of scarlet eyes opening.

These points of light emitted fine blood-red lines that crisscrossed each other, instantly outlining a large array that covered an area of ​​several miles!

He Sheng's true form, taking advantage of the cover provided by the explosion of his Dharma body, quietly used the Rippling Water Escape technique, disappearing into the water vapor and fleeing into the distance.

But just as he had rushed out a few miles, darkness fell over his head.

A colossal crimson light barrier descended from the sky, like an inverted crimson bowl, enveloping everything in its vicinity.

He Sheng was greatly alarmed upon seeing this, and quickly created a water-shadow Dharma body to crash into the light barrier in front of him in order to test its depth.

But something terrifying happened to He Sheng.

The moment the Water Shadow Dharma Body came into contact with the light barrier, it was as if it had crashed into a wall of flesh and blood formed by countless wronged souls. Not only could it not penetrate it, but an extremely sinister power also invaded the Dharma Body.

Not only did it instantly pollute the spiritual energy of the Dharma Body, turning it into a mass of foul blood, but it also tried to spread over along the magical connection between the Dharma Body and the original body!

Alarm bells rang in He Sheng's mind.

cut!

He immediately severed the connection between his physical body and his Dharma body, thus freeing himself from the influence of the blood light.

"We cannot force our way in with our bare bodies!"

He Sheng made a quick decision, and with a flick of his wrist, a dark golden sphere appeared in his palm.

[Slight Ripples] activated his divine power, and the net of divine essence instantly spread out.

Roar!

A dragon's roar that shook the heavens resounded.

The dark gold sphere grew as it faced the wind, and in an instant it transformed into a brown dragon puppet more than ten feet long!

He Sheng flashed, transforming into a streak of light, and directly entered the gaping maw of the dragon puppet, hiding deep within its body.

This blood-red light technique is particularly adept at corrupting people's spiritual energy and suppressing their divine sense. When someone gets close to the blood-red light, they can only unleash 30% of their strength.

The divine puppet's physical body is incredibly strong, and with its physical body acting as an isolation, it may be unaffected.

This was the first time He Sheng had encountered such a bizarre method. He vaguely guessed that the cultivator hiding here was likely a demonic cultivator who had entered the Netherworld True Path.

The situation is unclear, and the enemy has set up a large formation. The most urgent task is to break out.

"Heavenly Abyss Condensed Light!"

With a thought, He Sheng felt a blinding light burst forth from the dragon puppet's eyes.

A brown beam of light, imbued with a terrifying aura of destruction, spewed from the dragon's mouth, slamming into the blood-red light shield with immense force.

Boom!

A deafening roar.

The Heavenly Abyss Condensing Light is a genuine innate talent of a Core Formation level dragon; its power is extraordinary.

The seemingly indestructible crimson light shield trembled violently under this attack, and the area struck rippled wildly, like water rippled by a stone thrown in.

Click!

A crisp cracking sound rang out, and the light shield directly in front of the dragon puppet showed countless spider silk cracks, as if it was about to shatter.

Seeing this, He Sheng gave it no chance to recover and manipulated the dragon puppet to unleash a powerful dragon tail swing.

boom!

There was a muffled thud.

But then the dragon puppet used its powerful physical strength to blast a hole several feet in diameter into the light barrier!

Without hesitation, He Sheng used the enormous dragon body of the Jiao Kui to sway and shot out of the hole, fleeing wildly into the distance.

"The Heavenly River Sect's divine puppet?!" A low exclamation of surprise and delight came from within the stone gate. "This pseudo-Core Formation cultivator was able to find this place; he truly knows the secrets of the Heavenly River Sect. This divine puppet should rightfully belong to me!"

Whoosh!

A streak of crimson light shot into the sky from within the stone gate, pursuing He Sheng with a speed no less than that of the dragon puppet.

Seeing that this person arrived swiftly, He Sheng immediately put away the dragon puppet.

After all, the dragon puppet was too large to be used for long-distance escape, so he switched to using the Rippling Water Escape technique, his figure flashing as he flew away into the distance.

However, the environment of the Blade Wind Wasteland was too harsh, with thin moisture in the air, which greatly limited his escape speed.

The demonic cultivator behind him was also incredibly fast in his escape technique. The crimson streak of light trailed a long, bloody tail, closely following him, and their speeds were almost identical.

In the blink of an eye, they had covered a thousand miles in a chase.

He Sheng had already used up one-tenth of his magical power, but the aura of the demonic cultivator behind him was still abundant and showed no signs of weakening.

This person must have some means to quickly restore my magic power. If this continues, I will eventually run out of magic power!

He Sheng's mind raced as he rapidly recalled the topographical map in his mind.

If you travel another thousand miles or so to the northwest, there should be a large lake there called "Hanluze".

Since we can't get rid of this person, let's have a fight with him in the Cold Dew Marsh!

After traveling another thousand miles, He Sheng's magical power was depleted by another ten percent, and the vast, misty lake finally came into view in the distance.

The crimson streak of light behind him had already chased him for two or three miles, and He Sheng could even vaguely sense the other party's cold killing intent.

He immediately feigned exhaustion, his speed suddenly slowed down, and his figure became unsteady before plunging headfirst into the cold, deep lake.

Whoosh!

The lake surface exploded, and He Sheng's figure instantly disappeared beneath the deep waters.

A dozen breaths later, the crimson streak of light caught up to the surface of the lake.

The light faded, revealing a middle-aged man dressed in a black Taoist robe.

This person had a thin face, slightly graying temples, a nose that was slightly curved like an eagle's beak, and thin lips that were tightly pursed.

The eyes looked terrifying, with a bottomless dark red reflected deep in the pupils, as if two pools of solidified blood were slowly swirling within them.

This person's aura was only at the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, but He Sheng, who was hidden in the deep lake, observed with his divine sense secret method that there were three rays of light of different colors intertwined around this person's body, and a blood-red halo that was almost solidified was suspended behind his head. It was clearly the prototype of four supernatural powers!

She's not much different from Ying Ruyue back then.

"hide?

"Let's see where you can hide!"

The man snorted coldly, and with a flick of his sleeve, the overwhelming blood-red light poured down as if it were alive, dyeing the entire deep lake water a scarlet red.

The blood splattered into the water like drops of strong acid, causing the lake to boil violently and spew out thick, foul-smelling smoke.

To the man's dismay, his divine sense was greatly disturbed deep within the lake, and he could no longer detect He Sheng's whereabouts.

"Hmph, a mere trick!"

The man moved swiftly, transforming into a blood-red shadow, and disappeared directly into the crimson lake.

In just a few breaths, the man passed through the blood-soaked water and entered the depths of the lake. But at that moment, a warning suddenly arose in his heart!

The man in the black robe suddenly felt darkness before his eyes, and a huge, multicolored venomous dragon opened its blood-red maw, launching five balls of highly poisonous water at him head-on.

"A mere poison dares to show off its meager skills before me?!"

A hint of disdain flashed in the man's eyes. A blood-red halo suddenly appeared behind his head, from which a blood-red talisman flew out, immediately unfolding a blood-red protective shield in front of him.

bang bang bang...

The Thousand-Condensed Poison Dragon Strike, which was originally extremely powerful, was easily blocked by the blood-red shield without even causing a ripple.

Immediately afterwards, the blood-red rune flew out from the protective shield and imprinted itself directly on the head of the poisonous dragon.

Without a sound, the head of the venomous dragon was stained with blood, and then melted away like a wax figure, revealing the blood-poisoned mother-and-child blades inside.

In an instant, a blood nightmare appeared within the crimson rune, instantly enveloping the Blood Poison Mother-Child Blade.

The Blood Poison Mother-Child Blade, which was once invincible, let out a mournful cry the moment it touched the Blood Nightmare.

The colorful poisonous water dragon's body, as if encountering its nemesis, quickly became dull and murky. The Blood Poison Mother-Child Blade lost all its spiritual light, as if it had turned into a dull and lusterless piece of ordinary iron, which the man casually grabbed and held in his palm.

"Although it is not as good as a Dao artifact, it still has some of the qualities of [turbid water], so it is not bad. I will take this artifact."

The man gave a sinister smile, his gaze sharp as lightning, sweeping towards the depths of the lake.

He Sheng, who was hiding at the bottom of the lake, saw all of this clearly, and his heart sank deeper and deeper.

The Qi-Consuming Divine Channel technique is far too domineering; in this battle...

He Sheng never expected that, in just one encounter, this was most likely a prodigy disciple from some demonic sect within the Tongyouming True Path, who directly took away the Blood Poison Mother-Child Blade.

This was his greatest reliance for a long time!

But now is not the time to be discouraged. He forced himself to calm down and analyze the opponent's [Turbid Water] technique.

This demonic cultivator's [Turbid Water] technique not only pollutes spiritual energy, but also has an extremely strong ability to restrain magical artifacts and supernatural powers of the same attribute.

If I were to fight against it with my own magical power, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to unleash even half of my full potential.

The technique of attacking with divine sense, such as Scattered Stars, cannot be used casually. Otherwise, if it is contaminated by blood light, the entire spiritual sea may be in danger.

In other words, if I want to fight it, the first thing I need to do is to isolate myself from the blood and light, and not let it contaminate my spiritual energy.

He Sheng pondered for a moment. Among the methods he currently knew, the only one that was unaffected by the opponent's techniques was that of the dragon puppet with its powerful physical body!

With this in mind, He Sheng no longer hesitated and once again summoned the dragon puppet, hiding its true form within the dragon's body.

However, this naturally exposed He Sheng's whereabouts.

"And then this divine puppet was taken out again?"

It seems you, a fake Core Formation cultivator, have run out of tricks!

The middle-aged man smiled sinisterly. Despite being of a lower cultivation level, he seemed to have He Sheng completely under his control. This was the confidence behind his subjugation of cultivators with the Qi Divine Path.

With a series of hand seals, the endless crimson light in the lake water transformed into countless twisted crimson tentacles, which swept across the sky and entangled the dragon puppet.

He Sheng used the Divine Yuan Net to control the dragon puppet, coiling the dragon's body up and using its hard scales to fight against the blood-red tentacles.

Bang bang bang!

Blood splattered, leaving white marks on the scales, but they could not be eroded.

At the same time, He Sheng quietly created numerous water-reflection avatars in the lake. With the blessing of the [Ripples] divine power, they were indistinguishable from the real ones and attacked the man from all directions.

"Still just a trivial skill!"

The man in the black robe simply transformed the blood-red light into a halo several meters in size, protecting himself.

As the crimson halo rotated, wherever it passed, the Dharma body was utterly vulnerable.

But the situation soon changed. Before the light halo could reach them, those water shadow avatars gathered the water around them and exploded, with considerable power!

This was He Sheng using his Dharma body as a vessel to directly unleash the Gathering Water Break, and it wasn't just a simple Gathering Water Break, but a triple Gathering Water Break empowered by [Slight Ripples]!

Sensing the continuous blasts around him, the man in the black robe frowned slightly, because he could feel the crimson halo around him weakening little by little.

"snort!

They're just relying on their superior magical power to try and wear me down with this kind of method.

Unfortunately, their plan backfired!

The man in the black robe flipped his palm and took out a blood-red pill, which he swallowed in one gulp. His mana, which had been nearly half depleted, began to recover rapidly.

During the previous chase, He Sheng already knew that this demonic cultivator had a way to quickly replenish his mana, so he wasn't surprised.

We must deliver continuous blows and not give him a chance to breathe!

With this thought in mind, He Sheng created even more Water Shadow Dharma Bodies.

At the same time, nine avatars, each comparable to two or three tenths of his own strength, quietly formed an array and activated an illusion array.

*Smack*

The man in the black robe felt the lake water around him ripple, and his vision blurred slightly, as if the world had changed.

"A mere illusion array dares to show off before me!"

The man let out a low shout, his eyes flashing with blood-red light. He instantly saw through the illusion array and locked onto the nine water shadow formations that had been set up.

"go!"

With a fierce shout, the blood-red talisman reappeared, transforming into a large blood-red hand that shattered one of the Dharma bodies within.

The illusion array was broken in an instant!

However, at the very moment he broke the formation, he discovered that dozens of water-shadow avatars had materialized from within the blood-red halo, taking advantage of the brief moment when his perception was obscured by the illusion formation.

Before this person could react, these dozens of water-shadow avatars simultaneously exploded with a triple water-gathering explosion!

Boom boom boom...

A continuous stream of highly toxic water burst around the man, and even though his protective aura was thick and strong, the violent impact still caused his blood and qi to surge.

The crimson halo surrounding him was also impacted from the inside out, breaking in half at the middle.

"Damn it!"

A flash of annoyance crossed his eyes.

Just as his breathing became unsteady, He Sheng's killing move arrived!

The dragon puppet that had been hovering motionless suddenly made an incomprehensible move, its head separating from its body!

The dragon puppet's head and body were split in two, and the headless dragon body, which was more than ten feet long, stretched straight out in an instant, as if it had transformed into a giant sword!

Immediately afterwards, the giant sword stirred up the endless lake water around it, as if it were stirring up the entire body of water.

In an instant, a thick fog enveloped the deep lake. Between reality and illusion, a moon's reflection appeared in the fog—it was the sword intent of "Moon in the Water"!

hum...

The moment this sword intent was unleashed, it seemed to resonate with the entire body of water.

The giant sword, caught in the lake water, suddenly revealed countless illusory moonlight sword lights.

Each one contains the profound mystery of the interplay between the illusory and the real, like the moon reflected in water, making it impossible to distinguish which one is illusory and which one is real.

The middle-aged man felt a blur before his eyes, as if he had fallen into a mirage. A cold mist enveloped him, and countless cold, moonlit sword shadows relentlessly attacked him from within the mist!

laugh!laugh!laugh!

As the sound of sword light breaking through rang out, something unexpected happened to He Sheng. The protective blood light around the man in the black robe was quickly pierced by the Water Moon Sword Light, and fine wounds appeared on his body.

You must understand, he had previously gone to great lengths, expending a great deal of magical power, and casting the Water Gathering Break spell nearly a hundred times, yet he still couldn't break through this protective blood-red light.

It is so powerful that it causes the opponent's blood and qi to fluctuate.

The sword intent in the water can draw upon the essence of true water; could it be...?

As He Sheng pondered this, the man in the black robe was both shocked and furious, exclaiming, "This is... the [True Water] sword intent?!"

Clearly, the man in the black robe was quite wary of this method. However, before he could make a move, hundreds and thousands of sword lights intertwined into a net, not only piercing through his protective blood light but also trapping him firmly in place!

This can't go on any longer. True Water and Turbid Water are inherently mutually restraining. I originally thought this fake pill was nothing special, but I never expected it to be related to those wretched women from the Moon Glow Sect.

Looks like I'll have to resort to my most secret, top-secret methods...

The man in the black robe gritted his teeth, as if he had made a decision, and then an extremely terrifying aura emanated from his body.

However, at this very moment...

A thick, brown beam of light, under the cover of the moonlit sword light, silently struck his chest!

The light condenses in the abyss!

This is He Sheng's real killing move!

He used the Divine Net to separate the dragon puppet, and the dragon's body unleashed the Moon Sword Intent in the Water, intending to trap this fiend and provide cover for his real killing move.

Meanwhile, the dragon head slithered closer, seeking an opportunity to unleash the Heavenly Abyss Condensed Light, whose power surpassed even that of a Core Formation magic weapon.

This is the real killer move!

The man's expression of shock and anger froze instantly.

His defenses were all restrained and confused by the sword net formed by the sword intent of [Moon in the Water]. He never expected that He Sheng had such a trick up his sleeve!

By the time he realized the Heavenly Abyss Condensed Light, it was too late, because the dragon's head was lurking more than ten feet behind him. From the moment it opened its mouth to the arrival of the beam of light, it was only a breath away.

boom!!!

The brown beam of light pierced through his chest without any obstruction, leaving a huge hole that was bright from front to back.

The middle-aged man lowered his head, staring incredulously at the empty hole in his chest, the bloodlust in his eyes quickly extinguished like a candle flickering in the wind.

"you..."

He struggled to raise his head, as if he wanted to say something, but hundreds of Water Moon Sword lights poured down like moonlight, and in almost an instant, he was chopped into a pile of minced meat.