Chapter 59: Puppet Immortals

Qu Yi leaped into the light wall. The powerful warriors from the eight major sects were stunned for a moment before, as if by coincidence, they also entered the light wall Qu Yi had just gone through, aiming to explore the world within it together with him.
Soon, the group of thirteen people created thirteen ripples on the light wall before disappearing entirely.
As soon as Qu Yi entered the light wall, he found himself in a magical place. The surroundings were filled with breathtaking scenery—lofty mountains, streams, blooming flowers and trees, fragrant exotic herbs—each space brimming with dense spiritual energy.
In this realm that resembled a fairyland, when Qu Yi expanded his spiritual awareness, he immediately detected hidden dangers everywhere.
Approximately ten thousand miles apart, there was always an Immortal-level figure. These people seemed to be created through alchemy; they lacked any trace of a soul, but each held a low-grade immortal weapon, which was actually a top-tier spiritual artifact.
Clearly, Emperor Hao’s arrangement was meant to tell everyone who entered this world that if they wanted to find treasures or the map to the Immortal Realm, they would first have to escape from these Immortal-level figures.
“This Emperor Hao is quite interesting—he certainly doesn’t want us to easily obtain the map to the Immortal Realm,” Qu Yi said with a helpless smile.
“Qu Yi, every place in this world has array sensors. So no matter where you go, you’ll be attacked by those Puppet Immortals. But with the guidance of my Artifact God, you can easily avoid their attacks,” the Artifact God suddenly laughed.
Hearing this, Qu Yi smiled too. With the Artifact God’s guarantee, he truly faced no danger.
Soon, the Artifact God implanted a message in Qu Yi’s soul, explaining how to bypass the array sensors here.
It turned out that the so-called array sensors detected each person’s true energy fluctuations. Since everyone’s true energy attribute was the same and their cultivation level was fixed, their true energy fluctuations remained constant. Thus, the arrays could determine each person’s location based on those locked-in fluctuations.
But Qu Yi practiced all five elements simultaneously, and when using the “Silent Art,” he could adjust the intensity of his true energy fluctuations at will. This allowed him to change the intensity of his true energy fluctuations, preventing the arrays from detecting his true location.
“Artifact God, thank you,” Qu Yi said inwardly as his spiritual awareness scanned the message.

At this moment, the twelve strong warriors from the eight sects also arrived in this world. As soon as they landed, they spotted Qu Yi’s figure and immediately took to the air to chase after him. But then, the Emperor Hao’s voice suddenly rang out. “Everyone, this is the Puppet Immortal Realm. Every ten thousand miles, there is a puppet immortal at that level. Be careful when searching for treasures. Once you reach the Six Harmonies Hall, you can use primordial energy for defense.” After saying that, the Emperor Hao’s voice disappeared. The crowd was stunned, then overjoyed. At the Eight Deserts Hall, no one dared to use top-tier spiritual weapons to cast spells, as those weapons could emit primordial energy attacks under the influence of true essence clouds, thereby violating the Emperor Hao’s rules. Now that the Emperor Hao had personally approved the use of primordial energy attacks, it meant their top-tier spiritual weapons could finally be used. The strong warriors from the eight sects now looked at Qu Yi with almost ferocious eyes. However, Qu Yi’s figure suddenly became like a shadow and flew away, entering various magnificent landscapes. Moreover, as he flew, he always relied on golden energy, but the fluctuations of his true essence kept changing from the Yuan Ying stage to the Tribulation stage. The puppet immortals hidden in various places, not receiving any signals from the sensing arrays, did not activate their own arrays and thus did not launch attacks, allowing Qu Yi to pass through each area effortlessly. The spiritual senses of the strong warriors from the eight sects locked onto Qu Yi and noticed that he flew past those puppet immortals without triggering any attacks from them, leaving them all in great surprise. “This Qu Yi is too mysterious. How does he manage to prevent these puppet immortals from attacking him?” “Hmph, let’s follow his flight path. I want to see how long he can fly. As long as we surround him, we can use our best moves to kill him right here.” “Qu Yi’s true essence fluctuations seem to keep changing. I think this is the real reason he hasn’t been attacked by the puppet immortals.” …… The twelve of them were all calm people. They didn’t rush to chase after Qu Yi right away after he flew away. After observing him for a while, they quickly figured out the secret to his safe flight. Among these twelve, eight were the leaders of their respective sects, and the other four were the strongest among the sect’s elders. Therefore, they also practiced techniques to change their true essence fluctuations. Immediately, they activated those techniques and flew after Qu Yi.

In an instant, the twelve people each emitted different waves of true energy as they flew into the air, steadily approaching Qu Yi. Qu Yi’s spiritual awareness also sensed the situation of the twelve, and he couldn’t help but smile helplessly—these people really wanted to fight to the death with him. It was even impossible for him to search for treasures properly in this Puppet Immortal Realm. Suddenly, Qu Yi’s body fell to the ground and remained motionless. The twelve in the air saw Qu Yi’s reaction and were overjoyed, speeding up even further. They were quite confident that as long as they all worked together and selflessly used their best moves, they could surely defeat Qu Yi. However, to their surprise, when Qu Yi saw them approaching, he suddenly took out a Fire Ignition Stone. In the Flame World of the Eight Deserts Palace, he had obtained many Fire Origin Stones, so he used one without any hesitation. Then, Qu Yi channeled his true energy and fired the Fire Ignition Stone at the twelve approaching figures. “Ah, no—Qu Yi is so cunning!” Suddenly, Tai Ming’s voice rang out; he had understood why Qu Yi had thrown the Fire Ignition Stone. In this Puppet Immortal Realm, there were sensing arrays everywhere that could track the trajectory of true energy waves. The Fire Ignition Stone emitted constant waves of Fire Origin energy, so its trajectory would definitely be detected by the arrays and locked down. Moreover, as a Fire Origin Stone, it could release extremely hot energy, and if it hit someone, the heat would be enough to seriously injure even a cultivator at the Tribulation stage. Qu Yi’s plan was to shoot the Fire Ignition Stone, and when the twelve strongmen tried to block it, the arrays would detect that the stone’s movement had stopped, triggering the nearby Puppet Immortals to attack. Thus, by firing the Fire Ignition Stone, Qu Yi intended to use the Puppet Immortals to attack those twelve strongmen. Although Tai Ming realized this quickly, he was still too slow compared to the arrays’ detection and the speed of the Puppet Immortals. As soon as Tai Ming finished speaking, two Puppet Immortals nearby immediately flew over, wielding their inferior immortal weapons—one of Fire domain and the other of Wood domain. They simultaneously enveloped the twelve strongmen, trapping them and preventing them from escaping for a while.

Seeing his plan succeed, Qu Yi didn’t bother to watch the performance of the puppet immortals and flew away immediately. He had no intention of continuing to entangle with these twelve people now—there were so many puppet immortals here, each wielding a low-grade immortal weapon. If he didn’t seize them now, when would he?

The twelve powerful warriors from the eight sects were trapped in two domains, unable to escape, let alone chase after Qu Yi.

However, the attacks launched by the two puppet immortals were merely domain forces, and those domains lacked fire and wood elements. As long as the twelve warriors held out against the pressing forces, they wouldn’t be in danger of death.

After a while, the two puppet immortals stopped attacking, as their energy reserves had run out. They could only attack again after absorbing enough energy.

The twelve warriors realized that the domain forces surrounding them had vanished and immediately understood what was happening.

Suddenly, Shan Zhen from Taiyuan Gate and Jin Xiong from Jin Yang Sect both took off and flew to each puppet immortal, taking out the low-grade immortal weapons they had obtained from the Eight Deserts Palace. They severed the puppet immortals’ arms and seized their weapons.

“Cunning!”
“Despicable!”

The other ten warriors quickly understood Shan Zhen and Jin Xiong’s intentions. Some were pleased, some resentful, but most were excited.

This discovery made the twelve warriors realize that there was a puppet immortal every ten thousand miles—essentially, living sources of low-grade immortal weapons. By constantly changing the fluctuations of their vital energy and approaching the puppet immortals to cut off their arms, they could obtain these weapons one by one.

All of them’s eyes gleamed brightly!

In an instant, the warriors from the eight sects split up in eight directions, determined to search for these low-grade immortal weapons as if by telepathy.

Qu Yi’s life was now ignored by the warriors from the eight sects.

Meanwhile, Qu Yi was searching everywhere, constantly altering the fluctuations of his vital energy. Whenever he approached a puppet immortal, he would draw out his Liuhe Blade and swiftly cut off their arm, taking the low-grade immortal weapon.

Of the six Liuhe Blades, five were stored in the blade slots, leaving only one in Qu Yi’s hand.

The sharpness of the Liuhe Blade far surpassed that of ordinary low-grade immortal weapons. With just a light swipe, the arms of those puppet immortals would be cleanly severed.

Throughout the entire Puppet Immortal Realm, it was now a scene of madness. Qu Yi and the other thirteen people, after uncovering the secret to bypassing the array’s detection, became extremely excited and did everything in their power to search for lower-grade immortal artifacts. But could lower-grade immortal artifacts really be obtained so easily? At this moment, Shan Ren from the Taiyuan Sect had already gathered hundreds of lower-grade immortal artifacts and flown millions of miles. Now, sensing another Puppet Immortal thousands of miles away, he roared and rushed over at full speed.