ALL NOVEL Chapter 164.2
Fortunately, Tian Min remembered the ghost slaves raised by his apprentice, took out a gourd, and collected these remaining souls.
“Are you Tian Min?” Seeing that his ghost was taken away, the core formation evil cultivator rushed toward Tian Min. After looking at him up and down, he sneered, “I thought you were some kinds of talent; it’s nothing more than that—not as good as your apprentice.”
Tian Min couldn’t help but frown. He always felt that the evil cultivator’s words meant something. A magic sword appeared in his hand, and he looked at him warily.
Then the evil cultivator continued, “Since you are here, why not meet my puppet for a while?”
After speaking, the evil cultivator sacrificed a puppet with core formation aura, raised his hand, and patted the puppet’s shoulder, a malicious smile on his face. “Go ahead.”
Before the opponent could react, the puppet was manipulated to take the lead. As soon as the puppet appeared, the other core formation evil cultivators from behind let out a burst of excited cheers.
Tian Min glanced at the puppet, and when he saw a few strands of gold threads in the puppet’s hair, his expression suddenly changed.
When the core formation cultivators saw the puppet attacking Tian Min, but the man put away his magic sword and simply dodged to get out of the way. There was a bit of confusion on their faces, and then they seemed to have guessed something.
Then the evil cultivator said, “It seems that you still recognize him, and he would rather become a traitor to the Shura Sect for your sake.”
Hearing the word “traitor,” Tian Min’s figure suddenly trembled.
After Su Yu carefully observed the puppet that was fighting against Tian Min, his pupils suddenly trembled, and he said in a slightly urgent voice, “Tianyan, Xiao Qi, are you able to snatch that puppet away?”
Without Su Yu opening his mouth, Li Tianyan was already planning to take action. Hearing his tone at that moment, he had a vague suspicion in his heart.
Li Tianyan and Cheng Qi took action almost at the same time. One used their own majestic mental power to cut off the spiritual imprint of the puppet’s sea of consciousness, while Cheng Qi’s yin fire burned away the remaining imprint.
It only took less than half a moment for the two of them to snatch the puppet. Before the core formation evil cultivator who controlled the puppet could even see anything clearly, his mental power felt as if it had been cut off, and there was unbearable pain in his sea of consciousness.
As soon as the puppet’s movements stopped, Tian Min immediately drew out his magic sword and took advantage of the core formation evil cultivator’s damaged mental strength to strike him in the air.
“Explode!” The magic sword had just penetrated the evil cultivator’s body when Tian Min made a seal with both hands and exploded the magic sword, instantly blowing the evil cultivator’s internal organs to pieces. He then took out the gourd and collected the core formation evil cultivator’s soul.
Tian Min was decisive this time and didn’t even give anyone a chance to react. After killing the core formation evil cultivator, he picked up the puppet that had lost control and returned.
When everyone in the Shura Sect saw that a core formation evil cultivator had been killed like this, the expressions on their faces began to change, and they seemed to understand that even with puppets, they would not have an absolute advantage in this fight.
Hong Lian finally lost her arrogance, and she realized what kind of monsters she had let go.
Different from the low atmosphere of the Evil Sect, seeing that Li Tianyan and Cheng Qi could easily take down the Core formation Puppet, the core formation cultivators on the Immortal Path side breathed a sigh of relief. After all, with the puppet, an evil cultivator’s combat effectiveness had more than doubled. It was truly hard to deal with.
Several core formation cultivators from the Tianfan Immortal Sect had somewhat complicated expressions on their faces when they saw the puppet brought back by Tian Min.
“Young master, do you know who this puppet is?” Cheng Qi heard the conversation between the evil cultivators and guessed that this puppet might be a very important person to Master Tian Min, so he couldn’t help but send a message to Li Tianyan to ask.
“He was a direct disciple that Master took in decades ago when he first became an elder.” Li Tianyan read Chi Zhuo’s memory and knew that Tian Min had once had a disciple, but he had disappeared for many years.
This man’s name was Qin Xuan. He had been picked up by Tian Min when he was nine years old. Not only did he possess balanced spiritual roots, but he was also extremely talented in understanding. He successfully established his foundation just after turning twenty.
The entire Tianfan Immortal Sect was very fond of him. Tian Min even made up his mind to send him to another continent. In order to help him form a core before he turned fifty, he went to great lengths to collect resources for him.
Qin Xuan lived up to expectations. He was already at the peak of foundation building at the age of twenty-eight, surpassing all the geniuses of that year.
However, in the Hengwu Continent, it was not easy to form a core. Unless there was a great opportunity, it might not be possible to reach the threshold even after decades of effort.
At that time, the dangerous land of Sword Star appeared in the Northern Territory. Tian Min heard that there were seven-star fine iron, so he ventured to the Sword Star Land alone. Fortunately, he not only came out alive but also managed to find the fine iron.
Unexpectedly, on the way back to the sect, Tian Min was attacked by an evil cultivator and seriously injured. The fire poison suppressed in his body was struck by the evil cultivator and completely exploded.
When Tian Min returned to the sect injured, Qin Xuan realized that Tian Min had gone to Sword Star Land for him. Later, Qin Xuan took care of Tian Min until he recovered from his injuries, after which he decided to travel on his own.
A cultivator could not become a useful person without sharpening his skills, so Tian Min naturally had no reason to stop him.
In the first few years after Qin Xuan left the sect, Tian Min could occasionally hear news about him, but then he suddenly disappeared. Even the Heavenly Mirror could not find his trace. After that, very few members of the Tianfan Immortal Sect mentioned him.
“But just now the evil cultivator said that he was the traitor of the Shura Sect?” Cheng Qi didn’t expect that he was also Tian Min’s disciple.
“Remember Duan Hong? The adopted son of Sect Master of Biluo?” Li Tianyan asked him.
“Young master, are you saying that this Qin Xuan was arranged by the Shura Sect from the beginning?” Cheng Qi’s eyes widened in surprise. “Master Tian Min was in danger of raising a tiger.”
“Yeah.” Li Tianyan guessed that Qin Xuan might have been influenced by Tian Min and betrayed the Shura Sect, ultimately being exposed by the evil cultivator and becoming a puppet.
“The elder liked to travel around in the past just to find this apprentice?” Cheng Qi said with a heavy heart after hearing what Li Tianyan had said.
“Maybe.” Li Tianyan rubbed Cheng Qi’s head.
At that time, the number of evil cultivators on the battlefield below had dropped by more than half. After Cheng Qi had snatched away a batch of puppets, the advantage of the immortal cultivators greatly increased. Many evil cultivators were killed by cultivators, and once the evil cultivators who controlled the puppets died, the puppets naturally became ownerless.
Li Tianyan took out the light mirror and looked. Sure enough, the death energy of hundreds of foundation-establishment evil cultivators was still condensed and rolled toward the Shura Sect’s largest palace as if it had been absorbed by someone.