123: Taiyin Demon Puppet

Within the Lesser Thousand World of Demons.

The taiyin demon puppet was currently hunting.

This was the name Yu Xuzi had given to the demonic Refined Corpse he had just finished refining.

Those countless low-level demons were vulnerable before it; with a light sweep of its massive claws, black blade-lights condensed from Xuan Yin Evil Qi easily sliced through their bodies.

Wherever its heavy soles fell, flesh and bone were ground into pulp.

With every demon killed, the dark carapace on the Puppet's surface would heave slightly, as if breathing.

The dissipating Devilish Qi and rising blood-evil were drawn in by an invisible suction, transforming into wisps of black and red air that merged into the Puppet. These flowed through the Evil Meridians constructed by the Xuan Yin Refined Corpse Technique, becoming purified and settling as even more refined Corpse-Demon Qi.

The Puppet's aura became increasingly heavy and solid at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Wuwa— Ow— Li—!"

Strange howls echoed through the clouds.

Nearly ten Early Stage Rank 2 "Crimson Wind Winged Demons" were currently circling high in the sky, diving down toward the Puppet.

They possessed an appearance resembling a combination of a giant bat and a vulture. Their scarlet wingspans exceeded twenty zhang, and their leathery membrane wings were exceptionally tough, allowing them to zip through the storm-filled heights of ten thousand feet.

Their sharp beaks could spit out keen winds capable of tearing metal, their claws and teeth were venomous, and their temperaments were far more violent and cruel than ordinary demons.

"Flying demons, just in time!"

The Puppet's deep blue gaze locked onto them, its stiff facial skin twitching slightly to reveal snow-white, terrifyingly thick fangs.

With a slight thought from Yu Xuzi's Divided Soul, the Xuan Yin Evil Qi surrounding the Puppet suddenly contracted inward, and it stomped its foot down hard.

In the next moment, a majestic force erupted from beneath its feet like a volcanic eruption!

Boom!

The Puppet's massive body rose from the ground with an incredible speed and flexibility that defied its size, soaring straight into the sky!

The pack of Crimson Wind Winged Demons clearly hadn't expected this terrestrial overlord to suddenly take flight, let alone at such a terrifying speed.

What awaited them was a battle of total suppression.

Facing the ferociously pouncing winged demons, the Puppet swung its claws in a cross!

Two intersecting crescent-shaped black blade-lights, over thirty zhang wide, flew from its claws, passing through with the explosive sound of tearing air.

Puchi puchi puchi—!

A dense sound of rupturing echoed.

The three Crimson Wind Winged Demons at the very front—along with the toxic winds they spat and the protective Devilish Qi they activated—were instantly and smoothly sliced into several segments!

Severed limbs and broken wings mixed with foul blood fell like rain.

As flying demons, their Physical Bodies were not particularly strong to begin with; it was only natural for them to meet such an end when facing an attack from a Puppet controlled by Yu Xuzi.

The Puppet's massive frame had already crashed into the demon swarm.

"Wuaoo!!"

Wails of agony rose and fell.

When the head of the last winged demon was crushed, a massive amount of flesh-and-blood demon-evil surged into the Puppet's body like a black torrent. Majestic Xuan Yin Evil Qi gradually condensed and took shape behind its back!

Accompanied by the ear-piercing screech of growing bone and grinding carapace, a pair of incomparably massive black bone wings suddenly unfurled behind the Puppet!

Boom—!!!

These were bone wings composed of the purest Xuan Yin Evil Qi, with no feathers or flesh attached, shaped like the skeleton of a Great Peng bird magnified thousands of times.

The wingspan was a full thirty zhang. Each main bone was thick and hideous, with edges as sharp as blades. The gaps between the bone wings were shrouded in pitch-black Evil Qi so thick it was almost solid, like a curtain woven from shadows.

"He-chi-chi~"

A strange laugh rang out. Yu Xuzi looked at the bone wings on his back and flapped them lightly, and the massive body took to the air.

His Puppet now possessed the skill of flight as well.

Refined Corpses were truly excellent things.

Especially since he had discovered something extraordinary!

"Grand Yin Star God Wings, open!"

In an instant!

The form of the bone wings began to undergo subtle changes; the bones became denser and deeper, and a metallic luster began to flow along the edges.

The Xuan Yin Evil Qi between the wing membranes turned into tiny storm vortices, with faint black electrical sparks beginning to breed and flicker within.

Under the control of his Divided Soul, his taiyin demon puppet was actually circulating a Cultivation Technique.

The Grand Primordial Doctrine of the Lunar Derivation!

He hadn't expected that this technique he had created himself could actually be operated within this non-human demonic Refined Corpse, even if it was still a bit stumbling for now.

"I've never heard of a Refined Corpse being able to circulate a Cultivator's technique. Don't they all rely on their powerful physical bodies and poisonous corpse-Evil Qi as means of attack?"

High in the sky, Yu Xuzi's original body was muttering to himself with a puzzled expression.

He had heard that Rank 4 Corpse Emperors possessed intelligence comparable to ordinary humans, which allowed them to run simple, crude methods for moving Evil Qi, and those were completely different from Cultivator techniques.

But his taiyin demon puppet was only at the Early Stage of Rank 2... Without a doubt, the reason lay in the Grand Primordial Doctrine of the Lunar Derivation!

Yu Xuzi increasingly felt that he might have created something truly remarkable.

It was even better than he had imagined... As time passed, the taiyin demon puppet fused with more and more demon flesh, and its size continued to expand and change.

In less than a month, it grew to the Middle Stage of Rank 2.

At the same time, Yu Xuzi was intentionally modifying the Puppet's body!

First was the head.

The Puppet's originally wolf-like face became broader and thicker, and its pale fangs became more prominent and sharp.

On either side of the spiral single horn on its forehead, the frontal bone was torn and reshaped, and a pair of curved, hideous black dragon horns actually began to grow slowly!

A strange and majestic triceratops-like head was thus formed.

Next, at the end of the Puppet's spine, new segments of a dragon tail covered in fine black bone spikes grew out.

Nearly twenty zhang long, flexible and powerful, with a sharp conical tip—a single strike was enough to pierce through a mountain!

Its size had already expanded to thirty-five zhang tall!

The bone spikes on its joints became increasingly hideous, and the massive carapace had disappeared, replaced by fine dragon scales covering its entire body.

The massive black bone wings on its back flapped slowly, creating low-pitched vortices.

Dragon horns on its forehead, giant wings on its back.

A tail like a poisonous dragon, eyes burning with deep blue Soul-Fire!

Its whole body was wreathed in dark light, and the Xuan Yin Evil Qi was so thick it had turned into a solid black mist, constantly rolling around its body.

The overall image was so majestic and domineering it was suffocating.

But that lingering sense of death and corpse-Qi made it appear eerie and terrifying, as if it were a Demonic Immortal Puppet that had crawled out from the Nine Serenities.

"Grand Yin Star God Wings! Open for me!"

"Aooo—"

With the Puppet's strange roar, the pair of black bone wings on its back, dozens of zhang wide, suddenly erupted with earth-shattering dark light!

The black electrical sparks that had previously only been faintly flickering between the membranes now surged and condensed wildly, transforming into countless thick, pitch-black bolts of lightning that leaped and bounded across the wing frame, letting out sharp crackling pops!

Not only that, but within the dark light, points of deep blue wind-vortices were generated, and pale cold-fire burned silently.

Boom!!!

With a light flap of its wings, the Puppet's figure disappeared from its original spot amidst a series of sonic booms.

"Grand Yin Star God Body! Open for me!"

Inside the Puppet's already thirty-five-zhang body, a series of dense booms like the beating of war drums echoed!

Bones grew and thickened wildly, and the corpse's flesh bulged; in an instant, its size ballooned as if it were being inflated!

Thirty-five zhang... forty zhang... fifty zhang... finally, it settled at seventy zhang!

The towering body was like a small mountain, casting a shadow large enough to cover half a valley.

The dragon horns on its forehead curved toward the sky, and the deep blue Soul-Fire was like two small nether moons.

The Grand Yin Star God Wings unfurled behind it, with black lightning dancing, ghostly winds howling, and cold-fire burning.

Anyone who saw it would probably not believe that this was a Middle Stage Rank 2 Refined Corpse, right?

Brothers, I think it's pretty cool.

"Grand Primordial Doctrine of the Lunar Derivation."

"Wonderful! Wonderful! WONDERFUL!!!"

High in the sky, Yu Xuzi's original body clapped and laughed.

He was becoming more and more obsessed with the pleasure of creating unknown things.

The cultivation of all things is the Dao!

Humans, demons, Buddhas, gods, devils, corpses...