Qianjun Puppet, Void Refinement Showdown

However, just as Wei Tu, Abbess Lan, Golden Silkworm Snow Lady, and Heaven-Brow Snow Lady were preparing to act, the phantoms of seven Mist Ghost Clan cultivators gradually emerged within the great formation.

What was more astonishing was this.

The appearances of these phantoms were actually identical to those red-haired mist ghosts at the end of the spatial rift, as though they were avatars that had descended after crossing the barrier between two worlds.

After the phantoms appeared, they began rapidly absorbing the spiritual energy and blood qi from the surrounding blood-jade pillars. Their Dharma bodies gradually solidified, and their faces took on a lifelike crimson hue.

At the same time, their spiritual pressure abruptly surged to the Spirit Transformation level.

Fortunately, perhaps because the scale of Pei Hong's blood sacrifice was limited, among these seven red-haired mist ghosts, only the fat, tattoo-faced mist ghost at the forefront had reached mid-stage Spirit Transformation. The remaining six were only at early-stage Spirit Transformation.

But... seven Spirit Transformation experts clearly possessed enough strength to hold back Wei Tu's group and prevent them from destroying the summoning formation.

"If they were merely Spirit Transformation cultivators, they would be easy enough to deal with. But these seven are all Void Refinement soul fragments like Pei Hong. If... we make the slightest misstep, we may well perish here."

Abbess Lan was deeply worried. She secretly sent a voice transmission to Heaven-Brow Snow Lady, seemingly harboring thoughts of retreat.

She did not know that Heaven-Brow Snow Lady was under Wei Tu's control and obeyed his commands. She merely assumed that Heaven-Brow Snow Lady, like herself, was not particularly valued by Jianglingzi, and that both of them belonged to the non-core ranks outside Wei Tu and Golden Silkworm Snow Lady.

Thus, in her view, if this battle