After Qu Jianlei arrived at Houde, he heard about no small number of unbelievable things.
One of them was... someone had actually used a True Venerable's corpse to make a puppet!
Cangwu's only True Venerable skeleton had been left behind by Master of the Pot. For a cultivator to be permitted to approach and view it was already a supreme opportunity.
It was much the same in Houde. Out-of-Body corpses were likewise beyond the reach of ordinary people, and many Out-of-Body cultivators simply Daoized into heaven and earth upon death.
And that was only the Out-of-Body Realm. When Soul-Splitting cultivators fell, body and soul dispersing to feed back into the world was even more the accepted end. Almost no one had ever seen Great Monarch Remains.
So someone who could take an Out-of-Body skeleton and make it into a puppet—what kind of family... what kind of faction did that take?
Qu Jianlei had only ever heard such claims before. He truly had not expected that one day, he would run into it himself!
In any case, he did not need to think at all to conclude that anyone who used a cultivator's corpse as a puppet could not possibly be a good person.
At this point, he had already given up considering the other party's background.
Since the ambushers had used such a method, could they really have failed to consider that he might spread word of it?
He might not necessarily die here, but his odds probably were not much better than that. So at this moment, saying even one extra word would be a waste of time.
The next instant, his mind stirred. He linked with the Dao Stele and tried to activate it.
This transcendent existence was extremely difficult to communicate with. The only time it had