Night had deepened, and the bright moon hung high overhead.
Li Chang'an temporarily halted his Body Refining and came out into the courtyard.
Just now, after the Hexagram Image appeared, he had sensed a fluctuation in the Array.
"Someone broke in, but left alive."
Li Chang'an's brows drew together slightly, a little puzzled.
Even an expert like Wei Sen, whose Evasion Technique had reached great accomplishment, could not escape the Cloud Mist Hidden Kill Formation.
Could it be
that the Rogue Cultivator from Black Wind Mountain who had come this time was even stronger than Wei Sen?
"Hm? This is..."
Li Chang'an's eyes narrowed as he looked toward the corner of the courtyard wall.
"Could it be the legendary Substitute Puppet?"
He walked forward and picked up a palm-sized Rag Doll.
From the outside, the cloth doll looked very ordinary.
There was not the slightest fluctuation of Spiritual Energy.
But inside it were extremely complex patterns, and at the position of the heart was a lump of withered flesh and blood.
"According to legend, this kind of treasure is incomparably precious. The method of making it was lost long ago, and one occasionally appears inside a Secret Realm."
Li Chang'an was secretly astonished.
He had once heard
that even Foundation Establishment grand cultivators yearned deeply for such a treasure.
"What strange patterns. I only looked at them a few times, yet I actually feel a little dizzy and dazzled."
Li Chang'an closed his eyes slightly and rubbed the spot between his brows.
He was already a high-grade first-tier Talisman Master and Puppet Master, and his study of all kinds of Spiritual Energy patterns was quite profound.
Even so, the patterns inside this Rag Doll
still made him feel they were complex and unfathomably deep.
"With my current craft, I have