Spirit Pivot Mysteries and Entering the Mountain Gate

A moment later, a streak of azure light shot up from the depths of the Cloud Mist Mountain Range and raced toward the vast sea of clouds.

Outside the bamboo lodge, Zhao Sheng watched the fleeing light vanish beyond the clouds, then turned and walked inside.

Back inside, he looked at the mountain of treasures piled high before him, a trace of impatience flashing through his eyes. With a sudden sweep of his sleeve, the enormous treasure mountain vanished into thin air. In its place appeared thirteen battered Spirit Pivot Puppets with beast heads and human bodies.

Each puppet occupied a considerable area. The thirteen puppets lay scattered across the floor, nearly covering it completely.

Zhao Sheng stepped into their midst, swept his gaze over every puppet, and quickly selected a number of usable components with flawless precision.

Snap! Not long afterward, he suddenly snapped his fingers.

The next instant, a series of fine clacking noises abruptly rang out inside the lodge, resembling the mechanical sounds of turning gears and dismantled mechanisms.

One puppet after another bloomed like "flowers" under the control of all-pervading divine sense, continuously disassembling into tens of thousands of incomparably intricate puppet mechanisms.

In the blink of an eye, the entire floor was buried beneath layer upon layer of "mechanical parts."

Zhao Sheng hovered in midair, his ten fingers constantly bending, stretching, and flicking as though he were manipulating countless invisible threads.

In merely a few breaths, fist-sized five-colored crystal beads suddenly flew out from inside the puppets' heads. The crystal beads rose into the air and slowly revolved around Zhao Sheng. Some emitted a faint five-colored radiance, while others were dim and lusterless, as though they had been completely ruined.

These five-colored crystal beads were the most important core components of Spirit Puppets: Central Spirit