Aperture Linkage

This day would become an unforgettable memory for all the sects around Xianyun City—or rather, throughout this entire region. In their eyes, Shangwu City, which had remained silent all this time, had shocked the world the moment it made its move.

Compared to when several Joint Aperture Realm experts had besieged Shangwu City and no one had been able to clearly sense True Lord Xilian's strength, today, True Lord Xilian made everyone understand what terror truly meant.

Besides the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, Sinking Water Pavilion, and Big Dipper Tower, there were actually quite a few smaller sects and Lineages around Xianyun City.

All of them had once been attached to the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect. Later, pressured by the Divine Flame Sect, some had switched sides.

But now, whether they had supported the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect or defected to the Divine Flame Sect, some had suffered disaster. Anyone who had sent people to Shangwu City returned as Puppet Wraiths.

Many of them were Body Refining Realm martial artists. It seemed as though the impact would not be great, but the contamination of the Puppet Wraiths was far too powerful. If they went undiscovered, they quickly spread, and by the time Aperture Refining Realm experts noticed something was wrong, it was already too late.

Some Aperture Refining Realm cultivators did cut off their own arms to save the body, fleeing directly and escaping calamity. But in the end, some could not bring themselves to act, and were eventually contaminated by the Puppet Wraiths, becoming puppets.

Only those forces that had not sent anyone to Shangwu City truly escaped unscathed. After all, the first targets of those Puppet Wraiths would certainly be their original factions.

Only in this way could they infiltrate more easily.

And those who had dared to