Ye Xiwen hurriedly followed him and pushed open the door to the secret chamber.
This secret chamber was not large, only a little over a hundred square meters.
On either side of the chamber stood two puppets. One resembled a ferocious beast, pitch-black all over and more than ten feet long. It did not look particularly large, but its body was studded with rivets. At a glance, it was clearly a mechanical puppet.
The other resembled a handsome young man, but he had a pair of bone wings.
Yet the feelings the two puppets gave Ye Xiwen were utterly different. Though the beast puppet looked vicious, it did not give him much of an impression. Instead, it was like a lifeless machine.
The young man, on the other hand, radiated a terrifying might from head to toe. Even without moving in the slightest, he concealed an invincible bearing. Ye Xiwen quickly realized that this puppet had been made by forcibly transforming a captured expert.
"You must have guessed it already. These two puppets are the little toys I'm giving you, as payment," Zhao Tiankuang said. "This beast is called the Desolate Beast. Capturing it back then cost me no small amount of effort and time. At its peak, its strength was no weaker than mine had been, also at the Peak Sage Realm."
Ye Xiwen immediately felt as though he had stumbled upon a treasure. A ferocious beast puppet at the Peak Sage Realm—its value was obvious. Once word got out, even Seal King Experts would be moved, because it meant gaining a Peak Sage Realm subordinate who would never betray them.
Unless it encountered a Seal King Expert, such combat power was practically invincible.
"However, its energy has already been completely depleted, so it cannot move now. Still, even