This damn gap was obvious!
Helian Ming was dumbfounded.
He had expended a one-use High-Grade Quasi-Immortal Artifact, only to cripple a Substitute Puppet at the level of a Low-Grade Quasi-Immortal Artifact.
That was far too humiliating. No wonder Luo Tongtian had called him an idiot. Looking at it now, he really was an idiot.
He could not help looking at Liu Ruyan, only to find that Liu Ruyan, who had originally been as cold as an eternal iceberg that never melted, was now watching him with amusement.
He had been played—and played so convincingly!
Could it be that she had been acting him for the past several hundred years?
The more Helian Ming thought about it, the more convinced he became that it was true.
In the end, he conceded—and his defenses shattered. His chest tightened with stifled rage, and he sprayed a mouthful of old blood into the air.
"Mine! That Substitute Puppet was mine! The Upper Sect bestowed it upon me! Wang Xuanfeng, you robber, you bandit, ah!"
Godless Fiend Emperor was another whose defenses had shattered just like Helian Ming's.
Qin Wudao and Xiang Chongshan abruptly looked at him, and an uncontrollable trace of sympathy rose in both their hearts.
Back then, the theft of Godless Fiend Emperor's Substitute Puppet had caused quite a stir. After all, that was an extra life.
The Azure Cloud Realm was vast, yet there were not many Substitute Puppets to begin with. Substitute Puppets nurtured to the utmost limit were even rarer than phoenix feathers and qilin horns.
Godless Fiend Emperor had poured countless efforts into nurturing one, only for it to vanish without explanation, leaving behind not the slightest trace.
During that period, the Bloodshadow Fiendlands had gone mad, searching all over the world.
Yet in the end, they found