A Horned Python hovered in the void, its two black horns continuously releasing spiritual light that flowed into the emptiness.
In an instant, purple vines emerged throughout the void.
These enormous vines were like serpents and pythons, swaying and surging without end.
Their numbers were like wild grass growing madly, with no end in sight.
Mystic Puppet True Monarch, watching from afar, was deeply troubled.
Although these vines could be chopped apart by fifth-order magic treasures, each time they were cut, clouds of poisonous mist would burst forth, staining even the void purple.
Yet if he did not cut through the vines, he could easily be bound by them. He had tried using fourth-order spirit puppets, but every one of them had shattered after a single entanglement.
He had finally realized that the seeds of these vines were none other than fifth-order Amethyst Black Rock Vine.
Only because Mystic Puppet True Monarch possessed two fifth-order spirit puppets—one capable of wielding Five Elements spells and the other ferocious in close combat—could he barely hold them off.
But being worn down by such dense, endless vines, the first thing he could no longer sustain was his true essence.
Unlike fourth-order spirit puppets, which could use High-Grade Spirit Stones as their true essence cores—
Fifth-order spirit puppets were different. They either required Top-Grade Spirit Stones as cores, or the cultivator himself had to bear the burden.
Although the Mystic Puppet Sect was no minor Nascent Soul Faction, it possessed only a few Top-Grade Spirit Stones. Naturally, it could not afford to use them so extravagantly to supply spirit puppets with true essence.
Moreover, channeling true essence outside one's body to power spirit puppets consumed even more true essence than ordinary activation. If not for the many pills he had prepared to restore true