"Where... is this...?"
Taizai Ci groggily opened his eyes, trying to brush away the blur before his face, only to discover that he could not move even a finger.
After a long while, he finally made out that he had been placed inside a container filled with viscous liquid.
Through the transparent walls of the container, he could vaguely see a dimly lit, sealed space outside.
And within this space, cylindrical containers holding existences like himself stood in neat rows...
There were over a hundred of them! "Tap, tap, tap..."
Footsteps came from beyond the door, accompanied by a doubtful voice:
"...Are you sure this won't cause problems? That's a Demi-Saint, and the Power of the War God!"
"I've tried many times with Heavenly Mechanism Puppets, but they are still far from becoming vessels for Holy God's Power."
"What a pity. If Number One were still here..."
"Sigh, I never should have gone to that Void Island. I underestimated those five old fogeys."
After a pause, the voice lowered, clearly offering a warning. "You'd better be careful around that person in your family too."
The voices stopped there.
Taizai Ci thought back for a while, but he did not remember ever having such a memory.
Where had it come from?
He tried to analyze the contents of that conversation.
"Heavenly Mechanism Puppets..."
The only people who used Heavenly Mechanism Puppets were the Dao Clan siblings, right?
No, only Dao Qiongchang's were called Heavenly Mechanism Puppets. His sister's were called Xuanji Star Attendants.
So the person speaking outside was Dao Qiongchang! "Dao Hall Master?"
Taizai Ci did not know why he had suddenly heard the Dao Hall Master's words.
He remembered that before entering the Relics of the Gods, the Dao Hall Master seemed to have already left Gui-Zhe Holy Mountain.