A golden shadow and six silver shadows, seven tendrils of ghostly aura, repeatedly interwove into a vast golden net that spread toward the wooden-carved puppets opposite them.
Bang, bang, bang... Within that great net, the wooden-carved puppets and the Guhu Spirit Ghost clashed repeatedly. The Guhu Spirit Ghost shrieked like a savage monkey, but its cries contained far too much ferocity and baleful energy. An ordinary cultivator fighting it would inevitably be intimidated by that vicious ghostly aura, but the wooden-carved puppets opposite seemed utterly ignorant of fear.
Aside from the ones that had appeared earlier, more wooden-carved puppets surged out from behind in roughly the same number and formed another identical puppet formation. They swooped in from the Guhu Spirit Ghost's flank. Farther away, an even larger horde of puppets still waited.
"Let's fight as we move. Since the Eastern Puppet Emperor built an imperial tomb, there must be another way out," the Four-Eyed Golden Hao Bird said.
"Very well. Farewell, fellow Daoists!" Lu Xiaotian cupped his hands toward the Jade-faced Scholar and the others.
Before the others could react, Lu Xiaotian strode through the void. His body flickered several times in the gloom, and he had already passed through the obstruction of dozens of wooden-carved puppets and vanished together with his Lotus Avatar.
"Getting rid of this nuisance is just as well," the Jade-faced Devil Lord snorted.
The Golden Netherworld Ghost Lord and the Four-Eyed Golden Hao Bird felt somewhat uneasy. Though they did not know Lu Xiaotian's exact purpose, he had at least been of considerable use for the moment. Just now, none of them had sensed anything unusual, yet Lu Xiaotian had already discovered the wooden-carved puppets first. Even the Jade-faced Devil Lord could not match him in that regard.
Although these wooden-carved puppets were not