Lu Xiaotian didn't need to ask around. As the fleeing demon fish, demon sharks, and octopus demons near the island spoke among themselves, he naturally overheard them.
Vmmm! Within the Green Fruit Barrier, eighteen puppet war-guardians rose into the air in unison. The arrays of laws within them intertwined and connected, their auras merging into one. A powerful, towering aura swept outward, immediately alarming the several Golden Immortal-level powerhouses inside the Green Fruit Barrier: the Black Dragon, Primordial Sword Demon, and Sui Pojun.
Sui Pojun was especially startled. The moment he sensed the aura of the eighteen puppet war-guardians joining as one, his eyes widened. The downfall of Earth Vault City back then had been directly connected to the master behind these eighteen puppet war-guardians—the Great Emperor Qinling, who had directly controlled the silver puppets. How could Sui Pojun fail to notice this aura spilling through the Green Fruit Barrier?
Strangely enough, Sui Pojun had originally thought his injuries were too severe to ever recover from. Yet the land within this space brimmed with new life, and his grievous injuries had gradually stabilized here. Though his strength was far from restored, the aura of a Golden Immortal-level powerhouse still remained.
That aura surged forth, and its intense hostility soon affected Lu Xiaotian's control over the array of laws.
"Fellow Daoist Sui, I'm the one controlling these puppets." Though Lu Xiaotian could control everything within the Green Fruit Barrier, the arrays of laws inside the eighteen puppet war-guardians were not under his direct control. He had barely managed to link them together, but they were still far from operating smoothly. To prevent Sui Pojun's aura from causing adverse effects, Lu Xiaotian temporarily sealed off the aura on his side.
There were eighteen puppet war-guardians: three each of the five elements—metal, wood,