Human Puppets

"Daoist Liu, our strengths are not far apart. The outcome of a battle between us is impossible to predict, and there is a great chance we would both be badly wounded. Why not share the inheritance here? How about each of us making a copy?"

Amid the tense standoff,

the Black Robe Old Daoist was the first to break the silence, his sinister voice echoing through mid-air.

Beneath his black robes, his expression could not be seen.

No one knew what he was thinking.

"That works. When the snipe and clam fight, the fisherman reaps the profit. If we can avoid losses from battle, that would be best."

Liu Daoyuan's expression was calm, and his voice was amiable.

The atmosphere seemed to ease at that moment. The heavy, tense pressure in the air appeared to dissipate completely.

The previously needle-sharp, opposing auras

vanished without a trace.

A harmonious, mutually beneficial cooperation was just about to begin.

Yet at that very moment,

Boom!

A yellow flash tore through space like lightning, instantly blasting toward the Black Robe Old Daoist with incomparably savage power!

The powerful energy fluctuations spread outward, and under that terrifying pressure, enormous cracks split across the ground!

It was so fast that ordinary people could not possibly react.

Let alone Liu Daoyan, a True Essence eighth-layer realm cultivator, launching a sudden, utterly unheralded sneak attack.

If that attack struck the Black Robe Old Daoist, there was an eighty or ninety percent chance he would be severely wounded on the spot and lose his combat power!

But at that instant,

almost simultaneously, a black Thunder Bead shot out from the Black Robe Old Daoist's body. It seemed to pierce through space, its terrifying power flashing through the void and leaving behind a faint trace!

At almost the exact moment