The Jealous Crowd

The process of subduing those ten Earth Demon Puppets went so smoothly that it far exceeded Lin Ming's own expectations.

When his vast, ocean-like Heavenly Soul power poured like an invisible stream into the first Earth Demon Puppet's body, ready to search for and forcibly erase the Soul Imprint belonging to its maker in the depths of its core, he was astonished to discover—there was none!

The puppet's core control area was completely empty! It was like a whiteboard that had been wiped utterly clean, with no foreign Soul Imprint at all!

Lin Ming was slightly startled, then, refusing to believe it, quickly scattered his Soul Power and invaded the bodies of the other nine Earth Demon Puppets.

The result was exactly the same! All ten Earth Demon Puppets had not even the slightest trace of their original Master's Soul Imprint inside their bodies!

Faced with this unbelievable situation, a trace of bewilderment and confusion flashed through Lin Ming's heart as well. Had that Dou Sheng not left a control imprint behind when refining them?

That made no sense.

Or was it that, because endless ages had passed, the faint imprint that might have been casually left behind had long since been completely worn away by the power of time, vanishing into nothingness?

Or perhaps, to that Dou Sheng expert who stood at the peak of the continent, puppets merely equivalent to Peak Dou Ancestors were nothing more than toys made on a whim, not enough to arouse even the slightest interest from him, to the point that he had not even bothered to leave a Soul Imprint to control them?

Countless thoughts flashed through Lin Ming's mind like lightning, but no matter how he guessed, the fact before him was this—these ten quite powerful Earth Demon Puppets, which could