The Curious Puppet

"Puff!"

The fat Consciousness Demon was neatly cleaved into three pieces by the Foundation Establishment Heavenly Venerable's Sword-Spear. Then, the Foundation Establishment Heavenly Venerable, the Breast Enhancement Bodhisattva, and the Child-Giving Heavenly Empress each divided up a portion of its conceptual and Power of Intent.

After dealing with the Consciousness Demon, Bai Qiuran checked on the intelligent beings within this Material Plane. Finding them largely unharmed, she clapped her hands and said, "Alright, what do we do now? Should we go back first, or...?"

"This guy just said that Taste Desire Venerable's forces were attacked by an unknown force."

Jiang Lan pursed her thin lips, deep in thought.

"Was that unknown force something created by Shuhua?"

"I don't know, but it's very likely."

Bai Qiuran replied, "Although the Taste Desire Venerable is already a defeated force, a remnant of a defeated army, even a starved camel is bigger than a horse. In the Void, there are not many civilizations that dare to launch a direct attack on the army of the Consciousness Demon."

"I have to go and see for myself no matter what."

Wisdom Immortal was so anxious she was jumping up and down, urging, "Let's go, let's go take a look!"

"Then let's go take a look."

The group put away their Consciousness Demon Clone, boarded the Void Vessel, sent a message to the Red Dust Immortal Elder, and then headed towards the location where the Taste Desire Venerable had been attacked, following the information given by the fat Consciousness Demon before his death.

This place is not far from where the Taste Desire Venerable was attacked; that cunning Consciousness Demon of Consciousness had already led his army to flee in this direction.

According to Fatty's confession, long before the Six Desires Consciousness Demons Consciousness Demon, when many more Super Consciousness Demon coexisted, there were already too many Super Consciousness Demon realms in the Consciousness Domain. In order to expand outwards, many Super Consciousness Demon united, gathered their armies, and opened a gap on each side of the Consciousness Barrier.

However, the Consciousness Barrier was far too strong, and the attributes of these Consciousness Demons were precisely what it countered. Therefore, despite their best efforts, they could only open two small cracks in it. Not to mention the massive Consciousness Demon, even their Consciousness Domain could not flow through and infect the Void outside the barrier.

Then, a great war broke out among the Super Consciousness Demon. After devouring each other, only the Seven Emotions remained. During the era of the Seven Emotions, one of the openings gradually widened and cracked under the ravages of time, becoming large enough to accommodate small Consciousness Demon and Consciousness Domain to enter and exit. Thus, the Seven Emotions temporarily put aside their internal strife and launched an offensive of external aggression.

However, they weren't very lucky. When they went out, they ran into the Immortal Realm at its peak and the First Immortal Emperor. They were driven back by the First Immortal Emperor, who even sacrificed himself to seal the passage. As a result, they had no choice but to start fighting amongst themselves again, which led to the current Six Desires.

The other Rift is the one closest to the domain of the Taste Desire Venerable. The previous Immortal Emperor Shuhua once slipped through this Rift to the Void outside the barrier. Recently, this opening has also cracked, forming a passage. The Taste Desire Venerable noticed it, but it didn't tell anyone and stayed behind as a backup plan.

Now that the Consciousness Demon has been defeated, the Taste Desire Venerable fled into his domain and immediately began to pack up his belongings and reorganize his troops, retreating along this route. The tragedy occurred on his retreat route.

As the Taste Desire Venerable retreated, history repeated itself: his troops clashed head-on with an unknown force that had ventured in from outside the barrier, and suffered a crushing defeat.

The Void Airship traveled through the Void for four or five days before arriving near its destination. Bai Qiuran was able to see the huge Rift on the Consciousness Barrier with the naked eye, but as the saying goes, "looking at a mountain makes you feel like you're running a horse," and there was still a considerable distance between them and the Rift.

Near the Rift, one can occasionally see spots of light that suddenly appear.

"An energy burst?"

Bai Qiuran activated the airship's stealth mode.

"It seems there's still fighting here. Let's be careful, no shooting, let's sneak into the village."

The Void Airship slowed down, entering stealth cruise mode, and slowly advanced along the Consciousness Network. After walking for a while, a small group of Consciousness Demon appeared in front of Bai Qiuran and the others.

These Consciousness Demon all possessed the characteristics of the Taste Desire Venerable's army; their bodies were swollen with mouths in places where they shouldn't have been, and like the Fat Demonic Consciousness Demon, they were clearly also fleeing for their lives.

The chaotic fluctuations of Consciousness emanating from these Consciousness Demon beings showed their extreme anxiety and rapid movement. Bai Qiuran had no choice but to stop the airship in the middle of the Network Pathway and wait for them to pass. Some of the Consciousness Demon beings' limbs even brushed past the invisible Void Airship, but they ignored it and fled into the depths of the Consciousness Domain without looking back.

Soon, the unknown force that had been chasing them finally revealed itself to Bai Qiuran and his companions.

"Target confirmed, medium threat Consciousness Demon, six demons."

"Order confirmed. Annihilate all remaining enemies."

Accompanied by a strange whistling sound, two distinctly mechanical voices suddenly rang out from near the Void Airship.

"It is the language of Ten Lands of Jiuzhou."

Tang Ruowei gasped in a low voice.

The First Immortal Emperor, the Immortal Emperor Le, the Immortal Emperor Shuhua, and other elders of the Immortal Realm were all born in the Ten Lands of Jiuzhou, and naturally, they spoke the language of the Ten Lands of Jiuzhou.

Therefore, after Bai Li established the Immortal Realm, the languages of the Ten Lands of Jiuzhou became the languages of the Immortal Realm. This language, along with the expansion and spread of the Immortals' teachings, was taken to various worlds by them and has now basically become the only officially recognized language in the Void ruled by the Immortal Realm.

In a different world near the Immortal Realm, it's not surprising that Bai Qiuran heard someone speaking their mother tongue. However, this place is on the other side of the Consciousness Domain, in another Void near the lower reaches of the Void River.

Not to mention here, even Bai Qiuran and his group, who had just arrived at the border of the Sight Desire Venerable and entered the Material World where the Fairy Race and Dragon Race lived, couldn't understand the language of the local intelligent beings. It was Su Xiangxue who learned it from the Fairies using her Spiritual Sense.

After those two voices faded, several streaks of light suddenly emerged from the depths of the Consciousness Network at incredible speed, chasing after the Consciousness Demon.

As the several streaks of light drew closer, Bai Qiuran and the others saw the true form of the golden light.

"What... what is this thing?"

Tang Ruowei was speechless.

"I never imagined such a thing existed in the world."

Jiang Lan and Wisdom Immortal also sighed.

"This is... Puppet?"

Bai Qiuran guessed.

Before them appeared several humanoid "creatures" whose bodies were slightly taller than normal.

These humanoid "creatures" looked just like the mausoleum sculptures often found in imperial tombs, exuding great majesty. The sculptures that appeared in front of Bai Qiuran and the others were all radiating golden light. Their faces and bodies were similar to those of Human Race, with armor carved on their bodies and standard weapons in their hands.