"Trash! Trash! So much for the Tai Bai Sword Immortal. You're nothing but a piece of trash!"
Inside the Third Ring.
Staring at the Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppet before him, now utterly shattered despite having personally reinforced it, Taihua Tianji fell silent.
The difficulty of the final three checkpoints had reached an almost insurmountable level!
Across from Taihua Tianji, an unscathed Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppet stood with its hands on its hips, laughing smugly, its voice dripping with mockery!
Clearly, the one controlling this puppet was Zhu Qingqing, the last abbess of Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan.
She looked down at Taihua Tianji with the disdain one might show an insect:
"I thought you had real potential. So you're stopping here after all?"
"How about this? Why don't you kill yourself and let me turn your body into a fine Bone Puppet? I'll let the other useless fools live."
Taihua Tianji said nothing. With a thought, a fresh set of puppet-making materials appeared before him, and he silently started over from scratch.
He would not give up on clearing the checkpoints until the very last moment.
Zhu Qingqing frowned, displeased by how Taihua Tianji was ignoring her.
Her eyes rolled, and a smug smile curled her lips once more:
"You probably don't know this, but for your sake and those useless fools', your companions have been rushing into the Inheritance Land one after another, trying to clear the trials."
"But sadly, not one of them could match you. They only threw their lives away for nothing."
"Oh, no, that's not quite right. One of the candidates might actually be more talented than you."
When Taihua Tianji finally looked up at that last remark, curiosity showing on his face, Zhu Qingqing nodded in satisfaction.
She let the suspense linger