Twenty-Two Minutes and Eighteen Seconds: Speedrunning the Vermilion Beauty White Bone Temple!

"Master Zhu, may we begin? I'm in a bit of a hurry."

After covering his Human Puppet in Devil Talismans, Su Yuan asked at top speed.

Zhu Qingqing, still immersed in shock, came back to her senses and quickly nodded.

She controlled her puppet body as it stepped forward and slammed head-on into Su Yuan's Human Puppet.

Thud—

A muffled sound rang out, like a ball being struck, and Su Yuan's Human Puppet flew backward.

But once Su Yuan brought the Human Puppet to a steady stop, there wasn't a single mark on its surface.

The impact from Zhu Qingqing's puppet had been effortlessly canceled by the spiritual-energy air cushion formed by the Indestructible Sword Body Talisman.

That was the power of Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Talisman.

Indestructible Sword Body was Taihua Tianji's skill, yet he couldn't directly imbue a Human Puppet with it.

Su Yuan, on the other hand, could do so with ease—and that was only one small part of what Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Talisman could do.

"Master Zhu, this doesn't count as breaking the rules, does it?"

"Using flexible materials to increase a puppet's ability to withstand impacts is part of its durability. A spiritual-energy air cushion is, of course, a kind of flexible material too."

Su Yuan offered his shamelessly obvious excuse with a perfectly serious expression.

Zhu Qingqing fell silent for a moment, then nodded slightly and said:

"But to pass this trial, you don't just need to withstand my puppet's collision. You also have to crack it."

"That's easy."

Su Yuan nodded and immediately used the corpse-nurturing method from the Ancient Corpse Refining Method to quickly turn the Human Puppet into a copper-skinned, iron-boned corpse.

Thanks to his superb corpse-nurturing skills and the various materials he conjured, the process took only