After taking proper precautions, Zhou Yang entered the Thousand Mechanisms Cave Heaven and saw Chen Pingzhi, who had gone in ahead of him, being forced back again and again beneath the attacks of two Puppet Beasts. He cut a thoroughly bedraggled figure.
The two Puppet Beasts were a lion and a tiger respectively. The lion had been crafted from some kind of spirit wood and was roughly the size of an ordinary wild lion. Only, its pupils were crimson, and it could unleash a flame-ray spell to attack enemies. It could also spit crimson fireballs from its mouth.
The Puppet Beast tiger was likewise about the size of an ordinary tiger, but most of the materials used to forge its body were metal.
Compared to the lion's ranged attacks, the tiger beast was clearly more adept at close combat. Its four claws had all been forged from Third-tier Spirit Gold, capable of releasing claw radiance several feet long to directly receive Chen Pingzhi's flying sword attacks. It could also spit silvery-white Sword Qi spells from its mouth for ranged attacks, and its body's defensive power was considerably stronger than that of an ordinary Tier 3 Low-grade Demonic Beast.
Whether lion or tiger, the aura they emitted was far stronger than Zhou Yang, a First Layer Foundation Establishment Cultivator. Though they fell short of Chen Pingzhi at the Sixth Layer Foundation Establishment, Zhou Yang estimated that they were at least comparable to cultivators from the Third Layer Foundation Establishment to Foundation Establishment Stage 4.
With Chen Pingzhi's Sixth Layer Foundation Establishment strength, even if these two Puppet Beasts were formidable, he should not have been in such a sorry state.
Unfortunately, he had already expended a great deal of magic power while attacking the cave abode's defensive formation. Then, without any