Within the Endless Darkness.
The Tiger Soul Puppet streaked through the void at incredible speed.
Li Yue sat cross-legged on its back.
Gray Valley stood behind him.
"My lord, this puppet should have come from the Sky Puppet Lineage."
"Its design is exquisite, and it seems almost alive. Only the Sky Puppet Lineage could have made it."
Gray Valley studied it for a moment and sighed in admiration.
"The Sky Puppet Lineage?"
"How powerful is this faction?"
Li Yue was curious.
Qian Bao had only said that a close friend had given it to him, without mentioning which faction that friend belonged to.
Li Yue had not asked for details, either.
"The Sky Puppet Lineage was once immensely prosperous. It even ruled a Higher Heaven."
"But it gradually declined and abandoned its Higher Heaven. Like our Azure Cloud Sea, it now occupies only an Ordinary Heaven."
"And rumor has it that an enormous secret lies behind this."
"After all, once the Sky Puppet Lineage abandoned its Higher Heaven, three other factions capable of producing extremely powerful puppets appeared in High Heaven."
"Most of the techniques they use supposedly came from the Sky Puppet Lineage."
Gray Valley answered.
Li Yue nodded.
The Sky Puppet Lineage had nothing to do with him. He was merely listening to its tale.
"Is there a fixed number of Pinnacle Heavens in High Heaven?"
He asked curiously.
Ordinary Heavens, Higher Heavens, and Pinnacle Heavens.
These were the three tiers of heavens in High Heaven.
And the gulf between each tier was immense!
Put simply—
Both the cultivation environment and the quality of resources a Higher Heaven could produce far surpassed those of an Ordinary Heaven!
"There is."
"There are only forty-nine Pinnacle Heavens."
"Every Pinnacle Heaven is occupied by one of High Heaven's superpowers."
"To varying