Wang Daoyuan sent Linglong back, then casually stored the old tortoise in the Spirit Pearl Space.
Before going to the Seven Stars Sea, he had eight avatars. Adding the Sword Puppet and Jia Qi, he already had ten avatars.
The puppet he obtained later was merely an ordinary spell puppet, so Wang Daoyuan had not infused it with a Split Soul.
A puppet could be controlled without a Split Soul, but there were major problems with coordination, and it could not remain away from its master for too long.
Now that he had refined the Mysterious Ice Old Tortoise into an avatar, he had eleven avatars and needed to give one up.
Wang Daoyuan chose to abandon Spirit Devourer. Its cultivation was too low, and its ability to conceal itself was practically useless against Nascent Soul Cultivators.
The Devil Race still could not appear openly, so keeping it served no purpose.
The other Devil Race member, Bloodflame, still had some value.
It had previously been the main force behind artifact refining in the space, but now that he had avatar Jia Qi, its role was no longer what it had been.
Avatar Jia Qi was proficient in both alchemy and artifact refining, and he had now reached the High-grade Fourth-order level in both.
His soul had not suffered much damage, so he could improve further in the future.
Besides artifact refining, Bloodflame had another use.
It was to provide blood essence for the True Demon Blood Lotus. The Blood Lotus Seed Wang Daoyuan had obtained was High-grade Third-order.
With Bloodflame, a late Golden Core blood demon, constantly supplying blood essence, coupled with the increasingly dense spiritual energy within the Spirit Pearl Space—
The True Demon Blood Lotus had also reached Mid-grade Fourth-order. Perhaps because it was about to advance, it