Formless Secret Treasury

Seeing the vicious gleam in the puppets' eyes, He Ping felt a trace of doubt in his heart.

"I never imagined that merely telling that story would so easily 'enrage' that Master Juluo fellow..."

He knew full well that these puppets possessed no self-awareness; someone behind the scenes was manipulating them. From the look of things, the one controlling this whole host of puppets ought to be that Master Juluo.

"Speak... Why... why is it boundless merit and virtue?"

At that moment, a roar seemed to ring beside his ears. This time, however, the voice did not come from the puppets present, but from the entirety of Jialan Ancient Temple.

Rumble!

The whole ancient temple trembled, and the ground shook violently again and again. A terrifying wave of sound also rolled out from the temple's main gate.

"What is this? This fluctuation is truly strange... Could it be that this so-called Jialan Ancient Temple..."

A guess could not help but arise in his mind. At the same time, the beast-headed puppets closed in. Each became more savage than the last, surrounding him from every direction and pouncing like wild beasts.

He Ping let out a clear cry and spat out a stream of true qi. The airflow around him churned, solidifying like an ocean, then overturning and twisting into violent chaos. This was the use of true qi to command the primordial energy of heaven and earth. Once activated, its force could crush all in its path, forming a force field across a radius of several hundred zhang.

In an instant, everything within that force field spanning several hundred zhang around him froze. No one could move.

Yet at that very moment, Jialan Ancient Temple began to shake as a whole. The rock strata beneath the temple rose one after