391 Fierce Battle

"The Fourth Prince is a living puppet?!"

He Ping muttered in astonishment. At first, he found it somewhat hard to believe.

"How could this happen? The Fourth Prince could not possibly have cultivated the Formless Secret Treasury. Leaving aside the fact that the Great You court would never permit a prince to cultivate a technique of the Nine Evils of Longevity, the Formless Secret Treasury itself has backdoor restrictions. Once cultivated to a certain level, one can no longer cultivate other techniques concurrently. If the Fourth Prince had tried to cultivate it, the day-night reversal limitation on Chixinzi's cultivation would inevitably have occurred to him as well..."

The Fourth Prince had entered the Dao years ago, but Chixinzi had certainly begun cultivating earlier than that prince. The copy of the Formless Secret Treasury in Chixinzi's hands would cause other disciples of the Immortal Puppet Sect to become trapped in the problem of "day-night regression." In other words, after Chixinzi had mastered that volume of the Formless Secret Treasury, no one should have been able to cultivate any other technique alongside it.

On the other hand, He Ping also knew the Fourth Prince's personal background. He had heard that this prince had entered the Dao through the Daoqi Lineage's Four Spirits Book. He also possessed a treasured fan artifact called the Seven Avian Wind-Fire Fan and was skilled in the arts of returning wind and reversing fire.

None of this information was secret; anyone with well-informed sources knew it clearly. The Fourth Prince had begun cultivating in childhood, received the elite education of the Great You imperial family, later studied under renowned masters, and eventually succeeded in entering the Dao. Every step of his path was traceable. How could a prince raised in such an environment secretly cultivate the Formless Secret