Upon hearing that his "good third brother," Qi Wugou, had led a great army to capture Pass Hill City, He Ping decided to pay him a visit.
He had no intention of meddling too deeply in the Great You court's current predicament. Great You's foundations remained unfathomably deep; no outsider knew how many trump cards the first Emperor You still had hidden away. He did not dare wade recklessly into these muddy waters.
Naturally, he had another purpose in seeking out Qi Wugou: to prepare in advance and lay the groundwork for dealing with Ying Wuji.
"Ying Wuji is indeed Wu Yousheng's puppet. However, he harbors thoughts of rebellion and is unwilling to remain under Wu Yousheng's control..."
Great Sage Lieyun had given him quite a bit of intelligence concerning Wu Yousheng. The Sanyuan Devil Palace had once been a major power and possessed more than a few clues. It was said that the living puppets Wu Yousheng refined were highly unusual, distinctly different from the Living Puppet Art passed down by the Immortal Puppet Sect.
His puppets did not take the original body as their core. Every living puppet was highly independent, possessed its own judgment, and acted with exceptional "autonomy and decisiveness."
Put less pleasantly, that "autonomy and decisiveness" could also be called a fondness for doing things their own way.
The puppets created by Wu Yousheng each had their own styles of conduct. Among them, Ying Wuji was especially unusual. Compared to Wu Yousheng's other puppets, he was utterly out of place, and he had always believed himself not to be any sort of puppet, but an independent individual.
If that were all, there would have been nothing worth fussing over. Yet there were two problems. First, he was already Wu Yousheng's enemy; the two sides were