Just as the situation at the Great Xiye Kingdom's Three Vehicles Dharma Assembly underwent a drastic upheaval, two unfamiliar figures suddenly appeared.
One of them was a young man bare from the waist up, with rugged features, bronze skin, and muscles carved like marble. His chest and arms were covered in tattoos of tigers, leopards, and other wild beasts.
A closer look revealed that the man's attire closely resembled that of the Southern Frontier's tribal peoples. Feathers and hemp-rope ornaments were tied around his head.
The man looked lean and fierce, beastlike light glinting in his eyes. He was Jing Yulie, the "Witch King" of the Five Nuo Sect from a thousand years ago.
Beside him stood a refined-looking man of extraordinary beauty, with swordlike brows, starry eyes, and the bearing of polished jade. Yet his complexion was somewhat pale and his gaze indifferent. Clad in a long robe and covered in the dust of travel, he resembled an impoverished scholar who had read ten thousand books.
This refined man who looked like a poor scholar was Li Changhao, an extraordinary figure from the Taiyi Daoist Prefecture. Both men had once stood among the foremost experts at the peak of Manifestation, and the Daoist and shamanic arts they cultivated were unfathomably profound.
The two great experts had long been trapped on the nineteenth level of Heart-Returning Prison. Had it not been for the actions of the Mystic Origin Divine Venerable, He Ping would not have been able to refine them into two Stealing Heaven Puppets.
These two puppets could be called the most powerful among the many puppets currently under He Ping's command. They were even stronger than his living puppet body.
Although he also possessed the Sukuna Twelve Beast Puppets, they had previously been smashed to pieces and were