The True Heir of the Puppet Sect
At this moment, He Ping had set his sights on Gu Miyuan. His palm strike broke through the defenses and pierced the puppet grandmaster's body, extracting the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart. Then, with a backhanded grab, he seized this living puppet.
His series of movements flowed like drifting clouds and running water, completed in one seamless breath. He had caught the weaknesses of these two great puppet masters and, without a sound, forcibly turned the situation around.
"Wu Yousheng, you've underestimated me too much."
With a sweep of his great hand, He Ping drew Gu Miyuan into his palm. To so easily bring down Gu Miyuan was, in truth, the result of his going all out.
Gu Miyuan and You Weidu were both masters of the ancient Puppet Sect. Their Daoist arts, divine abilities, and supreme techniques were indeed extraordinary, but He Ping knew the state of these two predecessors like the back of his hand.
After all, the Immortal Puppet Sect was the inheritor of the Puppet Sect, their Daoist arts and techniques passed down through the same lineage. He Ping had faced Gu Miyuan—whose abilities he knew intimately—with supernatural arts outside the Immortal Puppet Sect, while also cultivating the meditative great seal of the "Sphere of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception." Only by precisely judging the fleeting flaw in Gu Miyuan's circulating cultivation did he succeed in one stroke.
This was a victory on the tactical level. He did not use the Puppet Sect's supernatural arts, yet he was able to scheme against an enemy employing tactics familiar to him. One could say he had taken every possible advantage.
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