Layer upon layer of Six Paths of Reincarnation enveloped the cultivator's soul, imprinted his entire life, then departed without a sound. Nothing changed.
Jiang Ding looked closely at the eighteen Core Formation-level flesh puppets surrounding the red-haired man.
"Twenty thousand years ago, the Immortal Artifact Sect was torn by a struggle between the Dead Puppet Sect and the Living Puppet Sect. It was fierce enough that even Celestials shed blood, and some nearly fell..."
Jiang Ding slowly recalled what had happened twenty thousand years ago.
Back then, he had wiped out every top sect's Void Refining cultivators in the Thunderflame Domain. Those cultivators had countless ties to the Immortal Artifact Sect, so he had obtained a great deal of information.
"Now it seems the factional struggle within the Immortal Artifact Sect has come to an end."
"The fusion of living and dead puppets is truly cruel."
"The ethics, morals, and emotions of human society are almost gone. Even the malice and evil of a demonic sect are absent. It's as though they aren't human at all, as though they have no feelings..."
Jiang Ding stood above the karma of the mortal world, touching nothing and changing nothing.
Yet he could not help feeling a little sorrow. He sighed.
Even if they were enemies, they were still a human sect, weren't they?
Even a demonic sect should embody human evil and the myriad things humans desired.
But the Immortal Artifact Sect, now...
In those eighteen Core Formation-level flesh puppets, Jiang Ding saw metal rods, wooden strips, vines, and yellow-red spirit earth implanted throughout their bodies. These had replaced portions of their original bones, meridians, flesh, and blood, greatly increasing the cultivators' strength.
No. They were peak Foundation Establishment cultivators.
One of these Core Formation-level flesh puppets had originally been no more