Bai Luoying was the second to react.
She immediately whipped her head toward the source of the sound.
No new wounds had appeared on Qin Si's body.
There was only a large shoe print on his chest.
The Six Luminary Annihilation Cannons' attack had never landed on him!
That raised a question: who had been hit and let out that scream?
The cannons' destructive energy dissipated, but the figure they had struck was still convulsing.
Clearly, the experience was anything but pleasant.
Qin Si couldn't help clicking his tongue.
"If that attack had actually hit me, who knows what shape I'd be in?"
Then, looking thoroughly pleased with himself, he explained things to Lu Xingyuan.
"Wondering how this happened? I was supposed to be the one getting hit, so why did it turn out to be someone else?"
He opened his hand, revealing the old wooden puppet clutched in his palm.
The puppet was only palm-sized, with dark red threads wound around its limbs and head.
Its face was blank. An Inverted Pentagram Array was carved into its chest, with a congealed drop of dark red blood embedded at its center.
[Substitute Puppet: Lifeline Doll] [Category: extraordinary creation] [Level: 8] [Description: After a Lifeline Contract is signed with a willing participant, when the holder suffers fatal damage, the contracted substitute will instantly appear in front of them, ignoring all spatial barriers, and take that fatal damage in their stead. The holder will be moved to a nearby safe location. The contract can only activate once; upon activation, the substitute will be left on the brink of death, and the item will be destroyed.]
A moment later, the Inverted Pentagram Array on the puppet's chest shattered. The dark red blood dried into a charred black stain, and the threads