Chen Xun and Black Bull's Split Souls

With a soft sigh, an icy wind rushed head-on, scattering the snowflakes that filled the sky.

They danced with the wind between heaven and earth, like the storms of passing years arriving silently.

"Old Bull, tidy this up. Let's keep working on the Immortal Puppets." A trace of loneliness seemed to linger in Chen Xun's smile as he roused Black Bull from his reminiscing.

At the mention of Immortal Puppets, Chen Xun's gaze deepened. Batian and Yanshu were, in truth, super cultivator lifeforms he and Black Bull had refined. They had not been picked up by some riverside.

Their bodies contained split souls from both himself and Black Bull. They were no longer merely Five-Elements Marks.

Everything that happened to them could be sensed by Chen Xun and Black Bull. They could even subtly influence their thoughts.

Perhaps because Third Sister and Little Scarlet's departure had left an emptiness in their hearts all these years, they had made them companions like living beings and taught them as they would two juniors.

In truth, they did not need teaching at all. Their consciousness and understanding had been given to them by Chen Xun and Old Bull. Without those strands of split soul fused into them, they would probably have been no different from ordinary Immortal Puppets.

They could also take over Batian and Yanshu's bodies at any time, though there was no longer any need for such terrifying strength.

They would refine more Immortal Puppets to enter the world. Chen Batian and Chen Yanshu could only be considered two reflections of them.

So long as they could control the Jade Pivot Sacred Land and extend their reach in every direction, the entire situation in the Desolate Heaven Domain would open up from there. They would no longer be like headless flies.