It was a puppet barely the length of an adult's forearm. Its yellowish wooden body blended into the sea of sand, and had he not swept the area with his divine sense, it would have been easily overlooked.
After a brief daze, the Tiandao Palace Holy Son's avatar raised a hand and drew the puppet before him with an outpouring of True Yuan.
The Condense Dharma Seal formed by the Tiandao Palace secret art in his other hand flared to its limit in an instant. As it swayed, it faintly resonated with the puppet.
"This reaction from the secret art... does that mean the Horizonless Tracing Seal left on Su Shi'er was inside this puppet?"
"In that case, all these years, what I had been tracking was nothing more than a puppet carrying the Horizonless Tracing Seal?"
The thoughts flashed through his mind. In an instant, the Tiandao Palace Holy Son's avatar's face reddened, his teeth grinding with a harsh creak.
At that moment, he felt as though he were a complete joke.
Back in Muyun Prefecture, it had been understandable that his repeated schemes had failed to capture Su Shi'er.
After all, they had been separated by boundless void. Even if he sent people there, there had been far too many uncertain factors.
But now, the Immortal Cultivation Holy Land could be considered his own territory. Yet he, a dignified Spirit Severing stage existence, had been led around by the nose by a Nascent Soul cultivator.
If such a matter spread, no one would likely believe it.
Crack!
The puppet before him silently shattered into fragments that filled the sky beneath the crushing pressure of powerful True Yuan. The seal remaining within it lost its vessel and scattered with the wind.
The Tiandao Palace Holy Son's avatar was furious