While the Black Tower Tribe cleared the battlefield, the Spirit-Infused Puppets that had fought using their own power to conserve immortal crystals returned to the second forbidden level, the mountain space where the Myriad Spirits Ancient Vessel was being repaired.
After this battle, the Spirit-Infused Puppets had exhausted eighty to ninety percent of their power. They would need roughly a month to recover fully on their own, severely delaying repairs to the Myriad Spirits Ancient Vessel. Xiao Ying could do nothing about it, however. He could not have both fish and bear's paw; he could only consider it an exchange of the puppets' strength for immortal crystals!
While waiting for the cleanup to finish, Xiao Ying activated more Spirit-Infused Puppets inside the forbidden grounds!
The three Mysterious Immortal-level Fifth-Rank Spirit-Infused Puppets cost twenty-four supreme immortal crystals in total. They were animated with the fifth-tier demon souls of the Deep-Sea Ancient Crocodile, Blue-Blooded Dragon Ape, and Deep-Sea Li Turtle, respectively. Xiao Ying simply named them Ancient Crocodile, Dragon Ape, and Li Tortoise. It was convenient and saved trouble. Besides, the Barbarian Tribe named things the same way, so there was nothing unusual about it!
Of the eight fourth-tier beast souls, each required only one supreme immortal crystal. He activated seven Jade Immortal-level fourth-rank Spirit-Infused Puppets in total, naming them Blue Ape, Sword Crocodile, Demon Shark, Thousand Whiskers, and so forth, according to their respective souls.
One fourth-tier beast soul remained unused in the end, because... Xiao Ying had run out of supreme immortal crystals!
As for the three hundred-odd third-tier souls, over a thousand second-tier souls, and four or five thousand first-tier souls, Xiao Ying activated three hundred and fifty Heaven Immortal-level third-rank Spirit-Infused Puppets. Without immortal crystals, he naturally could not activate the rest!
By this point, Xiao Ying and