"Boom..."
A Spirit-Infused Puppet that had ventured a dozen or so miles into the passage above suddenly exploded!
The Thousand-Eyed Demon Emperor's thousand eyes widened in fury, making him look exceptionally hideous. After staring for a moment, he vanished in a flash.
Immediately afterward, Xiao Ying sensed one Spirit-Infused Puppet after another lose contact with him. Clearly, the Thousand-Eyed Demon Emperor had found and destroyed them.
The energy within those Spirit-Infused Puppets circulated according to the Sacred Concealment Method. Although they could not bring its full effectiveness into play, the puppets themselves were artifacts, making their auras easier to conceal. They could achieve fifty or sixty percent of the Sacred Concealment Method's effectiveness, or even eighty or ninety percent at best-enough to hide their own aura fluctuations. All they lacked was the Sacred Concealment Alchemy Brocade. Yet they had been found one by one so quickly, offering a glimpse of the Thousand-Eyed Demon Emperor's divine abilities.
Xiao Ying waited several dozen breaths, until nearly half the seventeen Spirit-Infused Puppets had lost contact, before bringing out his only seventh-tier, Immortal King-level Spirit-Infused Puppet, Gu Shang. He kept the Sacred Concealment Method circulating and wrapped him in the Sacred Concealment Alchemy Brocade as well.
With Xiao Ying's own cultivation and strength, breaking out of the sea eye would be difficult enough, let alone with the Thousand-Eyed Demon Emperor watching like a tiger, ready to detect the slightest disturbance!
This is a crushing loss. Seventeen Spirit-Infused Puppets! There's even a sixth-tier one and four fifth-tier ones among them...
As he controlled the Gu Shang puppet's emergence, Xiao Ying agonized over the loss. Even the windfall he had just obtained from the Silver-Robed Immortal Emperor could not withstand such expenditure!
Amid his heartache, Xiao Ying turned his slightly reddened eyes toward the foul-smelling, sludge-like