"Senior Brother Zhang..." Jiao Hui took two steps forward, startled and overjoyed. "Senior Brother Zhang, you can speak!"
"Go... Hurry..."
"I can't hold on much longer."
Senior Brother Zhang spoke in pain, his voice growing weaker.
Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi were startled.
They looked at the other fifteen Corpse Puppets. The pain was already fading from several of their faces, as though they would revert to true Corpse Puppets at any moment.
"Go, quickly."
Jiao Hui gritted his teeth as he spoke.
He knew exactly what was happening.
Corpse Puppets were the product of an utterly vicious form of Puppet Arts that imprisoned a Warrior's Divine Soul within the puppet.
That allowed a Corpse Puppet to grow—even to become a Sovereign!
Just now, the voices of Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi had briefly roused a little awareness in these sixteen Azure Flame Sect Disciples. But they had already been refined into Corpse Puppets. They could hold on for only a moment.
"Senior Brother Zhang, Junior Sister Tian, Junior Brother Liu... Rest assured. I swear I'll avenge you!"
The more they saw, the fiercer the rage burned in their hearts. The three of them wanted nothing more than to tear the Blood Cloud Saber Demon limb from limb!
Suppressing their fury, they hurried out of the basement.
A moment later.
Sunlight fell on their faces again, but before they could rejoice, a staggering sight met their eyes.
Whoosh!
A dazzling, massive arc of Sword Radiance, like a river of stars, cut across the sky and crashed into the Blood Cloud Saber Demon, who stood suspended in midair.
Faced with that sword strike, the Blood Cloud Saber Demon barely had time to raise his Warblade before it hit him!
Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi all