"No, that strange substance... is energy."
Qin Hao narrowed his eyes.
"Clack, clack!"
As the Stone Puppet King devoured the young man's martial soul, an even more powerful aura surged from its body.
Its somewhat rigid body actually became more nimble.
The bizarre yet immensely powerful energy within the Stone Puppet King grew denser.
"So that's it! The Stone Puppet King's stone man essence isn't merely an essence soul. It's also a form of energy. To me, at least, it's energy much like heaven and earth spiritual energy!"
Qin Hao's eyes flashed. "No wonder the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art started circulating faster. If I refine the Stone Puppet King's stone man essence, then..."
"My martial soul might advance straight to the sixth rank!"
A fifth-rank martial soul was already immensely powerful.
Once it advanced to the sixth rank, Qin Hao's overall strength would surely rise again!
"If I relied solely on pills to improve my martial soul at the Myriad Phenomena Hall, I'd probably need a terrifying number of them. But the stone man essence will be different!"
A brilliant light gleamed in Qin Hao's eyes.
He had to obtain the stone man essence!
In the clearing.
The Stone Puppet King slowly turned its head, making a series of mechanical clicks.
Its eyes flickered as it swept a cold, savage gaze over everyone before it.
"You... die!"
An incredibly hoarse, strange voice laced with bloodlust suddenly rang out.
Everyone's expression changed at the sound.
The Stone Puppet King could actually speak?
Before anyone could react, the Stone Puppet King shifted its gaze to a bloated fat man.
Having watched his fellow disciple's martial soul being devoured and the man dying on the spot, the fat man's face had turned deathly pale, his expression filled with terror.
Now that the