Li Chen had cultivated the Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Following Ear, which all but amounted to mental certification of the heavenly eye. He no longer needed to make additional arrangements at the camp; simply deploying Mechanisms like an ordinary Puppet Master would let him monitor everything.
Of course, he had long since noticed the furtive movements of those two pawns, but he had paid them no heed whatsoever.
He had not even bothered to inspect their true forms. Before a Puppet Dao Master like him, well versed in the Brain Deconstruction Technique, even the dead could not keep their secrets.
After he gave the order, men dragged them out and fed the two corpses straight to the dogs.
In the cellar, several ferocious-looking aberrant demons called Yin Tao, resembling a cross between flayed hounds and Hunting Insects, lunged forward with low growls, vying to devour the corpses.
Unseen by anyone, vast amounts of information gathered within these Yin Tao before passing into the Mother Empress's brain, hidden deep within a Space Pouch in the void.
As Li Chen ate and drank at the banquet, he seemed to sense something, and his gaze shifted slightly.
There was actually no useful information left?
That stands to reason. The Righteous Qi Continent has fought Puppet Masters for years. Even the spell dao has all sorts of methods for extracting souls and seizing spirits. Since they were deathsworn, how could they not have guarded against this?
According to the information the Mother Empress sent back, even the essence of their divine souls had dissolved. Any further investigation would require considerable effort, consuming fortune power to perform divination and deduction.
This was not Li Chen's forte, so he simply set the matter aside and paid it no further attention.
The next day, Hu Ze changed