"Watch out, an ambush!"
Sensing the fierce murderous intent rushing toward them, everyone hurriedly deployed their own methods to defend themselves.
The next instant, the puppet doll maidens charged forward like lightning, blades flashing and swords weaving together.
These combat puppet dolls embodied the Sword Dao achievements painstakingly researched by the Puppet Dao. Although orthodox sword cultivator experts often criticized programmed swordsmanship, it had nevertheless achieved considerable success.
This was a fact the Outer Dao sought every possible means to reject, yet could never deny.
Many things humans could do, machines could do as well!
"Who are these people? How do they know our Divine Sword Gate's swordsmanship?"
"That's not your Divine Sword Gate's swordsmanship. It looks more like the Chess Sword Sect's routines!"
"There's a trace of the Three Talents Sword Art, too!"
Everyone assessed the maidens as they fought them.
Some even shouted at the girls, "Stop persisting in your folly, or don't blame us for showing no mercy!"
Fang Weiqi sneered. "Don't waste your breath. These are clearly sword slaves raised by a puppet master, drawn from the ranks of death warriors and the like. They've been brainwashed and trained in swordsmanship since childhood. They possess a sword cultivator's techniques, but not a sword cultivator's heart!"
Luo Ji and the other sword cultivators' faces darkened at his words, but they said nothing.
Of course they knew sword slaves existed.
They were the bitter fruit borne of the mutual slaughter and hatred between the two sides during the Puppet-Spell Wars over the years.
To build palaces and pavilions and manufacture flying boats and treasure ships, the Spell Dao side had abducted no shortage of artisans, turning them into slave workers who served them generation after generation.
The Puppet Dao had its own means of retaliation: raising sword slaves