Li Chen could more or less understand Pan Ning's urgency and delight. Ever since they had infiltrated Great Qian's imperial palace and stolen its fortune, every grandmaster expert in the Puppet Master Faction had dabbled in it, knowing it to be an effective shortcut to greater power.
Puppet Masters relied on external power as their foundation, so naturally they were not bound by too many rules and restrictions.
Pan Ning, in particular, had obtained Hu Meiniang's body and refined it into an incarnation. He had originally stood a chance of reaching nine-star and acquiring another Primordial Spirit Realm incarnation.
If he succeeded, he could even abandon his original body and make this one his main body instead!
Because Pan Ning had attained his Dao relatively late, his original body had already entered old age, and its functions had declined.
The Dao Fruits accumulated within it over the years were hardly poor, but youth was an advantage. Using Hu Meiniang's body to nurture his primordial spirit would actually be better than using his original body.
For more than forty years, Pan Ning had poured untold effort and wealth into strengthening Hu Meiniang's body. It was not because he was truly some pervert who enjoyed playing with this corpse concubine refined from a demon fox, but because he had placed great hopes in her. He wanted a young body that could truly house his primordial spirit and prolong his life, regardless of whether she was male or female, human or demon.
But Hu Meiniang’s Incarnation had stopped progressing after the construction of the Deer Terrace. Once she lost her status as Great Qian's Empress Dowager, the incense and fire prayer power she had gathered gradually dissipated as well. It was like watching an enormous fortune steadily depreciate before his very eyes. What