"More of these things! Why are they everywhere? Just how many of these Puppets did Li Chen build?"
With a casual sweep of his hand, Sword Qi crisscrossed the sky like a long rainbow piercing the heavens. The dozen or so Patrol Mountain Cranes before Qi Hanxing exploded one after another, turning into a sky full of parts amid violent tremors and deafening blasts.
A moment later, he landed, but his brows knitted as a powerful sense of foreboding rose within him.
Bai Xu opened his eyes, looked at Qi Hanxing, and said gravely, "Our whereabouts have been exposed. We cannot stay here any longer!"
Yu Rong could not resist sneering. "Haven't you become a bird that startles at the mere twang of a bow? Fellow Daoist Qi already destroyed the Mechanism Puppets that came here!"
"What do you know?" Liu Ruomeng said. "Puppet Masters have communication methods unknown to outsiders. The instant those Mechanism Puppets appeared, their main force already knew."
Yu Rong froze for a moment. That did sound rather inconceivable; she had never heard of such a thing before. Still, she stubbornly retorted, "Utter nonsense!"
Inwardly, however, she wavered a little. Puppet Master Grand Artisans were unfamiliar to her, and she had no idea what methods their opponent possessed.
"In that case, let us leave at once!" Qi Hanxing said.
They had no choice but to abandon the secluded refuge they had found with such difficulty and move elsewhere.
With the aid of geomagnetism and spiritual essence, many places in the dense forests offered concealment. Places rich in spiritual essence, in particular, were shrouded in strange mists year-round. Most such places, however, had long since been claimed and developed into Blessed Lands.
For the most part, they now followed the mountain ranges, each deploying their Divine Abilities