A joke?
At those words, the many True Demons froze, wild joy welling up within them.
The great Ancestor believed that Lin Zhishui was not a reincarnated Heavenly Dao Powerhouse?
The vast, majestic voice rang out again. "You believe Lin Zhishui is a reincarnated Heavenly Dao Powerhouse merely because your spiritual awareness cannot detect his existence, leading you to assume his realm surpasses yours, and because the Gloomy Eye cannot see the light of his primordial spirit. Is that correct?"
"Yes, great Ancestor," the woman in white replied respectfully.
The immeasurably majestic voice said indifferently, "I have examined your memories. Could it be... that you thought the person you saw was truly his real body?"
The woman in white froze slightly.
"Puppetry."
The majestic, indifferent voice continued, "When you used the Gloomy Eye to examine the light of primordial spirits, the reincarnated Supreme's primordial spirit light was in Lingyan Pavilion. The one accompanying that reincarnated Primordial Unity Great Golden Immortal was nothing more than a puppet."
A puppet?
The woman in white was stunned.
Indeed, puppets had no primordial spirits, so the Gloomy Eye could not detect them. They were driven by formation runes and possessed not a trace of life, just like dead objects. If it were a Supreme-level puppet, her spiritual awareness naturally could not detect its existence.
But...
Puppetry was an ancient, unorthodox art. Supreme-level puppets were rare to begin with, and the various materials they required should only exist in the Heavenly Realm. How could a Supreme-level puppet appear in the mortal world?
By all rights, many materials for Supreme-level puppets exceeded the mortal world's limits and could not be sent down.
Still, she dared not question the great Ancestor.
"That was not a true Supreme-level puppet."
As though sensing her doubts, the majestic voice, like