Su Jiu's words startled the Grand Elder into stumbling back two steps. His pitch-black eyes shifted, but in the end, he said nothing.
"If you really were that powerful, you would have struck personally long ago, rather than making them slaughter one another here.
"To put it bluntly, even the power to make the Nine-Tailed Foxes kill one another doesn't come from you. You're nothing but a fox borrowing the tiger's might."
As she spoke, Su Jiu had already reached the edge of the Vacuum Zone and drawn alongside Silver Snow.
Silver Snow looked at Su Jiu beside him, helplessness mingling with a faint smile in his eyes.
"Do you know how I figured it out?" As she spoke, she looked above the Grand Elder's head.
"You should know that no puppet can be exactly like an ordinary person, not even a living puppet. The thread above your head is far too obvious."
A living puppet was a puppet with its own consciousness, but its bodily life had still been stripped away. Apart from his self-awareness, the Grand Elder was essentially a dead man. And how could a dead man possess powers of his own?
At this, the Grand Elder froze completely. Then the pupils in his eyes began to tremble violently, and a faint struggle appeared on his rigid face. A dozen or so breaths later, he suddenly burst into laughter. "Excellent, excellent. As expected of the Chief Personal Disciple of the Azure Tide Sect's Ice Veil Peak. That ability of yours truly isn't something an ordinary person could possess.
"To identify a living puppet at a glance-and one ranked far above you, at that..."
It was still the Grand Elder's voice, yet Su Jiu and Silver Snow both grew visibly wary.
At the same time, the gale that