Ye Han piloted the Cloud-Piercing Boat through the sky, with a Storage Bag beside him...
A wisp of icy Yin Baleful Energy twisted and drifted around his body...
Just as he had expected, once he left the Purple Cauldron Space and picked up even a trace of baleful energy, he could no longer dispel it with spell power or divine sense.
But this was precisely part of his plan.
Over the past month or so, he had crafted nearly two puppets every day, producing more than sixty in total. That was more than enough.
He had spent the remaining time carefully devising his plan, running through it again and again. Only when he felt thoroughly confident had he begun to act.
He had the Baleful Yin Ancestor's Severed Hand in his possession, and he had decided to put it to good use...
He had refined this Severed Hand into the Binglian Puppet.
Back in the maze on the first layer of the Heavenly Secret Hall, he had made the Binglian Puppet repeatedly use swordsmanship to cut down Heavenly Secret Soldiers and Heavenly Secret Beasts. Through that repeated practice, the puppet's arm and the Baleful Yin Ancestor's Severed Hand had long since fused together seamlessly.
Unless Ye Han deliberately had the Binglian Puppet cut off the Baleful Yin Ancestor's Severed Hand and willingly returned it to him, the Baleful Yin Ancestor could only reclaim his hand by forcibly cutting down the Binglian Puppet.
A complete body was extremely important to a cultivator, because the wholeness of the human body constituted what was known as the heavenly dao body.
This was not something only cultivators of the human race possessed. In fact, the earliest cultivators had not been humans, but the legendary immortal race. Humans were actually descended from those without spirit