"No need to look. These Flesh-and-Blood Puppets are the guards of this stone market. They're said to be special puppets refined by combining Refined Corpses with the Mechanism Art. Each has the combat strength of a second-tier Might Warrior-even ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivators are no match for them. They're also one of the main reasons the Three Venerable Stone Market has been able to operate peacefully all this time." Yan Lingxiang cast a spell at the wooden boat, shrinking it and stowing it in his sleeve, then offered Wang Yu a brief explanation.
"Flesh-and-Blood Puppets, equivalent to second-tier Might Warriors..."
Wang Yu murmured, a thoughtful expression appearing on his face.
The bloody aura surrounding these puppets could not be faked. Either the materials used to refine them were extremely unusual, or these Flesh-and-Blood Puppets had indeed slaughtered many living beings. Of course, those beings could have been humans or Demon Beasts.
If each truly equaled a second-tier Might Warrior, as Yan Lingxiang had said, that was terrifying indeed.
After all, although both were at the second tier, second-tier Body Tempering Might Warriors were generally far stronger than ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivators, barring the exceedingly rare true practitioners of body-and-magic dual cultivation. Pure second-tier Might Warriors were already few and far between.
First, the path of Body Tempering was fraught with difficulties, and few people possessed the aptitude for it. The initial step of drawing killing intent into the body alone barred most people from even beginning.
Second, becoming a pure second-tier Might Warrior did not extend one's lifespan. Like ordinary people, most would turn into a heap of dust within a hundred years. Naturally, that left even fewer willing to practice Body Tempering and strive to become high-tier Might Warriors.
Take the Four Symbols Sect, for instance. Even as a