Although the Heavenly Demon Puppet's scarlet eyes were filled with mindless confusion, endless killing intent, and brutality, just as the records described, a glimmer of awareness occasionally surfaced within that boundless crimson.
"Soul... Soul Palace's black-robed man... I... who am I... I'm Dragon Venerable?!"
As more glimmers of awareness emerged in the Heavenly Demon Puppet's eyes, he began murmuring under his breath. Hun Changqing froze at the sight. Although the puppet's shell had been refined from Dragon Venerable's corpse, he had already refined Dragon Venerable's soul into a Main Soul, which was still sitting safely inside his Yin Soul Banner. Why did this newly refined Heavenly Demon Puppet possess some of Dragon Venerable's memories?
But Hun Changqing soon understood the crux of the matter. Although he had forcibly extracted Dragon Venerable's entire soul while the man was still alive, Dragon Venerable had also belonged to the Soul Palace and possessed some knowledge of souls. Perhaps some residual Soul Imprints had attached themselves to his body during the extraction. Normally, these imprints would show no abnormalities, but when Hun Changqing fused the Yin Demon with Dragon Venerable's body, the immense Soul Power carried by the Yin Demon had activated the Soul Imprints remaining within it.
Once the Soul Imprints were activated, fragments of Dragon Venerable's memories from life instantly occupied the Yin Demon, which possessed only instincts and no intelligence whatsoever. In a sense, the Yin Demon could now be regarded as Dragon Venerable, and through Hun Changqing's hands, Dragon Venerable seemed to have achieved an alternative form of rebirth.
Hun Changqing studied the Heavenly Demon Puppet-or rather, the reborn Dragon Venerable-with a playful expression and a flicker of interest in his eyes. Although the puppet's transformation had surprised him, he felt no panic. Its refinement was now effectively complete, and