The Blood Puppet was something Su Lingyun had refined through sacrifice with Blood Jade, and he was also the source of the Blood Puppet's inexhaustible strength through countless battles.
If Su Lingyun had truly died, the Blood Puppet should have fallen apart as well after losing its source of power.
Yet the Blood Puppet had not failed. Its speed had instead become even faster.
There was only one possibility for this—the fact that Su Lingyun was not dead!
"Why is this happening? His aura clearly vanished!"
He Shenglai recited an incantation, then formed a glimmer of green light in each hand and covered his eyes with them. Focusing his mind, he looked toward the Blood Puppet.
With the aid of Clarity Eye Sorcery, he immediately spotted a streak of vivid red embedded within the Blood Puppet's spinal bone.
"Blood Jade! We've been tricked!"
The instant He Shenglai saw the Blood Jade, he understood that Su Lingyun had played them all.
That earthshaking blood-light sorcery from before had indeed been real, but it had not been Su Lingyun's entire true body that had self-destructed.
Using that evil art of the Su Family, he had stored part of his flesh within the Blood Jade, then used the cover of the blood light to transfer himself onto the Blood Puppet.
His purpose in doing so was first to eliminate both Xu Chen and Yue Shuwang, the two greatest threats, and second to force Tiger Chasing and the others away from the region containing the treasure in the lake.
This way, even if everyone noticed something was wrong now, they would be unable to stop Su Lingyun from obtaining the True Intent Formless Manifestation!
Just as He Shenglai's heart lurched in alarm, everyone saw flesh, blood, and bone wildly proliferating from the Blood Puppet's