Longevity starts from having a daughter in old age

Upon seeing the black jade signets, Xu Mu was overjoyed.

Running such a tough errand, finally, there was a reward.

He wasn’t certain, however, if it was the puppet creation jade signet he had been yearning for.

Though the item was right in front of him, Xu Mu didn’t act rashly. He cast a spell that conjured a fiery serpent to scout the area. Only after confirming there was no danger did he retrieve several black jade signets.

As his divine intent probed the jade signets, a vast amount of information about puppet creation flooded into his mind.

Xu Mu couldn’t help but be ecstatic.

This time, his efforts found fulfilment.

These jade signets contained all the information about puppet creation. However, only one of them had a detailed production method, equivalent to a tier ten. The strongest puppet recorded in it was as powerful as the early stage of the Nascent Soul.

The remaining jade signets had annotations on puppet creation, tips, and even diary entries.

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“x year x month xx day. The creation process failed due to a soul collapse; next time, I’ll use the soul of a ghost to refine the materials!”

“The souls of ordinary people are just too fragile…”

“x year x month xx day. Attempt to enhance puppet strength failed again. Still a problem with the soul power… I should have used the God refining tripod!”

“… took a wrong direction. Maybe, I should cultivate some materials myself, thus enhancing some plasticity…”

“… Indeed, the best puppets to produce are those with Yin properties, especially demonic cultivators…”

“Since I remodeled the space, the cultivation process for the materials feels much more comfortable and quicker…”

“Lucky that I had hidden this space beforehand. If those old fools knew about it, I would be in serious trouble…”

“It’s indeed easier to create puppets from cultivators; the improvement is also faster. Unfortunately, they can’t inherit Divine Skills like beast puppets. It’s a pity. If only I could cultivate some special bloodlines…”

“Damn it! The puppets are conflicting with my martial method. I can’t improve any further…”

“Even though I’m stronger, why did they choose that waste to be the emperor just because he has more people…”

“Had my cultivation resources drastically reduced, my subordinates were driven away. They have treated me like a dog…”

“So what if you’re the emperor? If you can’t progress to the divinity transformation, you’re just a pawn…”

“Creating an avatar is urgent…”

“The damn old dog has betrayed me… I can’t stay here anymore… I must seal this first…”

From these fragments, it wasn’t hard to guess that these were left by the Seventh Prince.

After reading, Xu Mu was inevitably filled with doubt.

“Prince Jade once inherited this place. Why didn’t he take these jade signets with him? Also—”

Xu Mu looked at the jade signet in his hand. He couldn’t shake the feeling that some vital information had been intentionally erased.

“Who could have done it? Hmm?”

As he pondered, his heart inexplicably skipped a beat, and he felt as though he was being watched.

The feeling came quickly and left just as fast, causing him to doubt whether it was merely an illusion.

“Could there be someone else here?”

Xu Mu took several Sin Refining pills and swallowed them.

The Sin Refining pill could temporarily enhance the power of his divine soul and divine intent, making his perceptions more acute.

As his divine intent greatly improved, it edged past the limit of the Golden Core Stage.

Xu Mu, using his temporarily enhanced Divine Intent, looked around. He didn’t notice anything unusual, but his longstanding caution remained, prompting him to leave as soon as he had collected the jade slip.

Roar! Roar! Roar!

His movements seemed to anger someone hidden behind the scenes. The previously quiet patrolling puppets began to howl and converge on him, unaffected by his ethereal form.

“They deliberately let me in!!”

This realization flashed across Xu Mu’s mind like a bolt of lightning.

“I need to get out of here ASAP!”

Just as Xu Mu was about to take out the Sky-splitting Halberd, preparing to charge out at full speed, he suddenly froze. Then he initiated the bloodline of the Land-shattering Whale, causing his body to swell.

Terrifying power burst forth. The charging puppets were directly exploded by a single punch.

The most significant talent of the Land-shattering Whale is strength. It could enhance a cultivator’s power by tens or even hundreds times. As Xu Mu had been practicing Body Refining Techniques and his strength amplified by the bloodline, even a Body Cultivator at Golden Core Perfection Stage would struggle to withstand his punch.

Boom boom boom!

Xu Mu plowed through the crowd of puppets like a god of destruction. Facing hundreds of Golden Core Stage puppets, he surprisingly started to feel like he could break through.

“These puppets have limited capabilities. Despite their strong aura, they don’t seem that hard to defeat!”

Just as Xu Mu was clearing the way and about to break out, a puppet, small and skinny like a seven or eight-year-old child, stealthily approached him under the cover of the puppet crowd.

Compared to the dull eyes of the other puppets, this little puppet’s eyes were gleaming, revealing shrewdness and a cunning air, revealing a high level of intelligence.

When it got into attacking range, a cruel and derisive smile crossed its face. Then it pounced silently at Xu Mu like a shadow.

“I’ve been waiting for you! Paralysis Skill!”

Xu Mu had been anticipating the skinny puppet’s sneak attack. He cast the Paralysis Skill, instantly freezing it in place, and then wielded the Sky-splitting Halberd in his hand with all his might.

Squish!

Like a hot knife through butter, the skinny puppet was cut cleanly in half.

The Sky-splitting Halberd held a mysterious power, capable of cutting through both physical and spiritual bodies, leaving the puppet little chance of surviving.

Just as Xu Mu believed he had killed the enemy, a palm-sized black figure appeared out of nowhere nearby.

There was a wound on the top of the black figure’s head, from which a black liquid was continuously flowing, akin to its blood.

After this black liquid flowed out of the body, it quickly turned into black smoke and dissipated into the air.

The black figure was now staring at Xu Mu with amazement, its gaze fixed firmly on the Sky-splitting Halberd that Xu Mu was holding.

Similarly, Xu Mu was also shocked.

“A Nascent Soul? That’s a Nascent Soul, damnation!”

Xu Mu felt like swearing. Hadn’t he checked with his Divine Intent and found no danger? Why was there a Nascent Soul here?

Though it was just an independent Nascent Soul, it was certainly not something a Golden Core Stage cultivator could handle.

If he wasn’t mistaken, the Nascent Soul must have used its unique teleportation talent to dodge his lethal attack just now.

This kind of teleportation was faster than any Divine Skills. It placed the Nascent People into an almost invincible position against those who lacked teleportation skills.

And it was precisely because of this talent that Nascent Soul cultivators were difficult to kill.

The two were wary of each other, the black Nascent Soul had not expected Xu Mu to discover and injure it, while Xu Mu hadn’t expected an actual Nascent Soul to be hidden behind the scenes.

My trump card has been exposed. They won’t let me go now. I have no other choice!

After just a few breaths worth of standoff, Xu Mu launched his attack first.

There was an army of more than a hundred puppets on the enemy’s side, he couldn’t afford to stall.

The black Nascent Soul instinctively tried to dodge. At this instant, a ray of light descended, freezing it in place, and the the Sky-splitting Halberd followed closely behind.