"Not bad, this is precisely an altar forged by the Great Puppet Technique. By refining this altar, one can control the soul brands of these puppets. No matter where these puppets are, their main bodies can be summoned from the void, making them obedient; otherwise, with a casual stir of the mind, these puppets can be made to wish they were dead rather than alive."
Yan Shuitian also said calmly.
Three Thousand Grand Daos.
The Great Puppet Technique.
While speaking, her finger was about to touch those runes. But she was stopped by Yan. "Absolutely do not touch these runes; otherwise, you will turn into a puppet, and your soul brand will be eternally imprisoned upon the altar, never to turn over a new leaf!"
"Is that so?"
Yan Shuitian hurriedly composed her mind, not daring to unleash mana. This altar of Immortal Venerable Panwu revealed mystery everywhere; it was better not to touch it.
"Good. Inside the Tianwu's Treasury, the most powerful are those Desolate God puppets, the Desolate God King, plus the eighty powerful Desolate Gods. And these divine beasts, the Heavenly Mirage King, the Pixiu King, the Desolate Snake King, the Mysterious Chief King, and the Dark Scum King. If these puppets are all controlled by me and allowed for Yan Shuitian to operate, obeying her commands, that would be much more formidable than a Black Emperor Tide Banner. Within my body is the aura of the Panwu True Blood; I am the true master of the Spoon of the Desolate God. I really want to see the formidability of these Great Puppet Technique runes. I must absolutely refine them to be able to master these Desolate God puppets and divine beast puppets." Fang Han's mind stirred, and a burst of divine thought mana enveloped the entire altar.
Instantly, the aura of the Panwu True Blood within his body somehow suddenly triggered the restriction. The puppet runes on the altar flowed, and streams of runes mixed together with his mana; the profound intents hidden within those runes entered his mind.
"This is? The runes of the Great Puppet Technique?"
With a slight stir of Fang Han's intent, he immediately knew this was the cultivation method of the Great Puppet Technique, a passage of scripture of the Three Thousand Grand Daos. This passage of scripture was profoundly deep; ordinary people fundamentally could not comprehend it. But for a figure like Fang Han, who meticulously practiced the Three Thousand Grand Daos and researched them very familiarly, with just a little thought and calculation, he understood the essence of the Great Puppet Technique.
Furthermore, his Great Universal Salvation Technique was also a divine ability somewhat similar to the Great Puppet Technique. By verifying the two against each other, he could actually obtain quite a few things, comprehending many gains.
"Good, the Great Puppet Technique!"
Fang Han trembled once again, and the many stiff, wooden-puppet-like runes on the altar all began to course, jumping endlessly one by one, entering Fang Han's body. Flowing slightly, they were inhaled and exhaled once again, gradually condensing into a continuously jumping and squirming cluster of runes.
This cluster of runes was the Great Puppet Rune.
It turned out that all the runes on this altar were the Great Puppet Technique, a matured divine ability. It seemed as though Immortal Venerable Panwu had personally forged them. At the slightest touch of these runes, an ordinary expert would become a puppet and be absorbed onto the altar.
However, Fang Han possessed the Panwu True Blood within his body. As soon as they encountered these runes, the runes sensed the aura, as if they had encountered their master, defecting and drawing close to him one after another.
Finally, that cluster of runes continuously transformed, and upon Fang Han's palm, they coalesced into a tiny vitality puppet. The facial features of this vitality puppet were not clear, but its palms and body were a series of rolls, chubby, looking like a fleshy human child.
"Rumor has it that this Great Puppet Technique and the Great Universal Salvation Technique have an essential difference; it is that the Great Puppet Technique can cause all things in the world without a soul to become puppets. A mountain, if enlightened by the Great Puppet Technique, can also become a puppet. Because a puppet, essentially, is an existence without its own soul. Whereas the Great Universal Salvation Technique can only cross over existences with souls, with thoughts, living flesh and blood."
Fang Han meticulously analyzed the "Original Puppet" in his palm of the Great Puppet Technique.
Originally, if Fang Han were to comprehend the runes of the Great Puppet Technique himself and cultivate it on his own, it would likely require thousands or tens of thousands of years of bitter cultivation. However, Immortal Venerable Panwu left the runes on the altar. Now, collecting these runes and transforming them into an "Original Puppet", he could enlighten all things into puppets.
The Great Puppet Technique must be cultivated to an extremely high realm to be able to condense the "Original Puppet".
"Heaven and earth puppets, enlightenment!"
Fang Han urged that "Original Puppet" in his palm. With a slight movement, this "Original Puppet" let out a creaking sound, an ear-piercing shriek of the utmost unpleasantness. This voice was unprecedentedly unpleasant, seemingly like the bugle horn of thousands of pigs right before their deaths, and also like the cries shouted by countless humans in their despair when their souls fell.
Heaven have pity, Yan Shuitian had never heard such an unpleasant voice. This kind of voice seemingly used a knife to ruthlessly slice and torment the origin of her soul. She felt as though her entire body was going to go berserk, jumping up, shouting hysterically, and turning into a lunatic.
Yan also let out continuous long roars, "This voice is too unpleasant. It is truly too unpleasant! I can't take it anymore, Fang Han, quickly stop it!"
Fang Han was also startled in his heart. Operating it once again, after the shrieking finished, the "Original Puppet" pointed its finger. A point of space immediately ruptured, and then condensed into a massive puppet, a space puppet.
This Great Puppet Technique could actually enlighten space, turning space into a puppet. This space puppet was tall and strong, its entire body composed of a kind of squirming crystal. Those crystals were space power, but now they had turned into something similar to flesh and blood.
"Creak, creak!"
This space puppet materialized its form in a flash, emitting an unpleasant sound exactly identical to the one just now, and then struck out with a punch. Immediately, within the space, a vortex condensed.
"Detonate!"
Fang Han's eyes moved. This space puppet successively struck out hundreds of thousands of punches, and then amidst its shriek, its body suddenly detonated. A mushroom cloud formed by space power rose up, and boundless space-destroying power splattered everywhere.
"Such immense power, such immense power… The self-detonation of this space puppet can actually match the self-detonation of a Grotto-Heaven Realm expert. Fang Han, if you execute the Great Puppet Technique like this, continuously enlightening space and condensing them into space puppets, that is equivalent to many Grotto-Heaven Realm experts advancing in waves to self-detonate. This kind of scenario is simply invincible."
Yan Shuitian said in shock.
"It can indeed be like this, but it consumes too much mana." Fang Han shook his head, "Just now, enlightening space and condensing a space puppet consumed mana equivalent to directly burning over one billion Pure Yang pills. If it continues to be executed like this, even the Spoon of the Desolate God would be hard-pressed to endure it. I can also condense time puppets, whose self-detonation power is even greater. I can even transform an entire planet into a puppet, but the cost is too great. Some even require the consumption of lifespan."
"Fang Han, since you have obtained the Great Puppet Technique now, quickly control the Desolate God King and the divine beasts of five directions on the altar, subdue them, and we will begin planning the matters for three months from now. In case you comprehend the Heavenly Position Mystic Realm during these three months, then you can enter the fourth layer of the Spoon of the Desolate God; there is no telling what kind of treasured items are inside."
Yan urged from the side.
"Good, to avoid a long night fraught with more dreams."
Fang Han immediately urged this "Original Puppet" in his palm. Once the Original Puppet moved, extremely ferocious glares actually shot out from its eyes, shining upon the many puppets on the altar.
The first to be shone upon was naturally the soul brand of the "Desolate God King".
Roar! Roar roar!
As soon as the light shone upon the soul brand of that Desolate God King, that puppet soul brand instantly let out a roar of agony. On the altar, an inexplicable void was completely opened. Inside that inexplicable space, there was dense crystalline light all over. Within the crystalline light, the shadows of the Desolate God King and the other eighty Desolate God puppets manifested.
Crack, crack! The Desolate God King and the eighty Desolate God puppets seemed to have sensed something. All of them struggled violently, but strand after strand of fine threads emanated from the Original Puppet's body, shuttling into this space and connecting onto their bodies, seemingly wanting to thoroughly control them and drag them out of that space into reality. While these God Emperors resisted with all their might.
"Hmph! You actually wish to resist my puppet secret method? Desolate God King, just obediently become my puppet!" Fang Han coldly harrumphed once again. Massive amounts of mana, mana containing immortal substance, and mana of the Qi of Creation surged into the Original Puppet. The puppet fine threads of that Original Puppet seemed to become thicker, its controlling power further enhanced. The Desolate God King and the eighty Desolate Gods roared continuously, but they had absolutely no ways to deal with it.
However, right at this moment.
Suddenly, a pitch-black gleam of an axe flashed out from within that boundless crystalline light. With just one slash, it directly chopped entirely apart many of the puppet lines.
"Not good!" Fang Han felt a burst of danger in his heart. His fingers hurriedly trembled, and the Great Protective Technique was already urged out. Furthermore, a flame rune, a water rune, and the Yellow Springs Diagram all acted as defenses in front of him.
The Great Protective Technique, the Flame Emperor Fire Dragon Cauldron, the Black Emperor Tide Banner, and the Yellow Springs Diagram were all executed out, intending to block that pitch-black gleam of an axe. At the same time, Fang Han even felt the World Tree and the Spoon of the Desolate God begin to tremble, seemingly trembling from within destiny.
"What kind of axe gleam is this? A kind of instinctive dread is in both the World Tree and the Spoon of the Desolate God. Unless it is… it is the axe Artifact of Creation of the Progenitor Holy King of the God Race, who severed the World Tree in legends!" Within an instant, various speculations flashed in Fang Han's heart.
However, that pitch-black axe gleam flashed past, but did not charge and attack toward him. It merely gave a slight rotation, and after severing the puppet lines, it retracted back. However, when retracting back, it suddenly gave a judder, kicking up an intense storm within the third-layer space of the Spoon of the Desolate God.
"Bang bang bang…" Bang!
Within this intense storm, the soul brand of the Desolate God King and the brands of the remaining eighty Desolate Gods all exploded entirely, blasting into trails of powder that dissipated into the air. The Great Puppet Technique of these Desolate Gods was actually all completely broken at this moment, proving how ferocious that axe gleam was.
The space instantly vanished.
Fang Han quickly stepped forward and felt that the "Original Puppet" in his hand had lost connection with the Desolate God King.
His face did not show shock. His eyes were deep, seeming to be contemplating something.