Although Ye Chui had solemnly told Green that they were not here to play, in reality, Ye Chui admitted that he was having a great time.
After his Avenger Heroic Spirits were summoned, they charged into the puppet army, rampaging through it. The Hulk Heroic Spirit could smash down a large group with a single punch. When he got excited, his mouth never stopped roaring, not to mention the modified Heroic Spirits like Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor.
The army of several thousand puppets was soon scattered in disarray. A small group of puppets attempted to flee, about a hundred in number, sprinting madly towards the west. “Don’t let them escape!” Ye Chui shouted loudly to Green.
“Understood!” Green responded loudly. He waved his hand, and his magic book flipped open with a rustle. Guni, who had just slain the last flying magical beast in the air, plummeted rapidly downwards, but then fell into a portal that Green had opened. The other end of the portal was positioned directly in front of the fleeing puppet group, and the portal stood upright on the ground. Thus, when Guni emerged from it, her body still carried tremendous forward momentum.
She gripped her krypton gold greatsword with both hands, her feet skimming the ground. Like a lawnmower, she slid past the hundred ghost-faced puppets, and immediately severed limbs flew everywhere, with sparks bursting constantly.
Salome appeared in front of Guni at that moment. She had been teleported by Green into the puppet army earlier to slaughter freely. After swinging her vibranium mace to sweep away a ghost-faced puppet, she suddenly saw Guni sliding towards her along the ground. She exclaimed in shock, “Ah!”
“We’re going to crash!” Guni hurriedly shouted.
Green’s expression tightened upon seeing this. He hastily prepared to create a portal to separate the two, but it was too sudden, and he could not react in time. Almost instantly, with a bang, the two big-eating girls, Guni and Salome, collided.
Of course, it was not their bodies that collided. At the last moment, they swung their weapons, causing the weapons in their hands to clash together.
The vibranium mace and the vibranium greatsword were both weapons that Ye Chui had crafted for them. Now, as the two massive weapons collided, sparks flew. Their bodies finally came to a stop, but in the next moment, something extraordinary happened. With a hum, accompanying the clash of their weapons, a strange shockwave spread out from the point of impact.
That shockwave possessed extremely powerful destructive force. Three or four puppets still standing nearby were touched by it, and their incredibly hard bodies instantly crumbled into heaps. The shockwave spread over a vast area, nearly enveloping the entire surroundings of the Eternal Flame. After it passed, all the remaining standing ghost-faced puppets collapsed to the ground.
Xilesi, Resha, Gilga, and the others who were still fighting were stunned on the spot. The bizarre shockwave created by Guni and Salome also had strong destructive power against them, but it was not fatal.
Gilga, as a krypton gold swordsman, merely raised a trace of sword energy to block the shockwave. Resha, Xilesi, Neil, Bart, and Evans were caught off guard in their defence, but their bodies only swayed slightly, feeling no real discomfort.
Ye Chui raised a shield of holy light in front of himself, protecting himself, Debbie, Green, and the three dragon turtle babies from the impact. In his perception, this shockwave had no destructive power at all. Even the shield he casually raised could not be damaged by it, yet it caused all the puppet tribe to collapse entirely.
“This shockwave seems specifically targeted at the puppet tribe…” Green said in astonishment. “When did Guni and Salome learn such a powerful move?” He was about to ask Guni, but she excitedly shouted first, “Ye Chui, Ye Chui, my greatsword can actually be used like this. It’s amazing! Why didn’t you ever tell me?”
“No, I didn’t know about this either…” Ye Chui replied, somewhat embarrassed.
After thinking carefully, he vaguely understood what had happened. Guni had discovered while at sea that the vibranium greatsword could absorb attacks, which was a property of vibranium. The absorbed attacks were stored as energy. Salome’s mace had also been coated with a layer of vibranium by Ye Chui, so it undoubtedly had the same effect. The power absorbed by vibranium appeared to retain different attributes.
At this moment, both Guni and Salome had accumulated power through battling the puppet tribe warriors. This power could be said to be the very power possessed by the ghost-faced puppets. When their weapons collided, it directly released the absorbed power, using the ghost-faced puppets’ own strength against them. This was why it severely injured them without affecting the others.
In short, this was an incredibly powerful technique unique to the weapons of the two big-eating girls.
However, before Ye Chui could explain his realisation, Bart suddenly shouted, “There’s one more. It’s Fiore. He’s trying to escape!”
As he spoke, Bart quickly crouched and drew his bow. With whooshing sounds, several sword energy arrows shot through the air towards Fiore, who was attempting to flee under the cover of a pile of ghost-faced puppets.
Only then did Ye Chui remember that Fiore had not been dealt with. With a thought, he pursued Fiore. The evil spirit body that Fiore had transformed into was not a puppet, so he had not been affected by the earlier shockwave from Guni and Salome. However, he had realised something was wrong and knew he had met his match this time against Ye Chui’s group, so he had been lying low, pretending to be dead.
Ye Chui had not had time to check the map and had not noticed his presence. Taking advantage of the distraction, Fiore immediately got up to escape.
At this point, Fiore was no longer the original Fiore. His consciousness was cursed by the devil and was transforming into one. As long as he found other puppet natives, he could still rapidly corrupt them into ghost-faced puppets.
Ye Chui instantly used [Divine Might Void] to appear behind Fiore, reaching out to grab his shoulder. However, the moment Ye Chui’s hand touched him, Fiore’s body suddenly turned into a cloud of black mist and vanished.
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The evil spirit’s teleportation ability!
Immediately afterwards, Fiore reappeared on a hillside, now hundreds of metres away from Ye Chui. In the dark night sky, his face was covered in gloom. He said in a cold voice, “Ye Chui, I have remembered your name. The next time I…”
Boom!
A massive figure descending from the sky swung an iron fist, smashing directly onto Fiore and cutting off the rest of his sentence.
Fiore’s petite body rolled along the ground for a great distance before stopping. He lay motionless.
Ye Chui looked at the burly man. “…”
The man was naturally Fazhe.
He and the Heavenly Empress had witnessed the entire puppet army emerging from the Great Rift and had followed closely behind. They had watched Ye Chui’s group defend the Eternal Flame throughout. When they saw Fiore escaping, the Heavenly Empress urgently shouted, “Teacher, quickly stop Fiore!”
Thus, the scene that had just occurred unfolded.
Ye Chui appeared beside the fallen Fiore, casting several spells in succession to restrain him. Only then did he check Fiore’s condition. At the same time, he raised his head to look at Fazhe standing in the distance. This old man was their enemy. His sudden appearance was unexpected, and it was unclear whether he would start fighting them without warning.
Debbie, Green, Resha, and the others also hurried to Ye Chui’s side. Neil, who had had little opportunity to act since the battle began, now shouted in surprised delight, “Teacher, you, you’re alright!”
“Yes, I’m fine…” Although Fazhe’s aged face remained stern, his tone softened considerably, lacking the murderous intent he had shown outside the Ancestral Temple.
However, just as he finished speaking, there was a bang. A flying kick from the air, a long fair leg, struck him squarely on the forehead. Fazhe nearly toppled to the ground, letting out a muffled groan.
Ye Chui’s group stared in shock. They saw a tall figure, after kicking Fazhe, say furiously, “Are you stupid? I told you to stop him, not to attack him!” With that, the owner of the long legs rushed to Ye Chui’s side. “Fiore, my brother, how is he?”
Meanwhile, Fazhe rubbed his head with his left hand. A chuckle emerged on his aged face, and he looked utterly simple and honest, like a young man who had just met the girl of his dreams…
Ye Chui’s group: “…”
Setting Fazhe aside for the moment, the person before them wore the clothes that Resha and Xilesi had once given to the Heavenly Empress. However, her body had undergone a strange transformation, as if part of it had already turned into a puppet. Before death, she had suffered immense torment and become emaciated. Now, as a puppet, her body was inexplicably tall and gaunt.
Of course, her gaunt cheeks lent her a cold beauty, and her hair had completely fallen out, replaced by long, sharp spikes swaying atop her head.
Her entire appearance was halfway between human and puppet. Her original features could still be faintly recognised. Unlike the other puppets, she did not appear grotesquely ugly due to the transformation.
Ye Chui also noticed that the puppetisation was still spreading across her body.
They had long heard of the wonders of this world, where flesh would turn into puppets. The Heavenly Empress’s body and witch spirit had fallen here together. It seemed her witch spirit had returned to her body, reborn as a puppet.
“Lady Heavenly Empress… is it you?” Neil, recognising the person’s identity, asked in a voice filled with surprised delight and trembling.
“I don’t know what happened either. When I woke up here, I found myself back in this body. It seems I’m turning into a puppet…” As she spoke, the Heavenly Empress subconsciously glanced at her much flatter chest due to the puppetisation, her face showing some annoyance. “What sort of rubbish appearance is this!”
“Heavenly Empress…” Neil hurriedly tried to comfort her.
The Heavenly Empress waved her hand to stop him. “I died once. I am no longer the Heavenly Empress. From now on, call me by my original name.”
Neil hesitated slightly, then nodded. “Alright, Sister Kerrigan…”
