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The Mystery Silver Puppet successfully absorbed the Dual Modes Seal’s Strength And Gentleness. The Mystery Silver on the puppet’s body liquefied upon contact with the strong punch, and it hardened upon contact with the gentle power. Qi Lin’s Pixiu Martial Chant was completely useless here. “The Mystery Silver of the puppet can counteract whatever attacks it, and it is able to absorb a cultivator’s magical energy. It fights power with power, you must keep this in mind.” Wu Gu warned: “Only a sufficiently powerful single blow of magical energy can break the Mystery Silver’s defenses.”
Qi Lin grumbled to himself. This Mystery Silver was too overpowered. It was simply the essence of the Taiji itself.
“Spirit-severing Sword!!”
Qi Lin released a magic treasure.
A sword-light flew forth, and it enlarged in midair, forming chains that filled the sky as it slashed down at the Mystery Silver Puppet.
Magic treasures were Primordial World’s most powerful tools. This Spirit-severing Sword’s Realm was classified as Later Heaven Middle Stage. It had already been imbued with Qi Lin’s Three Yins Three Yangs magical energy; its might was boundless, its explosive power sufficient to compare to higher tier Later Heaven magic treasures.
The Mystery Silver Puppet ignored the oppression of the Spirit-severing Sword’s light. Its eyes glowed with a cold glint. The puppet’s right fist was already taking advantage of the powerful impact to ruthlessly unleash its own attack; its target was the magic treasure Spirit-severing Sword.
Dull silver light was vaguely visible around its fist, producing a wild whirlwind that wrapped tightly around it. The Mystery Silver Puppet’s fist now had already become a smaller silver tornado. Clearly, this was a type of never-before-seen ability.
“Bang!!”
The loud noise rolled through the ruins like muted thunder, piercing the ears. Wu Gu could not help but furrow her brow. The Mystery Silver Puppet’s assault was completely reliant on the brute force of its two hands. Even the Spirit-severing Sword was unable to tear apart its defenses.
“This Mystery Silver Puppet may be one of the ‘Mystery Silver Ten Eternal Servants’ that is under forbiddance control. If you can find its weak spot, perhaps you can destroy it.” Wu Gu became a bit worried. Even the Ten Shamans had been unwilling to provoke a guardian like this. Otherwise, there would have been no way for only one of the Ten Shamans to have obtained a Luan Pill Cauldron.
Back then, Wu Xian had expended enormous amounts of vitality as well as financial resources, even exploiting her own sisters’ camaraderie, to finally obtain one. Right now, breaking through was basically impossible.
“Mystery Silver Ten Eternal Servants?”
Qi Lin sounded bewildered.
“Ten particular guards from Shaohao’s Mystery Silver Army. Reportedly, they are the strongest ten warriors. They were combined from flesh, soul, and mystery silver. Even Star Names are very afraid of them.” Wu Gu said.
“Are they so incredible?” Qi Lin manipulated the Spirit-severing Sword to ward off the Mystery Silver Guard, gradually feeling strained.
“However, since it is a mechanism, there must be a weakness.” Qi Lin’s mind flew through plans.
“Jian Destroys Six Kingdoms!!”
Qi Lin had no choice but to activate the Destined Skill again. The Spirit-severing Sword became six sword-lights that attacked the puppet together like six magic treasures.
The Mystery Silver Guard stumbled backwards as if it was drunk. The entire hall quaked endlessly when its back leg landed. A series of giant footprints etched deep into the ground made the mercury patterns on the ground distort.
But it was useless. The wounds that the magic treasure caused very quickly vanished.
At the same time, the Mystery Silver Guard brandished a fist again.
The Spirit-severing Sword split apart. Qi Lin had no choice but to throw his own punch.
Bang.
Somersaulting backward perfectly through the air, Qi Lin landed straight back where he started, his right fist trembling ever so slightly. A trickle of blood leaked continuously from a wound on his fist. Instantly, red covered his whole hand.
Although his face showed no changes, there were already waves in his heart. This Mystery Silver Guard was honestly too powerful.
His cultivation was basically unable contest it. Perhaps the only chance they had was if Qi Qi were here.
“We’d better retreat for now and take some time to plan. There is sure to be another way.” Wu Gu saw that Qi Lin was an arrow at the end of its path. She knew things would be very dangerous if this continued.
Qi Lin noncommittally nodded.
“Since it’s a mechanism, there must be a way to dispel it. I don’t believe I can’t do it.” Qi Lin was unreconciled. He stomped his foot down and started to fight the Mystery Silver Guard again.
The Mystery Silver Guard’s fists glowed, and the patterns over its body began to resonate, its eyes releasing ice-cold rays of light. Against Qi Lin’s torrential downpour of attacks, the Mystery Silver Guard’s body did not sustain any damage whatsoever. Though it wobbled, it continued to close in on Qi Lin.
In this fleeting yet intense engagement, Qi Lin had practically used everything he had, even releasing the Universe Origin Five Elements Shackles, but the Mystery Silver Guard continuously absorbed his attacks and endlessly counterattacked. This left him feeling extremely powerless, as if he was fighting a mirror image of himself.
Weak point.
Mechanism.
Flaw.
During such an intense battle, Qi Lin was already deep in thought. In his mind, he had already begun to deconstruct every detail from the moment he had entered this place like a computer, from the puppet trigger, their destruction, reformation, the mystery silver, up to the recovery of the puppet, even its fighting style.
Qi Lin’s thinking was inherently very swift. After entering Golden Core Realm, he had advanced even further. To describe him as a supercomputer was an understatement.1
All of the mechanism’s details were in clear view inside his mind.
Qi Lin suddenly noticed a very, very small detail -this Mystery Silver Puppet fought very ferociously, but its feet had never left the ground. Qi Lin also noticed that whenever his power knocked the puppet into the air, the mystery silver’s recovery was slowed by one tenth. But once it touched the ground, it would immediately be restored to normal.
This hall had walls adorned with what seemed to be pictograms that appeared to merely be decorative reliefs, but Qi Lin soon discovered these patterns surprisingly concealed a pattern. When mercury poured out from these patterns, they would produce a new pattern in a thousandth of a second.
That pattern was like a goddess’ profile.
“So that’s how it is. The Achilles’ heel!” Qi Lin finally understood this mechanism’s weak point.
“It was hidden so wonderfully, as expected of a place that White Emperor Shaohao constructed.” Qi Lin laughed. This feeling of solving the mechanism left him unable to help but take him back to those happy times on Earth when he explored ruins with his senior sister.
Wu Gu was speechless. Could this man have gone mad.
“Sister Wu Gu, do you have any way to trap this Mystery Silver Puppet in the air.” Qi Lin’s magical energy was already exhausted, a bit unable to persist.
“Trap it in the air?” Wu Gu was confused.
“Hurry.”
Qi Lin dodged a punch.
“I will try.” Wu Gu took a deep breath and ingested another pill. She once again activated the Remnant Of The Void.
The Remnant Of The Void revealed its appearance; it was a box-shaped object. The box opened itself above the Mystery Silver Guard, acting like a black hole. However, this time, Wu Gu did not make the Remnant Of The Void consume the Mystery Silver Puppet because she knew the Remnant Of The Void was incapable of doing so. In accordance with Qi Lin’s request, Wu Gu used the magic treasure for a different purpose.
Black qi rolled out from the black hole, and a powerful feeling of weightlessness engulfed the Mystery Silver Puppet.
“Sun and moon rise and fall, disintegration of the void!”
Wu Gu chanted.
Under the powerful suction force, the Mystery Silver Puppet was lifted into the air. Once both its feet had left the pattern on the ground, Qi Lin was already launching another attack, striking with Weight Of Mount Tai. The target was not the puppet but the ground. Under the Weight Of Mount Tai, the floor finally splintered and cracked. Those chaotic and complicated designs fell dim without the Mystery Silver Guard’s power. Then, Qi Lin fired another Cloud-piercing Arrow.
The Mystery Silver Puppet was obliterated, becoming a pile of mud with no way to reform. The flowing mystery silver quickly evaporated without the array, making Qi Lin very regretful.
Wu Gu was dumbstruck.
This was the first time she had seen a Mystery Silver Guard actually be destroyed.
“You…” Wu Gu was unable to describe the feeling she held towards this man.
“Let’s hope there isn’t a second.” Qi Lin forced a smile.
“No, beyond this door is the Luan Pill Cauldron we seek.” Wu Gu stared at Qi Lin, unable to return to her senses for a long while.
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- Hyperbole, but that’s still a very strong assertion. ↩