Zhang Fan now looks quite miserable. If Lu Yu hadn't seen him easily dealing with that puppet, he might have believed his tricks. His injuries appear severe, but they're merely flesh wounds.

Most likely, he caused them to seem more tragic. Lu Yu paid him no mind, calmly saying, "Take those three people."

"Got it!" Zhang Fan saw Lu Yu not questioning him and responded happily, leading Zhang Liang, Lu Hongwei, and Li Zhiqing, who were tied together, away.

Lu Hongwei looked ashen, never expecting Lu Yu to be able to slay even a Core Formation Realm cultivator. Although not completely slain, in that state, Yang Wu's strength was at least eighty to ninety percent gone.

Whether he will survive is uncertain, as he was dragged into the Blood Refining Demon Fan by resentful spirits, and even if he doesn't die, he will be skinned before coming out.

Lu Yu used fire to burn all the corpses on the battlefield to ashes, and headed toward Beifeng City with Zhang Fan. On his left index finger, there was an Obsidian Space Ring.

This Obsidian Space Ring belonged to Yang Wu, used to store the ancestor of the Liang family. Other things were stored in the Space Ring sent to Lu Yu by Kui.

The previously shattered emerald green Space Ring was obtained by Lu Yu from the ancestor of the Liang family.

That Space Ring was crushed by the chaotic Soul Power on the Liang family ancestor's body. Lu Yu was worrying about not having a Space Ring to store puppets, and conveniently got one from Yang Wu's body.

He wouldn't store puppets with other things, if they're just weapons, armor, and other inanimate objects. But he had many other items, pills, treasures from heaven and earth, and clothes...

Lu Yu definitely wouldn't put these things in a Space Ring holding puppets; valuable items were kept in a backpack, frequently-used items in a Space Ring.

After all, retrieving items from a backpack rather than a Space Ring saved one step—opening the attribute panel.

Sometimes the outcome of a battle hangs on a moment, so saving a step is crucial.

As for the imprint on Yang Wu's Space Ring, once the ancestor of the Liang family devoured Yang Wu's body, he easily opened the Space Ring and handed it to Lu Yu to remove the imprint, imprinting his own Spiritual Power.

Most people use blood mark imprints, and Yang Wu was no exception. It was only by mastering the use of his Spiritual Power through the Battle God Formula that Lu Yu could imprint a spiritual mark.

Compared to a spiritual imprint, a higher level is the soul imprint, but that requires mastering Soul Power.

...

Boom~ A red meteor descended into the Yang family's forbidden mountain area, smashing the rooftop of the Soul Pool.

The Blood Refining Demon Fan descended into the Soul Pool, floating atop the murky gray soul liquid, constantly absorbing the soul liquid to repair itself.

Inside the demon fan, Yang Wu suffered bites from vengeful spirits, enduring their revenge every second, every moment.

Swoosh~ The Blood Refining Demon Fan rose from the Soul Pool, as the face-less Yang Wu, ravaged by bites, felt a force pulling him. Following this force, he broke free from the tangle of vengeful spirits, rushing out of the demon fan.

"What's this about?" a skinny, shadowy elder holding the broken Blood Refining Demon Fan in one hand and Yang Wu's head in the other, asked expressionlessly.

Yang Wu's scalp tingled upon seeing the elder, though he might have no scalp left.

He dared not hide anything, recounting the events truthfully to the elder. This elder was the Supreme Elder of the Yang family, a powerful figure from the ancestor's generation.

He was also Yang Wu's mentor, the true devil who taught him to refine the Blood Refining Demon Fan. Facing this situation, Yang Wu feared losing his "usefulness" and being used by his mentor to refine his own Divine Soldiers.

Both of them refined Divine Soldiers from the Blood Refining series, strengthening them through the constant devouring of powerful individuals' flesh, bones, and souls.

The difference is that.

Yang Wu's Blood Refining Demon Fan had just been refined recently, over the last twenty to thirty years, showing its power but hadn't yet devoured the flesh and souls of Core Formation Realm experts, making its power insufficient.

His mentor, Yang Jueshang's Divine Soldiers had devoured countless Core Formation Realm experts, making them incredibly powerful.

If Yang Wu lost his usefulness, Yang Jueshang wouldn't mind using his soul to refine his Divine Soldiers. However, the mention of the mysterious puppet piqued Yang Jueshang's curiosity.

After hearing Yang Wu's account, Yang Jueshang became greatly interested in the power possessed by the Liang family's ancestor.

He speculated that the Liang family's ancestor might be a puppet made from the body of a powerful figure in the Divided Spirit Realm, preserving such power.

Yang Jueshang had spent nearly a hundred years at the peak of the Core Formation Realm without delving into the power of the Divided Spirit Realm, and the news brought by Yang Wu might become his chance to break through the bottleneck.

Yang Jueshang slightly curled his lips, put away the Blood Refining Demon Fan, and touched his scarred, bald head, while holding Yang Wu's head and heading towards the depths of the forbidden area.

"I will make you a new body. Get used to it well during this period. I will help you re-refine the Blood Refining Demon Fan."

"Yes, ancestor."

...

Lu Yu contacted Fu Mingcheng, and the two met in a small courtyard in Beifeng City.

As soon as they met, Fu Mingcheng said, "Brother Lu, I'm really sorry for this matter."

Lu Yu said, "Tell me the whole story."

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