Chapter 691: Crushing the Puppet Array

Zhang Nuo's gaze remained fixed on He Zhe, and the moment he saw him hide behind the puppets, a disdainful cold snort escaped his lips! Cultivators who rely on puppets to fight generally do not have very strong cultivation bases themselves; once their true bodies are struck, nine times out of ten, they will perish directly!

Just as He Zhe hid behind them, tens of thousands of puppets in the sky launched a frantic attack! Zhang Nuo's figure blurred and vanished from where he stood, appearing the next moment right in front of two puppets!

These two puppets both possessed the strength of the Great Accomplishment Stage, yet under Zhang Nuo's two strikes, they were both reduced to fragments! After finishing this, before Zhang Nuo could even turn around, several more puppets immediately rushed up; some spat out beams of light from their mouths, others activated Magic Treasures—their methods of attack were bizarre and varied, making them impossible to guard against!

He frowned slightly; right now, Garuora and Ai Yuchen were at the most critical moment of breaking the seal. Even with the Phantom Immortal Dharma Image protecting them, Zhang Nuo could not set his heart at ease! The only plan now was to resolve the battle before him as quickly as possible!

However, He Zhe's true body kept hiding behind the puppets and constantly changing his position. As soon as Zhang Nuo rushed toward him, countless puppets would immediately swarm over! Although none of these puppets were his match in a one-on-one fight, even a good tiger cannot fend off a pack of wolves, right?

Thinking of this, Zhang Nuo no longer held anything back. His figure shook violently, and Xuanjin and Qiongqi appeared behind his back. However, this time, the two beasts did not separate from Zhang Nuo's body; viewed from afar, he looked like a monster with Three Heads and Six Arms!

This method of fighting while conjoined with the two beasts was something Zhang Nuo had realized from the "Eight Thousand Array Dao," and it had the same marvelous effect as the Three Heads and Six Arms dharma image of the Chaos Insect King from back then!

Xuanjin and Qiongqi each held a Mysterious Heaven Spirit Treasure in their hands, and as their arms swung, they fought with the countless puppets before them! With the might of the Zhutian Blade and the Red Blood Demon Sword, every sword strike was guaranteed to destroy a puppet!

Before long, countless puppet remains had already piled up on the ground beneath Zhang Nuo! This made He Zhe's heart ache incessantly! He had spent countless efforts to refine these puppets, yet in Zhang Nuo's hands, some could barely last two moves!

It seems that a cultivator at the Ninefold Realm is truly terrifying! Even the Immortal Lord might not necessarily be able to achieve this!

After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Zhang Nuo discovered that the number of puppets around him was still quite large! Moreover, they seemed to have formed some kind of array, using a few Immortal Puppets as the array core and the other puppets as support. Continuing to fight like this would consume a massive amount of Spirit Power! He immediately said to Qiongqi and Xuanjin behind him:

"Use the Myriad Phenomena Map! Wipe them all out in one fell swoop!"

If the fight continued like this, it would be difficult to determine a victor in a short time. In order to return to Garuora's side sooner, Zhang Nuo could no longer worry about much else!

Immediately, the two Spirit Beasts nodded in unison, then put away the Mysterious Heaven Spirit Treasures in their hands, formed hand seals, and suddenly raised them high above their heads!

In an instant, a scroll about a zhang in size appeared out of thin air! Xuanjin casually cast a spell into the scroll, and immediately, over a hundred massive mountain peaks soared into the sky from within the scroll. After spinning around, each one transformed to a height of a thousand ren and came crashing down toward the numerous puppets below!

The rumbling sound was incessant; over a hundred massive mountain peaks falling together—the momentum was truly terrifying. Even He Zhe, who had been hiding behind the puppets, was frightened by the scene before him!

"The Myriad Phenomena Map! How do you know this technique?"

Filled with shock and anger, He Zhe hurriedly used his Divine Sense to urge the puppets to launch attacks against the falling mountains! The few mountains at the very front were immediately blasted into powder and vanished into faint spirit light! But the remaining mountains smashed hundreds of puppets directly into smithereens!

On the other side, Qiongqi also cast a spell, which flashed and vanished into the Myriad Phenomena Map! Suddenly, surging waves of water rolled into the sky, wrapping around the surrounding puppets as well!

The Myriad Phenomena Map was originally a True Immortal technique, and with Zhang Nuo's cultivation now at the Great Accomplishment Stage, activating it was no longer comparable to the past! The sound of the mountains falling and the sound of the water waves crashing filled this void!

For a time, the surroundings were filled with water vapor, to the point where even human figures could not be seen clearly! And He Zhe, who relied on his Divine Sense to control the puppets, was in even more misery; the things manifested from the Myriad Phenomena Map were all condensed from powerful Spirit Power, and once they burst, it would interfere with the strength of his Divine Sense!

As a result, he was thrown into a state of chaos! Cold sweat poured down his forehead! One puppet carcass after another fell from mid-air, and on the ground below, they were almost piled into a small hill!

Zhang Nuo, situated among the numerous puppets, swept his gaze and discovered that the number of puppets had clearly decreased by a lot! He flipped one hand and took out the Green Wood Gourd!

With a movement of his Divine Sense, a massive suction force was generated at the mouth of the gourd, drawing in the few puppets closest to him! With this, a clear space was opened up around him, and using this time, Zhang Nuo discovered the positions of those few Immortal Puppets! He flashed his figure and separated from Xuanjin and Qiongqi!

Relying on his powerful physical body, he broke through the defenses of several puppets and arrived in front of an Immortal Puppet. With a flick of his sleeve, nine Flying Swords appeared in a flash of brilliance!

These Flying Swords did not pause in the slightest, turning into nine streaks of white light that rushed to the side of the Immortal Puppet. Then, sword Qi raged, and a white lotus gradually bloomed!

After the strike succeeded, Zhang Nuo flashed his figure again and rushed to the side of another Immortal Puppet!

He Zhe, who had been standing behind the numerous puppets, suddenly discovered that several white lotuses had bloomed in the middle of the puppet array! As his thoughts turned, he felt that something was wrong! Just as he wanted to change the formation, it was already too late!

Those few Immortal Puppets that served as the array cores were slashed into powder by the Lotus Fall Sword Formation at almost the same time!

"Not good!"

Among these puppets, only the Immortal Puppets could exert any effect. Now that the Immortal Puppets were broken, the remaining puppets could only be decorations! Muttering this to himself, He Zhe wanted to flee immediately!

Just as this thought arose, a streak of brilliant light suddenly shot out from among the numerous puppets, and with a single flash, it arrived in front of He Zhe!

The person who arrived was none other than Zhang Nuo. He was seen holding the Green Wood Gourd in one hand, aiming the mouth of the gourd at He Zhe, and a cyan beam of light as thick as an arm sprayed out instantly!

At this moment, how could He Zhe dare to fight back? Even his most proud puppet array was no match, let alone himself! His escape light rose, and he flew away into the distance!

Zhang Nuo was quick-handed and sharp-eyed. With a slight opening of his mouth, a crimson miniature firebird flew out. Following that, the firebird let out a light cry, its figure swelled to over several hundred zhang, and with a forceful flap of its wings, it turned into a red streak of light and pounced toward He Zhe!

Having already turned into a Fire Xia Xia Xia Linggen, the Red Glow Fire Spirit, due to the Phoenix Bloodline within its body and Zhang Nuo's greatly increased cultivation, was almost at the extreme limit of speed!

In a few flashes, it caught up to the fleeing He Zhe. The firebird's pair of wings wrapped down toward the old man's body, and instantly the fire wings turned into two giant fire hands, grabbing him with a fierce scoop!

He Zhe screamed in terror, but his voice was drowned out by the light cry of the Red Glow Fire Spirit. By the time the fiery hands loosened, the old man had already turned into a pile of ashes!

At the same moment He Zhe perished, the puppets in the sky also stopped their attacks, standing in place like wooden carvings or clay sculptures. Xuanjin and Qiongqi destroyed these puppets entirely as if they were cutting radishes!

This battle did not last for a very long time. Zhang Nuo swept his gaze and found no oversights, only then letting the two beasts return to his body. His escape light rose, and he flew toward the location of Wuling Mountain!

Before he could even fly to the side of Garuora and Ai Yuchen, he saw that massive cyan beam of light shatter with a thunderous boom! Then, over a dozen True Immortals inside, like wild horses breaking free from their reins, soared into the sky one after another!

Upon seeing the seal broken, Zhang Nuo increased his speed and arrived nearby in no time! He saw that Ai Yuchen was almost on the verge of collapse, her pretty face pale, and her beautiful eyes dim and lusterless!

Garuora carefully supported her, looking up at the people who had been rescued!

"Xuanyuan Jie! When you sealed this old man back then, I once said that once I got out, I would definitely take your dog life!"

Among the dozen or so rescued True Immortals, there was an old man at the Sixfold Realm wearing a Bagua Immortal Robe; the skin on his face was twisted together due to anger and excitement!

This person was the Immortal Lord of the Shunxian Faction back then, Dong Lizhong! And the Xuanyuan Jie he was cursing was the Immortal Lord of the Anti-Immortal Faction!

Dong Lizhong's gaze swept downward and discovered Garuora, but what shocked him even more was that a man at the Ninefold Realm was standing beside Garuora!

Not just him, the other True Immortals who came out of the seal also saw Zhang Nuo, and each of them revealed a look of shock on their faces! In the True Immortal Realm, it seemed no one had ever been able to cultivate to the Ninefold Realm! And what was the background of this man in the plain robe? However, seeing him with Garuora, he should be a cultivator on their side!

Thinking of this, Dong Lizhong felt much more at ease! If Zhang Nuo were a person from the Anti-Immortal Faction, then even if they had all come out, it would be of no use!

"Immortal Lord! Garuora has arrived late! I have let all the fellow Daoists suffer!"

Cupping his fists toward the group, Garuora said in a loud voice.

"You have already performed a great service by being able to rescue us. This place is not a place for conversation. Although we have escaped, our cultivation has not yet recovered; let us leave here first before speaking!"

Dong Lizhong was worthy of being an Immortal Lord; although he had escaped, he was not blinded by joy! He immediately led the group to flee far away!

Along this journey, he finally understood Zhang Nuo clearly! After hearing Garuora's account, Dong Lizhong held Zhang Nuo in even higher regard!