The Mortal's Path to Immortality

"Crack." A crisp sound rang out. It was the sound of the puppet's energy core falling, which was very familiar to Cao Rui.

He raised the torch in his hand and picked up the eighteenth diamond-shaped object skillfully.

Then, he put the puppet's remains into his own storage bag.

During this period of time, almost all the puppets in this area were cleaned up by Cao Rui and Sha Tian.

Therefore, even if there was a small fluctuation of mana, the other puppets would not come so quickly for the time being.

Before the puppets came, Cao Rui and Sha Tian had already started to move.

Cao Rui turned his head to look at Sha Tian and asked with concern: "Can you still hold on?"

At this moment, Sha Tian's face was red, his Taoist robe had been removed, and his exposed upper body was covered with faint bloodstains.

His chest was heaving violently, and he was obviously exhausted. The energy required to control the puppets is much greater than they imagined, and the energy consumption of Shatian is even greater.

Shatian also said frankly: "My current state is a bit bad. Although the physique of a physical cultivator is strong, the recovery speed is longer than that of ordinary cultivators like you. It cannot be solved by a few elixirs. I can only control two or three puppets at present."

Hearing this, Cao Rui frowned and then said: "There is no need to take risks. Let's go back to the center area to recover first."

Shatian did not refuse and nodded. He agreed with Cao Rui's suggestion and decided to go back to the center area to rest.

Cao Rui held the torch and led Shatian to the center area.

Under Cao Rui's leadership, they carefully avoided the puppets and tried not to attract their attention.

Soon, the two returned to the center area.

Cao Rui stuck the torch into the ground and asked Sha Tian to sit aside to rest.

"Huh? Where's Gu Qingying?" After returning to the center area, Cao Rui found that Gu Qingying's figure had disappeared.

Only Zhang Heng and Tan Hongmei were sitting cross-legged in one place.

"That woman went from that direction to hunt puppets, and she ran back intermittently at first." Zhang Heng said.

"This time she went and hasn't come back for a long time."

The upper-grade spirit is indeed very attractive to practitioners, and it is no exception for Gu Qingying.

It is reasonable for her to kill the puppet and obtain the upper-grade spirit.

And with Cao Rui and others as examples, she also discovered the characteristics of the puppets. With their strong combat power, she was no slower than Cao Rui in killing the puppets.

Cao Rui frowned slightly, and his heart was also slightly anxious. There were only eighty-one high-grade spirits in total.

He had to kill the puppets as soon as possible and seize the spirits.

There was no point in continuing to hide.

Only when the spirits were in hand could the kingly way be achieved.

Cao Rui could not wait for Shatian to recover, so he raised his torch and walked towards the mist.

"Yu kid, be careful." Zhang Heng naturally saw Cao Rui's thoughts and reminded him.

As soon as the voice fell, Cao Rui had already entered the mist.

Cao Rui held the torch and walked forward in the mist.

Not long after, he saw a puppet coming towards him.

"God-piercing thorns!"

Buzz!

Feeling the fluctuation of mana, the puppets instantly activated and attacked Cao Rui.

These puppets were indeed completely immune to spiritual attacks.

Cao Rui quickly pulled back and whistled with his golden sword.

Thanks to the eighteen puppets that he had successfully killed before, there was an area behind him that was no longer patrolled by puppets.

As a result, his combat range became much wider, adding a buffer zone.

In this way, when he fought with the puppets, he did not have to worry about the fluctuation of mana immediately trapping him in the encirclement of the puppets.

Without the restraint of Shatian, the puppets moved at an astonishing speed.

Cao Rui aimed his sword at the chest of the puppet, but the puppet dodged it at an astonishing speed every time.

The golden sword slashed the puppet's shell. Although it was extremely sharp, it only cut a hole on the puppet's body and could not cause fatal damage to it.

Boom! The puppet suddenly swung a punch, and Cao Rui dodged sideways with the help of the torch light.

The puppet's fist brushed his head. Although it did not hit him, the sharp fist wind still stung his cheek. If he was hit by this punch, the consequences would be disastrous.

At this time, there was no one else around, and Cao Rui no longer needed to hide his strength. He decisively slapped the storage bag, and another magic sword rushed out.

This was the signature magic power of the Five Elements Sword Formation that he had become famous for in the secret battle of Xiao State-Five Swords Together!

The five magic swords instantly merged together according to the principle of the five elements, forming a dazzling sword light.

Whoosh! The sword light cut through the air, whizzing away with amazing speed and powerful power.

This time, the puppet's defense could no longer withstand the attack of the sword light, and its body was directly cut in half by the sword light.

However, what surprised people was that even though the body was cut in half, the upper and lower halves of the puppet still flew towards Cao Rui.

Facing this scene, Cao Rui was not panicked. He held the sword formula with both hands and controlled the sword light to continue to kill, again and again.

In the end, the puppet was chopped into dozens of pieces and completely lost its movement. Then, Cao Rui gently waved his hand and put the diamond-shaped core in the chest of the puppet into the storage bag.

"The damage of the five elements is completely beyond the foundation-building period, but the puppet's body was too severely damaged and could not be reused, which is a pity."

Cao Rui frowned slightly, and with the help of the torch light, he could see several shadows whistling around him.

Although the buffer distance was far enough, the mana fluctuations spread, and these puppets would still chase him quickly like a cat smelling blood.

In addition to the cover of the fog, if it were any other foundation-building cultivator, they would definitely die without a burial place.

But now Cao Rui's sword light can completely break their defense.

The damage is overflowing.

No matter how many puppets come, it will be useless.

"Go!"

Cao Rui pinched the sword formula with his hand, and the sword light whistled.

The bodies of these puppets flew when they touched the sword light.

The puppet defense that was originally difficult for a foundation-building cultivator to break, became an embroidered pillow under Cao Rui's five swords combined into one.

Crack, crack.

The sword light flew.

One puppet after another exploded, and Cao Rui put the diamond-shaped energy cores into his storage bag.

This process lasted for a full cup of tea.

No more puppet shadows appeared around him.

"Huh?"

"All dead."

Cao Rui looked at the puppet fragments on the ground, waited for a moment, and found that there were indeed no more puppet shadows approaching, and then he probed into the storage bag with his spiritual sense.

Cao Rui counted the energy cores in the storage bag, and with the previous inventory, there were a total of sixty energy cores in the storage bag.

"If the calculation is correct, there should be a total of eighty-one puppets and eighty-one energy cores."

"There are still seventeen pieces, which were taken away by Gu Qingying or Huiguang."

Cao Rui waved his hand and put the five magic swords into the storage bag.