Baby with Daoist Monarch System

Intact corpse of a Great Power!!!

Intact Great Dao!!!

Intact Origin!!!

Intact Cultivation comprehension!!!

From those few words Senior Brother let slip, one could tell... the Chaotic Ancient War Puppet was completely a true Great Power.

Even though he was already dead, he was still a terrifying Great Power.

As for how he died...

One had to know, in this world, for a Great Power to fall, aside from dying of old age at the end of his lifespan, the only thing left was endless battles and world‑shattering catastrophes.

Under such conditions, each Great Power on the brink of life and death would inevitably bloom with his strongest Combat Power at the critical moment. With things like that, how could the situation Senior Brother just described possibly appear?

Just what kind of situation would it have to be, for a Great Power, after death, to leave behind such a perfectly preserved corpse?

Just from listening to Senior Brother’s description, one could tell how powerful this Chaotic Ancient War Puppet really was.

”Not only that, to fully refine a Chaotic Ancient War Puppet, one still needs Nether Qi and Nether Runes!”

”Nether Qi is a substance obtained from the depths of the Nether Abyss. It can stand shoulder to shoulder with Innate Qi, and is even more rare than it!”

”Nether Runes are the same!”

”Nether Qi and Nether Runes are not man‑made, but spontaneously born within the Nether Abyss. They possess the craftsmanship of ghosts and gods, and are unimaginably rare!”

Senior Brother stared at the nine Chaotic Ancient War Puppets in the mirror, his eyes trembling without stop.

”These nine Chaotic Ancient War Puppets likely consumed the vast majority of the Nether Qi and Nether Runes within the Nether Abyss!”

Senior Brother’s voice faded, and the Dueling Arena still remained in absolute silence.

At this moment, they no longer had the mind to wonder how Senior Brother could possibly know about what lay inside the Nether Abyss.

The Nether Abyss had appeared in everyone’s sight only because the Heaven’s‑mystery seer had activated the Celestial Secret Divine Gaze imbued with Heavenly Dao aura, barely catching a glimpse of one tiny corner—and even that was a Nether Abyss shrouded in thick mist, its true form completely hidden; they could only see an endless Abyss.

From Senior Brother’s description, they could understand one thing.

These nine Chaotic Ancient War Puppets possessed the might of Great Power!!

”Senior Brother, then what this newcomer is facing now... is it nine Great Powers with complete cultivation and Origin?”

Second Senior Brother’s voice was already trembling. Even though he was a powerhouse from the Ancient Times, he had never seen such a scene.

Great Powers, even in the Ancient Times, were still extremely rare existences. Their tribe had possessed only a single Great Power.

In that great war, in only a brief moment, he had fallen into a rift and perished.

Yet the nine Chaotic Ancient War Puppets that had appeared now, no matter how you looked at them, all seemed much stronger than the Great Power of his former tribe.

In that case, a child not yet two years old—even if he was filled with endless opportunities and Divine Techniques—how could he possibly pass this trial?

We’re talking about a Great Power! An existence that could be recorded in ancient texts.

Among all the Soul Bodies present, even after such an endlessly long time, leaving Senior Brother aside as a possible exception, none of the other Soul Bodies had become a Great Power. One could imagine how terrifyingly high that level was.

”It’s not quite that bad!” Senior Brother once more cleared up their doubts.

”When the Nine-Layered Giant Tower conducts a trial, it will suppress the cultivation of the trial’s gatekeepers to be the same as the Trialist’s. Even the Chaotic Ancient War Puppets won’t break this restriction!”

”But even so, Great Powers are those who have the deepest comprehension of the Great Dao and Origin; their control over the fleshly body is countless times stronger than ordinary powerhouses!”

”Even if their cultivation is suppressed to the same level, the Chaotic Ancient War Puppets can still win with ease, not to mention that he’s now facing nine of them!”

Right now, even Senior Brother had no confidence at all in this trial.

”Can you still bring us a bit of surprise?” Senior Brother muttered under his breath.

”Tch!” He then let out a self‑mocking laugh. ”You’ve created far too many miracles. I actually let myself be biased beforehand!”

Inside the Nine-Layered Giant Tower, if he were facing a single Chaotic Ancient War Puppet, Xu Ran would still have some chance of victory.

But these were nine Chaotic Ancient War Puppets!!

Even if Xu Ran had heaven‑shaking abilities, it would still be hard to overcome this gate!

...

”Are these nine Puppets?”

Xu Ran carefully examined the nine corpses before him, silently guessing in his heart.

”But they don’t quite seem like it?!”

Ordinary Puppets, even when corpses were used as raw materials, still had a huge difference compared to living people.

Right now, the nine corpses before Xu Ran had no difference from living people at all. Only the stench spreading off their bodies and the pitch‑black color of their flesh revealed that they were not alive.

Before Xu Ran could finish his examination, the nine War Puppets simultaneously raised their heads, blood‑red light flashing in their eyes as they stared at Xu Ran.

In an instant, Xu Ran felt as if he had fallen into a ten‑thousand‑zhang ice cellar. A bone‑piercing chill swept through his entire body, and even his Soul seemed to freeze. From the depths of his heart, a faint trace of fear actually rose up.

”Hoo!”

Noticing something was wrong, Xu Ran immediately shook his head. At the same time, the Golden Spiritual Qi in his body surged toward his head, and that icy coldness instantly vanished by more than half.

”Just a single glance, and it can affect my Soul?”

After returning to normal, Xu Ran stared at the nine Chaotic Ancient War Puppets with full wariness. At this moment, a faint layer of golden light covered his eyes.

Having just learned his lesson, Xu Ran had already put up defenses over every organ and sense that might come into contact with the Chaotic Ancient War Puppets.

That single glance just now had nearly caused his Soul to stop thinking—that meant these nine Chaotic Ancient War Puppets possessed extremely powerful Soul Power.

”Looks like I’ll have to be careful!”