Boom! Boom! Boom!
A silver lightning bolt was easily taken by the Scorpion Mountain Puppet. The dark clouds in the sky seemed to have been provoked, rolling violently.
In a flash of lightning, five lightning bolts, thicker than before, shot out from the dark clouds with earth-shattering explosions!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Facing the five terrifying lightning bolts, the Scorpion Mountain Puppet, under Xiao Yan's control, continuously flickered its figure, drawing three of the silver lightning bolts onto itself.
Under the fierce impact of the three lightning bolts, the height of the Scorpion Mountain Puppet continuously decreased, almost being smashed to the ground.
However, within these few breaths of time, the Scorpion Mountain Puppet frantically devoured the power of the lightning. As the power of the pill thunder on its body weakened, it did not fall to the ground because of it.
It's just that, during this process, the Scorpion Mountain Puppet's body, which was heavily imbued with the Three-Path Gu poison, underwent changes visible to the naked eye.
The moment its body stabilized, its pitch-black body, stimulated by the lightning, emitted a shimmering blue light all over.
As the body absorbed and refined more and more lightning, the light on its body grew stronger and stronger. In the end, even the silver lightning was dyed with blue light.
Although all of this seemed quite long, the actual time passed was only a few breaths.
The other two lightning bolts that the Scorpion Mountain Puppet failed to block rushed down unimpeded. The terrifying power had not yet fully fallen; just getting close already made the ground tremble violently.
Facing the approaching lightning, Xiao Yan showed no panic. A light flashed on his Bone Spirit Ring, and the remaining seven puppets were simultaneously released, charging head-on towards the unusually thick two lightning bolts.
Among the seven puppets, the Scorpion Mountain and Centipede Cliff puppets reached the Dou Zong level, and the other five were also powerful Dou Huang level.
The terrifying aura emitted by the seven as one caused the speed of the two lightning bolts to slightly stall. Immediately, the seven puppets rushed into these two lightning bolts.
For a time, being penetrated by this group of black-armored warriors, the two lightning bolts shattered with a crash, their energy greatly dispersed, and the terrifying crisis was resolved in response.
This pill thunder, even for Dou Zong powerhouses, possessed life-threatening terrifying power, but these puppets were different from humans.
They were originally skeletons of powerhouses, with precious materials added through secret methods, creating a body of copper head and iron brain.
With the seven puppets sharing the two lightning bolts, the power of the pill thunder was nothing to them.
Under the silver light of the lightning, all eight puppets flashed with lightning, and their heavy bodies gradually showed colors other than black.
Xiao Yan's mind moved. The eight puppets formed hand seals, and the magic core embedded in their chests emitted a strange light. Their entire bodies suddenly erupted with terrifying devouring power, frantically absorbing the lightning on them.
The destructive lightning seemed to be nourishment for these strange puppets, which astonished Yun Yun and the others.
Hai Bodong was drenched in cold sweat from watching, and only after the lightning subsided did he suck in a cold breath.
What kind of monsters are these?
Looking at the lightning on the puppets that gradually weakened, even Xun'er was surprised: "Could it be that these puppets can cultivate?"
Puppets are controlled by their masters, and their strength is closely related to the materials used in their creation. She had never seen any records about puppets cultivating.
Xiao Yan had studied puppets since childhood, and after many years of updates and iterations, he definitely had unique insights into puppet research.
Especially the development of automatic alchemy puppets allowed Xiao Yan to make some special changes to the eight puppets.
The lightning energy, for these eight puppets, was like the energy of heaven and earth for cultivators, an essential element for advancement.
As the eight puppets rose into the sky, the dark clouds in the sky grew thicker. Silver lightning roamed everywhere, and then, overwhelming, it all struck down.
The entire valley trembled violently at this moment. The ground was as bright as day, silver light flashed in the sky, and thunderous roars echoed endlessly throughout the valley.
Under the pouring silver lightning, eight figures shining with brilliant lightning floated in the sky, doing their best to attract the lightning.
Bang! Bang! Bang...
Every silver lightning bolt crashed down from the sky. The mighty figures that had endured the lightning only trembled violently. Even if their bodies hummed from the impact, they did not fall from the clouds, remaining stable in mid-air.
Yun Yun and the others felt their scalps tingle. If it were a Dou Huang powerhouse, they would probably have been charred by now.
As the alchemy approached its end, Xiao Yan also looked up at this time, his gaze fixed on the puppets amidst the endless lightning.
Due to the connection between them, he could clearly perceive the strength of these puppets rapidly increasing under the lightning's bombardment.
The main skeletons used to make these puppets came from the Chu Yun Empire, and the people of the Chu Yun Empire practiced poisonous Dou Qi, so their physical qualities were generally average.
Although Xiao Yan compensated for their flaws with precious materials, it only raised them to the level that normal powerhouses should have, not the level that puppets should have.
However, due to the infiltration of the Three-Path Gu poison, these puppets' bodies could produce miraculous effects even with a slight touch.
"It seems that the Breaking Barriers Golden Pill has been sublimated by me to the level of a seventh-grade high-level pill. The pill thunder it produces is indeed extremely strong. It is precisely because of this that the strength of all eight puppets has greatly improved."
Glancing at the heavy dark clouds that had raged for a long time and still hadn't dispersed, Xiao Yan muttered to himself in a low voice.
According to his estimation, after the lightning baptism, the Centipede Cliff Puppet's quality rapidly increased, and it would be able to match the soul strength of Iron Protector who refined it to a great extent, reaching at least the level of a Four-Star Dou Zong.
For a Dou Zong powerhouse to advance one level in strength, an ordinary person would need at least several years or even decades of accumulation.
If Centipede Cliff knew that after his death, he had advanced to a Four-Star Dou Zong in less than a year, his expression would probably be very interesting.
As for Scorpion Mountain, before becoming a puppet, its potential was almost exhausted. Even after one lightning baptism, the improvement it received was not as good as Centipede Cliff's, only reaching a Two-Star Dou Zong.
As for the other puppets, due to varying levels of lightning absorption, their improvements differed, generally stabilizing around Five or Six-Star Dou Huang.
"These puppets can actually cultivate by relying on lightning to improve their strength."
The shock in Xun'er's eyes grew stronger and stronger as the aura of the numerous puppets became more powerful with the lightning strikes.
Which time a pill thunder formed by a seventh-grade pill didn't require several Dou Zong powerhouses to protect it together?
What they were guarding against was precisely this final pill thunder...
As for the others, they naturally did not have Xun'er's experience, and mostly simply regarded this as a strange experience.
(End of Chapter)
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