Published: August 25, 2025
Chapter 265: The Battle Situation
According to the "Great Yin Technique," after mastering the first level, the primordial spirit can easily split into more than ten divine consciousnesses. At the second level, it can split into over a hundred, and at the third level, it can control several hundred, just like "Senior Brother Lin."
Just thinking about controlling hundreds of mechanical puppets simultaneously in battle at the third level made Han Li feel it was somewhat abnormal.
However, Han Li estimated that such an abnormal state could only reign supreme during the foundation establishment stage.
Once reaching the core formation stage, unless one could craft hundreds of third-level or higher puppets on par with foundation establishment stage cultivators, controlling many puppets wouldn’t withstand a full-strength attack from a core formation stage cultivator. The scene where that plump thunder user swept away hundreds of second-level puppets from the Thousand Bamboo Sect was still vivid in his mind!
Since crafting second-level puppets required materials from mid-level magical artifacts, making even higher-level puppets would at least need top-tier magical artifact materials!
This meant that for a core formation stage cultivator specializing in puppet technique to dominate other core formation stage cultivators as they did during the foundation establishment stage, they would need hundreds of top-tier magical artifact materials. This realization made Han Li quite shocked!
Not to mention the wasted materials from failed crafting and the hundreds of powerful souls and spirits needed, which were nowhere easy to find.
This was likely the main reason why the puppet technique of the Thousand Bamboo Sect remained little known.
After all, the strength of a sect was still measured by the number of core formation stage cultivators it had. Since the Thousand Bamboo Sect couldn’t compete with other sects in core formation stage battles, no matter how powerful their foundation establishment disciples were, they could only cling to one region and dominate there.
Of course, all these were just Han Li’s speculations after studying the Great Yin Technique and puppet technique!
But what was undeniable was that the puppet technique significantly enhanced Han Li’s strength at the foundation establishment stage. That’s why he was currently disregarding any future consequences.
After all, this great immortal cultivation world war involving several countries was only just beginning!
Shortly after Han Li took on guard duty at this spirit ore mine, a great battle of ambush and surprise attacks broke out between the Six Demon Sects of the demonic path and the Seven Sects of Yue Country, on a remote barren mountain.
Han Li had gradually come to understand the situation. It turned out that within the Seven Sects, the Spiritual Beast Mountain was originally a branch of the demonic path’s Imperial Spirit Sect, planted thousands of years ago as a hidden agent within Yue Country.
With the Six Demon Sects invading the Seven Sects this time, this setup naturally came into play. The demonic path hoped to replicate the miraculous effect it had when it conquered Jiang Country and Cheqi Country in one fell swoop.
However, the upper echelons of Spiritual Beast Mountain over these thousands of years no longer wished to consider themselves part of the Imperial Spirit Sect, nor did they want a “retired emperor” suddenly to appear above them.
After coordinating with the other six sects, they somehow convinced the demonic path agents that they were genuine and sent people to ambush a stronghold of the Seven Sects cultivators.
Thousands of demonic path cultivators on the way to the ambush were instead met by an ambush from the Seven Sects with overwhelming force and suffered a heavy blow. The demonic path lost greatly, with even two core formation stage cultivators dying on the spot.
This severe blow to the Six Demon Sects delighted the Seven Sects greatly and boosted their morale. Furious and humiliated, the Six Demon Sects launched a large-scale assault.