Chapter 387 The Life of Humans (2/2)

The last test had reassured theerous as one would have thought, and since they had joined the event to impress others, in order to do that, they had to branch out froroups was co, while the other, was forroup concluded their preparation, the others did so as well by deciding to take the stone path that led to the left

As the group of roughly a thousand cultivators took the left path, Nilo's group split into two, and took their own However, before following Zack and Nilo into the underground path, Cynna stopped to look at the back of the participants that were dispiritedly walking into he left path

”You should not bother with thele speech, nor can you hold their hands until they e to fix their attitude” Said Nilo, who had noticed Cynna stop her roup disappear into the stone path

”It is not their fault they were taught wrong” retorted Cynna with uneasiness

Nilo let out a deep breath of resignation, and after shaking his head slightly, he said, ”Fine Don't get yourself killed for theround path with Zack and Sigg

”I won't” Responded Cynna before turning towards the stone path, and disappearing

When she reappeared, she was at the back of the long line of cultivators ere going through the iron gate

The stone path did not appear different from any other The rocks which forreeen the the pathway look like the entrypoint of a secret le, so when after a few ate, they were not surprised

This iron gate was bigger than the last one, and was mounted on two stone walls that stood at least three e of trees Behind the gate, was a massive round square that one could easily round, and at the opposite side of the square's entrance, was an identical gate that worked as the exit point of the closed off area

In the middle of the square, stood a wo black hair, and her body was clad by a leather armor that did not impede the ripping the handle of a greatshich was halfway pierced into the stone floor

”Is that a half immortal puppet?! No way!” Said one of the cultivators with shock

A half immortal puppet was similar, and yet different froh the injections of the consciousness of its controller inside a cultivator's empty body, a puppet could be used the power that the cultivator posessed when he was alive, to fight alongside, or in their controller's stead However, half-ihtly different

In order to cultivate immortal essence, one needed to cultivate the spirit and body at the sah the an to question how important the mind was in one's cultivation, and if this weak point of a being could be exploited to control theha portion of their consciousness into a cultivator at the peak of the iht after their death, and before the spirit could dissipate, they were not only able to control the body, but if they wanted, even force it to ascend

After many attempts, this desire to find a way to have an army of puppets that could cultivate had been destroyed by a simple fact TheWhile it was not impossible to substitute one's dead mind with another, thisthe ascension, would cause the puppet's cultivation to be unable to fully advance, creating a broken cultivation at a stage that had been called ”half ier than a peak ih i the ascension, the nature of the s produced by the spirit, could not sync well enough for a gift to be created

The way many scholars would explain this to their students, was by telling the a steel ring frolass one instead The chain could still lift a certain aht, but it would be li an actual high iher than that of a peak immortal cultivator, and that was the cause of the shock that ht

The first ones to enter the square were the roups, who cautiously walked past the opened gate, while ready to fight off this dangerous foe thehappened

More and more participants walked into the square, but no matter what they did, this woman would not move, and would instead pose as a statue erected out of respect for a powerful cultivator

A half iroup to kill, but there was no dobut that there would be victi on the woate on the other side of the square in order to see if they could just leave

Just like they were hoping, when they reached the gate, they quickly discovered that not only it wasn't locked, but that the puppet did not seem to care whether the participants walked out of it or not Before they could all leave, however, they heard a fa, was able to send a shi+ver down their backs

”Can you talk?” Asked Cynna to the woman

”I can” responded a diseeneral direction, and yet did not seeuessed that the woman would respond if spoken to, so she was not particularly surprised about it What she was interested in, hy a puppet placed in the”Why are you here?” She then asked with curiosity

”To be challenged, and rewarded the survivors”