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Somewhere in a dungeon cell, deep underground, a handsome young man held a small black figurine with only one arm and one leg that looked more like a weird mallet than a person.
The black figurine suddenly opened its eyes, and its gaze was sharp and lively. Though those eyes carried a trace of age, they also brimmed with the ambition of a man in his prime.
It was indeed Han Zhan, the very Sage who had been "killed" earlier! The black wooden figurine's lips moved as it spoke in a human voice, "What feigned death? Have you seen the attack of that mid-stage Demon Emperor? No, young man, I actually died. If not for this Nascent Soul puppet that I cultivated in both body and soul, I would have been well and truly gone."
Huh, a death-substitute puppet? Luo Chen had long heard that the Han family possessed an ancestral secret technique involving such puppets. Back at Dahe Market, he had personally seen Gao Tingyuan use it on the Debate Platform to "kill" Broken Blade Xu Renke. Later, within Bai Ye's pocket world, he had seen Han Zhan's grandson, Han Zheng, relying on a death-substitute puppet as well. Yet this time was entirely different. In the past, what died had always been the puppet. This time, if he was not mistaken, under the Lightning Prison Divine Roc's attack, Han Zhan's own Nascent Soul had been the one destroyed.
Perhaps sensing Luo Chen's doubt, Han Zhan explained, "This wasn't a death-substitution technique. It was a second incarnation. You see, a puppet avatar and a second incarnation are not the same thing. One is nothing more than a lifeless object, but the other carries my Nascent Soul will. You can think of it as another me."
"Another you?" Luo...
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