The corpse puppet was Lu Yun’s secret weapon, one that instantly granted him the power of a celestial emperor. He hadn’t resorted to it even when he was surrounded by eighteen dao immortals and more than a thousand immortals. This time, however, he used one of his remaining two chances to protect Qing Han and the others while they deduced and restored the void realm.

He’d known he wasn’t its match the moment the hairy creature appeared. Only by channeling the puppet’s power could he stop it. If the creature’s swings hadn’t followed a trajectory that bequeathed glimpses into the heavenly dao, he would’ve flattened it with the corpse puppet early on.

By now, the Tome of...