Chapter 641: The Angler's Probe

After spewing the rotting liquid, the scavenger kun gradually calmed down. The Puppet Spell was an evil spell that was completely banned among human cultivators, given how malicious it was in principle: what it consumed wasn't the energy of the spellcaster, but the energy of the living being under the spell, who would continue to produce "energy" at the cost of their lifespan until they were dried up.

When this spell first became prevalent thousands of years ago, those that were under the spell were slowly squeezed completely dry of all their energy by the spellcaster before they ultimately died, while the spellcaster wasn't the least bit harmed!

Immortal Zhenyuan couldn't be sure whether this scavenger kun was being controlled through the Puppet Spell, but what was certain was that this particular spell worked pretty much in a similar way.

As he pondered, a golden light flickered in the sky, and Loopy Toad and Little Silver plummeted down through the air, wrapped in Wang Ling's golden light shield.

Since Dog Two's last visit to the demon world, Wang Ling had reset Lord Ma so that everyone who was transported through Lord Ma would have Wang Ling's golden light shield cast over them (except those whom Lord Ma flushed away).

Loopy Toad and Little Silver landed in front of the giant body of the scavenger kun.

"Senior Dog! What are you doing here?" Immortal Zhenyuan had a pleasantly surprised expression on his face.

Dog Two was shaken as it stared at the scavenger kun which looked as if it was sleeping on the ground.

They had been a step too late after all, but Zhenyuan looked fine, so the situation wasn't too terrible.

"I had a feeling that the angler might come after you, so I decided to come and take a look."

Loopy Toad nodded, and suppressed the shock it was feeling in its heart as it gave a knowing look. "Also, I specially made a weapon for you." With that, Loopy Toad lifted its eyes and motioned for Little Silver to hand over the "Three Views-Shattering Hammer."

They had agreed on this operation in advance.

When Little Silver passed the hammer over, he looked Immortal Zhenyuan up and down with a strange expression.

This was Immortal Zhenyuan, the legendary cultivator in today's world of human cultivators?

Little Silver felt that this red-haired young man in front of him wasn't that remarkable. In any case, he was definitely far inferior to Master. Otherwise, why couldn't he even tell that Dog Two next to him was pretending to be a senior?

"Senior Dog, who is this lovely girl?" Immortal Zhenyuan looked at Little Silver.

Little Silver: "..."

Dog Two: "He's my servant. I usually take him out for a walk. We just so happened to be coming by this way today, so I brought him along in passing."

Little Silver: "I..."

Dog Two: "See the collar around his neck?"

Little Silver: "..."

F**k! He had brought this on himself!

"I see!" Immortal Zhenyuan wore an enlightened expression.

Earlier, he had thought it was a little strange that the girl had a collar around her neck, but after Dog Two's explanation, Immortal Zhenyuan completely figured it out.

He scratched the back of his head and couldn't help giving praise. "That's just like Senior Dog. I see people walking their dogs all the time, but this is the first time I'm seeing a dog walk a person!" But although it was his first time, Immortal Zhenyuan didn't think it was strange at all.

Strength had always been king in the cultivation world, and cultivators would choose to raise spirit beasts as pets. However, there was no rule which said that a strong spirit beast couldn't sign a reverse labor contract to hire a cultivator.

Given Senior Dog's realm, it was normal for it to have several human servants, right?

Still, Zhenyuan thought that this fair-faced girl's aura didn't feel human, and even less like a spirit beast...

But Zhenyuan didn't dare ask too many questions. After all, it was their first meeting, and in front of Senior Dog to boot; if he raised too many questions, it would just look a little rude.

"So it has stopped?" Loopy Toad looked at the huge monster in front of it and asked about the situation.

"Yes, Senior Dog! This space fissure formed not very long ago, and I only noticed it when I was about to mend the rifts. I was going to plug up this crack, but this vicious thing came out of it. Just like what we saw at Demon Saint's Holy Palace the last time, there was a fishing line in this monster's belly. I cut it off with my life bonded magic weapon, Red Moon Blade Disk," Immortal Zhenyuan explained in detail.

As he spoke, a reddish-gold blade disk the size of a millstone spun slowly behind him. This was the first time that Loopy Toad saw Immortal Zhenyuan's life bonded magic weapon.

In fact, this Red Moon Blade Disk had shrunk down to this size; Immortal Zhenyuan could freely control its size.

"Is there anything left of the cut string?" Little Silver was curious.

"Part of it is still attached to this evil creature; the rest has already been swallowed up by the space fissure, and has probably been retrieved... I think it's similar to the Puppet Spell, and yet not. If it really was a pure Puppet Spell, controlling such a huge monster would be a little difficult."

Resting his chin in his hands, Immortal Zhenyuan looked at Loopy Toad. "Does Senior Dog know what kind of spell this is?"

Loopy Toad pretended to think about it deeply. "Hm, of course I know..."

On the side, Little Silver looked like he was watching a great show. Dog Two had overreached in its acting, and Little Silver was dying to see what Dog Two was going to say.

Loopy Toad: "I know, but there's no need for me to say it myself. I'll let my servant, Little Silver, do the explaining..."

Little Silver: "..." You f**ker!

"What does Teacher Little Silver think?" Immortal Zhenyuan asked very carefully, even using an honorific.

This Miss Little Silver might indeed be Senior Dog's servant, but who was Senior Dog? Even if Miss Little Silver was a servant, her identity definitely wasn't one Immortal Zhenyuan could mess with.

Holy beasts and vicious beasts were originally archenemies, and while Little Silver hadn't had much contact with vicious beasts, he had already been aware of them from a very young age. That was when the holy beasts hadn't become extinct yet, and Dog Saint had yet to be turned into hot pot... It was a time when everything had been pretty good.

Little Silver gazed at the scavenger kun that looked as if it was fast asleep and frowned.

The Puppet Spell, huh...

This shouldn't really be possible; targets controlled by the Puppet Spell usually weren't too big. Several thousand years ago, the people who were adept in this art knew how to use the "Performance of a Hundred Puppets" technique, which meant that they could control a hundred puppets at the same time. Ultimately, however, these puppets were very small in size.

It would be very difficult to achieve your goal by using the Puppet Spell alone to control such a huge vicious beast.

"It's the Puppet Gu Spell."

Little Silver looked up and said all of a sudden.

He had thought of a black magic spell that could boost the strength of the Puppet Spell to its absolute limit... A reminder that the vocalization of 'ta' as a third-person pronoun in Chinese doesn't distinguish between genders.Refers to the 'gu' poison drawn from venomous bugs and typically used in black magic.