Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!-Chapter 444 - 299 Changes in Puppet Hall (First Update)

Chapter 444: Chapter 299: Changes in Puppet Hall (First Update) Chapter 444: Chapter 299: Changes in Puppet Hall (First Update) But Han Ruyan raised her hand to summon, and the sound of cleaving air could be heard.

A white bone staff was thrust into the ground before Su Jie and Han Ruyan, and from it hung a banner four to five zhang high.

From a distance, it seemed like a thousand tendrils of black qi and ten thousand streaks of cold smoke enveloped it, while up close, intricate and eerie sigils flowed across the white bones.

Su Jie bit his fingertip, and a drop of essence blood fell upon the surface of the banner.

In the blink of an eye, the banner’s surface came alive, with ferocious ghostly faces protruding from it as the wails of myriad souls and devilish music emanated from the void.

Su Jie felt a mysterious connection with the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

Without even learning how, he instinctively understood how to use the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

“Ghost Mountain!”

Su Jie uttered in a low shout, the Soul Banner fluttered and roared, the banner’s surface dispersing a sky-obscuring black light.

Within the banner’s fabric, the image of an immense mountain, shadowy and indistinct, appeared.

The mountain was strewn with white bones, demon dens and ghostly caves dotted between its peaks, exuding a ghostly chill as if leading to the depths of hell.

Numerous yin souls hid within these ghostly caverns, their twin cold and cunning eyes gleaming like moonlit, glittering surfaces of a lake.

Their number was easily in the tens of thousands, sending shivers down one’s spine.

Atop this mountain stood a towering Ghost Tower.

It comprised of an archway, a Mountain Gate, and a hall, symmetrically aligned along a central axis.

The archway was a three-tiered structure made of wood and stone, the Mountain Gate had a multilayered, hipped roof, the bell and drum towers on either side featured a pyramidal, pavilion-style roof, and the hall was a brick-and-wood construction with a traditional gable roof.

The Ghost Tower bore the title Netherworld Hall, and within it stood towering demon statues, each a sacrificial Ghost General of several zhang in height, wielding various weapons in their formidable presence.

Su Jie had seen other Ten Thousand Soul Banners, but none featured such Ghost Towers and Ghost Generals, evidently the result of Han Ruyan’s modifications.

“With soul one commands the banner, with heart one drives the spirits; when the banner forms, the ghosts emerge.”

Han Ruyan’s palm caressed the banner’s surface, and those ferocious and bizarre yin souls promptly retreated deep into the ghostly caverns of the banner.

“Such a Ten Thousand Soul Banner is perfect for sacrificing those Righteous sect Elders to strengthen it,” said Han Ruyan.

Su Jie opened his right hand, and the Ten Thousand Soul Banner began to shrink, eventually landing in Su Jie’s palm as a small banner of just twenty centimeters.

In terms of might, the Ten Thousand Soul Banner was much more powerful than your usual top grade Magical Artifacts.

Because to forge such a Soul Banner, a sacrifice of one million lives was necessary.

In the Tianyuan World, it was now an era dominated by the Righteous sects, with the Demon Path no longer as prosperous as before.

Slaughtering so many lives was exceedingly difficult.

“It’s time to return to the Tianyuan World,” Su Jie said to himself.

Having stored the Ten Thousand Soul Banner securely, Su Jie connected with the Ancient Mirror in his sea of consciousness and opened the portal to the Tianyuan World.

The next moment, Su Jie found himself in the Tianyuan World, inside his private cultivation room at the Ghost Ridge Palace.

Stepping out of the cultivation room, the seeing house servants busy around the estate bowed deeply in respect upon seeing Su Jie.

“Congratulations on our master’s emergence from seclusion.”

Looking at the familiar housekeeper beside him, Su Jie asked, “Has anything important happened in the Sect during my time in seclusion?”

“To report to you, master, no significant events have occurred recently within the sect.

It’s just that the Righteous Sects have intensified their blockade.

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Now the sect hardly receives any resources, and the Black Market is completely shut down,” replied the housekeeper, as it was widely known within the Ghost Ridge Palace.

He was unaware of the truly secret matters.

Su Jie nodded his head and left the estate.

He summoned the thousand-hand centipede, and rode it towards the Puppet Hall.

Besides being an Elder, Su Jie was also the Hall Master of the Puppet Hall.

His public and high-profile appearance was also a declaration to everyone in the Ghost Ridge Palace that his period of seclusion had ended.

The thousand-hand centipede was incredibly fast.

Although the Puppet Hall was remote, it only took a few minutes for Su Jie to reach its location.

When Su Jie arrived, the whole Puppet Hall was bustling with activity, having undergone a complete transformation compared to when he first arrived.

The old gatehouse and eaves of the Puppet Hall had been refurbished, and the worn-out grounds had also been renovated.

Apart from the dozens of disciples originally belonging to the Puppet Hall, there were now hundreds of additional disciples present, a number far exceeding the Hall’s own disciples.

A quick glance by Su Jie revealed that these were junior disciples with Yunling Realm First and Second Level Cultivation.

They were assigned clear tasks, forming teams working on the production of Rocket Artillery.

Some groups of a dozen or so were responsible for crafting the artillery barrels.

They refined the barrels, used Spiritual Energy and tools to polish them, applied a special coating, and then tempered them with Spiritual Energy to enhance the barrels’ durability and safety.

Hundreds were involved in manufacturing and loading the shells, with each newly minted shell moving along an assembly line.

Passing through the hands of various junior disciples, the shells were fitted with fuses using Spiritual Energy, Spirit Stone firing mechanisms, auxiliary controllers, and various kinds of venom were poured into the shells.

The venom was then sealed with Spiritual Energy, leaving enough space for the activation pattern.

Other disciples constructed the skeletal frames and wheels for the Rocket Artillery.

Using their bare hands instead of tools, they bent steel into the required shapes and assembled them together.

Their hands were as accurate as rulers, leaving virtually no margin for error.

“C Group Mechanical Team, deal with this batch of burnt bone glue, speed up production, don’t slow down the rest,” Su Jie instructed.

Su Jie saw a familiar face, Zhu Zhangqi, the leading disciple of the Puppet Hall.

Zhu was busy inspecting and directing the other disciples in their work.

Upon seeing Su Jie, Zhu’s expression first froze, and then he showed an immense look of surprise.