Yin Baishuang’s expression was uncharacteristically grave: "I have never seen such a scene before, Mechanical Puppets are inherently heartless, and I can even be quite sure that behind these out-of-control Puppet Armies, there is no one controlling them.

Yet they seem to possess autonomous consciousness, knowing how to herd the city’s populace like cattle and sheep into a concentrated area.

They prioritize killing cultivators in the city as well as helpless elders, then occupy the city and seal off the outside world."

The next thing that comes to mind is that Yin Baishuang will take action to clear out the Mechanical Puppets in the city.

But the people in the city are panicked, and now, upon seeing the Mechanical Puppets, it’s as though they are facing a formidable enemy.

Who could have thought that from Shifang City, where they were supposed to safeguard peace and protect humanity, defending against demons and exterminating evil, the Mechanical Puppets

would one day become uncontrollable, turning around to slaughter humans.

Their methods are more ruthless, more cold-blooded, and more heartless than the people of the Demon Sect.

Baili An patiently listened to all of this, which completely confirmed what Qingzhi had said, indeed not false.

And the situation in Shifang City is likely to be even more severe than what ’One Drop of Blood’ had gathered.

The facts indeed turned out as he’d suspected, the Witch Plague rampaging inside Shifang City had indeed spread to the outside. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Even though the crisis in Shifang City has been resolved, the hidden threat outside was not thoroughly eradicated.

He even opened the city gates wide, inviting guests from Shifang, if someone with malicious intent were to bring in an infected Mechanical Puppet.

This could definitely be manipulated into a bigger issue once more.

Just in the nearby area Baili An encountered the chaos caused by the Puppet’s uprising, the frequency is indeed too worrisome.

He can imagine how now in the Mortal World, throughout the Four Seas, any city or county that purchased Puppet Mechas will be trapped in dire predicaments.

"How were those out-of-control, frenzied Mechanical Puppets in Wusu County dealt with?" Baili An asked.

Yin Baishuang replied: "The material of the puppets in Shifang City is exceedingly special, making destruction extremely laborious, impervious to water and fire, difficult for swords and blades to cut through.

And their numbers are exceedingly large, the puppets after going berserk are much stronger and more terrifying than those in a normal state.

Even if you destroy the furnace core circuit, they still can move and kill normally, making it very troublesome to handle.

So, we had to dig a giant pit and bury them all inside.

Then use Arrays, borrowing the power of the Five Sacred Mountains to suppress them under Houtu, finally digging out the puppet remains one by one, having the talisman masters in the city dismantle them thoroughly for complete destruction."

Though this method is effective and safe, it is indeed way too lengthy.

Baili An said: "May I go see that Heavenly Pit?"

Yin Baishuang nodded: "You may, but the Thunder Power within you has not yet dispersed, and your cultivation has not yet recovered.

Those Mechanical Puppets in the Heavenly Pit will self-repair as long as they have Spiritual Tung Oil, and still pose a strong danger, you must be cautious, not to be reckless."

Soon, under the guidance of Yin Baishuang, Baili An arrived at the side of the Heavenly Pit.

Surrounding the giant pit dug by manpower were wooden spikes, on the large cone-shaped structures were rough hemp ropes tied with Spirit Talismans.

To the unknowingly observer, it would seem that what was suppressed below the pit was a malicious entity of a hundred ghosts.

There was an opening left in front of the giant pit, the opening was not large, only allowing one Mechanical Puppet to enter or exit at a time.

The entrance was covered with a faint yellow light film, Baili An could see the Mechanical Puppets with damaged bodies desperately attacking the light film trying to get out.

Guarding the entrance were a full ten members of the city’s Guard Army.

One of the guards held a small bright yellow flag in his hand.

With a wave of the small flag, the light film disappeared.

The Mechanical Puppet charged out like a mad dog, its eye pupils once like furnace stones had been polluted to a deep purple hue, emitting the roar of a beast from its mouth.

Then two guards, quick-eyed and swift, drew their swords forcefully penetrating the Mechanical Puppet’s arms.

Nailed it harshly to the ground, then quickly twisted to dislocate its two arms viciously.

Black Tung Oil splattered all over the ground, full of foul stench.

Then three more guards came up to disassemble its legs and head.

The puppet completely lost mobility, but the severed limbs were still frantically writhing, desperately trying to return to its body.

Among the ten guards, two were talisman masters skilled in talismanic arts, who quickly pinched a seal with their hands, sketching out two Light Talismans in mid-air, finishing off with a sword finger pointing out.

The three guard army wielding battle axes let out a deep shout, timing their move perfectly.

The axe broke open the chest of the mechanical puppet, revealing the central core that was already mostly crystallized purple.

Light talismans, like swords, fiercely shot into the central core, exploding with a strong orange light that completely destroyed the spiritual pattern circuits within.

The crystallized purple crystals attached to the central core gradually turned gray and scattered into dust.

The puppet’s metal body also lost its shine, its limbs lifelessly dangling on the ground, the stinking tung oil burning into ashes.

A single mechanical puppet consumed the efforts of ten cultivators, and only through their combined force could it be completely destroyed.

The ten cultivators seemed to have consumed quite a bit of spiritual power.

One of them casually kicked the broken puppet body behind him.

Each took out a spirit stone to replenish their spiritual power, then continued waving flags, releasing new mechanical puppets for destruction.

Baili An asked, "How many mechanical puppets are buried under this pit?"

Yin Baishuang said, "Three hundred and fifteen units."

Baili An said, "Too slow, at this rate, it will be very troublesome."

"What do you mean?" Yin Baishuang was confused.

Baili An glanced back at Ying Ji and softly called, "Mother..."

Ying Ji knew her son was always clever and had his own insights.

Seeing him like this, he was probably trying to find a way to resolve these out-of-control puppets.

As a mother, she couldn’t refuse her son’s request.

She responded, with a wave of her red sleeve, her eyes dismissive, ignoring the ten guards.

A powerful aura directly lifted the entire surface layer of the pit, which was over a hundred meters in diameter!

The enormous pit was completely exposed, and a large black mass inside rose in frenzy like a disturbed beehive.

The ten guards hadn’t had time to change their expressions before Ying Ji calmly turned her hand, instantly forming a complex spirit seal, silently landing.

A thunderous boom!

The pit, already dozens of meters deep, suddenly collapsed a hundred meters further!

The puppet mechas inside, their metal bodies were crushed into countless thin sheets of iron.

The central cores burst like crushed grapes.

And those thick purple crystals were pulverized by the unreasonable force into powder.

The group of ten, who had been arduously ’chopping wood’ and ’lighting fires’ outside the giant pit, hadn’t yet let their anger dissipate before they were directly stunned and kneeled down.

Ying Ji calmly withdrew her hand, accepting the worshipful gazes of the ten.

Li Jiujiu watched that simple palm strike obliterate the mechanical puppets capable of almost destroying an entire county, leaving only sheets of steel thin as paper, his legs trembling uncontrollably.

This grandmother was indeed too fierce.

Baili An looked at Yin Baishuang and asked, "Little Shuang, did you find the problem?"

Yin Baishuang, looking at the pit that was now harmless, said with a somewhat unpleasant expression, "Those puppets in the pit were actually... evolving and fusing?"

Ying Ji’s palm strike seemed destructive and swift, leaving no time for reaction.

Yet she held back, allowing Baili An and Yin Baishuang to see clearly the specific situation inside the pit.

The moment the surface was lifted, they distinctly saw the puppets inside, their metal bodies dissolving and distorting by themselves.

As if smelted by furnace flames, they were mutually fusing and decomposing, with the cores intermingling attributes, with no sign of attribute conflict or complementarity.

And these heartless puppets even knew to dispatch individual puppets to the entrance to feign struggle, delaying time.

If all three hundred plus puppets truly fused successfully, who knows what unprecedented monster might be born.

Perhaps from this point on, a new bizarre species would appear in the Six Realms.

Yin Baishuang shivered, faintly realizing this might be more than just a simple puppet riot.

Behind this incident, there might be an even greater conspiracy hidden.