Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoard Billions of Supplies Chapter 1557: A Small Puppet

Qin Qigong appeared outside the gauze curtain. Guan Longyue didn't even lift her head, speaking in a faint tone, "Commander Qin, is there something you need by coming here?"

Qin Qigong thought for a moment, then said to her, "Lady Houtu, is there any way for you to restrain the Chaos of the Jiangnan Region?"

Only upon hearing the words Chaos did Guan Longyue pause the carving knife in her hand.

"What has he done this time?"

An icy voice escaped her lips.

Qin Qigong waved his hand, speaking in a deep tone, "He acts far too recklessly! Last time, he went to the Southwest Region without authorization, turning the entire region upside down and completely shifting its power structure!"

"This time, he went to Neon again, nearly causing a major international incident!"

"The things he does are far too uncontrollable, and to make matters worse, his current strength is terrifyingly powerful!"

"If there's anyone within the Huaxu Nation who can keep him in check, I'm afraid it would only be you and the Ksitigarbha King. But the Ksitigarbha cannot leave your side, and Chaos's abilities are extremely bizarre. Even those with a higher ability index than his may not necessarily be able to restrain him."

Qin Qigong's starting point was completely sound.

From his perspective, he didn't want any unstable factors to emerge.

Perhaps when one grows old, one always tends to worry about this and fear that.

He was now the most powerful figure in the Huaxu Nation. If the nation were to be rebuilt in the future, he would even have the best chance of becoming the supreme commander of all six regions.

As long as everything developed according to plan, without any unexpected incidents.

Guan Longyue heard this but didn't say much, simply asking one question, "Then can you obtain a biological sample from his body?"

Qin Qigong's words caught in his throat.

Obtaining a biological sample from Zhang Yi's body?

This might have been possible in the past, but now, which top-tier Transcendent wouldn't be carefully guarding against others?

The abilities of Transcendents were bizarre and varied, but the conditions for activating them basically couldn't escape a few fixed categories.

Using the target's bodily tissue or personal belongings as a medium.

Emitter-type abilities, like Yang Xinxin's Desire Angel Arrow, could directly project the ability onto the target.

Or pre-setting an ability at a fixed location, waiting for the opponent to take the bait like a trap. That was how Batu's ability worked.

The release conditions of any ability would always have limitations; otherwise, it would be impossible to precisely lock onto a target.

Nowadays, since everyone knew these conditions, they would definitely guard against them tightly.

Let alone Zhang Yi.

Even with other top-tier Transcendents, it would be difficult to make contact with them and obtain even a single drop of their blood.

Qin Qigong rubbed his chin and asked, "With your strength, you can activate your ability even without relying on these things, right?"

Guan Longyue said faintly, "Without the key piece of the puzzle, my ability would be greatly weakened. And what I need is the most important piece of the puzzle!"

"Of course," she continued, "even from a thousand miles away right now, I can activate my ability against Chaos and inflict harm on him! But it absolutely wouldn't be enough to be fatal. Rather, it would make him completely turn against you. Do you really want me to do this?"

Guan Longyue's pitch-black pupils pierced through the gauze curtain, gazing at Qin Qigong.

Qin Qigong fell silent for a long while, hesitating deeply in his heart.

He clasped his hands behind his back and paced back and forth within the great hall.

After a long time, he suddenly furrowed his brows and said with some irritation, "Issuing him a warning is absolutely necessary! Don't cause him too much harm, but at the very least, make him understand. In this world, he is not completely beyond all restraint!"

Guan Longyue tilted her head, her silky black hair cascading down like a waterfall.

"You said it yourself!"

A mischievous glint flashed through her eyes, along with an indescribable excitement.

"Then let's give it a little try!"

With that, she reached out without the slightest hesitation and took Zhang Yi's puppet from the first row of wooden shelves in front of her.

She clutched it in her palm, and within her eyes, an extremely dark light flowed out like thick ink.

Along her eyes, two straight black lines streamed down.

The pitch-black curse power instantly saturated the entire floor. The surrounding space also turned pitch-black in an instant, leaving only her alone in existence.

She gripped the puppet tightly in her hand and murmured an incantation in a low voice.

"A little puppet won't learn to behave. Sitting at home, his head drops off!"

"Clatter-clatter!"

Within the darkness, the sound of chains echoed.

A colossal Heibai Wuchang emerged from the darkness, wielding soul-binding chains. The puppet suddenly transformed into a wisp of green smoke and dispersed, flowing through Guan Longyue's fingertips and vanishing into the chains of the Heibai Wuchang.

"Clatter-clatter!"

They held their chains, gazing together toward the distant southeast. Then, the two ghost gods exchanged a glance, revealing expressions that seemed both like weeping and laughing, before fading into the darkness.

...

At this moment, it was exactly midnight.

Zhang Yi had been studying the Philosophy of the Mind these past few days, and he felt this text was absolutely brilliant!

Although he couldn't directly obtain methods to enhance his supernatural powers from it, he had gained a clearer understanding of the path ahead.

Wang Yangming was a sage.

Without much prior experience to draw upon, he achieved a tremendous breakthrough in the realm of supernatural powers through the enlightening method of investigating things to attain knowledge.

But Zhang Yi was not like that.

He had always believed himself to be just an ordinary person with a bit of cleverness and caution.

Wang Yangming seemed to have anticipated this as well.

So within the chapters of the Philosophy of the Mind, there was also recorded a meditative cultivation method called the Midnight Noon Purification Technique.

This technique originated from Taoist inner alchemy cultivation methods and was later modified by Wang Yangming into a practice specifically designed for calming the mind, meditating, and comprehending oneself.

It wasn't some secret manual from fantasy novels that would let you ascend to immortality after cultivation.

To put it plainly, it was simply a method for teaching people to meditate and sit in contemplation.

Zhang Yi then began attempting to cultivate this technique, allowing himself to calm down, communicate with his inner world, and discover more of his potential.

The cultivation of Taoist techniques was always exceptionally dull at the very beginning.

Because the two characters of "calming the mind" were the most difficult, and one would always easily get distracted.

Fortunately, if it was just meditation, Liang Yue was able to provide him with relevant guidance in that area.

After all, within martial arts, meditation was also a form of training one's qi.

Zhang Yi also expended a great deal of effort before he could attempt to enter a meditative state.

Who knew how much time had passed. He had nearly fallen asleep during his closed-eye meditation.

Perhaps he really did fall asleep.

But when he opened his eyes again, what he saw before him was a vast and utterly unbelievable, pure white world!

Within the boundless expanse of space, he saw countless specks of light floating suspended in mid-air, as dense as a starry sky, all radiating a soft white glow.