The Book Soul Chronicles: Godslayer

Puppetry is a mysterious art originating from the Phantom Continent, primarily used to control and manipulate puppets or corpses.

In the world of cultivation, puppetry is considered a forbidden art because it involves the boundary between life and death, and is even regarded as an evil force.

However, in the world of cultivation, many cultivators also try to learn puppetry in order to pursue a higher realm.

Puppetry is divided into different levels. Elementary puppetry is mainly used to manipulate corpses and provide cultivators with some auxiliary abilities, such as reconnaissance and defense.

Advanced puppetry can imbue a puppet with the soul of a living being, giving the puppet life and even making it an independent entity.

Practitioners of puppetry are usually called puppeteers. Puppeteers can engage in combat, exploration, and other activities by manipulating puppets, and sometimes even transcend the boundaries of life and death.

However, the practice of puppetry comes at a great cost, such as sacrificing innocent lives and damaging one's own cultivation.

Therefore, puppeteers are often regarded as heretics in the cultivation world and suffer rejection and suppression.

In the world of cultivation, the appearance of puppetry is often accompanied by complex grudges and love affairs, as well as thrilling adventure stories.

Compared to other skills in the cultivation world, puppetry possesses a unique charm, attracting some cultivators to explore and challenge it.

For Ye Qingyang, he had neither a powerful family to provide resources and protection like other scions of aristocratic families. He could only rely on himself to survive in the dangerous world of cultivation. As long as any cultivation method could help him increase his chances of survival, and it did not harm him or the price was worth paying, it was worth trying.

The Phantom Spirit Continent is the continent where Ye Qingyang used to live. It is his hometown and the place that witnessed his growth. He would not want to leave it unless absolutely necessary.

The Illusionary Spirit Continent where Ye Qingyang lived was different from the Azure Sky Realm. There, immortals and mortals were mixed together, and many people knew about it to some extent. They greatly admired the cultivation of immortality, but unfortunately, the cultivation of immortality depended on opportunities and background.

Even if children from ordinary families have spiritual roots, they will miss out on the chance to become immortals because they lack the opportunity or means. This is the law of survival in that world. After all, resources are limited, and they do not need too many people to share with them.

Ye Qingyang was born into a poor family. He was sensible from a young age and often borrowed books from Mr. Zhu, an old scholar in the village, to study. He also taught himself medicine and went up the mountain to collect herbs when he was a teenager to supplement the family income.

Later, he met the person who would change his life, his first and only mortal master, Chu Liang.

A severe drought caused crop failure in Ye Qingyang's village, with some areas even experiencing total crop loss. His parents were no longer able to afford food and clothing for themselves.

Besides himself, the only other family members were his younger siblings. The family had to sacrifice one person for them to survive the famine. He also overheard his parents arguing quietly.

Father Ye said, "Qingyang is already grown up, while the other two children are still young. We can only let Qingyang try his luck."

Mother Ye said incredulously, "You actually want to sell Qingyang and run away? I don't agree."

Father Ye immediately retorted, "What do you mean by selling him? I sent Qingyang to the Tiangang Sect. I heard that Physician Chu of the Tiangang Sect is short of fighters. Qingyang knows some pharmacology. If Qingyang can enter the Tiangang Sect, he might be noticed by Physician Chu and taken in as an apprentice."

With tears welling in her eyes and her voice trembling with sobs, Ye's mother said, "These sects and gangs are always fighting and killing each other. How can you send Qingyang in? Swords have no eyes. What if something bad happens to him?"

Ye's father said angrily, "Then what do you suggest we do? If we don't send Qingyang away, we'll all starve to death. If we send him away, he'll have a chance to survive, and we can get food subsidies and at least stay alive."

Mother Ye continued to argue, "But he is our son. To put it nicely, we sent him to the Tiangang Sect; to put it bluntly, we sold him to the Tiangang Sect. When we miss him, we don't even have the right to visit him."

Before Ye's father could say anything more, Ye Qingyang interrupted their argument.

"I go!"

Ye Qingyang was well aware of his family's situation. He didn't resent his parents' choice. They had raised him to adulthood, and he hadn't yet repaid them. If he could join the Tiangang Sect and send some money every month to help his family through their difficulties, it would be a way for him, as a son, to fulfill his filial duty.