Chapter 2: The rise of the puppet army

Wei Xian spent years wandering around the battlefields, powerful clans ancestral graveyard, abandoned sects, collecting the bodies of fallen cultivators.Through the Eternal Marionette Codex,he bound their souls and reforged theirs bodies into his personal army -an army of silent, unwavering soldiers,loyal guards.Unlike mindless corpses,these puppets retained fragments of their former martial arts techniques and skills, making them more deadlier than any army of living.

He named his greatest creation Chen Mu,a former Nascent Soul cultivator who once led an entire elite sect. With his soul reforged into an undying general Chen Mu became the first of the Shadow puppets.

Soon,Wei Xian command a legion of spectral warriors,assassains,and demonic beasts,all bound to his will.As he marched through the cultivation world, the powerfull sects laughed at the lone cultivator - until they saw his puppets tear through their disciples like a plague.