Your Talent is Mine-Chapter 989: The Puppets of the Dao Field Mobilize

TL: Etude

“Go, kill those Dao Ancestor incarnations!”

Jiong commanded the human puppets, who had been controlled and transformed.

These puppets, after undergoing modifications in the Crimson Dragon Pool, possessed physical bodies strengthened many times over. Although their control over the Dao had weakened, their overwhelming physical strength and divine force made them as powerful as the weaker True Monarchs from the True Monarch Rankings.

More importantly, these puppets were fearless and possessed terrifying regenerative abilities. Even if they were shattered into countless pieces, as long as their energy wasn’t exhausted, they could instantly restore themselves, like beings with an immortal body.

Because of this near-immortal ability, the puppet army under Dao Ancestor Crimson Dragon’s command struck fear into countless powerful figures, drawing the attention of high-level Domain Realm leaders.

Though puppets comparable to True Monarchs were difficult to kill in large numbers, they still posed no significant threat to a Dao Ancestor’s incarnation. However, Jiong’s real hope lay in the puppets at the Half-Step True Ancestor level.

Yes, even True Monarch Seafall and several other Half-Step True Ancestors had entered the Crimson Dragon Pool, unable to escape their fate of being transformed. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

These figures had already been extremely powerful. After the modifications, their physical strength became terrifying, and their combat abilities now far surpassed their previous peak, reaching a level comparable to True Ancestors who had recently ascended from the True Monarch Rankings.

In other words, True Monarch Seafall and the others now possessed strength on par with genius-level True Ancestors.

However, because the Dao Ancestor incarnations had forcefully descended upon the battlefield ruins, they could not exhibit the full power of a True Ancestor. Their incarnations remained stuck at the Half-Step True Ancestor level.

This gave the puppets a real chance of defeating the Dao Ancestor incarnations.

Boom! Boom! Boom!!!

A large number of True Monarch-level puppets emerged, drawing the attention of many True Monarchs.

“What the hell is going on?”

“The aura of these True Monarchs feels strange. Their eyes are glowing red—how eerie!”

“True Monarch Seafall and the others look like that too! They’re Half-Step True Ancestors! How did they end up like this?”

“Look! All of these True Monarchs came out of the Crimson Dragon Pool. There’s definitely something wrong with that pool!”

“Good thing I didn’t enter the pool, or I’d be one of them now!”

“This is bad! The Crimson Dragon Dao Field Spirit’s intentions were never good. It’s controlling these True Monarchs! We have to leave, now!”

Many True Monarchs hurried to escape the Dao Field.

However, Jiong had already reactivated the restrictions. Even the barrier over the herb garden, which had been broken by Dao Ancestor Moon Seizer earlier, began to regenerate.

As a result, the True Monarchs now found themselves unable to escape.

At this moment, several Dao Ancestor incarnations encountered the puppets.

“True Monarch Seafall! True Monarch Golden Throne! True Monarch Violent Bear! What do you think you’re doing?” Dao Ancestor Earth Gate roared in anger.

Before him, the three Half-Step True Ancestors, leading a group of True Monarch puppets, surrounded the Dao Ancestors and launched an immediate attack, as if openly provoking the Dao Ancestors.

If the Dao Ancestors had descended in their true forms, a mere glance would have been enough to annihilate these opponents.

However, in their current state as incarnations, their power was limited to a fraction of their true strength. While the Dao Ancestors still did not view these Half-Step True Ancestors as a serious threat, they could not afford to ignore them entirely.

“They’ve been controlled,” Dao Ancestor Moon Seizer said softly.

The Dao Ancestor incarnations quickly realized that something was wrong. It was no longer just a matter of control—the puppets had become entirely different beings.

“Kill!”

True Monarch Seafall’s eyes flared with a brilliant red glow as he transformed into a terrifying giant. Wielding an enormous trident, he launched a savage attack at Dao Ancestor Moon Seizer.

“Courting death!”

Dao Ancestor Moon Seizer roared in anger and pointed a finger, prepared to kill True Monarch Seafall in a single strike. He no longer cared about the latter’s status as a disciple of the Chaos Trading Firm—after all, the true True Monarch Seafall no longer existed, and the man before him was now merely a puppet under the control of the Crimson Dragon Dao Field Spirit. Even if Moon Seizer killed him, the firm would not hold him accountable.

By Moon Seizer’s calculations, his single finger strike should have been enough to annihilate someone like True Monarch Seafall—a Half-Step True Ancestor, and not one with any particularly heaven-defying strength.

But what happened next made Moon Seizer’s expression change drastically.

Boom!!! His finger strike collided with the trident, and a terrifying force surged through the weapon, shattering his attack.

A faint trace of red appeared on Dao Ancestor Moon Seizer’s finger—his skin had been pierced. Though the wound was light, the fact remained: True Monarch Seafall had injured him.

A Half-Step True Ancestor had wounded the incarnation of a Dao Ancestor! Moon Seizer’s incarnation, too, possessed Half-Step True Ancestor-level cultivation, and with his mastery of the Dao and divine abilities, it should have been impossible for someone of True Monarch Seafall’s level to harm him. This was a humiliating blow.

Meanwhile, the incarnations of the other Dao Ancestors—Dao Ancestor Earth Gate, Dao Ancestor Moon Dream, and Dao Ancestor Wind Elder—were also suffering setbacks, having underestimated the strength of the Half-Step True Ancestor puppets.

At that moment, Jiong activated the formations of the Crimson Dragon Dao Field, unleashing a suppressive force on the four Dao Ancestor incarnations, attempting to trap them permanently.

Simultaneously, the Dao Field released new reinforcements—genuine mechanical puppets, not the modified human puppets from earlier.

These puppets were the last of what remained within the Crimson Dragon Dao Field, each with power comparable to a top-tier True Monarch. Although not quite on par with those ranked on the True Monarch Rankings, their sheer numbers were enough to threaten even the best of them.

Over ten thousand such puppets appeared, accompanied by ten somewhat damaged True Ancestor-level puppets.

Originally, the Dao Field had far more True Ancestor-level puppets, but many were lost during the war that shattered the Domain Realm. Some were taken away by the Dao Field’s forces, leaving only these ten, painstakingly restored by Jiong over countless years.

In their prime, these True Ancestor puppets would have been as powerful as True Ancestors at the later stages of the Grand Dao Realm. However, now they could only fight at the early stages of the realm—just slightly weaker than the modified True Monarch Seafall.

The purpose of these puppets was not to assist in killing the four Dao Ancestor incarnations but to target the other True Monarchs, capturing them to be forcibly thrown into the Crimson Dragon Pool for transformation.

Chaos erupted across the Dao Field as battles raged everywhere.

The True Monarchs present proved far too weak against the puppets. Many were captured without much resistance and dragged toward the pool to undergo forced transformation.

Jiong no longer hid his intentions.

Meanwhile, Ye Tian found himself the target of special attention, as two True Ancestor-level puppets charged toward him. It was clear that Jiong harbored a particular grudge against him.

However, Ye Tian remained unafraid of these two puppets. Still, he chose not to reveal his full strength immediately—if he did, Jiong would focus even more on him. Instead, he restrained himself, engaging the two True Ancestor puppets in a prolonged fight.

The real battle, however, centered on the four Dao Ancestor incarnations.

Though the strength of the Crimson Dragon Dao Field was considerable, Ye Tian believed the Dao Ancestor incarnations held the upper hand. Their foundations were deeper, and their power more profound. The Dao Field’s forces, led by a mere fragment of a will, lacked the strength to secure victory.

Unless Dao Ancestor Crimson Dragon himself appeared, the outcome of this battle was destined to remain unchanged.