I create patterns, regardless of your level of expertise.

While Xiao Wei was making clay figures, Li Hao took out the Three Lives Tree and planted it.

Once it's shaped, take out the core of intelligence and put it in.

Now all we have to do is wait.

Let Tie Ge stay here, and Li Hao returns to the front of the raging fire.

Tens of thousands of Heavenly Puppet Sect members remained kneeling in place, awaiting their deaths.

These survivors are pitiful; most of them are minor Kalami from the same region. There are tens of thousands of them. Even if they kneel and let the hunters kill them, they still can't kill them all...

In just a short while, they were all panting heavily, and only one or two out of ten had been dealt with.

Li Hao shook his head and asked, "Have you vented enough?"

After receiving an affirmative reply, Li Hao gave the order.

The surrounding iron golem army immediately rushed forward and destroyed the remaining members of the Heavenly Puppet Sect.

Li Hao then put away all the wooden swords and said, "Although the Heavenly Puppet Sect is gone, the Heavenly Puppet Kingdom still exists."

"They are not the masterminds, so we can't just kill them outright, but this has become a bad habit here, and they need to be educated."

"Is there a branch of the Medicine Tower within the Heavenly Puppet Kingdom?"

A woman immediately replied, "Senior, the Heavenly Puppet Sect won't allow the Medicine Tower to enter. The nearest branch of the Medicine Tower is in the Heavenly Eclipse Kingdom."

Upon hearing this, Li Hao immediately took out a map and searched for it.

"The Eclipse Kingdom... is in the opposite direction."

The second to last stop should be the Star Sea Kingdom, followed by the Heavenly Puppet Kingdom, and then the Heavenly Eclipse Kingdom.

If he were to make a trip to the Heavenly Eclipse Kingdom, he would be going too far, so he should probably forget about it.

Since we're going to the Star Sea Kingdom anyway, we might as well wait until we get there, then find the Medicine Tower there and have them send someone over to take over the Heavenly Puppet Kingdom and give it a thorough overhaul.

With a plan in mind, Li Hao turned his attention back to the group of people in front of him.

"Now that this matter is settled, you may leave."

Upon hearing this, the crowd exchanged glances and then knelt down in front of Li Hao.

But before they could say anything, Li Hao waved his hand, and a gentle breeze carried everyone towards the entrance.

The bedrock that had been blocking them loosened at the same time, cracking open and letting them go.

The entrance was then sealed off again.

Li Hao looked around and saw that the entire secret realm had finally fallen completely silent, with only the crackling sound of burning remaining.

"Alright, stop hiding, come out now."

Li Hao spoke, but after two seconds, there was still no response from the surroundings.

He was quite patient and didn't say anything more, but instead retrieved the iron golems one by one.

After the harvest was finished, only Brother Tie was left guarding the Three Lives Tree.

Li Hao looked around again, but still found nothing unusual.

Upon seeing this, Li Hao's lips twitched slightly, and his face grew increasingly menacing.

"Do you think I'm stupid? You think I don't even know the basic fact that after reaching the ninth realm, the soul can leave the body and move freely?"

At the eighth level of the Spirit Soul Realm, one focuses on cultivating the soul. However, the soul is still fragile at this stage. Although it can leave the body, the duration outside the body is not long and the risk is very high.

Only upon reaching the Ninth Realm can one allow their soul to remain detached from their body for an extended period.

Without the involvement of soul power, it is difficult to directly damage the soul through physical impact alone.

Clearly, neither the survivors of the first and second realms, nor the Demonic Iron Golems that, despite possessing peak twelfth-realm strength, lacked an intelligence core and a soul, could harm these people's souls.

Although their physical bodies are dead, the elders above the ninth realm and the soul of the current sect leader, Feng Qi, are still alive.

As for the previous sect leader, Yang Dingtian, he was beaten up by Li Hao and is truly gone.

If we only consider the cultivation of the soul, Li Hao is only at the ninth level now. Logically speaking, Li Hao should not be able to detect these guys.

But Li Hao knows the Heavenly Guidance Technique.

These people thought they were hiding well, but little did they know that in Li Hao's eyes, they were connected by a bunch of lines, and there was nowhere for them to hide.

"Still not coming out, huh? Fine."

"There's something I've been wanting to try out, but I'm afraid its power might be unpredictable and could accidentally injure friendly forces."

"For now, there's nothing to worry about."

As he spoke, he flashed his hand and produced a standard one-cubic-meter volume of dark brown soil.

The surface of this patch of soil was covered with ghostly, face-like patterns, giving it an eerie feel.

Soul Sand.

A peculiar block that only generates in the Nether, a world filled with lava and monsters, a scorching and twisted place, often referred to as Hell.

This is a cage that imprisons souls, a banner of ten thousand souls from another world.

Oh no, the Emperor's Banner.

Although the effect is not outstanding in the game, it would be useful in real life.

Judging from the performance of many props before, this thing is probably not simple either.

Li Hao glanced at the soul sand, then waved his hand and placed the piece of soul sand on the ground.

But nothing changed.

After thinking for a moment, he took out a lever, placed it on the soul sand, and then pulled it.

At the moment of startup.

A strange yet powerful suction force suddenly erupted from the soul sand.

Those souls that were originally hidden in various places were uncontrollably revealed the moment the suction force burst forth.

At this moment, all souls were forcibly drawn towards the Soul Salad. Even Li Hao himself could feel that his soul was being forced to leave his body.

Fortunately, it was just a feeling, and it didn't actually happen.

But others couldn't hold on.

"What on earth is this thing?!"

"Li Hao, are you really going to wipe us all out?!"

The souls of many elders were forcibly dragged away, and no matter what methods they used, they could not resist this pull.

After all the souls were sucked in, Li Hao closed the lever and removed it.

At this moment, the ghostly face on the surface of the Soul Sand, which had absorbed dozens of souls, became vivid again.

What were originally blurry, mosaic-like ghost faces have become incredibly vivid, each one so clear and distinct.

They were all the faces of those who had been sucked in.

At this moment, their faces writhed on the surface of the soul sand, their mouths wide open, their expressions contorted as if in excruciating pain, yet they could not utter a sound.

It's creepy to look at.

Li Hao had intended to take it back, but upon seeing this scene, he immediately abandoned the idea.

Then he took out a flint and lightly touched the soul sand.

A ghostly blue flame suddenly shot up; this was the fire of the soul, designed to burn souls.

The many faces on the surface immediately became even more painful and distorted, but the flames could only inflict pain on them, but could not truly kill them.

Once inside the Soul Sand, it's as if even the right to "die" is stripped away, leaving only endless torment.

"Enjoy it slowly."

Li Hao didn't look at it for long, turned around and left, returning to the Three Lives Tree.

It can only be said that his guess was pretty much correct.

Although Soul Sand doesn't have a particularly high presence in the game, its effect is ridiculously strong when applied to real life.

He guessed that if it weren't for the external immunity, his own soul would have been sucked in.

As for why Tie Ge and Xiao Wei were unaffected, Li Hao guessed that it was probably because their "souls" were not physical bodies, but rather a visible and tangible core of intelligence.

Anyway, it seems that this kind of thing that can't distinguish between friend and foe can only be used in specific situations.