My Puppet Is an Immortal Venerable, Yet You Dare Slaughter a Village Before My Eyes

An Immortal Venerable is betrayed by those closest to him and dies, his cultivation destroyed. After his death, the Demon Ancestor refines his body into a corpse puppet. As the long ages pass, the puppet steadily deteriorates and loses its divine power, gradually becoming an ordinary puppet. Lin Fan, a village boy, happens upon it, but as a powerless mortal with no spiritual energy, he cannot activate it. The puppet is already so badly damaged that it bears none of its former Immortal Venerable's majesty, and lies quietly in Lin Fan's home. One day, disaster strikes the village. A band of thieves arrives and massacres everyone. The boy fights back, but is outmatched and killed. As he draws his final breath, Lin Fan's blood splashes across the corpse puppet, and the sleeping puppet slowly opens its eyes.