txolops Chapter 137 Puppet
Chapter 137 Puppet
Xiantao Mountain.
After the party ended, Li Ping ordered the other three to leave, leaving only Gu Musheng behind.
"Big brother," Gu Musheng said respectfully.
Since last year, when Li Ping forcefully blocked Xiong Pohai's attempt to arrest him and forcibly protected him.
Without realizing it, his attitude towards Li Ping became even more respectful.
Li Ping waved for him to sit down, then brought up the auction: "The Foundation Establishment Fund currently has 2,660 spirit stones. This year's auction will be for Foundation Establishment Pills. If you want to participate, you'll need to make up the difference yourself. Do you want to participate?"
Gu Musheng's attitude was firm: "Brother, I want to participate in the auction."
Through years of hard work and speculation during the beast tide, he has accumulated a considerable fortune. Without Li Ping's help, he can cover the shortfall in spirit stones needed for a Foundation Establishment Pill and bid for one.
Glancing at Li Ping's expression, he smiled and explained, "Brother, although I already have a Foundation Establishment Pill, I have four spiritual roots, and one Foundation Establishment Pill may not be enough to succeed. That's why I was thinking of bidding for another Foundation Establishment Pill. If I'm lucky and succeed in establishing my foundation with just one Foundation Establishment Pill, then I'll give the remaining one to Cheng Yao."
Li Ping nodded, indicating his agreement with Gu Musheng's approach: "Then remember to bring the missing spirit stones on the day of the auction, and I'll go with you then."
"Yes, brother!" Gu Musheng respectfully agreed before taking his leave.
Watching Gu Musheng's departing figure, Li Ping felt no emotion whatsoever.
Although Gu Musheng now possesses a Foundation Establishment Pill, this was due to his own good fortune.
It was his right to use the Foundation Building Fund to purchase another Foundation Building Pill.
Furthermore, he did not break the rules, so Li Ping had no reason to stop him.
……
In front of a cave tens of thousands of miles deep in the misty mountains.
Two figures stopped there. Upon closer inspection, the two figures were Yan Liming and Yan Hengchuan.
Looking at the cave before him and comparing it with the records in the sect's scriptures, Yan Liming smiled with satisfaction: "Not bad, this should be one of the resting places of the native demonic cultivators of the Western Wilderness in the Cloud Mist Mountains. I can rest here for a while."
After the four major demonic sects entered the Western Wilderness and the Dao declined while the demonic power increased, the native demonic cultivators of the Western Wilderness joined the four major demonic sects one after another, openly occupying a spiritual land for cultivation, and no longer needing to hide in the Cloud and Mist Mountains.
This rest stop was a perfect opportunity for him.
"Go in and take a look." Just to be on the safe side, Yan Liming looked at the figure to the side and gave the order.
The figure beside him was Yan Hengchuan. After receiving Yan Liming's instructions, Yan Hengchuan walked stiffly into the cave.
Yan Liming looked at his wooden back and couldn't help but reveal a hint of smugness in his eyes.
Before this, after being brainwashed by his attacks on "true cultivation" and "inferior cultivation", Yan Hengchuan finally couldn't resist the temptation of Foundation Establishment and Core Formation and took the initiative to cultivate the cultivation method that Yan Liming had transmitted into his mind.
What he didn't know was that what Yan Liming transmitted to his mind was not the cultivation method of the "Blood Spirit Hundred Transformations True Scripture" at all, but the refining method of the secret technique "Blood Puppet Technique" attached to the technique.
The creator of the "Blood Spirit Hundred Transformations True Scripture" technique cunningly disguised this secret art as a legitimate method for dissemination.
Once a cultivator begins to cultivate, their cultivation speed is indeed astonishing. However, in reality, the cultivator is not cultivating, but rather actively refining themselves into a blood puppet.
Using this secret technique, Yan Liming has tricked countless cultivators.
Yan Hengchuan's current state is undoubtedly a result of falling into his trap. During the process of cultivating the secret technique, he unknowingly became his blood puppet.
Yan Liming thought to himself with satisfaction: "A rogue cultivator is a rogue cultivator after all. Knowing that I am a demonic cultivator, he still dared to practice the cultivation technique I gave him. Without me lifting a finger, he voluntarily refined himself into a blood puppet."
Standing outside the cave, Yan Liming waited for a while but Yan Hengchuan did not come out.
He couldn't help but wonder, "Huh? What's going on?"
However, although he was puzzled, he didn't pay much attention to it.
After all, since Yan Hengchuan had only been a blood puppet for a short time, Yan Liming could not control him as easily as he used his fingers. He could only give him brief commands to do simple things.
Now, Yan Hengchuan did not come out of the cave in time, and Yan Liming assumed that he had not received the order and was therefore stuck in the cave.
Moreover, after Yan Hengchuan entered the cave, there was no movement at all, and no magical fluctuations were emitted from it.
Clearly, the cave is safe.
With that thought in mind, Yan Liming decided not to wait any longer. He used his shield magic weapon to protect himself and slowly walked into the cave.
"Um?"
To his surprise, the cave was completely empty, and Yan Hengchuan, who had entered earlier, was nowhere to be seen.
"How is this possible? Could there be some hidden secret in this cave?" Yan Liming was surprised and began to search the entire cave more thoroughly.
After searching for a long time, he finally stood in the center of the cave empty-handed.
His search revealed no other hiding place or exit in the cave; his blood puppet seemed to have vanished into thin air.
After pondering for a while with an uncertain expression, Yan Liming sat down cross-legged, seemingly meditating and cultivating himself.
In reality, however, he did not cultivate; instead, he cautiously looked around and waited silently.
They waited all night, and nothing unexpected happened.
The next morning, Yan Liming searched the cave again, then sighed and walked out, seemingly leaving.
However, after he left the cave, he did not go too far. Instead, he hid at the cave entrance, staring intently at the direction of the cave.
After staking out the cave for more than half a month, Yan Liming finally couldn't resist and went inside to investigate again...
While Yan Liming was outsmarting the air, thousands of miles away, in a man-made cave, Yan Hengchuan was resting.
"We finally escaped! That demonic cultivator is too cunning. The distance from here to that cave is over a thousand miles, he shouldn't be able to catch up." Yan Hengchuan was still shaken.
In fact, he had long suspected that the cultivation method Yan Liming gave him was problematic. Wouldn't it be foolish to believe the words of a demonic cultivator?
However, considering that the other party is a ruthless demonic cultivator, it's hard to say how the other party would deal with him if he didn't practice the cultivation techniques given to him.
To save his life, he had no choice but to practice that technique and voluntarily turned himself into a puppet.
However, what Yan Liming didn't know was that although Yan Hengchuan practiced the technique he gave him, he deliberately suppressed his cultivation speed due to his doubts.
During his cultivation practice, he noticed his body transforming into a flesh puppet. He then pretended to be obedient, thus gaining Yan Liming's trust.
Of course, the reason his disguise worked was also related to the fact that Yan Liming's cultivation level was too low after he possessed the body; he was only at the Qi Refining stage.
Originally, Yan Hengchuan planned to disguise himself as a puppet and continue following Yan Liming, then find an opportunity to lure the demon beast to kill it, and then find a way to escape.
Unfortunately...
When Yan Liming ordered him to explore the cave, he unexpectedly discovered that there was another exit. After some investigation, he even found the mechanism to close the exit.
So he made a decision without hesitation.
While Yan Liming was still waiting outside the cave, they quickly left through another entrance and closed the exit after leaving.
During this process, Yan Hengchuan was also very uneasy, fearing that Yan Liming would catch up with him. Fortunately, Yan Liming did not catch up in the end.
What he didn't know was that he had taken the exit.
It was an emergency exit left by the demonic cultivators who originally hid here, and in order to confuse the enemy, this exit can only be opened and closed from the outside.
If it's inside a cave, then there's no trace of an exit at all.
Unable to find the exit, Yan Liming mistakenly thought he was hiding, so he acted to try to lure him out, completely unaware that he had already gone far away.
……
He sat cross-legged, feeling his stiff body and the blood-red magical power mixed in with his dantian.
Yan Hengchuan looked helpless: "In order to deceive that demonic cultivator, I had no choice but to practice the cultivation technique he gave me. I don't know if my current physical condition can be reversed."
With this in mind, he sat cross-legged and attempted to cultivate the basic technique, "Golden Sword Manual".
To his disappointment, having transformed into a half-puppet, he was no longer able to cultivate any other techniques.
As soon as he begins to cultivate, the techniques given to him by the demonic cultivator will automatically start circulating within his body, bringing him closer to the puppet form.
Seeing this result, Yan Hengchuan's expression was extremely ugly: "Damn demonic cultivator, I'll remember you."
……
After traveling at a breakneck pace and carefully avoiding other cultivators and demonic beasts, it took Yan Hengchuan several months to finally reach Gaoji Mountain.
His storage bag was taken by the demonic cultivator, and he also lost his magical artifacts and his identity token from the immortal city.
Given his current appearance as a demonic cultivator, Yan Hengchuan dared not return directly to the Immortal City, fearing he would be treated as a demonic cultivator and dealt with accordingly.
However, staying outside the Immortal City for an extended period is not safe either.
On a sudden inspiration, he thought of his grandmaster's concubine, Bai Lin.
He knew that Bai Lin was a cultivator from the Bai family of Gaojishan, and that his master had a good relationship with the Bai family.
That's why he approached the Bai family, hoping to invite his grandmaster to meet him through them.
In this situation, he can only pin his hopes on his grandmaster's help.
……
"What? Yokokawa is on Takaji Mountain?" Li Ping stood up abruptly upon hearing Bai Lin's report.
Bai Lin nodded obediently: "It was said by someone sent by the Ancestor, so it should be true."
Upon receiving confirmation from Bai Lin, Li Ping's face lit up with delight: "Great, I'll head to Gaojishan right now."
Originally, having not heard from Yan Hengchuan for over a year, he was preparing to write a letter to inform his third senior brother of Yan Hengchuan's death and apologize to him.
Unexpectedly, news suddenly arrived that Yan Hengchuan was still alive, which brought him great joy.
On the rapidly speeding Floating Shadow Shuttle, Li Ping gazed into the distance.
At the same time, he was also pondering why Yan Hengchuan wanted to stay at Gaojishan and ask him to come over to meet him, instead of going directly back to Xiancheng.
On the rapidly speeding Floating Shadow Shuttle, Li Ping gazed into the distance.
At the same time, he was also pondering why Yan Hengchuan wanted to stay at Gaojishan and ask him to come over to meet him, instead of going directly back to Xiancheng.
"What trouble has he run into?" Li Ping pondered silently.
As he pondered this, the outline of the high ridge mountain could already be seen ahead.