Half a month later, under the guidance of Master Wei, Lu Changan repaired the outer shell of the blue-armored puppet.
Puppet Master Wei was pleasantly surprised to learn that Lu Changan was a third-level high-grade weapon refiner. This would help improve the quality of the puppets.
Thanks to the special "Soul Puppet Seed Technique", Master Wei's puppet soul consciousness can remain awake for a long time and can be used for research and creation of puppets, or for outings.
If it were in the past, Puppet Master Wei would need to sleep for a period of time after waking up to take action in order to continue his consciousness and avoid being eroded by the power of ghosts.
However, Lu Changan's soul from his previous life is rootless and cannot be truly absorbed. It will be consumed and disintegrated naturally. At best, "energy saving" can be used to slow down its dissipation speed.
Even if it cannot be absorbed, the power of the soul in the previous life will help to cultivate and improve the puppet spirit.
Later, under the guidance of Master Wei, Lu Changan took part of his time to practice the art of puppet military formation.
Lu Changan had so many puppets at his disposal that Puppet Master Wei was amazed, but he scorned the refining techniques and corrected them many times.
With the careful guidance of this fourth-level puppet master, Lu Changan directly deployed the best puppet army formation without taking any detours.
…
Soon after, Xing Peng secretly summoned Lu Changan.
Near Wangyue Fairy City, traces of mysterious foreign cultivators are suspected to have appeared again.
"Wangyue Fairy City is relatively close to Wuye Town on the border of Liang Kingdom. It is a convenient way to return to Liang Kingdom from this direction!"
Lu Changan said thoughtfully.
He guessed that the mysterious foreign cultivator might attack Jiang Yechen again.
Secondly, Lu Changan will also become one of the targets after he returns.
In fact, Wujianmen's spies are already stationed near Wuye Town.
Lu Changan conducted a divination on this.
"It's strange that even though the clues and information are relatively clear, we can't deduce the movements of monks from other states."
Lu Changan frowned, his divination was very difficult, and he was faced with the ever-changing mist of heaven.
There are too many variables in the future and it is difficult to predict.
When this happens, either the opponent is very strong and has a Nascent Soul level.
Or, there are treasures or means to shield the secret.
Lu Changan thought for a long time and decided to send a puppet clone to support the situation near Wuye Town.
He himself kept a certain distance and waited for the opportunity.
…
Two days later.
The assassin puppet and the charm puppet quietly arrived near Nightless Town.
After being promoted to the late stage of Jindan, Lu Changan lit up his second life, which only took three months. After all, his soul had surpassed his previous life.
It takes five years to light up the fourth life.
This is not a quantitative difference, but a qualitative transformation of the Nascent Soul level.
Therefore, the fourth life must be economical and stay at the critical moment.
Thousands of miles away from Wuye Town, Lu Changan controlled two puppet clones.
In fact, the quasi-fourth-level puppet integrated into the second life can also act as a puppet clone.
Lu Changan can also share vision and senses.
With Wei Puppet Master's awareness, he does not have to be distracted during the actual fight.
The quasi-fourth-level puppet can completely fight independently and respond flexibly according to the actual situation.
However, Lu Changan was instinctively cautious and hid his strength before he knew the reality of the monks from other states.
On the southeast side of Wuye Town, on a high cliff three hundred miles away.
Three black shadows appeared one after another.
The light of the moonlit night fell around them and was distorted by invisible forces, making them appear invisible.
The young man in blue robe in the middle has three-dimensional facial features, deep eyes, a pair of big ears between his temples, and his outline is much larger than that of an ordinary person.
To his left and right were two monks in the middle stage of the Dan formation, a man and a woman.
Many years after arriving in Daqing, the three Tinghai Pavilion monks not only recovered from their injuries, but the foreign aura on their bodies was also eliminated.
At this moment, there is no difference between him and the local monks in Daqing.
"The great elder has recovered most of his magic power. If we capture Jiang Yechen this time, we will definitely be able to capture him easily."
The tall beauty in a feather skirt beside her, with blue eyes, said with a clear smile.
"The Jinyang Sect has only one Nascent Soul True Lord left, and he has to deal with the demon battlefield. Now in the world of immortal cultivation in Liang, no one can stop the True Lord."
The black-faced man in strange scale armor complimented and smiled.
Zhenjun Chahai had no expression on his face, staring at Wuyezhen in the distance, which was shrouded in formations. His big ears behind his temples were beating frequently.
"Walk!"
True Lord Chahai suddenly spoke, and his cold voice seemed to come from the deep sea.
The black-faced man and the woman in the feather skirt did not hesitate at all, and followed Zhenjun Chahai to evacuate the surrounding area of Wuye Town.
"Great Elder, is there an ambush in Wuye Town?"
On the way, the woman in the feather skirt asked softly.
"It's just a few cockroaches, there's no need to alert the snake."
Zhenjun Chahai spoke calmly, with a trace of disdain flashing in his eyes.
"After traveling through the space node channel, my mana has not yet returned to its full strength. If I use Nascent Soul-level methods, I will be noticed by the fourth-level induction array set up by the Guardian Alliance."
The fourth-level formation masters of the Wei Dao Alliance have set up special induction formations in the Three Kingdoms. Once Nascent Soul-level mana or escaping light appears in the country, they will be sensed immediately.
This kind of induction formation is to deal with the enemy Nascent Soul Lord stealing the house from behind.
With the full speed of True Monarch Yuanying, across the huge Liang Kingdom, it won't take long for them to return to defense in time.
"Moreover, the Wujian Sect comes from the Six Demonic Sects, so its methods should not be underestimated."
True Lord Chahai has no fear of the Nascent Soul forces on the side of the Wei Dao League.
But the strength of the six demonic sects can be considered a large sect even if placed in the Great Abyss.
For example, Beast King Valley is comparable to the middle and upper reaches of the "Zhenhai Sixteen Sects".
A few years ago, when he first came to the territory of the Wei Dao Alliance, Zhenjun Chahai did not understand the real situation and killed the secret agents of the Wujian Sect, which attracted the attention of this force.
This brings trouble to the actions of Zhenjun Chahai and the others.
Coupled with the wanted orders from the Wei Dao Alliance, their injuries have not healed, and they have to lie dormant for several years to regain their strength, understand local intelligence, and wait for opportunities.
…
Ten days later.
Lu Changan returned to Jinyun Valley without success.
Through the puppet clone, Lu Changan negotiated with Xing Peng, but the Wujianmen failed to gain anything.
Currently, Wujianmen is only focusing on collecting intelligence and has no plans to take action.
Lu Changan gained nothing from this failure.
Due to the increase in information media, Lu Changan's divination deduced that the mysterious foreign cultivator had visited Wuye Town, but he had not taken action.
"It's not like monks from other places have the ability to divine..."
Lu Changan thought for a long time.
After many calculations and this close approach, he did not notice any trace of his divination opponent.
Unless the opponent's divination ability far exceeds his.
Lu Changan directly ruled this out.
Firstly, the art of divination is very partial.
Secondly, if the mysterious external cultivator had the methods of a heavenly master, he would have targeted Lu Changan long ago, instead of being delayed for so long by Jiang Yechen's cover.
Since divination is ruled out.
Thinking about the mysterious external cultivator, who has repeatedly avoided the wanted pursuits of the Wei Dao Alliance and Wu Jian Sect, it is difficult to find the exact trace.
Lu Changan could only speculate that the other party had strong senses or had some magical power like induction.
"There's some trouble..."
Lu Changan rubbed his brows, convinced that he had encountered an unprecedentedly difficult enemy.
Extraordinarily powerful senses mean that opponents are aware of opportunities and are not afraid of attacks or ambushes.
No wonder, the previous divination was full of variables.
Because the opponent has insight into opportunities and can make favorable responses based on the actual situation.
…
The development of things was still beyond Lu Changan's expectations.
Just late that night.
Lu Changan's sea of consciousness trembled slightly, and he caught a hint of sensation, coming from the direction of the beast-controlling Zhou family.
puff!
The Gu Divine Restriction planted in Zhou Qingxuan's sea of consciousness was suddenly shattered, and the reaction caused alarmed Lu Changan, the caster.
"Not good! Foreign cultivators have found the beast-controlling Zhou family!"
Lu Changan counted with his fingers, his face gloomy, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.
Zhou Qingxuan was captured alive by a mysterious foreign cultivator and searched for his soul, which caused the Gu God's Forbidden Eruption and the collapse of the sea of consciousness.
The Gu God Taboo that Lu Changan left on Xing Peng and Zhou Qingxuan has been continuously improved through several generations of experience and knowledge, and has the effect of preventing soul-searching types.
Once someone performs soul searching or psychedelic methods on the two of them, the God of Gu will be banned.
Lu Changan suppressed the murderous intention in his heart and sighed secretly: Zhou Qingxuan's lifespan is approaching the end, and he will almost die.
This girl was initially just a slave taken by Lu Changan, and she chose to surrender in order to survive. But after all, she had worked hard and served her attentively for more than two hundred years.
Lu Changan's murderous intention towards the mysterious foreign cultivator became even stronger.
He was not sure how many secrets his opponent knew in the ruins. It was best to capture him and get the truth, so that he could feel at ease.
"The mysterious foreign cultivator actually bypassed Jiang Yechen and found Zhou Qingxuan. I'm afraid he's targeting me."
Lu Changan did not lose his mind and analyzed calmly.
He has no Taoist companions or heirs, so he has no fear of any coercion.
Soon, Lu Changan found the suspicion.
Why do foreign cultivators focus on Zhou Qingxuan?
Lu Changan has never officially appeared in the Beast Control Zhou family, and his relationship with Zhou Qingxuan is relatively private.
In the past hundred years, Lu Changan had only contacted Zhou Qingxuan through his puppet clone.
In the eyes of the outside world, Lu Changan and Zhou Qingxuan have a friendship, but it is not that deep.
Lu Changan calculated for a long time and got the preliminary results:
His first stop when he returned to the Dao Defender Alliance was to make a secret visit to the Zhou family, a beast-controller. There might have been something wrong. Even though his spiritual consciousness had explored the surrounding area of the Zhou family at that time, there was nothing unusual.
However, Zhou Tianchi, the patriarch of the Beast Control Zhou family, has met Lu Changan. Even if Zhou Qingxuan asked him to keep it secret, there is still a possibility that the theory will be leaked.
"That day at the Beast Control Zhou's house, in addition to secretly visiting Zhou Qingxuan... I also secretly met with Xing Peng!"
Lu Changan's expression suddenly changed.
He immediately sent a puppet clone to contact Xing Peng according to the previous method.
However, after several days, Xing Peng was not contacted.
Instead, it was the Zhou family who controlled the beasts, who came with the news.
Zhou Qingxuan, the ancestor of the Zhou family, had his soul lamp shattered and disappeared.
The clan leader, Zhou Tianchi, returned in a hurry and ordered someone to deliver the bad news to Lu Changan.
Currently, Zhou Qingxuan's death is only known to a few senior members of the Zhou family and is kept secret from the outside world.
Obviously, the mysterious foreign cultivator took action that day, sneaking into Zhou's house secretly and capturing Zhou Qingxuan alive.
Fortunately, the patriarch Zhou Tianchi was not in the family at the time and escaped the disaster.
Lu Changan could see that the mysterious foreign cultivators paid attention to their influence and did not annihilate the clan at every turn.
If a large family of cultivators were directly destroyed, it would attract the attention of the Liang Kingdom and even the Wei Dao Alliance.
Just the disappearance or death of a fake Dan real person would not alarm the top brass.
…
Another seven days passed.
Lu Changan still couldn't contact Xing Peng, and the Gu God's ban in his consciousness sea had not occurred.
Lu Changan didn't need to make any calculations to determine that Xing Peng had been captured alive.
Lu Changan decisively let the puppet clone himself and erased some traces of the place where he had previously contacted Xing Peng.
Xing Peng is the incense owner of Wujian Sect. His disappearance will attract the attention of Wujian Sect’s senior officials.
"The mysterious external cultivator's methods are terrifying, beyond those of the monks in Daqing Land!"
Lu Changan felt a lot of pressure.
So far, he doesn't know the true details of his opponent.
Fortunately, Lu Changan is well hidden, and the strength he reveals to the outside world is just the tip of the iceberg.
"The divination of the Heavenly Master is indeed accurate!"
Lu Changan recalled that before leaving, the heavenly master divined bad luck for him.
Within ten years, Lu Changan suffered a disaster in the Eastern Region of Daqing.
In the short term, the risk is not significant;
However, the longer you stay in Daqing East Region, the higher the risk, and it may even lead to disaster.
The best way to solve the catastrophe is to leave Daqing East Region and run as far away as possible.
Therefore, Lu Changan's previous reply to Zhang Tieshan was that he would not be back for more than ten years this time.
"We can't delay, we must fight quickly!"
Lu Changan made up his mind.
He had an intuition that the longer it was delayed, the more trouble it would be.
This also confirms the divination of the Heavenly Master.
As time goes by, the mysterious outsiders will know more and more about him.
Three days later.
Lu Changan spent two years of his life forcefully improving his divination skills, deducing relevant information about the mysterious external cultivator, and got some clues.
Judging from the clues and calculations accumulated over the years, that person was not the complete Nascent Soul Lord.
Lu Changan immediately made a plan and took the initiative!
Huddled in Jinyun Valley, passive defense is unrealistic.
It is impossible for the mysterious foreign cultivator to attack the Immortal Cultivation Sect head-on in order to capture him in the short term.
"If this plan fails, immediately go to Fengguo to obtain Taiyin Jade Liquid and leave Daqing East Region."
Lu Changan planned his retreat in advance.
…
Late at night the next day, Lu Changan quietly left Jinyun Valley and headed to the Black Mist Mountains northwest of Yushou Zhou's home.
Under normal circumstances, Lu Changan can sense the location of the Gu God's Forbidden City.
The mysterious external cultivator seemed not to notice it, or did it deliberately, and did not block the feeling of the Gu God's ban.
Lu Changan didn't care and went directly into the Black Mist Mountains and released a puppet clone.
He was worried that the foreign cultivator would leave behind tricks in the Zhou family of beast control, so he simply did not ask Zhou Tianchi to find out the situation. After all, he made a mistake once in the Zhou family.
Traveling thousands of miles through the Black Mist Mountains, Lu Changan discovered traces of Wujianmen secret agents.
That's right, Lu Changan shared Xing Peng's location information with Wujianmen's stronghold in advance.
Wujianmen is good at probing and tracking, and Xing Peng's identity is unusual enough to attract the attention of senior officials.
Lu Changan plans to use the Wujianmen to help him explore the truth.
Half a day later.
The Black Mist Mountains, somewhere deep in the mountains and valleys.
Three black shadows came out of the cave, and they were none other than Zhenjun Chahai and the others.
Inside the cave, Xing Peng's painful groans could be heard.
"Great Elder, that boy may have concealed some key information."
The beauty in the feather skirt pondered.
"That's enough."
Zhenjun Chahai's voice was cold and calm.
"Xing Peng rebuilt the elixir, and got Lu Changan's secret help. It must be a chance in the ancient ruins. According to the ancestor's records, I heard that Haige had some rare objects in the elixir such as 'Yin Yang Water'. Excluding the dead Master Fairy, Lu Changan is most likely to come into contact with it.
The core opportunity in the ruins.”
"Now that Xing Peng has been captured, Lu Changan has colluded with Wujianmen, and he has a secret of chance. The frightened bird will definitely not be able to sit still."
"Haha! Lu Changan is destined to be unable to escape from the hands of the True Lord. As long as he leaves Jinyun Valley, he will not be able to escape. If he cannot escape, we will expose the news of his collusion with Wujianmen."
The man with black face and scaly armor clicked his tongue and smiled.
He knew very well that Lord Chahai's magical water power had left behind surveillance methods for relevant forces.
Two years ago, Lu Changan secretly visited Zhou's family, and Xing Peng's arrival was noticed by Zhenjun's surveillance methods.
"Huh? It came quickly!"
At this time, the big ears behind Chahai Zhenjun's temples twitched slightly, catching the approach of more than one pill-forming monk.
A moment of effort.
Several blurry shadows and shadows, in the strange mist, slowly approached the deep mountains and valleys where Zhenjun Chahai and the three of them were located.
"The Great Elder may be a senior member of the Wujian Sect, and Lu Changan is indeed colluding with him."
The beauty in the feather skirt sneered.
Whoosh!
Large expanses of strange thick fog surged in, shrouding the mountains and valleys.
"Tsk tsk, one late-stage major cultivator, two mid-stage pill formation. Jueying, we caught a big fish."
The six strange figures of Wujianmen came with the thick fog and surrounded the three people in the valley.
The two leading shadows turn from virtual to real.
They are a mysterious man in a black cloak and a man in gray robe with a black cloak. Their faces are distorted and blurred.
The mysterious man in the black cloak was the Jueying helmsman who killed Xie Wuji back then.
He is also Xing Peng’s eldest cousin.
The two Jueying helmsmen hid in the depths of the thick fog, allowing their four subordinates to take action first, waiting for the opportunity.
Poisonous gas and hidden arrows, ghost shadows and light blades, evil sounds and evil winds... all kinds of vicious assassination methods were used to kill the three young men in blue robes at Tinghai Pavilion.
The beauty in the feather skirt and the man in black face offered an umbrella-shaped magic weapon and a black bead magic weapon respectively.
The black bead magic weapon ripples with black light, releasing a sheet of viscous black water with a radius of a hundred feet, blocking most of the vicious means of invisible substances in Wujian Sect.
The umbrella-shaped magic weapon floats above the head, rotating at high speed, cutting out arc-shaped wind blades with roaring wind and lightning, each of which is more than ten feet long, forming a mighty tornado-like thundering wind blade.
The two of them joined forces and easily blocked the assassinations of the four Dan-forming junior and middle-level members of the Wujianmen. They even launched a counterattack, causing the two assassins who were close at hand to retreat in panic.
The young man in the middle with blue robes and big ears, who was in the late stage of pill formation, did not take any action. His eyes were intentionally or unintentionally looking at the place where the two captains of Jueying were hiding.
"External repair methods are excellent."
"We've been discovered! Take action immediately!"
The Jueying helmsman and the gray-robed man looked at each other and took action decisively.
The man in gray robe was at the peak of his cultivation, and his figure blurred and disappeared.
The next moment.
Above the heads of the three people in Tinghai Pavilion, a ghostly gray fog giant ten feet tall appeared. He opened his mouth, and thick and disgusting gray smoke rushed towards the blue-robed young man.
Wherever he went, the surrounding vegetation and rocks turned into ashes, making it look like a hell on earth.
The Jueying Helmsman also took action, faster.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Its figure was divided into three parts on the spot, turning into three cloak shadows with uncertain reality, and slashing out shadow-like arcs of ghost blades.
The beauty in the feather skirt and the man with the black face were shocked, and they groaned one after another.
Bang!
The former's umbrella-shaped magic weapon glowed dimly, and the shoulders of the beauty in the feather skirt revealed bloodstains that were deep enough to show the bones.
"Be careful! This person is not an ordinary alchemy major."
The black-faced man's scales were also cut into rips, and he quickly retreated with his heart pounding.
The last cloaked shadow came to Zhenjun Chahai's back and struck a stronger blow.
Buzz!
Deep blue water lingered around Zhenhai Zhenjun, weaving a liquid blue robe coat, which was magnificent and bright, like a dream, and at the same time blocked the attacks of the gray fog giant and the cloaked shadow.
The powerful attacks of the two helmsmen of Wujian Sect were blocked and absorbed by the magnificent liquid blue magic robes like stones sinking into the sea.
"What kind of magical power is this?"
The two Jueying helmsmen were shocked.
The offensive between the two, let alone breaking through the defense, did not stir up any waves at all.
You must know that as the two core-forming masters of the Wujian Sect, their strength far exceeds that of most of the core-forming masters of the Wei Dao League.
…
"Haha! Well done!"
Zhenjun Chahai grinned, and the big ears behind his hair beat again, catching the figure of a man in white, who had entered a radius of hundreds of miles, and actually circled behind him?
Back around?
How ridiculous!
Did Lu Changan think that with the help of the Wujian Sect, he could eradicate the three monks from outside the state who were in the "Elixir Formation Stage" to avoid future troubles?
Hooooo!
True Lord Chahai's magic power increased greatly, and the blue swamp around him was as deep as the sea. A large dark blue hand emerged from it, flashing with electric patterns, and he grabbed into the void with the force of thunder.
When the giant gray fog above his head saw this, he broke into countless pieces of gray fog and dispersed with a "swish" sound, and fled in pieces.
Seeing it, the big dark blue hand was thrown into the air, and gray mist leaked through the gaps between the fingers.
"Jueying, save me——"
In the void, a translucent gray-robed figure was forcibly pulled out of the shallow layer of the void by dark blue hands.
The Jueying Helmsman was horrified: the Gray Mist Escape Technique of the Ashes Helmsman contained magical powers of the space system, and was unexpectedly captured by the blue-robed young man with a precise strike.
Ordinary people may not be able to do it in the early stage of Yuan Ying.
Boom!
The blue-robed young man with big ears in the field of vision, with the blue mana surging around him, his spiritual pressure has exceeded the scope of the pill formation stage!
"This person is not in the elixir formation stage..."
The three cloaked shadows transformed by the Jueying Helm Leader quickly retreated.
"ah!"
The body of the Ashes Helmsman turned from virtual to solid, with mist rising. He was caught by the dark blue hands of the young man in blue robes. He could not hold on for two breaths and was broken into several pieces.
A tyrannical alchemy master died just like that.
"Cousin, save me——"
At this time, a surprise and hoarse cry for help came from the cave.
The Jueying helmsman's face turned dark, and he cursed secretly: This incompetent cousin actually provoked such a terrifying mysterious person.
Such a cousin, it’s okay if you don’t want it!
The Jueying helmsman had just escaped to the outskirts of the valley and found that there was a blue swamp beneath his feet.
The blue swamp rotated, and the waves surged, forming three water whirlpools. The terrifying pulling force pulled the three cloaked shadows in mid-air downwards.
Puffy!
Seeing that it was wrong to escape, the three bamboo hat shadows exploded themselves and turned into thousands of shadow fragments. The powerful force offset the water whirlpool.
next moment.
A solid figure in a bamboo hat escaped from the shadow of the grass a hundred feet away outside the valley.
Wow!
The Jueying helmsman vomited a mouthful of blood, his face was as pale as paper, and he was stroking his chest, feeling extremely weak.
At this time, the mana fluctuations in Chahai Shenjun in the valley reached the threshold of the Nascent Soul stage.
Several screams came one after another.
The four Wujianmen assassins who were in the early and middle stages of forming the elixir were all swallowed up by the blue swamp on the ground.
"Shadow Escape? It's interesting..."
Chahai Shenjun glanced at the Jueying Helmsman who was seriously injured and escaped from the valley, and was about to raise his hand.
At this time, the big ears behind his temples beat faster.
Wow!
The body of Lord Chahai turned into water flow, blended into the blue swamp under his feet, and disappeared out of thin air.
"not good!"
The Jueying helmsman realized something and reacted quickly. He slapped his palm on the grass and evaporated all the water vapor around him.
He looked around nervously to make sure there were no other traces of water, nor any trace of Zhenjun Chahai.
After a few breaths.
In a ravine a hundred miles away.
Wow!
The deep blue water flow transformed by Lord Chahai emerged out of thin air from the mountain stream.
The man in white not far away turned around unexpectedly and lost his voice in shock: