Puppetry is not popular in the cultivation world in the eastern part of Chaoyang Continent, and it has been around for thousands of years.
Due to the fate of the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain, Li Xuangang first brought back the basic inheritance of puppetry from the Wanxing Islands.
Later, when he covered the Zhao family in Wutong Peak, he also robbed the Zhao family of all opportunities for the puppet method.
After these two achievements, the Li family, with the support of the head elder Li Changji, finally established a immature but relatively complete inheritance of puppetry on Puppet Peak, the fourth side peak of Taiqiu Mountain.
Almost all members of the Li family thought that Li Xuanting, the 23rd son of the Xuan generation, was the family's first puppet master, but in fact he was not.
Li Yuheng, who ranks first among the jade generation, is the one.
Especially in the eyes of Li Changji, who has single-handedly constructed the inheritance of the family's puppetry skills, the former is the reliance and key to whether the family can successfully continue the puppetry inheritance.
This has been the case from the beginning and has never changed.
If Li Xuanting hadn't found Ninth Brother Li Xuangang and said he wanted to try it, otherwise Li Changji wouldn't have been able to incorporate it into the family puppetry training sequence.
However, judging from subsequent developments, Li Xuanting gave Li Changji and the entire family a surprise.
Li Xuanting not only successfully entered the ranks of puppet masters, but also after he left the treasure ship where his fifteenth brother Li Xuanshan was.
Within a short period of time, he successfully advanced to the first level of puppet master.
In Li Changji's view, if Li Xuanting is lucky enough to enter the foundation-building realm in the future, there will be no obstacles for him to become a second-level puppet master.
To take a step back, even if you fail to enter the foundation building stage, if you spend more time in the future, it will not be very difficult to enter the second level of puppetry.
Of course, these achievements seemed a bit bleak in front of Li Yuheng.
Li Changji invested in him before starting to build the Puppet Peak inheritance, and Li Yuheng's advancement in puppetry was so fast that even Li Changji, who already had certain psychological expectations, found it a bit incredible.
Within a few years after Li Yuheng reached the ninth level of Qi Refining, he successfully pushed his puppetry skills to the second-level high-level, and took advantage of the success of foundation building to make a second-level puppet that he had previously refined.
The high-grade puppet was re-refined into a third-level puppet, thus successfully entering the ranks of third-level puppet masters.
The puppet that he used to deal with Xu Kang and Yan Yu was the first third-level puppet that he successfully refined.
Moreover, this third-level puppet is the most advanced puppet that can be controlled by the monk himself.
It is not a low-level puppet that is of average difficulty in refining and can only perform simple actions with the support of the puppet core.
For example, the ape-shaped puppets currently guarding the Li Family Library are such low-priced puppets.
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The strength of the puppet master is very strong. If it is a puppet master who is proficient in puppet control and can control multiple high-level puppets at the same time, his combat strength is no less than the top swordsman of the same level in Dongxuan Sect.
It was precisely because of this that Yan Yu left Xu Kang behind and escaped without hesitation after he recognized that the opponent in front of him was a high-level third-level puppet.
With a puppet master that could look fake and real, Yan Yu really didn't dare to bet on whether he had other high-level puppets.
If there is, then he won't be able to escape even if he wants to.
Under the siege of many high-level puppets, he was not sure that he and Xu Kang could resist it alone.
Having been together for many years, Yan Yu has a very clear understanding of himself and Xu Kang. Neither of them are particularly powerful monks.
Of course, what Yan Yu didn't know was that because Li Yuheng had only been a third-level puppet master for a short period of time, he had only collected enough high-level materials to make one such high-level third-level puppet.
However... Yan Yu's decision was a mistake, but it was also the most correct choice at the time.
Because Li Yuheng did not rely on the power of the puppet, but only relied on his own strength, he was completely able to suppress him and Xu Kang.
His talent in physical refining is equally powerful and terrifying.
It was so scary that Li Xuangang dared to let him go from Shuangjiao City alone to the Yulingzong Mountain Gate thousands of miles away.
He is at the third level of the Puppetry Technique and has attained the level of Taiyi Four Symbols Jue. He also carries with him a third-level mid-level monster with extremely strong defense.
Li Xuangang was very sure that ordinary monks in the foundation-building stage were definitely no match for Li Yuheng.
Even if you take action yourself, you may be able to suppress him in terms of strength, but you will certainly not be able to keep him.
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Li Yuheng had previously only used a puppet to deal with Xu Kang and Yan Yu. On the one hand, it was to detect their true strength. If something went wrong, he could abandon the puppet and escape immediately.
On the other hand, he also wanted to test how his puppet control skills would perform in real combat, and whether he could really control them like an arm.
A puppet master's ability to truly compete with a sword cultivator does not only depend on the quality of the puppet, but also depends more on the puppet master's own attainments in manipulating the puppet.
Li Changqing, the clan leader, is the master of the Taiyi Four Symbol Art, so Li Yuheng has a clear understanding of his attainments in this body-refining art.
However, without the guidance of a master of puppetry or a direct life-and-death actual battle on the control of puppetry, it is difficult to have a particularly clear understanding of one's current level.
But if he can take a clear look at himself, it will be a great boost for Li Yuheng to continue to improve his level of puppetry.
Fortunately, through this unexpected ambush, Li Yuheng solved his current problems.
When facing the attack of two mid-stage foundation-building monks, he discovered that he still had a lot to improve his skills in puppet manipulation.
The biggest problem is that his manipulation is not subtle enough, which causes his puppet to frequently fall into a slow and stiff state when facing attacks, unable to avoid some simple blows.
However, Li Yuheng has already understood these problems. He is confident that after a period of practice, he will be able to deal with mid-stage foundation-building monks like Xu Kang and Yan Yu with just the third-level puppet in his hand.
Even if you don't win, you will definitely not be at a disadvantage.
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Now that he has achieved his goal, he has also confirmed the purpose of the attack by the other two.
Therefore, Li Yuheng had no intention of delaying it any longer.
Originally, he was still more than ten feet away from Xu Kang, but when he decided to leave, the distance was almost gone.
Ever since Li Yuheng appeared, Xu Kang had maintained the highest level of vigilance.
But when the former launched an attack with the Taiyi Four Symbols Jue, he still failed to react.
The figure in his eyes disappeared in an instant. When he encountered Li Yuheng's first punch, the afterimage in his pupils had not completely dissipated.
However, many years of fighting experience came into play at this moment. Xu Kang curled up his right arm and blocked it in front of him.
The next moment, the fist wrapped in pale golden light had already struck.
Severe pain hit, followed immediately by the sound of bones breaking.
Although Li Yuheng had previously only manipulated puppets to fight him and Yan Yu, now he did not use any other means and dared to face him alone.
Xu Kang already had a high estimate of Li Yuheng's strength, but he still didn't expect him to be so strong.
A punch comes out, bringing a tremendous pressure.
Along with this pressure, in addition to the pain in his forearm, Xu Kang's figure flew backwards rapidly from mid-air.
The next battle was a bit boring. Although Xu Kang had tried his best, Li Yuheng was able to resolve them one by one.
As he has no intention of procrastinating, the former has almost no room for resistance.
The powerful physique brought by the Taiyi Four Symbols Jue, coupled with several second-level puppets in Li Yuheng's hands, and various high-level spells that he himself was not weak in.
Therefore, after just a few rounds, Xu Kang was at the end of his rope.
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The sun is still shining brightly today, just like when this ambush began.
When Li Yuheng appeared behind Xu Kang for the last time, the latter, who had been seriously injured, no longer had the strength to resist.
With a stern face, he stretched out his right hand and pinched Xu Kang's neck firmly.
With the exertion of force between his fingers, the latter's entire body went limp. After two breaths, Xu Kang completely lost all his breath.
At this moment, Li Yuheng was in the same state as most of the Li clan members when performing tasks.
Calm and decisive, he does not hide his murderous intention and never acts sloppily.
He took his hand back with a calm expression, and Xu Kang fell down.
Li Yuheng looked down, and in his eyes Xu Kang's body began to burn. Before it hit the ground, it turned into a pile of gray-black flying smoke and disappeared with the wind.
With a gesture of his hand, three storage bags appeared from the ashes and flew back to Li Yuheng's hands.
However, he did not open it immediately to check, but turned his hand to put it away, and then looked up in the direction where Yan Yu had escaped.
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Yan Yu failed to escape successfully. After disappearing from the sight of Li Yuheng and Xu Kang, he was stopped by a huge creature on a hill.
It was a third-level middle-grade black turtle.
By the time Li Yuheng arrived at the hill, Yan Yu was trapped in a water-blue bubble.
Seeing Li Yuheng appear, Xuangui moved towards him and made a gurgling sound from his mouth.
That was because it was complaining, saying that Li Yuheng came a little later than the agreed time.
That person just scared it.
Li Yuhengsheng patted Xuan Gui's head to express comfort and promised something via voice transmission.
Now Xuangui is happy.
So it controlled the water-blue bubble that trapped Yan Yu to float over, and hovered in front of Li Yuheng as if taking credit.
Yan Yu, who was trapped in the bubble, felt despair in his heart. Now that he could see Li Yuheng here again, he naturally guessed Xu Kang's ending.
As for the bubble that trapped him, he tried various methods to break it, but in vain.
"Fellow......"
An ice-blue spear passed through the bubble and passed through his Dantian, and blood slowly flowed outward along the wound.
A trace of blood spilled from the corner of Yan Yu's mouth, and he could no longer speak, only a few intermittent choked sobs.
Li Yuheng thought most of his fifteenth uncle Li Xuanshan's actions and opinions were average, but there was only one thing he agreed with.
"If you want to kill, you must be prepared to be killed. Some things in this world are fair, such as killing and being killed."
But what Li Yuheng actually didn't know was that these words were spoken by Li Xuangang to Li Xuanshan after the ninth Li Xuangang and his thirteenth uncle Li Xuanyuan completed a family interception mission in Mangshanfang City.
The latter deeply believed this.
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The water-blue bubbles suddenly tightened and then exploded with a bang.
Countless brilliant light blue spots appeared in the sky, scattered in all directions, and finally disappeared completely, leaving no trace.
Yan Yu also disappeared with him. Except for the four storage bags around his waist, his existence had been completely erased from this world.
When everything calmed down, Li Yuheng put the black turtle into the spirit beast bag, and put the newly acquired storage bags together into his arms.
His body hung in the air, and his eyes searched for the direction again.
A moment later, a flash of light entered the area outside the Yulingzong Mountain Gate, where monsters were raised thousands of miles away.
A few days later, when Li Yuheng showed his figure again, he had already reached the outermost edge of Yulingzong's mountain gate.
The sky was clear, the mountains were beautiful, and the auras of powerful monsters came from them one after another.
Li Yuheng fell from the sky, looked up, then straightened his clothes and walked up a wide stone staircase.
When you reach the end of the line, an extremely majestic stone gate appears in front of you, with countless rare and exotic animals carved on it.
"This is the Yuling Sect!"
Li Yuheng was about to cross it when two monks in bright yellow clothes appeared unexpectedly from the door and stopped him.
After a brief inquiry, Li Yuheng finally took out the black token from the storage bag.
The two monks from the Yuling Sect took it for inspection, looked at each other, and confirmed the authenticity of the token. They then handed it back and pointed to the sect's pavilion where this task was handled.
After receiving the token, Li Yuheng bowed slightly and saluted, and finally walked past the two men and truly entered the mountain gate of Yuling Sect.
At the same time, Li Xuangang finally made a profit in the secret market in Shuangjiao City. He stopped in front of a monk setting up a stall and stared at a smooth, translucent, warm and delicate white jade pendant.
(ps: Sorry, I’m home this week, so I’m just updating now.)