Embers of Sword

Chapter 41 Heavenly Puppet Sect

"Living corpse?"

The moment he heard the burly giant's wailing, Xie Xuanyi reacted.

Whether it is the mechanical technology in Da Chu or Nanli, they are actually just orthodox ones, but a little bit unconventional.

A little off-the-beaten-path, but definitely not evil!

Xie Xuanyi had seen the evil art of refining living people into machines in the hands of evil cultivators in the Ten Thousand Mountains. This was a technique called "refining living corpses". This technique often selected strong and healthy practitioners, who, after a sacrifice of flesh and blood, turned them into so-called "living corpses".

This technique goes against the will of heaven and the harmony of mankind. Both Da Chu and Nanli have listed it as a forbidden technique.

But those evil cultivators in the Ten Thousand Mountains of Southern Xinjiang... don't care about morality or laws.

All one needs to do is betray one's bottom line and perform blood refining, then one can transform a fresh and strong young body into one's loyal servant, a warrior who will go through fire and water for one's life.

Many evil cultivators have refined their own "zombies"!
Xie Xuanyi grasped the scabbard with both hands, and used it as a long sword, piercing Jialiu's chest. He knew that the one playing against him at the moment was just a puppet, and the real master was someone else, and most likely he was hiding nearby, using his spiritual consciousness to control the puppet zombies to fight.

Now he has the advantage. This zombie soul is very powerful, but unfortunately the terrain of Chenqing Mountain is dangerous and the area is small, leaving almost no room for close combat.

The sword pierced it.

As long as Xie Xuanyi doesn't let go...

Even if this zombie had great strength, it couldn't turn over.

"It turns out that you are not only the great boy that the Demon Country's Venerable believed in, but also the sinister little devil who cannot stand the light of day in Southern Xinjiang."

Xie Xuanyi loosened his hands, put one foot on the hilt of the sword, and slowly stood up.

The strong wind blew up the black clothes.

He looked around; everything was quiet.

The real Jialiuzhe is found in the mountains and wilds.

He finally knew what Jialiu had been doing during the three days when he postponed his plan... The identity of this evil cultivator from Southern Xinjiang was really terrible, and he must have gone through a lot of hardships to set foot in Qingzhou.

If I'm not mistaken, Jialiu has to do two things in this transaction tonight.

One is to get the finger bones.

The second is to kill Yisan.

"Isn't it the same for you?"

Amid the sound of the wind echoing in the dark night, there were a few mocking laughs.

"The intelligence about Yi San given by the Demon Country is completely different from yours... The Yi San in the intelligence is good at using a spear and is at the peak of the Qi Control Realm. You are only at the Qi Refining Realm, so you should be a Body Refiner. You are carrying a broken sword and want to pretend to be a sword cultivator?"

Hearing this, Xie Xuanyi couldn't help but laugh.

interesting.

Interesting indeed.

Judging from the other party's tone, this "Jia Liu" who is deeply trusted by the Venerable and entrusted with important tasks by the Demon Country seems to be fake?

"Since we are of the same mind, why bother with swords and knives?"

Xie Xuanyi said calmly: "Why don't we come out and meet each other, and turn hostility into friendship."

After finding out the identity of the zombie, he released his spiritual sense, covering most of Chenqing Mountain.

Although his vitality is weak, his spirit is still strong.

The art of controlling the strings with mechanisms is most afraid of others revealing the true identity. The master behind this puppet must be living in Chenqing Mountain at this moment!
Every time a sound is transmitted, there will be fluctuations in the soul.

Xie Xuanyi wanted to calm down the zombie master and find out his hiding place through conversation!
"fart."

A sneer sounded again in the mountain: "Who is your fellow traveler? Bai Ze has only one finger bone. Tonight, either you die or I die!"

The voice just fell.

Xie Xuanyi chuckled and said, "Is that so? Are you a little too confident?"

next moment.

Xie Xuanyi's gaze was cast towards an extremely remote and dark corner deep in the purple bamboo forest.

He kicked the sword again, but this time, what flew out was no longer just the scabbard, but the snow-white flying sword hidden in the scabbard!

hum!
A wisp of golden energy attached to the blade of the flying sword, instantly penetrating a distance of a hundred feet!

"...?"

The flying sword instantly sank into darkness, and a puff of blood splashed out from the depths of the purple bamboo forest. Accompanied by a groan of confusion and pain, an extremely petite figure escaped from the shadows of the bamboo forest. Xie Xuanyi gently raised his hand.

The flying sword flew away and came back, flying into his palm again.

The whole process took only three or four breaths, and he was stepping on the huge and burly puppet the whole time.

Xie Xuanyi narrowed his eyes. He didn't expect that Jia Liu, who had won the trust of the Demon Country, was actually just a woman...but this woman's appearance was completely incomparable to the previous Demon Country spy Shen Yan.

Jialiu had a hideous face, covered with scars, and was covered in a black robe.

At this moment she covered her shoulders with one hand.

Blood gushed out and flowed down from between his fingers.

At that moment just now, Xie Xuanyi's flying sword was too fast, and Jia Liu didn't even think that her position would be exposed... but she didn't show much pain at this moment.

After being hit by a sword.

Jialiu's scarred face instead showed a nonchalant smile.

"There are many evil cultivators in southern Xinjiang who are good at mechanical engineering."

Xie Xuanyi looked at the woman in front of him and spoke slowly: "In order to protect themselves, these shady guys chose to huddle together for warmth, so after gathering together, they formed the 'Tiangui Sect' which is as notorious as Yinshan... If I guess correctly, your 'Zombie' refining technique comes from the Tiangui Sect, right?"

"You know a lot."

Jia Liu laughed coldly, "You keep calling me something that cannot be seen in public. If you can be seen in public, why do you have to hide it? Didn't you want to be honest with me before? Now that we are together, why don't you take off your face and talk?"

The Tiangui Sect is good at skinning and extracting bones, and refining blood of living people!
The "resin skin" made by Xie Xuanyi was a child's play in their eyes, because they would actually peel off an entire human face to make a "human skin mask"!
Jialiu is an expert in this.

So with just one glance, one could tell that Xie Xuanyi was wearing a false face.

Xie Xuanyi smiled and shook his head.

"We chose to meet at Chenqing Mountain, and we have three full days. You wouldn't have prepared only one zombie, right?"

He spun his sword and pointed the tip of the sword at the woman not far away.

"you guess?"

Jia Liu still had that nonchalant sneer on his face. After a pause, he slowly asked, "Guess... does this disciple of the Tiangui Sect only know the art of blood-refining mechanisms?"

Xie Xuanyi frowned slightly.

He noticed something very strange.

The bloody hole on Jialiu's shoulder that was previously pierced by the flying sword was still bleeding. If he guessed correctly, this woman was very likely to be in the Cave Heaven Realm!

With the cultivation level of the vital energy in the Cave Heaven Realm, it is not difficult to seal the wound and stop the bleeding quickly!
Wait…blood?

Xie Xuanyi lowered his head with a gloomy expression. The flying sword that had returned had its shiny white blade stained with a hint of scarlet at some point. This was the blood that was brought back when it pierced Jia Liu's shoulder.

"I love to 'eat' you body cultivators the most."

The woman covered her shoulders with her hands and lowered her head, laughing foolishly.

The next moment she raised her head suddenly——

Between her eyebrows, a ray of scarlet light burst out and condensed into a vertical pupil. Thousands of strands of bloody smell mixed together to form this vertical pupil.

There is a world of difference between the Cave Heaven Realm and the Qi Controlling Realm.

Want to enter this place...

Practitioners need to concentrate their vital energy and condense their own "Dongtian Divine Palace" at the Dantian location!
A thousand practitioners will often form a thousand different "cave heavens".

After reaching this level, the cave heaven will become the source of power for practitioners. Due to differences in practice methods, qualifications, and many other factors... the strength gap in this level is extremely huge. Similarly, if two cave heaven cultivators of similar levels attack each other, it is very likely that one side will be crushed!

Three thousand avenues, billions of seeds.

Every cave can be regarded as a seed of the Great Dao. As long as the owner of the cave practices diligently and excavates carefully, it will bring out the unique characteristics of the Great Dao!

The path of spiritual practice begins with one step.

One day, you will be able to reach the sky.

This is the origin of the word "Dongtian".

At this moment, the remaining blood adhering to the flying sword resonated with the scarlet vertical pupil that opened between Jialiu's eyebrows.

An extremely strong sense of crisis, far exceeding the night attack on Tai'an City, suddenly surged into Xie Xuanyi's heart!
"Bang" sound!
The flying sword exploded!

A huge blood mist exploded in the purple bamboo forest!
(End of this chapter)