Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 133 Under the Clouds
"The Alliance Leader has rewarded me generously, and I am deeply grateful. If you can ever use me again in the future, I will do my best to serve you!"

Old man Ban Hou thanked Rong Yue profusely and left with her on duty. The joy on his face was not fake at all.

Originally, the old man thought that he would probably never be able to use this incomplete second-level puppetry skill in his lifetime, so he offered it as a way to make up for his previous refusal and to please Li Ye at the same time.

Even if there is no compensation, it can be considered as planning for my future.

But he never expected that Li Ye was so generous. Giving him a few bottles of elixirs was enough to give this old man a chance to glimpse the scenery of the late stage of Qi training...

Whether it is for yourself or for future generations, it is a great opportunity!
Compared to what he paid, it was totally worth it!

Li Ye collected all the puppets on the field, then leisurely returned to his cave of practice and took out the jade slip given to him by old man Ban Hou.

Just now he just took a quick look and roughly estimated the role and value of this incomplete inheritance content.

Now I have to think about it carefully.

After a few hours, Li Ye's frown slowly relaxed, his facial expression became relaxed, and he even smiled a little more.

"The contents are indeed severely incomplete, no wonder these old men were able to keep them. But they are still somewhat useful... Exchanging them for the elixir is a good deal!"

This thing can no longer be considered an incomplete inheritance. At most, it is just some fragmentary second-level skills and drawings.

Aside from some obviously missing and incomplete descriptions of the spiritual secrets used to control the puppets, there were only fragmentary drawings of a few types of armor, weapons, or accessories used by the puppets...

Perhaps it was used to match some second-level puppets, but there were no corresponding puppet drawings. Li Ye only speculated from the puppets recorded in the first-level inheritance of his lineage.

"Hmm... If my puppetry skills improve in the future, I can use these accessories to try to upgrade those puppets that correspond to the first level. If they can reach the second level, it can also be a supplement..."

He thought about it secretly and put it aside, and immediately focused his attention on the puppet secret technique.

He is still researching how to make a first-level puppet. Even with the help of spiritual consciousness, the efficiency improvement is much higher than studying other arts while practicing Qi, but it also takes time to accumulate.

It’s too early to say so much now!
However, the puppet secret art is based on spiritual consciousness, so there is no such threshold.

Although it is difficult to even piece together a complete secret method, when combined with the effect of the Thousand Thoughts Divine Art, it can enhance the condensed effect of the spiritual consciousness attached to the puppet, making its control range wider.

This is quite suitable for his purpose of studying puppets!

In the next few days, Li Ye spent most of his time practicing the secret art of puppet manipulation, and combining his own talismans, witchcraft and other methods to transform several puppets and add some tricks.

After all preparations were completed, he changed his appearance and quietly came to Dengyun Market. Holding a token, he entered a courtyard that had been uninhabited for some time and went straight to the master bedroom.

"The Lava Underground Palace is actually right under Dengyun Market. I never imagined such a coincidence would happen... No wonder the Ma Ying was willing to join forces with Xu Pingyang!"

Looking at the dust-covered room, Li Ye frowned slightly and waved his sleeves. Magic power surged out and swept the dust away into the courtyard outside.

Seeing that the floor was much cleaner, he thoughtfully walked a few steps in the house, as if trying something.

It was not until he saw a slightly different pattern on a brick that Li Ye suddenly stopped and used his magic power to attack and memorize that tile in a fixed order.

Throughout the process, he always kept his distance from them and was ready to retreat at any time.

But the accident did not happen.

click!
As he unleashed his final burst of magic power, the seemingly seamless floor tiles shifted, revealing a deep passageway leading nowhere. Seeing this, Li Ye extended his spiritual sense to scan the depths of the passageway, reaching his full potential, yet he still couldn't reach its bottom!

However, it is basically certain that the location has been discovered by spiritual consciousness and there is no hidden danger.

"The information left by Xu Pingyang and Ma Ying is so reliable... Even this passageway doesn't have any traps?"

Li Ye murmured, still a little suspicious.

Although the notes they left behind seemed to simply record their findings from their exploration of the lava underground palace, judging by the content alone, there was indeed nothing wrong with them...

Even this courtyard was found by him by piecing together the information left by both parties, so there should be no problem.

But we still have to take precautions.

As someone who practices wood-attributed martial arts, the fire prevention methods I have tried to collect during this period are extremely limited. If there is a trap waiting below, it will be difficult to escape!
"Just go down and take a look for me first!"

Li Ye slapped his storage bag, and his spiritual consciousness fell on a flying bird puppet, which immediately flapped its wings nimbly and flew straight down to the deep passage.

With the help of differentiated divine consciousness and puppet secret techniques, this differentiated divine consciousness still maintains a certain degree of autonomy even if it exceeds Li Ye's sensing limit.

Standing at the entrance, Li Ye waited for a moment, and the flying bird puppet flew out again, with a little more heat on its body, but no injuries.

He took back the spiritual consciousness attached to it and summoned out the shadow-retaining Gu and sound-retaining Gu that were living in the bird's body.

Li Ye sensed the information with his spiritual sense and compared it with the projected images, and he immediately had a clear understanding of the situation below.

"This road leads directly underground. At the end, a relatively stable underground fire cave passage has been opened. It's blocked by a formation, so we can't go any further... but there's definitely no other danger!"

With confidence in his heart, Li Ye immediately raised the protective spiritual light, holding the talismans of escape into the earth and like a mountain in his hands, and slowly fell down.

The passage was dark for only a short while. As one went deeper, the fire spirit became increasingly active and the temperature rose. A dark red light gradually began to appear below.

As the red light grew brighter, the entire passage was illuminated in red. Li Ye finally saw the bottom of the passage and the entrance to the underground fire cave, which suddenly opened up a little.

And a formation that encloses it and has a faint glow of fire.

"This formation indeed possesses the power of a second-order formation. Although it's only a small formation and can't compare to the mountain gate formation, it still takes some effort to break through and enter the foundation..."

"Furthermore, the formation restriction requires the two tokens to work together. For Xu Pingyang and Ma Ying, who are not proficient in formation techniques, it can indeed play a certain role in restraining each other!"

Li Ye looked at the formation and nodded secretly, "But this formation is of great value. I don't know if it was brought by Xu Pingyang or Ma Ying... If it's the former, it's fine. If it's the latter, the family background is probably much higher than I expected..."

"Who knows, he might be on good terms with a second-level formation master!"

Being alert in his heart, Li Ye immediately raised two tokens to control the formation, and then slowly opened it.

The barrier of the formation retreated, and suddenly a heat wave hit him in the face. Li Ye sent several puppets into the lava cave with an expressionless face.

According to the information left by the two, the lava underground palace has chaotic formations and is extremely dangerous, so he must explore it carefully.

(End of this chapter)