Xiuxian: I use magnetic fields to prove my truth

Chapter 356 Blood and Flesh Refining Technique
Zhou Qing laughed and said, "Their methods are quite skillful."

This way, one can gradually eliminate this unpopular group without openly committing massacres and ruining one's own reputation.

He looked at Chen Xiao and asked, "How did you get back?"

Chen Xiao said, "Everyone there is living a life worse than death. They all want to return to the Western Continent. People often secretly go to the Two Realms Mountain to try to cross the barrier."

"The barrier isn't very strong; even Foundation Establishment cultivators can force their way through. The only concern is being detected by the guards of the four major towns."

"However, if there are too many people and they break out separately, the guards cannot kill them all in one go, and some of them will eventually manage to get through."

"This time, in order to ask the True Lord for help, we sent out nearly a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators, and in the end, only I managed to break through."

"I hope that the True Lord will take us back, considering that we all belong to the same lineage in the Western Continent."

Zhou Qing remained noncommittal, saying, "Even if I wanted to bring you back, the other side has too many people and too much power, so I can't protect all of you."

Chen Xiao said, "We are willing to take the risk as long as the True Lord is willing to make a move."

“True Lord, you can go to the Central Continent with me to meet the seniors there. We can discuss the direction of our breakout. As long as you can distract them for a while, we will do our best to break out to the Western Continent.”

"Whether we live or die at that time, we will have no complaints."

Zhou Qing nodded and smiled, "Go and rest first, and I will give you an answer later."

"Xiao Xiao, you entertain Chen Xiao for me."

"Yes."

Xiao Xiao then took Chen Xiao away.

After the two walked out, Lin Li sneered, "Back then, they didn't think highly of Master and moved away from the Western Continent as if they were avoiding fire and water. Now that they're not doing well there, they're begging Master for help."

"Master, let's ignore them."

Zhou Qing nodded, looked at Nie Yunxi and Qin Xue, and smiled, "What are your thoughts?"

Qin Xue shook her head and didn't say anything.

Nie Yunxi said with a wry smile, "I'm a little worried about Master and the others. However, the situation in Zhongzhou is too complicated, and they are full of malice towards Senior Brother. Even though Senior Brother has the Golden Light Escape Technique, it is still not very safe for him to go to Zhongzhou. It's better not to pay attention to them."

"Chen Xiao is absolutely untrustworthy!"

Huang Quan said with a cynical tone, "Nearly a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators broke through the encirclement, and the one who succeeded was Chen Xiao, who knows Master. I think there must be something fishy going on."

Zhou Qing gave Huang Quan an approving look and smiled, "It's really not easy for you to think of this."

“Go and tell Chen Xiao to rest at the Dharma Propagation Center for ten days. After ten days, I will go to Zhongzhou with him.”

The group was all shocked and exclaimed, "Master, you mustn't!"

Zhou Qing smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have my own plans."

He waved for the others to leave, and then rushed to Dahua Peak, where Bai Mei was located. This peak had the best array research room in the entire Hongfa Daoist Temple. He needed to make some preparations before heading to Zhongzhou.

Zhou Qing shares the same view as Huang Quan.

Of the nearly one hundred cultivators who broke through the encirclement, the one who succeeded was Chen Xiao, whom he knew—a one percent chance.

While such a low-probability event cannot definitively prove fraud, the probability of it being fraudulent is still relatively high.

If Chen Xiao really came back with a purpose, to lure him to Zhongzhou, Zhou Qing was somewhat curious as to why now of all times.

The two have been separated for nearly four years, and because the other side has been unable to overcome his escape techniques, they have remained at peace. Now, the sudden attempt to lure him to the Central Continent must mean that the other side has gained some confidence and believes that they can deal with his escape techniques.

However, this method must have many limitations; otherwise, the other party could simply attack the Dharma propagation site directly without needing to lure him there.

Therefore, Zhou Qing guessed that this should be some kind of formation that needed to be set up in advance.

Since that's the case, he should go and check it out, at least to find out what method the other party used to restrict the escape light, so that he can be prepared.

Zhou Qing borrowed the research room from Bai Mei, intending to create a puppet for himself.

He wouldn't go into danger himself; he'd just use a puppet or something to make a show of it.

Of course, to get away with it, the puppet must be made to look completely real, so that it can fool the enemy.

Considering that the opponent was definitely a Nascent Soul cultivator, he had to find a way to deceive them.

This is a huge challenge.

Zhou Qing fiddled with the array in the research room for a while. Having not touched arrays for a long time, he felt a little rusty. However, after only half a day of fiddling with it, he felt the profound memories from before rushing back.

The research room of the Dharma propagation center is very powerful, and more importantly, their rune resources are incredibly abundant. Tens of thousands of runes are at his disposal, which can realize the most outrageous ideas.

However, to make runes effective, you first need to be creative.

Zhou Qing considered several plans in his mind, but none of them seemed quite reliable. The biggest challenge was how to deceive the powerful divine sense of a Nascent Soul expert.

Moreover, when cultivators recognize a person, they perceive their aura, not their appearance.

The Nascent Soul cultivators of the Four Great Dao Palaces probably already had his aura imprinted in their minds; it would be too difficult to deceive them.

Zhou Qing worked for three days, trying several solutions, but none of them were successful.

The first difficulty was that he was not familiar with puppet making, which was a craft of weapon crafting, not his specialty, but this was easy to solve.

The Dharma propagation center itself has powerful weapon refiners.

Upon learning of Zhou Qing's needs, Bai Mei assigned the chief weapon refiner named Mo Liming to Zhou Qing.

Mo Liming is proficient in flesh and blood refining techniques, and can create real flesh and blood bodies, which can be driven by simple arrays.

This is a small branch of weapon crafting, with the ultimate goal of creating truly sentient humans.

Unfortunately, even the most skilled flesh-and-blood weapon refiners can only create soulless bodies, at most coordinating them with formations.

Since it has no soul, it naturally has no aura; it's just a blank slate.

Zhou Qing tried to improve several arrays for imprinting aura, hoping to imprint his own aura and then implant it into his physical body to deceive the system.

This formation has existed for a long time. When he first entered the Qingyun Sect, he left his aura in the Hall of Imprints.

However, the aura imprinted by this array is incomplete. It is fine for deceiving ordinary cultivators, but it is not enough to deal with the divine sense of a Nascent Soul True Monarch, let alone a Deity Transformation cultivator.

Zhou Qing improved several formations, imprinted his own aura on them, and then had Bai Mei try to identify them.

Although his improved formation was much more powerful, Bai Mei could still sense a slight abnormality.

Even Bai Mei could sense it, let alone those Nascent Soul cultivators who were countless times more powerful.

Zhou Qing pondered for several days, and with the ten-day deadline fast approaching, he still had no clue. He wondered if he had no choice but to give up on the plan.

He paced back and forth in the research room for a while, thinking, if a direct approach is not feasible, could he take a roundabout route to bypass the problem?
(End of this chapter)