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Chapter 132 Reunion in Qincheng

Qin City is a large city located next to the Qinling Mountains. It is inhabited by many ordinary people as well as a large number of cultivators. It is somewhat similar to the Holy City of the Northern Region, except that it is not as large or famous as the Holy City.

After entering the Ascension Platform, Zhang Taichu came here and found a small courtyard to stay in.

He had scouted the Immortal Transformation Pool in the Qinling Mountains some time ago and found that it was not yet time to open, so he returned.

For some time afterward, he studied puppetry and saw if he could use it to comprehend the first imperial script of the secrets of clones.

On this day, Zhang Taichu had just controlled eighteen iron-winged birds to circle above the courtyard when a familiar sound came from outside the courtyard.

"It's been two years. Why have you switched to puppetry?"

The courtyard gate opened, and the Holy Maiden of Yaochi stepped in, followed by two Yaochi elders.

Zhang Taichu carefully examined the Holy Maiden of Yaochi and discovered that her strength had reached the Ninth Transformation of Dragon Transformation, only one step away from the Immortal Platform.

"Haha, congratulations on the great increase in the Holy Maiden's cultivation. She is about to enter the Immortal Platform."

The Holy Maiden of Yaochi summoned an iron-winged bird, examining it as she spoke.

"I still can't compare to you. In just two years, you've already reached the first or second level of the Immortal Realm. The gap between us is widening."

Zhang Taichu first bowed to the two Yaochi elders, and then two humanoid puppets came out of the room and brought out a table and chairs for the three of them to sit down.

"It was just a lucky breakthrough. With your foundation, Holy Maiden, you could catch up with me at any time."

With an elder present, Zhang Taichu and the Holy Maiden of Yaochi couldn't appear too close, so they started talking about the Qinling Immortal Pool and the Eternal Dragon Cave.

"This time, all the sects learned from the Divine Calculator that the Immortal Transformation Pool is about to open. In the coming period, many experts will come. However, the Divine Calculator cannot calculate the exact location of the Immortal Transformation Pool and the Eternal Dragon's Lair. According to him, if he were to try to calculate it by force, he would lose his life."

Zhang Taichu waved his hand.

"Everyone has their own expertise. It's already quite remarkable that he can calculate the time. As for the location, that's my area of ​​expertise."

The two Yaochi elders' eyes lit up.

"So, you already knew?"

"That's right. I went into the mountains a few days ago and saw that the Immortal Transformation Pool and the Eternal Dragon Cave appear together. Moreover, the two complement each other and have a yin-yang relationship. Finding one is equivalent to finding both."

The three from Yaochi immediately knew that Zhang Taichu had a plan, and sure enough—

"According to my calculations, they should appear in twenty days. Even if we go now, we'll have to wait there. If we force our way in before the appointed time, or if we don't follow the specific path, we'll surely die!"

"Of course, nothing is absolute. If one has the power of a saint, one can ignore the path, but it will still take time."

Upon hearing that Zhang Taichu had even calculated the path and time, the three from Yaochi were completely relieved.

The two elders of Yaochi then took their leave, clearly intending to report the matter to the others in Yaochi and also hoping to use this information to see if they could find some allies.

The Holy Maiden of Yaochi stayed behind, and the third wheel finally left. Zhang Taichu grabbed the Holy Maiden's hand, and she playfully punched him lightly.

"You've been gone for two years. Have you been having a great time? You haven't sent back a single message, making me worry for nothing. I thought you'd been killed by those assassins from the God of Assassins."

"This is my fault, but I have my reasons. After all, I lost all my magic power during the trials of the mortal world, so I don't have the ability to send you a message even if I wanted to."

"Refining one's heart in the mortal world?!"

The Holy Maiden of Yaochi's expression changed slightly. Clearly, she had also heard of this secret method. The Western Emperor Scripture was profound and extensive, containing many secret methods for breaking through to the Immortal Platform, and also providing some ideas.

Among these ideas is a similar approach to refining one's heart in the mortal world. However, the Queen Mother of the West felt that this method was too radical and could lead to death if something went wrong, so she did not create any related secret techniques.

Zhang Taichu then told the Holy Maiden of Yaochi about the secret method of tempering one's heart in the mortal world, as well as his experiences over the past two years.

Upon hearing that the Red Dust Refining Heart would completely seal one's magical power, even rendering one unable to use one's divine sense, and turning one into a mere mortal struggling in the mortal world, the latter's face immediately showed a hint of fear.

"Taichu, you're being too impulsive. What am I supposed to do if something dangerous happens?"

Zhang Taichu was taken aback, then noticed that the Holy Maiden of Yaochi had slightly red eyes, clearly showing that she was genuinely concerned about him.

Almost instinctively, Zhang Taichu gently embraced the Holy Maiden of Yaochi. The latter's body stiffened at first, but she did not push Zhang Taichu away.

After a long while, the two separated, the Holy Maiden of Yaochi blushing and very shy.

Zhang Taichu scratched his head, feeling the atmosphere was a bit ambiguous. Although he wanted to take things further, he also knew that the Holy Maiden of Yaochi was traditional after all, and being too radical might have the opposite effect.

So I quickly changed the subject, took out the puppets, and started telling him about the Puppet Sect.

Once the matter was brought up, the Holy Maiden of Yaochi was indeed much better, and the redness on her face gradually faded.

"Puppet Sect? I've never heard of this sect, but the Yaochi's records do mention the secret art of puppetry. It seems that ten thousand years ago, a demon in the Eastern Wilderness used puppetry. Every time he made a move, he would command dozens of puppets to fight together."

"This demon himself is only at the fourth level of strength, but his puppets have the combat power of the Dragon Transformation Realm. In addition, there are many of them, so it is extremely difficult to defeat him."

"Moreover, this demon is extremely bloodthirsty. After killing his enemies, he would extract their souls and refine their spirits. He even committed the heinous act of slaughtering an entire mortal city and extracting the souls of all its inhabitants."

"In the end, it was a righteous person from the Sendai realm who killed him. From then on, no one in the Eastern Wilderness used puppetry. It seems that the demon's descendants probably fled the Eastern Wilderness after that battle and went to the desolate Northern Plains."

The Holy Maiden of Yaochi made a lot of sense. Zhang Taichu also learned from the memories of those two senior and junior disciples that their sect had fled to Beiyuan from another place.

Otherwise, which sect would abandon such good places as the Central Plains and the Eastern Wilderness and go to the Northern Plains, which has the poorest resources?

The entire Beidou system comprises five continents, among which the Beiyuan and Ximo regions have the worst environments.

One of these places is covered in ice and snow all year round, and the other is a vast desert. Compared with the Eastern Wilderness and the Southern Ridge, they are indeed much worse, not to mention compared with the Central Plains.

Competition is fierce in Zhongzhou, and Nanling is the territory of the demon race, so the Puppet Sect is most likely a refugee from the Eastern Wilderness.

The Holy Maiden of Yaochi took the puppet technique and studied it carefully. Sure enough, she saw the evil art of extracting and refining souls. However, she also discovered that the reason for extracting and refining souls was that the cultivator's soul was too weak.

If one possesses powerful spiritual energy, there is no need for such actions. Moreover, the practice of extracting and refining souls is too evil and easily invites heavenly tribulation and annihilation.

It is precisely for this reason that this sect rarely produces experts, especially those above the Fourth Extreme Realm, who are extremely rare.

Because once one's cultivation reaches the Four Extremes Realm, one may attract a Heavenly Tribulation. Ordinary people don't need to worry about this, but those who cultivate evil arts will be constantly watched by the Great Dao.

Especially after reaching the Four Extremes Realm, if you try to kill someone to refine their soul, the Heavenly Tribulation will arrive immediately and strike you down without hesitation.

"This puppetry technique seems extremely profound, and it doesn't match the other techniques of the Puppet Sect. Could it be that it wasn't created by the same person?"

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The Holy Maiden of Yaochi had a very high standard, especially after obtaining several Imperial Scriptures, which broadened her horizons even further, and she quickly saw the problem.

Zhang Taichu then shared his judgment, and the Holy Maiden of Yaochi agreed with this deduction. The puppet technique should have originated from an unknown quasi-emperor, and the Puppet Sect must have accidentally obtained this secret technique, but did not have a matching secret realm cultivation method, so they came up with the evil technique of extracting souls and refining spirits.

"This secret technique is good, but it's not suitable for me."

The Holy Maiden of Yaochi had no interest in cultivating the technique and returned it to Zhang Taichu. Afterward, the two began to chat about other things.

While the two were chatting, Black Emperor, Little Girl and a few bandits were having a conflict with Wang Teng's brother Wang Chong on the streets of Qincheng.

"Where is your Ye Fan? Tell him to come out and face his death! How dare he compare himself to my brother? He's really overestimating himself."

Surrounded by a group of scoundrels, Wang Chong looked down on everyone, displaying the arrogant and conceited nature of a second-generation rich kid.

"Where did this little brat come from? Isn't anyone supervising him?"

Pang Bo had a stern face, looking very disdainful.

At this moment, Li Heishui secretly transmitted his voice to him, informing him of the other party's identity.

"So you're the younger brother of that Northern Emperor Wang Teng. No wonder you're so ill-mannered. Judging by your upbringing, having a brother like you proves that Wang Teng himself isn't much better. The Northern Emperor? Does he really think he's the great emperor of this era?"

"You dare insult my brother? You're asking for death!"

A golden chariot suddenly appeared beneath Wang Chong and roared as it charged forward. Pang Bo, however, was not going to tolerate it and immediately unleashed the Demon Emperor's Nine Slashes.

His eyes flashed with divine light as he blasted towards the chariot.

Wang Chong cried out in alarm and was blasted backward. However, his chariot was one that the Chaotic Ancient Emperor had once used. Although it was not a sacred weapon, it was still quite powerful and protected Wang Chong from injury.

Meanwhile, the commotion alerted the entire Qin City, with cultivators constantly flying over to see what was happening, and even powerful figures using their divine sense to scan the area and see what was going on.

This includes Zhang Taichu. Having experienced the trials of the mortal world, his current spiritual strength is no less than that of those powerful second-level immortals, and he also used his spiritual sense.

Just then, he noticed an extremely powerful force rushing towards him at high speed from a distance.

Besides this one, there are several other relatively weaker stocks, but their growth rates are also quite fast.

One of them was Ye Fan.

"Dragon Transformation Perfected! Good heavens, as expected of the protagonist of Shrouding the Heavens, his leveling speed is truly unmatched."

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In just two years, he has upgraded from the second transformation of the dragon to the ninth transformation of the dragon and is about to step into the Sendai.

Such a terrifying speed of upgrades shocked even Zhang Taichu, let alone the geniuses of the Eastern Wilderness.

Just as Zhang Taichu was sighing, Ye Fan had already used the Traveling Technique to reach the city and meet up with Pang Bo and the others.

The powerful figure that Zhang Taichu sensed was none other than the Northern Emperor Teng.

"Brother, these guys look down on you, let's wipe them out together!"

As soon as Wang Teng arrived, Wang Chong found his pillar of support and immediately rushed over to complain.

Wang Teng glanced coldly at Pang Bo and the others, his gaze lingering on Ye Fan for a moment before he was about to say something.

Just then, his two ancient clan subordinates suddenly approached.

"Master, the target has been found; he's inside the city!"

A hint of surprise flashed in Wang Teng's eyes.

"Are you sure? It's definitely Zhang Taichu?"

"It's confirmed. He's not concealing his presence, and he's so close. We can't be mistaken."

"Good! He's finally appeared. Keep an eye on him!"

Wang Teng grabbed his younger brother Wang Chong and threw him toward two members of the Primordial Clan, then shouted a message from above the city.

"Zhang Taichu, come out and greet us!"