Wild Dogs

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man raised his eyebrows.

"I'm asking how you obtained this puppet?"

The man's voice carried an undeniable air of authority.

Zhou Peng could only lower his head and confess honestly.

"My lord, in response to your question, a few years ago I was fighting with my enemy in Dali. I was outmatched and my physical body was destroyed. Fortunately, my soul escaped, so I was not completely annihilated."

Although my soul escaped, I couldn't find a suitable target to possess, so in desperation I had no choice but to possess a corpse.

The adults also understand that we cultivators can only possess a body once at most.

After possessing this corpse, I knew I could not take revenge, so I could only hide my identity and flee here.

"May I ask what brings you here, sir? If there is anything I can do to assist you, please speak frankly. I will go through fire and water for you."

As he spoke, Zhou Peng knelt down with a thud and kowtowed repeatedly to the other party.

"Oh, so you're saying you're from the Dali side, and your physical body was destroyed by your enemies?"

Yes, that's true.

Zhou Peng spoke cautiously.

He was well aware that there were many flaws in his fabricated story, but in his haste, he couldn't come up with a more convincing lie.

Upon hearing this, the man glanced at Zhou Peng and smiled slightly.

"Okay, let's assume you're telling the truth."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Peng immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

But then the man spoke up condescendingly.

"But why did you lead those people away?"

You were hiding nearby, just waiting patiently until they left, so why did you have to go through all that trouble to lure them away?

I think your puppet is equivalent to the Foundation Establishment stage, right? Your own strength is only at the Foundation Establishment stage, yet you dare to use a Foundation Establishment puppet to lure away the enemy. Isn't that a bit too extravagant?

Also, the puppet's speed is abnormally fast. Can you tell me what's going on?

Upon hearing this, Zhou Peng immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

Although he hadn't sweated for a long time after possessing the corpse, he was still drenched in sweat from the shock.

"I was scared at the time, afraid that they would discover my whereabouts, so I used a puppet to lure them away."

Hearing this, the man nodded and then looked into the distance.

"But I always feel that you were hiding something and deliberately lured people away."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Peng's heart tightened.

To be honest, he had promised his master to lure away anyone who approached, but now that he hadn't done it right, if this person discovered the ruins and attracted others, his master would be in trouble.

Zhou Peng could not be said to be truly loyal to Yang Fan, but he understood that he and Yang Fan were now inextricably linked, sharing both glory and ruin.

To be precise, if Yang Fan suffers a loss, he suffers a loss; if Yang Fan gains power, he can take advantage of the situation.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Peng immediately shook his head repeatedly.

"How could that be?"

Before he finished speaking, the middle-aged man made a downward grabbing motion, and a burst of spiritual energy pressed Zhou Peng firmly to the spot.

"Fine, since you won't tell the truth, I'll go see for myself. If I find any secrets over there, I'll tear you to pieces."

He then flew forward.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Peng immediately began to struggle.

However, this middle-aged cultivator was at the early stage of Core Formation, so Zhou Peng was naturally not someone he could break free from.

Before long, he flew to the front of the barrier and looked around in confusion.

"Oh, just a barren mountain? But why does the spiritual energy here seem a bit off?"

Then the middle-aged man made hand seals, seemingly deducing something, and shook his head after a while.

"Wait, why can't I see any clues? Could it be that there really is nothing here?"

As the middle-aged man hesitated, Zhou Peng, who was being restrained in the distance, hurriedly shouted.

"Yes, there is indeed nothing here. Please understand, sir."

Upon hearing this, the man turned around and grinned at Zhou Peng.

"Hey, whether there's a problem with this place or not isn't up to you to decide."

He then gently touched his storage bag and, after a while, took out a compass.

Then he bit his fingertip and dripped a drop of his blood onto the compass.

As the essence blood entered the compass, the compass vibrated slightly after a short while.

Immediately afterwards, a burst of golden light shot out from the man's eyes.

Upon seeing the compass begin to vibrate, the middle-aged man immediately let out a cold snort.

"Hmph, you dare to say there's nothing ahead? If it weren't for my compass detecting the anomaly ahead, I would have been fooled by you."

Immediately, the middle-aged man began to examine the object carefully.

The restriction around this cave is actually extremely ingenious.

However, as time goes by, even the most ingenious formations will gradually decay, thus revealing many flaws.

Although Yang Fan had made as many repairs as possible, his mastery of formations was not particularly high.

Ultimately, it lacked the sophistication of the original formation.

More importantly, the middle-aged man began to meticulously inspect the area in front of him, inch by inch.

After a while, he finally discovered the clues to the restriction.

He then formed hand seals and immediately unleashed a beam of light forward.

A moment later, the light struck the barrier in front, triggering the entire barrier and creating a light shield.

Upon seeing the manifested restriction, the middle-aged cultivator was overjoyed.

"Very good, with such a high level of protection, it seems there are indeed good things here."

Finally, he turned his head and glanced at Zhou Peng, who was being restrained.

"Hey, I'll settle the score with you after I find what's inside."

He then flew to the front of the barrier and began searching for its weaknesses one by one.

He continued searching with the compass in his hand, but after a while the compass suddenly stopped.

He then looked ahead, and it seemed that this was the weak point of the formation.

Seeing this, he raised his hand and groped around above for a while, and a few flags appeared in his hand after a moment.

The middle-aged man frowned.

"Hmm, the restrictions here are not easy to break, but the method of using an array to break another array is feasible."

He then threw several battle flags directly forward.

As the array flags landed above the barrier, the entire barrier began to shake violently.

A moment later, the barrier shattered and vanished without a trace, just like glass.

As the restriction dissipated, a large amount of dense spiritual energy immediately surged towards him.

Once he could see the scene in front of him, he was so excited that he rubbed his hands together repeatedly.

"Good, good, it's actually a spirit field, with spirit rice, and even a spirit spring."

His gaze swept over the spiritual spring and the spiritual rice, filled with extreme excitement.

You should know that spirit rice is very useful even to Core Formation cultivators.

If we can harvest and take this spirit rice back to our cave, we'll make a fortune this time.

In the future, we can not only consume and grow them ourselves, but also trade them to sell to others.

Thinking about this, he became even more excited.

"Hey, this is really a windfall!"

He then immediately flew forward, glancing at Zhou Peng, who was being held captive, as he flew, his mind racing.