Under One Person: The Puppet Immortal in the Tang Sect

Xu Xin and Dong Chang slowly emerged from the darkness, each holding a dagger.

But they stood at the entrance of the warehouse, hesitant to step inside.

"It seems our information has been thoroughly investigated..."

A chilling voice echoed from the secret room.

A middle-aged man dressed as a ronin, wielding a katana, with a sinister look in his eyes.

"Although I was mentally prepared, I didn't expect this day to come so soon..."

He sighed and looked down, his expression quickly turning ferocious again.

"My name is Koji Sato! Remember the name of the one who took your lives!"

Before Koji Sato could finish speaking, his figure suddenly blurred in the dim light, as if merging into the shadows.

Xu Xin and Dong Chang immediately focused their attention, but only felt a blur before their eyes.

The opponent's figure flickered left and right, unpredictable, as if several Satos were moving at the same time.

Illusion?

Xu Xin and Dong Chang stood back to back, gripping their daggers tightly, vigilantly sensing the movements around them.

On the other hand, Cui Ming did not focus all his attention on Sato.

Because, through the 24 legs of the three shadow spiders, he could clearly sense a continuous tremor coming from the ground beneath his feet.

Clearly, someone is trying to escape from the ground quietly.

There are people underground!

Alarm bells rang in Cui Ming's mind.

In desperation, he could only mount the two crossbows on his forearms.

He manipulates two shudder spiders to leap onto his arms, using his hands to precisely control the spiders by manipulating their eight legs.

Cui Ming, on the other hand, closed his eyes and focused intently on the vibration signals transmitted back by the Shadow Spider.

He abruptly adjusted his position and manipulated the Shadow Spider to pull the trigger.

Whoosh whoosh!

The explosive arrows slammed into the ground one after another, kicking up a cloud of dust and debris.

Each arrow was precisely aimed at the location where the enemy was about to move underground, forcing them to no longer be able to hide their tracks.

Finally, just as the seventh exploding arrow fell, a small figure burst out of the ground, tumbling and rolling awkwardly to its feet.

This small, thin Japanese soldier with a panicked face was the one who was skilled at hiding underground.

"Finally, you gopher have come out."

Cui Ming controlled the Shadow Spider to adjust the attack direction of the assassination crossbow, aiming at the dusty-faced groundhog.

At this moment, the battle situation is divided in two:

On one side, Xu Xin and Dong Chang were locked in a fierce battle with Sato, who was skilled in illusion and could appear and disappear at will. Blades and daggers clashed fiercely between the real and the illusory.

On the other side, Cui Ming kept shooting at the earth-遁者 (earth-遁者, a person who can escape through earth). The opponent was agile and would hide in the earth and rocks if he couldn't dodge in time.

For a time, neither side was able to quickly subdue the other and escape.

On the other side, Xu Xinjian found Sato to be as slippery as an eel.

He suddenly narrowed his small eyes, snorted coldly, and flicked his right hand behind his back, sending several invisible lines silently scattering into the air.

Sato slashed down silently once again. Dong Chang tried to block with his dagger, but the blade passed right through it.

With a slash aimed at his shoulder, Dong Chang, startled and suspicious, decisively shrank back, and with a swift sweep of his dagger, forced Sato back.

Is it really an illusion?

Dong Chang was sweating profusely, but the sharp feeling of the blade against his body just now was unmistakable.

He looked at the torn clothes on his shoulder with a mixture of surprise and uncertainty.

"Now!"

But as Sato retreated after Dong Chang's sweeping attack, Xu Xin pulled at him with his fingers.

The hidden lines tightened suddenly, causing Sato to freeze, and the illusion immediately showed a flaw.

Seizing the opportunity, Dong Chang threw out hand daggers to both sides of Sato's body, trying to block his escape route.

He then pulled out a dagger and pressed forward.

The dagger, originally intended only to block the road, unexpectedly struck Sato's body.

The figure of Sato, which was restricted by the hidden lines, was nothing more than an illusion.

Dong Chang reacted extremely quickly, immediately changing his target and striking repeatedly with his hand, instantly dislocating Sato's arms. With his other hand, he lifted Sato's jaw and dislocated it.

In the end, Xu Xin tied him up like a salted fish.

At the same time, Cui Ming continuously fired at the earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a term used to describe a type of esoteric martial arts) thief, Tsuchima Taro, bombarding him with poisonous fog, poisonous insects, and explosives.

Although it didn't cause any fatal damage, it left him in a sorry state, covered in bruises all over his body.

Cui Ming had figured it out; this "talent," who was probably a survival specialist, was truly a slippery eel.

It just so happens that the explosive arrow can affect him; otherwise, he would most likely have just burrowed into the ground and run away without a care in the world.

Cui Ming narrowed his eyes...

Click-clack!

A series of clanging sounds came from Cui Ming's two crossbows.

Cui Ming's expression changed, and without saying a word, he threw the crossbow and the Shadow Spider on the ground and ran towards the warehouse.

"You bastard! You finally finished shooting, huh?!"

The earth-遁鬼子 (earth-遁鬼子) roared angrily, his face dark with rage.

With a whoosh, it burrowed into the ground and disappeared.

Cui Ming, however, did not turn his head and quickly approached the warehouse.

Suddenly, a hand reached out from the soil in front of Cui Ming and grabbed Cui Ming's calf.

"Gotcha!" ×2

Ok? !

Before Doma Taro could react, Cui Ming gave a sinister smile.

The moment Doma Taro reached out, Cui Ming's belt began to deform.

When Doma Taro caught Cui Ming, his belt had already been transformed into the previously unused attack-specialized Shadow Spider.

He plunged into the ground, landing right on Doma Taro's head.

Eight sharp spider legs instantly pierced through his collarbones on both sides, and the entire Shadow Spider transformed into a shackle, firmly controlling Doma Taro.

Before it could even let out a scream, Cui Mingyun drew out his Qi and pulled Doma Taro out of the ground.

With a flick of his hands, the two previously abandoned shadow spiders scurried over at high speed.

Before Doma Taro even landed, two shadow spiders jumped onto him, their legs piercing into his flesh and locking his hands and feet in place.

pat!

Doma Taro's face was contorted in disbelief. He couldn't understand how, in just a short moment, he had become a dead dog lying on the ground.

Just as it was about to utter a curse, four spider legs extended from behind its head, sealing its mouth shut.

Doma Taro could only writhe on the ground like a maggot.

Cui Ming's eyes turned cold, and the creature trembled all over, then lay limp and motionless on the ground, its expression blank.

In the blink of an eye, the two enemies were subdued and had no power to resist.

Chapter 7 A Surprising Discovery

When Cui Ming, dragging Doma Taro who looked like a salted fish, found Xu Xin and the other two.

The two of them had already explored the secret room and collected a samurai sword and a Type 1 Nambu submachine gun as evidence to return and report.

"Oh~ it seems you've also gained something, Ah Ming."

Xu Xin raised an eyebrow at Cui Ming.

"Alright, stop joking around and hurry up and pack your things. The sect leader and the others should be interested in these two."

Dong Chang rolled his eyes and told the two men to lend a hand so they could go back inside.

The three quickly packed up and returned to their sect with the two unconscious salted fish.

...

Tangmen.

Inside the council chamber.

The old sect leader, Tang Bingwen, sat in the main seat. To his right was the eldest master, Tang Jiaren, and to his left were the short elder, Tang Yanqiu, the head of the Transmission Hall, and the tall, thin elder, Lu Chengsong, the head of the Enforcement Hall.

Several high-ranking members of the Tang Clan were listening to the report from the three young men in front of them.

Cui Ming, as the initiator, spoke first:

"Reporting to the sect leader and elders, the mission is complete. All 147 bandits in the den have been wiped out."

Furthermore, during the crackdown, it was discovered that this gang of bandits was supported by Japanese.

Two foreigners from the East have been captured and handed over to the Ministry of Justice.

Then, Cui Ming began to give a detailed report on the equipment testing.

"This time, the students mainly tested three improved Shadow Spider puppets."

The speed-enhanced version is suitable for rapid infiltration and harassment, but the wear and tear on the mechanism is more severe than expected under high-speed conditions, and further improvements are needed.

The range of the toxin-enhanced version is acceptable, but its limitations are too great, making it suitable for ambushes or positional defense.