Demonic Demoness Training Project

"Then tell me, did I participate in the Midstream Weapon Forging Conference?"

“After you participated, you fled overnight and ended up here because you were afraid of being targeted by True Lord Tuihuo.”

"Did Lord Tuihuo say anything on the day of the competition?"

"I already told you, it's funny to think about that old geezer. He got all worked up when his disciple lost and tried to renege on the debt, hahaha."

"Yes, yes, and then, continue."

"In the end, Di Yuanzi stood up for you, and the matter was eventually dropped."

"Where did this Earth Elemental come from?! Explain yourself!"

"Fine... see for yourself."

After Duan Xuanyuan finished speaking, he retrieved a video from the Sky of Disparity and recorded it into Lu Li's sea of ​​consciousness.

The entire process of the Midstream Weapon Forging Conference was recorded in Xuan Shu Tian, ​​so the footage was preserved. In the video, an old Taoist with white hair and beard was arguing with the True Lord of Retreating Fire.

This old Taoist priest looked unfamiliar. He could be anyone, but he was definitely not the Ren Yuanzi that Lu Li remembered. Lu Li had seen what Ren Yuanzi looked like.

Moreover, the person in charge of presiding over the conference was still an elder from the Titanium Yttrium Holy Land, but it was not Titanium Yttrium Immortal. Instead, it was a completely unfamiliar face that Lu Li had never seen before.

After watching the video, Lu Li broke out in a cold sweat.

"This, this must be generated by the artifact spirit!"

With the current advanced technology for creating artifact spirits, generating one or two false images shouldn't be too difficult.

Lu Li remained unconvinced, so for the next half hour, she went over the accounts with the two of them one by one, recounting all of Mu Qingque's past.

Ultimately, Lu Li had to accept an absurd reality—

Mu Qingque disappeared.

There has never been such a person in this world. She has never appeared. No one has ever eaten baked pears with her, no one has ever dreamed with her, and no one has ever said that they would protect her.

Everything was just wishful thinking on her part.

Not only that, Ren Yuanzi, Wei Canghai, and Taiyi Zhenren also disappeared. These three people have never appeared in the history of the cultivation world.

The original positions of these three people were conveniently replaced by other cultivators.

Lu Li felt a chill run down her spine as she thought about it. At that time, the mysterious girl only glanced at them, and the three of them disappeared one by one.

At first, Lu Li thought that the three of them had used some kind of escape technique to disappear from under the mysterious girl's nose. Now that she thought about it, the three of them were probably erased the moment she looked at her.

Thoroughly and completely wiped out, not only the corpse or the remnant soul, but also all the cause and effect related to it were completely erased.

Nothing has changed; everything in this world continues to operate according to its predetermined trajectory.

Then, Lu Li checked her storage bag.

They still had all their belongings, and when asked about the origins of the items that were once associated with Mu Qingque, Duan Xuanyuan and Lu Ling were able to give reasonable explanations.

"Oh, this is what you got from the Divination Cave, this one too, and this one..."

"..."

Lu Li rolled her eyes. So the Divination Saint Cave Heaven had everything except Mu Qingque.

"What about this one? Where did this come from?"

Lu Li suddenly pulled up a pitch-black cloak. This cloak was a mechanical artifact, but Lu Li could not tell the material or grade of it; it was just pitch black.

If I remember correctly, this thing should be called the Black Sky Cloak.

At the time, the mysterious woman attacked her without warning, but now, as Lu Li reflects on it, it seems that this was an opportunity she had left for herself.

The mysterious woman tried several different puppets, but seemed to find them all unsuitable, and finally settled on this one.

The moment the cloak was taken out, both Lu Ling and Duan Xuanyuan fell silent.

“Say something, where did this come from?”

After a long pause, Duan Xuanyuan slowly said:

“You picked this up in the Divination Cave. I told you then that it was useless, but you treated it like a treasure.”

Are you sure this thing is useless?

"It can't be used for defense, it doesn't have any spiritual energy fluctuations, and you can't even tell its grade. What use is it?"

Lu Li was absolutely certain that she hadn't found a way to use it.

But then Lu Li had a second thought, and an even more terrifying suspicion arose in her mind, a suspicion that stemmed from a dream she once had.

It is said that some immortal clans, in order to forge artifact spirits, will trap them in dreams, allowing the artifact spirits to experience birth, aging, sickness, and death in the dreams, thereby cultivating an unparalleled Dao heart.

Only when the dream ended and the spirit returned to reality did it realize that everything it had experienced was just a fleeting dream, and the fellow cultivators it had cherished were nothing more than fictional characters from the dream.

"Did I really walk out of that dark space? Or is it just that it's always dark, and there's never been any light?"

Thinking of this, Lu Li clenched her left hand, pointed her right hand at the sky, and cursed:

"Mu Qingque, tell your mother to let him out! Come out here now, what tricks are you playing!"

Chapter 364 You must be suffering from hysteria

The vast desert sky is cloudless.

To the astonishment of the two, Lu Li cursed at the sky, but to no avail.

At this moment, she looked down at her fingers, clenched them, squeezed them tightly, clenched them again, and squeezed them tightly again. The air flowed through her fingers, and her five senses felt so real.

The Midstream Weapon Forging Conference has begun, bringing together all the human prodigies of the entire cultivation world, as well as the steamed souls forged by humans.

All the high-ranking members of the various sects turned their attention to Mengjiang, to witness the bloodshed and battle between the cultivators and the Soul-Steaming cultivators, and to witness the birth of the champion.

Under these circumstances, a strange thing happened at the conference. Lu Li had been cultivating for nearly ten years and had seen all kinds of puppets and techniques.

But this was the first time she had encountered such a situation.

There was a girl with extraordinary abilities who managed to appear at the conference venue and, in full view of everyone, eliminate three cultivators at the Integration Realm, and then take them away.

In the end, it was as if nothing had happened...

Just then, Duan Xuanyuan suddenly realized and said:

"Oh, I understand!"

"You understand now? What do you understand?"

"It must be because you recently switched to the Qingling Yanhuang's puppet and haven't fully adapted to the new setup, which is why you're experiencing hysteria. Hey! I should have said so earlier. You've replaced your entire body with puppets, how could you be completely fine?"

"You understand...you understand, you understand my foot!"

Unexpectedly, Lu Li wanted to curse, but because Lu Ling was present and she was afraid of setting a bad example for the young girl, she swallowed back her sweet and innocent words.

However, Lu Ling looked at her with great concern.

"Hey! What kind of perspective do you have? I'm not sick! Perhaps there really is some kind of method in this world, uh... it should be the supernatural power of destiny, which can erase a person from the realm of cause and effect."

Lu Li's understanding of destiny is currently limited to enhancing one's own fortune and predicting the whereabouts of others. However, with the ever-changing nature of the artifacts, it seems not impossible for them to truly reach the legendary level.

"Hmm—compared to that, my disciple, I feel it's more likely that you have hysteria."

"No, I didn't! You can't talk nonsense!"

"Look, he's in a hurry again, not listening to the elders. He's easily angered, suspicious, has many dreams, delusions, and his temperament has changed drastically... These are all symptoms of hysteria. Many cultivators have become estranged from their families because of this, even betraying their masters and ancestors, becoming isolated and abandoned by everyone, and finally falling into the demonic path."

"It feels like you've said something similar before."

"Yes, I did tell you. I told you a long time ago, but you didn't take it seriously at the time. Now look what happened, you've fallen for it."

"I don't!"

Lu Li stopped arguing. If it was truly the work of the Dao of Fate, then further explanation would be pointless.

There were only two things that concerned her: first, why her, of all people, who had forgotten Mu Qingque, but she still remembered her.

The second is the True Lord of Retreating Fire. The other three were eliminated, but the True Lord of Retreating Fire is still alive.

Lu Li pondered carefully, reviewing the details of that moment. The mysterious girl must have wanted to eliminate the True Lord of Retreating when she looked at him, but she seemed to have discovered something and turned her gaze to her instead.

"Could this be related to me?"

Lu Li couldn't figure out the reason, so she continued to organize the storage bags.

Suddenly, she pulled out a golden jade slip. The jade slip looked unfamiliar; Lu Li had never seen it before. Regardless of the contents of the jade slip, the material of the jade slip itself was extraordinary.

"That's weird, when did I get this stuff?"

Lu Ling cautiously reminded him:

"You picked it up in the Divination Cave."

"..."

Lu Li rolled her eyes, no longer wanting to speak. In any case, it was Bu Sheng Cave Heaven that was to take the blame, and if asked, it was found there.

At first, Lu Li didn't pay much attention to it; perhaps it was just a byproduct of a change in fate.

However, when Lu Li probed into it with her divine sense, the six large characters imprinted in her sea of ​​consciousness almost made her gasp.

The Secrets of Titanium Yttrium Gold!

"Wait, how did this thing end up in my storage bag?"

Previously, this would have been the ultimate reward for the winner of the Heavenly Group, and one of the core inherited techniques of the Titanium Yttrium Holy Land.

The Midstream Refining Tournament is essentially a gambling den for the four major sects in the upstream region. If it weren't for the need to gamble against other forces and offer sufficient chips, the Titanium Yttrium Holy Land would never have used this as a reward.

The method of physical ascension to sainthood in the Titanium Yttrium Holy Land is similar to the transformation of Qingling Yanhuang's entire body into a puppet. Duan Xuanyuan even encouraged Lu Lin to try his best to get his hands on this technique.

However, this item has now appeared in her storage bag.

This is outrageous!

Given how much the upper-level sects suppress lower-level cultivators, if they discovered that such a top-tier cultivation technique had fallen into the hands of a mid-level cultivator like her, they would surely tear her apart.

At that time, she will have a small wooden plaque with the words "sinner" engraved on her chest, and then she will be pushed onto the Execution Platform by a group of upstream disciples.

Lu Ling defended her, saying, "My sister has always been the sister I admire the most."

What else could she say? She couldn't very well say that she didn't do it, but that it was a gift from the immortal to her.

Nobody would believe that!

The immortal clan didn't care about any of that. Those ruthless bastards would just seriously question her, "You admit this is your storage bag?" and then turn her into a baked pear and eat her up in one bite.

"This kind of thing needs to be treated with tonics!"

Lu Li continued to probe with her divine sense and discovered that the Titanium Yttrium Golden Flower Principle was just a general term, which contained detailed records of one hundred and twenty sculpted diagrams.

These erhu include three seven-turn erhu, nine six-turn erhu, twenty-seven five-turn erhu, and eighty-one four-turn erhu.

These 120 interlocking diagrams allow three low-level puppets to be fused together to create a higher-level puppet. Ultimately, these puppets form a super-large puppet array, which can then unleash the complete Titanium Yttrium Gold Flower Technique.

Many of the martial arts techniques in this world require the use of specific magical artifacts to be performed.

It's hard to imagine just how terrifying the power of the puppet formation, centered around three seventh-grade puppets, could be. Even immortals at the Integration Realm would bleed before this puppet formation.

The exercise begins with a poem whose meaning is unclear.

"Neither gold nor jade nor lead, it contains the essence of gold, titanium, yttrium, and black."

"A thousand images evolve into one Qi, and ten thousand artifacts fuse together to forge the immortal altar."

Lu Li vaguely felt that there was a hidden meaning in this poem, but unfortunately, his cultivation was limited and he could not fully understand it. At the end of the cultivation technique, there were two more five-character poems.

"All those that have been passed down through generations are incomplete, but this copy is the complete one."

Lu Li understood these two sentences. They roughly mean that what is circulating in the world today are all fragments, and only what is recorded here is the complete version.

With this technique, the Titanium Yttrium Holy Land has already risen to the top tier. The three Seven-Turn Puppet Diagrams are priceless treasures that even cultivators at the Integration Realm would covet. Coupled with the accompanying Puppet Array, their power is unimaginable.

"This...is this a cultivation technique I can practice?"

As Lu Li was expressing her feelings, Duan Xuanyuan seemed unconcerned.

"So what? Didn't you find this on one of the lowly soldiers in the Yellow Vein? It's not some earth-shattering technique, just a bit flashy on the outside."

What good treasures can you find from a lowly pawn?

"No? You old codger, have you really read what's written in here?"