PUPPET
Yin Li knew the location of Sun Changrong’s secret base and naturally would not let it go. He has self-knowledge about his combat effectiveness and will not personally take risks. He decided to send the ghost elders and puppets to check the situation.
The “Yuzhu Mountain”(1) as its name suggests goes straight into the sky like a pillar. The slopes are very steep and it is difficult for ordinary people to climb such a steep mountain. The powerful cultivators also do not like this barren stone mountain. The sparse vegetation on the mountain indicates that the aura here is very thin, and it is not a place suitable for cultivation.
Who can think that on such a deserted barren mountain, there is an ambition to subvert the Xiyin imperial family?
Yin Li’s carriage stopped ten miles away and was hidden in a cave. Yang Huiyan took two puppets from the storage treasure chest, took his own and Yin Li’s hair, carefully wrapped it around the puppet three times, and recited a spell.
His fighting power in the Golden core stage was “sealed” but it did not prevent him from using some side-door spells.
Yin Li closed his eyes and lay on a soft mat as if he was asleep. Yang Huiyan finished the spell, also laid on his side, holding Yin Li’s hands tightly.
When the two of them slept, the pair of puppets seemed to gain life, and they stood up. They look exactly the same, only the small pocket clothes on their body are different in color, one in red and the other in blue.
The blue puppet adapted to a new body and wobbled out of the carriage. The red puppet followed him tightly, and his movements were obviously more flexible. Whenever the blue puppet was struggling, he always reached out in time.
Two puppets walked to the side of the carriage and poked their heads out. The height that they had been able to step down from in the past has become a cliff. If they accidentally fall, they are afraid that their fragile figures will fall and become fragmented.
A black shadow floated under the carriage, and a pair of dark hands stretched out from the shadows: “The Sixth Highness, the old man is here.”
The blue puppet nodded and looked back at the red puppet. Puppets don’t talk, but Yang Huiyan is empathetic, and often, with an action, he can understand Yin Li’s thoughts.
The red puppet moved forward and took his hand and the two jumped off the carriage together and landed firmly on the dark hands.
The black shadow wraps his hands around the two puppets, sinking slowly and entering another world of darkness.
Yin Li’s cultivation is low, and he can only feel that his body is advancing rapidly, but Yang Huiyan is a Golden core formation cultivator, and he has detected more things.
The dark world is empty, there is no tangible life, desolate like the Gobi. Occasionally, he saw fangs and teeth, and strange-shaped ghosts roared towards them, but they feared the strength of the elders and dared not go forward.
Is this the fate of the ghosts of legendary people after death – the Netherworld? Yang Huiyan curiously looked around, it is quite interesting, if he has time, he may come over and play.
The reason why Yin Li decided to take the ghost road of the Netherlands is to avoid the endless traps of Yuzhu Mountain. Breaking those traps may not be a hassle, but it will make a difference.
The fish is still fattening, and it is not yet time to close the net.
About a quarter of an hour later, when Yin saw the light again, he found himself in a dark and secret corridor. On the walls on both sides, there is a picture of the spring palace(2) where men and women meet, and there is a vague voice of men and women.
The blue puppet looked closely at them, and the spring paintings seemed to be alive, performing a variety of postures, exuding a fascinating and charming atmosphere.
The red puppet on the side subconsciously reached out and blocked his eyes. The blue puppet looked back puzzled, and the dull face of the puppet showed a look of grievance.
The red puppet gestured: “Master, don’t look at these dirty things, it will stain your eyes.”
His pair of godless ink-painted eyes stared straight at the ghosts in the shadows; blame you for being old and shameless, why bring master to this dirty place!
The ghost guard who led the way saw his anger and smiled a bit: “This corridor is engraved with a very powerful illusion, and it can’t be ruined.”
The blue puppet nodded, indicating that the elder Xiong was right. These spring paintings seem to be ordinary, but in fact, they depict a very powerful illusion, which cannot be passed by the cultivation of the elders.
However, the more you guard with a powerful magical array, the more representative it is. The end of this corridor hides very important things.
Yin Li thought about it and decided to take the time to crack these arrays. Although his cultivation is only in the early stage of foundation building, he is very advanced in his accomplishments of Fuyu formation methods. Otherwise, he can’t teach Yang Huiyan, a Golden core formation cultivator.
The blue puppet squatted on the ground and started writing and drawing. The so-called array method is essentially a mathematical equation. As long as the final answer is solved, it can be cracked naturally.
As he concentrated on cracking the array, the red puppet cautiously looked around. On several occasions, two patrolling soldiers suddenly appeared at the end of the corridor, and they were carefully avoided by him. These soldiers are fully armed, wearing heavy armor, he could not see their true face, but the murderous aura emitted by their body is very strong, at least they are in the mid-foundation building stage.
Elder Xiong said: “These soldiers are a bit wrong…”
The red puppet looked at him with contempt. You can’t even see your peers? this ghost is really not a professional!
In fact, you can’t blame elder Xiong’s eyes. These ghost soldiers have undergone special refining, and they are integrated into the armor of the body. They become strange things of half puppets and half ghosts.
Elder Xiong is old and his thoughts are conservative. He can’t keep up with the spell development of today’s cultivation world.
However, from this aspect, we can also see that the Sun family indeed has a bit of rebellious capital. If they have refined thousands of ghosts in the foundation building period and form a well-trained army, it is a bit difficult to deal with.
There are currently 400,000 troops in Xiyin, but ordinary soldiers only have the cultivation base of the qi refining stage, and only one team of generals will have the foundation building stage. In this way, the private soldiers trained by Sun Changrong can be said to be a “precious essence not expensive”.(3)
Yin Li spent three hours and finally cracked the array on this corridor.
Elder Xiong took the two puppets and continued to lurk in. At the end of the corridor, there was a dark gate, and the room inside the door was unexpectedly large, overcast and ghostly.
The two puppets stood on the beam of the roof and put their hands on the pergola to look into the distance. Thousands of corpses are arranged neatly on the ground, and they can’t see the end with a glance.
Elder Xiong said strangely: “Why did they collect so many bodies?”
If you use the ghosts to refine puppets, he can understand; what’s the use of collecting so many corpses?
The blue puppet slowly wrote two words: “Zombies”.
Elder Xiong was shocked: “Zombies… The legendary refining zombies? This… This is the sorcery that the Xuanyuan continent has banned for tens of thousands of years!”
The horror of zombies is that their virus is contagious! If one can’t do it well, and the entire Xuanyuan continent will be involved in a doomsday catastrophe.
Sun Changrong is crazy…
Yin Li came out from the huge and sinister corpse, and asked: “Where is there a place in this base that is closely guarded?”
This secret base covers a large area, and it is impossible to see all of it. In general, the more strictly guarded the place, the more important it is.
Elder Kim released his consciousness, and he felt around, pointing his finger: “In that place, there is a very powerful array.”
Yin Li nodded, and said: “Hurry up, let’s go and see.”
The spell of this substitute puppet used by Yang Huiyan will always consume his spiritual power. Therefore, Yin Li did not want to drag the time for too long, making him too tired.
At the top of the “Yuzhu Mountain”, a magnificent palace is hidden by a ban. The position chosen by Elder Kim was very clever. In the corner of the room, it was both hidden and allowed them to observe everything around them.
The blue puppet lifted this prohibition. From sunrise to sunset, it took a lot of effort. At this time, the figure of the blue puppet was a little uncomfortable. The red puppet simply took him up to prevent him from falling.
In the center of the palace, there is a huge purple lacquered coffin, which is vividly engraved with a pattern of birds and phoenixes. Around the coffin, there are various kinds of exotic fruits, and two white candles have burned in half.
In the south of the coffin, there is a piece of gold lacquered rank of the dead, which reads “the position of the grandmother Sun Yujuan.”
Sun Yujuan?
Yin Li quickly searched for this person’s name in his memory. The first owner of the Sun family seems to be Sun Yujuan, who died 1,200 years ago, in the early Nascent soul stage.
Why is Sun Yujuan’s coffin placed here and carefully enshrined? In the realm of cultivation, the cultivators pay great attention to the situation of the flesh after death, lest they are stolen by the people in the devil path to make zombies and other evils. They usually ignite their bodies and leave no trace of ashes, and the soul enters the Netherlands, waiting for reincarnation.
The case of enshrining a corpse, like the one in front of them is strange.
The red puppet suddenly pulled the blue puppet and pointed to the door, indicating that someone was coming. Two puppets were afraid to be found and squeezed into a more hidden corner.
A beautiful woman wearing a beaded robe, ran in screaming, squatting in front of the coffin.
“Old ancestors, please show your spirit, tell me who killed my Yuer? Yuer is your direct descendant, how can you bear to let him die so unclearly? even the enemy is not known!”
Behind her, a burly middle-aged man rushed in and dragged her arm out: “A-Xiu, you are crazy, asking the ancestors for this kind of thing, hurry out…”
Yin Li clearly saw from the roof beam, this person is Qingzhou’s General Sun Changrong, then the beautiful woman is his sister Sun Changxiu.
(1) “yu zhu shan” in the previous chapter. Shan means mountain. back
(2) East Asian character picture with a theme of sexual intercourse. back
(3) Basically means quality over quantity. back
T/N: I wasn’t too busy when I first started translating this novel, so I tried to maximize that period by putting out 2 chapters a week. However, RL has gotten very busy once again, so I will tentatively schedule releases for 1 chapter per week. Might upload an extra chapter if I can.
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