two golems

Chapter 27 The Shadow Puppet
"I can't tell for sure. It looks like your body has merged with the shadow puppet." Kang Chenzi analyzed thoughtfully: "Tell me how you feel now?"

Zhu Youchen looked at his illusory body at a loss, and replied: "It is obviously his own body, but it feels very strange, and at the same time there is a trace of familiarity."

"Well, being a teacher means do you have any special feelings about strength?" Kang Chenzi asked with a dumb smile.

"My body seems to have become much lighter, and my strength seems to have become much stronger." Zhu Youchen felt the changes in his body carefully. Although this body was very unfamiliar, it was full of strength.

Kang Chenzi nodded and thought deeply: "So, the ability of your third demon puppet, Shadow Puppet, has been integrated into your body. I have never heard of such a strange situation."

"Are you saying that I have become the third demon?" Zhu Youchen said blankly.

"It can be said that you are now both the body and the shadow puppet." Kang Chenzi nodded: "But your situation is too special. Although you are still alive now, no one can guarantee whether there will be problems in the future. , what you need to pay special attention to is the shadow puppet’s backlash.”

"Shadow puppet backlash?" Zhu Youchen asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"Backlash means that when the puppet soul becomes powerful enough, it will begin to swallow up the consciousness and dominance of the puppet master. Just before you woke up, your body was occupied by the shadow puppet for a moment, so I am worried that it will still be there in the future. There will be problems." Kang Chenzi said solemnly.

Zhu Youchen's eyes flashed slightly and he said: "So can the devil still be a guest?"

"Of course." Kang Chenzi nodded with a light smile: "In fact, the puppet itself has a certain intelligence and consciousness, but under normal circumstances, the puppet's intelligence and the puppeteer's body overlap, so you can If you don’t feel it, to put it simply, your golem is another you.”

"But because the puppet has been separated from the main body, it will inevitably form an independent consciousness after a long time. This is also a major historical problem in the puppet master's cultivation system."

"Although the existence of the soul box is to prevent this situation from happening to you, once the devil becomes powerful enough, the soul box cannot suppress it."

Zhu Youchen was fascinated by what he heard, and couldn't help but curiously asked: "Has this really happened?"

"Yes, and there are quite a few." Kang Chenzi nodded sternly: "People call the situation when the demon puppets back-devour the puppet master's body as reverse phagocytosis, and after these demon puppets devour the body and the other two souls of the demon puppets, It will become a life form similar to you now, which we call counter-double, and the many counter-double gods in the Soul Burial Sea are living examples one by one."

"Why is there a word "god" behind Niou?" Zhu Youchen said slightly confused: "Does it mean they are very powerful?"

"Yes, the Nidu gods are indeed very powerful, but this is not the main reason. The main reason is that existences like Nidu transcend the limit of lifespan and achieve a special situation of immortality. Therefore, among ordinary people, In their eyes, they are like gods.”

"Eternal life?!" Zhu Youchen's pupils shrank, "Then if all the puppet masters let the demons devour themselves, wouldn't they all be able to live forever?"

"You're not yourself anymore, what's the point of immortality?" Kang Chenzi asked meaningfully.

"..." Zhu Youchen nodded thoughtfully and continued to ask: "By the way, you just said that only when the demon puppet is powerful enough can it be swallowed by the reverse puppet. How powerful must it be?"

"Ten stars." Kang Chenzi explained with a smile: "That is, a demon puppet that has been successfully promoted to stars ten times. Because of this, in the current training system of puppet masters, the upper limit of the demon puppet's star promotion is nine stars, or It is nine and a half stars that are infinitely close to ten stars.”

"So, I'm still safe for the time being?"

Kang Chenzi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "No, no, no, these are for normal puppet masters. Your situation is quite special. The shadow puppet has occupied your body, which is equivalent to bypassing the suppression of the soul box. Once your The shadow puppet produces an independent consciousness instead, ready to challenge your main consciousness at any time."

"Then how can I prevent the shadow puppet from becoming self-conscious?" Zhu Youchen asked with a frown.

"It is definitely unavoidable, otherwise there wouldn't be so many shadow puppets born. You can only rely on yourself to do this. Theoretically speaking, as long as your will is strong enough, the shadow puppets will never be able to do anything to you."

Zhu Youchen nodded thoughtfully, and his attention returned to his illusory body again, "By the way, teacher, will I always be like this from now on?"

Thinking that he would become neither a human nor a ghost in the future, Zhu Youchen refused in his heart.

"This... I'm really not sure about this." Kang Chenzi also looked confused. After pondering for a moment, he tentatively suggested: "You try to take back the shadow puppets like you did with Da Zhuang and Er Pang."

Zhu Youchen frowned and nodded, then tried according to Kang Chenzi's suggestion.

His mind sank into the sea of ​​​​consciousness, trying to send the thought of taking it back to the human soul. Immediately afterwards, Zhu Youchen felt a strange feeling coming from his whole body, similar to the itching feeling of the bones all over his body. It could not be said to be uncomfortable, but it could not be said to be comfortable.

When he opened his eyes again, his body had returned to the familiar feeling, and the previously illusory body had also returned to real flesh and blood.

"Can you really take it back?" Kang Chenzi looked on in amazement, and couldn't help but continued: "Come on, try to see if you can summon it."

"Okay." Zhu Youchen didn't waste any time and started directly trying to summon the shadow puppet.

The next moment, there was another strange feeling all over his body, and he turned into an illusory half-energy form again. "It's amazing, it's amazing!" Kang Chenzi was obviously very interested in Zhu Youchen's situation, and said with a twinkling look in his eyes: "Why do you think you are so much better than separating the third demon puppet normally? "

Hearing what Kang Chenzi said, Zhu Youchen seemed to have thought of something, and said in confusion: "Teacher, I have a question. In my case, how can I use my soul to control the power of the shadow puppet?"

"Uh," Kang Chenzi laughed dumbly and said, "Do you still need soul attraction to control your body?"

"You mean, after I become a shadow puppet, I don't need soul control?" Zhu Youchen said, slightly stunned.

"That's right." Kang Chenzi said excitedly, "That's why I say it's much better to separate the third demon in this way than to separate it normally."

"But, if there is no soul-inducing amplification, it would be bad, right?" Zhu Youchen asked with a frown.

"..." Kang Chenzi was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but fell into deep thought: "This is indeed a problem. Come on, try to see if you can connect the soul to the shadow puppet."

Zhu Youchen tried a few times, but found that he couldn't connect at all. The third soul guide that just appeared on his fingertips was always flickering dimly, and the dim light was a sign that the soul guide was idle.

Seeing this, Kang Chenzi couldn't help but become more and more confused, "Come on, try attacking Kang Shuai, and let me feel it for you."

With that said, Kang Chenzi summoned his war partner Kang Shuai.

Zhu Youchen already had a clear understanding of Kang Shuai's strength, so he had no scruples when he struck. He moved as fast as lightning, and even felt that his consciousness could not keep up with the speed of the attack.

"This speed?!" Kang Chenzi was also shocked by Zhu Youchen's amazing speed. Before he could recover, Zhu Youchen's kick had already hit Kang Shuai.

boom!
Kang Shuai, who had taken Da Zhuang's punch without moving a muscle before, was kicked back by Zhu Youchen who was in the shadow puppet state.

At this scene, let alone Kang Chenzi, even Zhu Youchen himself was stunned.

"Hiss~~~ With the power of a normal shadow puppet, the kick just now would have required at least three souls to increase it, right?" Kang Chenzi looked at Zhu Youchen in surprise, and his breathing became rapid: "Quick, pull the big strong Summon the two fat men, don’t cut off their soul connection, and then try again.”

Zhu Youchen didn't waste any time and directly summoned Da Zhuang and Er Pang. At the same time, the first and second soul guides on his fingertips also lit up with dark red and bronze light.

Then, Zhu Youchen moved and kicked Kang Shuai again.

As in the previous situation, Kang Shuai was kicked back a step again.

Kang Chenzi was not sure before, but now he is completely sure that the "three-induction amplification" that comes with Zhu Youchen's shadow puppet form does not conflict with the existing three soul-inductions.

At first glance, it seems unreasonable, but if you think about it carefully, you can understand the reason. The soul guide is essentially just a channel for the puppet controller to transmit power to the puppet. Therefore, the increase in soul guide actually comes from the puppet controller himself.

Zhu Youchen's shadow puppet is his own body, so he can directly mobilize his own power without the need for soul guidance.

"Youchen, I'm afraid you have turned into a monster!" Kang Chenzi stared at Zhu Youchen in disbelief, unable to calm down for a long time.

But he saw Zhu Youchen looking at his body calmly, with a strange look in his eyes: "It seems that it's not just that, the demon soul stance brought by Da Zhuang and Er Pang is also on me."

"What?!" Kang Chenzi was startled again, and quickly rushed in front of Zhu Youchen, stretched out his hand to grab Zhu Youchen's shoulder, and after feeling the invisible position, Kang Chenzi was completely stunned: "Hiss~~~ What are you doing?" Do you want to go against the sky?"

"But it seems that there are only two positions brought by Da Zhuang and Er Pang. The shadow puppet itself does not inspire the third level of power." Zhu Youchen thought expressionlessly, with no hint of excitement at all.

If other people had encountered such a big good thing, they would have been extremely excited.

Among other things, Kang Chenzi was almost overwhelmed with excitement just as a bystander.

"No, no, just the stance of these two demons is enough to make you walk away!" It took Kang Chenzi a long time to calm down.

You must know that the shadow puppet is a kind of magic puppet that can attack secretly and explode accurately. Its body is almost on the same level as the holy puppet and elemental puppet. Although the shadow puppet's own ability of "following like a shadow" can ensure its own safety to a certain extent. , but it cannot achieve 100% safety.

Zhu Youchen's two levels of magical stance are equivalent to directly adding 50% damage-free effect to the shadow puppet. If he switches to a puppet-controlling technique with higher stance ability, the damage-free effect can be even higher!
Coupled with Zhu Youchen's own soul-inducing amplification in the shadow puppet state, the effect is simply unimaginable.

I'm afraid that any puppet master who majors in crispy puppet will be miserable when facing the shadow puppet Zhu Youchen, right?
(End of this chapter)