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Chapter 688: So Many Puppets

Everyone was shocked when they heard this.
"If we can't fly, how long will it take us to reach this huge mountain if we rely on our legs alone?"

Zheng Gang nodded and said,
"That's true. Although you can't fly, you fellow Taoists can mobilize your spiritual power and display your magical powers..."

He then divided his 70 or 80 men into several teams, and divided the southern part of Wanmiao Mountain into several areas, with each team responsible for investigating a small area.
"Wan Miao Mountain is now empty of forces, so it's a good time for us to spy. When you investigate, you must pay special attention to the formation arrangement and how many people are guarding the south side of Wan Miao Mountain. It would be even better if we can find out about the other party's sect. Remember that there are also monks and spirit beasts patrolling in Wan Miao Mountain, so you must be careful not to be discovered by them..."

He also gave the jade pendants for the messages to the various teams and reminded them,
"Everyone, remember to conceal your breath!"

The people of Wanmiao Mountain have always been ruthless in killing outsiders who trespass into the mountain gate. If you lose your life, you can only blame your bad luck and cannot blame others!

Everyone nodded after hearing this, and most of them released their magic weapons to fly close to the ground. Some ran on their feet, and two monks released two large lizards with four legs and long tails. As soon as the lizards landed on the ground, their colors turned gray and white, blending with the surrounding environment. After their owners rode on them, they immediately moved on all fours and ran quickly forward.

Gu Shiyi looked at the middle-aged man from the Bishui Pavilion, took out an umbrella-shaped magic weapon, and held it above his head. He and several of his disciples disappeared into thin air. Gu Shiyi then flashed and turned into a wisp of black smoke and disappeared in the distance...

Zheng Gang looked at the people who disappeared one after another, his eyes flickered, and he turned around and disappeared into thin air...

Gu Shiyi and his group of twelve cultivators went to a valley at the foot of the southern mountains of Wanmiao Mountain. Gu Shiyi's figure flashed and his speed was no slower than flying on the ground. After half a cup of tea, the group of twelve people had arrived in front of the valley.

The valley to the south of Wanmiao Mountain was very regular in shape, with four round sides and a flat bottom, shaped like a huge gray-white bowl. After Gu Shiyi and the others entered, they dispersed. However, no one noticed that after Gu Shiyi left the crowd, she looked down at the back of her hand. A layer of fine scales appeared on the back of her hand. Gu Shiyi's brows were wrinkled into a lump. She stopped running and released her demon consciousness, but she did not find anything unusual within a radius of five miles.
"what happened?"

Now even Gu Shiyi’s little arms have fine scales!

Gu Shiyi pondered for a moment, took out the token for entering and exiting the secret realm, and disappeared in a flash. Where she disappeared, before the fluctuations of spiritual energy in the air disappeared, a slender snake with a triangular head and prismatic back spots poked its head out from the cracks in the rocks. In the small building on the top of the mountain, someone spoke again.
"Hey... someone is carrying a space magic weapon. The viper puppet just sensed the fluctuation of space..."

"Space artifacts, does anyone still have space artifacts now? There are only a few space artifacts in the outside world, and they are all in the hands of high-level monks. Could it be that they sent out monks above the Nascent Soul stage?"

"Hmph! It doesn't matter... No matter who they send, once they are all inside, we will launch a large formation and capture them all in one fell swoop!"

"Ugh……"

Someone sighed and said nothing, but another said coldly,
"You are just indecisive. If you hadn't repeatedly stopped them, I would have taken action when they were digging holes in the ground like rats. Why would I have waited until now... This is the trouble you caused them because of your indecision!"

The man sighed again.

"It was my fault……"

As they were talking, someone suddenly cried out,
"My viper puppet has lost its sensitivity!"

At this time, Gu Shiyi in the valley was pinching a triangular-headed snake with two fingers and twisting it in his hand.

“Tsk tsk… Master! This thing looks like the real thing… So amazing!”

After that, he gently applied force with two fingers, and with a snap, the triangular head of the long snake fell off, revealing the red flesh inside.
"Hey...it's really flesh and blood!"

To be precise, it is only meat but no blood. The skin of this snake is that of a real snake, and the inside of the skin is engraved with fine and dense runes. The meat is also real snake meat, and the bones are also real bones. However, a spirit stone that is also engraved with runes is stuffed into the place where the brain was originally in the skull. I think only by doing this can this thing be made to look more like a real snake, and people can't see any flaws!

Gu Shiyi was amazed.

"This... who can see that? I'm smart, otherwise I would have been fooled!"

The snake was grayish white all over, blending in with the gravel on the ground, and was completely invisible. Even if it could be seen, it could deceive ordinary cultivators with the faint vitality on its body. This was because Gu Shiyi had his own radar and realized something was wrong, so he thought of a way!
It first went into the secret realm, and then came out at lightning speed. As expected... as soon as her breath disappeared, the snake came out. Gu Shiyi grabbed its vital point. With her strength, the snake was unaware and even bit her. Gu Shiyi knew that this little thing was not simple! Tsk tsk!

Gu Shiyi glanced around.

"This puppet snake is so amazing, who knows, there may be puppet insects, puppet birds, and the like in this valley. Then, wouldn't our every move be under surveillance by others?"

These things are much more powerful than surveillance. Surveillance has blind spots, but these things have no blind spots. Throw a hundred or eighty of them onto this area, and any movement here will definitely not escape Wanmiaoshan's sight!
Gu Shiyi snorted coldly, and a flame shot up from his hand, burning the snake's head and body clean.

"I wonder if Yan'er has discovered this?"

Pu Yanlan over there discovered this earlier than Gu Shiyi. The Bishui Pavilion and another cultivation family formed a team of fourteen people. They were assigned to a lake in the south. As soon as they approached the lake, a fish was startled, jumped out of the water and fell back heavily, splashing several water flowers. Someone wondered,
“There are fish in such a desolate place?”

Someone responded,

"This place was full of spiritual energy and lush vegetation in the past. It has only been a few years since it became like this. I guess the lake water is not connected to the outside world, so the fish in the lake have no way to escape and can only survive here!"

Everyone else nodded, taking it very seriously. Only Pu Yanlan frowned slightly. She slowly walked to the lakeside and saw that there were indeed fish in the lake. They were not afraid of people and swam close to the shore. They poked half of their heads out of the water, and their eyes stared straight at Pu Yanlan. Pu Yanlan moved her fingers, her eyes slightly fixed.

"This fish..."

This fish is a little weird. As a person who practices ghost arts, she is extremely sensitive to life. The life in this fish is so weak that it is almost non-existent, but it is so lively. When I look at its soul, there is only a vague shadow on its body. Is this a living fish?
All living things in this world, as long as they are alive, should be full of life. Spiritual things should have souls. Souls can be big or small, strong or weak. Creatures like fish are extremely low-level. Although their souls are weak, they are not so weak that they are just a shadow. This is not right!
Pu Yanlan stretched out her finger and let the fish come around and poke her fingertips with their mouths. When she looked more closely, she found that the fish were still a little stiff and slow in their movements.
"puppet?"

Pu Yanlan suddenly thought of this and stood up. She looked back and forth across the lake and thought to herself,

"Puppets... all these fish are puppets... they must be the puppets of Wan Miao Mountain. They are really powerful..."

This puppet-making method is completely different from the ones in the outside world. It should be a secret teaching of Wanmiao Mountain, right?
She and Gu Shiyi thought of the same thing.
"There are so many puppet fish in this lake. Along the way, the sandworms crawling around, the birds flying in the sky occasionally, and the crawling spiders and snakes are probably one-tenth puppets. Isn't our every move already under their control?"

Then I thought that the Zhengyuan Sect had started digging in the mountain long before, so didn’t Wanmiao Mountain know about it a long time ago?
Pu Yanlan frowned even more tightly, and her eyes fell on the fish swimming back and forth on the lake.
"Even though they knew about Zhengyuan Sect's actions, they kept it secret. Unless everyone in Wanmiao Mountain is dead, they must have other plans!"

It’s possible that they are not afraid of these people’s plans at all, or they are just waiting for them to fall into their trap!

Pu Yanlan also thought of her best friend.

"I wonder if Eleven has noticed?"

Gu Shiyi actually discovered several puppet snakes and several puppet sand spiders in succession, which made her secretly frightened.

"There are so many of them in such a small area. How many puppets did Wanmiao Mountain put in this entire mountain?"

Although these things are small, if there are tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, they will be controlled by their masters and swarm over them. They will also have poison in their mouths and on their bodies that even cultivators cannot defend against. They cannot fly, so they will be bitten unexpectedly...

Wow! Awesome!
Just based on this point, all the people in Wanmiao Mountain left. It would be difficult for these people to break into the Tongtian Tower!
Gu Shiyi looked at a gray-white lizard crawling away from his feet, stroked his chin and began to think.

"Everything is known to others, and this group of people still want to fight with them. I'm afraid they don't even know how they died. It seems... I have to fight with Yan'er, find a way to get out of this, kill that guy named Zheng first, and then go find Guan Changqing and the other three!"

Now that things have come to this, there’s no need to play with them anymore!