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The power contained in the 'Painted Mask' is so strong that it can even directly affect Wang Ping's consciousness. In order to prevent any unexpected events from happening, he can only come to outer space to refine it.

With the help of the 'Golden Ball', he reached the meteorite belt in just a few hours, found a medium-sized meteorite, set up an isolation array around it, and concealed the secrets of this starry sky.

Yu Lian disperses the spiritual creatures that approach, and looks for some spiritual creatures with purer spiritual energy to devour.

After Wang Ping confirmed that there was no problem with the magic array arranged around him, he called back Yu Lian who was driving away the spiritual creatures in the distance, and then used the magic array to stabilize his consciousness.

"You want to use the 'Sky Eye' to observe it again?"

Yu Lian looked at the wooden box in Wang Ping's hand and knew that there was a "painted face mask" inside.

Wang Ping smiled and gently stroked Yu Lian's head to calm himself down, then used the "Sky Eye" to deduce the danger of the matter.

This time, he saw himself losing control for a moment in countless scenes, but the probability was very small. He captured this moment of loss of control and carefully read its process. He saw that when his own consciousness was refining the "Painted Mask", the power inside distorted his thoughts for a few breaths, causing desire to almost control his mind.

However, he quickly recovered from those images and deleted this part of his distorted thoughts.

Wang Ping had no intention to explore that twisted thought. He dispelled the image he had just deduced and his eyes fell on the wooden box in his hand that sealed the "Painted Face Mask".

According to the records of the Taoist Palace archives, the "Painted Face Mask" can rewrite fate and reverse cause and effect, but ordinary people who use it need to bear tremendous pressure on their souls, and if they are not careful, their souls may be shattered.

This ability is similar to the "Heaven-stealing Talisman" of the fifth realm. Wang Ping estimated that the monks of the Vajra Temple stole part of Huishan Zhenjun's power to create this magic weapon.

This lack of power actually made Wang Ping a little hesitant. After all, Xu Chun’s lesson was happening right before his eyes. However, the power contained in it made him curious. There were very few things in this world that could make him curious.

"Do you still remember how we avoided the side effects of the 'Purgatory Banner'?" Yu Lian sensed Wang Ping's thoughts and asked this question.

Wang Ping's eyes lit up when he heard this. When he used the "Purgatory Banner", he used captured spiritual creatures as the medium for casting spells, allowing those spiritual creatures to bear the pain on his behalf.

And now with his cultivation level, he can completely refine a puppet specifically used to use the "Painted Mask". In addition, the negative effects weakened after refining, it is very likely that the damage to the soul can be avoided.

"That's a good idea."

Wang Ping clasped his hands together and unlocked the wooden box that sealed the "Painted Face Mask". Suddenly, the mask with exaggerated patterns was reflected in Wang Ping's golden pupil.

Afterwards, Wang Ping made a gesture with his left hand and activated the "Sky Eye" to observe it.

This magic weapon does not have a crazy consciousness like the 'Golden Ball'. Instead, it contains a strong force. When Wang Ping's Heavenly Eye sensed this force, golden light immediately fell on the surface of the 'Painterly Mask' and easily suppressed this force. However, Wang Ping felt that one third of the wood spirit energy in his body's qi sea disappeared instantly.

Before he could think about anything else, a very shocking picture appeared in his mind...

In this picture, the starry sky is like a curtain, and the interwoven black and white light is extremely deep. Suddenly, a silent impact spreads in the core of the starry sky that Wang Ping is looking at.

The air wave formed by the impact created ripples in the space. This was the riot of the wood spirit. Some undetectable figures were flying quickly under the powerful impact force. One of the figures received a visible sharp edge formed when the impact dissipated.

Then the breathtaking starry sky suddenly disappeared and the picture became pitch black.

After a while, a dazzling light flashed, and Wang Ping saw surging golden spiritual energy filling the surroundings. There were also intensive metal knocking sounds and the echoes of some monks chanting scriptures in his ears.

The sound of metal knocking came from a shirtless monk who was hitting an unknown metal with a huge hammer. The monk was standing on the edge of the core area of ​​the Golden Spirit Array. The unknown metal was suppressed in the core of the array by the Golden Spirit aura constructed by the array.

It was unknown how much time had passed. The monk sighed and said something that Wang Ping could not hear clearly. He gave up his original plan and continued to hammer on the unknown metal at the core of the magic circle. After several years, the unknown metal turned into a mask with strange patterns on the surface.

This is the 'Painted Face Mask'!
During the observation process, Wang Ping discovered that the person wielding the hammer was actually Kering himself. Although his appearance could not be seen clearly in these pictures, Wang Ping was very familiar with Kering's figure and aura.

Kering obviously wanted to create an offensive magical weapon, but failed to do so. Instead, he created a mask. Moreover, the pattern on the mask was not artificially painted on, but existed naturally. In other words, the pattern was also a part of this magical weapon.

Wang Ping closed his "Heavenly Eyes" and looked at the "Painted Face Mask" in a more intuitive way. When he saw those strange patterns, Yu Lian reminded him, "Your soul's spiritual energy is being quietly extracted by it."

"It's a very overbearing power. If an ordinary person picks it up, it will drain all their spiritual consciousness in less than half a day." Wang Ping made his comment. As he spoke, he felt that the power inside the mask had locked onto his soul and was even trying to distort part of his consciousness. He then used the 'Heaven-Covering Talisman' to cut off the connection with the mask and thus avoided being locked onto by that power.

"How do we refine it?" Yu Lian asked.

Wang Ping was also a little troubled at the moment. Just now he thought that this magic weapon only needed to suppress the power inside it like the "Golden Ball". Now it seems that it is not the case. It needs to be integrated with the soul consciousness, and after the integration, it will absorb the energy of the soul consciousness all the time.

At a critical moment, when you are looking at it, you will also be looked at by it, and even if you merge, there will be big problems.

Now he finally understood why the monks of Vajra Temple would send out such a powerful weapon, because any normal Xuanmen cultivator would not use his own soul to integrate it.

"Let's use the method you just mentioned to refine a puppet and try it out. If one doesn't work, try two and see if we can refine it by force." Wang Ping quickly came up with an idea. "It was refined once by the monks of the Vajra Temple, and its original power has been weakened by half."

As he spoke, he took out two finished puppets from his storage bag, while Yu Lian grabbed some spiritual creatures with pure spiritual energy from the nearby starry sky.

Wang Ping enlightened the consciousness of the two puppets, and then used the puppets as a medium to drive the spiritual creatures to explore the mask. Regardless of whether the spiritual creatures' thoughts had been seized and polluted, he directly used the powerful wood spirit aura to suppress the power emanating from inside the mask.

"I sense a familiar breath~"

When Xinghai's voice sounded, an illusory figure appeared beside Wang Ping. He revealed a pair of dark eyes, stared at the Painted Face Mask and said, "It is Huishan's breath, but it is very weak, so weak that it can be ignored."

He turned to look at Wang Ping and asked, "What's going on?"

Wang Ping is now concentrating on suppressing the power inside the mask and trying to refine it, so Yu Lian answered the question about 'Xing Hai'.

After hearing this, Xinghai said, "Your idea is good, but you won't be able to use it to its fullest potential. It's better to give it to someone else to use."

Wang Ping frowned slightly when he heard this, stopped what he was doing, looked at Xinghai and asked, "Senior, do you have any good ideas?"

Without his power to maintain them, the two puppets were immediately defeated by a powerful force and turned into pieces in an instant.

Xinghai said: "This mask is a dead object. The power of dead objects can only be integrated, or used directly at a small cost, just like the Seven Star Sword in your hand."

Wang Ping sighed, and after a long while, he said, "I am greedy. I want to take its power for myself, but I don't want to pay the price." Xinghai responded, "All the people I have met are greedy. If Yuxiao wasn't greedy, there wouldn't be the disaster now. You should know the 'body-outside-body technique', right? Use it to make a puppet with your spirit, and let the puppet merge with it. With my help, it won't be difficult for you to fully master it."

Wang Ping was delighted when he heard this, and immediately clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, senior!"

"What's there to thank me for? Just give it a try. I also want to try out its power."

"it is good!"

Wang Ping stretched out his left hand and set up a puppet formation in front of him. Then he took out a puppet with a complete inner spiritual vein, marked the puppet formation into the puppet's body, and then used the 'Tian Tong Fu' to mark it with the approval of the Heavenly Dao.

After completing all this, Wang Ping carefully confirmed that there were no omissions before using the statue of the Night Demon Clan carved on the surface of the 'Tongtian Talisman' to replicate a new consciousness with part of his own soul, and then enlightened this consciousness on the puppet.

"let's start."

'Xinghai' urged.

Wang Ping immediately activated the puppet's consciousness to probe into the interior of the Painted Face Mask, and heard Xinghai continue to say, "Don't worry about the puppet going crazy. As long as you can drive the mask, it'll be fine. If that doesn't work, just change another puppet."

When Yu Lian heard this, she landed on Wang Ping's shoulder, ready to help Wang Ping block the power of the 'Painted Mask' from invading Wang Ping's soul.

The power inside the mask once again tried to lock onto Wang Ping's soul, but was easily blocked by the 'Heaven-Covering Talisman', and then 'Star Sea' was seen infusing a large amount of energy into the puppet.

Wang Ping did not dare to delay and immediately controlled the puppet's consciousness to directly attack the power inside the mask.

After a moment, it was the puppet's consciousness that gained the upper hand. This was due to the surging energy infused by the 'Sea of ​​Stars', which could endlessly suppress the power inside the 'Painted Mask'.

The next step is to integrate the 'Painted Mask' with the puppet's consciousness. This step is time-consuming and will not be too difficult.

With the help of 'Xinghai', Wang Ping completed the task in just half a year.

...

"Do you want to give this puppet a name?" Yu Lian asked, the appearance of the puppet reflected in her golden vertical pupils. The 'painted mask' was already worn on the puppet's face, and the patterns on it made the puppet look like a funny clown from a distance.

“No need!” Wang Ping shook his head and said, “It’s easy to get emotionally attached to a name. It doesn’t need emotion, and we don’t need to get emotionally attached to it either.”

"That's true." Yu Lian asked, "Do you want to try its ability?"

Wang Ping looked at the 'sea of ​​stars' beside him, and the 'sea of ​​stars' disappeared silently. He looked at Yu Lian again and said, "Then let's just give it a try."

After the puppet merged with the 'Painted Mask', its consciousness knew how to use it. Just as what was recorded in the archives, it could indeed temporarily change established facts and distort some cause and effect, but the scope was very small.

"How to try?"

Yulian asked curiously.

Wang Ping stood up and removed the magic circle set up around the meteorite. He stretched out his left hand and pointed at the right abdomen of the puppet. Suddenly, a surging wood spirit energy emerged and pierced the right abdomen of the puppet.

Then, Wang Ping controlled the puppet and made a magic gesture. An invisible force emerged, and then the right abdomen of the puppet strangely returned to its original state. It seemed as if time and space were displaced and the puppet's past body was covered over.

"It's not a wood spirit's healing spell. It seems to be repairing out of thin air."

Yulian speaks human words.

Wang Ping responded: "It directly changes the cause and effect of the established facts." As he spoke, he took out the 'Seven Star Sword' and stabbed the puppet. When it was about to hit the puppet, the sword was strangely deflected.

"Is it similar to the effect of 'Heaven-Covering Talisman'?" Yu Lian asked.

"No, the 'Heaven-Blocking Talisman' is to shield the rules of the spell, but it is the real distortion of cause and effect."

"Is this the power of the 'Heaven-stealing Talisman'? Very powerful, very..."

Yu Lian didn't know how to describe it for a moment.

But then she opened her eyes wide and looked at Wang Ping and asked, "Can this power only work on oneself? What's the use of that?"

Wang Ping replied: "That's not the case. To act on external objects, a stable wood spirit formation is needed to cooperate. It should be that its power has been weakened too much."

He also felt a little regretful. "This is good too. At least in the future when I fight with others, almost no one can hurt me. As long as I am fine, I can be invincible."

As Wang Ping spoke, he took out a specially made blank talisman, activated a talisman that could receive objects and took the puppet inside.

There was another more important reason why he did not master the 'Hanamu Mask' himself, which was that he was afraid that he would become a pawn like Sujun.

Although this possibility seems very small at the moment, because Huishan Zhenjun is probably already disabled, and even the Zhenjuns are planning to give up on him, but what if?
"Are we going back now? Taiyan Mountain should be completed by now, right?"

Yu Lian suddenly became a little impatient.

When Wang Ping heard Yu Lian's words, he also felt a little bit of anticipation.

Then, Wang Ping cleared away the remaining aura in the starry sky and entered the state of "nothingness" with Yu Lian.

After several hours, he returned to the outskirts of Zhongzhou Star.

At this moment, the Zhongzhou continent was in darkness. Wang Ping passed through the atmosphere and explored with his spiritual consciousness. He saw the continent that had regained some vitality, which made him feel better unconsciously.

Then he discovered that in the southern waters of Hushan Country, the monks of Taiyin Sect and Linshui Prefecture seemed to be fighting on a large scale. (End of this chapter)