I will survive with proficiency

Huh.

Women really affect the speed of drawing a sword.

After being completely lost for more than ten days, Chen Ping got back on track with his practice again.

To a certain extent, both of them are self-disciplined people.

Yun Lingshan is a lady in the family. She has received a good education since she was a child and knows how to be reserved. If her feelings had not been suppressed for hundreds of years, which caused a certain retaliatory backlash after the current outbreak, she would not be sinking into this world every day. Chen Ping couldn't extricate himself from his embrace.

As for Chen Ping, he completely experienced the unique charm that he had never experienced before in Yun Lingshan.

A thousand women, a thousand Hamlets.

What Zhou Shuren said does make sense.

"Brother Chen, someone is monitoring Yishui Villa."

Yun Lingshan, who had not left the main cave for a long time, rarely took the initiative to patrol the manor today. She never thought that she would get an unexpected harvest.

"Surveillance? What do you mean?"

Chen Ping raised his eyebrows.

Subconsciously, he thought of Miss Six of the Yu family.

Yun Lingshan frowned slightly:

"When I was patrolling the forest outside the manor with Hai Hye and Lu Li, Hai Hye and Lu Li accidentally discovered a photo talisman. It was a talisman artificially placed there. It had been activated and was arranged very concealed. If it hadn't been for Sea hyenas and land raccoons are extremely sensitive to extremely cold things, so I probably won't be able to detect them."

Sea hyenas live all year round in volcanic craters or cold valleys in the abyss of the ocean, and are extremely sensitive to extremely cold and extremely hot things.

A memory charm?

This is a disposable talisman that can preserve images of things happening around you.

Similar to a photo stone.

The sixth lady of the Yu family?

Could it be that Miss Six of the Yu family suspected that I was colluding with the Guan family?

So collect evidence?

But the shadow talisman cannot break through the formation that blocks sound and consciousness.

What's the use of collecting the exchanges between myself and the Guan family, but if I can't hear the inside story of the conversation?

I originally needed to stay in the Guan family.

"Where is the talisman?" Chen Ping asked.

"Lingshan didn't touch it. I'll take Brother Chen to have a look and we'll find out." Yun Lingshan said with a serious expression.

The two set off immediately and did not leave Yishui Villa. Instead, they stopped at the edge of Yishui Villa and peered in with their spiritual senses.

Soon I saw the talisman arranged inside a big tree. The magic power of the shadow talisman can pass through the barrier of the big tree and record the surrounding situation.

The arrangement of this talisman is very strange.

It is almost arranged on the top of the big tree.

If it weren't for Hai Hye and Lu Li's extraordinary perception, Yun Lingshan, let alone Yun Lingshan, might not be able to detect it even if she were passing by.

But the problem is.

Placed on the top of the big tree, the angle is pointed at the sky above Yishui Manor. What can be seen?

Chen Ping couldn't understand it.

After thinking deeply he said:

"What you did is right. Don't touch it yet. Keep an eye on it and see who will take back the talisman in the end."

The memory talisman is a one-time talisman, and it is not valid for a long time.

Unlike the long-term preservation of 'video' in the memory stone, the image in the memory charm can only be stored for about two years.

After that, the spiritual power disappears and the image disappears.

If this person intends to spy on Yishui Manor, he will naturally come back to collect the photo talisman.

In the following time, the location of that talisman was always under counter-surveillance by the Xu sisters.

Finally, one dark and windy night, a figure appeared there.

It's him?

Chen Ping narrowed his eyes.

Although he knew who it was, he still didn't understand what the other party wanted to do, so Chen Ping never fought back.

Instead, let the Xu sisters continue to monitor.

Time passes quickly.

Two years later, Chen Ping went to Ronghua City in his spare time while practicing. After putting on makeup, he walked into an attic called "Star Reaching Pavilion".

This loft specializes in selling all kinds of information.

Including personal information of casual cultivators.

Chen Ping came here this time just to buy some people's personal information.

Afterwards, return to Yishui Manor.

Continue to practice.

Rarely go out.

A few years later, in the quiet room, with the turmoil of the breath, the true energy in the Dantian rolled and surged, and it took a long time to calm down.

The mist of true energy dissipated, and Zi Yuanying appeared.

‘I finally absorbed the last bit of life matter from the Yuehua Demon Pill and completely transformed it into my own Nascent Soul. ’

Chen Ping smiled happily.

At this time, the aura of Zi Yuanying is strong, the edge outline is clearly visible, and there is no spilled Yuan Shen mist. The surface of Yuanying is smooth and detailed, and the texture is mellow.

The form is almost the same as the main Yuanying.

'It looks like the first phase is complete. ’

‘The next step is to strengthen the Zi Yuanying, so that the Zi Yuanying can grow to the same size as the main Yuanying as soon as possible. ’

Chen Ping took a sip of water.

This feeling of progress every day made him extremely satisfied.

This day.

The long-awaited owner of Evergreen Manor came to visit and once again brought good news invitations.

In the living room of Yishui Manor, the two of them sat across the table.

"Congratulations to the owner of the village for adding another wife." Chen Ping congratulated.

The owner of the village smiled:

"Hehe, that's all for the elegance. Master Chen will remember to appreciate it then."

The master Hou picked up the spiritual tea poured by Yun Lingshan and drank it all in one gulp.

"sure."

Chen Ping cupped his hands and said again:

"I was out a few days ago, and I heard Master Liu say that this female cultivator is a female cultivator that Master Hou has just met. Why is Master Hou so eager to take her as his concubine?"

The owner of the village was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed dryly and said:

"Hey, man, who's not in a hurry?"

This sentence is considered perfunctory.

It was obvious that he didn't want to talk more.

The owner of the village looked at Chen Ping calmly. He didn't understand why Chen Ping suddenly cared about these things, and his heart tightened subconsciously.

Could it be that the secret was revealed?

Impossible, the most I could do was place some shadow charms in the forest. Other than that, I didn't show any signs of coveting Chen Ping.

In fact, all the thoughts he had about coveting Chen Ping were from his own mind, and he had not even had time to put them into action.

What's the point of showing off one's flaws?

But at this moment, Villa Master Hou suddenly felt a breath rushing through his body, an uncontrollable rush.

Soon, the Nascent Soul in Dantian began to collapse.

Consciousness quickly becomes blurry.

He was shocked and suddenly looked at the tea and then at Chen Ping:

"Master Chen, why is this?"

The vicious Master Chen.

Before he finished speaking, he saw a small magic sword thrust straight into his throat. He subconsciously wanted to block it, but was surprised to find that all his spiritual energy had been drained away without him realizing it.

"puff!"

The head flew out.

Nascent Soul, which had no time to completely collapse in the future, was about to escape, but was immediately grabbed by a big hand and crushed to pieces with a bang.

In less than a breath of time, the physical body was destroyed and the soul was annihilated.

Yun Lingshan behind her was stunned.

She had thought that her brother Chen would be very powerful, and she also knew that brother Chen liked to hide his secrets, but she never expected that Master Hou, who was also a late-stage Nascent Soul monk, would not be able to survive a single move in his hands.

In front of the jade table.

Chen Ping didn't think too much, turned to Yun Lingshan and said:

"You go and guard outside, don't let anyone in. I'll handle it here."

Yun Lingshan came to her senses, nodded solemnly, and immediately went outside.

After Chen Ping isolated his spiritual consciousness, he immediately used Nascent Soul Qi to gather the remnant soul of Master Hou, and then performed spiritualism.

"Why are you spying on me?"

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"Besides you, is there anyone else behind the surveillance of me?"

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"Besides those memory charms, are there any other measures?"

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"Except for what's in the storage bag, where do you have your belongings? How do you access these places?"

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"Who is your biggest enemy? Or who is most likely to kill you?"

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After dozens of inquiries, Chen Ping finally found out why Master Hou wanted to spy on him.

‘It turns out that it was guessed that I had given birth to a twin baby. ’

‘Covet my body. ’

Chen Ping narrowed his eyes.

The owner of the village is so vicious.

Just because I have dual souls, they want to kill me.

A few years ago, Chen Ping discovered that the person who arranged the photo charms in the forest outside Yishui Villa was the owner of the village, Hou, but he didn't know the plot of the owner.

After that, the Xu sisters discovered through surveillance that Master Hou seemed to have many secrets, which he hid very deeply.

But I still don’t know why he wants to monitor me.

So I went to Ronghua City and purchased the personal information of the owner of the village.

On the surface, the monk is a spiritual cultivator.

Secretly, he is a fourth-level puppet master.

Generally speaking, puppet masters use heavenly materials and earthly treasures as raw materials, and use special secret methods to gather shapes and refine them into puppets with a certain attack power.

But Zhuangzhu Hou's refining method seems to be rather special - these words are the original words of Zhaixing Pavilion.

‘Suspected’, but not sure.

There are many Nascent Soul casual cultivators in Ronghua City, but most of the Nascent Soul casual cultivators are not real casual cultivators.

Take Brother Si, for example. He was originally the great elder of another sect. He just wanted to enter some ruins or secret realms in the Guan family, so he temporarily stayed away from the original sect and came here to become a temporary cultivator.

But the owner of the village is different.

Master Hou is a real casual cultivator.

Moreover, the owner of the village never stayed in any one place for a long time.

Usually after staying in a Xiuxian city for decades, they will move to other spheres of influence, continue to rent land and become the owner of a manor.

This is the information provided by Zhaixingge.

Now I know more after asking the soul.

The owner of the village is eyeing Chen Ping's twin souls.

Zhuangzhu Hou himself has specialized in conceiving the child's Yuanying, so he has a very deep understanding of the situation of the child's Yuanying.

A few years ago, at a wedding banquet, I had close contact with Chen Ping, and I accidentally discovered that Chen Ping's body seemed to have the aura of a 'double soul'.

Considering that Chen Ping had asked him for relevant information, he had a guess in his mind.

But this feeling is mysterious and unreal.

So the shadow charms were arranged outside Yishui Manor.

If Chen Ping is really a dual Yuanying monk, there will always be a moment when the Tao phase will be triggered in the process of his cultivation, especially the process of consolidating the Yuanying.

Making the dual souls ascend into the sky.

'Fortunately, I got the upper hand by striking first. ’

Chen Ping was thankful.

In fact, after receiving the information from Zhaixing Pavilion, it was not certain what the cultivator candidate was planning.

However, Chen Ping no longer wants to let this uncertain factor continue to exist.

That’s why we made today’s decision.

After Chen Ping packed up the body of Master Hou, he asked Yun Lingshan to guard the scene. He made up like Master Hou and left through the main entrance of Yishui Manor in full view of the public.

Then, according to the behavior style of the candidate, he used the formation tokens on his body to successfully enter the Evergreen Manor.

After retreating from all the concubines and servants, he returned to his private room.

This is a quiet room that only the host can enter.

Activate the token and activate a formation.

Behind the formation, a secret door appeared.

Follow the dark passage and finally enter a sealed stone room underground.

The scene before him stunned Chen Ping.

——Dozens of human puppets stand neatly among them.

Like a zombie grotto.

Chen Ping looked at these human puppets carefully.

Some of them were the monks they had seen at the wedding banquet of Master Hou.

Among them was Zhuang Zhang, who liked to wear red robes, who originally shared the concubine of the village master.

This is the secret of Master Hou's puppetry.

Other puppet masters usually use heavenly materials and earthly treasures as raw materials, and add secret techniques to refine them into puppets.

But the waiter is different.

Zhuangzhu Hou's puppet technique is made from living people.

This is also the reason why Master Hou can't stay in any immortal cultivation area for a long time.

Once you stay for a long time, you will be easily discovered.

Taking a shot and moving to another location is the long-term solution.

This time, after successfully refining Zhuang Zhang and several other Nascent Soul cultivators, Master Hou was planning to retreat.

But it happened that Chen Ping appeared at this time.

When the village owner realized that Chen Ping was a rare 'double soul', he immediately started to feel itchy. Dual Soul is the best material for refining human puppets, and there is no better material.

The owner of the village decided to take another risk.

One last adventure.

Leave after completing this order.

Chen Ping took a deep breath and mourned for a second of silence for these monks, then took out the puppet bag and put the dozens of puppets in front of him into the puppet bag one by one.

The puppet of Master Hou is not simple. The reason why it has to be refined by living people is because the puppet refined in this way can not only restrain its own power, but also retain most of the puppet monk's mana during his lifetime.

Power bonus.

A puppet can even defeat the original monk himself to a certain extent.

On the other hand, the puppets refined by monk Hou's magic can form a puppet array.

Practicing in such a magic circle can greatly increase the speed of practice.

This is also the main purpose of Zhuangzhu Hou taking the risk to refine the living puppet.

The reason why Master Hou was able to reach the late stage of Nascent Soul was mainly due to the puppet array.

However, there is a fatal flaw in practicing in the puppet array, that is, it consumes too many puppets.

The wear and tear of the human puppet is irreversible.

This also resulted in the cultivator candidates having to continue taking risks and constantly capturing other Nascent Soul cultivators for them to refine puppets for themselves.

How can you walk along the river without getting your shoes wet?

There are a lot of these puppets in the stone room, but fortunately there are enough puppet bags.

The puppet bag is another kind of space bag that is different from the storage bag, spirit plant bag, and spirit animal bag, and is specially used for storing puppets.

These puppet bags come from the 'generous gift' of the owner of the village.

Chen Ping was quite emotional when he saw the red-robed monk Zhang.

How can anyone be so generous as to let others share their concubine?

It's all a routine.

The reason why the monk Hou is doing this is to use this stage to combine the yin and yang of the target person with his concubine, giving the other party a puppet ban, and then making the other party lose his life for his use.

There are so many monks outside.

I have to sleep with someone else’s wife.

It's okay now.

Even if he lost his life, he was trained to be a puppet.

Even if you die, you have to sacrifice your life for the enemy.

But from now on, you will work hard for me, so you don’t have to die in peace.

Chen Ping closed his wide eyes for him.

After installing the puppet, Chen Ping returned to the quiet room and looted all the valuable things in the quiet room. Some less valuable things were left intact, making the quiet room look like he was waiting for the owner to come back at any time.

Then he calmly walked out of the quiet room and took a tour of the manor.

It's equivalent to showing up in public.

In order to avoid exposing his secrets, he deliberately did not appear in front of his most favored ladies.

Instead, he intentionally or unintentionally mentioned in front of the concubine in the Foundation Establishment Stage who was the lowest in cultivation that he needed to go out to settle a grudge with an old person and would be back on the wedding day.

Then he left the manor in full view of everyone.

A few days later, Chen Ping walked around Ronghua City in the image of waiting for the owner of the village.

I went to two bookstores and asked the shopkeepers in public if they had any introductory books combining Puppet Master and Gu Dao.

During the previous soul-searching, Chen Ping learned that Master Hou actually had a monk with whom he had trouble dealing with, and he was also a monk that Master Hou was quite afraid of.

This monk is in Ronghua City.

Also a puppet master.

The monk-in-waiting formed a rift with the puppet master when he was looking for an opportunity in a secret realm.

Many people know this.

The owner of the village suspected that this puppet master was a secret agent of the Yu family, because he had seen this puppet master using puppets when he was exploring the secret realm. With his extraordinary understanding of puppets, the master of the village discovered that there was something in the puppets of this puppet master. Gu's brand.

Gu is the Yu family's best asset.

But the owner of the village has no evidence.

Just doubtful.

Chen Ping didn't really go to find this monk.

These clues must be left vague and left to be sorted out by the investigators themselves. Clues that are too obvious will lead to suspicion that someone has done it intentionally.

As for these vague clues, can subsequent investigators connect them together? Chen Ping couldn't guarantee it.

If it can, that's best.

If not, it won't matter much as long as you clear yourself of suspicion.

thereafter.

After Chen Ping wandered around Ronghua City, he put on makeup and changed his appearance and secretly left the city. After disappearing into the forest, he headed east.

Chen Ping had walked this forest road before during the Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation.

Therefore, this time he flew for more than ten days and found a hidden mountain. After going dozens of miles underground, he dug a large basement.

A reinforcement formation was arranged in the basement.

Prevent the basement from collapsing or being accidentally entered by other monsters.

All dozens of puppets were taken out and placed in the basement.

Now I know nothing about the puppet technique. It is unknown whether the puppet will have a spiritual imprint, whether it has been refined to prevent position tracking, etc.

It is not safe to carry these puppets with you at this time.

The owner of the manor is not only a casual cultivator, but also a tenant of the manor of the Guan family.

Three months later will be the wedding day of Master Hou. If Master Hou doesn't show up in time at that time, he might attract the attention of others.

The Guan family might intervene.

After all, it is in your own land, and you are a tenant who pays a "protection fee" every year.

Once the Guan family intervenes, the manor owners in this area will be the first to be investigated.

If you can't keep these belongings on you, don't keep them on you.

At least wait until this rumor has passed.

Then he cleaned up the property obtained from the owner of the village on the spot, temporarily placing some unidentified property in the basement, and only took away the property that was sure to have no problems.

As for the corpse of the monk.

Naturally, the corpses were destroyed and no traces were left.

After taking care of everything, he casually put on makeup to look like other monks and embarked on the return journey.

Tens of thousands of miles away from the manor, he dived underground and slowly escaped.

Finally, he returned to his manor quietly.

It's like I've never left.