The Mortal's Path to Immortality

"Will the exit be set at the center or at the end of the mana pattern?" Cao Rui frowned and thought to himself.

"If something unexpected happens, it should be at these two locations. Dougan should go over and take a look." Cao Rui thought.

The art of mechanical puppetry is inextricably linked to the art of formation. They all originate from the basic array runes. As a master of mechanical puppetry, Jijizi must have dabbled in this.

"Jijizi transformed Jiji Fortress into this, and he should still be inclined to hope that only those who are proficient in arrays can enter and get rewards." Cao Rui shuttled through the fog and had a deeper understanding of Jijizi's intentions.

After figuring out the principle, Cao Rui had a clear idea in his mind.

He led the other three people to the center without hesitation.

"Hmm?" Cao Rui frowned slightly.

The remains of a puppet blocked his way.

It was silent and looked destroyed.

Cao Rui looked at the puppet lying on the ground in the distance ahead. The torch in his hand swayed slightly, illuminating the darkness around him.

The puppet had been severely damaged, and it was obvious that it had fallen after a fierce battle.

"Who killed this puppet? Gu Qingying or Huiming?" Cao Rui thought to himself.

He approached the puppet carefully and observed it carefully.

Through the analysis of the wounds on the puppet, he found that most of these wounds were sword wounds, and the technique was sharp.

Among them, the only one who held the magic sword and could defeat the puppet was probably Gu Qingying.

Thinking of this, Cao Rui had the answer in his mind: it should be Gu Qingying who killed this puppet.

Cao Rui stood in front of the puppet and carefully observed every detail of it.

This puppet was huge, three meters tall, in human form, with gray skin that was soft and elastic, but the material was not clear.

He could vaguely detect traces of a magic circle on the puppet's skin.

The most striking thing was the fatal wound the size of a bowl on its chest. This gap exposed the artificial skeleton structure inside, which emitted a faint spiritual light.

Judging from the integrity of the area near this gap, it turned out that some heavy objects could be placed here, perhaps the energy center of the puppet.

Cao Rui speculated secretly in his heart.

Cao Rui calculated the timing accurately. When he was sure that there was no other danger around, he quickly seized the opportunity, took out the storage bag, gently waved his arm, and successfully put the puppet body into the bag.

This puppet body is worth studying.

Almost as soon as Cao Rui put away the puppet, puppet shadows approached from all around.

"It was the fluctuation of mana when the storage bag was activated that attracted them."

Cao Rui took a step forward and led the other three people through the gap between the puppets' shadows.

"Damn it, Yu boy, can you not play so excitingly." Zhang Heng said softly.

"Okay, okay, don't talk, Yu boy has a bottom line in his heart." Tan Hongmei turned back and said.

Cao Rui held the torch and continued to move forward.

On the way to the center point, Cao Rui encountered the bodies of puppets one after another.

Without exception, they all had a piece missing from their chests, and their cores were taken away.

The more puppets were found later, the fewer sword wounds they had on their bodies, and basically they only had one fatal wound on their chests.

Gu Qingying, this woman, is really powerful. After finding the weakness of the puppets, she is unstoppable.

Cao Rui collected the bodies of the puppets along the way and got a total of six.

He put the puppet bodies into the storage bag and continued to move forward.

The other three people were not dissatisfied with this.

After all, although Zhang Heng was a talkative person, he knew that if it was Cao Rui who took action, they would not be able to get through this level at all.

Cao Rui changed direction continuously and finally stepped into the center of the fog.

What appeared in Cao Rui's eyes was a circular area with a diameter of about three meters.

There was no fog in this area.

Zhang Heng walked into this area, looked up and saw that there was no fog, and said happily: "Come out?"

"Yes!" Zhang Heng shook his head and soon found that this was just an enclave wrapped in fog, and they did not walk out of the fog area.

"Yu kid, where is this?"

"This is the center of the magic circle."

"If this is the exit, then the exit should be at the end of the magic circle." Cao Rui engraved the shape of the 0-level fog in his mind and spoke softly.

Although they understood what Cao Rui meant, they were relieved to hear that Cao Rui had another exit.

At this time, a fight sounded outside the enclave.

: Who is it?

Cao Rui went forward with a torch in his hand to check and found that in the distance, there were seven or eight puppets besieging a person, and that person was Gu Qingying.

At this time, Gu Qingying was in tattered clothes and covered with blood. Obviously, she was slightly injured in the fight with these puppets.

Although I don't have a good impression of Gu Qingying.

At this time, Cao Rui still waved the torch in his hand: "Come here!"

When Gu Qingying heard the voice, he immediately burst out his magic power to force the puppets to retreat, and then quickly rushed towards Cao Rui.

The puppets chased at full speed, and their flying speed was not much slower than Gu Qingying under the full burst.

Swish!

At the critical moment, Gu Qingying got rid of the pursuit of the puppets and rushed into the core.

And those puppets, under the nervous gaze of Zhang Heng and others, probed at the edge of the fog for a while, but did not leave the fog and rush to this center.

"At this location, the mana pattern will probe when the fog array is activated. This level is arranged according to the fog array, and these puppets will naturally enter."

"Therefore, this enclave in the fog can be said to be a safe zone." Cao Rui thought.

"Huhu... Where is this?" Gu Qingying panted slightly. She had been fighting with the puppets, and both her body and mana had reached their limits.

The magic sword on her side was also bumped and damaged, but it was not damaged much.

"Master Gu, this is the safe enclave we found. You can rest here with peace of mind. There will be danger." Zhang Heng squinted and stepped forward to comfort him.

Gu Qingying opened her mouth and swallowed a few pills, ignoring the injuries on her body. She glanced at Zhang Heng, and finally her eyes fell on the torch in Cao Rui's hand.

"I remember this thing was the torch on the wall in the hall at the beginning. Its light can actually penetrate the fog?" Gu Qingying raised her eyebrows and said.

She had previously condensed magic and took out the glowing treasures to create light sources, but she couldn't penetrate the fog at all. She was completely blind when walking and fighting in the fog.

But she didn't expect that the torch from the hall in Cao Rui's hand could actually illuminate the fog.

Cao Rui nodded slightly.

"Give me this torch." Gu Qingying stretched out her hand.

Cao Rui smiled. This woman really saw the situation clearly. I don't know how she became the leader of Yunshui Sect.

Cao Rui took advantage of the situation and said, "Senior, I saw the corpse of Master's puppet on the road before. The thing in the middle of the puppet was taken away by you, right? Can you give me the thing inside? I am willing to exchange it for the torch."