Chapter 379: Strange Puppet
In this case, a seventh-level female cultivator who practiced qi was especially born a very beautiful and moving female cultivator. It is very unsafe to walk alone in the world.
Yue Xiu smiled bitterly and said: "Originally, the three of us senior sisters came out together, but who knew that the two junior sisters were captured by the other party when they were fighting with others. Senior Sister Li fled to protect me, and blew up her dantian and died! β¦β¦β
From her narration, Su Qing learned that Yuexiu's two fellow female cultivators traveled together, but they were robbed by a foundation building monk half a year ago.
In the end, the three of them were defeated, and one of their junior sisters won a chance to survive the seriously injured Yuexiu at the cost of sacrifice. After Yuexiu escaped, he entered the Hundred Beast Forest by chance.
"So, you've been in the Beast Forest for three months?" Luoyang, who had not made a sound, asked after listening to her words.
Yuexiu replied very respectfully: "Back to the predecessors, that's exactly the case. Before,Because the juniors were seriously injured,So,I've been hiding here to recuperate.,Recently, I met those few gangsters as soon as I came out of the battle.,Thanks to the two seniors.γ Otherwise, the younger generation may save their lives. β
"Meeting is fate, since you are seriously injured and just recovering, you will inevitably cultivate unstable, take this bottle of Biluo Dan and use it!" Su Qing saw that although her face was a little pale, there was a hint of tenacity between her eyebrows, and she couldn't help but feel pity, and took out a bottle of Biluo Dan and gave it to her.
After Yuexiu received the elixir with great gratitude, he thanked the two very respectfully and said goodbye.
When her figure disappeared into the Hundred Beast Forest, Luo Yang glanced at Su Qing and said with a smile: "Su Qing, you are really generous enough, a monk who meets in Pingshui." All of the above products are given to Biluodan! β
Qing Su smiled and shook his head, "That's a mistake! We've had a relationship before! If she didn't say that she was from Qingyaomen, I wouldn't be able to remember! β
When Luoyang heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Heh, you have met a lot of people!" Acquaintances can be seen everywhere! However, it seems that people don't recognize you at all! β
Su Qing smiled and said, "If I can really be recognized, I really can't show my hands on this disguise technique." How dare you give you a makeover? β
Seeing that Luoyang only smiled and said nothing, she said with a straight face: "This Yuexiu is a Ding furnace that I rescued before and was sent to the Hu family, I didn't expect to see it again here." That's why we are destined! β
"Now how can Xiuzhen Xiu be like this, there are people with bad intentions everywhere. It's really a bad day! "Listen to her. Luoyang couldn't help but sigh.
Su Qing let out a sigh of relief and said, "No matter when, there are strong bullies for the weak, but now the cultivation world is bored and relies too much on magic weapons. Repair. And pay attention to physical cultivation and moral cultivation. That's why the heart of the Tao is not strong, so that the behavior is disorderly! β
The two of them chatted and walked outside the Hundred Beast Forest. In less than half a day, he walked out of the forest.
After saying goodbye to the Tianxuan Sect foundation building monk stationed here, Su Qing sacrificed the flowing water cup, and the two of them went all the way to the west.
It may be that because the flowing water cup can hide the fluctuations of spiritual power on its own, there has never been any robber along the way, but it has encountered many cases of monks being robbed.
As long as the perpetrator's cultivation is not too high, Su Qing and Luoyang will both stop and act chivalrous.
However, they also had a time when they looked away, and once the two of them found two high-level Qi cultivators on the flowing water cup, and stopped a female cultivator who was practicing Qi at the eighth level with the intention of robbing money and robbing people, Su Qing and the two immediately appeared.
They originally planned to scare these two monks away, but they didn't expect that one of them would actually have a hidden spirit magic weapon, and it seemed that a monk who only practiced qi at the seventh level actually had a mid-stage foundation building cultivation.
Although Luoyang and Su Qing are also considered to be the best among the monks in the early stage of foundation building, they are very different from each other in terms of cultivation by one level.
As a result, the two of them were able to get out of the magic weapon in their hands.
And the Liuyun Zhan, which was used as a tool for escaping, stopped the magic weapon in the hands of the mid-foundation building monk at the critical moment, and at the same time, it also consumed a lot of spiritual power in it.
So, Luoyang suggested that the two of them simply walk in the car and slowly visit the world's grand scenery. Put away the flowing cloud jar and slowly recover some spiritual power before using it.
Of course, Su Qing had no objection to this. Originally, she went out of the mountain purely for travel, and she didn't have any purpose, so she could do whatever she wanted.
In this way, the two walked side by side, chatting with Luoyang while understanding the world.
On this day, the two came to an ordinary secular town, because they had been on the road for more than half a month. Therefore, Su Qing planned to rest here for one night.
Both of them dressed as secular Taoist priests and came to the only small inn in the town, called the two upper rooms.
As soon as Su Qing entered the room, he dodged into the fairy orchard space. For more than half a year since she came out of the mountain, she has been with Luoyang, and her night rest is also in his portable cave mansion.
Therefore, she never had the opportunity to enter the fairy orchard space.
Seeing Su Qing coming in, the blue bird immediately flew over and shouted, "Su Qing, why haven't you come to the space to practice for so long?" It won't be another catastrophe of life and death! β
Su Qing glared at it angrily and said, "How can you talk about this dead bird!" I've been safe lately! With that, he left it and went straight to the elixir garden.
The blue bird stared at her thoughtfully, and said to himself, "Hmph! Not now, but soon! After speaking, he flapped his wings and flew into the depths of the fairy fruit forest.
And Su Qing, who was concentrating on collecting the spirit grass elixir at this time, didn't notice what it said at all.
After picking the spirit grass that could be used in the pill, Su Qing practiced in the Fa Xi for a few more hours, feeling that almost an hour had passed outside before picking some ordinary spirit fruits and flashing out.
As a result, just one appeared. Hearing a knock on the door, Su Qing waved his hand casually and withdrew the formation. The door opened.
Luoyang looked at her with a smile on his face and said, "Su Qing, I heard that today is the Festival of Lights in the secular world, and now there are lights outside, and the brakes are beautiful, why don't we go and see it together?" β
Oh, it's the Lantern Festival! Although there is no such festival in this world, there is also a lantern festival held on the 10th day of the first lunar month, and at this time, people who have been busy all year round go out with their families to enjoy the lanterns.
Therefore, this day is called the Festival of Lights.
Looking at the heavy snow blowing outside, there are all kinds of fireworks and smoke on both sides of the street. As well as the lively crowd on the street, Su Qing suddenly had a feeling of being in a modern society in his previous life.
These thoughts just flashed in her heart, and she nodded happily at Luoyang and said, "Okay, let's go out and have fun!" β
When the two came to the street side by side, admiring the lights and moving forward with the flow of people, Su Qing also stopped from time to time to buy some snacks and ate while walking.
Luoyang carried a few lanterns with very beautiful workmanship in his hands. Although it is not as beautiful as the glass lamp in the cultivation realm, it also has some ingenuity.
When the two came to a lighthouse made of various lanterns, they saw that all the people were flocking to a high platform not far away.
Su Qing looked at it, and it turned out that someone was playing a puppet show. Immediately interested. and Luoyang also squeezed into the crowd to watch.
I saw lifelike leather puppets, holding all kinds of lanterns in their hands, constantly moving back and forth on the stage. The most amazing thing is that the puppet is made of life-size pieces.
As more and more people gathered around, those shadow puppets that originally circled the platform. I even began to interpret a simple story. even matches the vivid voice based on his identity.
All of a sudden. The audience applauded continuously, and Su Qing was also surprised, he didn't expect that there were such skillful people in this world.
But gradually. A sense of foreboding slowly rose in her heart! I always feel that I am like the characters in the puppet, performing a play of joys and sorrows on stage.
She felt an invisible force pulling her to the stage.
"Su Qing, this skin is occasionally different!" A low shout rang out as she listened, and it pulled her sanity back.
Turning his head to see Luoyang's ordinary face, which had been disguised, a pair of dark starry eyes were looking at her with worry, and saw that Su Qing's expression had returned to clarity.
Luoyang whispered in her ear: "This puppet show is not simple, you see!" These people seem to have fallen into evil spiritsβ"
Su Qing immediately looked around, and saw that the people around him seemed to have lost their souls, staring at the stage with demented eyes, blindly clapping their hands.
She noticed that the old man beside her had a hoarse voice and his palms were swollen from the long applause, but he still maintained the same enthusiasm.
Su Qing tried to call him several times, but failed to wake him up.
Seeing more and more people fall into this crazy obsession, Su Qing was horrified!
She stared at the puppet on the stage again, and the more she looked, the more she felt that it was no different from a real person. But there was no trace of life, so she took advantage of another wave of crowds to squeeze to the front of the stage, and a puppet pretending to be a noble lady passed by the outside of the stage.
Su Qing quickly stretched out his hand and pulled down the wide corner of the leather puppet that swept to the edge of the high platform. A trace of spiritual power then reached for the puppet.
Immediately, she looked in a trance, turned her head sideways and whispered to Luoyang, who had come to her side: "This is a real human skin!" But inside are the bones of demon beasts! β
Luoyang stepped on her feet as if he hadn't heard of it.
Su Qing thought for a moment, and then pretended to be like a fanatical crowd around him, looking at the puppet show on the stage with enthusiastic and demented eyes.
Soon, she found out that the puppets were alive! The stories they deduce, all the lyrics, are from their own mouths, and there is no one behind the scenes!
When the puppets turned to the other side of the stage, Su Qing and Luoyang quickly glanced at each other: There is something strange about this puppet show!
So, the two also pretended to be bewitched by it, and applauded with the secular people around them.
But unexpectedly, this puppet show made of human skin and animal bones, with mysterious and charming powers, ended an hour and a half after the show began, and ended like a normal performance.
A very ordinary forty-year-old man came to the stage, put this lifelike puppet together, and then thanked the enthusiastic audience on the stage, and began to direct his entourage to dismantle the stage and call it a day.
At this time, Su Qing found that the audience who had fallen into obsession just now, although they had a strong look of regret on their faces, they looked clear, not like they were confused.
Luoyang glanced at the admiring crowd around him, and whispered to Su Qing: "What a false alarm!" This puppet show is really good! β
Su Qing didn't think so, she clearly saw the coveting of the audience from the puppet's eyes before.
She thought that the people behind these puppets would take advantage of this festival of lights, but she didn't expect them to just put on a show, and then quietly leave at a regular distance.
But this is even more puzzling.
After watching such a splendid puppet show, the two of them lost the interest in watching the lanterns, so they went back to the inn together.
"Su Qing, do you feel that something is wrong?" After returning to the inn, Luoyang did not return to his room, but came to her room with Su Qing.
When Su Qing told him that the puppet was made of human skin and animal bones, and that he also had his own thoughts, Luoyang got up in shock: "Really?!" β
Su Qing nodded solemnly and said, "There is no lie!" The reason I didn't tell you on the spot was because one of my puppets had noticed us. β
Luoyang exhaled and said: "Sure enough, at that time, I also felt a sense of being targeted, so I pretended to be obsessed with it like the people around me." β
Then, he said to Su Qing with a solemn expression: "Later, when I saw that after they ended, everyone in the audience regained their clarity, so I thought I was thinking too much, but I didn't expect it-hum! It's really them! β
Hearing this, Su Qing was surprised, and was about to open his mouth to interrogate, only to hear Luoyang hurriedly urge: "They shouldn't have left the town yet, let's go, let's follow!" I suspect that one of them was a cultist who escaped in Taoyuan Mountain! β
Hearing him say this, Su Qing remembered that he had picked up a gauze covered with human skin in the stream near Taoyuan Mountain! Later, I heard Luoyang talk about the fact that they had discovered a large-scale cult in Taoyuan Mountain that sacrificed human skin to the sky.
"Senior Brother Luoyang, are you sure that there are really people from the cult among them?" Su Qing pointed to a few secular people who didn't have a trace of spiritual power and asked.
Luoyang frowned and looked at the ordinary secular carriage shop in front of him, the secular people who came and went and were busy arranging the carriage, and his heart suddenly had no bottom.
He remembered that when he first discovered that cult, he clearly detected that there were nearly a few hundred people inside, but after entering, he sent out eight female disciples of the Floating Cloud Sect, and the entire sect had less than ten disciples!
And all of them are dead!
Therefore, Senior Brother Nantian thought that the remaining cult members must have escaped with secret methods.
But at that time, Luoyang searched the entire sect and found no trace of the formation at all. It seems that if the other party has a strange treasure in his hand, it is these people who have practiced some method of escape.
However, at the beginning, those people were all people with spiritual powers, but these people in front of them were ordinary worldly people.
"This guest, poor Taoist view of your pale face, the traces of the heavenly spirit are purple, it seems that there is a catastrophe in your life! Yes and no? β
Just as Luoyang was pondering, Su Qing, who had turned into a Taoist priest of Shigu, had stopped a strong man in one of the puppet troupes who was feeding horses and asked. (To be continued.) )