Chapter 18: The Puppet Beast
Another universe.
I suddenly remembered the parallel universe theory.
Shaking my head, I was going home. A home of only five or six square meters, with only a dilapidated wooden bed.
I buried my head in the stinking quilt that I hadn't seen in the sun for a long time. I was plunged into darkness and silence.
Depressed mood, lonely.
Gradually, I fell asleep.
Another universe.
"Wu Yang, didn't you say at the beginning that this 'Tianshan Labyrinth' was a game made by a powerful person. That's not going to just make a stone path like this and make us go crazy. There must be a way out, or something else that exists in this stone path, such as the 'monster' from before. Deming said softly, groaning.
The four of them racked their brains and couldn't think of anything more, so they had to move forward.
The four of them looked at the darkness and listened to the still existing 'dong dong' sound, and their hearts were extremely dull.
Liu Bai finally couldn't stand this oppressive feeling that made people go crazy, and shouted wildly: "Ah——"
The three of them were startled, only to see Liu Bai's head raised and roared.
Wu Yang hugged Liu Bai, "Liu Bai! you won't die if you are a virgin!
Deming's hands were stimulated by this cry clenched into fists, and the fists were full of anger, and they slammed into the gray and black ground. Lu Li also frowned, the scar on the right side of his face also flashed blue, and he kicked the stone wall next to him frantically. I'm upset.
"Hey, what's wrong with you? It's the same as the hide-and-seek I used to play when I was a kid, how much fun!" Wu Yang exclaimed when he saw them in such a state.
The stone beads in the Deming Dantian turned a little faster.
The inexplicable restlessness in my heart has healed a little. Just when he felt that his whole heart was about to explode, when he felt that he was about to die like this, an indescribable cool breath emanated from the stone beads, blowing away all negative emotions like a wind blowing away. Deming felt that everything was so natural, harmonious, and real. I feel so good. Although there was only gray stone and darkness in front of him.
Suddenly, there was a peaceful and cool aura emanating from Deming's body.
Wu Yang smiled. Liu Bai also quieted down and rubbed his face. Lu Li regained his composure.
The voice was gone. Deming stood up and said calmly. I felt the abundant Xuan Qi in the dantian and felt peaceful.
"Do you want to keep walking?" Wu Yang asked calmly.
"I felt extremely depressed just now, and I felt like I wanted to die and be freed. I feel that death is beautiful, and it is unbearable to live. Then suddenly there was a cool breath from you, and I was able to get out of that painful state. Liu Bai frowned and said to Deming with some puzzlement.
"So do I. Lu Li was still a little bored. How he wanted to fight freely and die again, it would be better to die like such a humiliated death.
"How can I be fine? Could it be that the voice has the ability to 'mentally attack'?" Wu Yang also said a little puzzled.
"Don't dig deeper. Lu Li interrupted. "It must have been that we have hoarded too many suppressed emotions since we came here to be affected by that sound. Keep going while we can still walk. ”
"Let's go. But it's good to spend half an hour looking for a secret passage?" Wu Yang pinched the black mole on his eyebrows, and said with some expectation.
Deming turned to look at the darkness and sighed inwardly. He secretly said in his heart: "What kind of existence is this stone bead, it actually has the effect of calming the mind and reassuring the mind, and it seems to be able to slightly absorb the mysterious qi that cannot be absorbed here." There's a little more Xuan Qi in my body!"
Deming didn't know that it was the mysterious stone beads that automatically absorbed the special mysterious qi in this stone path, so that they would exude a calming breath.
And the reason why the Xuan Qi here will cause the Xuan Qi in the dantian to flow away as soon as it is absorbed and refined, is because the Xuan Qi contains the 'knotted qi'. If a space is closed for too long, it is possible to produce a trace of 'knots', which is harmful to ordinary people and metaphysical cultivation, making people feel depressed at least and teaching people to die at worst.
However, the knotted qi in this 'Tianshan Labyrinth' has mutated again, and the original Xuan Qi and the 'knotted qi' in the stone path have actually been combined together. If Xuan Xiu absorbs it, his own Xuan Qi will slowly be pulled out of the body by the 'Qi Formation'.
An hour later.
There is no end to it.
The four teenagers walked with sore and tired legs, endless darkness and square stone paths. Even Wu Yang sighed, and the words on his lips were also "It's good to die if something interesting happens, it's good to die if something interesting happens." “
Lu Li and Liu Bai walked unusually calmly.
Deming's body constantly exudes an aura of calmness.
The three of them asked the reason, and Deming attributed this matter to the 'mysterious stone bead', but he would not tell the matter of the stone bead, and wanted to just make it up. In the end, I had an idea, and said that I had eaten a strange fruit when I was young, and I was afraid that it was also a 'Creation Fruit', and I got some kind of ability that could exude a calming breath.
This naturally caused everyone to be amazed and amazed. The four teenagers are actually the ones who have eaten the 'Creation Fruit', and I am afraid that this will shock a group of people when they are put outside.
Just when they were about to adapt to the dark stone path of the world, I don't know if it was Wu Yang's chatter that had an effect, or if the 'Tianshan Labyrinth' had changed.
Boom!
The rocks under their feet suddenly descended. The speed was almost completely oblivious to the existence of time, and in the blink of an eye they were in another stone path that was exactly the same as before. If it weren't for the feeling of gravity just now, and now lying on the ground, they couldn't believe what had just happened.
The four of them lay on the ground and looked up at the top of the stone path. Deming's brows were furrowed, and he was unhappy in his heart, and Deming would always feel unhappy about things that he couldn't grasp inexplicably.
"Wow! It was so much fun. Wu Yang stood up and shouted with some excitement.
"Let's sit down and talk about life, it would be a waste of life and a terror to go any further. Liu Bai looked around and saw that there was no danger, rubbed his cheeks that had not completely disappeared, and sighed mournfully.
"There's movement!" Lu Li suddenly whispered with a cold expression.
The four of them listened, and the sound of dong dong gradually became clear, as if some big guy was rushing here.
Dai Ming's eyes flashed, and he vaguely saw several guys more than half a zhang tall like wolf beasts running here more than a dozen zhang away, and after a while, they arrived in front of him, and pounced on them with teeth and claws.
Only then did everyone see clearly how tall the four heads were, with hollow eyes, gray-black and hairless, like dolls.
"Rattan Net Technique!" Lu Li, Liu Bai, and Wu Yang almost subconsciously performed this technique.
The finger-thick vines suddenly wrapped the limbs of the stone wolf that pounced on them, and the sharp mouth was also tied, and it fell to the ground, and the sound of thumping hard objects filled the stone path.
Deming had already jumped up to the ground with a light body technique, and the short sword swooped with Xuan Qi, stabbing at a stone wolf that pounced on him.
With a clang, the short sword was broken apart by the body of the stone wolf, and Deming saw that there was only a white mark on the stone wolf's body, and he kicked away the stone wolf that pounced, and when he landed, he saw that the other stone wolves were all wrapped in vines, and he was greatly envious of the convenience of this technique.
But thinking of the stone wolf's hard and iron-like body, his heart sank.
Wu Yang kicked the stone wolf that was restrained by the vines a few times, and felt like he was kicking on the iron plate, and he grinned in pain.
As soon as he turned around, he saw that Liu Bai and Lu Li both used the strongest attack methods: Lu Li held a rattan knife and slashed at the stone wolf, and Liu Bai held a rattan bow and shot at the stone wolf's major vital points.
Seeing this, Dai Ming exhaled lightly, and performed the worldly martial arts 'Running Wind Gong' and 'Light Body Technique' to entangle the stone wolf that pounced on him before.
Not long after the entanglement, Liu Bai and Wu Yang shouted that they were running away.
Deming had already expected it, and as soon as he kicked the stone wolf, he ran towards the dark stone path, shouting: "You guys run quickly, I'll break off!" The reason why Deming did this was naturally because he had enough Xuan Qi, and their Xuan Qi could not be replenished.
When the three of them ran dozens of feet away to the stone road where there was no stone wolf, the stone wolf that was kicked open by Deming opened his mouth and pounced silently, and Deming was short, stomped his feet and avoided it. Secretly: "These stone wolves can't make a sound when they open their mouths, and their bodies are hairless and hard like iron. It's supposed to be the legendary puppet beasts!But if we don't deal with them in such a stone path with only one path, where can we escape?"
Deming took a closer look at their bodies, and sure enough, they were all black at the joints, and it was easy to ignore the past if he didn't look closely in the dark. I had a plan in my heart, and I regretted letting them go at the moment, otherwise everyone would attack their joints together to see if they could destroy these puppet beasts.
Deming saw that the vines that bound the stone wolf had run away because of the caster. I heard the vines creaking under the swaying of the stone wolf's limbs and heads, and I was afraid that it would not last long.
Taking advantage of the fact that the only stone wolf that was not restrained by the vines pounced again, Deming dodged the stone wolf at a strange angle, and chased after Wu Yang and the others.
After only running a few dozen steps, Deming heard several thuds of stones hitting each other behind him, and his heart tightened, and he understood that those puppet beasts had broken free from their restraints and chased after them, and the speed of running in the darkness increased a little.
"Ah, do you hear me? They're catching up! Deming won't be killed, will he?" Liu Bai shouted as he rubbed his face and ran away.
"I'm not dead yet. Run!" Deming suddenly shouted not far behind the three.
There is still no end to this stone road, and everyone can't reach the end of this stone road even if they try their best, hoping that there will be another stone road to escape.
"What do you know about golems?" shouted Deming, running away with them side by side.
The thump in the back continued to sound, and it seemed that the speed did not exceed that of Deming and his party. The darkness is still endless darkness.
"Puppet beasts?!" they knew a thing or two when they were in a theory class in metaphysical cultivation.
Wu Yang said suddenly: "The weaknesses of ordinary puppets are in the joints and where the Xuan Shi is placed! It's not a way to run like this, we have all been injured before, and the Xuan Qi has also consumed a lot, and only by solving them can we survive." I'll entangle the two puppet beasts, their agility is also their weakness, and the two of you will use the 'rattan netting technique' to restrain their mobility, and then attack their joints together, preferably with a rattan sword to pierce the joints and pry the joints open. Wu Yang ran quickly.
When the three of them heard this, they felt that this was the only way to survive, and there was no other way.
Everyone decided that Wu Yang and Liu Bai would first restrain the actions of the two puppets, and only if the caster maintained the input of Xuan Qi, the vines would become stronger and stronger, leaving enough time for Lu Li to use the ability of the 'Creation Fruit' to attack their joints.
The ability obtained from the 'Creation Fruit' does not need to consume the slightest Xuan Qi, but if the Xuan Qi is blessed, the natural power will be enhanced.
"Hey, did you spend Xuan Qi to repair your injuries?" Lu Li frowned at Deming when he saw that Deming's bloated face had completely recovered.
"It's too long, for some reason, I seem to be able to absorb the Xuan Qi here, I don't know if it's because of my ability to 'create fruits'. Deming said with a slightly strange expression.
The three of them were stunned.
"Can you absorb Xuan Qi!?"
Liu Bai shouted with joy.
Endless joy suddenly rose in his eyes. Although it is not clear, it means that at least they will not hang up due to the lack of Xuan Qi.
"Deming, give me the full layer of Xuan Qi that I have to lose, I have a powerful Xuan Qi that can be sixty percent sure that it will make them incapacitated. Lu Liluo said to Dai Ming expectantly, hoping that what he said could absorb the Xuan Qi here was not a lie.