Beichen Sword Sect's Headmaster's Secret Records

Chapter 157 Puppet

"Thank you so much, my benefactor, for coming to the rescue!"

Hou Chaozong and Xiang Shan knelt on the ground to express their gratitude.

Tiedan first turned the skinning knife over and over, calculating for a while.

It is indeed a magical weapon of the Divine Religion, and its design is quite ingenious. There are raised inscriptions and secret talismans on the knife. When skinning, the blood will imprint the talismans on the blade onto the skin, completing the arrangement of the soul-sealing formation.

Tiedan thought about it for a while, then said to the two of them,
"Please tell me your date of birth."

The two looked at each other, but since they were saved by their benefactor, they dared not hide anything and reported their horoscope.

Tiedan helped them calculate and found out that the two people were not destined to be together, and that the man with the incense fan had a short life and bad luck. If he hadn't intervened, he would have died here. He would probably have been skinned and made into a lamp and refined into a ghost slave.

But Hou Chaozong is a man of good fortune and destiny, so he should have a chance and won't die here easily. It seems that this matter is not simple...

So if he didn't take action, Xiang Shan would fall off the cliff and die. If Hou Chaozong came to commit suicide or pay tribute to her...

"Wait here."

Tiedan thought about it, jumped off the cliff, followed the Qi vein, and groped for it by climbing up the rocks.

found it.

A stone box, sealed with talismans, even Tiedan can't open it.

So Tiedan flew back with the stone box and said to Xiangshan,

"Please lend me some blood, young lady."

Although Xiangshan didn't understand why, she was grateful for saving her life, so she cut her fingertips with a sword and dripped the water on the stone box.

"Snapped."

The stone box opened with a sound, and inside the box were a set of jade slips, jade pendants, and jade swords neatly placed.

As expected, the location of the stone box is just right for the incense fan to fall down and hit it head-on, killing it...

Tiedan did not hide it from the two of them and said frankly,
"Scholar Hou, this is your chance.

Someone has arranged a disaster for you, and wants to borrow the life of the fragrant fan girl to help you overcome the disaster of love.

When you cut off your ties with worldly affairs and are willing to concentrate on practicing Buddhism, I will pass on the true Dharma to you.

Here it is, take it or not."

The two of them were stunned, the fragrant fan trembled for a moment, and Hou Chaozong seemed to not quite understand.

"What do you mean, benefactor..."

Then Tiedan explained it more clearly.
“Although I helped you get these things, your calamity has not yet passed, I just blocked it temporarily.

You two are not destined to be together, and you cannot get married before you achieve inner alchemy. If you stay with her, you will not be able to receive the true Dharma.

Only when she dies can you concentrate on the great path, so whether it is the mortal world or the immortal path, you decide for yourself."

Hou Chaozong looked at the set of immortality suits, then at the beauty beside him who looked sad and uneasy. He sighed, closed the box and pushed it open.

"I have read the words of the saints since I was young, and I have always aspired to cultivate myself and my family, and to help the world. How could I abandon my family and my loved ones to become a hermit in the mountains? I don't want this chance to be an immortal."

"Mr. Hou!"

When Xiang Shan heard that Hou Chaozong was willing to give up the opportunity to become an immortal for her, she was deeply moved and burst into tears.

Tiedan looked at the set of magic materials in the box, then looked at Hou Sheng.
"You have to think carefully. Immortal opportunities are hard to come by. If you miss this opportunity, you will never have it again. It will be too late to regret it later."

Hou Chaozong said seriously,

"My benefactor, there is no need to say more. The incense fan was given to me sincerely. How can I be ungrateful and heartless? Thank you for saving my life. If you don't mind, these things will be my thank you gift."

Tiedan didn't try to persuade him any further.

Originally, Hou Sheng had read the books of sages all his life, and he just wanted to follow the path to the Immortal Palace. To put it nicely, it was to save the world and the people, but to put it practically, it was to be granted a title of nobility and become a prime minister.

And in every sense, it is the path of the Immortal Palace, which is more in line with the preferences of most people. After all, most ordinary people live their whole lives just to seek fame, wealth, longevity, a divine partner, and eternal happiness, right?

Where in this world are there so many antisocial and murderous psychopaths who are really willing to follow the Xuanmen sect to go into seclusion in the mountains and forests, and follow the divine sect to skin and drink blood?
So unless it's like today, where someone has planned it this way, and let Hou Chaozong see the tragic death of his confidante, and then develop a deep hatred for her, change his character drastically, and cut off his path to the Immortal Palace, otherwise it would not be so easy for him to follow you into the mountains to practice Taoism.

Besides, Tiedan not only saved Hou Sheng, but also a fragrant fan. People have finally gotten what they wanted after suffering so much hardship, so you can't persuade them to share it in person, right?

What's more, this scented fan is a bit pitiful. I don't know if it was bullied too much in the past and has hidden injuries on its body or something. In short, Tiedan calculated that her fate is as thin as duckweed. I'm afraid that after surviving this disaster today, she will not live for many years.

It's a pity that Tiedan is running around all the time, isn't it just for this elixir of longevity?

I can only do nothing to help.

So he said no more, put away the stone box,

"Okay, this time I've intervened and cut off your path to immortality, and I owe you karma.

But I have other important things to do, and I don't have time to settle things with you bit by bit, so let's just end it quickly and don't waste time.

Your enemy is the Ruan family, right? Where does he live? "

Xiangshan's eyes lit up, and she immediately wiped away her tears and showed him the way.
"It's not far to the south, it's the largest house in Tongcheng."

Tiedan did not hesitate. He gave them the small change and a few pieces of gold he had on him for emergency use, and then flew directly in the direction pointed by the fragrant fan. Soon he saw a big city on the plain in the distance.

So Tiedan descended from the clouds, found the largest family, and pulled a few passers-by together. After confirming that it was the Ruan family of Tongcheng, he rushed in with a knife without saying a word.

The servants ignored him and let him go. The guards with knives and sticks chopped anyone who dared to stop them and threw him to the ground. The wealthy landlords in fine clothes and fat stomachs were cut in half with their knives without asking any questions. It didn't matter which one was the master, they just chopped him down anyway.

In this way, they killed their way from the door into the hall, from outside the house to inside, and all the way to the cellar. Tiedan also found the "pickle jar" that the housekeeper mentioned.

Well, it's no wonder that the housekeeper misunderstood. After all, strictly speaking, it really is a 'pickle jar', or a 'medicine jar'. Of course, there is also a more professional name in the Taoist Canon of Taoism, which is called the Dharma Protector Altar.

The jar-like container is actually a magical instrument with inscriptions and talismans, specially used to form a Taoist body. Multiple spirit gathering arrays are set up on the ground and underground, and the walls are covered with cinnabar and yellow talismans. Evil-repelling talismans are arranged inside and outside, and the Return to Dust Array is arranged on the outside to protect the Taoist body. It prevents lonely ghosts, demons and monsters from harming the Taoist body.

The smell in the jar was strong, and it was obvious that it was filled with a lot of spiritual ingredients and medicinal liquor. Even if there was a magic array blocking the divine sense from detecting it, one could guess that the Taoist body of the old man of the Ruan family was probably preserved in the jar.

No wonder no one took action after they had fought their way in. It seemed that the opponent's Nascent Soul had left his body and his soul was wandering in the sky.

Well, that’s right, this Master Ruan is a True Lord in the Nascent Soul Realm.

Moreover, the other party has a dagger in his hand that is said to be bestowed by the Saint. He is most likely a core member of the cult, and he might even be a person at the level of the altar master or the guardian.

The Zhen Kingdom is really full of talented people, with many hidden dragons and crouching tigers. I have encountered two masters of the True Person Realm from the three major sects...

Tiedan circled around the Guichen formation and counted with his fingers.

Although he couldn't break the formation for the time being, he knew that if he stepped into the formation, it would probably activate the formation's restrictions and wake up Master Ruan's Nascent Soul from the sky. If the other party, who was from the Divine Religion, had half the ability of the old Xuanmen who planted the tree, then he didn't know when this fight would end.

Moreover, when traveling with Zhen Baiyu before, Tiedan had also heard about the characteristics of some of the Divine Religion's skills, especially those who practiced the Blood God's Great Method, which really had thousands of clones. There was also a Blood Puppet Taoist method that could refine countless puppets.

In this way, one can have three burrows and take precautions in advance. Even if one's body is destroyed in a calamity, as long as the Blood God Son escapes and sneaks into other clone puppets prepared in advance, he can be reborn on the spot.

Therefore, when fighting against the cult of God, unless the original body is severely damaged, it is of no use to just destroy one of his clones. If you act rashly, you might reveal your own killer moves, and you might be ambushed at any time.

Now Tiedan killed his way into the Ruan family, chopping off people's heads and cutting the ground full of broken intestines, but he didn't see many powerful guards coming out to fight. He estimated that this Master Ruan was probably just a blood puppet clone prepared by the other party, and the Ruan family was one of the rabbit holes where the other party was hiding and lurking in a low-key manner.

Right now, Master Ruan's real body might be somewhere planning something big. Even one of his clones is at the Nascent Soul stage, so it's hard to tell how strong his real body's cultivation is...

And when Tiedan studied the formation based on these clues and continued to calculate, he discovered something even more interesting.

Not only is Mr. Ruan a puppet, I'm afraid Hou Chaozong is also a puppet.

Well, a candidate puppet chosen by the Cult of God.

After all, you know, where do all these pie-in-the-sky things come from in this world? In this era, where are all these unclaimed immortal fortunes for you to pick up?

The immortal scrolls are too powerful these days. With the good fortune and luck that Tiedan has, he can't pick a flower even if he crosses mountains and ridges. How many immortals come and go in Zhenzhou! Hou Sheng is just a scholar, but he has both Qigong and a beauty, and there is a special immortal fate that was specially calculated for him. Doesn't he suspect that there is a trick?

If you don’t have doubts, you’re not a tough guy.

So now that he saw the arrangement of the Ruan family's formation and took a look at the method of refining Qi in the jade slip, he had an idea in his mind.

Hou Chaozong is a Guichen Taoist body, and the method of refining Qi is also taught by the Guichen secret book. The local protective magic formation is also the Guichen formation. Perhaps Master Ruan, and even the masters of the Divine Religion, are also proficient in the Guichen escape method.

If we speculate maliciously, Xiang Shan, who is powerless, was able to find Hou Sheng and form a bond with him, and escape the pursuit of the Ruan family, leading him all the way to the immortal fate, and even giving up his life to help him overcome the calamity and enter the Tao. Behind this, I am afraid that everything was calculated...

Tsk, it's just a branch line triggered by the roadside, but it's so tortuous and full of tricks.

Is this the Central Plains?

(End of this chapter)