Recruit demons to become heroes, hunt demons to become gods

Chapter 179 Falling into a trap

Dou Eqing explored the jade puppet while paying attention to the battle outside.

It was clearly just a jade skull, but his spiritual sense was unable to probe its interior.

The melee outside was very fierce, and monks kept dying, which made Dou Eqing feel very sorry. He lamented that they did not die in his hands, and their merits were wasted in vain.

So he seemed more and more anxious.

At a certain moment, an inspiration flashed through Dou Eqin's mind.

He decisively bit his index finger, and a drop of blood dripped onto the jade skull.

This is treating the jade puppet as a weapon or magic weapon, and wanting to awaken the jade puppet by dripping blood to recognize the master.

Next, he used the spiritual power he had just injected into the jade skull to activate the spiritual patterns on the jade puppet.

These spiritual patterns are extremely complex, very similar to human meridians, and run through both sides of the puppet.

Dou Eqing knew nothing about puppets, so he took a quick look at it and put it aside, and had to instinctively inject spiritual power into the jade puppet.

Finally, the jade skull stood up as flexibly as a human. Obviously, the jade skull was now a real puppet.

Dou Eqing once again used his spiritual sense to explore the puppet's entire body, and gave him a sense of power in return.

From this, we can preliminarily judge that this is a fighting puppet, not the kind that can cast magic.

Most magic puppets have a single attack, only fighting puppets are flexible and changeable.

He also discovered the jade puppet's control technique on its head: the Spirit Jade War Chief, which used spiritual clones to control and assist in battle. The combat effectiveness depended on the cultivator's own spiritual clone and the level of the spiritual stones provided.

The Jade Puppet is a glutton who eats spirit stones directly. An internal spirit-melting array pattern converts the spiritual energy in the spirit stones into spiritual power, which is then stored in the artificial dantian constructed by the array pattern.

The dantian of the jade puppet is comparable to a small spiritual lake of a cultivator, and is a transit station for spiritual power.

Therefore, the jade puppet only needs to store a huge amount of spiritual power in advance, and as long as it is fed with enough spirit stones, it can continue fighting for several days.

"Since even the spiritual clone can control the jade puppet, then my spiritual body should be able to do it too."

Dou Eqing tried it as soon as he thought of it, letting his spiritual body leave his body and enter the jade puppet.

The underground escape technique, the air escape technique, the Vajra Shield, the Thunder Palm, a total of nine small magical skills were transmitted into Dou Eqing's mind.

It turns out that the real purpose of creating the jade puppet is to pass on these nine small magical skills.

This jade puppet was once a treasure inherited from a certain faction. It not only inherited the magic weapon, but also these nine minor magical skills.

Originally, the only way to obtain the secret inheritance of these nine minor magical powers was for the leader of that force to pass the secret skills on to his disciples.

Because the practice of these minor magical skills requires extremely harsh requirements, sometimes they are interrupted and cannot be passed on from person to person.

The ancestor of that force specially created this jade puppet as a treasure of inheritance.

However, there are also conditions and restrictions for the jade puppet to pass on the secret skills, which requires the cultivator to cultivate a spiritual body.

This is also because the secret technique of the minor magical power is of extraordinary value.

As the saying goes, an innocent man is often guilty of something, if one does not have the corresponding strength, these nine small magical powers and secret techniques will be a disaster.

Under normal circumstances, the cultivation of the spiritual body requires one to reach the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm or even the Void Refinement Realm.

Only those with the strength of a peak-level cultivator at the Divine Transformation stage or above can keep the secret technique of minor magical powers.

After all, minor magical powers can still be used by strong people in the realm of refining emptiness, and strong people in the realm of fusion have extraordinary talents and can create magical powers comparable to minor magical powers.

However, a force can never escape the rise and fall of things, and eventually the secret of the Jade Puppet was buried with the demise of that force.

Dou Eqing's success can be said to be a result of chance, or it can be said to be an accident.

"There's no rush to cultivate other minor magical powers, but this Earth and Air Escape is very useful to me right now. I wonder if there's a shortcut to cultivating it?"

Dou Eqing continued to fantasize.

He checked these nine little magical skills one by one, and in the end he really found what he was thinking about.

You can quickly get started with this minor supernatural power at the cost of losing the inheritance of a certain minor supernatural power.

The opportunity outside does not wait for anyone, and Dou Eqing does not need this inheritance treasure to pass it on. Even if it is passed on, just leave a few small magical powers.

Dou Eqing accepted the inheritance of the earth escape technique at the cost of losing the inheritance of the earth escape technique.

This fax was like an initiation of martial arts skills, and it instantly allowed him to master the art of earth escape.

However, his earth escape technique is not a minor magical skill, because he has only mastered the basics.

The difference between the minor magical power of earth escape and the ordinary earth escape technique lies in the speed of escape.

The minor magical power of escaping into the earth and the minor magical power of escaping into the air are used in conjunction with each other. Together they form the minor magical power of escaping into the air, which allows one to travel unhindered on the ground or underground.

Dou Eqing hesitated whether to learn the art of escaping into the air.

However, he found that there were some minor drawbacks in practicing his minor magical power of earth escape in this way.

Although it is a step to get started, it will be more difficult to fully practice the minor magical power of earth escape.

It's like knowing the facts but not the reasons, just like a monster's innate instinct, which can be learned but cannot be taught to others. It is also difficult to go further on this basis unless the bloodline level is improved.

After considering many factors, he decided not to take shortcuts anymore and felt that the basics of earth escape technique would be enough for the time being.

The Jade Puppet was originally a fighting puppet, but if it was controlled by a spiritual body, it would be equivalent to a clone of Dou Eqing.

Therefore, the jade puppet can be used as a magic puppet.

Dou Eqing has never used magic in battle. The spell he cast can only reach the fourth level, and the attack power does not match his combat ability.

But with the support of the jade puppet, well, if he masters the fifth-level spell, he can definitely use it.

You can also practice and train the five magic spells through the Jade Puppet.

It just consumes too many spirit stones.

If it is those powerful fifth-grade spells, they may need top-grade spirit stones to provide spiritual power.

Dou Eqing does not have any top-grade spirit stones in his hand now, so he does not consider the fifth-level magic. The use of earth escape magic itself consumes a lot of spirit stones. If he has to frequently replace spirit stones during the battle, it is easy for mistakes to occur in the battle.

He only needs to use the jade puppet's elusiveness to escape underground, cooperate with the talisman to "pick up and kill" the target, and use the tactics of the original body to make a feint to the east and attack in the west from time to time.

In this battle outside, Dou Eqing can take advantage of it.

Before going out, Dou Eqing carefully reviewed the opportunities and found that nothing was missed. He put on the invisibility cloak and left Ziwei Immortal Mansion.

In the melee outside, the invisibility cloak is of limited use, because the melee causes chaos in the aura, and the monks can detect his presence through the abnormality of the aura.

The invisibility cloak is only better than nothing for this operation.

After coming out of Ziwei Immortal Mansion, Dou Eqing had no way of appearing underground at first and could only appear on the ground.

As soon as he appeared, he was discovered by Jin Qianxin and Ge Qi.

For this reason, Jin Qianxin couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth slightly, as if to say that he had been waiting for you for a long time.

However, neither of them showed any expression, as if they had not noticed Dou Eqing's appearance, and the fight between the two became even more intense.

Dou Eqing was anxious to "pick up" the fifth-level merit, and rushed to the side of a dying Divine Transformation cultivator as soon as possible.

He then transformed the White Tiger Demon Sword into a small dagger and quickly inserted it into the man's chest, first sending him to death and then devouring his cultivation.

Using this method, he quickly killed many Nascent Soul cultivators.

The next target would require him to launch a sneak attack himself.

As soon as he activated a fifth-level mist-transforming talisman, he launched a sneak attack on an early-stage spirit-transforming cultivator.

This was a successful attack, and there was no time to devour the opponent's cultivation, so he immediately turned around and attacked another Divine Transformation cultivator.

During the operation, he occasionally took action to kill Nascent Soul cultivators.

The Nascent Soul cultivators were swept up by the aura of the melee, and most of them failed to escape from the battlefield. They could only fight against the aftermath of the battle with the God Transformation cultivators on the battlefield.

When Dou Eqing launches a sneak attack on a Nascent Soul cultivator, he does not necessarily need to kill the opponent directly. Just bumping into the opponent may also kill the Nascent Soul cultivator, who may be killed by the aftermath of the battle with the God Transformation cultivator.

According to the relationship of cause and effect, it also belongs to Dou Eqing's fourth-level merit.

Therefore, Dou Eqing's killing of the Nascent Soul cultivators here can be said to be a piece of cake, or like crushing an ant to death.

Even if you are an ant, he will not show any mercy to you. The fourth-level merit is of great value to him now.

For example, directly improving his current cultivation level, or serving as a catalyst for the alchemist to refine pills.

If you accumulate a lot, you can use it to train talented disciples for the clan.

Dou Eqing killed three early stage Jinhua cultivators with a sneak attack. The fourth one dodged him, and the fifth one resisted his sneak attack.

When he was about to attack the sixth person, a monk discovered his tracks in advance and intercepted his attack.

This time his figure was completely exposed.

Fortunately, he had mastered the art of earth escape and disappeared immediately.

As long as he remained still underground and the enemy didn't immediately discover his location, the invisibility cloak would still work. He used the invisibility cloak to hide underground for half an incense stick of time.

The melee on the ground gradually stopped.

Dou Eqing naturally didn't want the melee to end here, so he prepared to make his own moves.

However, when he was only focused on his own little movements, he did not notice that the enemy was also making little movements against him.

He called his little trick "burying mines". He buried the half-activated talisman in the shallow ground. When the monks came nearby, he would use his spiritual sense to activate the talisman and attack.

These talismans can only be fifth-order low-grade talismans. He is not yet able to keep the fifth-order high-grade talismans in an unactivated state.

He was able to do this without anyone noticing, entirely relying on the jade puppet.

The jade puppet can be big or small, and its earth-moving skills are much more flexible than Dou Eqing himself, just like a flying squirrel in the ground.

First, I will half-activate the talisman, and then let the jade puppet plant the mines.

However, considering many factors, he did not bury too many talisman mines.

After burying the mines, he started to act. He first escaped from the ground and launched a group attack with a fifth-level medium-grade ice rain talisman, successfully attracting the enemy's attention. Then he launched a sneak attack with the talisman behind the jade puppet, making the enemy lose sight of the big picture.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

……

In the chaos, the enemy moved, and Dou Eqing seized the opportunity to guide the talisman buried underground.

When a cultivator was seriously injured by a talisman-buried mine, Dou Eqing rushed over without hesitation and launched a quick attack with his strongest means of attack.

Then, the jade puppet burrowed underground and launched a sneak attack from behind the enemy.

He created chaos and, with the help of cooperation with the jade puppet, killed thirteen Jindan cultivators in just half an incense stick of time.

Presumably, Nascent Soul cultivators have never had such a boastful record of battle achievements. Even Spiritual Transformation cultivators rarely achieve such results in battles at the same level.

Of course, this battle was also extremely costly.

First of all, the Jade Puppet consumed trillions of high-quality spirit stones.

In addition, a large number of fifth-level talismans were consumed.

A fifth-level talisman is not cheap. It costs tens of millions of high-quality spirit stones to obtain one, unless you are a talisman master.

Dou Eqing spent at least hundreds of fifth-level talismans in this battle.

The expense was well worth it. Not only did I get a lot of spoils, but more importantly, I gained fifth-level merit.

The most regrettable thing was that he did not have time to devour the cultivation of those Divine Transformation cultivators, and so much Divine Transformation cultivation was wasted in vain.

After this fierce battle, only ten Jindan cultivators were left in the Brotherhood Gang and the one who robbed Shancai, and only five Yuanying cultivators were left.

Jie Shancai suffered the heaviest losses. On the one hand, they had a large number of people, and many people died in the melee; on the other hand, there were monks from the brotherhood gang, and Jin Qianxin occasionally came to the rescue.

In fact, Ge Qi also wanted to rescue his confidant, but his strength did not allow it, and he did not have Jin Qianxin's magic weapon, the Golden Embroidered Silk.

Whenever Ge Qi wanted to rescue him, he would be dissuaded by Jin Qianxin.

"Don't alert the enemy and don't forget the purpose of this trip."

Ge Qi had no choice but to threaten Jin Qianxin with "alerting the enemy" to help rescue his confidant.

Jin Qianxin used Ge Qi's betrayal of Xing Dashan as a condition.

Gotch neither agreed nor refused.

This resulted in Jin Qianxin not being very active in dealing with Gochi's confidants, and only saving one occasionally.

Now, there are only five Divine Transformation cultivators left in the Brotherhood, and the Jie Shancai Gang, which originally had eighteen Divine Transformation cultivators, now only has five left, including the leader Ge Qi.

However, if the Nascent Soul cultivators are included, there are still more people who rob Shancai than those who are in the Brotherhood Gang.

But compared to their combat power, the combat power of Nascent Soul cultivators can be ignored.

Because, although these five Nascent Soul cultivators are still alive, they do not have much combat power, and most of them are seriously injured.

Except for Ge Qi, the remaining four Jindan cultivators not only did not have many injuries on their bodies, but were all in the middle stage of Jindan and above. The talismans that Dou Eqing had buried before had been used up.

If he attacks head-on and cannot defeat his opponent in a short time, he may be dragged down and not even have the chance to escape underground.

In this case, it would be dangerous to be besieged.

There were two powerful men present whose strength was very close to Xiang Luan's. If they were dragged down, it would be really difficult to escape.

Dou Eqing decisively chose to hide underground, continue to prepare for laying mines, copy the previous tactics, and finally harvest a wave of fifth-level merits before hiding in the Ziwei Immortal Mansion.

It’s a pity that plans cannot keep up with changes. Jin Qianxin and Ge Qi have been waiting for the opportunity to take action, and now the opportunity is ripe.

"Everyone is in your place!"

Jin Qianxin shouted.

The eight incarnation monks quickly stood in the shape of the Eight Diagrams, and all eight of them stomped their feet on the ground at the same time, and Dou Eqing's earth escape technique was immediately broken.

These eight people formed an eight trigrams locking formation to lock Dou Eqing's energy.

If Dou Eqing wanted to leave this space, he had to take the other eight people with him.

The Bagua Locking Formation may sound useless, but it is the most suitable at this moment.

Dou Eqing didn't recognize this ancient formation, otherwise he would have had a chance to break it.

"Oh no! Did I fall into a trap?"

This was the first thought that came to Dou Eqing's mind.

The safest way he could think of was to hide in the Ziwei Immortal Mansion, ensure his own safety, and then check the specific situation.

However, the worst happened and he couldn't enter the Ziwei Immortal Mansion.

Dou Eqing couldn't understand why he could be stopped from entering the Ziwei Immortal Palace.

The relationship between Ziwei Immortal Mansion and him is like his own Zifu Space, which is equivalent to being one with him.

Not to mention the relationship between Ziwei Xianfu and him, even if it was a fairy treasure like Ziwei Xianfu, could the few Divine Transformation cultivators in front of him deal with it? Could they interfere with it?

However, the current situation did not give him time to think about these issues.

"My friend, we heard you're from the Demon Hunting Sect. Let us give your master some face. As long as you hand over the things you don't have, we won't make things difficult for you."

Gotch spoke first.

Upon hearing this, Dou Eqing suppressed his worries and forced himself to calm down.

Besides, after a fight, they should be able to break out of the encirclement, either by escaping or hiding underground. Maybe the reason they can't hide in the Ziwei Immortal Mansion is just within this range.

Once he understood this, he immediately showed a confident look.

"My Lord, you are not generous enough. I don't even know where the things I shouldn't have are. How do you expect me to hand them over?"

He deliberately said some meaningless words and waited for the opportunity.

After all, they are now enemies of two families, and perhaps they can disrupt the temporary cooperation they have reached.

"I don't want anything else. Xiaoshuai, give me the treasure in your Purple Mansion. I can fulfill all your wishes."

Jin Qianxin first cast a coquettish glance at Dou Eqing, and then offered conditions that the man could not refuse.

"If Fairy Sister slaps him first, I will discuss with you what treasure my Purple Mansion is."

Dou Eqing made no secret of his provocation, so it all depended on how the other party would act.

"Crack! Crack!"

Jin Qianxin slapped Ge Qi left and right, giving him two slaps before he could react.

"A man should keep his word, brother...brother!"

Jin Qianxin said this with a strange smile.

Her slapping completely exposed her true fighting power, which was no weaker than Xiang Luanlai and could completely defeat Ge Qi.

As for the strange smile, it means that the person will not care about the support of Dou Eqing's Demon Hunting Sect, and it also tells Dou Eqing who the owner of the strange smile is: the most vicious woman!

If Dou Eqing doesn't do what he says, the consequences will be very dire.

Dou Eqing seemed to have a telepathic connection with Jin Qianxin at this moment, and immediately understood her strange expression.

He shuddered at the thought of "women's hearts are the most vicious" and had to be extremely cautious.

(End of this chapter)