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"Yu kid, just figure it out on your own!"

"We have torches to observe the situation. We won't end up like someone else, being caught by that puppet and covered in blood, right?"

The old Taoist Zhang Heng started talking nonsense again.

After Gu Qingying's filter as the clan leader was broken in his eyes, Zhang Heng began to ridicule Gu Qingying unscrupulously.

But Gu Qingying, who was far away, seemed not to have heard it. She didn't react at all and just healed her own wounds.

However, although she looks calm on the surface, it is still unknown what she is really like inside.

Cao Rui thought for a moment and said, "If you want to defeat this kind of puppet, you must be fast, ruthless, and accurate. You must destroy the energy core in its chest as quickly as possible."

Once the energy core is broken, the puppet becomes a decoration.

Then he turned to Shi Shatian who was standing beside him and said, "Fellow Daoist Shi, you are a physical cultivator. Even if you don't use your magic power, you can exert amazing power just by relying on your physical strength. So this time you may need to rush to the front."

Hearing this, Shi Shatian looked at Cao Rui and asked, "Fellow Daoist Yu, tell me how to proceed."

"This is how it is..." Cao Rui then explained their plan to everyone in detail. After some discussion, everyone quickly worked out a feasible tactical arrangement.

At this moment, their mentality towards the puppets has completely changed.

The reason why they had been avoiding these puppets before was because they didn't know that they could get high-quality spirit stones as a reward by killing these puppets.

However, the situation is different now. They know that as long as they successfully kill the puppet, they can get high-quality spirit stones.

As a result, these puppets were no longer scary in the eyes of Zhang Heng and others, but instead became tempting high-quality spirit stones.

So when talking about how to hunt these puppets, they not only did not feel a trace of fear, but even felt very excited and expectant.

"Then let's start." Cao Rui held the torch and took the lead in walking towards the fog.

Relying on his in-depth understanding and research of the magic circle, he accurately chose a specific direction of the enclave and moved forward steadily.

Not long after, he successfully found a puppet.

The puppet was floating along the established mana pattern route at a slow and steady speed, as if it had become accustomed to this way of patrolling.

He was about to run into Cao Rui and others head-on.

Cao Rui's eyes were fixed on the chest of the puppet, where there was an obvious bulge, which was the location of the puppet's energy center.

When he saw this puppet, Shi Shatian took a deep breath, but then he stepped forward without hesitation as planned.

He did not use his magic power easily, but approached the puppet cautiously until the distance between them was within half a meter.

Since there was no magical power fluctuation in his body, even at such a close distance, the puppet remained unaware and continued to float slowly forward.

Suddenly, Shi Shatian exploded, his muscles swelled instantly, showing amazing strength. He quickly circled behind the puppet and hugged it tightly with both hands!

hum!

The puppet was restrained and instantly activated. A faint glow appeared on its gray skin, and two red lights appeared on its head covered by gray armor, scanning Zizhou like eyes.

But it was controlled by Shi Shatian at the moment and could not break free for a while.

A terrifying force was transmitted to Shi Shatian's body.

Even with Shi Shatian's cultivation level of the tenth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage, it was still difficult to resist and he could only grit his teeth and persevere.

"Attack!" Cao Rui shouted, taking this opportunity to control the golden sword. Tan Hongmei and Zhang Heng also controlled their magic weapons. The three magic weapons simultaneously slashed towards the bulge on the puppet's chest!

Cao Rui's golden sword was the fastest, and its terrifying power penetrated the defense of the bulge in one go and went straight through the puppet's body.

Afterwards, Tan Hongmei and Zhang Heng's magic weapons followed closely behind. The sharp blades easily cut through the energy center here. After a roar, the puppet finally couldn't hold on and fell to the ground with a bang.

Crack. A diamond-shaped object fell from his chest, and inside his body was a top-grade spirit stone!

It worked!

Cao Rui collected it together with the puppet's corpse and put it into a storage bag.

hoohoo!

The puppet's roar was heard.

The fluctuations of magic power when several people cast spells spread, and many puppet shadows quickly flew towards this side.

"withdraw!"

This location was not far from the safe area. Despite being chased by the fog, the four of them managed to return to the safe area before the puppets completed the encirclement.

Tan Hongmei's retreat was a little slow, and her arm was torn by the puppet. The magic shield was like paper, and half of her arm was covered in blood.

"Hongmei, how are you?" Zhang Heng stepped forward and asked with concern.

Tang Hongmei's face turned pale as she applied medicine on her hands and took a magic pill for external injuries.

"What a sharp sword light." Shi Shatian's gaze was indeed on Cao Rui.

Cao Rui's golden light reminded him of an acquaintance, but the sword light of Yu Yijian in front of him was even sharper than that man.

"It's all thanks to Fellow Daoist Shi for helping to control it." Cao Rui smiled faintly and spoke.

Shi Shatian's arms were covered in bruises and his veins were throbbing. It was obvious that it was quite difficult for him to control the puppet for a short period of time.

"The puppet is very strong, and I can barely control it. If it was a few seconds later, I would have to let it go." Shi Shatian said truthfully.

At this time, Tan Hongmei's wounds had recovered a little. She opened her eyes and suddenly said, "Zhang Heng, the two of us should stop holding back."

Zhang Heng opened his mouth, faced Tan Hongmei's gaze, and finally nodded.

"Next, Fellow Daoist Shi, you and Fellow Daoist Yu will act together. Zhang Heng and I will not participate." Tan Hongmei said.

It was obvious that Shi Shatian's physique and Cao Rui's sharp sword light were enough to kill the puppet instantly.

If the two of them followed, they would just be in the way.

Cao Rui and Shi Shatian were both silent, obviously agreeing with Tan Hongmei's decision.

"Are you really only at the third level of the Foundation Establishment Stage?" Zhang Heng looked at Cao Rui suspiciously.

"Don't be silly. If he can conceal his aura to the point where none of us can see it clearly, can't he hide his cultivation level to the third level of Foundation Establishment?" The injured Tan Hongmei's mind became more flexible.

"Good boy, so you started to plot as soon as you approached the fortress, right?" Zhang Heng pointed at Cao Rui and said.

Cao Rui spread his hands and said, "The world of immortal cultivation is dangerous, this is also unavoidable."

"Forget it, forget it. We are all family now. It is a good thing for the Loose Cultivator Alliance to have more talents." Zhang Heng finally said.

Cao Rui nodded slightly: "In that case, you two seniors can rest here for a while."

Cao Rui then whispered, "Two seniors, please pay more attention to the movements of this girl Gu Qingying."

Zhang Heng and Tan Hongmei nodded slightly.

"In that case, hurry up and hunt down the puppets."

"There should be more than one checkpoint in the Tianji Fortress. After passing this checkpoint, the right path is to continue to seize the benefits of other checkpoints."

Immediately, Cao Rui held the torch and went into the fog again with Shi Shatian.