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"Crack." A crisp sound was heard. It was the sound of the puppet's energy center falling, which was very familiar to Cao Rui.

He held the torch in his hand and skillfully picked up the eighteenth diamond-shaped object.

Then, he put the remains of the puppet into his storage bag.

During this period of time, almost all the puppets in this area have been cleared out by Cao Rui and Shi Shatian.

Therefore, even if there was a small fluctuation in magic power, the other puppets would not be able to arrive so quickly for the time being.

Before the puppet arrived, Cao Rui and Shi Shatian had already started to move.

Cao Rui turned to look at Shi Shatian and asked with concern: "Can you still hold on?"

At this moment, Shi Shatian's face was flushed, his Taoist robe had been removed, revealing his upper body covered with faint bloodstains.

His chest rose and fell violently, and he was obviously exhausted. The energy required to control the puppet was far greater than they had imagined, and Shi Shatian's consumption was even greater.

Shi Shatian also said frankly: "My current condition is a bit bad. Although the physique of a physical cultivator is strong, the recovery speed is also longer than that of ordinary cultivators like you. It can't be solved by relying on a few elixirs. I can probably only support and control two or three puppets now."

Hearing this, Cao Rui frowned, and then said: "There is no need to take risks, let's go back to the central area to recover first."

Shi Shatian did not refuse and nodded. He agreed with Cao Rui's suggestion and decided to return to the central area to rest first.

Cao Rui held the torch and led Shi Shatian towards the central area.

Under the leadership of Cao Rui, they carefully avoided those puppets and tried not to attract their attention.

Soon, the two returned to the central area.

Cao Rui stuck the torch into the ground and asked Shi Shatian to sit aside and rest.

"Huh? Where's Gu Qingying?" After returning to the central area, Cao Rui found that Gu Qingying had disappeared.

Only Zhang Heng and Tan Hongmei were sitting cross-legged in meditation in one place.

"That woman also went out from that direction to hunt puppets. She came back intermittently at first." Zhang Heng said.

"I haven't been back for a long time since I went out this time."

Top-grade spirit stones are indeed very attractive to practitioners, and Gu Qingying is no exception.

It is reasonable for her to go out and kill puppets and obtain high-quality spirit stones.

And with Cao Rui and others as examples, she also discovered the characteristics of puppets. Combined with her powerful combat power, her speed in killing puppets was no slower than Cao Rui's.

Cao Rui frowned slightly, feeling a little anxious, as there were only eighty-one top-grade spirit stones in total.

We must kill the puppets as soon as possible and seize the spirit stones.

There's no point in continuing to hide.

Once you get the spiritual stones, you will be king.

Cao Rui couldn't wait for Shi Shatian to recover, so he raised the torch and walked out of the fog.

"Yu boy, be careful." Zhang Heng naturally saw what Cao Rui was thinking and reminded him.

As soon as he finished speaking, Cao Rui had already entered the fog.

Cao Rui held a torch and strode forward in the fog.

Soon, a puppet was seen coming towards him.

"God's Cone Thorn!"

hum!

Sensing the fluctuation of magic power, the puppet instantly activated and attacked Cao Rui.

These puppets are indeed completely immune to spiritual attacks.

Cao Rui quickly pulled back and at the same time whizzed out with his golden sword.

Thanks to the eighteen puppets that had been successfully killed before, there was now a large area behind him where no puppets were patrolling.

In this way, his combat range became much wider and a buffer zone was added.

In this way, when he fights with the puppets, he doesn't have to worry that the fluctuations of magic power will immediately cause him to fall into the encirclement of the puppets.

Without Shi Shatian's restraint, these puppets moved at an astonishingly fast speed.

Cao Rui aimed his sword at the puppet's chest, but the puppet dodged it with amazing speed every time.

The golden sword slashed on the puppet's shell. Although it was extremely sharp, it only cut a large cut on the puppet's body and could not cause fatal damage to it.

Boom! The puppet suddenly threw a punch, and Cao Rui dodged sideways with the help of the torch light.

The puppet's fist grazed his head, and although it didn't hit him, the sharp wind from the fist still stung his cheek. If he was hit by this punch, the consequences would be disastrous.

At this time, there was no one else around, so Cao Rui no longer needed to hide his strength. He decisively slapped out his storage bag, and four more magic swords rushed out.

This is exactly his signature magic power of the Great Five Elements Sword Formation that became famous in the secret war in Xiao State - five swords coming out at the same time!

The five magic swords instantly merged together according to the principle of the five elements, forming a dazzling sword light.

Whoosh! The sword light cut through the air and whizzed away with astonishing speed and powerful force.

This time, the puppet's defense could no longer withstand the attack of the sword. Its body was directly cut in half by the sword, splitting into two parts.

However, surprisingly, even though its body was cut in half, the upper and lower halves of the puppet still flew towards Cao Rui.

Faced with this scene, Cao Rui was not panicked at all. He held the sword formula with both hands and controlled the sword light to kill continuously, again and again.

Finally, the puppet was chopped into dozens of pieces and completely lost its movement. Then, Cao Rui gently waved his hand and put the diamond-shaped center in the puppet's chest into the storage bag.

"The damage of the five elements was completely overflowed during the foundation-building period. However, the remains of this puppet were damaged too badly and cannot be reused. It's a pity."

Cao Rui frowned slightly. With the help of the torch light, he could see several shadows whizzing towards him from all directions.

Although the buffer distance is far enough, once the magic power fluctuations spread, these puppets will still chase after you quickly like a cat smelling blood.

Coupled with the cover of fog, if it were any other foundation-building cultivator, he would surely have died without a burial place.

But now Cao Rui's sword light can completely break their defense.

Damage overflow.

No matter how many puppets come, it will be of no use.

"go with!"

Cao Rui made a sword gesture with his hands, and the sword light whizzed out.

When the bodies of these puppets were touched by the sword light, their limbs flew everywhere.

The puppet defense that was originally difficult for a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage to break through became an embroidered pillow after Cao Rui's five swords combined into one.

Click click click.

The sword flashed.

One puppet after another exploded, and Cao Rui put their diamond-shaped cores into the storage bag.

This process lasted for a full cup of tea.

No more puppet shadows appeared around.

"Ok?"

"Are they all dead?"

Cao Rui looked at the puppet fragments all over the ground and waited for a moment. When he found that there were indeed no more puppet shadows approaching, he probed his spiritual sense into the storage bag.

Cao Rui counted the energy centers in the storage bag. Together with the previous stock, there were a total of sixty-four energy centers in the storage bag.

"If my calculations are correct, there should be a total of eighty-one puppets and eighty-one energy centers."

"There are still 17 pieces. Were they taken away by Gu Qingying or Huiguang?"

Cao Rui waved his hand and put the five magic swords into the storage bag.