Mysterious mirror hanging high

The disciple of Xuanjing Xianmen bowed and went straight into the city. It was obvious that he had a mission to accomplish and was not in a position to talk much with Zhao Yuankong and Ye Jinyuan.

Just as the man and the demon were about to enter the fairy city to find out what was going on, a beam of light landed outside the city, just in time to get very close to them.

"My two fellow Daoists, may I ask if you are disciples of the Xuanjing Immortal Sect?"

A pleasant female voice sounded. Zhao Yuankong and Ye Jinyuan looked in the direction of the voice and saw a female cultivator wearing a gear mask and carrying a huge wooden box on her back.

This person's spiritual power was not concealed, but he had the cultivation level of the early stage of the Golden Core.

"We are indeed disciples of the Xuanjing Immortal Sect. May I know who you are?" The other party is, after all, a real person. Although Zhao Yuankong now has a broad path and a deep background, he did not act arrogantly and asked politely.

The female cultivator also noticed that between the man and the demon, the ape demon had a higher level of cultivation and thought it was the demon in charge, so she said:

"I'd like to inform you, fellow Daoist, that my name is [Wu Yuelan], and I'm from the Yunchuan region of Penglai Immortal Continent. My late father had a long-standing relationship with your sect's headmaster, and I've come to seek refuge with my uncle!"

Ye Jinyuan and Zhao Yuankong exchanged a glance, secretly surprised: "Do you have a past with Master?"

Ye Jinyuan then asked, "To be honest, Senior, my sect's headmaster, Master Xuanjing, is my mentor. I wonder if you, as you said, have any tokens of support?"

"Of course I do." Wu Yuelan patted the wooden box on his back and said, "The token is inside this box. Since you are a disciple of the True Lord, could you please introduce me to it? I will personally hand this token to the True Lord."

As soon as she finished speaking, the light around her distorted. It was clearly broad daylight, but the starlight gathered together and condensed into the shape of a Taoist priest in a gray robe. It was Jing Yu's second starlight phantom body [Xuan Shen] that he had recently refined.

He looked Wu Yuelan up and down, and suddenly asked, "Who is Wu Buchun to you?"

"Master!"

Seeing Ye Jinyuan and Zhao Yuankong greet him one after another, Wu Yuelan knew that the real master had arrived, and quickly bowed and said, "Greetings to the True Lord... Wu Buchun is my father."

Jing Yu raised her eyebrows slightly: "What is the token you are talking about?"

Wu Yuelan opened the wooden box on his back and saw a beautiful woman inside, but her eyes were closed and she looked unconscious.

"Please look, Master Zhenjun, this is Yue Lan's token."

When Ye Jinyuan and Zhao Yuankong saw this thing, they looked strange, wondering what kind of person this beautiful woman was.

But Jing Yu recognized at a glance that this thing was a puppet. It was the puppeteer who made it himself when he gave the method of making the "Flesh and Blood Puppet" in "The True Explanation of Puppetry: Building the Foundation" to Wu Buchun.

"Yes, it is indeed the work of Brother Wu." Jing Yu sighed.

But Wu Yuelan said, "My father's cultivation in this life stopped at the Foundation Establishment stage, and he passed away over a hundred years ago... I was still a Foundation Establishment cultivator at that time, so I continued to cultivate in the Yunchuan Region."

"At that time, Yunchuan Territory was already a demonic realm. However, at that time, Suying Tianjun promoted the middle way, and the cultivation environment in Yunchuan Territory was still peaceful. As long as you didn't leave the city casually, you wouldn't encounter too many evil cultivators or robbery cultivators."

"However, in the past few years, after Suying Tianjun established the [Heavenly Court], he divided the cultivators under his rule into different levels... I have some talent in the art of puppetry, and my life is quite good, but I have become a tool for puppet research and development, and have received very little help in my cultivation."

"Without any other choice, I had to find an excuse to secretly escape from the Yunchuan Region. After going through countless hardships, I finally arrived in the East China Sea."

Wu Yuelan's eyes gleamed with longing. "Now, Fugui Immortal City is one of the most important trading ports in the East China Sea, and it's also the birthplace of the [Skilled Puppet]... It's long been a sacred place for us puppeteers, so it's naturally the first choice for future training and puppet research and development."

"Oh?" Jing Yu smiled. "Although the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation are closely related to one's cultivation level, it doesn't necessarily mean that the higher one's cultivation level, the higher the skill level will be... I wonder how much of your father's teachings on puppetry have you inherited?"

When it comes to puppetry, Wu Yuelan becomes quite assertive, proudly stating, "To be honest, Master, when it comes to puppetry, I was already a master beyond my master back in the Foundation Establishment stage. Now that I've reached the Golden Core stage, I've taken it a step further... In terms of puppetry skills alone, I'm not inferior to some of the Nascent Soul Masters who have specialized in puppetry."

"However, I am different from my father. He enjoyed tinkering with small puppets, but I prefer to build large machines."

Jing Yu was a little surprised. He responded to the navel remotely and used his clone to activate the Mysterious Mirror Divine Power, casting a detection spell at Wu Yuelan:

"【Skilled Craftsman】, Grade: Spiritual Grade (Purple)."

"Specific function: Naturally better at making handmade and machine-made products, greatly improving the efficiency and quality of products, and able to innovate and continuously improve the effects of existing products."

"Origin of the fate: A cultivator with the fate of [Heavenly Creations] attained the status of Dao Lord. The Dao Lord's fate overflowed, and thus the world gave rise to [Skilled Craftsmen]."

Spiritual destiny, purple craftsman!

Wu Buchun's fate was that of a blue fine product [Skilled Craftsman], but he didn't expect that his daughter's fate was even better, and was actually of the spiritual grade.

Such a talent, and also the descendant of an old friend, Jing Yu naturally would not miss it, and nodded with a smile:

"In that case... you should settle down in Fugui Immortal City first. There are many puppet masters here who come here because of your reputation. You can learn from them and exchange ideas."

Then he threw a token to Wu Yuelan and said, "With this token, you can obtain a cave house rich in spiritual energy in the inner city of Fugui Immortal City for free. This is my gift to you, the younger generation."

"Thank you, Master..." Wu Yuelan had heard a little about the prices of caves in the inner city of Fugui Immortal City. He knew that even a Jindan Immortal would have to spend a lot of money to buy a cave house. He happily accepted the token and said goodbye and left.

"Little monkey, congratulations on your top-grade elixir." After Wu Yuelan left, Jing Yu turned to look at Zhao Yuankong and said with a smile.

Zhao Yuankong knelt on the ground, kowtowed more than ten times, and cried:

"It is only thanks to your mercy that I am what I am today..."

"No matter what, there is hope of reaching the Nascent Soul stage. As for how many orifices you can develop after the Nascent Soul stage? Whether you can achieve Divine Transformation? That all depends on your own luck."

Jing Yu sighed inwardly, Zhao Yuankong's foundation was still too poor. What he had exchanged for him in the [Six-Line Star Palace] were genuine upper-level skills and spiritual objects for refining the immortal foundation. With such conditions, in the end, he could only make a top-grade elixir, which could not even attract the purple energy of heaven to congratulate him.

Ye Jinyuan was used to observing people's expressions. Seeing his master's look of regret, he roughly understood what he was thinking and thought to himself:

"Master seems unsatisfied with Elder Yuankong's top-grade elixir? How many people in this world can boast of their ability to achieve a golden or purple elixir? Sigh... With my aptitude, if I could also achieve a top-grade elixir, I'd be incredibly lucky!"