Mysterious mirror hanging high

Jing Yu stayed at Mu Shan's house until the evening. Zhao Chengyan and Mu Pei also entered the bridal chamber after toasting with spiritual wine. Most of the guests outside the courtyard drank to their heart's content and left. In Wushan market, whether monks or mortals got married, there was no such bad custom of making a fuss in the bridal chamber. It had to be said that it was still quite decent.

After walking out of Neifang West Street, Jing Yu did not rush back to his own shack. Instead, he went to Neifang's commercial street and strolled around casually.

In fact, there are quite a few monks who hide during the day and come out at night in Wushanfang Market, and the commercial street in the inner square is open all night. Therefore, although it is time to turn off the lights and rest, this street is as lively as during the day. In addition, the lanterns of various shapes on the street are dimly lit, which makes Jing Yu feel a bit of the atmosphere of the ordinary New Year.

He walked around and stopped in front of a medium-sized and imposing corner tower called the Puppet Pavilion.

The Puppet Pavilion in the Wushan Market was originally very small. For a cultivator gathering place like the market, there were actually not many cultivators engaged in the art of puppetry. After all, puppetry was a relatively niche art among the hundreds of arts of cultivating immortals, and the puppetry inheritance was not as ubiquitous as elixirs, weapons, formations and talismans, which further raised the threshold for this skill.

However, the appearance of the Puppet Cave Secret Realm around Wushan Market in recent years has led to a sudden increase in the number of cultivators who have inherited the puppet tradition in the market. As a result, the demand and price of the raw materials needed for puppetry have skyrocketed. The [Puppet Pavilion] in the market has also undergone several renovations and has reached its current size.

"Fellow Daoist, are you here to select a puppet, or to purchase spiritual materials for making one?"

A young man wearing a wooden gear mask and at the third level of Qi training saw Jing Yu stopping here and couldn't help but invite him to come.

"Is there any inheritance of puppet making here?" Jing Yu walked into the store and asked casually.

"Of course there are. If we only talk about the inheritance of puppetry, the Puppet Pavilion is definitely more comprehensive than the Martial Arts Pavilion!"

“I wonder if I can try it?”

The masked boy said kindly, "You can take a look at the inheritance catalog. After reading it, you will have a good understanding of the inheritance."

"That's fine." Jing Yu agreed. He took a thin book from the masked boy's storage bag and flipped through it carefully...

"[Puppet Basics], [Battle Puppet Basics: Sword and Shield], [Battle Puppet Basics: Bow and Crossbow], [Life Puppet Basics: Servant], [Life Puppet Basics: Warrior], [Life Puppet Basics: Builder]..."

"Is this all your puppet inheritance?" Jing Yu closed the book and asked.

"That's all I have."

The masked youth smiled wryly and said, "Fellow Daoist, you should also know that puppetry isn't a particularly popular skill among the hundreds of arts of immortal cultivation. In previous years, this puppet pavilion only had one copy of 'Puppetry Primer' to keep things simple. The remaining few inheritances were collected from the Puppet Secret Realm in recent years."

"Then the puppets you sell in your pavilion..."

"Except for the Master Puppet, it covers all categories of these puppet inheritances!" The masked boy pointed to a wooden puppet in a display case nearby and answered quickly:

"Fellow Daoist, please take a look. This powerful puppet is now considered the most popular type of puppet in the market. It is extremely powerful, tireless, and easy to make and maintain. It is an absolute superior alternative to mortal body cultivators! Because this puppet is so popular in the market, many mortal body cultivators can no longer find work!"

"And these sword and shield puppets and bow and crossbow puppets..." the masked youth boasted, "They're the masterpieces of Master Wu Qiwu, the most renowned puppeteer in the market! One for close combat, the other for ranged attacks. A single puppet has the strength of a fourth-level Qi training cultivator, and two working together can even rival a sixth-level cultivator!"

"Only the masterpiece made by the strongest puppeteer in the market can rival that of a cultivator at the fourth stage of Qi training?" Jing Yu said with some disdain.

"Uh, well..." The masked boy froze, then smiled and said, "You can't say that. After all, the puppetry art in our Wushan Market has only just developed in recent years, and these puppeteers are also feeling their way forward. They can't compare to those puppetry arts in the great immortal cities that have been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years!"

"Besides, cultivators haven't opened up their sea of ​​consciousness before establishing their foundation, so they can't control the puppet with their spiritual thoughts. This combat puppet relies entirely on its combat instincts powered by the spirit stone. So, what kind of combat experience will it provide is still a question mark, right?"

Jing Yu pointed out the problem again: "Let's not even talk about whether the puppet master might be accidentally injured. I'm afraid the spiritual stones consumed in each battle are also a huge expense... To put it bluntly, combat puppets in the Qi training stage are rare, even in the great immortal cities that have been passed down for thousands of years. Isn't that the reason?"

"Compared to a Foundation Establishment puppet that can be controlled with divine consciousness, whether it's spirit stone consumption or combat flexibility, it's incomparable, right?"

The masked boy slowly took off his mask, revealing a rather handsome face. He said with awe:

"I didn't expect that fellow Daoist is such an expert. It's me, Wu, who is showing off my skills in front of an expert!"

"Oh? Your last name is Wu? Who is that puppet master Wu Qi to you?" Jing Yu raised his eyebrows.

"Wu Qi is my father!" The young man cupped his hands and resumed his playful smile. "My name is Wu Buchun."

"Zhao Mingjing." Jing Yu said concisely.

"Are you the spiritual plant man who practiced both magic and body and passed two advanced tests in the Puppet Secret Realm a few days ago?" Wu Bushun exclaimed.

Jing Yu touched his nose and asked, "Am I so famous now?"

"The reappearance of that secret realm is naturally a big deal in the puppet world of our Wushan Market!"

Wu Buchun probed, "Seeing how familiar you are with the ways of puppetry, I'm sure you've inherited a puppetry legacy! I wonder if it's the same legacy I sell in this shop? If there are any differences, I'm willing to pay a high price for it!"

"I haven't inherited any puppetry." Jing Yu denied.

"Fellow Daoist Zhao, why are you hiding this?" Wu Buchun said with a smile, "My father has also been to the Puppet Secret Realm. The fixed reward for the first level of the advancement test is spirit stones, and the fixed reward for the second level is the Puppet Inheritance!"

"This last volume, [Life Puppet: A Beginning Explanation - Builder Chapter], was bought by my father from Senior Zhao Yunlong, the law enforcement cultivator in the market. Besides you, there should be another independent cultivator who passed the second level like Senior Zhao. However, my father can't contact this person at the moment, otherwise he would have received another copy of the inheritance."

"Your father put all his inheritance on the shelf for sale?" Jing Yu asked curiously.

"It's not just my dad." Wu Buchun shook his head and said, "In recent years, a puppetry circle in our Wushan Market has established the [Wushan Puppet Association], which includes almost all the puppeteers in Wushan Market. My father is the president of this association, and the puppet inheritances of almost all the puppeteers in the association are on the shelves!"