Si Lei Zhenjun

Mid-August, Daming Temple in Luochuan City.

Chu Xing waited and waited in the cave, but in the end Qi Shunan did not show up.

Fortunately, Lu Yuan came to the cave to take a look a few days ago. After he wrote an IOU for 100,000 spirit stones to the other party, he was released.

However, more than half a month had passed since the date of the duel he had agreed with Ying Yuexian, and he didn't dare go back for fear that his senior brother would feed him medicine.

After sending a message to Xiaoyu and Yu Wanwan, he hurried here from Yunxiao Sect.

He had already taken the Purple Yuan Pill given by Feng Chen, and his cultivation had now reached the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm.

Daming Temple is a six-story building with a unique architectural style and magnificent scale.

Chu Xing flew into the fifth floor of the temple and came to a Buddha statue about ten feet tall.

He took a gray jade talisman from the Buddha's head, left a mark of his spiritual consciousness on it, and at the same time sent out a message: [Dao Wusheng of the Sanxi Town branch].

Soon, the gray jade talisman flashed and sent back a message: [A wise man does not fall in love].

Chu Xing's eye twitched, and he replied: [The innocent repeat the same mistake].

After a while, the news came back again: [The cosmetics shop at the entrance of Tianshui Lane in Luochuan City].

Upon seeing this, Chu Xing put the jade talisman back to its original place, took out the map he bought at the city gate and took a look at it, then walked out of the temple, waved his hand and summoned a sedan chair that took off into the air and flew towards Tianshui Lane.

After an incense stick of time, Chu Xing found a cosmetics shop at the end of Tianshui Lane.

He came to the counter, bowed to a young man dressed as a waiter behind the counter, and said with a smile, "Hello, brother. I am Dao Wusheng, from the Sanxi Town branch."

The young man nodded and said calmly:

"Come with me."

The young man led him through the side door of the shop and into a spacious room.

There is a round wooden table inside, which is filled with fragrant wine and food.

Sitting at the table was a skinny, ashen-faced man in a yellow robe, about thirty years old. He was hugging two pretty women and touching them all over as if no one was around.

On the other side of the room, several young monks were sitting cross-legged on cushions with their eyes closed.

The young man walked up to the man in the yellow robe and said respectfully, "Envoy Lu, the people from the Sanxi Town branch have arrived."

"Well, let's go down."

The yellow-robed man nodded slightly, glanced at Chu Xing, and said indifferently, "My name is Lu Huang, and I will take you back to Qianguimen. Everyone is not here yet, so you should stay over there first."

"Yes, the guide."

Chu Xing responded respectfully, walked to the side of the young monks, and followed their example, taking a cushion and sitting cross-legged.

"Brother, my name is Dao Wusheng, from the Sanxi Town branch. May I ask who you are?"

Chu Xing approached a black-robed man on the left and asked politely.

The man in black robe just glanced at him coldly, then closed his eyes and ignored him.

Chu Xing smiled indifferently, then turned his gaze to the woman in a pink dress behind him: "Fairy, my name is Dao Wusheng, from the Sanxi Town branch. May I ask who you are?"

Unexpectedly, the woman in the pink skirt didn't even look at him. She picked up the cushion and walked to the corner of the room to sit cross-legged again.

Are the people from the Demon Sect so rude?

Chu Xing was stunned.

He knew nothing about the Qiankui Sect and had originally wanted to get some information from them.

……

"Is something wrong?"

Lu Huang put down his wine glass and looked at Chu Xing who came in front of him with an unhappy look on his face.

Chu Xing pointed at the two women in his arms with a wry smile and asked hesitantly:

"Envoy Lu, I see their eyes are all empty and lifeless. May I ask if they are corpse puppets?"

Lu Huang's face suddenly darkened:

"What? Do you have any objection to me, the guide, playing with the corpse puppet?"

"No, no, the guide has misunderstood. I am also passionate about this."

Chu Xing smiled apologetically and waved his hands repeatedly, then took out a charming corpse from his storage bag:

"Envoy Lu Jieyin's two corpse puppets have enchanting figures and beautiful faces. Even more remarkable is that they still retain a trace of the charm of a woman in her lifetime. I am deeply envious of them, and so I have come forward with a shameless face to ask for advice from Jieyin."

Hearing this, Lu Huang burst into laughter: "Haha, you have good taste, but your corpse puppet is also quite good. There is a hint of charm between its eyebrows and eyes."

"Come, sit down and have a couple of drinks with me. I'm not interested in living women, I only like the corpses of beautiful women. Let's have a good chat."

"Then I will respectfully obey your command."

Chu Xing found a random stool and sat down. He followed the example and took the corpse beside him into his arms, saying:

"Don't worry about the ridicule of the guide. I used to tremble when I touched a woman since I was a child. Later, after I joined the Thousand Puppet Sect and became a corpse puppet, I was able to enjoy the pleasure of sex."

"Hey, what's this?"

Lu Huang waved his hand, picked up the wine glass and drank it all: "For people like us, it's relatively normal in the Demon Sect."

Chu Xing's face darkened. Is necrophilia considered normal? What about abnormal things...

Afterwards, he eagerly asked the other party about the method of refining corpse puppets, and the other party patiently answered his questions one by one.

Although he was confused by what he heard, he still pretended to benefit a lot from it.

The two chatted enthusiastically. When the wine was about to flow, Chu Xing humbly asked:

"Guide, I know very little about the Thousand Puppet Sect headquarters. I'm about to go in and train there, and I'm unsure what to do. Could you offer me some pointers?"

Lu Huang nodded slightly, put down his wine glass, and said after a moment of silence:

"There are three major factions within the Qiangui Sect, led by the leader Kui Nantian, the deputy leader Bai Gu Moji, and the great elder Zuo Qishan. All three are cultivators in the Tribulation Realm."

Chu Xing picked up the wine pot and poured him a glass of wine, saying, "I just want to practice in peace. I don't know which one I should join."

Lu Huang took a sip from his wine glass, then picked up a bite of food with his chopsticks and put it into his mouth. "The leader and deputy leader's factions are powerful, but they're constantly fighting overtly and covertly, and as a result, many have died. I suggest you choose the Great Elder's faction first. Although they're weak, they remain neutral, which is safer. I belong to that faction."

Chu Xing nodded and was about to speak again when he saw the communication jade talisman on Lu Huang's waist light up with white light, obviously someone was sending him a message.

Lu Huang fiddled with the communication jade talisman for a while, then stood up and looked at Chu Xingdao, "Let's go. The last person has arrived in Luochuan City. Let's go directly to Daming Temple to meet him and then return to the Qianguimen headquarters."

……

Three days later, a huge valley hidden in the mountains.

The valley is surrounded by towering mountains, which act as a natural barrier to isolate it from the outside world.

At this time, a team of about ten people was lined up in the open space at the entrance of the valley.

In front of the team was a crystal clear stone the size of a baby's head. Beside the stone stood a middle-aged man in a blood-red robe and an old woman with a sinister look, yellow hair and a thick back.

Chu Xing followed Lu Huang to the end of the team and recognized the stone as a spiritual root testing stone. He asked:

"Envoy Lu, are you testing your spiritual roots?"

Lu Huang nodded and then shook his head, saying, "It's not just about testing your spiritual roots. These disciples from your branch are a mixed bunch. To prevent disciples from the immortal sect from sneaking in, we also need to check your dantian."