This is my first time playing the female lead, what's wrong with the tea and snacks?

"Zhou Zhan, what are you doing here?"

Zhou Zhan had originally intended to leave the underground palace, but when he saw Su Yu arrive, he was overjoyed.

Despite his injuries, he hurried over to Su Yu.

"Brother Xuanguan, I never expected to see you here."

"Where are Ye Xuan and the others?"

Zhou Zhan gave a bitter smile. "I don't know either. I thought you two would end up together."

“I lost track of all of you during that black fog, and then I appeared here after the fog dissipated.”

"Then what happened to your injuries?" Su Yu asked again.

Zhou Zhan looked at the bloodstains on his shoulder. "My shoulder injury was caused by the puppets inside. If I hadn't been lucky, you probably wouldn't be here today."

"A puppet?" A look of understanding flashed in Su Yu's eyes.

No wonder there are so many severed limbs here; this place used to be like Puppet Peak.

"That's right. If I'm not mistaken, this underground palace used to be a place for making puppets. There are still several intact puppets inside, some even of the seventh rank!"

"A seventh-tier puppet?"

Su Yu's eyes lit up. It was not bad to encounter a puppet comparable to a celestial being here.

Su Yu stepped forward, and the power of her innate Dao Body surged from her palm. The continuous power was injected into the deep wound, and the pain on Zhou Zhan's face was greatly relieved, revealing a hint of intoxication.

A few seconds later, Su Yu stopped.

"Alright, your injuries have mostly healed."

Zhou Zhan loosened his muscles and bones, and found that his injuries would no longer affect his mobility. "Thank you for your treatment, Brother Xuan Guan."

However, a hint of doubt suddenly flashed in his eyes. Didn't Brother Xuan Guan only cultivate thunder magic?

How come the power you just unleashed was even purer and stronger than lightning magic?

However, he remained only puzzled and did not ask further, as it was, after all, someone else's secret.

When people go out to practice spiritual cultivation, how many of them don't have their own secrets?

"Take me inside and have a look."

"Do you intend to go in and subdue a seventh-tier puppet?" Zhou Zhan's expression changed upon hearing this.

Su Yu nodded slightly.

"Take my advice, we shouldn't go in. Perhaps Brother Xuanguan can handle one seventh-tier puppet, but there's more than one inside!"

"Back then, I only tried to move the outermost puppets, and they attacked me. If I were to enter the core area, I would probably be attacked by all the seventh-tier puppets!"

Zhou Zhan tried his best to persuade him, knowing that Xuan Guan and Ye Xuan had once worked together to kill a seventh-tier demon beast.

But now there's more than one seventh-tier being, not to mention Ye Xuan isn't even by their side.

Su Yu said calmly, "You don't need to worry about anything else. Just lead the way, and I'll keep you safe."

"But if you really don't want to go in, just let me know where they are, and I can go in by myself."

“This…” Zhou Zhan stammered.

"Are you really sure?"

"nature."

Zhou Zhan's face hardened. "Fine! In that case, I'll lead the way for Brother Xuan Guan!"

Zhou Zhan led Su Yu back into the underground palace.

This underground palace is where the puppets are kept; it is located underground.

The underground palace has many branches, but Zhou Zhan had explored them before, so he was quite familiar with them.

The two quickly traversed numerous underground passages and arrived at the end.

This is an enormous underground palace disc.

Surrounding the outer plate are humanoid behemoths, each two to three meters tall, their black crystal bodies of unknown material giving off an unusual sense of oppression.

They stand silently on the orderly arranged bronze platforms.

The closer you get to the depths of the territory, the stronger the puppet's aura becomes.

"Be careful, there's a mechanism underneath this area. If you step on that slot, it will trigger a puppet attack."

"We failed here last time," Zhou Zhan said hastily, his eyelids twitching as he saw Su Yu walking straight toward the center of the nest.

Following behind Su Yu, the two arrived at the central hub of the nest.

This looks like an ancient circular altar.

In the center of the altar stands a two-meter-high bronze pillar, its surface shimmering with white light patterns that resemble several serpentine snakes coiling around it.

A white energy shield also enveloped the stone pillar.

At the five corners of the altar are five bronze platforms, and on three of these platforms stand three enormous, tower-like, crimson-striped puppets.

The three puppets exuded an aura far surpassing that of the other puppets.

This is the aura fluctuation of a Celestial Venerable!

Unfortunately, one of the three puppets lost its entire steel right arm.

On the other two bronze platforms, the puppets had vanished without a trace.

“These three puppets are all comparable to the Heavenly Venerable Realm, but one of them has lost its right arm, so it should only be able to exert the strength of a half-step Heavenly Venerable…” Su Yu’s expression was slightly pleased.

He no longer values ​​puppets at the Ascended Emperor Realm; those at the Heavenly Venerable Realm are considered true powerhouses in the Zhan Yue Sect!

Isn't this Tiansheng Ruins the site of a powerful Celestial Venerable?

How come there are so many Celestial Venerable-level treasures? Logically speaking, there should be, but not many.

Moreover, this is an extremely rare Celestial Venerable-level puppet.

Could this so-called Heavenly Saint be an honorific title? Or the rank of a Saint Realm expert?

hiss---

Is this the site of a Saint Realm expert?

If this site is truly at the Saintly Realm level, then wouldn't its greatest inheritance also be at the Saintly Realm level?

"......"

Seeing that Su Yu remained silent, Zhou Zhan said, "The stone pillar in the middle should be the energy source of this entire underground palace puppet. If you want to take the puppet away, you have to destroy it first."

"However, if we try to touch it, it will likely trigger a full-scale attack by the puppets!"

"Therefore, Brother Xuanguan, you still need to reconsider..."

Su Yuqing exhaled a breath of stale air. "Get back somewhere, leave this area."

Zhou Zhan hesitated and asked, "Don't you need my help?"

"You'll only make things worse."

"........"

Zhou Zhan's face stiffened. Faced with such a straightforward answer, he couldn't refute it and could only obediently leave the territory where the puppet was located and watch from a distance.

"This can be described as two Celestial Venerables, one half-step Celestial Venerable, and nearly fifty Ascended Emperor Realm cultivators. Even if he is an Ascended Emperor Realm cultivator, how can he possibly contend with them?"

The thought of such a huge disparity made Zhou Zhan begin to regret his actions.

He must have lost his mind. Why would he bring Xuan Guan to challenge such a dangerous place...?

Su Yu focused his gaze on the altar pillar. He gathered the power of lightning in his hand, condensed it into a ball of lightning, and slammed it hard into the white light shield covering the pillar.

With a loud bang, countless tiny cracks appeared on the light shield.

At the same time, all the puppets on the ground trembled!

Their previously dull black eyes suddenly flashed with a red light, and their limbs clanged as if they were stretching their muscles.

All the puppets have come to life!

At this moment, their gazes were all fixed on Su Yu in the center.

His body shot towards Su Yu like a cannonball!

Su Yu snorted coldly, summoned the white crane, and unleashed the eighth-grade Spirit Ice Sky-Piercing Sword. Pure and ethereal sword intent filled the sky and swept towards the oncoming puppet.

The powerful sword intent and innate Dao body that Ye had been forced to conceal were finally unleashed upon arriving at this underground palace.

For a moment, even the two Celestial Venerable Realm puppets showed signs of being suppressed!

Not far away, Zhou Zhan, who was watching from a distance, was dumbfounded as he saw Su Yu, whose figure was as graceful as a startled swan, moving with ease among a group of puppets.

"Wh...what's going on? Isn't Brother Xuanguan a lightning cultivator? How come he's become a sword cultivator now?"

"And, moreover, it's so powerful?!"

and many more!

After careful observation, Zhou Zhan's pupils suddenly contracted.

Isn't that kind of sword something only women should use?

And why is his swordsmanship so ethereal and elusive?

At this moment, it seems that the one wielding the sword amidst the puppets is not a man, but rather a peerless female sword immortal.

Xuan Guan He...

Suddenly, he couldn't help but recall Ye Xuan's flattery of Su Yu not long ago.

That's the number one prodigy of the Zhan Yue Sect! A possessor of a divine body, and a direct disciple of the Grandmaster Uncle!

Even such a being holds Xuan Guan in such high esteem.

And what kind of stunning beauty did he possess?

"No, that's not the case..."

As he pondered this, his gaze toward Su Yu suddenly became complex and unusual, and his curiosity reached an unprecedented level.

My heart started pounding faster...

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P.S.: This book has just started its debut, but some of the data is not ideal and has not met the target.

Not many people can finish reading it smoothly.

Let's take the most intuitive example, the dollar sign ($).

You might not know this, but yesterday I only earned a little over 60 yuan from over 300 requests for more updates, and with gifts from fans and readers, I only earned a little over 70 yuan in total.

Today's roughly 500 requests for more updates will probably only earn me a little over 80 yuan (laughs angrily).

If other authors had 500 requests for updates, and the book had the same word count, they could earn at least 200 yuan, and possibly even over 1,000 yuan (sigh).

This is what makes this book so bad; few people actually finish reading it, and even fewer spend time on it.

Most of the comments in the comment section were read in less than an hour, which suggests that the author is trying to build up a readership.

This book might be cut during its initial run.

The author has been testing the data these past few days, but the poor performance has made him lose interest in writing. The weather is also unbearably hot, and he can't sleep at night, leaving him exhausted the next day (damn it!).

My health has always been weak (tears welling up)

I've already finished writing all the drafts, and I'm only posting this now because I just finished two chapters.

In short, let's see how the data goes in the next few days. If the author doesn't even receive the most basic royalties, then there's no other way but to cut the book.

I might write two books simultaneously; I'll update this book when I have time.

In short, if you can spare a minute or two to catch up on the updates these next few days, and maybe even give a good review, it might actually help the show gain popularity.

So be it.