Half a month later, on a hill outside Yunmeng City, several monks looked at the endless heavy rain outside. They muttered and shrank back into the dry formation, complaining:
"I don't know what Longhu Mountain is thinking. They won't go in, they won't fight, and they'll just let us waste our time here. Could it be that they want to use us as an extra to lure the snake out of its hole?"
A monk next to him laughed and scolded: "Pull him down, you don't have a few ounces of meat on your body, Longhu Mountain wants you to fish? I'm afraid you can only catch an earthworm at most!"
The grumbling monk said unconvinced: "We elders are the same. We don't want to stay in Zhongzhou, but we have to go to a place where birds don't lay eggs and suffer."
"Let me tell you, the flies here are so big that they can kill a horse. Let's go back home as soon as possible."
A fat monk sighed: "What's the use of talking about this? Haven't you seen that all the land in our hometown has been sold?"
"If we can't gain a piece of territory in the Southern Barbarians, not to mention that we will all become lonely ghosts, I'm afraid our people will not be much better!"
After saying this, the atmosphere in the formation suddenly became a little low. The fat monk probably noticed his gaffe and quickly changed the subject and said, "By the way, how about you guys taking a look at the new puppet I made recently?"
After saying that, he took out a strange puppet that looked like a straw man stuck out of the farmland.
After the fat monk put a spiritual stone into the core of the puppet, it began to dance vigorously.
The muttering monk next to him saw the straw man looking top-heavy as if he was drunk, and laughed:
"I said, Fatty, what is this that you have concocted? Aren't you afraid of the sect assessment at the end of the month, and this idiot will just give you a slap on the head?"
The fat man puffed up his cheeks in dissatisfaction and said, "What do you know? Didn't our elders say that if you can make a novel puppet, you will get a big prize!"
"This is my own unique way, young master, using purple vine grass that can be seen everywhere. This purple vine grass grows very fast and is large in quantity. The puppets made using my method cost much cheaper in spirit stones than yours." , the finished product is more than twice as fast!”
The muttered monk regained his energy and continued to mock: "What's the use of being quick? You have to be able to fight in real combat. You are a straw man, you are as weak as a bitch, can you use it to push a ball?"
"Do you think the elders are all blind? Do you really expect that such a thing can deceive the elders into spiritual stones?"
Just as they were joking with each other, a cold snort suddenly came from outside the formation.
Everyone was stunned when they saw Xie Puzong walking into the formation with a gloomy face and saying:
"What's going on? You are our frontline checkpoint in Qing Ning Valley. If the enemy gets past you, it will directly pose a threat to our Qing Ning Valley."
"How dare you be so careless about such an important position? Even I have arrived outside the formation, and you are still at a loss!"
After saying that, he ordered the Foundation Establishment Deacon who was following behind him: "Write down the names of these people, and half of next month's salary will be deducted. If you dare to do it again, your cultivation will be locked and the rules will be followed!"
"Yes!" Today, Xie Puzong personally led the inspection team, and the following foundation-building deacons naturally did not dare to neglect.
Everyone suddenly looked bitter when they heard that half of next month's salary was gone.
Jie Puzong was originally planning to teach him a few more words, but suddenly he saw the straw puppet that the fat monk had not put away in time. He let out a light sigh and took the puppet into his hand, played with it for a while, raised his head and asked the few gentlemen below. The monks who dared not come out said:
"Who made this puppet?"
Although the fat monk spoke arrogantly behind his back, when he saw Jie Puzong in front of him, he couldn't say anything at all. He always said: "Qi... Qi... Supreme Elder, this is a small... .made by villains.”
Xie Puzong looked at the straw puppet over and over, his face softened a little, and he said warmly: "Tell me, how did you come up with the idea of using grass to refine this puppet?"
Seeing Xie Puzong's expression soften, the fat monk became bolder and spoke more eloquently:
"Yes! I am too poor to afford any precious materials to make puppets. So I had an idea and wanted to see if I could use grass to make a puppet."
"Before I became an immortal, my family was engaged in farming. I have made various straw men, straw horses, grass dragons, etc. since I was a child. Therefore, I am quite familiar with straw men."
"So I experimented with various grass-based materials, and later discovered that this wisteria grass has the characteristics of grass, but also has many advantages that other grasses do not have."
"For example, this wisteria grass is fine, has good plasticity, is not afraid of fire, insect bites, etc., and has a high affinity for spiritual energy. Once soaked in a special kind of tung oil, it can even be stronger than gold and iron."
"So, after I processed the wisteria grass, I tried to make this grass puppet. Today is my first experiment. It can only be regarded as an idea, but the result was seen by the elders."
After hearing this, Xie Puzong nodded and said: "Your idea is not bad. Although it looks a bit crude for the time being and does not have any powerful methods, it can still be regarded as a complete puppet."
"It shows that you are quite diligent in studying the art of puppetry. So, I have announced to the sect before that I will reward anyone who can come up with novel puppets."
"You grass puppet has a very good idea! Come, here are the five hundred spiritual stones that are rewarded to you. Take it. With these spiritual stones, I hope you can buy some more valuable materials and add more ideas. Go in and refine your grass puppet to be better."
The fat monk usually didn't have 500 spirit stones in his salary for most of the year, but he suddenly got so many. Suddenly, the worries of being deducted spirit stones due to negligence just flew away.
He grinned excitedly, not even knowing where to place his mouth on his face, and returned to stuttering again: "Thank you... thank you... thank you, Supreme Elder, little... You must...must continue to work hard!"
Xie Puzong handed over the spirit stone, put away the straw puppet and said, "Although you have devoted yourself to studying this puppet technique, the mission of this sect cannot be neglected."
"I will keep this straw puppet for the time being. You still have to keep your guard down, do you understand?"
"yes!"
After receiving five hundred spirit stones, he just exchanged for a straw puppet. Under the grateful and excited eyes of the fat monk, Xie Puzong walked out of the sentry post.
After coming out, he looked far away at the place that was covered in rain, and didn't know what he was thinking. He was lost in thought for a while, then he seemed to have made a decision and said to the following deacons:
"After today's inspection, we still found a lot of problems. You will have to strictly supervise these in the future! If I find the same problems again in the future, you deacons will be punished together!"
"Okay, I'm still not at ease with what you're doing. Just turn around first and implement the problems discovered today again. I'll go ahead and check it out again to feel more at ease."
After saying that, he flew into the vast rain alone.
After Xie Puzong flew out for half an hour, he slowly landed by a large river. Then he looked around cautiously and found that there was no trace, so he plunged into the river in front of him.
He had not been diving along the river for long when he felt a strong force coming towards him. He didn't dare to resist, and was soon pulled by the force into a strange dry space.
As soon as Xie Puzong's feet touched the ground, he woke up. He saw Qian Yunsheng in front of him sitting among countless puppets of various successes and failures. He quickly took out the straw puppet as if to offer a treasure and said:
"Master, I have discovered a new method of refining puppets in the sect. Let's see if it is useful."
When Qian Yunsheng saw that it was Jie Puzong who had come to his underwater formation, he raised his head from the pile of puppets and said, "Isn't it some unreasonable thing? You didn't bring anything reliable before. , you won’t let me down again this time, right?”
As he said this, his consciousness was also attached to the straw puppet, and he suddenly let out a light sigh: "This seems interesting!"
Xie Puzong secretly thought that his master's requirements were really not low, and even the puppets he had brought before could not even catch his eye. But fortunately, the straw puppet finally got the right flattery, and he quickly handed the straw puppet over.
Qian Yunsheng took the straw puppet and looked at it carefully, and after listening to Xie Puzong explain the fat monk's idea again, he finally grinned and said: "It's interesting, this idea is worth my time to think about it. Got it!"
