Three figures emerged from the sand and fog, blocking Lu Changan's path.
They are:
A dark-skinned iron tower man about eight feet tall, wearing heavy armor.
A skinny young man with long braids wearing a mink fur cloak.
And a beautiful alien woman with a human face and a dragon tail.
Poof!
The elegant middle-aged man in a green shirt shook his body and fell towards the desert ground.
"Quick victory!"
Ada Wan's eyes were black, he was making secrets on his hands and giving orders.
The figure of the dark-skinned iron man roared, and he stood up to a height of 1.5 feet. The hair on his body was red and black, and his hair stood up like steel needles.
An afterimage passed by in the wind and sand, and within a few breaths came within a few dozen feet of Lu Changan.
Before he could get closer, the black-patterned iron fist like a millstone expanded in his field of vision, exuding a terrifying pressure of energy and blood.
A thunderous explosion!
In the distance, in the area where Lu Changan was, a large black pit with a radius of five to six feet was formed, raising up yellow sand all over the sky.
"Is this the end?"
Ada Wan is uninteresting, and the opponent is weak, which means the benefits will not be too high.
But it's normal. A fake elixir external cultivator, when he is poisoned by a third-level poison, will naturally not be able to block a thunderous strike from a physical cultivator of the same level.
As a true physical cultivator, the dark-skinned giant man is not only physically powerful, but also possesses body-refining powers, and can threaten Dharma cultivators at medium distances.
The miraculous effects of physical training vary depending on the technique.
In Feng Yuan Kingdom, there was once a tyrannical physical cultivator who was close to the fourth level. He activated his supernatural power and roared, breaking the heart of a pill-forming cultivator several miles away and killing him.
"Real physical training is indeed different."
In the wind and sand, the vision blurred, and a middle-aged figure in a blue shirt appeared strangely on the back of the dark-skinned giant man.
The violent air-piercing wind rang in the ears at the same time, and the big palm covered with gold-patterned disks slapped the black-skinned giant man's back horizontally.
"This speed? Third-level body training!"
The dark-skinned giant man's scalp was numb, and he had no time to dodge. He could only use his strength to resist, and was hit hard on the back by the palm.
With a "click", the heavy armor cracked, followed by a series of brittle bones.
The dark-skinned giant man had bulging veins on his forehead. He spit out a mouthful of blood and flew backwards, falling into the desert.
"A third-level body-refining external cultivator?"
Adamaru in the distance was slightly surprised but did not panic.
at the same time.
A strange female voice echoed.
An uncertain phantom flashed to Lu Changan's side.
"Giggle..."
The eyes of the human-faced dragon girl glowed dimly, giving the area around Lu Changan an inexplicable sense of distortion, and her body speed was slightly stagnant.
Snapped!
Lu Changan raised his arm and collided with the dragon's tail that swept towards him like a phantom, feeling an unreal smoothness.
The human-faced dragon girl groaned and was knocked away by the huge force, but she was not seriously injured.
"This is...a third-order puppet?"
Only then did Lu Changan realize that the human-faced dragon girl was not a living being, but a living puppet.
Its wisdom, charm, and appearance are all so real that they look fake.
The braided boy turned out to be a third-level puppet master, surpassing Lu Changan in the sophistication of puppets and some areas.
The strength of the human-faced dragon puppet is slightly better than that of the great demon at the early stage of the third level!
Coupled with the third-level poison, such a powerful lineup would make ordinary true elixir monks hate the desert.
Unfortunately, I met Lu Changan.
The poison-resolving power of the Evergreen Kung Fu, the resistance to negative effects of the "Golden Luo Hegemony", and the nearly mid-level third-level body refining body can completely overcome this combination.
Lu Changan suddenly understood why he got Xiaoji's hexagram.
"Ah! Mr. Ada, help..."
The black-skinned body repairer who was trapped in the desert was suddenly swallowed up by a huge sand vortex, and his voice stopped abruptly!
Lu Changan smiled faintly, so what if his body was magically cultivated? Even under the overwhelming power, there was no way to resist.
Physical training is hard and tiring, and you need talents and resources. If you fight head-on, your survival defense is really strong.
But if faced with the same level of Dharma cultivators in an open environment, there is no obvious advantage.
"The great earth demon..."
Ada Wan's expression changed drastically, his pupils narrowed, and he finally showed panic.
If Lu Changan was only in the third level of body refining or in the early stage of true elixir, he would still have a chance of winning due to his numerical advantage.
The other party also hides a terrifying earth-type demon. It is beyond the scope of confrontation to destroy his capable physical training subordinates.
"Zhenren Xu, please show mercy! Adasi, the deputy city lord of Scorpio Desert City, is my father..."
Seeing that the situation was not good, Adamaru moved out of the background and controlled the puppet to return to defense and prepare to retreat.
In order to show his strength and make Lu Changan retreat, he sacrificed two more quasi-third-order beast-shaped puppets, one on the left and one on the right to protect him.
With this kind of lineup, even if the powerful real pill wants to kill him, it can still be delayed for a while, and the sound of the fighting is enough to alarm the surrounding tribal monks.
However, the next scene left Adamaru horrified.
Swish, swish, swish!
Lu Changan gently raised his hand, and five archer puppets wearing leather armor appeared in front of him.
The spiritual pressure condensed and emitted by the bow and arrows all reached the fake elixir level or above.
Two real elixir level puppets and three fake elixir level puppets.
"How is this possible! He is both a third-level body refiner and a third-level puppet master..."
Adamaru's voice was trembling, he was almost doubtful about life, and his sunken eyeballs almost fell out.
A third-level body-refining expert, with a team of high-level puppets, is the lineup to attack the Immortal City and the sect.
"Cum for me!"
As Lu Changan waved his hand, five real-life archers fired two consecutive volleys.
Whoosh!
Numerous magic weapon-level arrows turned into dazzling rainbows of arrows, tearing apart the sand and mist-filled void.
"Senior, spare your life and show mercy!"
"Quick, stop it quickly——"
Adamaru screamed in despair and asked the puppet to stand in front of him. He also used his magic weapon to defend himself and attached a defensive talisman.
Puffy!
Only the first round of dazzling arrows destroyed all the quasi-third-level puppets, magic weapons, and talismans in front of him.
The only third-level puppet, the human-faced dragon girl, was entangled in the spiral sand and stone tentacles extending from the desert and could not escape.
Whoosh!
The last round of volleys was locked by numerous arrows. Adamaru's pupils were bloodshot, his eyes were about to burst, and he was unable to save himself.
Although he is a third-level puppet master, he is only a Dharma cultivator in the false elixir stage.
The dignified third-level body-refining expert not only bullied the smaller ones, but also started group fights. Looking at the vast deserted city, there were no such shameless people.
"Husband... Futa!?"
The face of the man in green shirt that he was staring at suddenly blurred and turned into a familiar face.
Futa! !
Before dying, Adamaru was stunned and shocked, and made his last questions and screams.
Why did he intercept and kill Lu Changan?
The reason was that Futa spread gossip about Zhenren Xu in the city, suspecting that the latter had brought a large amount of elixirs and spiritual herbs from the outside world.
Of course, the fundamental reason was that Adamaru created a special puppet, was in urgent need of spiritual stones and materials, and was preparing to rob the fat sheep of foreign cultivators.
This is the tradition of the Feng Yuan Kingdom tribe.
Puff puff——
Adamaru's body was pierced, but his shocked roar before death was not blocked by Lu Changan and spread far and wide.
After Adamaru's death, the human-faced dragon female puppet's resistance was reduced by most, but it still had the instinct to survive.
Lu Changan couldn't help but be surprised. Could it be that Ada Wan injected an independent personality into this female puppet?
He used the Puppet Control Technique and cooperated with the Earth Rock Rat to bind and seal this strange puppet and put it into a storage bag.
In a few breaths, quickly clear the battlefield traces, obtain loot, and recover puppet arrows.
"Walk!"
Lu Changan changed his clothes and flew out of Scorpion Desert City's sphere of influence with Futa's face in mind.
Ada Wan has an extraordinary status and is an important figure in the direct lineage of the Scorpio tribe. If he is killed, he will probably alarm the senior officials of Huangcheng.
"Ah! Deputy Futa patrolling the city?"
Leaving the surrounding area, Lu Changan encountered the tribal monks who were hiding away and became even more awe-struck.
Lu Changan did not have Futa's blood, but they had physical contact with each other for the first time and collected a trace of the other person's breath.
This superficial identity disguise is not realistic enough, but under the cover of desert flying sand, there is no flaw.
Lu Changan knew that this Guofu Tower might not be able to afford it.
However, the bad news about him and Adamaru's actions are all related to this person.
Lu Changan deliberately muddied the water to confuse his vision, and before leaving, he made Futa feel disgusted.
…
"Huh? Who's calling me?"
Dozens of miles away from the incident, Futa quietly flew out of Scorpion Desert City. At this time, he looked around blankly and suspiciously.
The sound seemed to be an illusion, but it was not actually heard.
As the deputy general who patrolled the city, Master Adamaru's secret actions fell into his eyes.
Futa's original intention was to use Adamaru's help to test Lu Changan's background. If the latter is not strong enough, he should kill someone with a borrowed knife.
Futa followed him out by accident, hoping to relieve his anger and watch the excitement, and to take advantage of the situation.
He didn't know Adamaru's true skills as a puppet master, and Xu Zhenren felt that it was not simple, and there might be a lose-lose outcome for both parties.
At this critical moment, if you can help Adamaru and get the appreciation of the powerful princes of the tribe, it will be of great help to his future.
"Strange, the fighting movement suddenly disappeared from here..."
Futa searched around for a long time, but found nothing. He looked confused and felt strange.
On the way back to the deserted city.
The sound of breaking through the air came towards him, and a familiar and powerful aura made Futa's heart tremble.
I wanted to avoid it but was keenly sensed by the other party.
"Futa, what are you doing sneaking around there?"
Among the clouds, the deputy city lord's loud voice was full of anger.
"Ah! Futa has met the deputy city lord."
Futa trembled, not knowing what to say, and saluted respectfully.
Deputy City Lord Adasi, a mid-level third-level physical practitioner, is Adamaru's biological father.
That night.
The news that Adamaru died and Futa's deputy patrol officer was imprisoned in the dungeon spread in Scorpio Desert City.
There are many rumors among the people.
One version is highly recognized:
It is said that Futa secretly encouraged Adawan to intercept and kill the real person Waixiu Jiedan, taking advantage of the situation where both sides suffered losses and reaped the benefits.
…
Half a day later.
Lu Changan flew out of Scorpion Desert City's sphere of influence. The desolation was visible to the naked eye along the way. There were fewer and fewer oases and the spiritual veins were almost extinct.
The civilization of Feng Yuan Kingdom originated from the Holy Land of Snow Mountain, and the various deserted cities are important branches and branches.
Far away from the deserted city, there are few people, spiritual resources are poor, and natural disasters occur frequently.
At this time, Lu Changan didn't know what kind of fate his casual and crude accusation would bring to Futa's deputy city patrol.
After leaving Huangcheng's sphere of influence, he made some calculations and only got a rough hexagram.
The senior officials of Scorpion Desert City actually did not follow him and wanted him.
In Lu Changan's view, Futa's strength was not enough to completely take the blame. He could confuse the sight and bear part of the firepower, which achieved the desired effect.
After a second thought, Lu Changan discovered that Scorpio Desert City had no reasonable excuse and was openly wanted for him.
There was no evidence to prove that Lu Changan committed murder, especially since the biggest suspect was revealed.
Secondly, even if the truth is found out and it is discovered that Ada Wan robbed Lu Changan and was killed instead, he would have brought it upon himself and would not be justified.
If it were leaked, it would make the Scorpio tribe lose face.
The tribes of Fengyuan Kingdom pay attention to the survival of the fittest and the survival of the fittest. Robbery is a traditional craft and is commonplace.
Because they died in robbery and fighting, the tribes often did not go to war for this private hatred.
Even so, Lu Changan used divination techniques to cover up the matter slightly, making the divination more difficult.
This method of concealment has an obvious effect on fortune tellers who are not as skilled as themselves.
In Feng Yuan Kingdom, apart from the Heavenly Masters in the Snow Mountain Holy Land, some tribes were relatively backward in divination.
Lu Changan estimated that it was hard to say whether the strongest diviner of the Scorpio tribe had reached the third level.
On the way, he had destroyed the suspicious objects in Adamaru's storage bag.
That night, Lu Changan settled in a sand cave and counted the loot.
"No wonder they came out to rob."
Ada Wan was much poorer than Lu Changan imagined, with only one or two thousand spiritual stones in his storage bag.
Most of this person's financial resources were spent on research and creating puppets.
Especially the human-faced dragon female puppet.
Lu Changan found some interesting information from Ada Maru's jade slips and personal experimental records.
Adamaru obtained a forgotten puppet skill called "Supernatural Puppet Record".
This puppet technique can inject independent spiritual wisdom into the puppet, but the method is sinister and requires refining the soul.
It also records the types of puppets that imitate the form and abilities of ancient true spirits, but the creation methods are only theoretical conjectures.
This kind of puppet that imitates the form, even if it only has its own shape, creates a "foreign spirit puppet" that contains extraordinary magical powers and outstanding strength.
The consumables for a supernatural puppet are two or three times more expensive than a puppet of the same level.
The human-faced dragon girl is just a defective product with some faults and cannot be used for a long-term battle.
Judging from Lu Changan's Nascent Soul vision, this kind of puppet made to imitate the true spirit of ancient mythical beasts is a pitfall.
No one in Tianyan Continent has ever seen the complete true spirit with their own eyes. At most, they have seen records in ancient books and observed certain species with their thin bloodline.
"Records of Transforming Spiritual Puppetry" records six theoretical conjectures about creating puppets that imitate true spirit forms, including human-faced dragons, five-color peacocks, basalt turtles, etc.
The core refining materials require key parts of rare birds and animals of true spirit bloodline.
Adamaru is a wizard. He believed in the theoretical conjecture and conducted in-depth research for many years. He obtained many alternative suitable materials, lowered the requirements, and created a castrated version of the defective product.
In order to increase the success rate, he refined and injected the soul consciousness of his half-sister into the puppet.
Adamaru once fell in love with the younger sister of the evil spirit root. Before his sister's lifespan expired, after getting the promise, he combined her with his lifelong wisdom.
"There's a fine line between genius and madness."
Lu Changan had to admit that Adamaru's puppetry skills surpassed his own in terms of innovation and depth of research.
Obtaining Adamaru's puppet skills and experience was Lu Changan's biggest gain this time.
That unreliable "Supernatural Puppet Record" was obtained by Adamaru from killing a Qianji Sect traitor many years ago.
"Thousand Machines Sect, the holy land and originator of the Da Qing Realm puppets..."
As a third-level puppet master, Lu Changan yearned for this.
It is said that the Thousand Machines Sect has the ability to create fourth-level puppets of the Nascent Soul level.
In the entire Daqing, the puppet inheritance in other places is only below the fourth level.
The Thousand Machines Sect is the only major force that has a complete fourth-level puppet inheritance and can successfully build it.
Among Lu Changan's technical talents in this life, puppetry is the highest, and he also has the advantage of spiritual consciousness.
Although "The Record of Transforming Supernatural Puppet" was a trap, it inspired Lu Changan.
"Can you temporarily inject the soul shadows of the second and fourth lives into high-level puppets?"
"Using a powerful puppet as a physical carrier, if the possession of the fourth Nascent Soul realm is successful, I don't know what kind of power it can exert..."
…
Two months later.
Lu Changan then passed through the sphere of influence of two deserted city tribes, crossed a large desert area, and finally arrived at the foreign sect alliance on the east and south side of Feng Yuan Kingdom.
During this period, he did not enter other deserted cities. He sold off and purchased some supplies in some oases and swamps.
The originally shrunken spirit stones regained a wave of blood, reaching 150,000 or 60,000.
Entering the outer sect alliance's sphere of influence, there are more oases and livable places on the way.
During the flight, we occasionally encountered camels, sand beast carts, small and medium-sized spiritual ships, including some traveling merchants.
Lu Changan felt the atmosphere of free trade.
Every oasis and market that I went to, there was no longer a cold and exclusive look in the transaction, but there was no shortage of monks who warmly welcomed me.
There are no real indigenous people in the outer sect alliance, and monks from the surrounding areas live and develop here.
In the Eight Great Wastelands, a few tribal monks moved to the territory of the outer sect alliance due to various reasons.
Sects, families, chambers of commerce, and casual cultivators are distributed in large and small oases, spiritual veins, and fairy cities.
Flying for a few more days.
A large oasis covering an area of several hundred miles caught Lu Changan's sight.
Looking from the air, you can see the towering mountains on the oasis and a large river running through the oasis forest.
Far away, Lu Changan sensed the rich spiritual energy emitting from the medium and large third-level spiritual veins.
"Heyuan Oasis! Rich in water resources, planted with large areas of forest vegetation, the wood spirit energy is relatively active..."
This is one of the oases suitable for silent cultivation in Lu Changan's plan.
Related information, Master Lihuo from the fourth life, is a place suitable for refuge and quiet cultivation.
In the Heyuan Oasis, there is no powerful sect, nor is there a single dominant one.
The important resources on the oasis are jointly controlled by several immortal cultivating families and some powerful casual cultivators.
Thousands of miles away from the Heyuan Oasis, there is a high-end fairy city controlled by forces led by Xuanji Tower, making transactions and purchases convenient.
Xuanji Tower is the giant of the Outer Sect Alliance.
It is said that it was a force established in Feng Yuan Kingdom by Qianji Cult defectors, and it mainly engaged in the puppet business.
Lu Changan came to Feng Yuan Kingdom to take refuge and cultivated to the middle and late stages of pill formation.
A fairy city where big forces are entrenched and there are many people is not suitable.
The Heyuan Oasis, where the wood spirit energy is relatively active, is the target of his focused investigation.
…
Half an hour later.
Lu Changan came to a lively market on the east side of the Heyuan Oasis.
After understanding, the spiritual vein dojos rented to external parties in the oasis are limited to the second-level high-grade ones.
Lu Changan is not in a hurry. He has superb skills at his side and is not afraid of not being able to find a third-level spiritual force to rely on.
Unconsciously, he wandered to the streets where stalls were set up, learned about local resource prices, and slowly gathered information.
At this moment, Lu Changan felt a faint sense of bondage.
It's similar to when Li Erqing died and escaped into reincarnation, but this bond is much weaker.
He turned his gaze and landed on a stall not far away.
The stall owners are a brother and sister who sell a hodgepodge of talismans, magical artifacts, books, antiques, etc.
The elder brother is dressed in smart clothes, about 20 years old, with strong features, thick eyebrows and big eyes, giving people a kind-hearted feeling.
The younger sister is wearing a blue pleated skirt. She is about seventeen or eighteen years old. She has pink face and red lips. She wears a bell bracelet on her slender white wrist.
Ding!
The bell on the wrist made a pleasant ringing sound.
The girl in the blue dress was overjoyed and looked at the elegant middle-aged man in the blue dress who was approaching with a smile on her face.
"Senior, if you need anything, I can introduce it to you."
Whenever the bracelet bell rings, it always brings her good luck and earns more spiritual stones.
Most of this chapter was coded on a mobile phone, which is really tiring for my eyes and not as comfortable as a big screen. .
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