It turned out that Shuang Qingqing passed on to Bai Rou the core formation of Shenheng Douzhuan and the lost "Wooden Meteor" technique of Muliu Sect. This helped Bai Rou to solve many problems in Muliu Sect's puppetry that she had been pondering for many years, and her cultivation also improved by leaps and bounds unexpectedly.
Originally, the strongest skill of the Muliu Sect, "Muliuxing", was complementary to various mechanical techniques. After the loss of the "Muliuxing" skill, although the Muliu Sect still had other skills to practice, many fairy arts and puppet-making methods could no longer be performed, let alone further improvement.
This time, after Bai Rou returned to Muliu Sect to solve the problem, she simply abandoned the cultivation method that was originally given to her by Elder Chi Gong of the Wuliang Sect. Unexpectedly, this made her cultivation even more advanced.
This is not to say that the skills given by Elder Chi Gong are not good. Quite the contrary. Elder Chi Gong took out the skills that he thought were most beneficial to Bai Rou. However, Bai Rou has been practicing the Mu Liu Sect since she was a child.
But since Mu Liu only had low-level skills left at that time, Bai Rou was unable to build a foundation for a long time after she reached the great perfection of Qi Condensation.
After careful consideration, Elder Chi Gong decided to let Bai Rou abandon her original Muliu Sect's martial arts and switch to the martial arts he carefully selected.
Although this will cause Bai Rou to walk more repetitive paths, it will definitely be of great benefit to her future practice.
The final result was the same as Elder Chi Gong had expected. After Bai Rou changed her practice method and practiced very hard, she successfully established her foundation in one go.
After meeting Bai Rou, Shuang Qingqing immediately asked Bai Rou to give up the Wuliang Sect's skills and start practicing the Muliu Sect's skills again. This was certainly not to prevent Bai Rou from forgetting the sect's rules.
For someone with a free and easy personality like Shuang Qingqing, as long as you have the sect in your heart, you can use any means to make yourself stronger.
Shuang Qingqing's eyesight is much better than Elder Chi Gong's. She can tell at a glance that the Wuliang Sect technique that Bai Rou is practicing is an intermediate technique, which will allow Bai Rou to reach a higher level in the future.
This actually caused Shuang Qingqing's attitude towards Elder Chi Gong to change a little. Intermediate skills cannot be easily used even in the Wuliang Sect.
Her "Wood Meteor" technique is actually only slightly stronger than the one Bai Rou is practicing now, but it is already a treasure passed down by the Muliu Sect.
Shuang Qingqing knew that Bai Rou's most solid foundation was the Mu Liu Sect's skills. These most basic traces of spiritual power flow could not be removed fundamentally. Even if she changed to practice other skills, there would always be some traces in the circulation of spiritual power.
If one wants to completely remove these traces, Bai Rou has to rebuild her body, or wait until she reaches the Nascent Soul stage to forcibly erase them. However, this is too far-fetched for a cultivator, and it is a luxury to be able to condense a golden elixir.
And what is Bai Rou's strongest point? It is her talent for mechanisms and puppets. If she abandons these skills of Mu Liu Men, it will have a great impact on Bai Rou in the future, and she may even stop moving forward.
Shuang Qingqing decisively asked Bai Rou to practice the Muliu Sect's top skill "Wooden Meteor" again.
Bai Rou did not raise any objection to Shuang Qingqing's decision. You could say Bai Rou was weak or cowardly, but she always listened to her two masters and her great-grandmaster.
It was her nature to obey the people she trusted, especially Shuang Qingqing's deceitful mouth. The incarnation of her spiritual consciousness and Bai Rou were like sisters on a normal day, which made Bai Rou confused.
However, it is obvious that Shuang Qingqing's decision is correct, and the benefits it brings to Bai Rou are immeasurable. At the same time, under Shuang Qingqing's guidance, Bai Rou not only makes rapid progress in participating in the Horizontal Dividing Movement, but also improves by leaps and bounds.
With the help of Shuang Qingqing's elixirs, the disadvantages of changing his practice method did not show much, and his practice only regressed in the initial period of time.
After that he suddenly burst out and broke through to the middle stage of foundation building in one fell swoop. This made Bai Rou even more obedient to the charming ancestor.
After making a breakthrough in her cultivation, and learning the core formation of the Muliu Sect, Bai Rou came up with the idea of refining her own natal puppet.
Although she had thought about it before, she always felt that her puppetry skills were too weak. So, even though others said that the puppets she made were good, none of them satisfied her, so the matter was put on hold.
Bai Rou is the kind of person who would do something silently when she thought of it. Later, in the days behind Muliu Gate, she devoted herself to refining her own natal puppet.
As for the materials for refining her natal magic weapon, Bai Rou had been preparing them for many years, but she had never had the determination to refine them.
When Bai Rou devoted all her energy to refining her life-saving magic weapon, she failed for the first time and all the puppet parts were destroyed.
Bai Rou just sat silently beside the damaged puppet parts for a day and a night, then took out another batch of materials and carefully refined them again, but this time each step was slower.
When everyone refines a magic weapon, they usually prepare multiple materials, and Bai Rou is no exception.
But ten days later, the sound of explosion was heard again from the refining room where Bai Rou was, but it disappeared silently soon after.
Bai Rou made a mistake at the critical moment of refining the puppet head parts this time, but fortunately she controlled her technique in time. Although she made a mistake, the puppet head was successfully refined.
But such a puppet was not at all what she had in mind, and the materials Bai Rou had left could not support her third refining.
She had to make two choices. One was to immediately use the blood of the puppet that had been refined to refine it; the other was to melt the existing puppet again and then add the remaining materials to refine it again.
The first option would allow her to obtain a life-saving magic weapon of inferior quality; the second option was extremely risky. If she failed, she would be left with nothing, and it would take her forever to gather the materials for refining. At this moment, the usually timid Bai Rou disappeared, and her eyes were filled with seriousness and stubbornness.
Shuang Qingqing's spiritual consciousness had been watching Bai Rou in secret. She watched Bai Rou refine every part of the puppet bit by bit, from melting, sealing, combination, to failure.
Even when Bai Rou made a mistake, Shuang Qingqing would not show up and say anything, but just watch quietly.
Bai Rou's beautiful eyes were red and a little moist, her shoulders twitching slightly as she leaned over the desk and cried silently. Shuang Qingqing still looked at everything in front of her indifferently, with no intention of helping at all.
Until the third time, when Bai Rou wiped away the tears from her eyes, disassembled the puppet parts she had just assembled without hesitation, and put them into the refining furnace, Shuang Qingqing quietly appeared behind Bai Rou.
She extended her soft hand and gently patted Bai Rou's back. "A puppet's heart is alive even without life, and warm even without blood!" Bai Rou's body trembled slightly...
In the following time, Shuang Qingqing watched Bai Rou refining each component. At certain critical points, she would say a word or two, and often just these few words would make Bai Rou suddenly enlightened.
Shuang Qingqing even took out two precious materials from the storage bag and replaced the raw materials of the key parts of Bai Rou's puppet, which greatly increased the power of Bai Rou's puppet.
Just like that, after another month, Bai Rou finally succeeded in refining her first life-saving magic weapon.
By this time, the news of the invasion of the Demon Realm had spread throughout the Wild Moon Continent. Afterwards, Bai Rou returned with Shuang Qingqing's two jade slips, and presented the two jade slips to Elder Chi Gong according to Shuang Qingqing's wishes.
Elder Chi Gong's face changed drastically the moment he got the jade slips. In the end, he only opened one of the jade slips and left the cave immediately. As for why Elder Chi Gong did not read the other jade slip, Bai Rou did not know.
But after what happened later, Bai Rou began to panic.
As time went on, the four major sects began to recruit cultivators who had reached the foundation-building stage and above in their respective areas. By this calculation, the Muliu Sect still had four foundation-building cultivators.
But Bai Rou knew that although her Muliu Sect master and those elders had improved their cultivation far beyond what they had before in the past year, they had rarely fought with others before. They had been working hard to maintain the sect's inheritance and had been living with puppets all day long.
If they were recruited, the four people from Muliu Sect would probably die soon. Bai Rou anxiously found Elder Chi Gong. After she explained her purpose, she earnestly requested the master of the Wuliang Sect to help and mediate.
Seeing Bai Rou's panic-stricken look, unexpectedly Elder Chi Gong just smiled slightly.
"Bai Rou, don't worry. Muliu Sect will not recruit anyone, except you. You are also a cultivator of the Wuliang Sect. As a disciple of our sect, no one can shirk your responsibility."
Bai Rou could not have thought that her master would agree so easily just by mentioning it. This was a conscription order issued by the Yuanying ancestors, which made Bai Rou unbelievable. As for herself, she did not think of shirking it. Now which genius from each peak dared to go against the wishes of the ancestors.
But Bai Rou's face was full of disbelief. With her shrewdness, everything was written on her face and in her eyes which were as clear as black pools.
Seeing Bai Rou's disbelief, Elder Chi Gong could only smile bitterly, "Bai Rou, I really promised you. You are like this now. Do you really need me to tell you, 'This is impossible. Muliu Sect's foundation-building monks must be recruited to fight.' Only then will you believe it."
After hearing this, Bai Rou actually nodded at first, then suddenly realized that something was wrong and her pretty face turned red.
After seeing this, Elder Chi Gong knew that his disciple was too naive and could not easily accept some changes in things.
After thinking for a while, Elder Chi Gong suddenly said, "Bai Rou, you must have succeeded in refining your own puppet by more than just yourself..."
Having said this, Elder Chi Gong stopped talking and looked at Bai Rou quietly. In an instant, Bai Rou understood that she was just not scheming, but very smart.
After listening to Bai Rou say all this without reservation, Li Yan touched his nose. He didn't expect Bai Rou to tell him everything. This was unexpected.
“Oh, if I’m not mistaken, one of the two jade slips you gave to Elder Chi Gong should have been given directly by Senior Shuang to the sect’s Nascent Soul Patriarch.
This must be a condition for Muliu Sect, which shows that Senior Shuang has recovered to the level of being able to rival a Yuanying."
Li Yan thought for a moment and said. Bai Rou nodded after hearing this. She also thought so, but she was worried that with the character of the ancestor Shuang Qingqing, she might really quarrel with the Wuliang Sect. That would be bad.
It would be wrong for me to side with either side at that time, but fortunately, up to now, the news coming out of Muliu Sect is all good, and the master and several disciples are safe and sound.
"I have heard that what Senior Sister refined are two large and one small mother and child puppets. Even a Jindan-stage cultivator has to be careful to deal with them. I will definitely see Senior Sister's skills when I have the chance."
Li Yan laughed and spoke with a slight exaggeration.
Unexpectedly, after Bai Rou heard Li Yan's words, the blush that had long since faded surged onto her fair face again, and the look in her eyes, which had been secretly looking at Li Yan, suddenly became flustered.