Zhu Luomu's eyes were already sparkling with brilliance.
The first half of his sentence was addressed to Shuang Chongshan, and the second half was excitedly spoken to Li Yan, completely forgetting the distinction between seniority and inferiority.
"They just arrived, so of course the Sect Master doesn't know about it. I'll just tell him about this later!"
Li Yan acted very calm. He had to explain this matter to Xingming in person. There were some things that needed to be made clear.
He also understood the reason for Zhu Luomu's excitement. What would it mean if a second-rate sect had a master who could refine foundation-building puppets
Not only will the disciples' strength increase greatly, the amount of spirit stones earned by the sect will also increase at an incredible rate, and cultivation resources will also come in droves.
Zhu Luomu could imagine the scene of more than a dozen foundation-building puppets entangled a Jindan. Even if they could not kill the opponent, they could still play a crucial role.
As long as the puppet is not hit in the core of the formation, it will continue to entangle the opponent.
Most Jindan cultivators dare not allow their bodies to be bombarded by foundation-building magic weapons. This is the most terrifying and most troublesome thing.
In a war, this may often give the strong men on your side a chance to kill the enemy in a moment.
Although he knew that it would take a huge amount of resources to refine a foundation-building puppet, it would be worth it as long as he could do it.
Li Yan on the side took note of the mark he had just seen in his mind.
Just when Shuang Lianzhou took out the "Three-legged Green Luan", Li Yan's spiritual sense also probed out without hesitation.
The aura emitted by the "Three-legged Blue Luan" actually gave him a vaguely familiar feeling last time.
However, Li Yan confirmed that he did not know this family, and most of his knowledge about puppets came from Bai Rou. He had not communicated with other weapon refiners who were proficient in puppetry.
So, after coming back these few days, Li Yan also thought about it, but he still had no clue.
Having this opportunity today, he would of course release his spiritual sense again without hesitation to investigate carefully.
"It should be because I have encountered a formation similar to the one engraved in the body of this puppet before, which is why I have this feeling!"
Li Yan glanced at it again and could not see the other party's refining method, but he could sense the extraordinary formation engraved inside.
At the same time, through this scan, he found a very faint pattern on a lifelike tail feather of the "Three-legged Blue Luan"'s tail vertebrae, which looked like a maple leaf and was dark green in color.
If you don't pay much attention to it, you might think that this is the pattern on the Qingluan's tail feathers, or that it is the pattern of the refining equipment itself that has been left behind.
Li Yan had been investigating deliberately, but still found the pattern a little bit abrupt.
In addition, he had heard Shuang Chongshan narrate the past, and Li Yan immediately realized that this might not be a pattern.
“This is most likely the mark of the Duye clan. It seems that Shuang Lianzhou is still obsessed with raising his weapon refining skills to a higher level, and secretly engraved the clan’s mark on it.
But this is not surprising, as this is his natal magic weapon. Normally, when a cultivator's natal magic weapon is taken away or destroyed, he is estimated to be close to death, so there is no need to keep any secrets.
Is this the same mark that was once said to be engraved on the 'Crystal Snow Jade Spider'?"
Li Yan thought about it in his heart, but he couldn't be completely sure. Maybe this was just a pattern and he was just overthinking it.
Or maybe even though this pattern is the mark of the Duye tribe, Shuang Lianzhou might have carefully changed some of its features, so what he recorded were only vague and ambiguous things.
Afterwards, Li Yan left gracefully. He believed that after Zhu Luomu saw the other party's puppetry, he would definitely treat him as a core disciple.
But Li Yan still secretly sent a message to Zhu Luomu before leaving.
"Although these three are already cultivators from the Falling Star Valley, we should not disturb their daily practice. It will be enough if they can refine one or two intermediate puppets in two to three years!"
Li Yan's implication was very clear. The three people from the Shuang family could do things for the sect, but they could not force them.
If that were the case, the Frost family's visit would be tantamount to imprisoning him, turning him into a puppet that could harvest a large amount of spirit stones, and the nature of the situation would then change.
Li Yan didn't want the people he brought into the sect to become enslaved puppets.
With Zhu Luomu's intelligence, after this explanation, he will be able to balance the pros and cons and help Shuang Chongshan and the others avoid many troubles that are difficult to shirk.
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There are many mountains here, and each mountain is pitch black in color, like a cold dark monster crawling between heaven and earth.
There are large areas of exposed black rocks on the peaks, and vegetation is sparse. The mountains are steep and dangerous all the way up, like sharp black iron divine weapons, rising into the sky and piercing the clouds.
The sunlight in the sky was dim, and there were black air currents swirling all around. These black air currents contained rolling demonic energy, which seemed to be real and could turn into raindrops at any time.
If someone were to look down from the air, they would find that among these mountains that look like towering stalagmites, there is a huge ravine that stretches for 170,000 miles.
It was as if it had been split open by a giant's axe, and it was bottomless. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but extremely dense demonic energy surging and rising, and pitch blackness below.
This is the most famous dangerous place in the Lost Continent - "Demon Devouring Abyss".
It is a place that the Black Demon Clan monks both love and fear. The joy is that they can gain unexpected rewards by training here.
In addition to various rare herbs, it is possible to capture both second- and third-level monsters.
However, the monsters in the "Demon-Devouring Abyss" are nourished by the purest demonic energy in the world all year round, and their actual combat power is impossible to guess.
Even if they were as strong as the Black Demon Clan monks, they would be more likely to die than survive if they were at the same level. The monsters in the "Demon Swallowing Abyss" were not only powerful, but also extremely brutal.
If you have supernatural powers, you can even find fourth-order Nascent Soul stage monsters in the deepest depths, or kill them to obtain precious fur, flesh, and other high-level materials.
You can also sign a master-servant contract with it and get a companion monster with outstanding combat power.
But since ancient times, there have been only two people who have been able to sign a contract with a fourth-level monster.
One of them is Xiahou Shangxie, the ancestor of the black magic. His companion magic beast is a black golden dragon, which is extremely ferocious. It is said that it can easily tear the sky and split the earth and travel through the nine heavens.
He accompanied Xiahou Shangxie in his conquests across the world, and countless White Demon Clan cultivators died at his hands, including nine Nascent Soul cultivators, which was enough to show how ferocious he was.
Another cultivator who signed a master-servant blood pact with the fourth-level monster "Demon Devouring Abyss" was a powerful god-transforming cultivator from the Black Demon Clan ten thousand years ago.
He is also the most brilliant black demon god besides Xiahou Shangxie, and his power is comparable to that of nature.
With the cultivation level of a mid-stage Spirit Transformation, he went deep into the depths of the "Demon Devouring Abyss" alone, and fought with a fourth-stage early-stage Thunder Peng for nearly five months. He finally subdued the Thunder Peng and made it his mount.
No one knows how many monsters there are under the "Demon Devouring Abyss"!
No one knows how big the "Demon-Devouring Abyss" is!
Even a figure as powerful as Xiahou Shangxie could not explore the scope and boundaries, in his own words.
"It may reach the Shura Underworld, and a span of tens of millions of miles is just a drop in the ocean!"
Although there is certainly some exaggeration here, this is what Xiahou Shangxie said!
It is recorded by later generations that after Xiahou Shangxie went down to a certain depth in the "Demon Swallowing Abyss", even though he had the ability to reach heaven and earth, he did not dare to go deeper even half a foot.
He only dared to move horizontally within a certain range to explore the vastness of the "Demon Devouring Abyss". And just over a month later, he and the Black Golden Dragon also flew out in a hurry.
After that, he never told others where he was and what he saw. Everything was like a fog.
However, there is a well-known concept in the "Demon Swallowing Abyss", which is that the deeper you go, the higher the level of the monsters you encounter, the stronger their strength, and the greater the chance of obtaining various rare herbs.
It is speculated that the entire "Demon-Devouring Abyss" should be shaped like an upright gourd, with a small gourd mouth. The area becomes wider as it goes down, and it expands tenfold or a hundredfold.
The depths of the abyss and gullies exposed on the surface alone are more than 170,000 miles long. If this is just the mouth of the gourd, then the depths below are really as Xiahou Shangxie said, "Across tens of millions of miles, it is just like a drop in the ocean!"
On this day, on a cliff overlooking the "Demon Devouring Abyss", a tall and slender figure stood on it, listening to the roars and hisses of some monsters faintly coming from the abyss.
The figure's hands gently shook the crescent-shaped hand guard in his hands, bringing out two streams of water-like light around him. He closed his eyes and concentrated his consciousness to carefully explore downwards.
A breeze blew through the mountain stream, dispersing the surging thick black demonic energy and revealing her appearance.
She looked to be about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with extremely delicate features, a high nose bridge, a pair of slanted phoenix eyes that looked murderous, her lips tightly pursed together, and her pretty face with a cold and aloof expression.
A set of sleeveless armor made of exquisite animal skins fits tightly to the body, bringing out the fullness and roundness of the peaks. With the breathing, the deep ravines rise and fall slightly, and the depth wrapped in the armor is bottomless.
Except for some parts of her chest, abdomen and legs, most of her skin was exposed.
His limbs were long, with tight and smooth vertical muscle lines. His long hands each held a crescent-shaped hand-guard knife in reverse. When he occasionally stopped slashing with the two knives, the tips of the knives would all point upwards, close to his elbows.
The skin outside the sleeveless armor glowed with a faint light, and the skin did not have the common patterns of the Black Demon Clan. As the spiritual energy flowed, the luster on the skin flowed like porcelain.
A pair of long legs as smooth as black silk, full of elasticity! Thin vertical muscle lines on the thighs appear and disappear from time to time, making the legs look unusually round and powerful.
His figure is like that of a devil, or like that of a god of war standing over an abyss.
"This is where the Xiahou Patriarch descended to the abyss, and it is also the place where the legendary 'Demon Swallowing Abyss' is most likely to see the Chaos Heaven Mysterious Golden Dragon.
As long as we go deeper from this place, we might encounter the legendary Black Gold Dragon."
After she withdrew her consciousness, she frowned and murmured softly.
If Li Yan heard this voice here, he would definitely wake up from his midnight nightmare.
This voice had sounded so close to his mind several times before, stirring his heart.
Moreover, the owner of this voice almost killed him in an unknown mountain.
She was none other than the Nascent Soul stage demon general named Mu who had guarded the "Thunderbolt" in Fengliang Mountain, and the female cultivator whose important magic weapons were stolen by Li Yan.
Afterwards, when she followed the traces and found Li Yan fleeing, she chased him all the way and almost killed him with her own hands.
At the critical moment, the Yuanying cultivators from the South China Sea attacked with their troops and a war broke out. As a result, the demon general surnamed Mu had to give up the pursuit and turn back to meet the enemy, thus allowing Li Yan to escape the fatal disaster.
But this incident has left a deep mark in Li Yan's heart, like a nightmare, and death was so close.
The Nascent Soul stage demon general named Mu Gu Yue was of course also present at the final battle. The final battle was extremely brutal and the result was beyond the expectations of both sides.
On the demon side, a number of powerful demon generals such as Tiedong and other Nascent Soul cultivators died one after another, and it was only with the help of Mu Guyue and two other demon generals that they escaped from Fengliang Mountain.
Although everyone was seriously injured, and even one demon general had no body left, leaving only his Nascent Soul, they all survived in the end.
Next, the five of them took some of the remaining demons and demon soldiers and hid from place to place, trying to find a secluded place to hide and wait for an opportunity to counterattack in the future.