Xiuxian, I have a high martial arts world

Chapter 121 Skinning, Bone Cutting and Needling

That night.

The streets in Yudai City were deserted and empty.

All the shops in the market closed early and no longer accepted customers.

Not to mention that every household closed their doors and windows and stayed at home, not daring to go out.

Lin Chen also stayed in the inn and asked the waiter to bring some wine, food and snacks upstairs early in the morning.

Taking out a palm-sized instrument, a virtual projection appeared before one's eyes.

The images in the projection were actually the two martial arts puppets, Long Ba and Feng Jiu.

Long Ba and Feng Jiu were seen walking on the deserted street, staggering like a drunk Taoist couple.

With such a good target, Lin Chen didn’t believe that the Puppet Hall hiding in the dark would be willing to give up.

"Well, according to Yu Gui, those skinning monks are only at the foundation-building stage... They pose almost no threat to Long Ba and Feng Jiu..."

Lin Chen simply ate some snacks while watching the situation on the projection and waited quietly.

After about half an hour, he was getting a little bored of waiting.

At this moment, two illusory black shadows flashed across the screen...

Lin Chen instantly perked up and observed carefully.

After giving instructions to Long Ba and Feng Jiu, and slowing down the picture from the shared perspective, Lin Chen was finally able to see the two shadows clearly.

His whole body was wrapped in mist, revealing a pale ghost face.

The movement speed is so fast that it is almost indiscernible to the naked eye.

"It seems to have the ability to pass through walls... Tsk tsk, is the one responsible for skinning the ghost a ghost raised by the Ghost Exorcist Sect?"

Lin Chen raised his eyebrows, which meant that the Puppet Hall and the Ghost Exorcist Sect had reached a certain level of cooperation.

He continued to look at the screen.

The two black shadows were seen moving along the ground, slowly approaching Long Ba and Feng Jiu, and finally spewing out a cloud of black mist, surrounding Long Ba and Feng Jiu.

Then, the black fog turned into black lines in the air and drifted in a certain direction.

"Is this a psychedelic technique?"

Lin Chen touched his chin. As Long Ba and Feng Jiu were puppets, they would naturally not be bewitched.

But Lin Chen planned to take advantage of the situation.

So after giving orders to Long Ba and Feng Jiu, the two puppets followed the black fog towards a certain direction in the south of the city.

About a quarter of an hour later, two balls of black fog hiding in the corner gradually emerged.

It transformed into a human-shaped black mist and attacked Long Ba and Feng Jiu.

The black mist enveloped two magical instruments that were shining with strange light. Lin Chen saw them clearly and nodded.

"Skinning scissors, bone-splitting needles... these are consistent with the two magic weapons that Jade Ghost mentioned!"

According to Yugui, he was not the only one in the city who was responsible for skinning people.

A total of more than ten people from the Puppet Hall and the Ghost Exorcist Gate were responsible for skinning.

The monks who are responsible for skinning are equipped with these two magical weapons.

The skinning shears can peel off the skin of a mortal or even a monk without anyone noticing, and the person will not even know that the entire skin has been peeled off.

By the time he reacted, he had already lost too much blood and was in excruciating pain...

The bone-splitting needle can penetrate directly into the flesh and blood of the human body, allowing the bones to be sutured and spliced ​​together, allowing them to be better refined into puppets.

This is also why, after the strange skinning incident in the city, only a complete skin was left, but the flesh, blood and bones were gone.

"I have finally found the real culprit after exorcising the evil spirits and confusing the mind..."

"From the current situation, the cultivator in charge of skinning is indeed at the foundation-building stage."

"It seems that I have to go over and take a look..."

Lin Chen glanced at the location of Long Ba and Feng Jiu, climbed out of the window to the street, and then quickly rushed over.

At the same time, Long Ba and Feng Jiu also faced the two monks who were responsible for skinning.

A strange red light flashed on the skinning shears and pointed straight towards Long Ba's dantian.

The skin should be peeled starting from the belly button until the entire skin is peeled off.

Bang!

However, when the skinning shears hit Long Ba's body, there was a sound of clashing swords.

Long Ba was not injured and just kept moving forward.

In the distance, the monk who was using the skinning shears was stunned.

"What's going on? Why is this guy's skin so thick? Even the skinning shears can't peel it off..."

This is the first time he has encountered this situation.

In the past, no matter whether it was a mortal or a Qi-refining cultivator, once they encountered this skinning shears, their skin would be easily peeled off like a piece of paper.

But this time, the skinning shears were ineffective?
"No, something's wrong!"

The monk was stunned, and tried to use the skinning shears to peel off Fengjiu's skin again, but it failed as well.

"Don't just stand there, try using your bone-breaking needle!"

The monk reminded.

After hearing this, another shadow monk at the side nodded, summoned out the bone-breaking needle, and stabbed it straight at Long Ba.

Ding!
There was a crisp sound, and the bone-removing needle failed to penetrate the skin, but was bounced far away.

Both Long Ba and Feng Jiu's skin and bones are made of high-level exotic metals.

It is much stronger than this magic weapon, how can its skin and bones be removed?

The successive defeats also made the two skinning monks react.

"Something's wrong! There's something wrong with these two... Stop peeling them off, let's run first!"

After a while of whispering, the two monks wanted to slip away.

But how could Lin Chen let them go so easily?

So he quickly gave Long Ba and Feng Jiu the order to attack...

Dragon Eight and Phoenix Nine turned into afterimages and quickly rushed towards the two foundation-building monks.

The two monks also reacted quickly, took out their magic weapons and attacked Long Ba and Feng Jiu.

But when the magic weapon hit the puppet, only a sound of golden swords colliding was made, and one or two shallow scars were left.

Puppets are not afraid of pain and will not stop.

As long as the core power system is not damaged, Long Ba and Feng Jiu can continue to fight.

After a fierce charge, Long Ba and Feng Jiu had already approached the two foundation-building monks.

The powerful fist wind hit the protective true energy of the foundation-building cultivator.

boom!
Boom boom!

The punch force of over 50,000 kilograms fell like raindrops without any pause.

The body of flesh and blood will eventually become exhausted.

But the puppet didn't.

Ten punches, a hundred punches...

After being bombarded by hundreds of punches, even the protective true energy of the foundation-building cultivator was shattered.

The two foundation-building monks were frightened, but still wanted to fight to the death.

A dazzling flame erupted on the deserted street and swept towards Long Ba and Feng Jiu.

The high temperature of thousands of degrees almost burned down all the houses along the street...

However, in the raging fire, Long Ba and Feng Jiu were not disturbed at all and continued to attack the two foundation-building monks.

After all, the materials used to forge Long Ba and Feng Jiu are high-grade exotic metals that can withstand temperatures of hundreds of thousands of degrees.

"Weird...monster!"

"These two guys... they are not human!"

The two foundation-building monks also noticed this, and their faces were filled with horror.

"It's a puppet! A high-level puppet... Damn it, besides the Puppet Sect, how come there are other puppets?"

However, they will never get the answer to this question.

With the joint efforts of Long Ba and Feng Jiu, the two foundation-building monks were eventually injured and fell to the ground, with their limbs all removed, leaving them without the strength to resist.

After a while.

Lin Chen hurried over, looked at the two foundation-building monks who had fallen to the ground, and said slowly:
"Okay, now tell me everything you know!"

"Give up! We won't tell you!"

It seems that these two foundation-building monks still have some backbone. I wonder if they are die-hard fans of the Puppet Hall or the Ghost-Exorcism Sect.

Seeing this, Lin Chen smiled and said with some distress:
"Alas, there is no soul-searching technique..."

"But truth serum isn't a bad idea!"

Lin Chen took out two truth serums from his storage bag.

This thing was specially prepared by Daxia for the cultivators in the immortal world.

The spiritual strength of a monk is far beyond that of an ordinary person, so he is very resistant to this type of intoxicating drug.

However, no matter how strong you are, there is a limit.

These two doses of truth serum contain some powerful information...

A moment later, the two foundation-building monks collapsed to the ground, rolling their eyes and foaming at the mouth, and they were already unconscious.

It is no exaggeration to say that under the effect of the truth serum, the two men even revealed the color of their underwear.

After getting the information he wanted, Lin Chen did not hesitate to kill the two foundation-building cultivators.

Afterwards, Lin Chen took the storage bag, erased the traces of the battle and returned to the inn.

……

In the inn room, Lin Chen frowned and thought, sorting out the information he had just obtained.

"Two foundation-building monks, one from the Puppet Hall, the other from the Ghost Exorcist Sect... I didn't expect that the strength of these two demon sects has been linked to such an extent?"

These two foundation-building monks are the backbone of the Puppet Hall and the Ghost-Exorcist Sect respectively.

But now they can work together to steal souls and peel skins...

The reason, after all, is that these two demonic forces are intricately connected.

The Ghost Exorcist monks use the exorcism of ghosts as their main method and value the power of the soul over the body.

The monks in the Puppet Hall, on the other hand, command puppets to fight without the need for spirits.

If the two cooperate, the threat posed will increase several times.

"According to what these two foundation-building monks said, they came to Yudai City half a year ago and started to carry out the skinning mission."

"And the Black Dog Gang is indeed the base of the Puppet Hall. After several years of accumulation... they have actually created hundreds of dog-skin puppets!"

Lin Chen frowned. According to what these two people said, the dog-skin puppet was very strong.

The puppet made of mortal and dog skin is comparable to that of a cultivator in the middle or even late stage of Qi Refining.

But if it is made into a puppet by a cultivator... it can even be comparable to the perfect Qi Refining and the initial stage of Foundation Establishment!
As for these puppets, most of them were sent to the territory of Ziyan Country...

And Zi Yan Country is the battlefield where the Spirit Beast Sect is located.

The reason why the Spirit Beast Sect was defeated one after another and the situation was critical was inseparable from the performance of these dog-skin puppets on the battlefield.

"Since we can refine dog-skin puppets, it seems that there is no need to seal off the city..."

"There are still few clues about the formation outside Yudai City."

Lin Chen murmured.

He did not get many clues about the city-sealing formation from these two foundation-building monks.

It seems that even they don't know this...

However, one of the foundation-building cultivators mentioned that a big shot from the Ghost Exorcist Sect came to Yudai City some time ago.

"To be called a great person by a foundation-building cultivator... he must at least be a Jindan cultivator, right?"

Lin Chen thought silently, and became more alert.

"At present, there is still no way to escape from Yudai City... Could it be that we really have to try to dig out the Ascension?"

Lin Chen touched the storage bag, which contained the drill he brought from Daxia Kingdom.

Judging from the power, digging 40 to 50 meters a day is not a problem...

"From what the two foundation-building monks said, I'm afraid the city sacrifice will not be long in coming..."

"Whether we want to destroy the city with nuclear weapons or dig it out, we have to prepare early."

Thinking of this, Lin Chen packed up and secretly left Yudai City.

In a ravine east of Yudai City, Lin Chen took out the drill.

But they did not rush to dig, but first set up a simple soundproofing formation.

After the soundproof formation is deployed, it covers an area of ​​ten feet in radius, and creatures outside the formation cannot hear any movement inside.

Afterwards, Lin Chen summoned Long Ba, asked him to enter the drilling machine and start digging the ground.

By the next morning, they had dug to a depth of 100 meters underground.

Afterwards, Lin Chen returned to the inn and left Long Ba to dig alone outside the city.

For the next two days, Lin Chen continued to practice in the city and occasionally went out to gather intelligence.

But as time went on, Lin Chen became more and more anxious.

The entire Yudai City gave Lin Chen a weird feeling at this moment.

It was lifeless and there seemed to be no hope...

"It's not a solution to go on like this... Long Ba has dug several hundred meters underground. Although he hasn't left the range of the formation, it's enough to avoid a nuclear strike..."

"Even if we take a step back, we can still destroy Yudai City and prevent the city from being sacrificed..."

Lin Chen touched his chin. He still didn't intend to sit there and wait for death.

"Let's go to the Black Dog Gang in the south of the city first..."

Thinking of this, Lin Chen set off for the Black Dog Gang.

……

At the same time, in the east of Yudai City.

Hundreds of feet underground, a figure was digging rapidly.

After digging dozens of feet easily, he crawled out from the ground covered in dust and returned to the surface.

"It's so unlucky... Who blocked this Jade Belt City?"

"The entire Yudai City, with millions of mortals and nearly ten thousand cultivators! They were surrounded by the formation without anyone noticing..."

"Now I can't leave, and I can't escape... Why did I want to go back to Yudai City in the first place?"

The person who spoke was the Jade Belt Scholar.

At this moment, he already looked a bit like a scholar.

He was covered in mud and looked unkempt, like an old man working in the fields.

Ever since he was frightened by the Heavenly Demon Armor, he ran all the way back to Yudai City.

But on the second day after arriving in Yudai City, he felt something was wrong.

He wanted to leave Yudai City, but found himself in a huge formation.

There's no way to escape!
So, like Lin Chen did in the past, he kept looking for loopholes in the formation, but he had no way to escape.

In desperation, he could only pin his hopes on his earth escape technique.

Unfortunately, he had not mastered the earth escape technique, and in the past he could only dig a hundred feet underground without having to worry about being tracked by the enemy.

But now, he only regretted that he had not dug deep enough. He wanted to dig several thousand feet until he escaped from Yudai City...

The Jade Belt Scholar returned to the ground, rested for a while, then continued to flee underground and started digging.

……

At the same time, in the south of Yudai City.

After passing through a group of low brick houses, Lin Chen arrived at the Black Dog Gang’s base.

This is an area where poor people live.

Many beggars in tattered clothes huddled in the corners, begging from passers-by.

But it is obvious that the current situation in Yudai City has also affected the beggar's business.

The pedestrians were in a hurry and did not stop for long.

Lin Chen randomly found a tavern, went in, ordered some food and waited quietly.

Across the street is the Black Dog Gang’s headquarters.

During dinner time, Lin Chen saw many members of the Black Dog Gang patrolling nearby.

Dogs barking were also heard frequently.

Lin Chen called the waiter of the tavern and asked him about the situation of the Black Dog Gang intentionally or unintentionally.

It was a little different from what he imagined.

The main members of the Black Dog Gang are all mortals.

At least he spent an entire afternoon in this tavern, and all the people he met were people with no cultivation.

Moreover, their daily task is to raise black dogs.

As for the reason...it is naturally to skin the dog and make dog skin puppets.

By the evening, Lin Chen saw that there were fewer and fewer gang members coming and going.

He concealed his own breath and sneaked into the heart of the Black Dog Gang.

……

At night, Lin Chen returned to the inn where he was staying temporarily.

Sorting out the intelligence obtained today.

"The Black Dog Gang is divided into inner and outer members... The outer members are just ordinary people who make a living by raising dogs and collecting protection fees..."

"It's really a small gang that can't be shown off..."

"But the ones who are truly connected to the Puppet Hall are the core members of the Black Dog Gang..."

Lin Chen narrowed his eyes and recalled the scene he saw at the Black Dog Gang’s base today.

A huge dog farm with at least a thousand dogs.

And they are all five-black dogs, that is, dogs with black fur, paws, eyes, tongue and nose.

This dog is psychic and is a house-guarding dog.

But the Puppet Hall made use of the magical powers of the five black dogs to refine those dog-skin puppets.

In addition, Lin Chen also saw several people with cultivation walking around the Black Dog Gang’s base.

They are all foundation-building monks...

"The only pity is that we couldn't find the dog-skin puppet... It seems that the place where the puppet was refined is not in the Black Dog Gang's base..."

Lin Chen shook his head.

Based on what he saw today, the Black Dog Gang was just a production place dedicated to raising dogs for skinning.

To make a dog-skin puppet, one needs black dog skin, and also the skinned body of a mortal or monk...

Only by combining these two can a dog-skin puppet be refined.

"So, where is the place where the puppets are refined?"

After thinking for a while, Lin Chen said slowly: "Outside the city... the mass grave!"

I looked up at the sky and it was already late at night.

"Phew, there's no rush... Let's go to the mass grave tomorrow to search..."

It was quite creepy to investigate a mass grave late at night.

Besides, ghosts and monsters are more powerful at night.

During the day, it will be much weaker...

Although Lin Chen is skilled and courageous, it would be more sensible for him to go there during the day.

So Lin Chen stayed in the room and practiced peacefully.

A few hours later.

Before dawn, he suddenly received a message from Long Ba.

Looking at the image on the projection, Lin Chen was stunned.

In the picture, Long Ba was operating a drilling rig to dig the ground.

Due to the soil structure, it is impossible to dig straight down. Digging in an arc is the only way to be more efficient.

But as the drilling machine was digging, it suddenly saw a long tunnel ahead.

About half a person’s width, but bottomless…

The drill is too big to fit into the tunnel, but it is just enough for one person to pass through...

Looking at this scene, a hint of doubt flashed across Lin Chen's face.

“Did they actually dig another underground tunnel?”

"This is more than two hundred feet underground... and six hundred meters above the ground? How could they have dug a tunnel..."

Lin Chen’s first reaction was that it was a nest of a snake demon or something like that.

But looking at the picture, it doesn’t look like that. It just looks like a newly dug tunnel.

After thinking it over, Lin Chen got up and left the inn.

"Since you can't figure it out, go and see for yourself..."

(End of this chapter)