The ancestor is incompetent!

Chapter 30 True Body Puppet

The woman standing by saw him crying and couldn't help but step forward and ask, "Is it the uncle from your father-in-law's family who was kidnapped?"

"That's right. My cousin Huaming was abducted by human traffickers when he was young. Since then, my uncle has regretted it all his life and changed my name to Jungui, hoping that my cousin Huaming can come home one day!" Li Jungui said sadly: "It's a pity that my poor cousin's bones are buried nowhere and no one has a memorial service for him after he died in a foreign land."

……

Walking out of Xiaoyuan Lane, Li Yuan did not look back. That was the original place of this body. It was a pity that after a serious illness, Li Yuan's body was resurrected and then abducted again.

When he met a disciple coming down the mountain, he thought he was an orphan. After checking his spiritual roots, he took him back to the mountain.

It is impossible for a child who is only one year old to remember these things, but Li Yuan remembers them. Even though he does not have much affection for this family, they are still blood relatives after all.

The jade pendant was the only old thing he had left, and it was because of it that he took the last name Li.

Jade is not precious in itself, but after so many years of immersion, it is indeed an extraordinary thing. It can be considered a spiritual object. If a mortal wears it for a long time, it will naturally help him to clear his mind and improve his eyesight. It will be of great benefit to Li Jungui, a scholar. Perhaps in the future he will be able to pass the imperial examination and bring honor to his family.

As for Li Yuan himself, he cut off all ties with the mundane world from then on, seeking only immortality, without any romantic feelings, or any worldly fame or fortune.

……

Xiangmanlou in Yunzhou City is usually crowded with people, and today is no exception. The building is filled with delicious food, the aroma of which is so fragrant that it makes people salivate.

A group of people rushed in aggressively, led by a bald man. He sat at a table in the lobby on the first floor with a look of satisfaction on his face. He waved his hand and shouted, "Waiter, bring me all the dishes in your building to try! And bring me any good wine!"

After saying that, he pointed behind him and said, "See? The people from the City Lord's Mansion, they pay! Don't doubt that I can't afford it!"

The four officers following behind him could only obey his orders and asked the waiter to serve him well.

Such a big commotion naturally attracted everyone's attention to this person. There was a lot of discussion for a while, but no one dared to blame him.

After the bald man had eaten and drunk a lot, he put his legs on the chair and used a wooden stick to pick the gap between his teeth. "Go and invite some storytellers to the theater. I want to listen to storytelling!"

The waiter at the side said with embarrassment: "Well... we don't have any storytellers in our building!"

The official following behind him could only say, "Please wait, sir. We will go and invite the nearby storyteller."

"Well, not bad." The man smiled with satisfaction.

On the second-floor corridor, a handsome man in a royal blue gown was holding a wine glass in his hand, sipping the fragrant wine. There were three or four elegant dishes on the table. He glanced downstairs nonchalantly.

All kinds of people in the building had expressions of surprise and doubt in their eyes, as well as envy and jealousy. The storyteller downstairs was invited in. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, cleared his throat, and a table and chair were moved into the building, where he began to tell stories.

Li Yuan savored the fragrant wine in his mouth and watched the man's every move.

Three days was just a blink of an eye for him, but it was the last time for the bald man and the other two.

These three people can have all the worldly delicacies, such as fine wine and delicious food, beautiful singers and ladies, wealth and glory, but only for a moment.

If he looks at mortals in this way, then how do the most powerful true cultivators and even the Golden Core True Immortals look at cultivators like him?
No matter how talented you are, how many opportunities and chances you have, and how you hold the power over life and death, in the end, isn't life just a dream?
Li Yuan was not panicked, but surprisingly calm. He seemed to know what his future path should be.

……

Three days passed in a flash, and the story of how arrogant and happy this man was spread all over Yunzhou City, even causing dissatisfaction among several deacons and disciples who had retired from practicing in the city. However, when they learned that this was an order from a certain elder, they just kept silent.

On the morning of the fourth day, more than ten officials escorted two people to the East City Gate. The flat-nosed Taoist guarding the gate was sweating profusely and trembling as he said, "Elder, I was careless and one of them escaped!"

Li Yuan stood on the top of the city wall with his hands behind his back, overlooking the distant indigo mountains, mist and sea of ​​clouds outside the city. Then he looked back at the hustle and bustle of the city, and sighed in his heart that it was the same heaven and earth, but not the same world.

Li Yuan looked at the crowd of people kneeling on the ground in front of him, his face showing no sadness or joy, and said, "Okay, the time has come, both of you, come over here."

The bald man and a burly man with a ferocious face couldn't help but feel weak in their hands and feet, but they still crawled in front of him.

"Thank you, sir!"

Li Yuan said calmly: "Maybe one day you two will live again."

After saying that, he stretched out his hand and took out the Qingyou Gourd, opened the spout facing the two of them, and a faint light swept away the souls of the two. The two of them instantly lost their breath and fell to the ground limply as if they had no bones.

Everyone was so frightened when they saw this scene that they broke out in cold sweats and no one dared to move or speak.

Li Yuan stretched out his hand again, and a strong wind blew. A thin man hiding in a secret dry well somewhere in the city was horrified to find that he was blown into the sky by a strange wind. The world was spinning around, and he fell to the ground before he could react. He screamed in pain.

When this person raised his head, he saw himself on the city wall. Behind him were a crowd of people kneeling. In front of him stood the young man who had promised him three days of wealth and glory, looking at him expressionlessly.

The thin man's heart was trembling, and he shouted: "Don't move! I have five pounds of gunpowder on me. If you force me, we will all die together!"

When these words were spoken, everyone was shocked. They saw that the man really had packages of explosives tied to his chest and a fire starter in his hand, approaching the fuse. Seeing this, the officers became nervous again.

The man said coldly: "Prepare a fast horse for me and let me go, everyone...

ah…"

As soon as Li Yuan raised his hand, the person in front of him became stiff and was restrained by an invisible force.

He said indifferently: "Since you have escaped, I will use you as the main soul."

A small black banner rose into the air, covering the thin man. A soul was visibly being pulled out of his body bit by bit. The man screamed and struggled on the ground as if he had fallen into a frying pan, his shrill wails making people's teeth ache.

This banner is a semi-magical weapon in the mountain gate, used to collect the souls of monsters. After all, the souls of the monsters in the dead cave in Qi Lingmen are consumables, and they need to be increased.

Every elder would collect beast souls when he had the chance when he went out. This banner was torn out alive, so it would be painless and unconscious when used on dead beasts. However, if used on a living person, the pain of peeling off the soul would be much more painful than when he cut off his own soul.

However, this banner is not a magic weapon after all, and can only store souls for a few months. It is not like the legendary Hundred Souls Banner and Ten Thousand Souls Banner, which can collect souls to defend against enemies and keep them inside for a long time.

This process lasted for half an incense stick of time. The thin man's body had become a withered corpse. Li Yuan put away the banner and said, "Bury the bodies of these two properly."

"Yes, Elder!" the flat-nosed old man responded quickly.

Clouds appeared under Li Yuan's feet and he flew away into the sky without looking back.

As for the withered corpse, no one even looked at it.

……

After Li Yuan returned to the mountain gate, he went into seclusion and closed his house. After recuperating, he took out various spiritual materials from the Ten Thousand Wood Realm. He threw the already soaked Qi Xuan wood into the treasure furnace and began to refine the puppet's body. This time, he was fully focused for fear of making any mistakes. He controlled the temperature to burn the spiritual wood in the furnace until it was shaped, and then mixed it with spiritual mud.

The light blue light flickered continuously in the furnace. The red spiritual fire exerted force outside and melted the spirit inside. The red and blue light alternated.

Qi Xuanmu's magical power was gradually revealed in the furnace, with the spiritual mud turning into flesh and the body becoming bones. After refining for seventy-nine hours, the fire in the furnace finally went out.

Li Yuan outside the furnace stretched out his hand expectantly, opened the furnace lid, and a ball of light flew out and landed in front of him.

When the spiritual light faded, only a human-sized puppet was seen standing in front of him.

This puppet was controlled by Li Yuan's mind, so it was as tall as him and had the same body shape as him, with fair skin, broad shoulders, straight back, a narrow waist and a pair of long legs.

He stretched out his hand and took out a talisman pen used to make talismans. Spiritual power gathered at the tip of the pen. As Li Yuan carved, the face of the puppet was exactly the same as his. Except for a pair of lifeless eyes, there was no mistake in other places.

"Excellent!"

Li Yuan laughed loudly. This cloud-breath-turning-mud thing was truly magical. It could change the appearance of the puppet, but after a living soul entered the puppet, it would become fixed and no longer change.

He waved his hand, and a set of clothes appeared on the puppet, covering its body.

Looking at his own appearance, although it was a little strange, Li Yuan could still sense that he practiced the Yuanshui Taoism, had a gentle and profound temperament, and soft eyes and eyebrows, which could not be imitated by a puppet.

However, if he was not a high-level cultivator and did not go out of his way to investigate, he could still fool many late-stage elders.

Then the role of this puppet is not only as a perpetual motion machine worker, but also a great tool to lure the enemy to die in its place!
Li Yuan took out the Qingyou Gourd. This gourd can absorb the negative soul because it is a Yi wood spiritual object, which can warm the mind and protect the soul.

He took out a living soul, chanted some incantations, and cast spells on the soul, which was then swept away and thrown into the core of the puppet's spiritual platform.

Suddenly, the puppet's originally lifeless eyes became lively, which looked very strange.

Li Yuan took out a spiritual source bead and placed it in his heart, which automatically sank into his heart. He then activated the divine thought and forbidden magic, and said, "Take a few steps and see."

"Yes!"

A hoarse voice sounded, causing Li Yuan to frown. The voice was completely different. It was the voice of the soul's nature!

It made him forget about it.

This real-life puppet really took two steps like a human being, with a natural expression, without any of the dullness and stiffness of a puppet.

"Okay, okay, from now on you will be called Qingmeng."

Li Yuan clapped his hands and smiled. Qingmeng has no consciousness, which means it can't think, it can only obey orders. But unlike ordinary puppets, it will act according to human behavior.

For example, those ordinary wooden puppets, namely Jiamu puppet and Yimu puppet, require Li Yuan to use his soul to control them to perform simple actions, but this real body puppet does not require him to use his soul to control it, and can perform simple tasks with just a word.

As for the worry that the puppet had an independent consciousness, this was almost impossible. Because the magic ban controlled by Li Yuan was in the living soul, he only needed to activate his soul to destroy the magic ban, and the real body puppet would instantly become a dead object.

His soul left the Ten Thousand Trees Realm, and after regulating his breath for a while, he continued to refine his real body puppet. After all, three living souls could not exist for long, so naturally the sooner he refined it, the better.

So Li Yuan remained in seclusion for more than a month, until one day someone came to the door and waited for a few days, and then Li Yuan came out.

Outside the courtyard, there stood a young man. Although he lowered his head and hunched over, he had a passionate heart and lofty ambitions.

But all these were hidden under his clear pupils. He waited for three days and finally heard the sound of the door opening.

"Crack~"

The old wooden door made a harsh sound as its central axis turned. A gap appeared in a layer of light blue light curtain, and a slightly tired voice came from the courtyard.

"Come in."

"Yes!"

Zhang Qi bowed and walked into the courtyard. What he saw was a pale young man lying on a bench under the osmanthus tree, and a black crow was jumping on the stone table beside it.

He did not dare to neglect it and bowed down: "Disciple Zhang Qi, I greet you, sir!"

As he spoke, he raised his hands above his head, holding a bulging storage bag.

Li Yuan glanced at the storage bag. Shen Ming beside him flapped his wings, grabbed the storage bag and put it on the table.

“Yes, one hundred and sixty spirit stones is rare.

Since you have completed it, I will not break my promise. Tomorrow you will report to the Lingfeng Transmission Elder and I will accept you as my disciple.

In the future, when you have chores to do, you won't have to only pick the most difficult and tiring tasks.

There are also two puppets here. Whether you use them to protect yourself or as resources for cultivation is entirely up to you.

Within ten years, you will enter the middle stage and become a deacon disciple. Only then can you work for me. Now you don’t have to follow me and delay your practice.”

After hearing this, Zhang Qi was overjoyed and said, "Disciple greets Master and thanks Master for his teachings!"

After saying this, he kowtowed three times and bowed nine times on the ground without hesitation.

"I don't have much to teach you. After all, I am the weakest among the elders." Li Yuan sat up straight and said solemnly, "Since I accept you as my disciple, I will treat you sincerely.

If you have any difficulties, you can come to me. But if you want to cause trouble, don't blame me for being ruthless. "

"Yes, disciple will keep it in mind and will never cause trouble."

Zhang Qi said respectfully.

"If the weak in this world want to be strong forever, they need to accumulate strength, just like a pupa that emerges from its cocoon and becomes a butterfly. Before the moment it transforms into a butterfly, it has been enduring hardships and accumulating strength!"

Li Yuan and Zhang Qi can be said to be the same type of people, but they are also different.

Zhang Qi is also a man who is good at forbearance, but when he sees an opportunity, he will rush forward and seize it without hesitation.

Li Yuan, on the other hand, was as still as a mountain. Even though he knew that the ancient cave where Ruan Jinghu had explored contained good things, and that it might be a chance for an ordinary cultivator to change his fate, he still chose to forbear.

This pair of master and disciple are destined to follow an unconventional path!
(End of this chapter)