The road is vague

Chapter 480 Unexpected Information
"Black Dog Monster, how dare you!"

The puppet, standing a full ten feet tall, emitted a mechanical voice that was neither male nor female.

An astonishing spiritual pressure suddenly rose, and the black cloak on the huge humanoid puppet shattered and flew away, revealing its eight-armed giant form.

Li Mo abandoned the judgment brought by the Eye of True Spirit and looked at the eight-armed puppet.

Immediately afterward, he vaguely sensed that his magic power was being affected by some hidden force. Then he thought of the order of the spirit threads puppets of the ripples, and his expression changed instantly. His body suddenly transformed into lightning and teleported, avoiding the spirit threads that he could not see. At the same time, the puppets nearby also started to move.

One puppet after another surrounded Li Mo from all sides in a bizarre manner.

As Li Mo spat out a bolt of lightning, he drew the Flowing Gold Fire Sword from his back, and in an instant, the nearby grassland was baked into ashes by the scorching fire wave.

After being blasted dozens of feet away by Li Mo's thunderous strike, the dead-fish-eyed puppet tilted its head back and stood up again. It first looked at its damaged skin, revealing its puppet body. Spiritual energy continued to flow from the wounds. Although it was damaged, it was still able to move. Then it looked at the center of the sea of ​​fire on the battlefield.

The surging spiritual light spread in all directions, forcing the puppets surrounding it to mobilize their spiritual power to form an even stronger protective aura.

However, Li Mo had only been fighting these puppets for a short while when his magical power began to stagnate and become unresponsive again.

Therefore, he had to use lightning again to evade the spirit line.

However, this time, when he materialized and regained his flesh and blood body, he saw the eight-armed puppet suddenly descend from the sky, having predicted his landing point, and a huge shadow appeared above Li Mo's head.

boom!
Although Li Mo managed to dodge at the last second, he was still thrown a distance by the shockwave. Before he could land and regain his footing, a pale-faced humanoid puppet emerged from the ground and shot out a beam of spiritual light from its mouth.

A pure lightning crystal silently flowed out from the second dantian.

The lightning crystal spun rapidly, transforming into a beam of light that shot out along Li Mo's finger. It collided with the spiritual light, forming a terrifying thunderstorm that instantly overwhelmed the puppet's spiritual light, causing a violent explosion that engulfed it.

However, once Li Mo regained his footing, the puppet burst out of the lightning.

His outer skin had been completely destroyed, revealing a mechanical body made of wood and metal underneath. Some structures were visibly damaged, and spiritual energy was leaking out, reducing his strength. However, he was fearless in the face of death.

Li Mo swung the Flowing Gold Fire Sword violently. The light sword rapidly expanded and swept across the puppet like a purgatory bone tower of liquid magma. The puppet exploded into pieces with a bang, and at the same time, it shot out several hidden weapons, but they were blocked by Li Mo's protective spiritual light.

Sensing the severe depletion of his internal magical power, Li Mo noticed the black venom on the fragments of these hidden weapons.

However, before he could observe carefully, he noticed more than a dozen beams of spiritual light shooting from afar, covering his area. He had to transform into lightning again to evade them. At the same time, he noticed that the eight-armed puppet had once again predicted his landing spot and launched an attack immediately.

"This is most likely the puppet life he created."

Li Mo thought to himself.

Although he had not yet directly confronted the puppet's life form, Li Mo already had a vague feeling that the puppet's strength was almost comparable to that of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and the order it possessed seemed to be inclined towards premonition, prediction, and prophecy.

This time, Li Mo mobilized two lightning crystals, which shattered silently within his body simultaneously.

Rumble!
A sudden burst of violent spiritual pressure increased his speed dramatically. He not only instantly escaped the shockwave from the eight-armed puppet descending from the sky, but also unleashed a Thunder God Fist as the puppet stretched out its spring-like arm to grab him, instantly shattering the arm into countless fragments.

Just as Li Mo, who was about to press his advantage with a hint of smugness, suddenly noticed that his left hand, which had unleashed the Thunder God Fist, was covered in blood.

His pupils contracted instantly, and he vaguely sensed a familiar sense of order.

This order seemed similar to the order he had comprehended after practicing the "Di Xin Nei Jing" (Inner Canon of Emperor Xin). When he looked at the puppet with only seven arms left, he realized it.

"Adaptive evolution?"

Compared to Li Mo's adaptive evolution, the order of this puppet's life is undoubtedly more radical. It doesn't need to worry about the burden on its body, but it also cannot be maintained for long.

boom! boom! boom! boom!
When Li Mo dodged the continuous spiritual attacks from the other puppets and clashed with the seven-armed puppet again, the puppet's resistance to his lightning power increased significantly, just as he had guessed. Although Li Mo punched it away again, he was unable to cause any structural damage.

Fortunately, Li Mo had anticipated this. The Golden Flame Sword's spiritual light surged forth, and the fire pillar rays blasted it away, causing it considerable damage and forcing it to switch from lightning adaptation to spiritual light adaptation.

Then Li Moke used the power of thunder to damage it again.

The battle between the two sides was exceptionally fierce.

The vast grassland was quickly filled with craters and gullies of all sizes. It seemed that it would be difficult to determine a winner in a few hours, and the outcome would most likely be that neither side could gain the upper hand.

This made the second knitter frown.

The Black Dog Old Monster of the Great Qian Kingdom has reached such a level of strength, it's simply unbelievable. You should know that according to intelligence, he has only recently advanced to the Nascent Soul stage, and his True Spirit Eye should not be able to distinguish the puppet technique of the Rebirth Sect.

At this moment, although she generally controls the overall situation and has a slight advantage, it comes at the cost of depleting her reserves of puppets.

She tried several times to control this person with her spiritual threads and turn him into her puppet, but he noticed her every time. This shows that he must have a highly spiritual protective artifact.

"No, this person must be eliminated in the first place, otherwise he will surely..."

Just as she made up her mind and prepared to take the plunge, suddenly the hairs on her body stood on end, and an extremely dangerous feeling enveloped her.

She was about to sense something, but it was too late.

A simple, unadorned dagger pierced through her nascent soul from behind in an instant, emerging from her chest.

"Jie Jie."

Dark Thunder's body slowly took shape, emitting a smug, eerie laugh.

"That substitute puppet might fool others, but it's far from fooling me... Oh! Finally, I can act cool like a human, this is so satisfying!"

As soon as An Lei finished speaking, he noticed the six-armed puppet in the distance rushing towards him without regard for anything.

"Hehe, Master, it's all taken care of here!"

As he spoke, he dodged away.

"I know."

Li Mo smiled with satisfaction.

Using hidden lightning to deal with the puppeteer is incredibly convenient. All the other puppets have completely stopped moving, leaving only this puppet with the ability to act on its own.

However, given the combined strength of him and An Lei, this puppet's life form was naturally unlikely to cause any trouble.

Half an hour later.

The puppet, now with only four arms, roared in anger, trying to escape with the puppeteer's corpse. However, it was intercepted and severely injured by Li Mo, and had no choice but to abandon its master's body and leave.

"I'll go after him!"

An Lei volunteered to take charge of the pursuit, and Li Mo nodded in agreement.

The surrounding area quickly quieted down, and Li Mo approached the female puppeteer from the Reconstruction Gate, his expression turning somewhat solemn.

He never expected that the other party was also at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and it seemed that he had only been promoted for a few years.

"There are always people more capable than you, and there's always something beyond your understanding." After muttering to himself, Li Mo summoned the corpse into the Misty Box and used the Misty Rebirth Technique to revive it, attempting to steal important memories, especially those about Lianyi.

After a long time.

Li Mo slowly opened his eyes, gasped, and his face turned extremely pale.

He originally only wanted to obtain some information about Lianyi's background and puppetry skills, but he unexpectedly learned that the Rebirth Sect's Nascent Soul Grand Ancestor, Returning to Heaven True Man, had gone to Yanyang City in Qingqiu Mountain to completely cut off the retreat route of the Seven Kingdoms!
Once the support of the Qian Kingdom is lost, the Da'an Empire will inevitably find it difficult to sustain itself for long.

As for Lianyi's background, although he did not get a definite answer, through some clues from this female cultivator known as the Second Knitting Cultivator, he vaguely guessed that Lianyi was most likely a puppet life created by the fourth generation sect leader of the Rebirth Sect.

The second family also launched a civil war during this period, completely controlling the Rebirth Gate and becoming the undisputed number one family in the Rebirth Gate.

"Returning Heaven True Man has indeed advanced to the Nascent Soul stage. I wonder if this was before or after he killed our sect's Insight True Man..."

After a low murmur, Li Mo released two bolts of chaotic lightning without any struggle.

Crackle! Crackle!
The two puppets that had been motionless in the distance suddenly flashed, trying to avoid the two bolts of lightning, but it was too late. They were both sent flying and completely blown to pieces.

These two puppets are the substitute puppets of the second knitting, and they are inhabited by a wisp of divine soul.

These spirits, though separated from their bodies, cannot remain so for long, but they can still carry out revenge through puppets.

After finishing all this, Li Mo put away the remaining four humanoid puppets and quickly took out the second knitted storage bag. Ignoring the more than 20,000 spirit stones and a large amount of cultivation manual materials inside, he went straight to a jade box. After opening it, he found a large area of ​​semi-transparent multicolored velvet inside.

"It really is the down feathers of the Five Elements Camouflage Bird!"

Li Mo took a deep breath, unable to contain his joy, and murmured absentmindedly.

This item is a camouflage material on par with chameleon scales. Whether for refining treasures or creating puppets, it will greatly benefit Li Mo.

Several more hours passed.

Dark Thunder returned with a bunch of puppet parts.

"Hehe, my dear master, I have successfully completed the task and finally dealt with this puppet. However, I was unable to preserve it as intact as you instructed."

Li Mo's mind was entirely on Yanyang City, so he didn't say much, just sighed and nodded.

"That's all."

He said calmly, "Our mission is basically complete, enough to report back to the court. Get ready, I will leave here as soon as I get the remaining Eternal Dark Silver."

Upon seeing this, An Lei vaguely sensed something.

"Master, has something happened?"

"Yes, Yan Yang City has already been exposed, and they may have already been approached by Nascent Soul cultivators. This is just a feint attack by the Lu Kingdom. Once the seven factions of the Anda Empire are cut off from their support and become rootless duckweed, they will only have one way out: defeat and annexation."

Li Mo responded in a low voice.

An Lei asked doubtfully, "So the imperial court just stands by and watches the State of Lu annex this place?"

"It's not that easy to conquer the lands of the seven kingdoms."

Li Mo sighed, "Not to mention how much manpower, material resources, and financial resources Lu would need to expend to conquer this place, even if they did conquer it, it would be impossible to transform it into national strength in less than two or three hundred years. That much time... is enough for the imperial court to accomplish many important tasks."

He was well aware that from the beginning, the Qian Kingdom had only treated this place as a pawn and did not genuinely want to help the Seven Kingdoms achieve independence.

The only thing that Li Mo felt sorry for was Yanyang City.

But since it was a Nascent Soul cultivator who personally took action, this city is most likely no longer in existence, and his title as Lord of Yanyang City will lose its meaning. This will most likely be counted as Li Mo's achievement.

I just hope that the Flame Rabbit tribe wasn't wiped out, and that King Thousand Faces and Queen Dai survived.

An Lei opened his mouth, but finally let out a long sigh.

"Ok."

Li Mo stood still, glancing down at the parts of the puppet life form. These parts would be of great help to him in refining puppet life forms. After a brief moment of distraction, he suddenly said, "Perhaps it's not too late!"

"Uh?"

An Lei stared blankly at Li Mo.

Although, as planned, Master Huitian had set off from Lu State and headed to Qingqiu Mountain half a month ago.

However, firstly, the two places are far apart; secondly, the other party has to cross a deadly storm; and thirdly, they are unfamiliar with the area, so delays are inevitable on the way.

If Li Mo were to go, although he would also have to pass through the Death Storm, he could use a small path through the Seven Kingdoms, making him much faster than the other party who relied on his superior cultivation to traverse the Death Storm.

"quick!"

Li Mo urged, "Once you return to the fortress, immediately arrange for the elite personnel of the First Seventh Organization to evacuate."

"Yes."

Li Mo and An Lei quickly headed towards the fortress.

When the two arrived at the fortress, the battle was clearly coming to an end. The Nascent Soul cultivators had already withdrawn, and the ravaged land was riddled with ravines, leaving behind mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Only a few low-level cultivators were still fighting in various places, seemingly bloodthirsty.

The seeds of hatred have been sown between the two places.

Li Mo found Wei Tiangang. After Li Chun and Yan Shaoqing left, the Thunderclap Hermit walked out of the room, unable to hide his exhaustion.

"Fellow Daoist Wei, I have completed the relevant tasks as agreed. Please grant me the remaining Eternal Dark Silver as promised."

As he spoke, Li Mo released the corpse from the second knitting machine.

"Second knitting!"

Wei Tiangang was surprised to recognize the man and looked at Li Mo with astonishment.

Li Mo didn't say much.

Seeing Li Mo's firm attitude, Wei Tiangang finally handed over the remaining Eternal Dark Silver to Li Mo as agreed, but then suddenly asked, "Fellow Daoist Li, we have been through thick and thin together, has something happened?"

After hesitating for a moment, Li Mo finally let out a low murmur.

"You'd better prepare in advance, two or three months at most, so that you can be ready to evacuate at any time if you encounter someone you can't defeat."

Say it.

Li Mo left quickly without looking back.

(End of this chapter)