Chapter 184 Puppetry, Uninvited Guests

After returning to his own cave, Chu Ning casually took out two storage bags. 【】

One was Zou Huiqing's, and the other was Song Li's.

The storage bags of Chen Xinming and others were also found in the stone forest later, but they were put together in one place.

Naturally, they were all returned to the Chen family.

At this moment, Chu Ning only took a quick look at Zou Huiqing's storage bag, and there was nothing worth noting.

He took out some spiritual stones, spiritual medicines and other things and put them away.

Then, he opened Song Li's storage bag.

"The Song family seems to like to study some antiques.

Before, a lot of things from ancient sects were found in the storage bags of Song Ye and Song Cheng.

Although many of them are not very useful, there are some strange things."

Thinking of this, Chu Ning began to pay attention to the relatively simple things in Song Li's storage bag.

Then he was attracted by a piece of jade slip.

Although the texture of this jade slip is not top-notch, its shape is simple.

Chu Ning saw that its shape seemed to be quite similar to the jade slip he had seen in the ruins of the ancient clan where he had obtained the collection of elixirs.

He immediately took it out and started reading it.

"Puppetry mechanism technique!"

When Chu Ning saw the content recorded in this jade slip, his eyes suddenly lit up.

Before, Song Li released two puppets in the iron meteorite forest, and Chu Ning was quite surprised.

After all, I have never heard that the Song family is good at puppetry in the thousands of lakes and islands.

At this moment, seeing this jade slip, Chu Ning roughly understood.

This puppetry mechanism technique must have been learned by Song Li here.

"I just don't know whether those two puppets were made by Song Li himself or where he got them from."

Thinking of this, Chu Ning thought of the puppet beasts in the ancient clan ruins.

In terms of strength, those puppet beasts are much stronger than the humanoid puppets used by Song Li in the iron meteorite forest.

Thinking that this jade slip might record more content about puppets, Chu Ning immediately browsed it quickly.

Then he was surprised to find that the jade slip recorded the puppet making methods from the initial stage of foundation building to the initial stage of Dan formation.

And soon, he found the two puppet making techniques he encountered in the stone forest before.

After a careful browsing.

Then, Chu Ning reached out and patted the storage bag, and took out two human-shaped puppet remains from it.

Looking at the puppet that had been pierced with thousands of holes by his magic, Chu Ning secretly said it was a pity.

"Even this puppet in the initial stage of foundation building is really not easy to make.

This puppet has completely lost the meaning of repairing."

Chu Ning sighed, and at the same time began to move his hands, slowly removing the usable materials from the puppet.

He also took this opportunity to understand the structure of the puppet.

Six or seven materials that could barely be used were found from the incomplete puppet.

Chu Ning laid them out one by one and identified them.

Then, his eyes fell on another intact puppet.

The surface of the puppet was intact, but the internal restrictions had been completely damaged by his Ning Wu Zhan attack.

Chu Ning removed several parts from the back of the puppet, and took out a piece of metal material that looked like a black crystal from the puppet.

His brows furrowed slightly.

The most important thing about this puppet is to control it through this soul stone.

Some complex runes should be engraved in it to manipulate the puppet.

However, under his attack and destruction, the soul stones of the two puppets were damaged.

"The rest of the materials, the two puppets can be pieced together, plus the materials in Song Li's storage bag.

Maybe we can make a puppet with stronger defense and long-range spell attacks.

It's this soul stone..."

Chu Ning pondered for a while, and always felt that he seemed to have seen this thing before.

Thinking of this, Chu Ning began to search in his storage bag.

Over the years, Chu Ning has killed many cultivators of various types, and the things he got are diverse and numerous.

He can still remember some of the things he got recently, especially some more practical things.

But Chu Ning himself couldn't remember what he had obtained before.

He searched for a long time in several storage bags before finally finding a black object in the corner of a storage bag.

"It turns out that there is really a soul stone here. It seems that I got it when I killed the guy named Duan Yuewu when I was accidentally brought into the spiritual realm by Ling Xiaobai for the first time."

Chu Ning finally remembered the origin of this thing.

At that time, he also obtained the Qingguang Pearl and used it frequently. This thing was thrown into the corner because he never thought of any use.

With the soul stone in his hand, Chu Ning did not rush to take action.

He picked up the jade slip again and carefully checked the puppet making technique inside.

This research took most of the day until night fell.

"Young Master, I brought Xinxin here."

The voice of old man Cheng sounded outside the cave.

Chu Ning walked out of the cave slowly, and used the jade card to unlock the inner layer of restrictions, allowing Cheng Zuyuan and Cheng Xinxin to come in.

The two had been living in the thatched hut in the outer spiritual field area before, and this was their first time entering the cave.

Cheng Zuyuan was fine, but Cheng Xinxin was a child at heart, and couldn't help but look around curiously.

Seeing this, Cheng Zuyuan quickly reached out and pulled Cheng Xinxin.

Chu Ning turned his head and asked Cheng Xinxin, who looked like a curious baby:

"Little girl, what do you feel after entering this cave?"

"Sir, the spiritual energy here is so rich!"

Cheng Xinxin looked envious and yearning.

"Did you build your foundation because of the practice here?"

After hearing this, Chu Ning chuckled and said:

"If building a foundation is so simple, then I don't know how many people in the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands have built their foundations.

The children of the several families in the Thousand Islands Alliance, none of them have a much worse practice environment than me."

Chu Ning said, and led the two to an empty stone room.

"You will live in this stone room from now on."

Speaking, Chu Ning told Cheng Zuyuan and Cheng Xinxin how to enter and exit the cave and this stone room.

"Not only at night, but also when you finish your work in the spiritual field, you can come here to practice.

You little girl wants to become a foundation-building person every day, so let's see if you have the ability."

"Thank you, sir!"

Cheng Xinxin was very smart and immediately bowed to Chu Ning.

Cheng Zuyuan also bowed.

He was older and had seen more things.

Naturally, he knew that in a sense, this was Chu Ning's true recognition and acceptance of the grandfather and grandson.

Chu Ning did have this intention.

After observing for some time, Cheng Zuyuan was not only hardworking, but also very good at abiding by the rules.

Although Cheng Xinxin had a child's mind and was more lively.

But following Cheng Zuyuan, she was more decent in major matters and practiced hard.

So letting the two live in the stone chamber, on the one hand, was indeed because the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands had become more chaotic recently, and the defense of the outer formation was not so strong.

On the other hand, it was also a recognition and acceptance of the two, giving them a better practice environment.

Chu Ning then roughly talked about the layout of his cave.

Although Chu Ning knew that the two would not barge in, he still had to tell them.

He did not want to be suddenly disturbed when he was practicing or refining pills.

After placing the two in the stone chamber, Chu Ning returned to his practice room and studied the puppet making technique again.

In the afternoon, he continued to practice.

Speaking of which, because he was outside participating in the search for nearly a month, his practice had been delayed a lot.

[Yanhuo Shenmu Gong (Xuanjie Upper Grade), Second Level (2057/10000)]

[Jiuyan Refining Body Art, First Volume, Immortal Soul (98/3000)]

[Refining Soul Art, Third Level (73/8000)]

After taking a look at his practice proficiency, Chu Ning immediately took out the Iron Yuan Fruit and the Qingmu Yuanyang Pill after refining the spirit from his storage bag.

After refining the body and then the Qi, which increased the proficiency by 2 and 4 points respectively.

Chu Ning once again came to the medicine garden of the Iron Soul Flower and began to absorb the wood essence to strengthen his consciousness.

After doing all this, it was already dark.

Chu Ning was ready to return to the cave to start refining pills.

Before this, Chu Ning had obtained a lot of nourishing spirit pills from different people.

But this time in Pinghu Island, they were basically used up.

Of course, some of these spiritual pills that restore consciousness should be prepared.

The previous collection of spiritual pills recorded the method of refining the nourishing spirit pill.

He had all the materials here. Although not much, it was enough to refine a small batch.

However, just as he moved his feet, his eyes suddenly raised and looked at the periphery of the formation.

The figure flashed, and Chu Ning disappeared from the spot and came to the stone chamber where Cheng Zuyuan and Cheng Xinxin lived.

"Young Master."

Seeing Chu Ning coming, Cheng Zuyuan thought Chu Ning had something to tell him, so he immediately stepped forward.

"Stay in the stone chamber, no matter what happens later, don't come out."

At this time, Chu Ning left a word and flashed out of the cave again.

Cheng Zuyuan's face changed slightly when he heard this.

"Grandpa, what's wrong with the young master?" Cheng Xinxin asked Cheng Zuyuan with some curiosity.

Cheng Zuyuan shook his head, his face quickly returned to normal, and closed the door of this stone room.

At the same time, according to the method taught by Chu Ning before, the prohibition of this stone room was opened.

In this way, no matter what sound is outside, it can't be transmitted.

At this time, Chu Ning has appeared outside the formation.

Looking at the figure who broke into the formation, he slowly said:

"Which Taoist friend is visiting Yanfeng, why don't you say hello to Chu?"

After hearing Chu Ning's words, the man paused slightly, and then the figure flashed and appeared beside Chu Ning.

"Fellow Daoist Chu came at the right time. You also got this formation from the Cen family, which is quite interesting.

If Fellow Daoist Chu didn't say anything, I wouldn't be able to identify your position."

Chu Ning looked at the blue-robed old man in front of him, and his eyes became more complicated.

The person who came was the ancestor of the Liu family, Liu Yishan.