The Rise of the Shen Family

Wang Zhengrong glanced at Shen Huanchi and Shen Jinghua rather mysteriously, and then said:

"I wonder if the two fellow Daoists have heard of puppets?"

"Puppet?" Shen Huanchi and Shen Jinghua were stunned for a moment, and then they remembered something.

According to ancient books, puppet art is also a kind of self-cultivation skills. The monks who make puppets are called puppet masters. They can make puppets of various shapes from black steel, iron wood and other refining materials, and then engrave them on their bodies. Put on the runes, and finally add souls to them.

In this way, a dead object will have a trace of spirituality, and it can act according to the thoughts of the monk who refined it, and it will never betray!

However, the inheritance of puppets is extremely rare, and the puppet art is integrated with the skills of refining tools, forming arrays, making talismans, and seducing souls, so few people can become puppet masters.

For example, there has never been a puppet master in the Lingnan Xiuxian world. The reason is that there is no inheritance of puppet art, only a few words about the introduction of puppets in ancient books.

"Isn't the puppet a product of the Central Plains Cultivation World, how could I have it in Lingnan?" Shen Huanchi said with a frown.

"There are no puppets in Lingnan land now, but do fellow Daoists remember the Lu family in Jiangmin County two hundred years ago?" Wang Zhengrong asked rather solemnly, with a hint of fear in his tone.

Shen Huanchi seemed to remember something after hearing Wang Zhengrong's words, and his face suddenly changed, with a gloomy look on his face.

And Shen Jinghua also remembered some secrets he saw in the Zongmen scroll.

Two hundred years ago, the Lu family in Jiangmin County accidentally discovered a senior cave mansion in the Nujiang River, and the most precious thing from it was a few residual pictures of puppet-making.

At that time, the Lu family was a powerful one. There were several foundation-building cultivators in the clan. The ancestor Lu Jing was even more ambitious. With these few pictures, he wanted to become the first puppet master in Lingnan. Is to create a puppet army!

But I have to say that this Lu Jing is also a genius of the sky, relying on those few incomplete drawings, after more than ten years of retreat, he became the first puppet master in Lingnan.

However, the puppet technique that Lu Jing developed by himself was just a crooked way, not an orthodox inheritance of puppets.

The orthodox puppet master is to strip out the soul of the dead monster, and then attach it to the puppet by a special method. Although this method is considered cruel, monsters and monks hunt each other, so this kind of puppet technique is tolerated by the world.

However, the puppet technique created by Lu Jing was guided by the spirit of the monk to inject life into the puppet. What's more, he actually made a puppet from the corpse of a dead monk that was not cremated, and redefined it into another kind of puppet, a corpse puppet!

Under the instructions of Lu Jing, the Lu family started to hunt and kill monks and dig ancestral graves behind the scenes. First, they hunted down ordinary cultivators, stripped their souls out, and used them to replace the souls of monsters. The purpose of puppetry.

In Lu Jing's repeated attempts, countless loose cultivators lost their lives in Lu Jing's hands. Gradually, the Lu family secretly set their sights on the cemeteries of those families, causing the families under the Qingyun four counties to panic, and they all pointed the finger at their hostile families.

In the end, in order to create a puppet comparable to the foundation-building cultivators, Lu Jing even started to instruct the family cultivators to hunt down the former foundation-building cultivators.

This incident completely alarmed the Law Enforcement Hall of Qingyunmen, and sent the disciples of the Foundation Establishment to start a thorough investigation.

After killing and injuring several Foundation Establishment disciples, the Qingyun Sect found out about the Lu Family, but the Lu Family was not what it used to be at that time, and there were as many as five puppets that were comparable to the late Foundation Establishment peak.

In the face of the powerful Lu family, Qingyunmen gathered a large number of family cultivators, and even more disturbed the Jindan cultivator who had been in seclusion for many years.

At that time, the Shen family was also recruited a literate foundation-building elder and dozens of Qi-training monks.

After the Jindan cultivator took action, the Lu family also showed their true fangs, and Lu Jing actually used his own body as a corpse puppet to refine,

Refining some fourth-order spiritual materials into himself, he just turned himself into a slaughtering monster who is neither human nor ghost.

But it is this monster that has a combat power comparable to that of Jindan, and it can compete with the Jindan of Qingyunmen.

That battle can be said to be a nightmare for these foundation-building families. Except for the foundation-building cultivator, the Shen family escaped, and the rest of the Qi-cultivating clansmen died in battle, which directly shook the foundation of the Shen family.

It was precisely because of that accident that a fault appeared in the talents of the Shen family, laying the foundation for the future decline of the Shen family.

After the war, the group of evil puppets were ordered to be burned by Qingyunmen, and even the corpse puppet method invented by Lu Jing was destroyed, and the Lu family was completely slaughtered.

And those precious puppet blueprints have been collected into the Qingyunmen Sutra Collection Pavilion, and cannot be used without the permission of the head!

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Shen Huanchi recovered from his grief and asked inexplicably:

"Isn't that batch of puppets destroyed by Qingyunmen? I remember that the Lu family was completely slaughtered, right?"

Shen Jinghua on the side also said:

"As far as I know, none of the senior brothers in the Qingyun Sect have realized the authentic puppet art over the years!"

Wang Zhengrong glanced at the two of them, and finally said with a proud look on his face:

"The Jindan cultivator who shot that time was my ancestor, and it was also my ancestor who ordered the destruction of those puppets. Most of those puppets in the foundation-building period were damaged on the battlefield, and the rest of the trial were indeed destroyed, but the Qi practice period The puppet ancestor secretly asked our Wang family to keep a few of them!"

After hearing Wang Zhengrong's words, Shen Huanchi both looked surprised, hiding these things under the eyes of Qingyunmen, only the Jindan family would dare to do it.

"For the sake of fellow Daoist taking out this spirit stone ore vein, I only told fellow Daoists about the family's secrets, so..." Wang Zhengrong said with a smile, his meaning beyond words.

"I understand!" Shen Huanchi and Shen Jinghua glanced at each other. At the same time, they had a high opinion of the Wang family's heritage. The Wang family even hid the puppets in the Qi training stage, and the Wang family was the only one in the foundation building stage. My mind is clear.

"As long as these puppets are injected with spirit stones, they will continue to dig around the clock, and then equip them with second-order magic tools, which is far more efficient than monks! And your Shen family only needs to send one or two people. The cultivator can just watch it." Wang Zhengrong had obviously imagined the scene where the puppets were digging the spiritual stones in the crypt.

"That's great, it also reduces the risk of exposure of the spiritual stone veins!" Shen Huanchi nodded with satisfaction.

"By the way, although this place is in the lake, there are still some hidden dangers for the Qingyunmen's foundation-building monks stationed in the south lake. I can apply to the Shuwutang to go to the office, so as to protect this spiritual vein!" Shen Jinghua thought about it. Open your mouth.

"I think it is feasible, I will let the fifth uncle in the sect help you to operate it!" Wang Zhengrong nodded.

"Then I would like to thank Daoyou Wang first!" Shen Huanchi thanked him. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

"Shen Daoyou is polite, it's a family business!"

"Friend Daoist said that since the mining matters have been discussed, let's decide on the distribution!" Shen Huanchi glanced at Wang Zhengrong and said, the next question is the most sensitive issue. Can't talk about it, the front is all useless.

Wang Zhengrong remembered what Wang Qiyan had explained before he left, so he just smiled and asked:

"I don't know how friends are going to be distributed?"

"Daoist friends account for 60%, how about we account for 40%?"

Shen Huanchi put forward an idea. Originally, Shen Huanchi only planned to divide it into fifty-fifty, but this time, although the Shen family provided the spiritual veins, the Wang family used some family background and methods, so Shen Huanchi gave in at the end.

"I'm afraid this is inappropriate?" Wang Zhengrong shook his head.

"What do you think about that fellow Daoist?" Shen Huanchi's words already contained a hint of dissatisfaction, he was sincere enough, this Wang Zhengrong was too ignorant of current affairs, he really thought he was begging him!

However, seeing that Wang Zhengrong also noticed the strangeness of Shen Huanchi, he knew it was a misunderstanding, and immediately said with a smile:

"Fellow Daoist misunderstood, what I mean is that everyone equally divides this vein!"

Shen Huanchi and the two originally thought that Wang Zhengrong was not satisfied with the assignment just now, but they thought it was too much!

"Fellow Daoist can think of cooperating with my Wang family and already look up to my Wang family, how can you let the daoist family suffer?" Wang Zhengrong took it for granted.

Seeing that Shen Huanchi was about to shirk, Wang Zhengrong hurriedly said:

"That's it, I'll bring the puppet here in a few days!"

"This... Then thank you, fellow Daoist!" Shen Huanchi hesitated for a while, and said a little embarrassedly.