Seeking immortality in a deceitful way starts by making oneself into a puppet

A few days after the trip to Siding Mountain, He Ping had already hid in his secret room for seclusion. He had many things to do. The first and most important thing was to preserve and refine the mandrill's heart.

"There is no need to rush into 'changing your heart'. Once you change your heart, the energy and blood in your whole body will undergo an unprecedented transformation. During this process, your body will become extremely weak. There are many chores around me now, so there is no need to rush."

He Ping knew that after changing his heart, his energy and blood would increase and his body would be weak for a while, and his strength would drop to another level.

Think about it, the heart is equivalent to a blood pump, an organ for blood circulation, and the center where qi and blood are connected throughout the body. A change of heart is a very significant physical transformation, and it takes a while to slowly adapt to it before you can completely improve your physique.

"But the heart of the mandrill cannot be dragged down. If time passes and the spirit essence in the heart of the demon is lost, it will gradually lose its vitality and cannot be used anymore."

Mandrill is three hundred years old and can barely be considered a great demon. This monster's heart was gouged out alive and can still beat even after a few days. This shows that the monster race is full of vitality. However, this "vitality" also has a time limit. As time goes by, the monster's heart will also rot. Turned into a piece of rotten meat.

Right now, the heart was pierced with dense golden needles, and it looked a little weird. The surface of the demon heart is also wrapped in bandage-like strips of cloth painted with runes layer after layer.

However, what was a little different from the way it was taken out before was that the mandrill's heart had obviously shrunk a lot. The heart of a mandrill is the size of a mature coconut. Even if the heart is replaced, it will never fit into a human chest. Before changing the heart, it must be refined with the secret method of the Immortal Puppet Sect to shrink it several times and become a "heart" for one's own body to replace.

"It took several days of work, but it's finally half done."

Holding Mandrill's heart in his palm and feeling the powerful vitality contained in this heart, He Ping nodded with satisfaction. The process of "preparing" this demonic heart took two full days and two nights.

He checked it again and made sure there was nothing wrong, then put the heart into a glass jar filled with light green transparent liquid. The liquid in the jar can better maintain the activity of the heart. When the time is right, it can be Make a change of heart.

"The mandrill's demon heart cannot be changed for the time being, but my hands can be transformed into 'detached ghost hands'..."

Previously, He Ping had made a series of deals with Chi Xinzi, and the two parties had initially reached an agreement, which was to exchange the techniques of the Immortal Puppet Sect and the techniques for making the puppets in "The Invisible Secret".

Wuyousheng of the Immortal Puppet Sect found five successors respectively, and each of them passed on the next "Invisible Secret". However, the inheritance of the Immortal Puppet Sect in the hands of the five people was not comprehensive. This was to force these disciples to compete for the five volumes. inheritance, killing each other.

"Rather than fighting each other to death, junior brother and I might as well exchange Taoist techniques with each other and get what we need. Furthermore, even if we can't make any progress in the inheritance of the Immortal Puppet Sect, there is also the "Demon Planting" of the Sanyuan Demon Palace. The method can be to change the door, so that you can advance and retreat without cutting off the retreat and leaving no chance to look back."

What Chi Xinzi said made sense, but it was a pity that He Ping didn't believe him at all. Putting aside the issue of the inheritance of the Three Yuan Demon Palace, he didn't think that Wuyousheng had no other plans when he passed down the Taoism. There must be a tricky back-up to the door's strategy of raising Gu, and it will never be as simple as it seems.

After all, not all disciples of the Immortal Puppet Sect are idiots. It is easier to exchange the "Invisible Secrets" in their hands than to kill each other and compete for the secret scrolls in each other's hands. By exchanging the secret scrolls, oneself and If you can think of it, others can't think of it.

However, the idea of ​​exchanging Tao skills was very much to his liking. Chi Xinzi definitely mastered some powerful Tao skills. The "Detached Ghost Hands" and "Red Scale Earth Armored Centipede" were not included in his volume of "Invisible Secrets". 》, he was very interested in these two puppet arts.

"I'm very interested in senior brother's 'Detached Ghost Hand' and 'Red Scale Earth Armored Centipede'. Senior brother, why don't you make an offer?"

He Ping asked Chi Xinzi about the price.

"How about nine deaths for the witch puppet?"

Chi Xinzi asked tentatively.

He Ping laughed.

"Senior brother, this is what I keep at the bottom of the box. Do you think I can take it out easily?"

He's not stupid, so he wouldn't trade it for the nine-death witch puppet. This thing is his life-saving means at the bottom of the box.

The nine-death substitute witch puppet can block nine death disasters for him. In addition to blocking the death disaster, it can also be used to change his body and fake death to escape.

He Ping guessed that Chi Xinzi didn't want to completely fall out with him because he was afraid of this nine-death witch puppet.

It should be noted that with this witch puppet in his hand, no ambush or conspiracy can be accomplished in one fell swoop. Anyway, as long as this witch puppet triggers damage, it can block the death disaster for He Ping. Once faced with a crisis, it can change its shape and escape. Miles away.

As the saying goes, "If you kill a tiger, you will be harmed by it." If Chi Xinzi suddenly kills, but fails to achieve success in one fell swoop, and He Ping escapes to heaven, the two sides will become a life-or-death situation. At that time, He Ping's counterattack It's just a nuisance.

This old guy knows very well that unless he has a perfect plan and secretly lays a killer trap, he can completely kill himself. Without this prerequisite, this old ghost will not easily make things difficult for him.

Hearing that He Ping rejected his proposal, Chi Xinzi just smiled and didn't feel embarrassed.

"In that case, if junior brother has any other good things, you can exchange them with me for this 'fragmented ghost hand'."

He Ping lowered his head, thought about it, and said: "In my volume "Invisible Secrets", there is a record of a three-corpse secret demon puppet, which specializes in extracting the causes of evil in the world to sacrifice the green, white, and red ones. Once the Three Corpse Demon Puppet succeeds, it will be able to capture a person's true energy, and in the blink of an eye, its form, bones, and soul will be destroyed. It is incredibly powerful."

"It turns out to be the Three Corpse Demon Puppet..."

Chi Xinzi also looked solemn after hearing this.

"I also know that once these three mysterious demon puppets, the green corpse, the white corpse, and the red corpse, are completed, even the Taoist masters will not be able to escape their power. This thing is very powerful."

He frowned slightly and thought for a moment, then suddenly laughed.

"However, junior brother, it is extremely complicated to refine these three corpse demon puppets. It will take time to collect all the required materials. Without ten or twenty years of effort, we may not be able to refine the three corpses. Either way, your idea is a good one..."

"This kind of exchange is a matter of each getting what he needs, and you and I agree... I guess that senior brother does not have a detailed catalog of the three corpses of the mysterious demon puppets, as well as the refining techniques. Of course, if senior brother Chixinzi is interested in this The Three Corpse Mystical Demon Puppet is not interested, so let’s discuss this deal separately.”

He Ping deliberately selected the most difficult one among the many puppet refining techniques he had in hand, which was the three corpses of the mysterious demon puppets, and exchanged them.

This puppet is extremely powerful. After being refined, it can run rampant even at the Daoist level. However, the refining method is not easy and it will take countless hours just to collect the materials.

Chi Xinzi also saw through He Ping's thoughts. If he chose the "Three Corpse Mysterious Demon Puppet", it would take decades to practice it. Even if he obtained this puppet technique, he would not be able to do it in the short term. It worked.

——But, he had to admit that the power of these three mysterious demon puppets was really powerful, and he couldn't let go of them.

Seeing that Chi Xinzi was hesitant, He Ping smiled "hehe" in his heart, and then reported several other puppet techniques.

He had been prepared secretly, and all the puppet techniques he reported were either very time-consuming to practice or difficult to find the materials. Chi Xinzi also felt helpless about this.

"Okay, I will just change to this three-corpse secret demon puppet. By the way, in addition to the refining catalog of the fragmented ghost hands and the red-scaled armored centipede, I am also willing to use such a 'heart-piercing lock' technique. Dharma, in exchange for Junior Brother You's 'Miluo Sword'."

The two discussed with each other again and exchanged several spells and puppet sacrifice methods. It can be said that they each got what they needed.

After getting the catalog of the "Detached Ghost Hand", He Ping quickly made a detached ghost hand.

He had already made up his mind. There was no need to rush to "change his mind". It would be a good idea to give this puppet prosthetic limb "Detached Ghost Hand" a try.

"The puppet technique of the Detached Ghost Hand has two benefits. The first is that after installing the puppet prosthetic limb, the armor-covering aura technique can be activated; the second is that through the Detached Ghost Hand, I can strengthen my ability to control the puppet... "

Most of the puppets in the Immortal Puppet Sect are controlled by the secret method of "invisible strings" and specially refined silk threads.

"Invisible string" is a silk thread that is stimulated by the power of the soul. The material is the hair of the deceased. At the beginning of the sacrifice, human hair turns from thick to thin, and then gradually becomes as thin as spider silk, and then can turn into invisible and shadowless strings. Thin lines.

Whether it is a paper puppet or a wooden mandrill puppet, as long as one end is connected to a wireless string, it can be controlled by your mind.

However, people only have two hands and only ten fingers on each hand. After practicing the secret method of the Immortal Puppet Sect, it is easy to control ten puppets at the same time;

When his practice reaches He Ping's level, he can control five or six puppets at the same time with one finger, and it is easy to control 25 or 30 puppets with ten fingers at the same time, and there will be no mistakes in the process. Any mistakes.

If there are more than seventy or eighty puppets, or more than a hundred puppets, He Ping can barely do it, but his mind and thoughts are too scattered, and multitasking is not enough. If he multitasks, the amount of calculation will naturally increase.

Besides, no matter how powerful you are, you only have two pairs of hands and ten fingers, which is fine on weekdays. But when you control more and more puppets, the problem becomes bigger and bigger.

Perhaps there will often be some minor problems when it is just "connection" at the beginning, such as the movement gradually becomes slow, the behavior is too stiff, etc.; over time, the mind becomes distracted and the control of the ten fingers fails, and there will inevitably be several flaws. .

If you really encounter this kind of situation, it's okay to deal with some ordinary enemies. It's hard for ordinary people to detect the subtle changes in it. But if you encounter a real master, this flaw may be fatal.

"The real power of the ghost hands is here. This puppet prosthetic is installed on the body and can be transported and transformed as desired. It can also be used to control other ghost hands. When you practice it, you can transport it as you wish. , is equivalent to having a few more hands, and the ability to control the puppet will be increased several times."

He Ping rolled up one sleeve, raised his palms with sickly pale skin, and clenched his fingers into fists.

"Let's start the transformation from this left hand..."