Outside the city of Yongye, deep underground in a mountain stream

In a spiritual pond, a petite little girl closed her eyes and immersed herself quietly in the spiritual water.

The little girl looked no more than five or six years old. Although her face was as pale as paper, it still couldn't hide her pretty and delicate features.

In the spiritual water where the little girl was immersed, all kinds of rare and precious herbs were floating or soaked in the spiritual water.

Even around the Lingtan, countless rare and precious magical herbs and medicines are planted and piled up.

All of these magical herbs and elixirs are precious medicinal materials that can nourish the soul or nourish the body.

In addition to a large number of magical herbs and elixirs, the cave was filled with various corpse parts and many semi-finished puppets that were not yet completed.

Dozens of figures were busy in the cave, using the materials in the cave to refine puppets.

Some are responsible for refining the skeleton, some are responsible for tempering the body, and some are responsible for smelting other weapons or functions within the body, etc.

The huge cave seemed like a fully artificial puppet refining assembly line.

And it was this cave hidden in such a secluded depth that welcomed two unexpected guests today.

With a loud bang, the cave barrier and the gate were shattered.

Ning Yechen and Yue Qingyou stepped into the cave.

As soon as they entered the cave, Ning Yechen and Yue Qingyou were attracted by the scene before them.

Dozens of people were busy refining the puppet's body in the cave, with a clear division of labor...

Even though they broke down the door, these 'people' didn't pay any attention and were still concentrating on the work at hand.

Ning Yechen glanced over and saw that the dozens of people present had empty eyes and no expression on their faces. They were all puppets!

Leave command consciousness to the puppet and let the puppet refine the puppet!

This skill is amazing!

It seems that person is hiding here~!

Ning Yechen was filled with strong curiosity about the people behind these puppet bodies, and he and Yue Qingyou slowly walked into the depths of the cave.

On his road to unifying the demon world, this puppet master behind the scenes caused him a lot of trouble along the way.

Many times, they wanted to attack and assassinate him secretly, and also to snatch the requiem wood from his hands.

Now he finally found where this person was hiding!

As Ning Yechen moved deeper into the cave, the spiritual pond where the little girl was soaking appeared in their sight.

When Ning Yechen saw the little girl, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

He could never have imagined that the person who had disguised himself in various identities and attacked him from time to time would turn out to be just a little girl...

The little girl quietly soaked in the spiritual water. Even though they were standing in front of the spiritual pool, she did not react at all.

With the detection ability of this human puppet, Ning Yechen absolutely did not believe that the little girl did not notice their arrival.

Ning Yechen looked at the spiritual pond which was filled with all kinds of magical herbs and elixirs that nourished the body and soul, and then looked at the little girl sinking in the spiritual water, and suddenly understood something.

The reason why the little girl didn't react was because she couldn't react...!

“You’re here.”

At this moment, a tender and delicate voice suddenly came from the darkness deep in the cave.

A petite figure slowly walked out of the darkness.

The little girl who walked out looked at Ning Yechen and Yue Qingyou calmly. She looked exactly like the little girl in the spirit pond.

When Kui saw Ning Yechen and Yue Qingyou coming, he looked a little surprised, but he quickly accepted it and asked calmly:

"How did you find me?"

"Last time you appeared as a picker, I left a mark when I checked the fairy ring in your hand."

Yue Qingyou smiled slightly.

When she felt that there was something wrong with Shi Lu, she secretly left an imperceptible mark when checking her fairy ring.

It was by following the marks that we finally found her hiding place.

Otherwise, with her ability to transfer her consciousness to any puppet at will, it would be impossible to find her real body!

Upon hearing this, Kui quickly took out the recovered fairy ring and found an imperceptible mark in Shiluo's fairy ring.

There was no trace of spiritual power on the mark, so it was not spiritual power tracking, so she was unable to detect it, which led to the exposure of her real hiding place.

But today it doesn't matter...

"I see…"

Kui smiled in relief and looked calmly at himself immersed in the spirit pond.

"My true body is immersed in this spiritual pond. If you destroy this body, I will disappear from this world."

"You want to die?"

Ning Yechen heard the determination to face death calmly from Kui's words, and asked curiously.

Kui was silent for a moment.

"It's about time..."

"Although my true appearance is only that of a five or six-year-old child, I have actually been immersed in this place for hundreds of years..."

"Since I was young, my body was quite special. When I was five or six years old, I stopped growing and fell into an endless long sleep. Only my consciousness was awake, but my body could no longer move..."

"In order to ensure that my body is not damaged and my soul does not fade away, I can only keep collecting medicinal herbs that can nourish my body and soul and soak them in this pool of water..."

Perhaps she had already decided to face death calmly, or perhaps it was because she had not talked about herself like this to anyone for too long, Kui told everyone about her past and why she became like this without any reservation.

After her body stopped growing and fell into an endless sleep, her consciousness was trapped in her body and suffered from loneliness.

Until one day, she had a strong desire to see the outside world and live like ordinary people.

It was with this strong will that she suddenly found that she could open her eyes.

But when she opened her eyes, she found that she was possessed by a wooden puppet.

But despite this, she was already very happy and excited.

Later, after discovering that she could possess a puppet at will, she began to study puppetry techniques with the puppet's body and created a puppet with a physical body for herself!

The puppet's body is then used to refine other new puppets.

The puppets have many identities, including male, female, old and young. She enjoys it and keeps changing puppets to experience various identities.

But soon, she found that her body, which was unable to eat, would collapse over time, and her soul would dissipate bit by bit. For this reason, she could only keep collecting all the medicinal herbs in the world that could nourish her body and preserve her soul.

The reason why she cooperated with the former Demon Lord was because the other party promised to provide her with all the magical herbs and medicines she needed.

In addition, the other party also knew where she was hiding here, so she didn't have many choices.

However, although her body was stored safely in the spiritual water, her soul was still disappearing.

Even if Ning Yechen didn't take action, once her soul dissipated and reincarnated, her consciousness here would also disappear...

After hearing about Kui's life experience, Ning Yechen finally understood why Kui kept looking for opportunities to assassinate him along the way and wanted to snatch the soul-resting wood from him.

With almost no hesitation, Ning Yechen directly took out the soul-soothing wood stored in the fairy ring and threw it into the spirit pond.

"you…?"

Kui was startled and looked at Ning Yechen with disbelief.

She had no idea how many times she had tried to assassinate Ning Yechen along the way, but he had been so generous and directly thrown the Soul Requiem Wood to her...!

"Your puppetry skills are amazing, so amazing that even Qingyou couldn't help but praise you."

"No one in the world has skills like yours. It would be a pity if you died like this."

"You want to live, right?"

Ning Yechen's last words seemed to touch Kui's heart.

Kui was stunned, his heart was beating fast, his eyes became moist involuntarily, and he nodded solemnly.

"yes…!"

She wants to experience as much life as anyone else, experience as many identities, and see other scenery around the world!

She doesn't want to die!

After getting Kui's answer, Ning Yechen smiled happily, turned around and left gracefully.

He originally wanted to find the person behind the puppet to settle the score, but it turned out that the other party was just a little girl who had no power to fight back. How could he bring himself to do it...

Yue Qingyou watched Ning Yechen leave with a smile on her face, then turned around and looked at Kui, and said:

"You should accept the kindness shown to you by the Lord Demon with peace of mind."

"If you want to repay Lord Demon, then let Lord Demon use your superb puppetry skills~!"

"From now on, apart from me and Lord Demon, no one else is allowed to know your true form and whereabouts. Do you understand~"

"Puppet, I understand!"

Kui's eyes turned cold, he immediately understood the implication of Yue Qingyou's words, and bowed solemnly in response.

Not long after, the former Demon Lord and all the people around him who knew and recognized Kui were assassinated by unknown people!

From then on, the only two people in the Demon Realm who had seen the puppet’s true body and knew where the puppet’s true body was were Yue Qingyou and Ning Yechen!

And Kui's mysterious identity spread throughout the demon world, becoming the eyes of the Supreme Demon Lord everywhere...!