Chapter 466: Puppet Path
Jiao Xiuyuan transformed himself into thousands of puppets and single-handedly supported Qianlitang, a huge business organization spread throughout the Wanxian League.
His shadow may be found in various ruins and in sparsely populated wilderness.
He can even stir up the storm in the Xuanhuang Realm with his own strength.
It has a bit of the flavor of using business to enter the Tao.
But this person seems to have bad luck.
He said that he never did business at a loss, but from Li Fan's experience with him, Jiao Xiuyuan seemed to often lose money in business.
When I first met him, he had hoarded a large number of Shape-Hiding Talismans. As a result, due to the Five Elements Cave Heaven, the price of the Shape-Hiding Talismans plummeted.
Later, he worked hard to dig out some small Medicine King Cauldrons. As long as he waits for the real Medicine King Cauldron to return, he will definitely make a fortune.
But he seemed to be born without that destiny and sold all these small medicine king cauldrons at low prices early on.
"Maybe I haven't lost money, but I always seem to miss the chance to make a fortune."
"Even though he worked with me to make Zhuang Lingwu Grass in his previous life, in the end, because of his greed and slowness in stopping, the huge amount of wealth he had obtained was instantly gone."
"Only in this life did he really gain a lot. I wonder if there will be any changes in him."
While Li Fan was thinking, he carefully observed the items that Jiao Xiuyuan placed on the shelves, to see if he could find any other items such as the Small Medicine King Cauldron and make a small profit.
There are all kinds of things on the shelves, including various talismans, battle formations, and elixirs.
Li Fan paid special attention to those items that mostly looked old.
Most of them are in ruins and full of traces of history.
Scrolls, various decorations, and unknown magical instruments that have completely lost all their spiritual energy.
Li Fan scanned them one by one.
Suddenly, it stopped on an ancient painting.
His expression became somewhat solemn, and Li Fan took down the scroll and slowly unfolded it.
It wasn't that there was anything special about the painting itself, but the content of the painting that attracted Li Fan's attention.
The painting depicts a majestic mountain gate.
The sky and the earth were all the same color, and dozens of monks stood in the clouds, pointing into the distance.
Amid the sea of clouds, the towering buildings on the top of the mountain are faintly visible.
Phoenixes, dragons, and all kinds of exotic beasts shuttle through the mountains.
In the square at the foot of the mountain stood hundreds of young disciples who were still childish.
They looked up at the monks in the sky, their faces filled with excitement and envy.
What a prosperous sect it really is!
but……
Li Fan had seen this sect before, and it was very different from the prosperous scene in the painting.
Corpses were scattered all over the ground and blood flowed like a river.
The mountain gate was broken and the ground was covered with ruins.
It was exactly the scene he saw at the bottom of the abyss when he was in Daxuan and the thick fog in the abyss dissipated.
The four words "The Path to Immortality is Lost" engraved on the cliff deeply shocked Li Fan at that time.
Now Li Fan already knew that this must be the scene of a tragedy where the disciples of the sect killed each other after the great catastrophe that prevented the practice of the law together came.
"Which sect is this? Why did I see this place in the first place?"
You know, the scenery that everyone sees from the bottom of the abyss is different.
Perhaps it was just some coincidence that Li Fan could see this dilapidated sect.
But Li Fan believes that there may be some kind of guidance.
He carefully put the scroll away and walked around, but didn't find anything valuable.
Li Fan came to Jiao Xiuyuan.
"Fellow Daoist Jiao? Fellow Daoist Jiao!"
Li Fan shouted a few words symbolically, and seeing that he still didn't respond, he reached out and began to feel around his body.
It’s not that he has any special hobbies, but he wants to take advantage of this rare opportunity to study Jiao Xiuyuan’s Ten Thousand Puppets.
Although "Qi Xuan Zhen Ling Bian" is already an astonishing magical skill, it still has some minor shortcomings.
Born out of "The Secret of Stealing the Sky", it's a pity that only one clone can exist at the same time.
If you can combine the myriad puppet ways, and go one step further...
"With so many incarnations, it's hard to tell the real from the fake."
While Li Fan was daydreaming in his mind, his hands were moving without hesitation.
"It's almost exactly the same as a real person. Even if you use your spiritual sense to penetrate and sense it, it's difficult to find the difference."
"The control core seems to be in the brain, and it glows a similar blue color to the stone."
"I have seen the scene after a puppet died. It turned yellow and withered like rotten wood. Could it be that these puppet incarnations of Jiao Xiuyuan are all made of some kind of wood?"
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Li Fan kept looking at the puppet in front of him, combining it with what he had learned and comprehending it carefully, and felt that he had gained something.
Just when he was secretly happy, he suddenly noticed that Jiao Xiuyuan's eyelids trembled slightly.
His heart skipped a beat and Li Fan instantly moved away.
After a moment, he noticed that Jiao Xiuyuan's originally dull eyes became lively again.
"Fellow Daoist Jiao, are you awake?" Li Fan asked pretending to be very concerned.
"Huh? Fellow Daoist Li Fan? Why are you here?" Jiao Xiuyuan looked at Li Fan with some suspicion.
Li Fan originally wanted to tell the whole story of what happened after he was investigated, but unfortunately he had signed a confidentiality agreement and was unable to speak.
He had to settle for the next best thing and told Jiao Xiuyuan that he came here to hide for a while because he wanted to avoid the crowd.
"I noticed that not long after Lu Xichan arrived, she lost contact with the puppet. I knew at that time that something serious had happened, and it turned out to be true."
"A confidentiality agreement..."
Jiao Xiuyuan looked at Li Fan and guessed why he avoided the topic.
"No wonder things seem to be a little unsettled in Tianquan and Tianyuzhou..." Jiao Xiuyuan narrowed his eyes slightly and was about to think deeply, but he accidentally glanced at his own shop and his face changed immediately.
He quickly came to the shelf and checked it again, saying in a lost voice, "Why does it seem like there's a painting missing?"
"I dug this out of a pile of garbage with great effort!"
Li Fan was just about to say, the painting is here.
But he was surprised to find that the puppet in front of him was blown into pieces with a "bang".
Fortunately, it was not blood and flesh flying everywhere, but wood chips all over the sky.
"Fellow Daoist Jiao!" Li Fan was also stunned by this sudden change for a moment.
"I'm fine!" In an instant, another puppet crawled out from under the counter.
With a gloomy look on his face, he took out a broom and started cleaning up the scene.
"What happened just now?" Li Fan asked curiously.
"It's a losing business, so it's hard to sustain." Jiao Xiuyuan didn't explain much, just shook his head and sighed.
"This is really strange. How could such a good painting disappear? Who is so bold as to steal from me?" After finishing the cleaning, Jiao Xiuyuan touched his chin and said angrily.
"Um, Fellow Daoist Jiao, I forgot to tell you. When you lost consciousness, I saw that the painting was good, so I collected it." At this moment, he heard Li Fan say this.
There is only one chapter today. Does anyone know if a soundproof cabin is useful? The CT scan showed no problem, but the EEG was abnormal. I have neurasthenia and have become too sensitive to sound. I will be woken up by the slightest noise. In addition, there is a knocking sound coming from somewhere upstairs, and I can't find the source. I am exhausted both physically and mentally. I want to buy a soundproof cabin, but I am afraid it will be useless.
(End of this chapter)
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