Chapter 163: I have nothing to do, so I dismantle a puppet

"Junior Master, do we want to go down and chase them away?" Yuan Ye asked after setting aside the dishes.

Yan Qing, who was standing by, was looking at a huge scroll on the table. On it, an ink-and-wash topographic map slowly appeared and was constantly being improved. Representative points gradually appeared. He made some annotations while looking at it.

Lin Du lazily lifted his eyelids to take a look, then sat down in front of the big pot, "No, wait a minute, there just isn't enough food."

"If you have nothing to do, let's take apart a puppet for fun."

Lin Du took out the puppet.

Yuan Ye squatted over with great interest and asked, "Where should we start dismantling it?"

"First dig out the eyes, then take out the heart." Lin Du put down the shovel with a smile.

For some reason, Yuan Ye inexplicably felt a flash of fear in the eyes of the puppet on the ground.

"Junior Master, it seems that the people from Guiyuan Sect have crawled out of the pit." Ni Jinxuan reminded.

"Just climb out. The pit is just within the range of the Absolute Spirit Formation. If they can't climb out of the pit with their physical strength, then they are really weak. Don't worry about them. If they continue to move forward, they will be able to enter the range of our real formation."

As Lin Du spoke, he focused his consciousness on the puppet, and he always felt that something was wrong just now.

"Then they left..." Ni Jinxuan reported obediently.

"Just leave... huh? Just leave now?" Lin Du turned his head and looked down the mountain. "They really left. I wanted to keep them for dinner at the foot of the mountain."

"Why did I feel like there was some demonic energy just now?"

Yuan Ye knocked on the puppet's chest.

Ordinary puppets can indeed imitate human appearance, but their main body is still made of wood and various mechanisms. They are driven by spirit stones and can be disassembled if needed.

Lin Du stared at the pair of eyes, then smiled and reached out to cover the puppet's skull.

"What structure?" Yuan Ye asked curiously.

"It's nested, the mechanism is inside." Lin Du tried it out, "Let's take it apart."

The two men quickly removed the outer skin of the puppet, revealing the original wooden structure, complex joint structure and muscle core structure.

But most importantly, the eyes are still there.

Usually puppets don't see things through their eyes, so the eyeballs of the outer layer of painted skin should not move.

Yuan Ye finally understood why Lin Du wanted to dig out his eyes.

"What is that?"

"It's the same thing as the Sky Eye." Lin Du expressionlessly found something to cover it up. "If it's the organizer, it would be boring enough."

The mechanism on the chest is not Lin Du's strong point, she can only break it violently, but this puppet is very sophisticated and very suitable for Yuan Ye to play with. Lin Du made room for Yuan Ye and stared at the pot of stew that was almost cooked.

But soon, Yuan Ye's voice became a little tense, "Junior Master?"

Lin Du lowered his head. Inside the core of the puppet that had been completely disassembled with great difficulty was a magic crystal stone with a purple-black luster.

She grunted and pointed at the puppet's head.

Yuan Ye disassembled the head and took out the third eye.

Xia Tianwu, who had been watching, also responded, "The Feiying Stone is something from Fanqian City. It was raised by someone using his spiritual consciousness and can record the images in front of him."

Lin Du frowned, "Under normal circumstances, a flying shadow stone needs to be nurtured by spiritual consciousness for fifty or even a hundred years. The evil demon spent a lot this time. I can't even get a proper flying shadow stone."

"You want it? It's a waste to use your spiritual consciousness to cultivate such a thing. It's useless on weekdays." Xia Tianwu thought for a moment, "Next time, you can go to the East China Sea to try your luck. I remember there is a glass fish eyeball that I can take a picture of."

"However, because the sea tribe had some conflicts with human cultivators a few years ago, there are very few of them circulating in the world now. Even if there are any, they are old beads with limited content. They can only be preserved for seven years before disappearing automatically."

Lin Du said nothing, but just stroked the Feiying Stone, lowered his eyes to look at it for a while, wrapped it with a cloth that blocked out spiritual consciousness, and put it back.

"Why don't we just destroy this magic crystal? There is a curse on it that can allow the evil spirit to control the puppet." Yuan Ye asked.

"No, pretend first. I want to know what those evil demons want to do." Lin Du said and stood up again. "It's time to eat first."

"But what if..."

"Just in case, I have planted a puppet curse on this puppet. I want to see whether the puppet curse of the corpse king is more powerful or the puppet curse of the evil demon is more powerful."

Lin Du opened the lid of the pot, steam rose, the soup boiled, the aroma filled the air, the meat was soft and soaked in juice, bright red and oily.

"Come on, let's eat."

Five people each held a bowl of rice, put some vegetables on it, poured some soup on it, and sat in a row to eat.

Until the explosion sounded, the five people silently protected their own jobs in the rising bitter medicine smoke.

Lin Du quickly covered the pot, "It's good with rice. It really goes well with rice."

The food is a bit too weird.

At the foot of the mountain, in a suffocating strange smell, a monk covered his mouth and nose and kept coughing, "Isn't this... this Supreme Sect... doesn't it only have the confusing formation outside? What is this now? What kind of ambush?"

"It's a mine." Another late-stage Tengyun Realm looked at his defensive formation's torn robes and felt extremely distressed. "Are you still leaving?"

"Now that we're here, I don't believe it. Didn't someone just see them making a fire and cooking? We finally broke their formation, we can't just go back. We have to attack them when they're unprepared and take them by surprise."

Lin Du lowered his eyelids, retracted his consciousness, and identified them based on their clothes. "Two people in the late Tengyun Realm, from the Luoshu Sect."

Yan Qing was stunned for a moment. "Didn't the Luoshu Sect claim that they understand the laws of all things, and are proficient in astronomy, seasons, medicine, and divination? That's it?"

"They are good at calculating," Lin Du pondered for a while, "How could they not see that they have entered the outer edge of my main formation? This shouldn't be the case, right?"

"So far, no sect has really entered the formation you set up, Junior Master Uncle, if you don't count the traps and basic formations set up outside." Ni Jinxuan has been observing attentively. "A total of seven groups of people came, and they all left."

Lin Du: ...Bai Bu, have you tried too hard?

She also didn't expect that this group of people couldn't even enter the main formation.

"It should be because the formation masters from other sects are still setting up formations on their own territory." Yan Qing said, "It's normal now."

"That's fine. Let's start after we finish our meal and find out which sect those five pigeons are targeting." Lin Du glanced at the kraft paper on the table, which already had all the outlines.

The group quickly finished their meal in the smoke and began to arrange the layout around the map on the table.

Those who are able to participate in the competition are all talented masters of various sects. Most of them are over a hundred years old, and there are also rare cultivators under a hundred years old who have reached the Great Perfection of Tengyun Realm. Except for small sects, all other sect teams have at least two people in the late Tengyun Realm, and even one person in the Great Perfection of Tengyun Realm. The fighting power of one person is equal to that of four people from the Supreme Sect.

They couldn't attack by force, so they could only use wits.

"It's still the old method I mentioned before, the empty city plan and the time difference. The best way is to lure them all into my formation." Lin Du paused, "I'm sure that a normal person won't be able to get out in three days, which is enough."

She deployed the troops not to protect the initial base, but mainly to trap people.

"Junior Master, they went in." Ni Jinxuan glanced down the mountain and saw no trace of people. They had entered Lin Dubu's formation.

"Then let's start with Luoshu Sect." Lin Du pointed at one of the sects with a smile, "After all, their sect only has two people in the late Tengyun Realm, and the rest are not worth mentioning."

"I haven't sparred with formation masters from other sects yet. I feel a little excited just thinking about it."

Yuan Ye rubbed his hands together, "Tear them down!"