Chapter 163 Nothing to do, let's dismantle a puppet

"Uncle Master, do you want to go and get someone?" Yuan Ye asked after he put the dishes away.

Yan Qing, who was standing by, was looking at a huge scroll in front of the table. On it, an ink-and-wash topographic map slowly appeared, and it was constantly being improved, with points representing people. He made some marks while looking at it.

Lin Du lazily raised his eyelids to take a look, and sat in front of the big pot, "No, wait a minute, it just so happens that there is not enough food."

"If you are free, let's dismantle a puppet for fun."

Lin Du took out the puppet.

Yuan Ye squatted over with great interest, "Where do we start?"

"Dig out the eyes first, then the heart." Lin Du put down the shovel with a smile.

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

"Uncle Junior, the people from Guiyuan Sect seem to have crawled out of the pit." Ni Jinxuan reminded.

"It's right to crawl out. The pit is only 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 too weak. Don't worry about them. If they continue to move forward, they can enter the range of our real formation."

Lin Du said, concentrating his consciousness on the puppet. 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 down the mountain."

"Why do I feel like there was a demonic aura just now?"

Yuan Ye knocked on the chest of the puppet.

Ordinary puppets can indeed imitate the appearance of humans, but the main body is still wood and various mechanisms. It is driven by spirit stones and can be disassembled if you want.

Lin Du stared at the eyes steadily, then smiled, and directly reached out to cover the skull of the puppet.

"What structure?" Yuan Ye asked curiously.

"Nested, the mechanism is in the inner layer." Lin Du tried it out, "Take it apart."

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

But most importantly, the eyes are still there.

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

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

"What is that?"

"It's the same thing as the Heavenly Eye." Lin Du expressionlessly found something to cover it, "If it was 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 precise and very suitable for Yuan Ye to play with. Lin Du gave up space to Yuan Ye and stared at the pot of stew that was about to be cooked.

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

Lin Du lowered her head. In the core of the puppet that was finally completely disassembled, there was a magic crystal stone with a purple-black luster.

She exclaimed, and then pointed to the head of the puppet.

Yuan Ye disassembled the head and took out the Heavenly Eye.

Xia Tianwu, who had been watching, also reacted. "The Feiying Stone is something from Fanqian City. It was nurtured by people with their spiritual consciousness and can record images in front of them."

Lin Du frowned. "Under normal circumstances, a Feiying 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 Feiying Stone."

"You want it? It's too wasteful to nurture such a thing with spiritual consciousness, and it's useless on weekdays." Xia Tianwu thought for a while, "Next time, you can try your luck in the East China Sea. I remember there is a glass fish eyeball that can be used to record images."

"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 records. They can only be preserved for seven years before disappearing automatically."

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

"Why don't we just destroy this magic crystal stone? There is a curse mark on it, which can allow the evil demon 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..."

"No what if, I 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. The steam was steaming, the soup was boiling, the aroma was overflowing, the meat was soft and soaked in the juice, the color was bright red and oily.

"Okay, let's eat."

The five people each held a pot of rice, put vegetables on it, poured soup, and sat in a row to eat.

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

Lin Du quickly covered the pot, "It's delicious, really delicious."

The dish was a little too outrageous.

Down the mountain, in a suffocating strange smell, a cultivator covered his mouth and nose and kept coughing, "Isn't this Supreme Sect... Isn't there only the maze formation outside? What is this now? An ambush?"

"It must be a mine." Another cultivator in the late Tengyun realm looked at his robes that were blown up by the defense formation, 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 go back, we have to attack 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, "Don't they claim that the Luoshu Sect knows the laws of all things, and they are proficient in astronomy, seasons, medicine, and divination? That's it?"

"They are good at calculations," Lin Du pondered for a while, "How could you not see that they have entered the outer edge of my formal formation? It shouldn't be like this?"

“So far, no sect has really entered the formation you set up, Junior-Master, if you don’t count the pretentious traps and basic formations outside.” Ni Jinxuan has been observing attentively, “A total of seven waves of people came, and they all left.”

Lin Du: … It’s over, are we trying too hard?

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

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

"Okay, after dinner, let's find out which sect the five pigeons are targeting, and then start." Lin Du took a look at the brown paper on the table, which already had all the embryos.

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

Those who can participate in the competition are all talented people from various sects. Most of them are over 100 years old. There are few cultivators who have reached the Great Perfection of Tengyun Realm under 100 years old. Except for small sects, all other sects have at least two people in the late stage of Tengyun Realm, and even one person has reached the Great Perfection of Tengyun Realm. The fighting power of one person is equal to that of four people from the Supreme Sect.

They can't attack by force, so they can only use their 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 normal people can't get out in three days, which is enough."

She didn't set up the formation to protect the initial base, but the main purpose was to trap people.

"Uncle Junior Master, they've gone in." Ni Jinxuan glanced down the mountain and saw no trace of people. They had entered the formation set up by Lin Du.

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

"I haven't practiced with formation masters from other sects yet, and I'm a little excited just thinking about it."

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