Cultivation, I have a world of high martial arts

It was night.

The streets of Yudai City were deserted.

All the shops in the market closed early and no longer received customers.

Not to mention that every household closed their doors and windows and hid at home and dared not go out.

Lin Chen also stayed in the inn and asked the waiter to send some wine, food and snacks upstairs early.

He took out the palm-sized instrument and the virtual projection fell in front of him.

The picture in the projection was Long Ba and Feng Jiu, two martial arts puppets.

Long Ba and Feng Jiu were walking on the deserted street, their bodies swaying, like a pair of drunken Taoist lovers.

Such a good target, Lin Chen didn't believe that the puppet hall hiding in the dark would be willing to give up.

"Well, according to Yu Gui, those skinning monks are only at the foundation-building stage... They are almost no threat to Long Ba and Feng Jiu..."

Lin Chen simply ate snacks while watching the situation in the projection and waited quietly.

About half an hour later, he was a little bored waiting.

At this moment, two illusory black shadows flashed across the screen...

Lin Chen instantly perked up and observed carefully.

After giving instructions to Long Ba and Feng Jiu, the shared view slowed down, and Lin Chen finally saw the two black shadows clearly.

Wrapped in mist, revealing a pale ghost face.

Moving very fast, almost unrecognizable to the naked eye.

"It seems to have the ability to pass through walls... Tsk tsk, the one responsible for skinning is the ghost raised by the Ghost Exorcist?"

Lin Chen raised his eyebrows, which meant that the Puppet Hall and the Ghost Exorcist had reached a certain cooperation.

He continued to watch the screen.

I saw the two black shadows slowly approaching Long Ba and Feng Jiu along the ground, and finally sprayed a ball of black mist, surrounding Long Ba and Feng Jiu.

Then, the black mist turned into black lines in the air and floated in a certain direction.

"Is this, a psychedelic magic?"

Lin Chen touched his chin. As puppets, Long Ba and Feng Jiu would naturally not be fascinated.

But Lin Chen planned to use his trick against them.

So after giving orders to Long Ba and Feng Jiu, the two puppets followed the black fog and walked towards a certain direction in the south of the city.

About a quarter of an hour later, the two groups of black fog hiding in the corner gradually appeared.

They turned into human-shaped black fog and attacked Long Ba and Feng Jiu.

The black fog wrapped two magical instruments that flashed with strange light. Lin Chen saw it clearly and nodded:

"Skinning shears, bone-breaking needles... This echoes the two magic weapons that Yu Gui said!"

According to Yu Gui, there is more than one person in the city who is responsible for skinning.

There are more than ten people in the Puppet Hall and the Ghost Exorcist Gate who are responsible for skinning.

And these monks who are responsible for skinning are equipped with these two magical instruments.

Skinning shears can remove the skin of mortals or even monks without anyone noticing, and the whole skin is peeled off without anyone noticing.

By the time he reacted, he had already lost too much blood and was in great pain...

The bone-stripping needle can penetrate the flesh and blood of the human body, allowing the bones to be stitched together and better refined into a puppet.

This is why, after the skinning incident in the city, only a complete skin bag was left, but the flesh and bones disappeared.

"The ghosts have been driven away and the mind has been confused. Finally, the real culprit has been found..."

"From the current situation, the cultivator responsible for skinning is indeed a foundation-building cultivator."

"It seems that I have to go over and take a look..."

Lin Chen glanced at the position of Long Ba and Feng Jiu, climbed out of the window to the street, and then rushed over quickly.

At the same time, Long Ba and Feng Jiu also faced the two cultivators responsible for skinning on the screen.

The skinning shears flashed a strange red light and stabbed straight at Long Ba's dantian.

This is to start skinning from the navel until the whole skin is completely peeled off.

Clang!

However, after the skinning shears hit Long Ba's body, a sound of golden swords clashing was heard.

Long Ba was not injured, but continued to move forward.

In the distance, the monk who used the skinning shears was stunned.

"What's going on? Why is this guy's skin so thick? The skinning shears can't even peel it off..."

This was the first time he encountered such a situation.

In the past, whether it was a mortal or a Qi-refining monk, after encountering this skinning shears, their skin could be easily peeled off like a piece of paper.

But this time, the skinning shears were ineffective?

"No, something is wrong!"

The monk was stunned, and tried to peel off Feng Jiu's skin with the skinning shears, but it also failed.

"Don't be stunned, try your bone-breaking needle!"

The monk reminded.

Another black shadow monk on the side nodded after hearing this, summoned the bone-breaking needle, and stabbed it straight at Long Ba.

Ding!

There was only a crisp sound, and the bone-breaking needle failed to penetrate the skin, but was bounced far away.

Long Ba and Feng Jiu's skin and bones are made of high-level exotic metals.

How can it be used to remove the skin and bones when it is much stronger than this magic weapon?

The successive failures also made the two skinning monks react.

"Something is wrong! There is something wrong with these two people... Stop skinning them, let's run first!"

After a whisper, the two monks wanted to run away.

But how could Lin Chen let them go so easily?

So he quickly gave an attack order to Long Ba and Feng Jiu...

Long Ba and Feng Jiu turned into afterimages and quickly rushed towards the two foundation-building monks.

The two monks also reacted quickly, took out the magic weapon and attacked Long Ba and Feng Jiu.

But the magic weapon hit the puppet, only making a sound of golden swords colliding, leaving one or two shallow scars.

The puppet is not afraid of pain and will not stop.

As long as the core power system is not damaged, Long Ba and Feng Jiu can continue fighting.

After a fierce charge, Long Ba and Feng Jiu were already close to the two foundation-building monks.

The fierce fist blast hit the body-protecting essence of the foundation-building monk.

boom!

Boom boom!

The punch force of more than 50,000 kilograms fell like raindrops without stopping at all.

Flesh and blood will eventually be exhausted.

But not the puppet.

Ten punches, a hundred punches...

After being bombarded by hundreds of punches, even the foundation-building monk's body-protecting essence was completely shattered.

The two foundation-building monks were startled, but they still wanted to fight to the death.

A dazzling flame burst out on the deserted street, sweeping towards Long Ba and Feng Jiu.

The high temperature of thousands of degrees almost caused the houses along the street to be burned to death...

However, in the fierce fire, Long Ba and Feng Jiu were not disturbed at all and continued to attack the two foundation-building monks.

After all, the materials used to forge Long Ba and Feng Jiu are high-grade exotic metals that can withstand temperatures of hundreds of thousands of degrees.

"Weird...monster!"

"These two guys... they are not human!"

The two foundation-building monks also discovered this, with a look of horror on their faces.

"It's a puppet! High-level puppets... Damn it, besides the puppet door, why are there other puppets?"

However, they will never get the answer to this question.

With the joint efforts of Long Ba and Feng Jiu, the two foundation-building monks were eventually injured and fell to the ground. Their limbs were removed and they were no longer able to resist.

After a while.

Lin Chen hurried over, looked at the two foundation-building monks who fell to the ground, and said slowly:

"Okay, now tell me everything you know!"

"Just give up! We won't tell you!"

These two foundation-building monks still seem to have some backbone. I wonder if they are die-hard loyalists of the Puppet Hall or the Ghost Exorcist Sect.

Lin Chen smiled when he saw this, and said with some distress:

"Oh, there are no soul-searching techniques..."

"But Veritaserum might as well be a good idea!"

Lin Chen took out two pieces of truth serum from the storage bag.

This thing was specially prepared by Daxia for the monks in the world of immortality.

The strength of the monk's soul is far higher than that of ordinary people, so he is very resistant to such ecstasy drugs.

However, no matter how strong you are, there is a limit.

These two doses of truth serum are filled with powerful ingredients...

A moment later, the two foundation-building monks collapsed on the ground, rolling their eyes and foaming at the mouth. They were already unconscious.

It is no exaggeration to say that under the influence of truth serum, these two people even knew the color of their underwear.

After getting the information he wanted, Lin Chen did not hesitate and killed the two foundation-building monks.

Afterwards, Lin Chen took away the storage bag, erased the traces of the battle and returned to the inn.

…

In the inn room, Lin Chen frowned and thought, sorting out the information he had just received.

"Two foundation-building monks, one from the Puppet Hall, the other from the Ghost Exorcist Sect... Did you not expect that the strength of these two demon sects has been connected to such an extent?"

These two foundation-building monks are the backbone of the Puppet Hall and the Ghost Exorcism Sect respectively.

But now they are able to cooperate and complete soul stealing and skinning...

The reason is, after all, that these two demonic forces are inextricably linked.

The monks of the Ghost Exorcist Sect focus on driving ghosts and ghosts, and value the power, lightness and physical body of the soul.

The monks of the Puppet Hall drive the puppets to fight without the need for souls.

If the two cooperate, the threat posed will increase several times.

"According to what these two foundation-building monks said, they came to Jade Belt City half a year ago and started the skinning mission."

"And the Black Dog Gang is indeed the stronghold of the Puppet Hall. After several years of accumulation...it has actually created hundreds of dog-skin puppets!"

Lin Chen frowned.

According to these two people, the dog-skin puppet is very strong.

A puppet made from mortals and dog skin is comparable to a monk in the middle or even late stages of Qi refining.

But if it is made into a puppet by a monk... it can even be compared to the perfection of Qi refining and the early stage of foundation building!

As for these refined puppets, most of them were sent to the Purple Smoke Kingdom...

And Ziyan Country is the battlefield where the Spirit Beast Sect is located.

The reason why the Spirit Beast Sect was retreating steadily and the situation was critical was inseparable from the performance of these dog-skin puppets on the battlefield.

"But to refine the dog-skin puppet, it seems that there is no need to close the city..."

"There are still few clues about the large formation outside Jade Belt City."

Lin Chen murmured.

He didn't get many clues about the city sealing formation from the two foundation-building monks.

It seems that even they don't know this...

However, one of the foundation-building monks mentioned that a big shot from the Ghost Exorcist Sect came to Jade Belt City a few days ago.

"The person who can be called a big shot by a foundation-building monk... must at least be a pill-forming monk, right?"

Lin Chen thought silently, becoming more alert.

"Currently, there is still no way to escape from Jade Belt City... Is it possible that we really have to try to dig out and ascend to heaven?"

Lin Chen touched the storage bag, which contained the earth drill he brought from Daxia.

Judging from the power, it is not a problem to dig 40 to 50 feet in one day...

"Judging from what the two foundation-building monks said, I'm afraid the city sacrifice won't be over for long..."

"Whether it's to level the city or to dig out the world, we have to make preparations early."

Thinking of this, Lin Chen tidied up and left Jade Belt City secretly.

In a ravine east of Yudai City, Lin Chen took out the earth drilling machine.

But instead of rushing to excavate, a simple soundproof formation was first deployed.

After the sound-proof formation is deployed, it covers a radius of ten feet, and creatures outside the formation cannot hear the movement within it.

Afterwards, Lin Chen called out Long Ba and asked him to enter the earth drilling machine and start digging.

By the next morning, they had dug to a depth of a hundred meters underground.

Afterwards, Lin Chen returned to the inn and left Long Ba alone to dig outside the city.

In the next two days, Lin Chen continued to practice in the city and occasionally went out to gather information.

But as time passed, Lin Chen became more and more restless.

The entire Jade Belt City gave Lin Chen a strange feeling at this moment.

Lifeless, it seems there is no hope...

"There is no way to continue like this...Longba has also dug hundreds of meters deep underground. Although he has not yet left the range of the formation, it is enough to avoid a nuclear strike..."

"Ten thousand steps back, we can also neutralize the Jade Belt City and prevent sacrifices to the city..."

Lin Chen touched his chin, he still wasn't going to sit still and wait for death.

"Let's go to the Black Dog Gang in the south of the city first..."

With this in mind, Lin Chen set off for the Black Dog Gang.

…

At the same time, Yudai City east.

Hundreds of feet deep underground, a figure was digging quickly.

After easily digging another dozens of feet, he emerged from the ground in disgrace and returned to the surface.

"What a bad luck...who blocked this Jade Belt City?"

"There are millions of mortals and nearly ten thousand monks in the entire Jade Belt City! They were surrounded by a large formation without anyone noticing..."

"It's better now. I can't get out, and I can't escape... Why did I think about going back to Jade Belt City in the first place?"

The person who spoke was none other than the scholar with the jade belt.

At this moment, he already looked like a scholar.

Covered in dirt and unkempt, he looked like an old man working in the fields.

After he was frightened by the demon armor, he ran all the way back to Jade Belt City.

But on the second day after arriving in Yudai City, he felt something was wrong.

He wanted to leave Jade Belt City, but found himself in a huge formation.

There's no way to escape!

So, like Lin Chen before, he kept looking for loopholes in this formation, but had no way to escape.

In desperation, he could only place his hope on his earth escape technique.

It's a pity that he hasn't mastered the earth escape technique well. In the past, he could dig up to a hundred feet underground without having to worry about being tracked by the enemy.

But now, he just hates that he didn't dig deep enough. He wants to dig thousands of feet all the way until he escapes from Jade Belt City...

The scholar with the jade belt returned to the ground. After resting for a while, he continued to escape underground and started digging.

…

At the same time, Yudai City was south.

After passing through a group of low brick houses, Lin Chen arrived at the headquarters of the Black Dog Gang.

This is a place where poor people live.

Many beggars in tattered clothes huddled in the corners, begging from passers-by.

But obviously the current situation in Yudai City has also affected the beggar's career.

Pedestrians came and went in a hurry and did not stay too much.

Lin Chen found a random wine shop, went in, ordered some food and waited quietly.

Opposite is the headquarters of the Black Dog Gang.

During meal time, Lin Chen saw many black dog gang members patrolling nearby.

Dog barking is also heard frequently.

Lin Chen called the waiter at the wine shop and asked about the situation of the Black Dog Gang intentionally or unintentionally.

It was a little different than he imagined.

The main members of the Black Dog Gang are all mortals.

At least he stayed in this wine shop for an entire afternoon, and all he saw were people without cultivation.

Moreover, their daily task is to raise black dogs.

As for the reason... of course it was to skin the dogs and make dog skin puppets.

In the evening, Lin Chen saw that there were fewer and fewer gang members coming and going.

Then he concealed his own aura and sneaked into the hinterland of the Black Dog Gang.

…

At night, Lin Chen returned to the inn where he was temporarily staying.

Sort out the information obtained today.

"The Black Dog Gang consists of internal and external members... The external members are just mortals who make a living by raising dogs and collecting protection fees..."

"It's a small gang that really can't take action..."

"But the ones who are really connected with the Puppet Hall are the inner core members of the Black Dog Gang..."

Lin Chen squinted his eyes and recalled the scene he saw at the Black Dog Gang's station today.

A huge dog farm with at least thousands of dogs.

And they are all five black dogs, that is, dogs with black hair, claws, eyes, tongue, and nose.

This dog is spiritual and is a house guard dog.

But the Puppet Hall took advantage of the magical properties of these five black dogs to refine those dog-skin puppets.

In addition, Lin Chen also saw several people with advanced cultivation walking around the Black Dog Gang's station.

They are all foundation-building monks...

"The only pity is that I couldn't find the dog-skin puppet... It seems that the place where the puppet was refined is not in the Black Dog Gang's station..."

Lin Chen shook his head.

According to what he saw today, the Black Dog Gang was just a production place dedicated to raising dogs for skinning.

To refine a dog-skin puppet, you need a black dog skin, and you also need a skinned mortal or monk body...

Only by combining the two can a dog-skin puppet be made.

"So, where is the place where the puppets are refined?"

After Lin Chen thought about it, he slowly said: "The...graves outside the city!"

He raised his head and glanced at the sky. It was already dark.

"Huh, don't be in a hurry...wait until tomorrow to get the mass graves and search..."

It's very late at night, and it's still very intrusive to investigate mass graves.

Besides, ghosts and monsters are more powerful at night.

And they are much weaker during the day...

Although Lin Chen is skilled and courageous, it is obviously more rational to wait until daytime.

So, Lin Chen stayed in the room to practice peacefully.

A few hours later.

Before dawn, he suddenly received a message from Long Ba.

Looking at the picture on the projection, Lin Chen was stunned.

In the picture, Long Ba was controlling the drill to dig the ground.

Because of the soil structure, it is impossible to dig straight down, and there will be an arc digging, which is more efficient.

But as the drill was digging, suddenly a long tunnel appeared in front.

It was about half a person wide, but bottomless...

The drill was too big to enter the tunnel, but it was just right for one person to pass...

Looking at this picture, some doubts flashed across Lin Chen's face.

"Did they dig another underground tunnel?"

"This is more than 200 feet underground... 600 meters above the ground? How could they dig a tunnel..."

Lin Chen's first reaction was that it was a nest of snake demons or something like that.

But the picture didn't look like it, it just looked like a newly dug tunnel.

After thinking about it, Lin Chen got up and left the inn.

"Since I can't figure it out, let's go and see it myself..."