Master, you go first!

After Gu Jiu finished speaking, he flew on his sword and led the way in front, with Su Jin following behind.

While flying, he sent messages to the other three people.

After leaving the Central Qianchuan Palace, Gu Jiu and Su Jin came to a cliff a little to the east.

"Let's wait for their news. It should be quick. This secret realm is not that big."

A moment later, news from Cao Menglan came.

The place they were teleported to was in the southeast, some distance away from the center.

After receiving the message, Gu Jiu said,

"They are in the southeast. How about we wait for them here and then head to the target location together?"

"Okay, that's it." Su Jin nodded.

The two of them were waiting for the other three on the cliff in the middle and east direction. The target location was not far from here.

Because they were in a secret realm and it was impossible to practice on the top of the mountain, both of them were on guard.

Gu Jiu simply set up a defensive formation on the spot. The one he set up in Huo Canglin last time should not be broken by the cultivators in this secret realm.

After finishing, Gu Jiu directly found a rock with a good position and lay down with others.

Su Jin was meditating not far away, but he didn't dare to enter into a state of concentration to practice, as he was always on guard against a sneak attack.

"Don't be too nervous. Even a Yuanying stage cultivator cannot break this formation. Everyone here is a Jindan stage cultivator." Seeing that she was too alert, Gu Jiu explained.

"I understand. It's better to be careful." Su Jin replied.

Based on the situation of the secret realm seen on the map and the distance they had just flown here, Gu Jiu thought for a moment and concluded that it would take Cao Menglan and the other two nearly an hour to get here.

I hope I don’t run into any trouble, Gu Jiu thought to himself, and closed his eyes to rest.

After closing his eyes, the strange female cultivator who had appeared before he entered the secret realm earlier appeared in his mind again.

If that person wasn't there, Gu Jiu wouldn't be worried at all. But now, that cultivator was the only variable in this secret realm.

But the purpose is still unclear, so he can't say anything.

He lay there, but kept his senses open, mainly exploring soul power. Ordinary cultivators posed no threat to him, so he was only on guard against that man.

At this time, Cao Menglan and Mu Zhou were rushing towards Gu Jiu, flying at full speed without stopping.

We also encountered some monks fighting each other, but after all, there were not too many people entering this secret realm, and this situation did not happen everywhere. We only encountered it two or three times along the way.

The goal was clear, so they didn't try to muddy the waters and just took a quick glance during the flight.

Just as they were about to fly to the central region, they saw a strange scene.

Three monks lay dead on the ground, and standing next to them was the strange female monk.

Cao Menglan and the other two were unaware of the situation of this female cultivator. She glanced up at the sky but did not take any action. Instead, she released her spiritual skills towards the bodies of the three cultivators.

The three of them could see clearly that it was not like a spiritual skill releasing spiritual power. It was like a black, smoking thread, entangled with the three corpses.

Perhaps the female cultivator's spiritual skills were not yet complete and she had no time to deal with the three of them. She retracted her disdainful look and focused on her own thing.

In order to meet up with Gu Jiu and Su Jin as soon as possible, Cao Menglan and the other two had no intention of fighting with anyone. They just flew away after a quick encounter.

"Brother, that female cultivator just now was a little strange. What kind of spiritual technique did she use? Why did it feel a little weird?"

"I don't know, I haven't seen it either." Mu Zhou shook his head.

"It can't be some kind of evil magic, or some method used by the Demon Sect." Cao Menglan had a bad feeling.

"Never mind, let's find Senior Sister first. We'll talk about this later."

Ignoring their curiosity and worry, the three continued on their way.

After the three of them flew for a distance.

The female cultivator had earlier cleaned up the three bodies of cultivators on the ground, took out a magic container, and put the three bodies into it.

With a smile on his face, he flew his sword towards the direction where Cao Menglan and the other two had just flown.

Moreover, her speed is obviously faster.

……

Gu Jiu waited on the cliff for nearly an hour, then stood up and looked towards the south.

Logically speaking, the three of them should have arrived by now.

At this time, a letter flew over.

Gu Jiu opened it and saw only one word: "Danger".

"Oh no, they are in trouble. Let's go and look for them in the south." Gu Jiu put away the formation and spoke to Su Jin.

"What's going on?" Su Jin was puzzled.

"I don't know. Hurry up. We must have encountered a strong enemy."

After saying that, Gu Jiu didn't have time to explain anything to Su Jin and directly used his golden flying sword.

"Come up, I'll be faster."

When Su Jin saw the flying sword, he was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that he had hidden such a thing. However, the situation was urgent, so he quickly jumped on it.

Gu Jiu took her and headed south to search at a rapid speed.

Not long after, their traces were found on another cliff.

Three people were fighting, each facing a monk.

After a closer look, Gu Jiu found something wrong. How come these cultivators also have soul power?

Seeing this, Su Jin immediately jumped off the flying sword, joined the battle, and helped the weakest Cao Menglan repel the enemy.

When she looked up, Su Jin was shocked.

The opponent did not look like a living person. His eyes were lifeless and there was a faint black aura coming out of his body.

Not far away, the female cultivator watched the fight here with great interest. She never spoke a word, but made gestures with her hands from time to time, as if she was giving orders.

Gu Jiu also joined the battle and helped repel the enemy.

The scene suddenly turned into a confrontation.

The three people here were all seriously injured, while the three monks on the opposite side, who looked like corpses, seemed to be completely unconscious.

Gu Jiu said, "This is puppetry. The female cultivator made corpse puppets out of the cultivator's corpse. I didn't expect to encounter such a situation."

This kind of puppetry technique is extremely rare in the world of immortal cultivation, and it is almost non-existent. Most of it is still under exploration.

Gu Jiu had not discovered any detailed records of this kind of puppetry in the world of immortal cultivation. He had only seen the information in the Black Mysterious Jade Slips.

Su Jin and the others were completely confused and didn't understand how the other party did it.

The female cultivator opposite saw that Gu Jiu had seen through her magic, and smiled sinisterly,

"Haha, interesting, there are actually people who know it."

Hearing the female cultivator's voice, Gu Jiu was even more surprised.

The sound was actually accented like the voices of two people.

As for this situation, Gu Jiu remembered that the jade slip said that it would only occur when the controller separated a part of his soul and integrated it into the puppet.

The voice was a mixture of that of a man and a woman, so it can be confirmed that this female cultivator was just a puppet, controlled by a male cultivator.

Gu Jiu was wondering in his heart how this was possible, how a puppet could be transformed into a corpse puppet.

There seems to be no such record, only records of the controller personally refining it.

"Be careful, the opponents are all puppets."