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God knows how long those guys will stay in retreat without going out when they come to study the puppet technique of the institution? Fortunately, Lei Dong wandered around and probed, but he found out a valuable news. Like other large sects, the Wan Puppet Sect has a long history of inheritance, and it is no longer known how many disciples have gone out to establish families and forces and become attached to the sect.

Those families had ups and downs, ups and downs, some annihilated, some newly built. At this stage, I am afraid that there are still hundreds of ethnic groups. Most of these families are built on the basis of puppetry, and the disciples of the clan have grown up under the influence of puppetry. In order to replenish fresh blood, the Ten Thousand Puppet Sect will often select outstanding disciples of cultivation or puppet art from these dependent families and supplement them to the sect to inherit and extend the sect. After all, if you can select disciples from these families, the overall quality of the disciples is far better than that of the teenagers and girls who are randomly collected from the outside and have no foundation.

Of course, those families were also extremely happy for their disciples to join the Ten Thousand Puppet Sect, especially to become the core disciples of it. Especially for some small families that are struggling to survive, once a certain disciple can become the core disciple of the Ten Thousand Puppet Sect, then the family can immediately get out of the predicament and increase its strength greatly.

The way to select disciples from these families is the once-in-a-decade puppet contest. This is the annual event of the Ten Thousand Puppet Sect, which is highly valued by the sect and various families. The young disciples who won in the end could even be instructed by the Supreme Elder, and the remaining top nine could at least gain the right to be seen. Coincidentally, the puppet contest is only three years away. Perhaps, three years is a long time for an ordinary person. And for a primordial infant monk like Lei Dong, who has a lifespan of thousands of years, it is only a short stay.

It can be said that if it weren't for such a special opportunity, it would have been difficult for Lei Dong to find a way to get close to their Supreme Elder. The rest is simple......

This is a remote valley thousands of miles away from the Ten Thousand Puppet Gate, although the valley is not well-known, it lacks spiritual energy. But it is also overgrown with thousands of grasses and flowers, a picture of flowers and birds, and a peaceful scene.

For the mortals who lived within a hundred miles of the vicinity, this place, called the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers, was inhabited by immortals. Because among the ancestors, it has been rumored that in a certain year and a certain month, I saw the immortals flying in the air, out of the clouds and into the fog, coming and going like the wind. Over time, mortals were in awe and awe of this place.

A few years ago, there was a village dozens of miles away that was plagued by monsters and beasts, and in just half a month, more than a dozen cattle and sheep were swallowed, and three or four people were swallowed. The desperate mortal thought of the immortals in the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers, and the village chief personally led the elders in the clan to staggered and knelt outside the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers to plead their feelings, asking the immortals living in the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers to help kill the demon beasts and return the people to health.

The gods of the capital are ruthless, and the mortals who have not seen the slightest trace of immortals for several days are almost desperate. Unexpectedly, at this last moment, a little girl who was only thirteen or fourteen years old stepped on the clouds and flew away, and after only half an hour, she came back with the head of the demon beast.

Those mortal elders were grateful to Dade for going back, and since then they have enshrined the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers, and they heard from the villagers who stayed behind that the demon beasts blatantly came to the village to devour beasts and bite people that day. At the same time that a child was almost taken by the demon beast, the cute little fairy with pink carving stepped on the clouds and mist, cast a fairy spell, and summoned a heavenly general to fight with the demon beast, and in less than half a pillar of incense, the heavenly general beheaded the demon beast under the sword, saving the lives of mortals in an entire village.

It is this place called Wanhua Valley, Lei Dong carried his hands behind his back, and looked at the dense fog and colorful glow on the valley with great interest. Obviously, it was a mountain protection formation, and the level was not low. However, perhaps because of the age, with Lei Dong's current cultivation, combined with some superficial formation knowledge, it seems that this mountain protection formation has many loopholes. ..., I saw that his gaze was condensed, like two sharp swords, shooting deep into the dense fog, and the structure and layout of the buildings in the valley were instantly exposed into his mind. Even, he could clearly see that it seemed to be a place where martial arts were performing, and a young man and a girl were competing.

Their way of competing is also very special, both of them stand behind the puppet and direct the puppet to fight. The puppet of the young man, bronze in color, holds a halberd and is tall and mighty. The girl's puppet is much smaller and more delicate, and the girl also added a lot of decorations to the puppet with ingenuity, and painted the puppet color to pink, which looks like it took a lot of thought. It's good to make that puppet look good, but it can't help but make people feel a little unprofessional. The puppet is a powerful combat force, and its fierce appearance makes people tremble at the sight of it.

With a sweep of Lei Dong's eyes, he observed their cultivation level, all of which were at the fifth or sixth level of the Qi refining period, at this age, this kind of cultivation could only be said to be so-so, and it could not be compared with the elite among their peers. Especially in this vast territory and prosperous talents. This kind of cultivation is really not the slightest remarkable.

But their puppets seem to be very powerful, the two sides move and flash, you come and I fight very fiercely, whether it is melee combat or long-range spells, they all look like they are cast, at least there is a high-level combat level of qi refining. What's even more peculiar is that the puppets are extremely agile in their actions and have a variety of tactics.

It is worthy of being a family under the Ten Thousand Puppet Sect, although it is very declining, it is said that the highest cultivation of the patriarch and his father is only the cultivation of the middle stage of foundation building, and the elder brother of the patriarch is only the first level of foundation building. That's right, it's the old man. Lei Dong's age is not too young, plus the years of retreat in the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, he has already passed his "100-year-old birthday". It's not that his cultivation is superb, if it is still in the Qi refining period, I'm afraid he will already die of old age. And if it is the foundation building period, at least he will look like a gray-bearded old-timer, where can he still look like a chic young man like he is now?

However, Lei Dongneng cultivated to the middle level of Yuanying at his age, which is really a very remarkable thing. I'm afraid that even in this big Qianzhou, I can't find much.

"Giggles, cousin, look at my blazing cannon. The girl suddenly laughed, and in a flash, the pink puppet's arm suddenly opened, revealing an eerie cannon barrel, and with a bang, a fist-sized iron ball shot out at the same time as the flames spewed.

The young bronze puppet hurriedly raised its halberd and slashed it, but the speed of the iron ball was too fast, and it smashed directly into its chest. The violent shock wave blew up the bronze puppet and flew upside down, and only after a few feet did it fall to the ground heavily, struggling a few times, but it couldn't stand up.

The young man was in a hurry, and hurriedly flew to the puppet, and after checking it, his face turned darker: "Gongsun Qing, you went too far, you secretly installed a flame cannon on the puppet, and broke my god of war King Kong." ”

"Cousin, didn't you say that your god of war, King Kong, is invincible in attack and defense? Why did a small flame cannonball break down?" The girl named Gongsun Qing said with a smile: "It seems that my pink girl is still powerful." ”

"Gongsun Qing, you, you cheat, this doesn't count. The young man didn't seem to be very open-minded, and his face turned white in a hurry: "You installed a flame cannon privately, and we fought again." ”

"Luo Hongqing, you don't understand if the soldiers are not tired of cheating? If you are not convinced, we will fight again. Gongsun Qing pursed her lips and said dissatisfiedly: "Don't you just want to get rid of the hundred spirit stones?" Come, let your god of war King Kong stand up, let's continue, I promise not to use the flame cannon." ..., the quarrel between this young boy and girl reminded Lei Dong of when he had just joined the sect and was still very young. At that time, although the cultivation was very low, he was also full of fighting spirit and passion every day. However, in the Yin Sha Sect, it is not as good as "friendship" here, it is a place where people can easily die.

But now Lei Dong thinks about it, and he still misses his youth very much. Although the competition mechanism within the sect is cruel and realistic, it has also cultivated a thunderous sense of crisis, which is also the basis for his repeated survival when he is fighting outside. Because the outside world is more cruel and realistic than the inside of the sect.

While they were arguing, Lei Dong had turned into a black mist and fell into one of the largest courtyards. The reconnaissance feedback of Shen Nian allowed him to confirm the object he was looking for, which was in this courtyard. I saw an old man with a white beard and a ruddy complexion, lying leisurely on a folding chair, resting with his eyes half-closed and half-closed.

On each side stood a young girl in a green dress, slowly shaking a folding fan. The young girl's skin is white, blown, and her demeanor is as soft as boneless. The only regret is that his eyes seem to be a little glazed.

Lei was stunned, he didn't even sense the breath of two people here just now? Immediately, his mind swept away, and then he suddenly realized that these two young girls were not real living creatures, but two puppets without breath. This made Lei Dong's eyes light up, but he didn't expect that in this down-and-out puppet family, the development of puppet techniques was to the point of being fake.

"Alas~"

Lei Dong appeared leisurely by the small lake in the courtyard, carrying his hands behind his back, admiring the delicate and clear lotus flowers in the lake, and couldn't help but think of his and Wanyan's home, Wen Xiang Xiaozhu. There are also various flowers in bloom, and the lake is also full of lotus flowers. It's just that a hundred years have passed in a flash, but the days of reunion with Wanyan in the warm fragrance building are very few.

"What person?" The leisurely old man suddenly jumped up from the leisure chair, staring nervously at Lei Dong's tall, but mysterious and powerful back, and couldn't help but tremble under his feet.

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