Chapter 94 The Puppeteer (1/2)

Chapter 94 – The Puppeteer

April 15th, Luo Yang.

Within Liu Ping's private hall, he was sitting on the main seat while he was looking at Wang Li, who was sitting by his side.

Her eyes dimmed as if she was a doll. She did not appear to be as lively as the previous months before. She gazed forward into the nothingness. No one knew what she was thinking.

Below the throne, one old man bowed to Liu Ping. Another old man, who was holding a staff, was standing in the middle of the room proudly. There was also another young woman behind the staff old man.

The one who bowed was Wang Yun. He was his helper and his advisor at the moment. The other old man dressed in white. He had white hair and a white long beard. His eyes were pure white, including his pupils.

”Lord Sage Zou Ci, thanks to your help, I managed to get rid of the curse of this woman. Thank you very much.”

Liu Ping bowed his head down. His forehead almost touched the red wooden table in front of him.

”It's just a small trick. A mind control sorcery is nothing to me. Something like this can be overturned back to the user with a simple trick.”

The white hair old man was Zou Ci, the sage who had mysteriously appeared before Liu Ping in January after he formed soul mate contract with Wang Li. The sage warned him about Wang Li's sorcery at that time, which gave Liu Ping an inspiration.

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Back in last year, Liu Ping formed the contract with Wang Li in order to take advantage of the trading between partners. He wanted to buy skills and obtain more lifespan from the quests and the trade with Wang Li because he was banned from the system.

He had baited her with the promise of the status of the future Empress. He thought that she would throw her body for him, just like other women in his previous world did for his money and his father's influence.

She did everything he had ordered her to. But he had never thought that she did something on him in secret.

Liu Ping found out later that Wang Li did something to him after Zou Ci appeared and warned him about her. The sage warned the prince. ”You were under a wicked spell by the prostitute, my prince.”

After asking about his identity, he was astonished. Liu Ping was not stupid. He knew that this sage was a mysterious character in this late Han Era. He appeared before Sun Ce and Cao Cao to show off his magic and left untouched.

With him being here in front of Liu Ping, it was considered a blessing to him.

Zou Ci negotiated with the prince that he would help Liu Ping to counter the hypothesis trick on him. In exchange for that, He would take anything that Liu Ping was willing to give it to him.

Liu Ping agreed. However, he did not allow Zou Ci to break the spell right away. He wanted to use this opportunity to reap more benefits.

He let her continued to manipulate him for a while in order to make her lower her guard, even if it was vexing and it damaged his reputation. While he was at it, he cooked a plan for drawing in otherworlders, so she could steal their skills and all their lifespans.

Liu Ping did not want to recruit any reincarnator. He wanted to kill everyone he found. He was not a fool who would still trust a soul after realizing that even Wang Li betrayed him.

The flyers were just a bait for the greedy or stupid otherworlders. If anybody were to take the bait and followed the instruction of the pamphlets, the officials would arrest the person, chop off their four limbs, and throw him into jail. Afterward, Wang Li would drain all their life force and steal all skill from the victims.

She happily agreed. For months, she slaughtered many reincarnators who fell for the flyer advertisement that they had spread.

Although she kept lying to him that all otherworlders were female and she did not acquire any new skill, he left her be because he had another use for her when this plan ended.

Today, the number of the otherworlders reported in the system went down to 20, which Liu Ping believed that this should be enough as the rest should have noticed the drastic drop in the number of survivors and connected the story with the flyers and his schemes.

After Wang Li allowed him to temporary regain his reason, he ordered Zou Ci to break the spell right away.

Zou Ci did so and made her permanently fell into the hypothesized state instead. She was now under Liu Ping's control!

By turning her into a puppet, she could feed him an endless amount of lifespan and the skills she had stolen!

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”As promised, I shall bestow you a noble status and 10,000 taels of gold. You shall be known as the Prefect of Mount Tianzhu. You and your sect will be protected by the imperial forces. The rewards will be delivered to you on your mountain.”

”Very good! Very good! Then we shall excuse ourselves!”

The sage and the woman behind him disappeared into nothingness after he had spoken.

Wang Yun, who was sneaking a glance at Zou Ci, was in shock. Although he had seen many miracles made by the prince, he still could not get used to seeing another magic.

Seeing the art of the sage, Liu Ping chuckled.

”Zishi, you'd better get used to it. You'll probably witness more magic from me in the future.”

He ignored Wang Yun's shock look and ordered Wang Li.

”Show me your current status.”

Wang Li lifted her hand slowly, then a status menu appeared in front of Liu Ping.

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