Chapter 455 - Chapter 455: Chapter 152: The Daylight Pursuit (1/2)
chapter 455: chapter 152: the daylight pursuit
seeing movement from the black jade stone, lin jing hurriedly employed the puppetry technique he had learned from the yellow pine cultivator. he then placed the black jade stone before him, his hands continuously forming seals.
following that, the black jade stone began to change in response to lin jing’s hand movements, gradually turning a bright red.
and the black light it emitted grew even more intense.
as the black light from the black jade stone became stronger, the noises outside lin jing’s cave also gradually ceased.
and so, a while passed.
outside, there was complete silence.
then, another voice came:
“i’ll give you a chance, throw out your space ring, or don’t blame us for being impolite.”
lin jing was startled by this voice, then quickly realized what was happening.
it seemed that the soul-eating spirit was still at play.
lin jing immediately concentrated his divine sense, extending it out.
previously, lin jing had learned from jian yunxiang that while this soul-eating spirit could control the divine sense of a golden core cultivator, it could be completely resisted by the divine sense of someone at the nascent soul stage.
therefore, lin jing dared to extend his divine sense.
as soon as lin jing’s divine sense reached out, he immediately felt a strange power of consciousness attempting to influence his own divine sense.
however, despite this consciousness power being strong, lin jing was able to resist it completely.
under the sweep of lin jing’s divine sense,
at this moment, in front of lin jing’s cave, there were four humanoid puppets. these four puppets stood motionless, their eyes tightly shut.
behind each puppet, there was an almost invisible black thread that connected far into the distance.
this was the way to control puppets, and lin jing was able to see these threads precisely because he himself had acquired the puppetry art.
if lin jing wished, he could even follow these threads to find the people behind the puppets.
apart from these four puppets, there were several blood zombies behind them.
it was like they were working in concert.
the puppets would break the black boulder, and then the blood zombies could rush into the cave to kill.
atop the head of the leading blood zombie, lin jing saw the soul-eating spirit that had been misleading people.
at this time, the eyes of this soul-eating spirit had turned blood-red, spreading out countless black ripples.
moreover, those ripples were relentlessly attacking lin jing’s divine sense.
this soul-eating spirit was indeed troublesome.
in addition to its deceit, it was also capable of launching attacks using divine sense.
the attacks were strong; had lin jing’s divine sense not exceeded the nascent soul realm, he doubted he could have withstood even for a moment.
lin jing concentrated his divine sense, braving the soul-eating spirit’s attacks to inspect those few puppets.
he didn’t rashly venture out.
in fact, lin jing could have gone out and collected those puppets.
moreover, after collecting the puppets, lin jing could enter the system space to avoid the pursuit of the blood zombies and the soul-eating spirit.
if lin jing wanted, he could even do as the previous body refinement cultivator did, find the caves of those four puppet cultivators, and directly kill all four of them.
but lin jing didn’t plan to do so; he didn’t want to expose his ability to move at night.
at least not before the puppet guild leader arrived; he didn’t wish to raise any alarm.
if he could kill a few people during the night and still remain unharmed, that would surely alert the puppet guild leader.
lin jing didn’t want to startle the snake in the grass.
the foundation of the puppet guild was entirely reliant on the puppetry of its leader. if the guild leader died, the puppet guild would naturally disband.
now, lin jing only needed to control the puppets, ignoring everything else, and collect the puppets after daylight tomorrow.
……
what followed,
lin jing just like that, controlled the puppets to keep them immobilized, until daylight.
only after daylight did lin jing rise, directly move the colossal black stone, and then collect those puppets.
he had already discerned the locations of those puppet cultivators’ caves yesterday.
therefore, after collecting the puppets, lin jing did not linger; he directly leaped into action, rushing toward one of the puppet cultivators’ caves.
the reason lin jing waited until daylight to act was all part of his previous plan…
although lin jing didn’t plan to reveal any other secrets, the puppetry technique was something he was bound to expose.
only by doing so could he make the puppet guild leader aware that he had learned the puppetry art and thus lure him into coming.
lin jing knew that the puppetry technique he had acquired from the yellow pine cultivator was flawed and that he could control puppets, the puppet guild leader surely had a countermeasure.
only by exposing his use of puppetry would the puppet guild leader personally deal with him.
now that his use of puppetry last night had been made known to these four, the message was already out.
but lin jing didn’t plan to let all these people go; at most, he would leave one to deliver the message.
as for the other three, lin jing intended to keep them all.
so,
at the break of dawn, lin jing directly burst out of the cave, flying toward one of the puppet cultivators’ caves.
upon reaching the cave entrance, lin jing didn’t hesitate at all; he sent his divine sense into it, and the situation inside the cave came to mind.
the puppet cultivator inside was just about to get up and leave the cave.
however, lin jing had already arrived.
after getting there, lin jing did not pause, he landed at the cave entrance and threw a punch to shatter the black boulder.
following that,
lin jing charged into the cave and grabbed the puppet cultivator.
the moment this cultivator saw lin jing, he was overcome with terror:
“you…”
“you’re actually a body refinement cultivator.”
but that sentence became his last words.