The art of puppetry was one of the hundred arts of immortal cultivation.
Alchemy, artifact forging, talisman making, formations, puppetry...
Among the so-called hundred arts of cultivation, practicing any of them to its absolute peak would pave a grand avenue to the heavens.
Chen Changsheng was also proficient in formations. The defensive grand formation in the Chen family's backyard, capable of resisting Golden Core cultivators, was his own masterpiece.
If it were solely based on attainments in the dao of formations, he believed he could rank among the very best in the Great Yan Kingdom.
However, it had only reached the Golden Core level.
This was also the ceiling for most practitioners of the hundred cultivation arts in the Great Yan Kingdom.
After all, in a country where even Nascent Soul cultivators were few and far between, it was entirely impossible for someone to master Nascent Soul-level cultivation arts.
Anyone with that kind of skill wouldn't stay in the Great Yan Kingdom anyway.
But right now, looking at the puppet tiger before him, Chen Changsheng could sense a power no weaker than his own.
Obviously, Mu Qingling hadn't lied to him. The puppet within these ruins truly had reached the Nascent Soul level.
Moreover, it was a Nascent Soul level that he currently could not handle.
There was no helping it. Currently possessing neither Nascent Soul-level cultivation techniques nor Nascent Soul-level secret arts, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call Chen Changsheng the weakest Nascent Soul cultivator.
Therefore, after observing the giant tiger puppet from afar for a long time, Chen Changsheng didn't immediately step forward.
He first carefully explored everywhere else except the ruins guarded by the giant tiger puppet. Only after disappointingly finding nothing of value did he turn his gaze back to the ruins the puppet was guarding.
Those ruins must have once been an extremely important place for the Joyous Union Sect here.
And for a sect, a place worthy of being guarded by a Nascent Soul-level puppet would be nothing other than a scripture pavilion or a treasure pavilion.
Chen Changsheng examined the large number of skeletal remains next to the giant tiger puppet for a while. He noticed that although the corpses had completely turned into dry bones, a large number of storage rings and storage bags could still be found.
That alone was enough for him to take the risk.
"Looks like a battle is unavoidable. Facing the Nascent Soul stage for the first time, even if it's just a puppet, makes me a bit nervous indeed."
Chen Changsheng muttered to himself, then directly summoned a quaint black gourd from his dantian.
His intrinsic magical treasure, the supreme-grade magical treasure, the Myriad Transformations Sword Gourd.
This was his strongest method right now, and the one he was confident could harm a Nascent Soul expert.
After over a hundred years of nurturing, the Myriad Transformations Sword Gourd contained ten thousand divine swords no weaker than magical treasures. Coupled with his primary Golden Core-level secret art, Myriad Swords Returning to the Origin, it could unleash an attack equivalent to ten thousand peak Golden Core experts joining forces to set up a sword formation.
However, since the divine swords were condensed by the Myriad Transformations Sword Gourd itself, every time all the divine swords were fully unleashed, the gourd would require a considerable amount of time to regain its combat power. Thus, it had always been treated as Chen Changsheng's trump card, not to be used casually.
But this time it concerned his future, so he had no choice but to use his final trump card.
Driven by Chen Changsheng, the Myriad Transformations Sword Gourd floated above his head. The originally quaint gourd body now radiated a massive amount of divine light, as if endless divine swords would burst forth from within at any moment.
After preparing all this, Chen Changsheng finally stepped toward the giant tiger puppet.
He approached step by step. When he was less than ten zhang away, the giant tiger puppet, which had been lying on the bones, slowly rose to its feet.
"It really can still move, huh?"
Chen Changsheng sighed softly, then activated the Myriad Transformations Sword Gourd without hesitation.
As the gourd body shook, ten thousand divine swords radiating white light instantly unsheathed, charging toward the giant tiger puppet together like an ocean of swords.
"Roar!!!"
Seeing this, the giant tiger puppet actually let out a roar like a real fierce tiger, echoing endlessly throughout the entire secret realm.
"Oh no! This puppet actually has Nascent Soul-level formations carved into it!"
Chen Changsheng, already proficient in formations, immediately noticed that along with the giant tiger puppet's roar, several extremely profound formations were activated on its body.
This roar was the effect of one of those formations.
Chen Changsheng felt his mind go completely blank.
At the same time, the massive amount of divine swords that were striking toward the giant tiger puppet shattered layer by layer, with more than half crumbling before even touching the puppet.
A miscalculation!
Chen Changsheng felt bitter in his heart and prepared to recall the Myriad Transformations Sword Gourd to temporarily avoid its sharp edge.
But the next moment, a flash of inspiration seemed to cross his mind. Looking at the giant tiger puppet's massive body, he directly dashed forward in a single bound.
The two were only ten zhang apart to begin with, which for Chen Changsheng was merely an instant.
The next moment, Chen Changsheng touched the giant tiger puppet's claw.
[Innate Wife-Taking Physique has sent a red envelope, everyone come and grab it!]
[Innate Wife-Taking Physique: Absolutely do not grab it! Inside the red envelope is a Tier 3 puppet! It's currently going berserk!]
Yes, Chen Changsheng suddenly thought that this chat group seemed capable of directly sending whatever he touched as a red envelope.
Although he didn't know if he could send living creatures, this giant tiger puppet clearly couldn't be considered a living creature; at most, it had a bit of sentience.
Sure enough, when Chen Changsheng touched the giant tiger puppet and connected to the chat group to treat it as a red envelope, the chat group directly packaged and absorbed the giant tiger puppet away.
"I wonder if living creatures can be sent. If so, then this red envelope function can truly be considered the ultimate sealing technique."
Chen Changsheng muttered softly.
Meanwhile, inside the chat group, things had already blown up.
[Stumbled Into High-Tier Lobby: Thank goodness! Thank goodness I didn't grab it immediately!]
[Kashiwagi Eri: I was just about to claim the red envelope too. If I really brought out that Tier 3 puppet, wouldn't my planet plunge into an apocalypse?]
[Stumbled Into High-Tier Lobby: Obviously, yes.]
[Yunlan Sect Master: There's actually such a maneuver? Directly sending a strong enemy to the chat group as a red envelope? I've learned something new today.]
[Stumbled Into High-Tier Lobby: Sister Yun Yun! Please don't learn this kind of thing!]
Gu Xiaoxiao was scared half to death by Yun Yun's words.
You have to know, she was the most active red envelope grabber in the group. If one day Yun Yun sent a red envelope and she subconsciously grabbed it, only for some cackling monster to pop out, she would truly break down.
[Yunlan Sect Master: Relax, before I send this kind of red envelope, I will definitely notify everyone.]
[Martial Arts King has claimed the red envelope, obtained: Enraged Tier 3 Puppet * 1]
[Stumbled Into High-Tier Lobby: ...]
[Kashiwagi Eri: ...]
[Yunlan Sect Master: ...]
[Innate Wife-Taking Physique: ...]
[Empire's Strongest Female General: What a pity, she beat me to it.]
[Stumbled Into High-Tier Lobby: Hey, don't rush to grab this kind of thing!]
Chen Changsheng watched everything being sent in the chat group and his mouth twitched, while at the same time gaining a deeper impression of Luo Hao.
Should he say as expected of a Godslayer? Her belligerent attribute was truly maxed out.
Her compatibility with an immortal cultivator like him, who only sought stability, was truly as poor as it could get.
However, Chen Changsheng was not too worried about Luo Hao's safety. After all, she was a God Slayer who wielded the authorities of multiple deities. Furthermore, having cultivated at the Third Tier for two hundred years, there was no way she would be unable to defeat a mere Third Tier puppet.
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u Chenyuan transmigrated into a female-oriented novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the CEO elder brother of both. Unfortunately, the entire Lu family—including himself, the CEO—were mere cannon fodder in the story. Determined to save himself, Lu Chenyuan took action. The spoiled, attention-seeking fake heiress? Thrown into the harsh realities of the working class to learn humility. The love-struck real heiress? Pushed toward academic excellence, so lofty goals would blind her to trivial romances. As for the betrayed, vengeful arranged marriage wife… the plot hadn’t even begun yet. There was still time—if he couldn’t handle her, he could at least avoid her. "CEO Lu, are you avoiding me?" Mo Qingli fixed her gaze on Lu Chenyuan. For the first time, the shrewd and calculating Lu Chenyuan felt a flicker of unease.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
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